The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-21

principal CUES, where crOWuS are Tue
rule. Over $4,000 attend in one day,
and the numbers are rapidly rising.
In the forenoon Pastor Russell deliv-
cred discourse on 1.-THE Chiefest Res
direction" from the text, There shall
be resurrection of the dead, both of
the just and the unjust. Acts 24:15.
The Pastor remarked that Easter
Sunday, throughout the civilized world
stands as the reminder of the resurrec
ton of Jesus; and yet there has perhaps
never been a time when the prOfessed
followers of Jesus have believed less
In the Resurrection of the Dead than
at present. This shows great falling
away from the faith once delivered, to
the saints. The Resurrection hope is
the great hope which the Bible sets be-
fore mankind.
The earliest information on Gods
part that He would do anything for
mans recovery from the death SEN
tence, was given when our first parents
were expelled from Eden. There God
vaguely declared that at some future
time the Seed Of the woman should
bruise the serpent's head. This was
merely a ray of hope. with no intima-
ton Of how it would be accomplished
Gods first definite statement Of what
He purposed to do for Adam and his
race was made to Abraham two thou
sand years after sin had entered the
world. To Abraham God made known
His future good intentions toward
Adam and all of his posterity. He
said, Il purpose to bless all the fam
lilies of the earth. Walk before Me
and be thou faithful; and the blessing
shall come to the human family
through thee and thy posterity." Aft
er Abraham had endured tests. God
confirmed the previous assurances and
gave His oath to prove the certainty
of the whole matter. The words were:
'In thee and in thy Seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed
The Law Covenant and Shadow.
God knew, when He made the Prom
Use to Abraham. that his Spiritual Seed.
The Christ, would not appear even in
the flesh for more than two thousand
years. He knew also that it would be
nearly two thousand years after that
before the Spiritual Seed would be Civ
en- the necessary power and authority
to bind Satan and to release the slaves
of sin from the tomb and from the
shaekles of ignorance. superstition and
weakness But it was neither neces-
sary nor expedient that all this should
h., Al - he cuff a,.,
that the friend of God should know of
surety that a blessing was coming.
and that his seed would be identified
with that work of blessing mankind.
God did, indeed, give typical lesson
respecting the fact that there would
be two seeds of Abraham: one, HeaUen-
ly, and the other, earthly. Without ex-
planning the matter to Abraham, God
stated it so that it would be written
aforetime for the information of the
Household of Faith of this Gospel Age
He said ''Thy Seed shall be as the
stars of Heaven, and as the sand of
the seashore." One of these seeds
would be developed under the Law-by
being required to obey the Divine Law,
and thus being helped up toward per
lection. The other Seed, the Heaven
ly, would be by grace, not by Law.
Good works would be accounted to the
Heavenly Seed on the basis of faith.
St Paul calls our attention to these
two seeds, and assures us that the
Promise of God made to Abraham APP
pertains to both the Heavenly, Spirit
ual Seed, and the earthly, human-na-
ture class. His words are: Therefore
it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end that the Promise
might be sure to all the seed; not to
that only which is of the Law, but to
that also which is of the faith of Abra-
ham. '-Romans 4:16.
God allowed Abraham's posterity,
through Jacob, to go down to Egypt,
and there to become nation of bond
men. Later, He brought them to
Mount Sinai, where He made Law
Covenant with them, Moses serving as
its Mediator. In that Covenant God
promised that if the Israelites would
keep His Law perfectly He would use
them as His holy nation for the bless
ing of all nations. But God knew that
Israel could not keep that Covenant
into which they entered.
God had a double purpose in entering
into that Covenant with Israel. % 1t
served to show them that they were
sinners, who could not keep the Law
and who could not be blessed them
selves by anything that they could do;
and that hence they could not expect
to be used of God in the blessing of
other peoples. Additionally, it taught
a similar lesson to all others who
would subsequently know about the
arrangement. That one great lesson
was that Gods Law is perfect, and
obedience to it requires perfection, and
that no man is perfect; hence no man
is able to keep the Law of God; hence
no man is entitled to eternal life; for
God purposes to give eternal life only
to the perfect.
C2) Another object was that the Law
Covenant and everything appertaining
thereto were typical, and pointed for
ward to glorious antiques. which
would bring in the real blessings.
The Antitypes Far Superior.
The Law Covenant typified the New
Law Covenant of the future, which
will be in operation for all the families
of the earth during the thousand years
IF Christ's reign. The Mediator of that
New Covenant will be the antitype of
Moses-The Christ-Jesus the Head
and the Church His Body, enthroned
in power and great glory as the anti
typical Melchizedek- Priest upon His
Throne. AS the typical Covenant was
inaugurated by the sacrifice of bulls
and goats. so the antitypical Covenant
the New Law Covenant, will be inaug-
urated upon the basis of "better sac
rifices" than those. As the typical
Covenant had its Day of Atonement
for the sins of the people, so the an
titypical Covenant will have much
greater Atonement Day.
The offering of the better sacrifices
takes place during the early part of the
antitypical Atonement Day, which be
gan eighteen hundred years ago and is
not yet completed. The great Sin-Of-
fering was that of Jesus, finished at
Calvary; but His secondary offerings,
as our great High Priest. have contin-
ned ever since; and during this period
He has been offering up the members
,f uis Rody iuStified through His