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what that word “jealousy” means here. It is not
the kind of jealousy that we have in our churches.
God is not the author of that kind, and He will
certainly never save anybody with that kind. It
means the stirring up of the Jews that He is talk
ing about, and that is one of the results of the
rejection of the Jew. When the Jew was rejected
because he would not accept Christ, then the Gen
tile was given a chance, and he grasped it. and the
object is to stir up the Jews, not with fury and
wrath and mean jealousy, but to stir them up
through these people who had been ground down
by the people of God.
Now, then, another truth. The enrichment of
the world. “Now, if their fall is the riches of the
world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles,
how much more their fullness.” Will you stop a
moment to think with me how much the world has
been enriched by the fact that the Gentiles were
given a day, and they accepted it?
Will you stop with me to think for a moment of
the history of the nations of the earth today with
respect to Jesus Christ? Let us see the contrast
between ‘the nations that have not Christ and the
nations that have, and you will see something of the
enrichment of the world through the Gentiles’ ac
ceptance of Christ.
Oh, how God has blessed the nations of the earth
through the Gentiles! Certainly the Apostle Paul
could well afford to speak of what a blessing the
Gentiles in their acceptance of Christ were to the
world, for, even at that time, the Gentiles were
leading in efforts to uplift, promote and save the
race of mankind.
Now, let us take the next section, the restoration,
verses 25-27. Tn the twenty-fifth verse we have the
statement of the restoration. In these two verses
is a prophecy, and the Apostle Paul is giving em
phasis to it, that there is coming a time that this
rejected nation (we are not speaking of individuals)
shall be saved. When they shall accept the Messiah,
fall prostrate before him and acknowledge him as
Lord, and the nation Israel shall be saved. It is
coming to pass.
Tn the first place, you will see in this 26th verse
that it is to come through the Deliverer. If you
will take in connection with it Isa. 59:20, you will
see the prophecy of it. Jesus Christ is to come
out of Zion as the Deliverer of His people, and
when He comes they are going to fall down and t
worship Him and be saved as a nation, and then it
will come to pass that “a nation shall be
bom in a day.” Men talk sometimes as if that
prophecy is to be fulfilled now. It is not so. It
never has been, and never will be until Jesus comes
again the second time.
Now, the purpose of this delivery, in verse 26.
God never forgets His covenant. He has never
made a promise that He is not going to fulfill.
The only trouble about fulfilling God’s promises is,
first, our failure to believe and act upon it; and,
second, to wait until God’s time for the promise
to be fulfilled.
Now, God has made a covenant with His people
Israel, and God is going to fulfill that promise,
and the whole Jewish nation is going to be saved.
Not every man. but the nation is going to he saved,
the great nation Israel, scattered throughout the
earth, shall be gathered together in Palestine. Ido
not know just to what extent this Zionist movement
will nrove to he the fulfillment of prophecy, but
whether the whole Jew’sh people shall be assembled
at Palestine, or whether they shall be scattered
{throughout the ends of the earth, I don’t know,
but the nation of Israel, which is so remarkably kept
intact, shall fall down before Him and he sa\ed as
a nation. Their sins are going to be blotted out,
and they are going to be accepted upon the same
conditions that we are accepted upon today.
Let us just for a moment take the Divine pro
gram as it relates to Israel and the Gentile world.
There are three things in the Divine program so
far as the Jews are concerned. First, Israel for a
time is set aside; second, the Gentiles at this
period are called in; and, third, the final restora-
Ition of Israel. These three things make up the
divine program and are going to take place, and
some have taken place.
Israel has been set aside, and the Gentiles have
been called in during this period. Now, the Gen
tile dispensation was not a part of the original
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program of God. Os course, it was in the mind of
God in the beginning, but so far as the program
for the redemption of the race and the salvation of
the race is concerned, it was not a part of the
Divine program. It is a parenthesis in the program
of God. The program of God was that Israel should
accept Jesus Christ and go straight ahead until the
final culmination. So far as we are able to read
the Scriptures that seems to be the Divine order,
but the Jews rejected God. They turned their
backs upon Christ. God foresaw this and made pro
vision for it. The prophets described it, and God
provides this parenthesis in His program.
The Jews rejected Christ, and because of that
rejection they are set aside. God told them that
they would be set aside. It was no unfair judg
ment that God took at all. He simply set them
aside, and then threw in this parenthesis, the church
dispensation, and in this we are now living and
serving.
Now, the Jews as a nation are not being touched,
but Christ is being enthroned, and His civilization
is spreading, until finally the day of restoration is
coming. Christ is coming again, coming here to
reign personally and individually. His reigm was
prophesied by the prophets; and because His reign
was prophesied by the prophets, and because when
He was on the earth He did not reign in the
governmental affairs of the earth, many people
have argued that these prophecies concerning Him
are untrue.
One day on a train I got to talking to a Jewish
Rabbi, a very intelligent man. He said, “Do you
know, the objection that I havei to your teaching
is that it is not sincere. As I read the Scriptures,
I read that Jesus Christ is to rule in the affairs
of the earth. Don’t you? Well, you know that He
did not. He never got anywhere near His Father’s
throne, nor to ruling this earth. Then, how do
you claim Jesus to be the Messiah? I tell you when
the Messiah comes He is to sit on His father
David’s throne and rule this earth, and then vou are
going to be ashamed that you did not wait until
He came.”
I said, “You have got the cart before the horse.
