Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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BL 5111, 4512211115 5 THE GLORY OF THE CHURCH Cffontinuedj prophet. The sun shall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto theeg but the llord shall be unto thee an ever- lasting light and thy flod thy glory. Isa. 60:19. For I, saith the Lord. will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Zeeh. 2 : 5. The only thing' that distinguished Israel was that she had God in the midst of her. Ps. 46:5 NYhy do we remember Abraham, Moses, Elijah, and the prophets? Why do we love to read ot Paul and Fox and Wesley and the other Saints? They are not renowned for riches or learning or social standing: but beeause of their relation to flod, their walk with Him, who is invisible, their power to reach Heaven with their prayers and bring God down to man. God's presence in the midst of His people, is their true glory, that for which they are honored. that which makes them worthy of praise. His pres- ence alone, protects from Satan's snare, instructs in the way of truth and holiness, leads in the way of life and is a eonstant hope of bliss eternal. The glory of the Church is her grasp of divine things, her possession of the in- eorruptible, her vision of the unseen, her living. abiding hope of that which is undefiled and that fadeth not away. Brick and mortar, scholarship, gold and silver, and mere numbers do not m-ake her beautiful or rieh. It was a posses- sion of at least some of these whieh caused that Ilaodieean church to think her- self rich and in need of nothing. But Jesus said to her that Hshe was wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, Rev. 3:17. The pope once said to Thomas Aouinas: You see that the church is no longer in an age in Whieh she can say, 'Silver and Gold have I none.' Aquinas replied, It is true. nor can she now say to the lame man, 'Rise up and walk.' A ehureh in a southern eity devoted a whole page in the eitv paper to an advertisement of its activities. There were cuts of all her buildings, and all her pastors from its organization to the present. SFlO0,00fI had been raised for all purposes during the year. Buildings and men and money were lifted up: but God's name was not found on the page, nor Jesus, nor the Holy Ghost, nor Salvation, nor righteousness nor any expression whatever that would lead the mind toward the thought of spiritual things. God says: 'tMy people have ehanged their glory for that which doth not profit. Re astonished, O ye heav- ens at this. Jer. 2 :11, 12. O Church of Jesus, Arise, shine: for thy light is eome, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For behold. the darkness shall cover the earth. and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. Isa. 60:1-2. Glorious things of thee' are spoken, Zion City of our God: He Whose VVord eau not be broken, Formed thee for his own abode: On the Rock of Ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose? VVith salvation's walls surrounded, Thou mayest smile at all thy foes. Q Q EQ EQ E' Q3 Q SQ K3 E0 ESX Q. ICE Q vi Ea ICQ Q E' Ea Q Ea G'

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W55Ek6QQQ6QSiE2UMfMWw5SEk6QQQ6QS5EkQ 5 I? 3 J 9 J Q Q J S3 Q Q Q 3 J Q Q J Q Q Q Q Q U J S13 U 6 Q 3 The Glory of the Church One of the mysteries of the ages has been the Church of Jesus Christ.. In a fallen world, with the powers of darkness holding sway, the light of God de- parted from the race and the human family sold into tho slavery of a. cruel tyrant, ttod came to eall outa people to Himself. All Heaven agreed upon the plan. Everyone in the Godhead gave Himself to its aeeomplishment. The Father gave the only begotten Son for its purchase, the Son gave Himself for its sanetifieation and the Holy Spirit eame to the ea1'th to effect that for which the Father gave the Son and for whieh the Son gave Himself. The plan was first announced to our father, Adam, as he was driven from his God-given paradise. I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. With lCden's gates elosed to its former Lord, and guarded by Cherubims with 'fiaming sword. Zlllfl its former inhabitants all gone astray, high Heaven began its battle to establish in the earth the Kingdom of Cod, the Chureh of Jesus Christ. Through the offering, in the tabernaele worship, of almost numberless animal saerifiees, Israel was taught to look for a coming Messiah, whose blood would atone for all sin, and make man perfect as pertaining to the conseienee. The glory of God filling the tabernaele at its dedieation, and the fire from lleaven falling upon the saerifiees and offerings at the dedieation of S0l0ll'l0l'l,S temple, along with many other divine manifestations to God's worshipping people, revealed to them the fullness of the gospel age when humanity should be indwelt by divinity. For the Lord hath ehosen Zion: he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest forever: here will I dwellg for I have de- sired it. Ps. l32:l3-14. Some ,grasped the plan in the grey dawn of human history, stepped in by faith and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to eomeg thus becoming members of the Cl'Illl'L'll of Jesus Christ. The Chureh is ealled the Chureh of Cod, the bride of Christ. Christ is the head of the Churehl'. Its living head plainly said to its members, before He aseended to Heaven, that He would send to them the Holy Ghost to lead them into all truth, to eomfort them and abide with them forever. The glory of anything is its ornament, beauty, honor, majesty or praise, or emanation of light supposed to proeeed from beings of peculiar sanctity. But what makes man an ornament to human soeiety as does the grace of Godg or what can give beauty to human eharaeter as the Spirit of Jesus? Truly the Psalmist said, Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. And the Lord Himself said, I will be as the dew unto Israel. and his beauty shall be as the olive treef' O, let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us. Again, what of earth, be it gold or silver, houses or lands, tapestry or fashion, can compare with the Chureh of whom the prophet said, t'Awake, awake, put on thy strength C Zion: put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusa- lem, the holy eity: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the un- eireumeised and the unelean f? Isaiah 52:l. NVebster defines glory, as that whieh gives distinction, or, the presence of the divine being. But this is the very distinction given to the Church by the Q Q Q L Q can I L Q Ca Q Q 972 E Q Q. SG Q P Q Q. P W Q WZ?FSQQHGQQZZFSQQEEQQQZESQQEGQQZZESH

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