The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-03-10

involve all nations. and peoples, and
kindreds. and tongues, and every part
of the world; Time of Trouble from
which there will be no escape except
for those who have made the Lord,
even the Most High, their Refuge and
Habitation psalm $40. But then,
even that plowshare of trouble the
Lord proposes shall be overruled so
that it will constitute channel of
blessing to mankind by preparing their
hearts for the Message OF Divine Love
and Grace, centered in Christ and His
redeeming work at Calvary.
What Say the Scriptures?
Turning from the ignorance. super
stition. darkness and 'terrors of the
Dark Ages, let us look still further
into the inspired Word of God through
the Apostles and Prophets From these
let us hear some description of the
blessings which God purposes His
Kingdom shall bring to our sin-cursed
race. The Scriptures tell us that God
has prepared great feast for hui
mainly; they intimate fguratively that
mankind has been starving for the
Message of Divine Grace--that billions
of our race have gone down in ignO-
rance and superstition. famished for
lack of the Word of God.
The Bread which came down from
Heaven-the Message of Truth and
Grace which our dear Redeemer
brought and exenplified-has indeed
been supplied lavishly to some. Some
of us have Toasted upon the good
things of our Fathers Word and Plan.
But the great mass of mankind have
been so deaf and so blind that they see
not neither do they understand nor re
ceive the grace of God. under present
conditions. How glad we are that "all
the blind eyes shall be opened, and ali
the deaf ears shall be unstopped"
isaiah 80 ~. and that the whole world
will thus be prepared for the true
knowledge of God, whose goodness and
loving kindness and tender mercies
will undoubtedly have a softening and
mellowing effect upon hard hearts
Blessed the Hungry.
There are many hungry hearts in the
world. Many whose bodies are well
nourished have furnished hearts, which
cry out for love and sympathy. He
who reads the hearts, who knows what
is in them. has prepared this feast
which will surely satisfy every legiti-
mate. righteous desire Those who al
ready are the Lords people. and who
have already Toasted at the bountiful
table spread for the Church, can APP
proXimate to some extent the bounty
that will be spread before the world
in this great feast foretold through
the Prophet in our text There will
be several differences. however, be
tween our present feast and that for
the world.
The present feast is merely a feast
of promises which must be partaken
of by the exercise of faith. The feast
described in our text will be very
actual one The realities of the bless
ing of Restitution Of health. of
strength. mental moral. and physical
will there be bountifully supplied. to
be partaken of freely by all who APP
preciate them.
Again, the present feast is spiritual
one, relating to Heavenly Kingdom
glory and honor-things not seen as
yet. except by the eye of faith. To
Al f1nA AflI
referred to in our text. will consist Of
earthly bounties and blessings, most
tangible in kind as well as excellent in
quality All that was lost in Adam
will be rendered to such rs will accept
the mercy.
The Prophet in attempting to de-
scribe the bounties of that feast uses
highly symbolical terms. and describes
it as feast of fat things. full of mar
COW. of wines on the lees well refined
Assureily no language that We could
use could fully and properly set forth
the riches of Gods grace provided for
the world of mankind under the minis
tration of His Kingdom. The earth
shall yield her increase. streams shall
break forth in the deserts. the wider
ness shall blossom as the rose. the soil
tary place be made glad.-Isaiah 80.
Still More to Follow.
The Prophet proceeds to describe fur
Their, saying, He will swallow I'D
death in victory. For several thou
sand years Death has had the victory.
and the human family have been swal-
lowed up by 1t, The Scriptures desig-
nate the six thousand years of earth's
history as the reign of Sin and Death.
1t is conservatively estimated that
Death has swallowec p twenty thou
sand millions of hull4nity. and that
ninety thousand are scna to the tomb
every day.
The Lord tells us through the Proph-
ct that with the establishment of His
Kingdom will come wonderful
change: instead of Death continuing
to swallow up the race. dying shall
cease. None shall die then except for
wilful sin. How glorious a time that
will be- All of our sorrows are more
or less intimately associated with the
reign of Sin and Death. How we may
well rejoice in the New Dispensation
which Divine Wisdom has planned. and
which Divine Love will execute. for
the release of our race from the dying
process, permitting them to return to
the liberty of the sons of God-free-
dom from death, freedom from sin.
But even this is not enough, The
Lord purposes not merely to restrain
the power of death. so that it shall
cease swallowing up our race. but ad-
ditionally to swallow up Death in
victory. The tomb. which figuratively
has engorged itself with twenty thou
sand millions, will be forced to dis
gorge. to release its victims. An that
are in the graves shall hear the voice
of the Son of God and shall come
FORTH The sanity few. whose faith
fulness God has already tested will
come forth to the perfection of life
The insanity masses. the majority of
whom have never known God truly,
will come forth to a resurrection, by
trial, by judgment. by discipline. Death
itself shall be DESTROYED.
wipe All Tears Away"
We remember our Redeemer's tender
words, Come unto Me, all We who la
Dor and are heavy laden. and | will
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Those who have accepted His gracious
invitation, and obtained from Him the
rest of faith. have found that it has
.-,,e--. +lo ,n ncaiia tion of their troubles