The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-29

JESUS anu HIS Set llllil W De Tile 11tdu
over the Church, which is His Body;
and all the members of that Body
must give up their wills to their Head.
The Spirit of the Head, the mind of
Christ, must operate In every member.
A Transformation Work Going On.
From the time one becomes a MEM
Der OF the family of God a great work
Of transformation is in progress. As
members of the Adamic race all are
imperfect-mentally, morally and phys
ically. But this class who feel their
condition and are honest about the
matter come meekly to the Lord and
accept the riches of His grace In Christ
Jesus. When they receive their change
In the glorious First Resurrection there
will be nothing ignoble about them, as
there is now. Just as surely as they
are seeking to know and to do the
will Of the Lord, In that same proper
ton viii they come into harmony with
that will, and thus be blessed In their
minds and their bodies. The peace OF
God, that passes all human under
standing, will rule In their hearts and
In their lives
Fear and worry constitute a great
part of the trouble that is upon the
world, bringing all kinds of disease to
mind and body But when we cast all
our care upon Him who cares for us,
the load of care rolls away from us.
Although the Lord has not promised
His Church earthly blessings of any
sort-neither earthly riches nor health
nor any Of these things-nevertheles
In His providence He has granted to
us many physical blessings. Whoever
is with the Lord and His Word and
In the company of His children is sure
to be benefited; for He shows us the
way we should take. AS whoever as
sOciates with cultured people is sure
to absorb their ways, no matter how
humble the condition In which he has
been brought up, so whoever is asso-
ciated with the Lord Jesus Christ is
sure to be blessed.
Despising the Brethren.
The point we desire to make Is that
whocve = in company with God must
be r. heart. No matter how i'm
perfe lat person may be by nature.
there il; something right about him;
else God would never have recognized
him as being of His people. There
fore whatsoever receiveth you receiv-
eth Me, and whosoever despiseth you
despiseth Me; and whatsoever despiseth
Me, despiseth Him that sent Me"
Our Lord is still present in the flesh
1.-The flesh of His conseerated mem
bers; and the world still despises Him
as at first and as He foretold, saying,
"If the world hate you, We know that
1t hated Me before 1t hated you. If ye
were of the world, the world would
love its own" John 1913, 49, The
world is still ashamed of Christ Nom-
inal Christians, nominal Spiritual Is
raelites, are as much ashamed Of Him
today as were the Natural Israelites
eighteen centuries ago.
When we consider that our Lord is
represented In the flesh by the mem
bers of His Body in the flesh, we see
that love for the brethren means love
for the Lord Hence the Apostle de-
clares that love of the brethren Is one
Of the great tests of our relationship to
our Lord and to the Father. HE who
lovcth not his brother whom he hath
seen, how can he love God, whom he
hath not seenT Il John 4:20.) Love
one another as l have loved you," is,
therefore, the recognized test of dis
cipleship; and whoever Is ashamed of
the brethren is ashamed of the Elder
Brother, who counts all the younger
irettsren as Himself
1t may be new thought to some
that in despising the brethren they
are despising the Lord; that In being
ashamed of the brethren they are being
ashamed of the Lord, and that thus
they are demonstrating that they are
not fit for the Kingdom, that they have
not reached the mark of perfect love,
that they have not only not learned to
love their enemies, but not learned to
love those who are striving to walk
In the footsteps of Christ. How our
Lords words sift and test our very
innermost thoughtsl
Following the Masters Steps.
On the other hand, we are not so
much astonished that we should be de-
spised. By nature we were children
Of wrath, even as others of Adams
family, and we had no prominence
above any others Of humanity. But 1t
surely does surprise US to learn that
our Lord Jesus should be despisedl We
remember the record that He was-per-
fect-perfect to that extent that He
could say, He that hath seen Me hath
seen the Father" No human being
can see spirit being. But since Adam
who was created perfect, was In the
image and likeness of God, whoever
would see perfect human being would
see the earthly representative of the
Heavenly Father.
Since our Lord Jesus was q perfect
man while on earth, In full harmony
with the Father, whoever saw Him
saw the Father In the only way In
which It was possible for humanity
ever to see God. AS the Apostle says,
mo man hath seen God at any time;
the Only Begotten Son, who is In the
bosom Of the Father, He hath revealed
Him"-our Lord has made the Father
known to us. Hence the Church, in
seeing Jesus, were becoming acquaint-
ed with the Father. We can very well
perceive, then. the purport Of our
Lords words that whoever despised
Him would be despising the Father
who had sent Him.
To us 1t seems very different mat
ter when He said, HE that despiseth
you despiseth Me-" How poorly we
represent our Lordl How imperfect
our representation of Him! 1t is very
wonderful that our Lord should con-
slider US as His members in any such
way as this. 1t implies that He con-
fers upon US great honor, especially
when we consider how imperfect we
are. There is none righteous, no. not
one; hence for our Lord to say that
whoever receives one of His little ones
20 ing nlhn, anu ttdL whoever
despises one of His little ones Is des-
pising Him, seems very wonderful.
Herein Is an important lesson for us.
AS we realize, then, that we are
down near to the close of the Gospel
Age and that the time is at hand for
the rendering of our accounts. LET ia
be faithful in confessing the Lord, His
Truth and the brethren. Then when
we shall have finished our course with