The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1910-06-10

l4oIu Is Win lntln Niul l'NVitHN' hl'h'
and he will show them his Covenant"
blessed are your eyes, for they see,
and your ears, for they hear" Such
as thus abide in covenant relationship
with the Lord Jesus are indeed taught
of God In the School of Christ, ana
may truly grow in grace and knowl-
edge.
4 distinction should be observed In
knowing about God. and knowing God
himself 1t Is not sufficient that we
should recognize God as the Almighty
Creator for devils also believe that.
ON the other hand, to be intimately
acquainted with God means that we
must come into intimate fellowship
with him, and this means that we
must come unto the Father through
the son, by faith. by thus coming to
our heavenly Father by an acQuaint'
auce with his Word. and through an
appreciation of his glorious work, past,
present, and future, we get view OF
the lengths, aud hrcndthS, aud heights
aud depths of "lovc divine. all love cx-
ceiling" In proportion as we behold
tue OUlllllt VI llt wv lll' 'hbl NN'Nlt
we perceive our own deficiencies and
try the more to rid ourselves Of them.
aud at least manifest 90 the Lord that
our hearts are w harmony with the
principles Of righteousness,
Tho Sun Of Righteousness,
Very appropriately the Scriptures
speak of the present as nighttime.
They tell us that now Darkness GOV.
crs the civilized earth, and gross
darkness the people Weathendom)."
They assure us that now Gods people
need the lamp of Divine revelation to
guide their footsteps until the day
dawns. They assure us, however, that
the morning will be ushcred in by the
great Sun of Rightcousness-thc Christ
the Messiah, Prophet, Mediator, King
of Glory.
Now is the Church excluded from
this work of shining upon and enlight-
ening the world and scattering its
darkness. The Master gave us to un-
derstand that the Church with himself
will constitute the Sun of Righteous
ness, which will then arise with heal
ing In Its beams. Thus in the parable
of the Wheat and Tares, he pictures
the entire work of this Gospel Age and
its ConsummatiOn, which he styles
THE harvcst-the end of the age"
Ills word respecting the separation OF
the wheat from the tares Is that the
wheat shall be gathered into his barn
changed from the earthly to the
heavenly nature, and he adds, Then
shall the righteous shine as the sun in
the Kingdom of their Father" He
that hath an ear to hear. let him hear"
The figure of the rising sun scatter
ing the darkness, ignorance and super
stition of the world harmonizes with
the other picture, which represents the
Kingdom of God superseding the king
dom of Satan, and those deluded by
Satan, styled in the Scriptures, the
kingdoms Of this world.
Be Glad and Rejoice.
We may we'll sympathize with our
fOrefathcrS, to whom it was not grant
ed to see as clearly as we may now
see the glorious fulness of the Divine
purpose to eventually enlighten the
whole earth, by causing the knowledge
of the glory of God to fill the whole
earth as the waters cover the great
deep. TO us, therefore, is especially
applicable the prophetic words, BE We
glad and rejoice for ever in that which
| create. For behold, | create new
heavens and Il new earth, and the for
mcr shall not be remembered, nor come
into mind" isaiah Ky, Is, 10. Thus
does the Lord picture the new dispen-
Sation in graphic language. The new
heavens symbOliCally represent the
Church in its new and gloriiied condi-
ton, exercising superior control over
the affairs Of mankind Likewise, the
new earth symbolically represents the
new state or condition of society-the
new social order of things which will
be introduced as n part of the New
Dispensation. lmperfection is now
written upon everything with which
men are associated, partly because Of
our fallen condition through hercdty,
and partly, as the Scriptures declare,
through Satan, the god of this world or
age, who now works in the hearts of the
children of MISUNDERSTANDING to
sin and seltishness, pride and ambi-
ton, and in every sense of the word
tending to ALLEVIATE the hearts of men
from the ways of righteousness. More
over, the Adversary is largely response
BILE for the gross errors of misconcep-
ton of the Divine character, which
during the centuries past have been
creeping into the minds Of those who
We're feeling after God, If haply they
might find him. All who are of the
light spirit, truth seekers, and truth
lovers, will be glad to abandon the err
rors on this subject, which so long
have hindered a proper appreciation OF
the glorious character of our heaven
ly Father. BY teaching us through false
doctrines to dread the heavenly Father,
the Adversary has implanted in our
minds a fear which constitutes a bar
rier The Lord speaks of this saying,
Of to !, tI.N