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Signs of the Times for 1875 "Behold, I come quickly, 'and my'reWard is with me, to give every man accordihg as his work shall be:" Rriv. XXII 12. VOLUME 1.' OAKLAND; CAL , FIFTH-DAY, MARCH 25 1875. NUMBER 20. will-worship, which' 'generally characterize are here called the bridegroom and bride, is earth for thy' possession. Thou shalt break Zhe #igno of the. Zinteo the conduct of fanatics. not true. 'No one believes that the event them with a rod of iron, thou shalt dash IS ISSUED WEEKLY AT 4. Because the work 'bore the fririt of the called the marriage 'of the Lamb took place them in pieces like a potter's vessel." Ps. Spirit of God, as set forth in the New Testa- eighteen hundred years since. • 2 : 8, 9. Before the Son- makes his second OAKLAND, ; : : : CALIFORNIA: • ment. It was evidently guided by wisdom Paul, in writing to 'the chinch, 2 Cor. 11 : advent to this world, he receives from the from above. The apostle James declares 2, says, " I have espoused you to' one hus- Father " dominion, and glory, and a king- Elder James White, Editor and Proprietor. • this wisdom to be " first pure; then peaceable, band, that I may present you a chaste virgin dom." ' gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy to' Christ." But does this prove that the After the coronation of the 'King of kings; LEH- TERMS : TWO DOLLARS a year to those, who choose to pay a subscriptionprice, and VREE to all and good fruits, without partiality, and with- marriage of the Lamb took place in Corinth ? Or the marriage of the Lamb, '-the opening others as far as the paper is sustained by the donations out hypocrisy." Chap. 3 : 17: Paul ' says or, did Paul only wish to represent by mar- heavens will reveal him coming in grandeur of the libefal friends of the cause. • that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,,peaee, riage, the union which he had effected, through and in glory, leading on the armies of Heav- Address, SIGNS OF THE TIMES, Oakland, Cal. long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, the gospel, between Christ and the Church at' en to the last great 'conflict with the beast, meekness, temperance. Gal. 5 : 22, 23. These Corinth? He also says, Eph. 23, "For the false prophet, and the kings .of the earth. Thy Virstfrultg. are the good fruits of the work and Spirit. of the husband is the head of the wife, even as See Rev. 19. ' `f His eyes were as a flame of God, and these did all appear in an eminent Christ is the head of the church." But please fire, and on his head were many crowns." DEUT. 26 : 2-10 ; 1 COB. 15 :'23. sense as the results of the midnight cry. , turn and read from' verse 22, and it will be " And "he 'hath on his, vesture and on his Of all the'great relig,imis movements since seen that Paul's' subject is te relation and thigh a name written, King of kings, and JUST as the Hebrew priest received The first sheaf from the reaper's hand, the days of , the first Apostles 'of our Lord, duty of man and wife to ,each other. This is Lord of lords." And to the Lord, whom they believed, nonettand- out more pure and free from the illuStrated and enforced by the relation of His mission then will be to " judge and make Offered the harvest of the land, imperfections of human nature and the wiles Christ and the church. Those who suppose War." ' He will then destroy his enemies, So Jesus, risen from the tomb, of Satan, than, that 'of the autumn Of 1844. that Paul is, here defining who the Lamb's and redeem his people. The marriage is over, Where love had laid him gently down, In fact, after looking back upon; it for more wife is, are 'greatly mistaken. That' is not and his people are still waiting his return. Came to the altar, in the bloom than twenty-siX 'years as the greenest spot on his subject. • He commences, "Wives, sub- The true position of the waiting ones'is thus Of that new life which won his crown. • all the Way in which God has 16a his people, mit "yourselves 'unto your own husbands." descHbed : " Let your loins be girded about, " Christ the firstfruits 1" the first ripe sheaf we do not see how it could have been better, Verse 22. " Husbands, love your wives." and your lights burning : and ye yourselves Of the wide world's great harvest field ; at least so far as the direct providence and Verse 25. like unto men that wait for their lord, when The perfect pattern, type, and chief, work of God is'eoncerned. It was beyond The marriage of