Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-12-01
Heavenly Recognition From
Bible Assertion and the
Silence of Christ.
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because your names are written in
heaven" Not your names WILL BE
written, but ARE written in heaven
written in heaven NOW. And Je-
sus meant this, if we might put the
meaning of the same words into
other words into His mouth: .Mat-
thew, your name NOW is written in
heaven" "John, Peter your names
right now as speak ARE written in
heaven" Thomas, Philip, your
names ARE written in heaven-re-
joice."
Did not the verse of the morning
hour say:
ssI have friends in the Spirit land,
Not shadows in shadowy band,
Not OTHERS but THEMSELVES
are they;
And still 1 think of them the same
AS when the Masters summons
came"
Jesus said to the dying thief:
"THOU shalt be with me in para
disc" To the disciples He said: 81
go to prepare place for YOU and
if I go and prepare place for YOU
l will come again and receive YOU
unto myself that where am there
YOU may be Also"
Job said: "Out of my flesh l shall
see God" Than God, we are not
saved in some promiscuous way. We
are not in Yonder world put into a
glorified mob. We shall not be lost
and merged into some great ocean
of being. We shall exist as ourselves.
Life hereafter will be conscious, in
dividual, personal.
"Rejoice because your names ARE
written in heaven the earthly
name that you NOW bear, that name
ISIS, even NOW-written in heav-
en-, if you are child of God.
8. What Speaketh the Silence of
Jesus? If it were not so would have
told you" In world clamorous with
philosophers who didn't know, in a
world in upheavel with false systems
of thought, in a world in confagra-
ton with high handed gainsayers,
the one, the irreproachable one who
did know, was silent, strangely, it
may seem, silent.
eff it were not so / would have
told you" This silence speaks louder
than any thunder that ever shook the
universe.
This argument from silence is pro-
verbally unsafe and dangerous argu-
ment in most cases. BUT NOT IN
THIS CASE.
If the faith THE disciples cherish
ed about immortality had been false
Jesus would have contradicted it. He
was the Truth, as He said, and 1t
would have been impossible for Him
to let His disciples go in bondage to
error. Is it to be imagined that
Christ would allow them to go on
cherishing hopes which had no sub
stance? It was impossible that Christ
should have failed to challenge q be-
lief so pervasive and so influential,
if it were really false. His very 81
lence is all the proof i ask that the.
great hope is true, for, l know If 1T
were not so He would have told US!
NOTICE THE THINGS JESUS
CORRECTED.
1. Disciples conception of His
Messiahship. They expected a great
Prince clothed in purple and fine
linen and glorious apparel to estab-
lish mighty Kingdom. They thought
Christ was destined for throne like
Caesars. They dreamed of thrones,
of thrones, of thrones-and oft they
imagined, no doubt that there would
be on great central throne on which
Christ would sit, and they on smaller
thrones round about. But Jesus cor
rected this, saying that the Son of
Man must suffer many things of the
scribes and chief priests and that
they must expect something like
what happened when His kingly
robes became a shroud and when his
throne shrunk to the narrow dimen-
sions of a grave.
2. Tendency to Make a Show of
Religion. Jesus avoided advertise
ment. "Go tell no man" was often
on His lips. Bade the recipients of
His mercy to be silent about it. "Do
not your aims to be seen of men,"
How repulsive to Him were the
prayers the hypocrites made on the
street corners to be heard of men.
He corrected this false idea of re-
ligion by saying ''They have their re-
ward" Then Except your righteous
ness exceed this righteousness of the
scribes and Pharisees ye can in no
wise enter the Kingdom of heaven"
We may be seen to do good, but we
must not do good just to be seen.
8. The Crown. One day, after He
had wrought wondrously before the
people of a miracle and teaching they
wanted to make Him king. But Jesus
slipped away from them and by His
conspicuous absence corrected the
idea that had sprung up that He was
out for crown. "No," said He to
their willingness and effortsto make
Him king Thus did He correct their
earthly conception of His heavenly
mission.
a. The Disciples Quarrel. The dis