The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-31

ried out After telling of our Lord
obedience to the Fathers will in hum |
bling Himself to death, even the death |
of the cross, he adds. God hath high |
ly exalted Him"-''far above angels, |
municipalities nd.spowers. "-Philippi |
ans 25-11; Ephesians 1:20-23.
The Master declared plainly, "Yet a |
| little while, and the world shall see !
Me no more; but He promised that |
He should be seen by His followers. |
st. John declares, I'VE shall be like |
Him; for we shall see Him as He u.s."
! Il John 3:2D We read: Every eye |
| shall see Him; but this. to be In har- |
mony with the other Scriptures, must |
refer to the eyes of understanding. |
The Bible declares that eyes of hui |
man understanding are blinded now /,
| by error and sin. but that shortly all |
! the blind eyes shall be opened Then |
all will see Messiah and His Kingdom |
with the eye of faith, as the Church |
now see Jesus, the crown of life, and |
the things which the natural eye hath |
not seen.
Parousia-Presence; Epphania-Mani-
festation.
| Our English word coming is used to |
translate several very different Greek |
words. One of these is Parousia, |
which means presence, and is used In |
referring to the first stage of the !
Lords Second Advent He will be |
| invisibly present. For time none but
the sanity few whose eyes of under !
| standing are anointed through the |
| Word and the Spirit will realize His |
Parousia, His presence, while all |
| things earthly will continue as they |
have been-buying, selling, building, |
marrying, etc. Then. later on, will |
come the Epiphania; that is to say. |
the revelation. or manifestation, of |
the present One This will not be |
manifestation in the flesh. but in |
! great Time of Trouble, symbolically |
represented as fire, as when we read,
He shall be revealed in flaming fire n
taking vengeance - Thess 1:7-10.
| To my understanding the Bibl
| teaches that Jesus has been present
| in the world since 1874 In otheI
I
words, His Second Advent then began |
The wonderful progress in the world
! since then Bible students thus explain; |
the wonderful blessing upon them and |
| their study of the Bible they interpret |
in harmony with this. They under |
| stand the Bible to teach that this Pa |
| rousia will continue for thousand |
| years; but that the Epiphania. or man. |
| Hesitation to the world, will be due in |
forty years from the time the Presence |
began. For this reason they are look
ing very interestedly to see what the ,
| present year may bring forth.
| And do we not see everywhere signs !
| of unrest. a time of trouble brewing? |
1t looks as though this year would mark |
| the beginning of the flaming fire.
| of judgments upon the world which |
| will mark the closing of this Age and
| the Inauguration of the New Dispen-
sation of Messiah's Kingdom, when
Justice shall be laid to the line and |
| righteousness to the plummet." and |
when the ignorance, superstition and !
| darkness which so long have hindered |
| us will begin to be broken. The tran |
sition may be painful, yet it will he
blessed. marking the overthrow of |
Satan's empire and reign of sin and |
death and the Inauguration of Mes
siah's Kingdom and its Reign of right |
eousness and life eternal.
eating, Drinking, Planting and Build
ing"
| Our Lord, in describing His Second |
| Presence. clearly indicated that it |
| would be unnoticed by the world until |
she cataclysIn of trouble should come.
| Thus He likened the earlier days of |
His presence to that period before the
Flood, when the world. unconscious of |
the impending catastrophe continued |
to build, eat and drink as usual. and |
| knew not. So. says the Master it will |
| be in the end of this Age. Eating, |
drinking, building, planting and mar
| rying will proceed as usual; and the |
world will not know that they are in
the presence of the Son of Man. The |
great Day of Trouble, noted through |
out the Scriptures as the Time of |
| Trouble such as never was since there |
|
was a nation, will come upon them
suddenly-St. Paul says like the pangs
OF woman in childbirth A New Dis |
| pensation and new order of things is |
about to be born, and this great trou-
Bile is merely incidental to that BIRTH
st. Paul refers to the matter say
Ing, Yourselves know perfectly, breth- |
rem, that the Day of the Lord cometh |
as thief in the night For when they !
1.-THE world shall say, Peace and safe
ty, then sudden destruction cometh |
upon them, as travail upon a woman
with child; and they shall not escape |
But We, brethren, are not in darkness, !
that that Day should overtake you as |
thief. Ye are all children of the
light, children of the Day. Thessa-
lonians 5:1-6
Change a Cause For Rejoicing.
If this great change from the domin- |
ion of Satan to the rule of Christ shall |
begin to manifest itself this very year, |
1914, it will be cause for rejoicing to |
all Although no sufferngs are joy |
Gus. but rather grievous, nevertheless
in the hands of a gracious Savior, who |
died for US and who is intent upon do
ing all that can be done for the recov-
cry of our race from sin and death, we !
may well lie glad in realizing that the |
Plan which Messiah is about to carry |
out for the blessing and uplifting of |
mankind from sin and death conditions !
is part of the original Divine Plaa of |
/ the Father. And we have all the more
joy. confidence and assurance that all
things will work together for good to
those that love God.
The bud may have a bitter taste.
But sweet will be the flower"
The trouble will be an awful one.
but we believe not of great length.
The Bible everywhere tells of the
glorious results that will follow. when
the shackles of darkness. sin and error
shall be broken, and when all the spir-
itual powers surrounding mankind will
be good and helpful. as in contrast
with those of the wicked spirits now
operating through mediums. by clair
voyant and clairaudent powers. to en-
snare, to deceive. to bewilder. man
kind.
The fact that our Lord appeared in |
seven different flesh forms ON various |
occasions after His resurrection does
not contradict other plain Statements, /