the Lamb' does not cover he will return from 'the wedding." Luke 12 : Of all the treasures death shall yield. • •the control of humanhands, or human minds. the entire 'period' of probation, in which' be- 35, 36. • So let the precious seed be sown ' Men and demons sou ght to hinder and to mar lievers are united to their Lord; from Adam In the parable,. while the foolish virgins In every fiirrow of the earth; this work ; , but the power 'that attended it to the ,close of probation. It is 'one event, were gone to buy oil, the bridegroom came; Beneath the seas, in graves unknown, brushed away their influence as you would to take place at ,one point of time, and that those that were ready went in 'with him to Till Christ 'shall send the reapers forth. remove ,a spider's .Web; and there stood 'the is just prior to the resurrection of the just. the marriage, and the door was shut. Our Lord of the living and the dead, work orGod, free from the print of a man's Then what is the bride in the marriage of position is, that before thq, second advent, Who art alive forevermore, , hand. the 'Lamb ? Said the angel to John; " Come events take place on earth and in Heaven, • • Thy'sleeping saints await their Head„ The Adven,t Shield published in January, hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's connected with the experience and history of Like Mary, at the open door. 1845, bears testimony to the character of wife."' Rev. 21: 9. Did the angel show those who 'are called out to wait for the Lord, .They shall come with thee in that hour that work, in words -of truth and soberness. John the church ? "And he carried me which may be, and will be, likened, or com- When, without sin, thou com'st to save. And let it be -borne in mind that the Shield away in the Spirit to a' great and high moun- pared, to the several events of an eastern mar- They shall be like thee, by thy power* To ,conquer death and spoil the grave. was a standard work, of 440 pages, for Ad- tain, and showed me that great city-, the holy riage named by our -Lord. The bridegrdora,• ventists ,at that time, and that the follow- Jerusalem, . descending out of Heaven from in the parable, represents Christ. The com- Break, break, 0-moping fair and bright!' ing testimony from -it was not published till God." Verse 10. ing of the,bridegropm, and the marriage, in Wake all the sleepers of the tomb ; about three months after the seventh-month The New Jerusalem is also represented as the parable, represent events that- take place 0 sun of glory 1 with thy light in Heaven in connection with the reception Flood. the dark vale, dispel its glooin. movement, when Adventists had taken time the mother. " But Jerusalem which is above Wave.thy ripe sheaf, 0 Iirinde of life, to review the past, and settle,. as was supposed, is free, which is the mother of us all." , Gal. of the throne of the immortal kingdom by In the great house not made with, hands, upon a firm, united position:— 4 : 26. Christ is represented (Isa. 9: 6)-as the rightful heir, Jesus Christ. The mar- • And at thine altar end the strife " It produced' everywhere the Most deep the " everlasting Father " of his people ; the riage Of the Lamb takes place before the sec- With death and sorrow in all lands. searching of heart and htimiliation of soul New Jerusalem, the mother, andthe subjects ond advent; so that at Christ's second ap- " Christ the firstfruits !" and afterward before, the God of high Heaven. It caused a of the first resurrection, the children. And, pearing he rettirns from the wedding. These They that are Chrises when he shall come;'' weaning:of affections from the things of this beyond all doubt, 'the resurrection' of the just facts will akiear evident from a close exam- The best sheaf lifted heavenWard, world, a healing of thecontrOversies and an- is represented by birth. How appropriate, ination of Ps. 2 :,8, 9; Dan. 7 : 13, 14; Matt. Then the full gathered harvest-home. imosities, a confession, of wrongs, a breaking then,'.' is' the view that the, marriage of the 12 : 36. Then shall our harVest-joy arise, down before God, and penitent, broken-heart- Lauib takes place in Heaven before the Lord ' The shutting of the door, in this parable, When all thy sheaves are safe at home. ed supplications to him for pardon and ac- comes, 'and before the children of the great does not represent the closing of human prd- Singing the hymn of paradise, • ceptance.
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