The Charge

Ver. 30. And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee in the mount.) All important, and ever important words! Whether as to Church gathering and constitution, or whether as to ministry in the Church, God’s pattern, and that alone, is to be followed; —a pattern not earthly and human, but heavenly and Divine.
Is there not pride, presumption, and sin, in pretending to improve on God’s order of things in any particular? or in setting aside that order to make way for man’s?
How thankful should we be to God, that he has condescended so minutely to arrange and order everything for us in his word! —in type in the Old Testament, in example in the Gospels and the Acts, and in express directions in the inspired epistles of the apostles!
May we be prayerfully diligent to ascertain God’s order by means of every portion of his word, and hearty and earnest in seeking to carry it out, in our humble measure, according to I the grace given to us: esteeming all his commandments concerning all things to be right, and hating every false way, fully persuaded that God’s plans are the best plans, and that in keeping his commandments there is great reward. T. N.
(The Vail, and Hanging for the Door (D.V.), in the number for June.)