Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-08-13

a good fight against the weaknesses of
the flesh, against the alIurements Of
the world and the snares of the Ad-
versary.
This Light Upon Our Text.
Consider now, In the light Of the
foregoing, the meaning of St Peters
words used as our text. We perceive
how the Gospel message from first to
last has been preached to dead world
to a world under sentence of death
to a world dead in --3passes and in
sin and unworthy of Divine notice.
The message has not gone forth to
every creature yet. The Divine pro-
mise is that eventually every eye shall
see and every ear shall be unstopped,
and then "the knowledge of the
Lord shall fill the whole earth" and
"every knee shall bow and every
| tongue confess" But that will be
during Messiahs Kingdom of right
eousness, which will last for a thou
sand years for the worlds uplifting.
That time has not yet come; hence
that glorious message which all must
hear and those glorious sights which
all must see and all confess are not
yet revealed AS yet the message can
be appreciated only by comparatively
small proportion Of our race. "even as
many as the Lord our God shall call"
The Redeemer says that they must
not only be thus "called Of Cod" but
that they must be drawn" by him, in
order to be blessed during this Age.
He says, No man can come unto me,
except the Father which sent me drGW
him, and he that cometh unto me 0hus
drawn | will in no wise reject John
vi, Al, 80. For these few of the dead
world the Gospel in the present time
is intended. No others have the ear to
hear. But while those who hear are
few in comparison to the millions of
the world who do not hear, neverthe-
less they are many in comparison to
the still fewer who accept the call un-
der the conditions and limitations of
the narrow way of self-sacrifce
"Many are called but few chosen" to
this high calling Of joint-heirship with
the Redeemer in his Kingdom.
BY and by when all eyes and ears of
understanding shall be opened and the
blessing of the Lord through Messiah
shall be worldwide, it will not be
merely a calling to righteousness that
will be extended. A command will be
enforced by disciplines, stripes" "cor-
rections in righteousness to the in
tent that the "dedd" world in general |
may be blessed and be resurrected-
lifted up, up, up. out Of sin and death |
conditions to the human perfection be-
slowed upon Adam and his race in
creation. Only the unwilling and dis
obedient will die the Second Death, J
from which there will be no redemp-
ton, NO recovery.
Live In Flesh and In Spirit.
Those who hear the Gospel and ac-
cept its terms of conservation unto
death Of the flesh and are begotten of
the Holy Spirit as New Creatures,
"partakers of the divine nature" have
30 to speak. a dual existence from the
time of their begettal Of the Spirit.
From Gods standpoint they are New
Creatures begotten to the divine ma
ture, which. If faithful, they will fully
obtain in the First Resurrection"
Yet according to all worldly concept
of the matter they are still human be-
ings, very much the same as they were
prior to their conservation and Spirit
begetting. The world may. indeed. see
certain changes more or less radical in
their conduct and words, but like as
not, these will appear to the worldly
merely as fads, fancies. eccentricities.
Perhaps. indeed. as in the case of st.
Paul they may be considered as "be-
sides themselves"-mad Hence, as the
Apostle declares. "The world knoweth
us not. even as 1t knew him not"
Il John iii, u. The world did not
know Jesus to be begotten Of the Holy
Spirit, the Son of the Highest. etc.
nor does the world yet know that he
Is highly exalted at the Fathers Right
Hand, So also it is with the followers ;
" Jesus. They similarly have re-
,eived a Spirit begetting and. similar
", in due time, are to experience the I
glorious change of the First Resur-
LNNiAbh anu bN lINAANNANA bl lllt LbW
plane of the divine nature.
Judged of Mer--Judged of God
Note again the Apostles words re-
specting these Spirit-begotten follow
nrs of Jesus, the "little flock" who
walk in his footsteps of self-sacrihce.
He says that these viii be judged ac-
,ording to men in the flesh, but ac-
,ording to God In the Spirit, Men not
us as New Creatures in I
christ may think Of us and approve or
condemn as they would think Of and
approve or condemn others-accord-
ng to the flesh The world will not
zee that In these New Creatures there
$ a battle in progress-the New Crea-
ure seeking to conquer the flesh and
o bring II into subsection 20 the Di-
Inc will but not always able 10 do SO,
All we can do Is 10 do our best
whether our best shall be as good as
II better than that Of our fellow
reatures who are not Spirit -begotten,
,ut who may be less depraved by ma I
ure-nObler by heredity. Our con- c
olation MS New Creatures is that we e