The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-06-15

doctrines of the DARK Ages 30 DeclVuu-
ed our mental vision and so stagnated
thought as to handicap the world In
respect to every matter of progress
and intelligence. Our creeds of the
Dark Ages deceived us into thinking
Of the Almighty as cunning, power
full Being who had planned our injury
before the foundation of the world,
who purposed to torture eternally more
than ninety-nine per cent. of the bill
lions He had created. Under these
mental decisions. the Bible came back
to Gods people after 1t had been ex-
planned by the creeds for twelve hun
dred years. When our fathers began
to study the Bible afreshs their minds
were so impregnated with what the
Bible styles doctrines Of demons" that
they were looking for devilish things
and made them out of Scriptural state
ments which had no such significance.
our unsoripturaI Expectations.
Christians have long realized that
God does not purpose to leave the
world forever in a sin and death con-
dition. But they have looked for d.
vine victory in the wrong direction,
because they have accepted the theo-
ries Of the Dark Ages formulated when
the Bible was not In the hands OF the
people. The theory was that God wish
ed the Church to establish the MIL
lennium by converting the world from
sin to righteousness An endeavOr has
been made to follow that theory. In
QUESTIONS and prosecutions were In
voked to force people into church
membership. How successful 1t was
is witnessed by conditions in Europe
at the present time.
Great Britain claims 50 per cent
Christians, Germany the same, Russia
about the same, while Italy claims
that all her people are Christians. In
this fashion they have been attempt
ing to convert the worldly calling
people Christians who were not Chris
tians at all, and by including their
names on church records. By these
methods they have counted up total
Of 400 million Christians, as against a
total Of 1900 millions Of earth's popu-
Iation. Thus the world is not yet half
Christian, even of the nominal sort;
and instead of the heather coming
rapidly to Christianity, we find that
they doubled during the last century.
Let us glance at the character of
those thus forcibly brought under the
name Christian by making them Chris
Hans as infants. We perceive that
many OF these are in jails, penitentia-
ries and insane asylums; and while we
believe that In every nation and de-
nomination there are some true saints
Of God. members therefore Of the true
Church or God. nevertheless, taken as
q whole, can we not see that what
Jesus said of some In His day must be
applicable In what today is styled
Christendom-'Ye are OF your father
the Devil; for his works We do?
We ask ourselves, Are the people of
Europe doing the works Of God or of
the Devil? The Apostle tells us that
IF any man have not the Spirit Of
Christ, he is none Of His; that the
fruits Of Christ's Spirit are meekness.
gentleness. patience, brotherly- kind
ness, love; that anger. malice, hatred.
envy. strife, are works of the flesh and
of the Devil. "By their fruits We shall
know them,' said the Master. Surely
we ought to know that some huge mis-
take has been made when the peoples
Of Europe have been styled Christen-
dom-C hrist's Kingdom-and why they
are enrolled as Christians.
How sad was the mistake which oc-
Cured when the doctrines of demons"
were brought inl Now we see that the
Bible tells a very different story. 1t
tells that Gods time for saving the
world from sin and death will be dur
ing tia thousand years of Messiah's
have every good opportunity that Di-
vine Wisdom. Love and Justice viii
arrange on their behalf.
The dead are not in Heaven nor in
the Catholic Purgatory nor In the still
worse Protestant eternal torture. They
are asleep, as the Bible declares. But
for Jesus and His work they would be
dead In the same sense that brute Is
dead. Because Jesus died for sins,
therefore there is to be resurrection
from the dead: and therefore the dead
are spoken Of as being asleep. uncon-
scious. waiting for the Morning of
Messiah's Coming and for the glorious
blessings Of resurrection promised.
The Seventh Trumpet-The Last.
With our minds filed with the fears
the trump of God" as though 1t were
q trumpet of the Devil, as though 1t
implied horrible disaster to the human
family. But now, the eyes Of our I'M
Outstanding opened to discern more
clearly the Bible teachings, we are
amazed to find that the trumpet of God
is symbolical. like the preceding six;
that it stands related to Messiah's
Kingdom and to the worlds release
from the bondage OF Sin and Death
Thank God for the Seventh Trumpet,
the last trump, the trump of Lovel
In the past this was pictured as the
Jubilee. Under the Jewish Law ar
rangement God % vided that every
iftieth year should be Jubilee year.
In which all debts should be cancelled
and all bondages terminated. This
was not only beneficial arrangement
for the Jews. but was type of the
future. 1t pictured the full forgive
ness Of sin and the full release of hu-
manity from all the consequences OF
Adams disobedience
At the opening OF the year of Jubilee
the fact was announced by the priests,
who blew upon silver trumpets, pro-
claiming that the Jubilee had come
and that all might return to their for
mer estate. The great Seventh Day,
thousand years long, the antitypical
Jubilee Year, began In 1875, according
to Scriptural chronology. II is the
proper time for all the servants of God
members Of the antitypical Priesthood.
to blow the silver trumpet of Truth
and to make known to the people the
character of the bondage to Sin and
Death, and to inform them that it is
Gods will that they go free from these.
Such proclamations have been going
forth from Bible students the world
over during the past forty years. The
matter has been opposed by many. AS
among the Israelites there was a nom
NAL priesthood who opposed the Mes
sage Of Jesus and the Apostles, so
there is today a nominal priesthood
who oppose the Message of Truth, the
that Messiah is about to take
His great power and reign.
All Things to Be Made New.