The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-08-25

simple Bible story from first to last,
and it illustrates it all with most beau
dful pictures Excepting the first
part, nearly all the films are richly
hand-colored. and in this respect supe-
rior to anything ordinarily shown.
In the morning address, the Pastor
spoke on 1.-The Second Coming of
Christ from the text, when Christ,
who is our life, shall appear, then shall
We also appear with Him in glory. >
Colossians ga.
Sympathy was expressed for the
long-held view that Jesus, at His Sec
0nd Coming, would be a man in the
flesh to reign as an earthly monarch;
nevertheless. the speaker styled this
view absurd. Christ had accomplish
ed the work for which He was made
flesh. He was glorified and assembled
up to Heaven-"where He was before"
on the spirit plane. The One who is
to come again is the Lord of Glory,
and not the man of sorrows, and He
is to come in power and great glory.
The Pastor explained that Jesus at
His Second Coming in glory would not
be visible to human eyes-even as an
gels of glory are invisible to men. Nor
would it be advantageous to the world
that their physical eyes should be open
ed as were those of Saul of Tarsus.
The effect might be the same. The
promise of the Bible, that ''all the
blind eyes shall be opened" and that
EVERY eye shall see Him" relates not
to the natural eye. but to the eyes of
understanding. so long darkened, con-
fused, bewildered. by error. The True
Light will shine; the True Knowledge
of the Lord will fill the earth and all
will receive blessing thereby.
Christ's Parousia and Epiphania.
Careful Bible study reveals the fact
that different Greek words are used
in respect to Christ's Second Coming
One word. parousiG, signifies presence
mot coming in our ordinary use of
the word. Over and over again the
Scriptures tell of the Presence of the
Son of Man in the end of this Age.
and relate that during His Parousia.
the world will be unaware of it, and
attending to the ordinary affairs of
life. The only ones who will know will
be the most sanity people of God.
And these WIKI know, not by some out
ward sign, but by the Light of the
Lamp of Gods Word Eye, brethren.
are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as thief''-though
1t shall come as thief and as snare
on all the world Thessalonians ga.
An increasing number of Bible Stu
dents all over the world are convinced
from the Scriptural testimony, backed
by the outward evidences, that the
Parousia of our Lord began in October,
1874. The great enlightenment that
has come to the world as well as to
Bible Students during the period since
is accredited to the fact that we have
been living in the dawning time of the
New Dispensation
But the Scriptures with equal clear
ness point out that the Presence OF
Jesus is to be made manifest to the
world. He is to appear" to be ere
vealed." His Presence is to be made
known to the whole world so that ey-
cry eye may see Him; that is, that the
eyes of understanding of the whole
human family may be opened to o
realization of the great truth that
Messiah's Kingdom has come into
power. and is thenceforth to rule the
world. to overthrow sin. to uplift
righteousness. to bless all the willing
and obedient and to destroy in the
Second Death all wilful sinners.
According to the Bible, it will be 6
terrible, rude shock that will startlt
the world and open the eyes and ears
of their understanding and prepare
them for the Highway of Holiness
The revealing. or manifesting, to the
world of Messiah's Presence as the
New Ruler of earth. will come with 8
great Time of Trouble, which the
Prophet declares will be severer thar
anything aver before known-"A time
of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation" Daniel 1913. II
will be a time of judgments, of pun
ishments. upon nations. individuals
and ecclesiastical systems, as well as
upon inequitable financial institutions
The symbolic picture is that tht
whole fabric of society, ecclesiastical.
political, financial. will be ION fire." st.
Peter declares symbolically that 1.-The
elements will melt with fervent heat
the social elements. Concerning that
awful trouble, the Bible declares, HE
shall be revealed in flaming fire, taking
vengeance" All will know, all will
see. all the world will mourn and be in
terror, the more so because of the false
doctrines which have represented that
beyond the present life is an eternity
of torture for all except the sanity
elect few. Such wrong visions of the
future make doubly severe the trials
and disappointments and losses of the
present life which are the real judg-
ments of the Lord, the Bible knowing
nothing of an eternity of torture in the
future, but telling us everywhere that
the dead sleep, waiting for the glorious
Kingdom of Him who redeemed them
more than eighteen centuries ago by
the sacrifice of Himself.
Christ will not appear to His Church
in flaming fire-only to the world:
when He shall appear, then shall ne
also appear with Him in glory" Be
fore the contamination of that great
Time of Trouble, every saint, every
member of the Church of the First
born, whose names are written in
Heaven. will have been changed from
earthly nature to spirit nature, because
flesh and blood cannot inherit the
Kingdom" Neither will the sympathy
Of Christ, or the sympathy of the
Church with poor humanity, interfere
to prevent the great catastrophe with
which this Age will end.
The Kings, Emperors and Cars Of
the world would no more give over TO
Jesus their power and rule and gov
eminent than would the clergy give
over the spiritual control. The Divine
Program seems to be to allow human
institutions to wreck themselves in
showing their own incompetency and
opposition to the Divine arrangement.
Thank God for the better Day be-
yond-when the Sun of Righteousness
shall arise with healing in His beams
for the blessing of all the families of
the earthI Thank God that the Re
deemer, full of sympathy, viii be wise
IN know how deeply the Dlowshare of