El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-12-20

derer. Each child born into the world,
by reason OF its innocence and hum
bled condition OF helplessness, IS fhus
a picture OF the Babe OF Bethlehem.
In this respect, as in many others,
Jesus Is the first born among many
brethren" each OF whom. in grslter
OF less degree, ard in one or more TO-
spects. is a picture OF his great -lder
Brother. From Abel. the first inno-
cence. slain I'm the house OF his Wn
family. Ike the Lamb slain on Cal
vary BY His own people. down
through the ages, to Moses rescued
from the bullrushes and preserved by
providence. to the babes slain at Beth
lehem at the time OF the birth OF Je-
sus, on down. each babe Is On some
aspects OF its existence a type OF Je-
sus- No tyne or figure IS like the an
titype in all respects The full picture
Is made out. in the instances OF the
many tyDes OF Christ. by an aEErega-
ton OF many types. In fact no smile
or metaphor, as a rule. gives a full
picture OF the object represented.
This IS also true OF the types OF
Christ
However. in Moses we find double
type. both OF the first coming OF
Christ in humility and OF his second
coming IN glory 10 the destruction OF
the. enemies OF Gods people and the
delfverance OF the chosen people The
same is true OF David. who had q pc
riOd OF hardship and privatiou. fol-
lowed by his entrance upon career
Of earthly glory. The same is true OF
Palsy the French 0otter. who after
long years Of toll and disappointment.
afterwards discovered how 70 make
the beautiful pottery that made him
famous The same Is true OF many
other heroes In many different kinds
Of lie, from military heroes from
Constantine down to Marshal Foch,
and from Samuel Johnson In the
realm OF letters TO Edison, the wizard
IN fields mechanical.
Day Of Second Coming Unknown.
These all in greater OF less degree
type. some the humility OF Christ and
al HIS final and complete victory.
centerinE around his second coming.
Just as each mother IN the oldeu
times in Jewry could not tell before
hand whether her babe was TO be the
Great Dellverer or only a beautiful
picture OF Him yet 20 come so IN
many OF the conflicts and subsequent
victories IN the worlds progress. no
one can tell beforehand whether the
coming catastrophe and deIiverance IS
TO be the last or only a sort Of pic
ture o. the last Hence no man knows
the day nor the hour o. Christs sec
oud coming.
The certain recognition OF this
great event must be per necessity
either az the time OF its happening or
later. We can not tell as TO the on
coming wave OF disaster and deliver
ance, whether II IS the highest OF the
spring tide or not John the Baptist
asked Christ: "Are You the Messiah,
or do we look for another" Just so
we all ask: is this the worlds last
catastrophe or Go we look for an
other more calamitous stilI7''
For the Bible does teach that the
second coming Is associated with ca
nv the HH1a nrHHnN
as with the dellverznce OF the bezt
people Jesus gives two pictures
teaching this very lesson One IS the
Hood. with the destruction OF all
ma nzind and the preservation OF Noah
and his family and the other is the
destruction Of sodor1 and the saliva
ton OF Lot and his family.
There Is another bible picture Of
the same thing namely The destruc-
tfon Of jerusalem BY the Romans,
where no one can satisfactorily sepa-
fale between the details OF the story
that relate to the city's fail and those
that relate directly 20 the second com
ne OF Christ. so great Sc the implied
likeness between the two events.
From al these pictures 70 IS 10 be
gathered that Christ's second COM
ING IN strict antithesis 90 His first.
Is 2 time He and His saints VIII be
glorified and honored and publicly
promoted 20 the ownership and con-
troll OF the world, while upon the enc
niles OF the cross shall be rained down
sudden and dire destruction
This IS the time when both com
inEs are brought prominently 70 our
attention This may be the last va
but the last trouble can not disap-
pear TIL the coming OF the Great De-
liverer- When eventually death
and spiritual shall have been
destroyed, then. and not until then
VII the seed OF the woman have com
pletely bruised the serpent's head.