The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1909-03-30
"The Precious and The VILE"
fBy Geo. O. Barnes, Evangelist

E,,o, m eareless reader viii be I'M
,.o...d With the sssiduous jealousy ex-
h,.,,.d bv the Great Creator in His
81 ~ s,Restitution OF all things" in
Laan,,g senara,ed the ''Things that dif.
Co. :" las, harm should come from their
.o,.r,,rgI,,g
And this anxiety has been fully justi-
ead bv What has followed in all ages.
wbi,e the work of restoration goes
s,oulv m Indeed. we NAV truthfully
ayo, that notbiny has 80 retarded THE
restitution Of all things spoken by the
uolv p,onh.,s aimee the world be-
Gan" as the confounding Of good
and evil brought about by the
eun,,ng Of the great Adversary. The
Iord,s nroviso in sending Jeremiah out
IN do uis work. il the one qualification
uo,aouires of His Ministers NOW. "lf
,housbalt take forth the precious fromthe
yue ,hou shalt he as nv mouth" der.
$50, and the inference plainly is, that
IN cos. Uis servants fail TO do this. He
d;scyedits them as His ambassadors.
whatever Of human endorsement they
NAV have How this would thin the
,anLs NJ those who claim to speak in
CO. name in this century, need not
stop TO explain. But wish TO snow
,h., oElohim" ''In the beginning" laid
down this discriminating axiom most
carefully. And the reason is obvious.
On no account will God allow Satan's
work 10 be mistaken for His own. u lie
can preyent il. His repeated and care
ful separations; His reiterated distinc'
,ions in nomenclature: His line upon
line and precept upon precept," all
show that He foresaw imminent dan
Ger. clustering around this point. and
endeayors carefully to guard it IN ev-
Org nossible yay. And so Il has turned
out The Devil has exhausted his sub
,ihty and made his most pronounced as
sault lust nj this critical position. The
conflict of the ages" RACES here, and
the defeats of the Lords hosts far out
number the victories, until, taught by
"The Great Tribulation. " Gods silly
sheen" who will learn IL no other way.
are taught the wisdom that will insure
n FINAL and decisive victory in the long
strife.
Notice how the Good God Divides
the light from the darkness, and calls
the light day and the darkness night. y
He will by no possibility. save wilful
perversity. have the one mistaken for
the others. and He denounces "Wo"
unon any of His prophets who call
Darkness light, evil good and bitter
sweet" hencefortn lisa. 5-20) let US
see how Satan has ''set at naught
this warning Of the Lord. and carried
ont his first plan Of ruin in Eden, by 50
confounding Good and evil in the IA
tsl tree. that our Mother Eve thought
tina, the fruit that has poisoned her
race in all time was good for food. y
and 80 "a,e of il. and gave to her hus'
brnd and he did eat" Take the ills OF
bfe--loss of dear ones. loss of property,
loss of health. as illustrated in Job,
We are there. all admitted behind
the scenes" and know beyond
a neradventure who inflicted one and
ali Of these calamities. We can see
clearly the arch iiend with Internal JOY
doing his deadly work. He had to &c
out OF 1.-THE presence of the Lord be
fore he could do anything for hate, moi
love. is in everything he does. Yet. W.
hear the honest. but misguided servant
of the Lord. attributing all his dread
ful doings to God; and we. for whom
tho hook of Job was written AS A WARN
,Sc copy Jobs words of Ignorance
with approval and pass them on a
current coin of the heavenly realm
instead of rejecting them with scorn a
,ha nsyil,s counterfeit. Job was igno