The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1909-09-11

Is faithful in that which is least would
be faithful also in the greater things.
The poor man OF woman who is found
to be very generous and very helpful
to his friends and neighhors is thus
attesting that If he were wealthy he
would probably use his wealth for the
public benefit. But, alas! we find COM
paratively little of unselflsh love, either
in the poor or the rich. And this being
true. love could not be the motive
power Of the world under present con
ditlons.
Paradise to Be Restored.
We have already seen that it is nee
essary, in viewing the Divine dealings
with humanity, to keep in memory the
future outcome of Gods Plan. Other
wise the permission Of * Thousand
Years Of the reign of Sin and Death
would be entirely unreasonable to us.
Inconsistent with Divine Wisdom. JUS
tice, Love and Power. But keeping in
memory the fact that 1t is the Divine
Purpose to reclaim man from his fallen
condition Of imperfection of mind and
physique, ard that it is the Divine in
tentioa to make the entire earth a
Garden of Eden-Paradise-from this
standpoint, the permission of evil may
be clearly understood and appreciated
as a master-stroke of Divine Wisdom.
AS enc illustration of this, suppose
that Sin had not entered into the world
and the birth Of humanity had been as
slow as in the case of Adams i'm
mediate children (whose birth-rate vas
probably about one a century,, how
long would it have required to people
the earth? But In Adams fallen condi,
ton. as a part of the result of the fall
the sorrows and conception of mother
hood were greatly multiplied Genesis
Iii, 16, so that during the period
Of Seven Thousand Years a suficiency
of the human family will have been
born to properly fill 1t. Moreover, the
subduing of the earth has under Di-
vine Encouragement been accomplish
ed by cOnriot labor; for are not all
mankind convicts serving out a death
sentence? And is not our Greater per
hitting man, for his own good, to bat
tie s%trenuously with the unfavorable
conditions prevailing in the earth? And
does not this battling serve to quicken
! man in his mental qualities, even
though this q%uickenlng be chiefly along
cni6Sh HnaS9
Furthermore, as we have heretofore
seen, the reign Of Sin and Death
amongst mankind made it possible for
God, on the one hand, to show the Sc
verify Of his Justice in permitting us
to die thus, as a ''groaning creation,
Travelling in pain" and it made posi-
BILE the exhibition Of his Love in
the providing Of the Redeemer, who
bought us with his precious blood,
Further be 1t remembered it served as
the occasion for the testing of Luclfer,
the proving of, his %dlsloyalty, when he
became Satan, the Adversary of God.
Additionally It furnished the oppor.
tune test of the loyalty or d~lsloyalty
Of all the angels of heaven as recorded
in Genesis vi, Jude vi and ii Peter H.
4, as we have previously seen.
"The Mystery Of ood.H
And now we come, dear friends, to
that feature of the great Divine Plan
which is so peculiarly interesting to us
Ito us who are Bible Students; to us
who are disciples Of Jesus; to us who
have given our all to him; to us who
are trusting that he has accepted us as
members of the Body Of Christ"
members of the Bride, the Lambs Wife
and his Joint Heir in the Kingdom
Without the permission Of sin there
would have been no such opportunity
as we now enjoy of experiencing q
; "change" Of nature from earthly tC
heavenly-human to Divine. AS oul
Lord could not have left the heavenly
/. glory to become a man and to suffer
/. and to die, the Just for the unjust, un
J less there had been sin in the world
unless sinners had needed redemption
so likewise We would have had no op
| portunity or privilege Of joining Will
t our Lord in his sacrifice of himself
!, We would have had no opportunity O
. joint-heirship with him in his King
! dom!
! Indeed, had there been no sin to con
/ quer. to down, to overthrow, Their,
I would have been no need for Christ,
E Mediatorial Kingdom - for Christ,
9 reign Of righteousness. Had Their,
] been no fallen condition OF humanity
in sin, in degradation, there woult
have been no work for the Roya
/ Priesthood to accomplish during th,
T times of restitution" during the ex
i lstence Of the MiIlennial Kingdom. So
5 then, while approaching the terribl,
] devastation Of sin in the world, its ter
Q rible consequences upon the human
family, WI see behind the glorious AID
vent of our Lord In Kingdom power
. a full recovery Of the race from Al
n that was Lost In Adam and Redeemed
on Calvary. From this standpoint w
e have a glimpse Of the length ant
|. breadth and height and depth Of thl