Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-16

ment or the DIVINE purposes future;
and let us notice that it is emphatic
ally declared that the ones to be re-
stored and blessed are the very ones
who persisted in the days of Lot. We
read
"Sodom thy sister hath not done
. as thou hast done Be
hold. this was the ir'quity Of thy sis
ter Sodom. pride, fulress Of bread,
and abundance Of idleness was to her,
. neither did she strengthen the
hand Of the poor and the needy. And
they were naughty, and committed
abomination before me; therefore l
took them away as | saw good. GGod
did not see good to take them to hell
of eternal torture; but he did see good
to destroy them and to make them an
example OF the destruction of all uld-
mately displeasing to him after enjoy
ing knowledge Of his grace and an
opportunity for eternal life.l
"Thou also which hast condemned
thy sister nations bare thine own
shame for thy sins. They are more
righteous than thou las Jesus de-
1lared). When | shall bring again their
captivity [bring them from the prison
house of DEATH then will !
bring again the captivity of thy cap
tives In the midst Of them: that thou
mayest bear thine own shame and
mayest be COMPOUNDED In all that thou
II Ia4 apf
unto them. When thy sisters Sodom
and her daughters shall return to their
former estate, and Samaria and her
daughters return to their former es-
tate, then thou and thy daughters
shall return to your former estate
/ will remember my Covenant
with thee in The days of thy youth
and | will establish unto them an
everlasting Covenant 1.-THE New Law
Covenant of which Messiah is the
Mediator and which. under his Media
torial Kingdom shall bless Israel and
all who will come into Israel under
the glorious terms of that New Cove
nent] Jeremiah xxi, 81.
"Then thou shalt remember Ivy
ways and be ashamed when tho1 shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy
younger: and / will give them unto
thee for daughters, bTt not by thy
Covenant mot under -FOUR present
Law Covenant, but under the New
Law Covenant and its better Media
tori that thou mayest re-
member and be COMPOUNDED and never
open thy mouth any more, because of
thy shame, when | am pacified toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith
the Lord God" ezekiel xvi, 1853.
Length and Breadth - Height and
Depth.
How wonderful it at first seems to
us to find that we really have good
kind, loving God, and not an unmerci-
full and vengeful one! So grossly were
we deceived respecting his character,
by the traditions handed down from
the past, that we gave him the rev
erence of fear, rather than that of
love and devotion. The clearer light
comes to us as a fresh revelation of
the meaning of the Apostles words
when he wrote about Lengths and
breadths and heights and depths Of
love Of God. which passeth all under
standing"
The words of the Lord through the
prophet come to our minds, Fear not
their fear. neither be afraid" Their
fear of me is not of me. but is taught
by the precepts of man." "As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways
and my plans higher than your plans"
Oh! Thank God that it is so! TO all
eternity we shall praise God that he
did not allow our fOrefathers to make
him or change his character. Yes, and
he is the same yesterday, today and
forever He changes not The great,
wise. just, loving plan for the saliva
ton Of mankind which he is now car
rying out was the very one which he
purposed in himself before the world
was created" The plan Of selecting
the straight gate and narrow way, for
nineteen centuries, was what he pur-
posed in advance; for the Apostle says
that he foreknew the Church in Christ.
Likewise the times of restitution
soon to come for the world of mankind
he foreknew and predestinated, and
made all the arrangements for, just as
they are being carried out now. The
end will be glorious. His name will
shine resplendently when the mists
have cleared away, and when the Sun
Of Righteousness shall arise with heal
ing in his beams, scattering all the
darkness and degradation of sin and
superstition.
Then well praise him, praise him as we
ought"
"To You 1t Is Given"
We are we'll aware that only the few
can see the beauties of this subject as
we see them. We are aware that only
those to whom lit is given to know"
will understand in the sense of fully
approaching the depth of the Divine
message. But we are sure that all
such will rejoice more and more in the
God of our salvation, as they come 20
appreciate his wOrthiness Of our love
and confidence aud devotion
AS for those who shall under Divine
tests prove themselves sympathetic
with iniquity. we are glad that the
Divine sentence is that they shall have
from the Eternal One a destruction
total, complete-one from which there
will he no recovery. no redemption. no
resurrection They shall be as though
they had not been" But all the willing
and the Obedient shall have the bless
ing Of the Lord unto life eternal
either on the spirit plane as members
OF the Church Of the frstborns or on
the human plane as members Of the
saved Israel restored to human perfec-
ton.