The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-24
Redemption Through Christ.

SIN ana Qeatn, we ma many OF the
human family more degraded than the
brute creation and apparently less
worthy of Divine favor. But God,
rich in Mercy in the great Love where
with He loves us, has provided for
mankind recovery from sin and
death, while He has made no provision
for the future life of the brute creation.
Gods provision for mans recovery
from the sentence of death is the story
of the Gross Of Christ" Because a
man had sinned. the Redeemer must
be Man. Because the penalty was
human death, Perfect Man must die
for the sinners release from the death
sentence, to uplift the willing out of
sin and death conditions-up. up, up
to fellowship with God and eternal
life. Because the race of Adam in
| herited naturally his mental, moral,
and physical defects. therefore none
of his posterity was worthy of eternal
life. But in the Divine arrangement.
as Adam involved all of his children
and their Paradise home in the wreck
of sin and death. SO redemption has
been effected through Christ
The great work of Messiah will
therefore, be the restoration of the
world to all that was lost in Eden and
redeemed at Calvary The work OF
Restitution, ST. Peter tells us, has been
spoken of 'by the mouth of all Gods
I holy Prophets since the world began
and will be accomplished by Messiah
at His Second Coming tActs 3:21.)
But the Divine Plan changes not. Sin
is still abhorrent to God and will al
ways be so, and the Divine sentence is
that no sinner shall have eternal life.
Hence the offer of Divine grace is
merely to all who may have a heart
desire for Divine assistance, resurrec
ton. restoration, uplifting out of sin
and death conditions to perfect cOndi
tions These things will be accom-
plished only in those who are willing
and obedient Only such shall eat the
good of the land'-the fruits of Para
dise.-Isaiah 1:1S-2O; Acts 1923.
Furthermore. it is the Divine ar
rangement for mankind, and just
one, that every good and noble deed in
the present life works measure OF
Acknowledgment which will be
assistful in the future life, enabling
the faithful the sooner to mount up
to full perfection of earthly life. Cor
respondingly. every wilful sin, every
violation of conscience and principle.
works a defiiement and impairment of
manhood tVbt will hot no,
effect upon the future life in the diff
Guilty of rising out of degradation to
the heights of human perfection, Di
vine approval and everlasting life. If
all mankind could appreciate these
facts, what an influence it would have
in restraining and governing self and
in developing self control and true
Misunderstanding Ga.
The Divine Program.
Does some one inquire why He who
redeemed Adam. his Eden home. and
all his race. and who proposes restor
alton of all. has not begun this Resti
tuition work during the eighteen hun
bred years since the sacrifice of Him
self? The Scriptures answer that dur
ing the interim another feature of the
Divine Program is being carried out
The Lord is gathering the elect Church
from Israel and all the nations to be
Messiah's assistants in His Kingdom
and i'll the gracious work of uplift-
rrection-restitution. This elect
Church class, first selected, is in the
oil cd
God of His creatures" Games 1:1S:
Revelation 14:4.D The world Of restor-
ed humanity will be the after-fruits.
The Scriptures exhort such as in the |
present time are blessed with the hear |
ing ear. to give heed to the special in |
vttation to the Elect They exhort |
such as have the eye of faith to aspire |
to the crown of glory and ioint-heir- |
ship with Christ that is now being |
rendered to very select class. "He |
that hath an eye, let him see So many |
of us as have been blessed of the Lord |
with the ear of faith, the eye of faith.
let us rejoice in the blessed opportuni-
ty. Let US seek indeed to make our
calling and election sure to this Heav-
emily estate of glory. honor, immortali-
ty and joint-heirship with our Lord.
the King of kings and Lord of lords!
Christ's Atonement.
Both the thieves crucified with our
Lord lost their right to the original
Eden, or Paradise, of God through Fa-
ther Adams dlsobedience, as did we
all. Both those thieves were born in
sin. shapen in iniQuity and in sin did
their mothers conceive them. as with
US all. Both thieves were redeemed by
the precious blood of Christ. as were
we all; for Jesus by the grace of
God tasted death for every man.: He
is the Precipitation for our sins 1.-THE
Church's sinsl; and not for ours only.
but also for the sins of the whole
world. Hebrews 20: John %
Thus. as we have seen. the Redeemer
has made provision for both of those
thieves. as well as for all of us-all of
Adams race-to be recovered from the
sin and death conditions of the fall,
and restored to Paradise The Church
called during this Gospel Age. may
reach the spiritual Paradise. or high
est condition of holiness and happiness
The two thieves and the remainder of
will have their opportunity
turing the Millennium. Their oppOrtu-
nifty will be for return to earthly life,
perfection and happiness, and to an
earthly Eden-world-wide How much
grander work win thus result from
our Lords death than we had previous
y supposed,
Let none suppose, however, that
hose two thieves will enter Paradise
IN the same footing While both were
guilty of robbery, they were evidently
1issimilar in the condition of their
hearts. The one was hardened, as evil
fenced by the fact that he could speak
10 rudely to the Redeemer, whose face
bespoke gentleness, purity and limo
,ence of crime eff Thou be the
Christ. save Thyself and usT' duke
.3:39) Such cruelty implied a deep
of mind-implied that he
vas sln-hardened
And yet we must remember that 9th.
rs of the multitude standing by used
imilarly cruel language. We must
emember. too. that there are many