The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-01-05

reigned, we perceive that one effect
has been just as foretold to Mother
Eve-"I will greatly multiply thy sor-
rows and thy conceptions We per-
ceive that our race has multiplied
much more rapidly than it would have
done had it remained perfect, as at
first; for the first children, in the days
following the Fall. were frequently
born when the fathers were one hun
bred years old.
We have already referred to the les
son respecting the sinfulness of sin
which comes to all mankind-most
fully. most consciously, to those Ia
vored by contact with the people of
God. who have received the Divine
Revelation. The enlightened ones
have been but a small proportion of
the whole. After two thousand years
Of the reign of Sin and Death, God
foretold in an obscure name the
blessing which He purposed to bring
subsequently to the race. To Abra-
han He said, "In thy Seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed"
That Message, followed in Israel by
the giving of the Law Covenant, has
been the light of the world. For eight
cen centuries it was the only light of
hope, of prospect. Then. in partial
fulflment of that Promise, came Jesus.
the first practical expression of Divine
Love for our race. No longer would
God content Himself merely with
promises. He would now begin the
Work Of Human Rescue.
But if any hoped that worldwide
blessings would Immediately spring up
as the result of Jesus work. be was
mistaken. On the contrary, Jesus
Himself was combatted by the Prince
Of Darkness and his deluded subjects.
For nearly two thousand years the
same principle has obtained-all fol-
lowers of Jesus have beer obliged to
take up their cross and suffer for
righteousness. for godliness, in the
midst of a perverse people. amongst
whom they have shone as lights and
whom to some extent they have as
sisted in enlightening, civilizing. etc.
Thus the Six Days of the Week, so
far as light. truth, knowledge of God,
is concerned. have all been dark Days.
The lights which God provided In His
people have been as candles set upon
candlesticks. They have indeed re-
proved the darkness, but they have
been powerless to scatter it. Nor did
God so design. His declaration through
the Prophet is, weeping may endure
for the night, but joy cometh in the
morning. psalm 30:5.1 Again, Ozark
ness covers the earth, gross darkness
the people,; but 'the Sun of Right
eousness shall arise with healing in
His beams. isaiah co.,; Malachi AZ.
This promised Sun of Righteousness
which is to scatter the darkness of
earth consists. we are distinctly told,
of Jesus and those who have walked
in His footsteps throughout the Gospel
Age. These, approved by the Father,
will be glorified beyond the Veil by o
resurrection to glory, honor and i'm
mortality. Then speedily will these
Shine forth as the Sun in the King
dom of their Father" Matthew 1343)
This will mean the-ushering in of the
great Seventh Day-Messiah's Day.
God Has Not Neglected Us.
From this Divine standpoint God is
not slack concerning His promises.
Only Six Days of the Week have yet
passed. The glorious Seventh Day, in
which the great Mediator between God
and men will assume His Kingdom
powers, is just at hand. Instead of
thinking that God is neglecting us and
forgetting to fulfil the Messianic prom
ises, we should with the eyes Of faith
realize that He is working all things
according to the counsel of His own
will. We should consider the matter
from the standpoint that God has ex-
ercised great patience with humanity
in not blotting out the race. He has
been long4suffering; and this fact as
sures us that the Interchangeable One
would prefer that none of His crea-
lures should perish in death. but rather
that all. if they would, might turn unto
Him and live.-Ezekiel 33:11.
The. great opportunity for the masses
Of u race to turn to the Lord and at
tain life everlasting will be after the
darkness shall have passed, and the
Sun of Righteousness shall be shining
forth; after the Highway of Holiness
shall have taken the place of the Broad
Road TO destruction; after Messiah, the
great King, shall have dethroned Satan.
the Prince of Darkness, from the con-
troll of the world; after the Prince of
Peace shall have established lasting
peace upon a proper basis. Who can.
not sing heartily with the poet:
"a thousand years.! earth's coming gIoryl
Ills the glad Day so long foretold;
It's the bright morn Of lions glory
Prophets foresaw in times of oldr'
Waiting For the Mother.
Our race was generated by Father
Adam as well as condemned to death
through his d~isobedience. What the
race needs is another father, or life
giver, and this is exactly what the
! word Savior signiies-Life-Give At
the cost of His own life the Redeemer
became the Purchaser of Adam and
his race, with a view to their resuscita-
ton, their resurrection from sin and
death. Is not one Of the R~edeemer's
titles 1.-The Everlasting Fatherv-the
Father who gives everlasting life?
isaiah 9:6) PROFESSIONALLY He has
not yet fulfilled this glorious office of
Life-Giver to Adams race. He will
fulfil it, however-"in His Day."
Speaking to His faithful disciples,
His followers in the Narrow Way, Je
sus promised them. In the regenera-
ton We shall sit upon twelve thrones"
Matthew 1929 That regeneration
period corresponds exactly to st. Pc
ter's Times of Restitution" or years
of restoration (Acts 3:19-2D; and both
Of these statements agree to the general
teachings of Scripture respecting a
resurrection at the last Day-Messiah's
Day-the Thousand Years of regenera
ton, resurrection, restitution, which
Will afford Adam and his race fullest
opportunities for attaining perfection
OF human nature in an Edenic world
wide Paradise.
The Lord through the Prophet as
sures US of the wonderful success
which will attend the establishment of
the New Empire of earth. the Domin-
ion of the Prince of Light, which will
supersede the dominion of the Prince
OF Darkness, when Satan shall be
bound for a thousand years, that he
may deceive the people no more. Thus
it is written, Judgment also will ]
lay to the line, and righteousness to
the plummet: INT the hail TRUTH
shall sweep away the refuge OF les