Charlevoix county herald., 1915-09-18
|Gbort 9ermons
FOR A
'@unnap Dalf-Dour'
Theme:
Summaries A MENACE.
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BY THE REV. DR.. !. M. HALDEMAN

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Text: He took also the mantle OF
Elijah that fell from him, and went
back, and stood by the bank of Jor
dan; the waters, they part
ed hither and thlther: and Elisha
went over.-Il. Kings 2:14.
Elijah, the mighty prophet of God
who defied the king, shut up the
heavens that there was neither dew
or " =, but, according to his word,
slewN prophets of Baal. called
down IRE from heaven upon the sac.
rifice, visited terrific judgment upon
the land, Is now to be taken up to
heaven by whirlwind, attended by
celestial horsemen and chariots of
fire. Elisha, his successor in the pro,
phetic Office, accompanies him on the
journey from Gilgal to Bethel. from
Bethel to Jericho, where there was a
theological seminary, and the sons of
the prophets (the ministerial stu.
dents of that day. said to Elisha
"Knowest thou that the Lord will
take away thy master from thy head
this day." And he answered: Yea, |
know it. Hold we your peace" And
they two went on to the River Jor-
dan. And fifty of the sons of the |
prophets went and stood afar off to
view what would happen. And Elijah
took his mantle and smote the waters
and they were divided, so that the
two went over on dry ground And
Elijah said unto Elisha: ASK what |
/ shall do for thee before l be taken |
away" And Elisha said 81 pray |
thee, let double portion of thy spirit
be upon me-" And he said: Thou
has asked hard thing; nevertheless,
IL thou see me when am taken away, |
1t shall be so unto thee, but If not, II |
shall not be So" And 1t came to pass
as they still went on, behold, there
appeared a chariot ED horses of fire, |
and parted them both asunder, and |
Elijah vent up by a whirlwind into |
heaven. And Elisha saw 1t and cried:
my father. my father, the chariot of |
Israel and the horsemen thereof"
And when Elisha returned to Jericho |
with the mantle of Elijah. the sons of
the prophets said THE spirit of |
Elijah does rest upon Elisha" And |
be with us fifty strong men. Let them
go and seek my master, lest perad- |
venture, the Spirit of the Lord hath |
taken him up and cast him upon some |
mountain or into some valley" And |
he said: "Ye shall not send" But |
they urged him until he was ashamed,
and he said: Send" They sent there |
fore fifty men; and they sought three
days, but found him not. And when
they came again to him (for he tar
ried at Jericho), he said unto them. |
did / not say unto you Go not?'"
The ascension of Elijah sets forth |
in type our Lords ascension into heav-
en-, through the shining portals of |
glory. to sit down on the right hand |
throned sin-purger, the risen man in
the heavens In bodily presence. The |
spirit of Elijah resting upon Elisha |
shows the spirit of Christ incarnated |
in the Church. After our Lords resur-
rection He breathed upon His disci- |
pies saying: Receive we the Holy |
Spirit" and on the day of Pentecost !
the promise of the Father was full |
filled, and they were endued with pow
er from on high.
Our present-day theologians are |
like the theologians of Jericho of old. |
They perceive the spirit of Christ, but |
repudiate His material presence in |
heaven. All sorts of things are being |
attributed by them to the Spirit of |
Christ. They tell us that the Spirit !
of Christ has given us the marvellous |
inventions of the day, rapid transit |
airships. woman suffrage. and inspired |
the discovery of the North Pole. All |
these things of the spirit of the nat
ural man, these Jericho theologians of |
our modern seminaries tell us are the |
outworkings OF the Spirit of Christ In |
man. OF course, they deny a bodily |
resurrection and teach a ghostly |
Christ, instead of one who called to
His disciples to handle Me and see
that am flesh and bones, and not a
spirit as We think" and who sat at |
meal with them. after His resurrec-
ton, partaking of broiled fish and
honeycomb. AS the sons of the pro-
phets of old sought to account for the |
disappearance of Elijah, so do our
modern. up-to-date theologians, wheth-
er native born or imported, seek to |
account for the disappearance of |
Christ.
The time has come when men will |
not endure sound doctrine, but having |
Nfbing ears, have heaped unto them
Slves teachers, and have turned away
their ears from the truth unto fables |
The progress of the DEVILS lie, "Ye |
shall be as God, knowing good and
evil" still continues. Right is on the !
a<affold and wrong Is on the throne" |