The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-11-28

un11st.p Bit Dlrile Instice eonid mol
allow this. unless Win lie consent u
the snnerer Hence Me re1d thai God
SET, before his onlS ;begalten Son Il
glorious Pianiand Invited his o-Speras
ton therein. The Son assent ed. len
the heavenly glory, was made fest
and offered himself an acceptable
sacrifice. .:the Just for the nnjdstr "
for the redemption Of. Adam aid bis
race. The Father honored him by
raising him from the dead 10 a still
higher glory and honor than he had
before, to immortality-the divine mn.
ture. Now. from his glorious, stndon.
he is empowered to be the Mediator
between God and men-between Di.
vine Justice and fallen humanity. He
is empowered TO give the earthly
rights which he specifically laid down
for Adam and his race--to so many Of
them as will accept the perfection OF
human nature aud its rights and priv.
ileges upon terms In harmony with the
Divine I.aw-the reGainder he Will de.
stroy. annihilate .as brute beasts III
Peter II, 10; Acts IT., 23j. Is y; &
AS though all this were not3srtii-
9clently wonderful; as though with all
this the Heavenly Fathers Wisdom.
Justice, Love and Power would not
be sufficiently Illustrated. exempllhed,
God added another feature. Before
beginning to deal with the world rs: "a
whole, to give back TO the willing and
obedient ofthe race human perfection
and an earthly Eden Paradise and
eternal life: before commencing thIs
work Of restitution (Acts ILL.,. 19i, the
Father made known TO the Son anoth.
'er feature of his Plan. He would give
to the Son Bride, n class sels:ted
from amongst the fallen race-called.
chosen, faithful oyercomers. These.
as the Joint Of the Second
Adam, will share with him in the up.
lifting Of those Of Adams race who
will become the children, Of Christ
through obedience and adoption. 4
The trials and tcstings of all those
who will become the Bride OF Christ
must be similar to those of the lse-
'deemcr. They must suffer- with him
II they would reign with him. Az lie
sacrificed his earthly life and rights
and interests. so must they. lie ex-
horted them. Present your bodies llv-
Ing sacrifices. holy and acceptable to
God. reasonable service" tRomans
XII. u. True. there is q difference! he
tween these followers Of Jesus and the
Captain Of their salvation. He was
brought Into the world holy. harmless.
Undecided and separate from sinners:
hence his sacrifice is n perfect one.
Those accepted as his mcmbcrs:i as his
Bride. belong to the race of sinners.
They were'"children Of wrath even as
others (Ephesians II. 81 Their ac.
ceptnncc as sacrifices. therefore. was
not possible except as tile great Cap.
tain Of their Salvation imputed to, those
sacrifices assutfciency OF the merit Of
his sacrifice to compensate for their
defects and to make their sacrifices &C.
ceptable to the Father with his and MS
n part Of his=7theyl being counted In
with him as members of,his Body"
Ny dear friends. those of us who
hare the eye of faith and the. bearing
of faith to appreciate this. the Message
Of Gods Word. may surely be thankful
to the last degree. What more could
our Heavenly Father do for us tbanl he
has done-rcdceming us. inviting IN
to a new nature, giving us the aids by
the way. and making us sharers In the
|, Kingdom glory OF hfs Son? More tliail
this. he has been blessing our friends,
our children. our parents. our neigh.
bors. the heathen-all Of mankind, of
one family. .83e,fs
Thanks Because God Is Good.
20, give thanks unto the Lord, for he
is good; for his mercy cndureth for.
ever" During this Gospel Age Ills
mercy has been manifest to all those
who take up their cross and follow
Jesus. By and by these will be glorl.
fed by the First Resurrection" Then
his mercy will return to natural Israel,
under the New Covenant (Jeremiah
XXI. BY. Of which Christ and the
Church are cable Minister'S" Servants.
Priests and Kings. Could allthe world
discern. through the trials and tears
and sorrows and imperfections and dy.
Ing Of their present experience. the glo.
rlous outcome which God is providing
the whole world, they would be filled
with praise to him who loved us and
bought US back from the penalty OF
death and who ultimately will com
plete his glorious work through Mes,
slah's Kingdom.
Have we not, MS followers OF The
Lord. rs Christians, mlsreprcsented the
facts Of the case and endeavorel to
have people give thanks to God for
unkindness, injustice. lovelesSncss-tc
God whose mercy never tracieil us
and would never reach any lut . small
proportion of our race through the
knowledge of Christ; to God whose
mercy. even to the one.tenth Of those
who had ever heard of lin. de said
would endure only for the present life
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