The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-09


none are able to recognize except '.the
brethren" Only in embryo are Gods
saints spoken of as the Kingdom class
They are now on probation. Jesus
says that the overcomers will be grant
ed to sit with Him in His Throne. as
actual members Of the Royal Priest
hood, to reign with Him thousand
years.-Revelation 1921: 20:6. -
ale Must Reign Until
| After telling about the resurrection
of the dead, st. Paul explains that the
resurrection of the Church to glory,
honor and Immortality will be first on
the program. Subsequently all will
come forth, every man in his own or
der" and Christ shall reign until He
| shall have put down all insubordina-
ton Other Scriptures clearly inform
us that the length of His Reign viii
be thousand years.
From the Bible viewpoint the Thou
] sand-year Day Of Christ is ample for
the great work to which 1t has been
consecrated by the all-wise Creator
from before the foundation Of the
earth. Nor should we forget that all
power in Heaven and earth is vested
| In the One who then will take the
Throne Neither should we forget that
for eighteen centuries the Church has
been under special preparation and In
struction in the School of Christ, train
! ing for their work as Royal Priest
hood. They will be able to sympathize
| with the grooming creation and to be
merciful, even in the administration of
stripes necessary to many for their as
sistance along the Highway Of Holt
ness, then opened up.
Messiah's Kingdom Invisible.
Some of the noblest minds have been
repealed from faith in the Second Ad-
vent by the thought of an earthly
! Kingdom with Christ and the saints In
regal state. They were quite right in
thinking that earthly court and state
would be beneath the dignity of Mes
| Biah and His Bride. The Scriptures
| declare that Jesus left His glory, hum
bled Himself to become a man, in or
| der that He might become the great
| Sine Offering for our race. But the Re
deemer prayed to be gloriied with the
glory which He had with the Father
before the world was; and He prom
ised His Church share in His Heav-
| emily glory. Did He lead us to expect a
| Heavenly glory. Heavenly inheritance
and glorious change from earthly to
Heavenly conditions, and will He give
us, instead. earthly glory and merely
| perfection in the flesh?
How slow we have been to see that
God never purposed that either Jesus
or His faithful Elect should remain in
the feshl A few Bible statements mis-
understood got us into difficulty. We
read, Every eye shall see Him." and
forgot that there are eyes of under
standing as well as natural eyes. We
forgot that Jesus declares that very
few now see or hear-only the sanity,
whose eyes of understanding have been
| opened by the amounting of the Holy
Spirit We forgot that Jesus said, "A
little while and the world seeth Me no
more" When once we discern that He
has been glorifed-that He has been
| given a spirit nature again, that He
no longer has the human nature which
He surrendered as Sin-Sacrifce, then
we see why the world will see Him
no more, and why the Church must
be changed by resurrection power be-
| fore she can see Him.
al Will Come Again."
Jesus left the world, not so much IN
the sense of going SO far away that
| He could not see His disciples and
communicate with them, but rather In
the sense that He could not see them
or communicate with them. He would
compel them to walk by faith and
| not by sight" to search the Scrip
tures,' and to receive their spiritual
blessings through the fellowship of
the Spirit of the Truth By His Holy
Spirit He would be with them, and not
by personal contact or further mani
festations.
His Second Coming would be at the
end Of the Age, to awaken His sleep
ing saints and to change them to the
Heavenly state. Thus He would come
again and receive them unto Himself
first the sleeping ones and subse-
quently those alive and remaining
who would experience their resurrec-
ton change In the moment of death
Additionally, In the Harvest with
which the Age ends, He promised to
take special supervision of the gath
ering of His Elect.
This stage of His Coming is called
In the Greek, His Parousia-His pres
ence The world Is not to know Of His
Parousia. On the contrary, it is de
scribed as secret-"as thief In the
night" Jesus described His Parousia
saying that at that time the world
would be eating, drinking, planting
building, and know not of His Coming
In the Harvest of the Age. even as the
world in the days of Noah knew not
The intimation is, however, that some
of Gods people would be made aware
Of His Parousia; while others of Gods
people. the Foolish Virgins, would be
overcharged with the cares of this life
and know not
We cannot here discuss fully how
Christ comes as a thief, but we offer
free of charge booklet which we
have written with a view to making
the matter very clear. Whoever will
address me-Pastor Russell. Brooklyn
N. Y.-requesting a copy Of Parousia
Booklet-will receive a copy free.
"World Seeth Me No More"
If Jesus really meant 1t when He
said, "a little while and the world
seeth Me no more" how can humanity
know about the new, invisible King
dom? The Bible answers most dis
tinctly. 1t tells of the shining forth
the Epiphania. of the Messianic King
dom. 1t tells of His Apokalupsis. mani
festation. or revealment-"He shall bt
revealed in flaming fire." This flaming
fire signifies severe judgments, as else
where. These are to be so severe thai
the elements OF society win melt will
the fervency of the heat in a terribl,
Time of Trouble. Additionally, ''tht
heavens" the ecclesiastical systems
will be involved, and will pass ava,
with a great noise, or commotion- 1
is from this revealing in flaming fire
Divine censure upon the world, tina
the great, the high. the mighty, thu
poor, all, shall seek to hide them
selves in the dens and caves of thu
earth"-in the social orders and II
utilization with strong governments
etc.
Gradually mankind viii see that /
is ''the wrath Of the Lamb" tina
causes the thine Of Trouble such al