The Coupling and Foundations of the Scorner, Boards

And they shall be coupled beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto the ring thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners. And they shall be “eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets;, two sockets under one board, and two sockets under, another board verse 24: 25)
In Hebrews 3: 6, we read, “Christ as a Son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. And again, v. 14, “For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end.”
The boards were “coupled beneath.” And believers are one in the confidence of faith. Each board standing firm in the sockets of silver, and each believer established in the faith of the Gospel.
And the boards were also “Coupled together to one ring above.” And we are One in the rejoicing of the hope. We have one faith, and One hope of Our calling: Christ crucified is the foundation of our faith, and Christ glorified the substance and center of our hope; Christ himself being the chief Corner Stone, uniting. the Jew and the Gentile in one on earth beneath; and he is also the Head Stone of the corner, uniting them together in one in heaven above. T. N.
(The Bars of the Tabernacle (D.V.) in the Number for May.)
The unity of Christ’s body being the ground assumed, all Christians have, in principle, a title to be there, the Lord’s name—being maintained as to doctrine and discipline. If you insist on a certain standard of intelligence beyond Christ, before receiving them, you prove that you are not intelligent, and you abandon your own (i.e. God’s). principle. At the same time, it is all well that young converts should wait; it would do them no harm. ‘The great requisite for receiving, is satisfaction as to membership of the body of Christ….. The principle is “one body and lone Spirit;” the resource, now that all is confusion and inconsistency, is Matthew 18:20. J. N. D.