Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-11-25

muCQ sympathy uO we SuppOSc tHdI
these Royal Priests should have? Are
they not to be on the Divine plane of
glory, members of the Body" of Mes
siah. the great kingly priest after the
order of Melchizedek? And of him has
not the Apostle written that be must
be faithful and merciful High Priest,
able also to sympathize with the peo-
pie in their intirmities? Does be not
declare that it was for this reason that
our Lord was touched with a feeling
for humanity's inhrmities? And is it
not in perfect keeping with this that
all those accepted as members of his
Body" should have such experiences in
this sacrificing time as would demon
Strate their loyalty to the Lord and
guarantee their deep sympathetic in
terest in the world. then committed TO
their care? To such will be committed
the work of human restitution uplift
out of sin and death conditions-men
tai, moral and physical?
The Morning of Joy.
How glad we should be that our
Heavenly Fathers sympathy for us
will provide "a morning of joy" to be
ushered in, in his due timen Addi-
tionally he sympathizes with us to the
extent that he has given us in advance
a message and Revelation and expla
nation to comfort us. to sustain us III
the way. We have already seen that
this Revelation is only for those who
have the eyes Of faith and the ears of
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your eyes. for they see; and your ears.
for they hear He that hath an ear
let him hear
We recognize the wisdom of God in
withholding the secret of his plan
from the world in general. We recog-
nize that for the world to know the
deep things of God at the present time
would be injurious rather than help
full to them. 1t might possibly work
an interference with the Divine Pro-
gram. Nevertheless we are bound to
sympathiZe with the poor grooming
creation in it's blindness and ignorance
The poor world knows not why it
came into being. In an animal fash
ion, eating. drinking. ETC., it seeks to
use the opportunities of present life
and. after few short years full Of
trouble, it goes down into the tomb,
ignorant Of the purposes of it's crea-
ton, and usually considerably enthrall-
ed by fear respecting the future be-
yOnd the portals of death.
How we may rejoice in spirit as we
perceive the length and breadth and
height and depth of the Divine Pro
gram for the future and the blessings
which it will bring to this 'groaning
creation" How we long for the time
to come when the Church shall be
made ready through the sutferings of
this present time for the glories of the
future-of the Kingdom, No wonder
the Apostle declares. He that hath
this hope in him puritieth himself even
as he the Lord is pure q John iii.
81 He is our eXemplar, our pattern.
We seek to copy him. Although we
cannot hope to be like him in the
flesh, we can be like him in the spirit
of our minds and thus be of the char
acter-ikeness which the Father will
be pleased to honor with a share in
the First Resurrection" By that glo-
rious change" we shall be made like
him actually and see him as he is and
share his glory.
The morning of joy, the Millennial
Morning, of course, cannot be ushered
in until the rising of the Sun of Right
eousness. Its beams of grace and
Truth will food the earth with the
light of the knowledge of the glory of
God to such a degree that it will drive
out, eXpel. all ignorance, superstition
and sin, which have worked such
havoc in our race.
But what is this Sun of Righteous
ness: Whence comes it? The Bible
answers the question by telling US that
it symbolicalIy represents the Lord
himself and the elect Church Of this
Gospel Age. The Sun of Righteous
ness is synonym for the Seed of
Abraham, Of whom it is written, In
thee shall all the families of the earth
be blessed The Mystery hidden for
q time from many is the fact that the
Church is to share with her Lord ia
every feature of his glorious work, not
only in suffering, but also ia regnng
Thus we have St. Paul's assurance that
the oVercomers will be members of the
Seed of Abraham Galatians iii. 29l
And we have our Lords own words
that this faithful class will be repre-
sented in the great Sun of Righteous
ness. the great Messiah, the great
Prophet Priest. King and Mediator be-
tween God and men Matthew xiii, 43i.
"Whst Manner of Persons"
st. Peter, in viewing the prospects of
the Church. inquiries as to what man
ner Of persons we ought to be in all
manner Of holy living and godIiness.''
He refers to US, who know that the
present order of things is the reign of
sin and death from which our Lord
died to deliver us. What manner of
persons ought zee to be. who have heard
the Lords invitation to Joint heirship
in his Kingdom, and who know that
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