. Christian herald and signs of our times . ile pilgrims andstrangers in this world. But we must es-pecially note why they are called the firstfruits: there are, we conceive, at least tworeasons: Because they are taken out of the wholeharvest field. The allusion, doubtless, isto the feast of the first fruits in the He-brew Church. And by referring to : 10, we see that the sheaf of first fruitshad to be cut out of the field of standingcorn (and so represents the removal of liv-ing Christians, we think), while the re-mainder of the harvest corn is yet stand-ing for some time longer in the
. Christian herald and signs of our times . ile pilgrims andstrangers in this world. But we must es-pecially note why they are called the firstfruits: there are, we conceive, at least tworeasons: Because they are taken out of the wholeharvest field. The allusion, doubtless, isto the feast of the first fruits in the He-brew Church. And by referring to : 10, we see that the sheaf of first fruitshad to be cut out of the field of standingcorn (and so represents the removal of liv-ing Christians, we think), while the re-mainder of the harvest corn is yet stand-ing for some time longer in the field. Because, apparently, they are taken upinto glory before the residue are removed ;as the sheaf of first fruits was taken up in-to the temple to be waved by the priestbefore the Lord, before the full harvestwas reaped. This was the first of a seriesof six pictures thus grouped together likea cluster of gems in the field of gloryspread before the seers vision. [Tc he coHtrmsuri-y 384 THE CHRISTIAN HERALD AND SIGNS OF OUR TIMES. May 13,. I6:=AND5 ...v^ New 5erial STOltf REV EDWARD AUGUSTUS RAN D
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