The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-03

let them have dominion" AT some time
in the past known only to God. called
in the first verse the beginning" God
created the heaven and the earth-that
is. He spake them into existence-as is
proved by Ps. xxxiii, 6; Heb. xi. 3. He
must have everything good, for He al
ways does. That He did not create the
earth without form and void is stated in
Isa. xiv. is. Compare the r. V. What
happened between verses 1 and 2 TO bring
about this chaos we shall know some
day. About six thousand years ago God
brought order and beauty and fruitful
ness out Of the chaos and confusion into
the space Of six days, as is here de-
scribed. See also Elk. Xxx, II. And now
on the sixth day He makes man to have
dominion over all. How He made man
and woman is more fully stated in chap.
ii, I, 2l-25, and that he called their name
Adam is stated in chap. Y. ,. The words
Let Us" imply the Trinity. which fact
is also clear % a supplemented Hebrew
scholar i'm the word for God.
q. so God. created man in His own
image; in the image of God created He
him; male and female created He them"
Then this man and woman must have
pcen the IHeSL PAIR tNal ever walked
the earth. Whatever else is implied in
this image Of God, il is evident from Eph.
", "A, that righteousness and holiness Of
truth are Included. How much more we
shall know when in that bright morning
of the resurrection we shall have been
made like Him who is the brightest Of
the Fathers glory and the express image
of His person q John iii. .: Heb i. 81.
Is. And God blessed them, and God
said unto them, BE fruitful and multi
ply, and replenish the earth and subdue
it, and have dominion" The blessing of
the Lord IL maketh rich, and toll addeth
nothing thereto CProv. X -. r. W.
When in the sixth year God commanded
His blessing on Israel there was as much
produced in one year as ordinarily in
three years Uev. XIV. 2D. When Jesus
blessed the lads leaves and fishes they
fed many thousands. He says, Herein
is Ny Father glori6ed that ye bear much
fruit; so shall We be My disciples" John
Ky, 81. The time IS coming when the
last Adam viii subdue all things unto
Himself. for He is able. But now He
is gathering out and training the sub
duers. who shall in that day have dOmin-
ion with Him. ] find ii helpful to pray.
Lord. inasmuch as Thou art able to
subdue all things unto Thyseif Phil iii.
ID, subdue M wholly to Thyself now"
%. And God said, Behold. have
given you every herb-bearing seed which
is upon the face of all the earth and
every tree in the which is The fruit of a
tree-yielding seed: TO you it shall be for
meat God would have His children al
perfect rest concerning food and raj
ment. As TO clothing such as Ne wear,
they had none iii, 25). but inasmuch as
all other creatures had clothing which
was part Of themselves. doubtless
Adam and Eve. made in the image Of
God, were, like God. clothed with light
civ y And here f7Tll
provision for their bodies as 20 food.
We have no record of flesh being eaten
till after the deluge Chapter tx -.
though we DO not say that it was not
eaten. But He who fed sinful Israel
for forty years i'm the wilderness VIII
always provide for His own.
30 And TO every beast CT the earth.
and to every fowl of the air, and u
everything that creepeth upon the earth
wherein there is life, / have given every
green herb for meat-2nd 1t YVES SO.
Not only man. but beast. is provided
for. These wait all upon Thee that Thou
mayst give them their meat in due sea
son Cps civ, %. Behold the fowls II
the air, your Heavenly Father fcedeth
them. Are not five sparro~s SOLD for
two farthngs. and not one of them IS
forgotten before God (M3th. vi, 26; Lux
xii 6)2 Observe the phrase IT he
given" and think of Rom. viii 81. he
who spared not His own Son, but de-
livered Him up for us all how shall he
not with Him also freely give US all
things?
81 And God saw everything that He
had made. and, behold. il was very good.
And the evening and the morning were
the sixth day" This is the seventh time
that it is written. God saw that it was
good God is love, and He cannot do
or make that which is not in dis sight
good. lie is good. and His mercy en-
dureth forever CPS cXX2lVi. D. He IS
round about us as a wall of fire and VIII
not possibly permit aught that is not
good to come to US. so We can surely
bless the Lord at all time Czech II, .;
Ps xxxvi, ID. IN all the days IL is first
evening, followed by night and then
morning. So now it is the worlds night
but the night is far spent, and the day
is at hand The morning cometh (ROm.
xiii. ~: Isa xxi, 12).
I. Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished and all the host Of them.
Thus" How? Why. by the word of
His mouth (Ps. XXXiii. 81. In chapter !
il is written ten times. And God said.
Now, since He thus created all things,
what is there He cannot do? All, Lord
God, behold, Thou hast created the
heavens and the earth by Thy great
power and stretched out arm, and there
is nothing too hard for Thee" DER. xxi,
I'D. If Christians. how thankful we
should be that God, who commanded the
light to shine out Of darkness, hath
shined in our hearts to give the light OF
the knowledge of the glory of God in
the face of Jesus Christ OF cor. iv, %.
On "the host of them see Deut ~, 10;
Elk. xii. Al; Ps. ciii. 81; 1 Sam il g.
9 And on the seventh day God
ended His work which He had made,
and He rested on the seventh day from
all His work which He had made" The
words finished and tended" are sug
gestive of some other works in due time
finished or TO be finished, as the taber-
nacle, the temple, the work Of atone
ment and the redemption of the world
EEK. xl, 33; IL ChrOn. vii, IL; John XXX,
80; Rev. xxi, 3, CD. God rested" cam
not imply WEAKNESS, for He fainteth not,
neither is weary Qsa. X, 2S). But He
ceased as the mama ceased or a work
might cease Joshua Y. p; Neh. vi, 81.
And If we would enter into His rest we
must cease from our own works as God
did from His Heb. w. 10.
g. And God blessed the seventh day
and sanctioned il, because that in it He
had rested from all His work which God
created and made" If we would know
His rest, we must reverence His Sab
baths. DisObedience here gave Israel
seventy years captivity QI Chron. XVI,
I'D Obedience in this particular viii
bring the richest blessings Qsa. lviii, IS,
IA; wi, 4?O. We have come through
nearly 5000 years since God created
Adam 1t would not be strange If the
seventh thousand should prove TO be
earth's Sabbath day. the thousand years