Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-29

Corinthians XIV, 5l; Ephesians !. 8;
Romans XII 2Jl. THE mystery OF
God" the world does not understand,
because God prefers to keep the mat
ter mystery from them. But "the
secret of the Lord is with them that
fear him and he will shew them his
Covenant" psalm XIV. Ia.
''The mystery" is. that God purposed
that the blessing Of the world should
be accomplished by our Savior alone,
but IN association with a select class
Of saints gathered out Of the world
and specially taught and prepared in
the School Of Christ during this age.
Not only is this feature Of the Divine
Plan Scripturally called the mystery
Of Cod" which will be finished by the
close of this age. but additionally the
Church herself is Scripturally termed
"the mystery of God"-the Mystic
Body Of Christ. "For God gave Christ
to be the Head over the Church, which
is his Body" "Ye are members in
particular Of the Body of Christ"
which is the Church (Ephesians /, %,
%; Corinthians xii %.
During these long centuries required
for the finding of this sanity class for
whom the Lord has been searching
with the magnet of Truth, various
false theories have sprung up and
found acceptance in the world. One Of
these is that God does not love the
world and has never purposed it's sal
vation; but that. on the contrary, he
fore-ordained and predestinated that
all except the "elect saints should suf-
fer eternal torture. because he wished
TO have it so. Another wrong theory
which gained acceptance was that
whilst God wishes to save the world,
he finds himself unable to do so. be-
cause handicapped by human self-will
and by the aggressiveness of Satan,
who has blinded and deceived the vast
majority and has them completely in
his power through ignorance and su-
perstition. This theory tells us that
God loves the world, including the
heather millions, and that he longs to
have the Gospel taken to them, but
cannot do so. except through human
agency, and is disappointed and baf-
fled. because those who profess to be
his people fail to raise sufficient mis-
sionary donations.
To rational minds these theories
which satisfied in the past are no
longer satisfactory; hence many are
turned to inhdeity. AS the Scriptures
say, MY people perish for lack of
knowledge" Hosea iv. o..
The Hope of the Resurrection.
Leaving these unsatisfactory errors
of the dark ages" and going back to
the Scriptures we find their teachings
consistent; namely, that as soon IS
the mystery" the Church, is com
pleted. the blessing of God will pro-
ceed through The Christ (Head and
membersl TO the world. AS 1t Is writ
ten. "In thy Seed shall all the fami-
lies OF the earth be blessed" The
mystery, be 1t known is that the splr-
itual Seed of Abraham" Is not the
Lord Jesus only. but includes also his
members-th Church. AS we read,
IF We be Christ's, then are ye Abra-
hams Seed. aud heirs according to the
promise" Galatians Ill, 29l.
According to the Scriptures the bless
ing of God will proceed through Splr-
itual Israel Royal Priest hood" :"
after the order of Melchizedec," 70
natural Israel under the terms of their
New Covenant Jeremiah XXI. SlL
laI
spiritual Kingdom of The Christ Top
Grating through the earthly Kingdom
of Israeli all nations will be instruct
ed, enlightened. blessed Not only so,
but the merit of Christ will then be
applied also ON behalf of the thousands
of millions who have gone down into
the priSun-house of death-She0l. hadeS
the grdrc The Church will cOnstl-
mte the First Resurrection" His
resurrection" An sharing in it will
attain life on the spirit plane like unto
the angels but superior far above
angels" Later during the Millennium
the world will return FROM the tomb,
every man IN his own order a Corm-
thlans Xv, ~, Aud the resurrecting
process will continue with them, to the
intent that the willing aud ohedlent
may continue TO rise gradually to-
wards perfection and finally Ntmin It;
while nt the same time the earth will
be reiuvenated and become the prom
ised paradise regained" - restored
tActs il, l0.2n
"ove Thanks, For He Is Good"
Looking down into the future pro
phetlcally the Psalmist eXcnlms. IN
view OF the Kingdom blessings prom
ised to the world. 70 give thanks unt'
the lord. for he is good, for his mercy
endureth forever" II is the mercy OF
God toward us and toward all wh'
need his mercy aud who desire Il thai
Is the ground for thanksgiving, True
praise must come from thankful hearts
ana IN order TO be properly thankful
one must see more than Is now visible
TO those who have not the eye ~ faitl
aud the ear OF faith aud the nivip,
revelation respecting things TO come
Vtaf lf IL fhagA wary onnorfuuifing thR