The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-07-27

INTO Europe, we see what EVIL passlouS
can accomplish. Yet the savagery
there is only beginning; it will be far
worse. With all our preaching ana
teaching, with all our surgery and med
icine, we have not bettered our race
yery much. When we perceive that
sin has accomplished this evil work.
we dread sin; we realize that 1t is the
most terrible thing that can befall any
one. When the whole world come to
realize the true situation, men will
know that the entrance of sin is the
worst thing that can happen.
The Beginning of the New Creation.
According to the Divine Program for
human salvation, the Lord Jesus Christ
was to do sacrificial work for the
race; next the Church was to be gath
cred out from amongst mankind, and
then the Millennial Age was to begin.
When our Lord Jesus gave His life
freely and unreservedly to the Father
In conservation at Jordan, God started
a New Creation, by begetting the Son
with the Holy Spirit to the Divine ma
ture. As He was coming up out Of the
water, the Holy Spirit came upon Him,
amounting Him to all the glorious work
which He is to accomplish as the great
King and the great Priest for the world
Of mankind.
When the Father planned this New
Creation In connection with human
salvation, He arranged that the New
Creatures should be those who would
give up all their own rights as men,
laying everything at His feet, and
will. As our Lord was the beginning
Of the creation of God (Revelation
3:14), the Father wished Him to have
the highest place In this New Creation.
The angels never had such q test of
loyalty as came to Jesus; they never
laid down life ON one plane and passed
to lower plane, as He did. Although
they have been loyal In everything
which God has asked Of them, He did
not put this test upon them.
When at the beginning Of His minis
try our Lord, then thirty years of age,
gave Himself unreservedly to the Fa-
ther, saying, 10. come Tin the vol
ume of the Book it Is written of Me-,
to do Thy will, o Cod" the Father
manifested His special love for the Son
by AMOUNTING Him with the Holy Spirit,
making Him a member of the Divine
family on the highest plane Of being
Then for three and half years the Fa-
Their tested Him. proved Him and found
Him worthy to receive the honor, the
glory, the power, the might. Revela-
tton 5:12.) How we rejoice In our
Eavior's victory! How we love and
admire Him, for the same reason that
the Father does! There is something
Of character there.
The Body of the Amounted.
The Apostle tells us that there was
one feature of Gods Plan for human
salvation which was not made known
In the past; that Is. the fact that there
was to be Body of Christ-not mere
ly one individual, but company. This
figure of speech we use when we speak
Of the body of Congress, of which the
chairman Is the head. SO we speak of
the Body of Christ of which Christ
Jesus is the Head. God gave Him to
be Head over the Church, which is His
Body. (Ephesians 1:19-23.) Nobody
knew beforehand that The Messiah is
to be composed Of many members, and
that the members were to be selected
from amongst mankind. The Jews sim
ply expected Messiah to come. They
read of the glory, and thought only of
the glory and of one person, not realiz
ing that they themselves would have
an opportunity to be of this Messiah
class-just what the Jews are still ex-
pect1ng.
Through st. Paul the Lord tells us
that In this Body of Christ there would
be both Jews and Gentiles; and that
the twain were to become one New
Man, one complete Christ-Jesus the
Head, and the Church the Body.
(Ephesians 2:11-16; 4:11-16.) The first
members of this Body came from the
Jews, to whom the call was first to be
made, because they were the natural
seed of Abraham. God had told Abra-
ham that He would give the first
chance to the Jews. 1t Is wonderful
to contemplate how many were ready
for this call Probably twenty-five
thousand Jews responded quickly to
the Gospel Message, thus showing q
wonderful condition of conservation to
God and His ways.
Then the door was thrown open to the
Gentiles. There were not many of
these ready for the call; and SO it has
taken eighteen hundred years to gath
er from amongst the Gentiles enough
to complete the exact predestined num-
Der. II the Gentiles had been as thor
oughly cOnsecrated as were the Jews,
the required number might have been
found during the first century But
the Gentiles had not had the previous
instructions of the Law to assist them,
and therefore 1t has taken q much
longer time to take out the proportion
ate number. Thus we were called out
of the world to be followers of Jesus
invited to make the same kind of CON
secration to God which He made, and
to receive and to manifest the same
Holy Spirit-the Spirit of amounting.
Merit imputed to the Church.
During this Gospel Age the Father Is
calling only those who have the spirit
Of His Son, whose disposition was one
Of faith and obedience. These cannot
have the same degree of obedience be-
cause their flesh is imperfect; but they
can have the same degree as far as the
mind, the will, is concerned. We can
will to be whatever we like; and God
Is looking at the will He knows far
better than we do that we cannot do
the things that we would. The Apos-
tie said, Yea, l judge not mine own
SELF - He that judgeth me is the
Lord" q Corinthians AZ, A. st. Paul
did not know how much allowance to
make for even himself and we do not
know how much allowance to make for
ourselves, our neighbors, our friends
our brothers. Therefore the Lord In;
structs US not to judge one another;
Tor whatever kind of Judgment we
mete to others will be the standard OF
our own judgment.
The ability to criticise others mani
TESTS knowledge of just what consti
tutes the wrong act or word, and rem
ders the one aspiring to be judge tn,
more responsible. We are to render
all the help we can to others, and leav,
the matter of disciplining to the Lord
He alone knows what experiences Hi
people should have. Therefore His PEG
pie should avoid all Judging, condemn
ing and fault-finding. Let God do tht
judging and any Furnishing which HI
may see necessary
In the Millenniai Age mankind vii
simply put away sin and try to live al