The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-11-03

for sins committed long before No
tice Jesus words, ''The blood of all
the Prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, shall be re-
quired of this generation; from the
blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacha-
rias, who persisted between the Altar
and the Temple" Luke 11.5O, 81.
Wherein was the justice in exaeting
all that of the people living in the close
Of that Age? We reply that those peo-
pie had far more responsibility than all
who preceded them. They had great
Light amongst them, shining from Je-
sus and the early saints. In their
treatment of these lightbearers, cruel
flying them and variously injuring
them, upon that last generation of
the Jewish Age wrath came to the
uttermost''
1.-THE Recompenses of Zion"
The Bible intimates that similar ag-
gregations of punishment are to be
expected in the end of this Gospel Age.
The great Time of Trouble, or Day of
Wrath. Is the 'recompense of the con-
troversy of Zion'-the saints, the true
Church. For eighteen hundred years
has Jesus prophetically declared that
the Kingdom class would suffer VIC
lence; and the violent have usurped
the place of the true by force
All the while, the violent have out
wardly been posing as the True
| Church of Christ, while the saints of
God in every epoch and in every cen
| tury have suffered-"as deceivers and
| yet true; as poor, yet making many rich;
as having nothing, yet possessing all
| things" G Corinthians 6:S-10) Heirs
| Of God and joint-heirs with Christ
| (Romans SID, they have been count
ed 1.-The filth and offscouring of the
EARTH" ''of whom the world was not
| worthy
| But the sin of their prosecutors must
be hquidated, even though the perse-
| cutors themselves will all eventually
| be forgiven. From this viewpoint, the
Thine of Trouble such as was not
since there was a nation" and which
is now beginning gradually to be con-
summated, will be the squaring of
Gods accounts with the world, prepar
atory to handing the Kingdom over to
Messiah for the blessing of all.
AS illustrative of this principle, note
the lesson of Revelation 6:9-11: The
cry is, How long, o Lord holy and
true, dost Thou not judge and avenge
our blood on them that dwell on the
earth" The message for all these
martyrs of Jesus was, Wait little
season, the vengeance will come, but
not until all. of this class shall have
| experienced their share of "the suffer
ings of Christ"
To these martyrs the suffering
brought polishings Of character, test
ings of faith, Divine approval, and an
| increased glory on the spirit plane as
members of the Bride of Christine
blessings to be given to them in the
First Resurrection-the chief Resurrec-
ton. referred to by our Lord in
Revelation 20:6 Then will be accom-
plished the binding of Satan; and
then Messiah's Kingdom, with all its
blessed and uplifting influences, will
bless the whole world with the long
promised PROSTITUTION of all things
which God hath spoken by the mouth
Of all the holy Prophets since the
world began."-Acts 3:19-23.
Modern Prosecutions Differ.
We do not say that the prosecutions
/ of the last members of the Body of
Christ will be by literally cutting their
tongues out, by literally burning them
at the stake, BY literally crucifyng
/ them or beheading them, as was done
with some of the other members of
the Body in the past. In our day there
Is more refined process often used.
/ Some are gibbeted by the pulpit, some
are roasted" in the public press, some
| have their tongues cut out in the sense
| that their words are misrepresented,
and that they are denied a hearing
And yet there are things In the Scrip
lures which seem to imply that there
may be a literal assassination and de-
struction of Gods faithful people in
the end of this Age, as well as figura-
tive one. But the Lords grace Will be
sufficient for them; and the more they
shall suffer for His sake, for the
Truths sake, the greater will be their
! glory and station in the Kingdom
! Who shall be punished for these
crimes against the Saints of God? We
answer, Babylon; and Babylon signi-
! f1es what is today known as 1.-THE Chris
| tan world"-a very anomalous term:
| for the world has no Identification with
! Christianity nor Christianity with the
world The so-called "Christendom" of
our day corresponds exactly to the
! Jewry of Jesus day. Then Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites, We're band
! ed together with the Sadducees and
the Herodians, the worldly and infidel
politicians. Their object was one,
namely, the perpetuation of their own
institution, regardless of Gods ar
rangement So here the civilized
world, misnaming itself "Christs King
DOM" is intent upon the preservation
Of the great Babylon which it has con-
structed, and willing TO do anything to
avoid its foretold destruction.
Hypocrisy the Greatest of All Sins.
Taking into account the prosecutions
endured by Gods saints throughout
this Gospel Age, there must be
/ heavy account on the book of Justice
to be settled. SANITY Catholics, saint
ly Presbyterians. sanity Baptists,
sanity Methodists, sanity people in
and out of all denominations have suf-
| fered; and Jesus words still stand
true = namely, that whosover would
/ give to the least of His followers even
a cup of cold water would not fail of
reward, and that injury to even the
least of these would be punished.
Are We asked what are the special
! sins of our day? We reply that here
as in Jesus day, hypocrisy is the
greatest of all sins. There were thefts,
murders, adulteries, and injustices of
various kinds in Jesus day; vet while
! denouncing all these in spirit, He prac-
/ tically ignored them all in His denun-
Citations of the hypocrisy of the re-
ligious rulers of His. time. We be
lieve that His Judgment of so-called
"Christendom" today is the same
There was a time when the world
ignorantly thought that the kings of
earth were ruling as part Of Christ's