West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-09-21

under the divine condemnation to death
We know, too, that there are today, as
there have been in the past, many noble
natural men, all Of whom God declares are
sinners, and as such, unreconizable by
Jehovah, except as they peni,en,ly approach
Him in the merit of Christ's sacrifice and
obtain forgiveness. The standing Of all
who thus come unto God is declared To he
only of Ills grace, under the robe Of Chrisis
righteousness. And the outcome, we are in
formed, must be resurrection, OF resutu-
ton, TO perfection any can he personally
satisfactory To the Creator, aud yet il was
this same Creator who communed with Adam
before his transgTession and called him HIS
son, and who declares that Adam and we,
his children, became children Of wrath and
passed under condemnation because of sin,
which Adam did not have when created
son of God
30 surely as all the holy prophets since
the world began have declared the coming
Millennium to he times of restitution so
surely the evolution theory is in violent
antagonism To- the utterances of God through
| all the holy prophets. Restitution would be
crime against the race # by blind force or
other evolutionary processes. Man has been
climbing up by tedious endeavors from
monkey to lowest man and from lowest man
to what we are, then il would be a fearful
injury to restore him to what Adam was. or
possibly further back, back to protoplasm.
There is no middle ground on this quest
ion, and the sooner Gods people decide
positively in accord with lis Word the bet
ter It will he for them and the more sure
they will be of not falling into some of the
no-Tansom and evolutionary theories now
ahoat and seeking to deceive, If II we're
possible, the very elect. The wonderful
blessings of our day are due to increase of
knowledge, since the sixteenth century aud
especially since IS74.7S. The desolations
OF generations before the dark ages of 1900
years reveal greater brain capacity than is
found in man today, and everywhere upon
the earth is the evidence of mans desener-
acY greater in proportion to the distance he
has been driven from the plains of Shinar
These scattered remnants are not primitive
man as the evolution theory supposes.
The seventh epoch day. The marvellous
work of this day is shut to our mental eyes
OF understanding, until the due time, by the
statement that God rested on the seventh
day from all Ills work God saw best to
permit man to become a convict to do part
OF the subduing of the earth; that TO bring il
l toward IT'S foretold Paradsaic condition
would be profitable 10 man under the cir
cumstances; that it would be expedient that
man realize the principles underlying divine
righteousness, and the exceeding sinfulness
OF sin, and thus be prepared for the grace
brought to the world in due time
One of the chief reasons for Jehoyah's
cessation of the creative work was un.
| doubleday that it be accomplished by
another, by His Only Begotten, in a manner
that would not only glorify the Son but
glorify the Father also, by displaying the
divine attributes as no other course could do
In all the previous creations the Son acted
tor Jehovah, using powers and energies not
IN any sense His own; but in this grand work
to come lie will be using a power and
| authority that are His own, which cost Him
thirty-feur years of humiliation, eliminating
IN His crucihxion. BY that transaction,
which the Father planned for Him, lie
bought the world, bought father Adam and
all his progeny, and his estate, the earth,
with all his title to it as its monarch, in The
likeness of God. The Father delighted to
4 hnnnr he
planned it thus and ceased from creative
processes that the Son might honor Him and
be honored by Him.
| The Creators desisting from coming tn
the relief of Ills fallen creatures was not
from indifference or neglect, but the wisest
and best means tor mans assistance was IN
the outworking of Ills course, through a
Mediator. The period of the reign of sin
and death, six thousand years, has been
none too long for the bringing forth of a
race sufficient in number to iIl the earth:
none too long for the lesson of sin and its
severe wages; none too long to let men try
their own devices for their own uplift and
note its futiliiy. In due time God sent forth
Ills Son, Just long enough before the times
OF restitution for the divine purpose TO call
and gather and polish the elect church u
share with the Redeemer m the great
Millennial work of blessing the world
| Will the confidence of Jehovah in the ont.
working Of Ills plan, which led Him thus To
rest 1t all in the care Of Jesus, prove to have
been fully justified Jehovah God, who
knows the end from the beginning. assures
US that II will, and that Son shall see OF the
travail Of Ills soul and be satisfied Yea.
all believers who are resting 10y faith in their
Redeemer's work may have full assurance of
faith that eye hath not seen nor ear heard,
neither hath IL entered into the heart OF man
TO conceive the things which God hath in
reservation for those that love Him.
When the human race receives its life.
which IL did not inherit from Adam: when
the groaniug aud Travelling Of the Indicative
time IS passed and } fe is given by the Ever
lasting Father, life-gver Of the race, then
the new son can be sung by all Of Gods
creatures, both in Heaven and earth, saving.
"Great aud marvellous are thy works, Lord
| God, Almighty
ust and true are thy ways, thou King Of
the Ages
Who shall not reverence thee, O Lord, and
glorify Thy name ?
For thou art bounuful:
For al peoples shall come and Worship be.
fore thee;
Because Thy righteous duings are made
| manifest g.