Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-06-25

put down sin. Danish ignorance. error
and superstition and uplift mankind by
! restitution" by resurrection proeesso
up, up, up, to all that was lost III
Eden by disobedience and to all Sc
cured for Adam and his race through
the great transaction at Calvary CActe
81, 10-21.
Brightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Alas, how many intelligent people
have turned aside from follow Or
Christ and from hearing the voice Of
God through the Bible. Alas, how
many are looking 10 T~heosophy, TO
Spiritism. to Christian Science. TO
Higher Criticism, to Evoiution-wan-
dering farther and farther daily from
the faith once delivered to the saints"
Jude liz. We fault them no more
than we fault ourselves. AS q whole
we have been ioorknien tcho need to
be ashamed. We have d~ishonored God
through misunderstanding and misrep-
resenting his Word and his Character.
We have driven away from God and
the Bible some Of the most intelligent
of our fellows, by reason of the con-
Trajectory nonsense of our creeds.
The Apostle urges. STUDY to show
myself approved unto Cod" We are
not to suppose, therefore, that the
highest Of all science, that which per-
tains to the Divine purpose and the
Divine plan, can be acquired without
study. We are not in this claiming
that study alone would bring the de-
sired results of proper knowledge. We
heartily agree in the Scriptural prop
osition that "the world by wisdom
knows not God" We are not there
fore to study along the lines of world
ly wisdom, but along the lines of that
wisdom that cometh from above
along the lines Of the inspired Scrip
lures. We must study! Whoever WI
not study will not know. 1.-THE secret
Of the Lord is with them that rever-
ence Him." And reverencing h.aY
means the giving Of Dur best though.
and talents to the study of his WerG
that we may know the things FREE.
given to us of God" q Corinthiana i.
12).
We should note further as n. = 81.
dents that we must not study ~ be A.
proved of men, but to have the Diva
approval. This will bring to us. us X
did to the Master and his apostles. the
~disapprobation of the worldly-wise All.
nominally religious. 1t was the Chief
Priests and Scribes and Pharisees, ant,
not the common people of the Jews. nor
the Roman soldiers. who were guilty
of the crucifixion Of our Lord. And
we must expect similar conditions. be-
cause, as the Apostle says, "As he was
so are we in this world" The class
who called the Master Beelzebub is the
same class which will oppose his foot
step followers.
God permits all this with wise and
loving foreintention. Nothing connect
ed with the opposing forces is in any
sense of the word interfering with his
great Program. He set apart with Di-
vine wisdom this Gospel Age of nearly
nineteen centuries for the sole purpose
of selecting from the world 1.-THE
Church of the hrstborns''-the antityp
zeal Priests and Levites. The ~restric-
ton of his message, the darkening OF
counsel, the clashing of creeds, the OPP
position of the world, the flesh and the
Devil, are all wisely permitted with
the foreintention on Gods part that
thus all through the Age the way OF
the cross-in the footsteps Of Jesus
should be a marrow way" so that
comparatively few finding 1t would
care to walk in Ii.
1t is those few, hat little flock"
jealous for God, for his Word, for
righteousness. that he is now marking
out as the prospective joint-heirs with
Jesus in his glorious Kingdom, which
is to bless the world with full opportu-
mites for earthly salyation-"restitu-
ton" The trials OF the faith, the pa
tience, the love. the devotion of this
little flock" are all designed and not
accidental. Satan and his hosts may
think to thwart the Divine Plan and
may mislead and use humanity as their
tools, but it shall yet be seen that all
OF the DlNlne purposes shal De ac-
complished. The Word that has gone
forth out of ~Jehovah's mouth shall
prosper in the thing whereto he
sent It.
st. Paul declared of earthly Israel,
that they enjoyed much advantage
every way, because to them were com
mitted the oracles Of God" So now
dear friends, it seems to me that you
and | and all sincere Christians the
world around enjoy much advantage
every way. Looking to the past we
find great excuse for our dear forefa-
theirs who, with sincerity Of heart, so
misunderstood the Divine Word and
so misinterpreted the spirit Of the
Master that they burned one another
at the stake. We should not think so
harshly Of them for this-as though
they lived today under the greater ad-
vantages which we possess. We
should sympathize with them. We
should consider them as blinded by