Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-07-31

own. But now ye are not of the world,
 because I have chosen you out of the world; therefore the world hateth you''
 Throughout the Gospel Age it has | been sought to keep the Church pure 1 by keeping the world out of it. even 1 though wave after wave sought to fill
 the boat with the undesirable qualities
 md to swamp it. Throughout the Age
 It was the proper course for the Church to realize that the Lord was with her in all her aff1ictions. even as He had promised. "Lo. 1 am with you alway. even unto the end of the Age" Re
 membering this, the Lords brethren
 should have had full confidence. noth-
 ing doubting.
 The extremity of the disciples in
 calling upon the Lord for aid seems to
 imply that at the close of this Age
 there will be a special stress upon all
 the followers of Jesus. causing them
 to cry out for deliverance from the
 overwhelming powers of the Adver-
 sary. Then the Master will seem to
 awaken. as though He had not previ-
 OuSly noted the condition of affairs
 Then He will arise, and bid the storm calm
 Storm of Trouble Is Near.
 Bible students are more and more convinced that the great storm of trOsl- ble upon the Church is very near. Of just what character it will be we need not try to prophecy. We are to re member, however, that the majority O. the storms upon the Church have comc from profesSed people of God. rather than from the word. It was the Scribes and PhariSeeS and Doctors O. the Law that really crucified Jesus. cry out. "Crucify Him. Release unto us BarabbaS" They, and net PilG te were responsible for Jesus death: they. and not the Roman soldiers, reai iy crucified Him; as St. Peter declares. ''Ye denied tile Holy One and the Just. and desired murderer to be granted unto you: and killed the Prince of Lfe."-Acts 3:14. l5.
 Our expectation would be that sim ilarly the Body of Christ the Church. in the end of this Age will have its most trying experiences. not from the world. but from professed brethren Do we not indeed see q preparation along these very lines at the present time? The formation of Church Fed eration has indeed a sincere and inno cent look, but is not this really dis guise?
 Is not the purpose and object of the rather to fOrtify and de i fend Sectarianism and to hinder any | one outside their own pale of influence | from letting shine any light of Truth | upon Gods Word?- Shou we not ex pect really that when the Federation shall gain the measure of political in fluence and power that the symbolic book of Revelation indicates will be the case. then those holding simple faith in God and in His Word. and to walk in the narrow way i and to uphold the banner of Gods Love. will be eyilly spoken of. misrep- resented. traduced, slandered, roast ad." and eventually hindered from any part in the Masters service?
 Our consolation is in the thought that when this shall have been accom- plished. the chiseling and polishing and glorifcation of the Church. the Body of Christ. His betrothed Bride. will have been completed Blessed and holy are all those who have part in the First Resurrection On such the Second Death hath no power, but they shall be priests unto God and Messiah. and shall reign with Him thousand years. ."-Revelation 20:6.
 Next, the Worlds TribuIation.
 The Lord seems to indicate that His special Royal Priesthood will be per 'ected on the Heavenly plane before he worlds tribulation shall break lpon 1t in fullest fury. We read. Watch yetherefOre, and pray always. hat ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things coming on the world, and to stand before the Son of ,1an." True, the escaping of the worlds trouble may be in the sense of being enabled to live above it on higher plane. as not affected by it, but We think not. We believe that the Church will have passed into glory be- ore the continuation of the worlds Day of Wrath, just as at the First Advent all the Jews who were Israel tes indeed, we believe, were called out nto the new DiSpensatiOn before the wrath of God came upon their House rom the social and political quarter. But no matter! The Lords will be lone, whether His people will be with he world in the Eidst of the worlds rouble. and yet be protected from that rOuble by virtue of their ease of mind. IF whether they shall be first deliv red. before the trouble comes.
 Other Scriptures seem to indicate hat the Church will have something 0 do with the authorizing of the trOu- le of the Day of Wrath. saying, This onor have all His saints. to execute he judgments written, to bind their inrS with chains and their nObleS