You do not rightly divide the Scriptures. Jesus
Christ is coming again, my friend, and He is
prophesied in your Scriptures to come again. When
He does come again He is not coming in a manger.
That is the reason you despised Him. You say
that I am not sincere. I say that you are not sin
cere. because the Scriptures tell vou that He is to
be born in a manger, and to be bom of a Virgin.
You are expecting' Him to come with a blast of
trumpets as a king.”
Well, be had never seen that. I said further,
“When He does come again He is coming as yon
are expecting Him to come as a king, and He
is going to sit on His Father’s throne, and then
you are going to say that Messiah has reallv come
at last. He is going to say to you, ‘I am the Jesus
of the manger. lam the Jesus of nrophecv. lam
the one crucified, and T am come back and am going
to sit on my Father’s throne and rule this nation
according to the program of heaven.’ Then vou
are going to say, ‘Oh, I wish I had accented Him
before this, but since I did not I will accent Him
now!’ Then the Jaws are going to be restored, and
then the great worldwide evangelistic sweep will
begin.”
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Campaigning tn Alabama.
It was a big, good-natured crowd that met me at
the Methodist church at Sandy Ridge that night,
and as it was my only opportunity to meet that
community I talked aspiration and education +o the
young people, as well as prohibition to the old. Tn
closing I said, “I wonder if I came out here in
vain. I would be glad to know if any one
who has been on the whiskey side in this contest
has decided, since coming here tonight, to vote
against saloons,” and an old gray-haired man stand
ing near me clasped my hand impulsivelv and said:
“I am one. I have been converted tonight to the
cause of prohibition.” And there was great rejoic
ing in that company. And Haynesville! I have
heard and often talked of “sun crowned mountain
peaks on the shores of memory.” Well, Haynes
ville, the capital of Lowndes county, was a moun-
tain peak, but not very “sun crowned.” People
had driven in wagons and buggies sixteen miles to
hear me speak there, but the people in the court
house in Haynesville didn’t know I was to
speak. Circulars had been sent, but they had not
been put up. The people, with few exceptions. did
not want prohibition. Three saloons “grace” the
little town of a few hundred inhabitants, and sa
loonkeepers and other citizens mingle together in
good-natured fellowship, not “caring which way
the river runs, just so it don’t run over them.”
They are mighty “clever fellows,” as we <*<.mmoniy
use the term, and they treated this stranger well
after we got acquainted. But my! when it came to
spiritual things, or the domination of the saloons—>
well, they just “didn’t care.” It would have been
amusing if it had not been so sclcmnlv sad.
Professor Garrett, my faithful “standby,” led
my other visiting friends from Sandv Ridge. Fort
Deposit and Letobatchie, and soon they were hust
ling all ever the town for a crowd. After dinner
they came —a right good audience, the three saloon
keepers, who had been especially invited, making
part of the crowd. Introduced by my old friend,
Colonel McGaugh, whom I knew years ago in Mont
gomery, before he became a lawyer, I sought to
deal in that kindness and good humor which would
piiove winsome to an audience almost "whol
ly on the wrong side. Verily, the situation
furnished plenty of combative inspiratian.
That-night r he crowd was much larger, and feel
ing that the people needed something else more than
they needed “prohibition,” I talked to parents on
“Home Religion,” Christian character and proper
ideal for their children; and at the conclusion of
the message I invited penitents to the altar. And
several came, some agreeing to build an altar to
God in their homes. Imagine my surprise and de
light when I learned that in the election the Haynes
ville “beat,” as they call the districts in Alabama,
went “wet” by only twenty-six majority, twenty
men actually votfitig against saloons.
There is a brighter day for Haynesville!
Lowndesboro, The Splendid.
No other name but splendor—“ante-bellum
splendor” will describe the homes and the lands
around Lowndesboro. The finest lands and the most
splendid crops I have seen outside of Texas, sur
rounding beautiful homes with “tall, colonial col
umns and the white pigecns fluttering down through
the golden air”-r-that is the picture l A rural town
of wealthy planters, several miles from the railroad,
with four or five pretty churches, one good school
house, awful to think about —two saloons! Three
or four men, a dozen ladies and a bright little com
pany of school boys and girls made up my morn
ing audience. Farmers too busy to come out in the
day; time—and there was little hope, I was told, of
their coming out at night.
Useless, I said, to turn loose an argumentative
prohibition speech on, a little crowd like that, and
so I talked to the school boys and girls on “The
Beauty of the Useful Life.” God’s spirit reached
hearts and eight or ten of those splendid young
people happily surrendered to Christ. Heaven was
very near.
That afternoon T visited the school and had what
I always have —a glad time with the boys and girls.
And when night came the crowd came. I was
presented by Dr. C. N. Cilley, a venerable physician
eighty-six years old, who, erect as a young man, is
engaged in the active practice of medicine, as he
has been in that community, for more than fifty
years. His Christian life is as white as the snow
that crowns his head.
This venerable man writes me that Lowndesboro
cast twenty-six dry votes, and only one for saloons.
Thank God, this arduous campaign in Lowndes
county, Alabama, was not in vain, for the county
went safely “dry.” Next week I will tell of other
fields. ’ W. D. U.
Oh, do not pray for easy lives! Pray to be strong
er men. Da not prav for tasks equal to your pow
ers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the
doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you
shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder
at yourself, at the richness of life which has come
to you by the grace of God. —Phillips Brooks.
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