The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-28

and | am in favor of it.
The Devil is against Temperance,
and am in favor of it.
The Jubilee was a year of restora.
ton of forfeited possessions. Mort
gagged estates, now returned to the
original owned (ver. 25.) (illustrat-
ed. Now man by sin has lost his
original Inheritance, both earthly and
spiritual. Lost Eden and its joys, lost
the divine favor, and its b~lessedness.
Lost a sweet home, and the non-ship
of a rich father. Lost the friendly
relation of the animals of the forest.
But the gospel re in-states us in the
divine family of God and confers &C.
~lestial titles. The gospel exalts to
celestial prospects and reveal to us,
and makes us heirs of, IAN inheri.
lance, incorruptible, undefiled." The
gospel describes for us, a possession,
infinitely more rich and glorious
than that which man lost by sin. The
Jubilee was a year of freedom from
toll. 1t was a year of rest; We shall
not SOW. "Ye shall not reap that
which groweth of itself in the field,
nor agther the grapes of the vine IN,
dressd. Ye shall let the land rest, the
entire year from cultivation of any
kind. Now to violate one Of these
laws, was a punishment, beyond meas.
ure. Now the gospel is emphatically
a dispensation of rest Rest from all
tolls and b~urdensome services, which
formed a yoke too heavy to be borne,
rest from expensive sacrifices, divers
washings and extended journeyings
and etc, We are living in the Sab
bath of the world, the jubilee of rest.
We who have believed the gospel,
have entered rest; Jesus relieves from
the Jewish yoke. and gives a yoke
that is easy and a burden that is
light, and true rest to the soul.
The Jubilee was a year of Abundant
provision, and universal joy. 1t was
a year of abundance and of festivity
and gladness, a year of plenty. So
the gospel reveals a heavenly ban
quet, a feast of fat things: the mar
riage supper of the King a Son. and
etc. The gospel calls US to enjoy a
! plentitude of blessings. It proclaims
a Kingdom of righteousness and
peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Note the circumstances connected
with its proclamation.
The Jubilee was to be proclaimed
on the Day of Atonement. This was
one of the greatest days in the Jew.
ish calendar. A Bullock was slain as
a sin offering; A Ram was presented
as a burnt-offering; and a Scape-
Goat with the sins of the people, con.
fessed over its head, was dismissed
into the wilderness, to bear their sins
away. The gospel jubilee, is based
IN the Sacrifice of Christ. We obtain
redemption with all it's blessings,
through the glood of Jesus Christ,
who suffered and died for us on the
Tree of the Cross.
The Jubilee was to be announced
by the sound of Trumpets. 1t was to
be loudly published. So the gospel
is to be proclaimed. it's glad-tidings
published, through the instrumental
ty, of the Minister of the Gospel, who
is to cry loud, to a lost world, that
they may hear, and believe and be
saved.
The proclamation was to all the
people. The trumpets were to be
sounded through all the land. The
gospel is to be preached through all
the World to eevry creature.
The reason for the institution of
the Jubilee it was to be a remedy for
those evils which accompanied HUI.
man society and Human govern
ments. The day which commenced
the Sabbatical year and the year of
Jubilee was called New Years Day"
a day which gave the poor unfortun-
ate people an opportunity to begin
over in life. Oh! this was a joyful
time with the poor.
Now as we enter the New Year
of 1917. Let us start a new life, New
aims, new prospects, new ideas, new
aspirations, new objects, new ambi-
tions, new resolutions and new deter
limitations.
Tradition tells us hat every Israe-
lite blew nine blast, so as to make
the trumpet sound throughout all the
land. Now this celebration last un-
til the Jewish captivity into Babylon,
(537 B. c.
Now let us call your attention to
our own Jubilees, for our conclusion,
The National Thanksgiving day, of
the United States . illustrated.
The United States great Centennial
Jubilee. every hundred years.
The Mardi-Graus Of Louisiana is a