The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-05-19

ture; and just at the moment when the
old nature is reckonedly dead, at that
same moment the New Creature be-
gins-begotten of the Holy Spirit, that
these may be children of God. spiritual
sons of God These have become the
Lords In two senses: first, In the sense
1 that they are New Creatures. begotten
of the Holy Spirit, and will be glorlfied
/ in the First Resurrection by and by, If
| faithful; and second. that they are also
reckoned as members of the Body of
! Christ ON the human plane.
present Your Bodies"
! Referring again to his text. the Pas
! tor demonstrated that the Apostles
argument In the context relates pri-
marily to the presenting of the human
nature in sacrifice. Only the high
| priest could offer the sacrifice in the
] type. In the antitype, the great High
Priest offers those who present them
selves Each one who presents his
! body living sacrifice in conservation
/ is then taken In hand by our Lord.
Thenceforth the sacrifice is reckoned
dead
! In this connection. the Pastor also
! showed that the Aaronic Order of
high priest and the under priests
/ This arrangement was typical of Christ
and the Church He quoted Scrip
lures to demonstrate that the Church
is Royal Priesthood. of which Jesus
is the great High Priest. In the typi
cal Day of Atonement sacrifices, the
| animals offered in sacrifice represented
the human nature of Jesus and the
Church; but Aaron and his sons repre-
scented the New Creatures.
All who have presented their bodies
living sacrifices, and have been accept
ed and begotten Of the Holy Spirit.
are the antitypical under priests. and
as such have access to the antitypical
Tabernacle. Having passed under the
first Veil. typical of the death of the
human WILL they as New Creatures
are In the antitypical Holy. There
they walk by the light of the antitypi-
cal Golden Candlestick, eat the anti
typical Shewbread and offer incense
! at the Golden Altar-these all repre-
sentng spiritual blessings.
As the Apostle says of the Church.
"God hath made us sit together
In Heavenly places" We have not yet
gone into Heaven itself-beyond the
second Veil-but we are in a Heavenly
condition. "Old things have passed
, away, and all things have become
new" We have left the Camp, and
have passed out of the Court condition
into the blessed condition of the light
of the presence of the Lord Each of
these different pictures helps us to see
how great things God has done for us.
"a Living Sacrifice"
The Pastor declared that membership
In the Body of Christ is the all-impor
tant thing to the Christian This Body
of Christ. which is the Church, is I'M
der another figure called the Royal
Priesthood. 1t is the Divine purpose to
prepare in advance of the world a com
pany that will be able to instruct man
kind and to help them in every way
with respect to morals. and education
in things relating to God This espe
cially prepared class is the Church.
who as kings and priests will also have
authority. under their great High
Priest. TO rule the world during the
thousand years of the Messianic King
dom. Their work will be not only to
rule mankind for their good. but also
to uplift the race of Adam from sin
degradation and death.
The opportunity to be a member of
this Royal Priesthood is certainly the
greatest privilege that has ever come to
any creature 1t is to fit and prepare
! this class for joint-heirship with Jesus
! In the Kingdom that God deals with
the Church as He does. He calls them
out of the darkness of the world into
the light of the knowledge of His own
glorious plans for the salvation Of hui
manity.
Next the Pastor showed that this
matter of sacrifice may be viewed from
either of two standpoints-God's view
and mans. From the standpoint of
humanity. conservation seems to be
very hard. There is no slavery in the
world like that of being child of God
and an associate of Jesus. they think
Everything must be given up One can
not have anything of his own: he may
not eat. drink. sleep. think. or do any
thing as he would choose On the con
trary. he must ask what the Lord
would have him do about everything
He must have no will of his own Any
other slave would be allowed TO ext
what he chose and to think what he
chose, at least; but the Christian can
not do so. He must say. Not nay
thoughts. not my way, not my will
but the Lords. This is the worldly
view of conservation; it seems hard.
indeed. some will say. 1t is too much.
The view from the Divine standpoint
is altogether different We who look
at the subject from this standpoint
say. What have we. at best? We are
dying creatures. We have very little
strength. very little wealth: it requires
nearly all of our time to provide for
the necessities of life We have very
little to give to the Lord Therefore
we do not see why the Lord should az
cept our sacrifice at all
To corroborate this view, the Pastor
cited the case of st Paul. who de
clared that he counted all things but
loss and droSs for the eXceliency of
the knowledge of Christ Jesus his
Lord ST Paul had more than have
most of the consecrated Roman
citizen by birth. he was also mem
Der of noble family and had every
advantage of wealth and education
He had good powers of speech and
reason. ms his EpiStles demonstrate
Whoever will read his E:istle to the
Romans VIII see that the master mind
behind that writing could handle q
case ut law anywhere. Yet. after
summing up all his advantages. the
Apostle considered these things as
mere dross. He willingly sacrifice |
them all in order to win Christ; for
the things of this present life are not
worthy to he compared with the glory
that shall be revealed. This. the /
speaker declared. is the right view Of !
consecration-God standpoint.
Look Not at the Things Seen. /,
The Pastor then discussed the expe-
riences of the Christian who is walk |
ing In the narrow way of sacrifice. He ]
has pleasures of which the world I
knows nothing His trials seem, as |
the Apostle says, Eight Affections, !
which are but for ii moment, and |
which are working otfs for him far
more exceeding and etsrpal weight of /
glory, while he looks at the things I'M
saaD Tho ChrfSffan 10 looking of tha