The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-06-02

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be condemned again unless first freed
from the previous condemnation. AS
a race, mankind were sentenced to
death by Gods Law, Dying, thou
shalt die" Since all humanity is I'M
der this condemnation no one can have
an individual trial through Christ I'M
til first he has gotten free from that
condemnation which is the penalty of
Adams sin So the mere awakening
to realization of our condition does
not give any one second trial for life
Arising from the condition of sin and
degradation and trying to live an hon
est, decent life would not mean that
one had passed into trial again.
Church Only on Trial Now.
Then the Pastor demonstrated from
Scripture that only the Church class
are now on trial for life, and that the
world is not on trial at all, but is dead
in trespasses and SINS" The worlds
judgment lies in the future. The
Church's judgment has been progress
ing for nearly nineteen hundred years
The first to be tried was the Head OF
the Church-our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. He was found worthy and was
glorified. The Apostles were tried, and
throughout the Gospel Age the individ-
ual members Of the Church have been
tried. Soon the trial of the Church
will have been finished, the last
member will have passed beyond the
veil and entered into the joys of his
Lord.
Those begotten of the Holy Spirit
are now on trial for life on the spirit
plane. All thus on trial will fall into
one of three classes. One of these
classes will get the highest place-the
Divine nature-as members of the
Royal Priesthood Another will get a
lower place on the spirit plane, as
members of the Great Company-the
anti-typical Levites. The third class
will not get life on any plane. This
tlass will probably not be large. the
speaker thought.
Applying his t-xt to the Church, the
Pastor said that he was not sure but
that many professed followers of
Christ are asleep. In the context the
Apostle seems to imply that some Of
the people of God who have escaped
from the bondage Of sin and death, and
have come into Christ as New Crea-
lures, have become overcharged with
worldly cares, and thus may figura-
lively be said to have fallen asleep
again. The sleepy ones will not be
of the Kingdom class, he declared st.
Paul says that the true Church are not
Of those who are asleep, but are chill
dren of the Day; and therefore they
are to remain awake and be sober,
looking for the great salvation which
Is to be brought unto them at the Sec
ond Coming of our Lord
| Those of the Church who go to sleep
now are those who are overcharged
with the cares of this world and with
the deceitfulness of riches-whether by
intermarrying and thus having the
world brought so close to them that
they are overcome by its influence; or
whether by business entanglements or
alliances or partnerships, or what not,
that may be unfavorable to their spir-
itual interests and their conservation
to God. After one has become thor
oughly awake, and has become a mem
Der of the Body of Christ, there is
great danger that such a one may be-
come overcharged with worldly cares
and the deceitfulness of riches. One
may get the deceitfulness of riches
without having the riches; for the eff
fort to get the riches may develop the
deceit.
The Awakening of the World.
The Pastor then discussed his text
from the standpoint of the future At
the beginning Of the New Day of
Christ the world viii be asleep-some
In death. others In ignorance and su-
perstition. But the tumult of the Time
of Trouble, with which the Scriptures
everywhere declare the change of dis
pensat1on will be accompanied, will
certainly awaken the majority of those
who are not in their graves. Some are
awakening now; later, the whole world
will awake, and Christ will give them
light.
The thousand years of the Messianic
Kingdom will be time of rising from
the dead. Not merely those who are
In their graves will arise, but all who
are living at the time of the establish
ment of the Kingdom will be awak-
ened, before the awakening of those
In the tomb. When awake both classes
VIII begin to rise out of sin and death
conditions, trying to get little higher
and more awake, in order that they
may receive some of the blessings of
that glorious time
The Scriptures declare that at that
time the Sun Of Righteousness-Chr
and the glorified Church-will arise
with healing In its beams. Then the
poor world, that have been in sorrow
pain. crying and dying, afflicted of the
Devil for six thousand years, will be-
gin to look up to the great Redeemer
Tor deliverance from the power of Sa-
tan. For the thousand years of the
Messianic Kingdom the Devil will be
bound and have no power to deceive
the people. The true light will then
shine out, and the darkness of su-
perstition and ignorance will be scat
tered
Worlds Trial Future,
The Pastor then drew a soul-insnir
Ing picture Of future conditions as fig
urahvely shown in the Scriptures. The
New Age will not bring in full light
all at once. The great Sun of Right
eousness = Christ and the glorified
Church-will have a gradual rising
Ike the natural sun Gradually its
rays will dispel the darkness and
clouds; gradually the light of day will
increase. During the thousand years
the world will be rising gradually from
the dead 1t will require the entire
period of thousand years TO accom-
pilsh the resurrection of the world
now dead in trespasses and sins
Inc Pastor strengthened his argu
ment with a description of the per
sonal test which God will bring IN
each member of the restored race at
the close of the Messianic Reign. when
Christ will have delivered up the King
dom unto the Father, and mankind
VIII have been left TO themselves.
Those who have learned really to love
the right and to hate the wrong will
be ready for such test; those who
have not developed such a character
will not be ready
The nature of this test we may not
yet know definitely, the Pastor said
In the Revelation it is represented as
the lOOsinp of Satan to 90 forth to de-