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

yesterday" q Pc
ter 3:8: Psalm 9O4). He said in part:
All resolutions against sin and in ia
o. of righteous thinking and living
are c~ommendable and helpful. But /
recommend a comprehensive resolu-
ton; namely. Il get right with God
through His appointed Channel, the
Lord Jesus Christ, and through the in
structions Of His Word. the Bible.
While progressing in the knowledge Of
the Truth and in its spirit, the indi-
vidual will be abiding in Gods Love-
under the shadow of the Almighty
But this implies faith ia God, faith
in Christ, faith in the Bible and the
study of it SO as to get fully into align
ment with the Divine purposes and
away from the perverting Influences OF
the creeds- While every creed may be
said to contain some elements of Truth.
nevertheless these creeds are so hor-
ribly mixed with errors in such poison
GUS combinations that it is a wonder
we did not all follow blind leaders into
the ditch of infidelity long ago.
From the Divine standpoint we see
that the six thousand years of earfh's
history, from Adams day until now.
are merely the work-day portion of a
great Week whose Seventh Day, or
Sabbath, of a thousand years is the
Day of Christ "the last Day. the
Day of Judgment" or trial for the
~world-the Day in which every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess,
to the glory Of Cod. the Day In which
'the righteous shall flourish, and evil
doors shall be cut OFF, in the Second
Death; the Day during which God will
pour out His Spirit upon all flesh" as
He now grants 1t to His servants and
handmaidens.
In the Divinely arranged custom of
the Jews the new day began at sunset.
Thus we are in the evening. or begin
ming, of the great Seventh Day of the
Divine Week-the Day which means
so much of blessing, uplifting, privi-
lege, opportunity of Divine favor to
Il race through Messiah's glorious
Kingdom. which throughout this Sew
enth Day will reign from sea to sea
and from the river to the ends Of the
putting oONA CfCtltniuS tOll-
trary to the Divine standards, and up
lifting the world of mankind bought
with the precious blood at Calvary
from sin. degradation and the tomb
up. up. up. step by step, to human per-
lection in a worldwide Eden. The
unwilling. resisting Divine favors and
privileges. shall be destroyed in the
Second Death.-Acts 3:19-22, %.
Wearied Children Fall Asleep.
six Days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work; but the Seventh is the Sab
bath Of the Lord thy God; in it thou
shalt not do any work. Whoever
reads carefully, inteIligentIy, the pages
of history must be struck with the en-
ergy which has been manifested by our
race. The pyramids and the ruins of
ancient cities and civilizations all tell
us of humanity's ceaseless struggle
against the adverse. conditions prevail
ing in the earth, including the strife
against sickness and death and, by a
few, a noble fight against further deg
radiation.
Well does the Prophet express the
truth of our observation, saying, 1--WE
have not wrought any ~deliverance in
the EARTH isaiah 26:1S) A few
have gained fabulous riches, name or
fame, place or power; but during all
this period the majority have gone
down to the tomb, slain by the great
associated monarchs whom the Bible
declares are reigning-Sin and Death.
Even the comparatively few who
have gained eminence and whose vic
tories are most loudly extolled in hu-
man history have fallen also-many
Of them in the very prime of life-all
OF them in comparative childhood.
Why should not a nan live for a hun
dred years when we have the Divine
assurance that even under the Divine
sentence Father Adam resisted death
for $50 years--so vigorous was his con-
stitution?
From the Divine standpoint the chill
dren of Adam. all born in sin, shapen
in iniquity, of few days and full of
trouble, fall asleep in death, like chill
dren wearied in their play; albeit that
it is a play grim with tragedy, in
which each actor performs his part
most realistically.
From the Divine standpoint human
ambition, strife and energy are ac-
complishing a useful purpose. even
though the efforts are usually selfish
and often british. The lessons now
being learned by Adams children will
not all be lost. The greater mellow
ness of heart and the broader views
of the majority of those who have thus
battied selishly for even fifty years
suggest that our race as a whole might
do better work in a second century
than in the first. Moreover, the Scrip
lures indicate that the great drama of
sin. selfshness and passion being en-
acted by humanity is furnishing a les
son to angelic hosts respecting the ex-
ceeding sinfulness of SHIFTS down
ward tendency, its bitter fruit, and the
hopelessness Of any escape therefrom
except by Divine assistance.
Humanity's Next Lesson.
The forbidden fruit of Eden was
from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. Doubtless the Creator would
eventually have given our first parents
a full knowledge of both good and
evil, and merely forbade them an i'm
mediate plunge into knowledge to their
own disadvantage. Craving knowledge
before its due time, Mother Eve DISC
beyed her Maker, and enticed her hus-
band also into disobedlence. The re-
suit has been that instead of learning
the philosophy of good at first and of
evil later, they and their race have
been precipitated into lessons respect
ing evil first, with the knowledge of
good to come later.
The holy angels, who have never
transgressed the Divine Law, have con-
t~inually the lesson of good-an appre-
citation of the Divine character, the
principles of righteousness. etc. Their
lesson In respect to evil they are gain
ing by observation instead of by expe-
rience-the way recommended to our
first parents by the Creator, but in
their ignorance rejected.
But God foreknew the course which
His human children would take under
the influence of temptations; He fore
knew that they would fall into sin and
would therefore experience its penalty
of sin, sorrow and death. While for
six thousand years His eye has pitied
His poor creatures, nevertheless He
has allowed His great original Plan of
he Ages to move along slowly to a
grand climax-the Plan which He had
purposed In Himself from before the
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