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anti Jeremiah xxi, 80.

nant1 Jeremiah XXI, 31).
"Then thou shalt remember thy
ways and be ashamed when thou shalt
receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy
younger: and will give them unto
thee for daughters, but not by thy
Covenant mot under your present
Law Covenant, but under the New
Law Covenant and it's better Media
tori that thou mayest re-
member and be confounded and never
open thy mouth any more, because Of
thy shame, when I am pacified toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith
the Lord God" ezekiel xvi. 1853.
sThus 1t Is Written"
This Gospel Age which began with
our Lords sufferings and trying ex-
periences, and which has continued
those experiences with his followers,
has for it's object the preparation, the
qualification, of those who will be the
judges of the world in the coming age.
They must all be developed in the
fruits and graces of the Holy Spirit
'meekness. patience, brotherly kind
ness, lOve"-else that will not be fit to
be the judges of mankind by and by
1t is required that all become copies
of the Redeemer, Gods dear Son. ST.
Paul tells us this, saying, Know We
not that the saints shall judge the
world 2" and that God has foreor-
dained that all of these judges must
be copies of his Son? (Romans vii.
v
Come back with me to the Old Tes-
lament Scriptures and note how the
Divine Spirit dictated this matter of
the future trial of the Sodonites to
one of the prophets and caused it to
be written for our instruction. Alas,
as Jesus, said, We have been "sIow of
heart to believe all that the prophets
have spoken (Luke XIV, 25).
Through Ezekiel the Prophet, the
Lord explains that when the restitu--
ton time shall come at the Second Ad-
vent of our Lord in the glory of his
kingdom. then the divine blessing viii :
come upon Israel now cast off. Nor
Will the blessing of Messiah's king
dom come upon Israel onlyi 1t will
extend to all the families of the earth.
through the Prophet the Lord spe-
cially emphasized to Israel her two
sister nations, Sodom and Samaria.
The Lord pointed out that in the day
of their pride and prosperity they dis
dained these sister nations as being
far beneath them and unworthy of
their notice in every way But in
the restitution times (Acts iii, 1S) they
VIII be glad to have a share of the
Divine favor in conjunction with those
nations formerly despised
The Lord declares that it is not be-
cause of the worthiness of any of
these that he proposes their restitu-
ton, but because of his glorious char
acter, for which his namesake. Let
statement of the Divine purposes flu
ture; and let US notice that it is en-
phatically declared that the ones to
be restored and blessed are the very
ones who persisted in the days of Lot
We read:
Then wen see what God hath wrought!
Ihen Wen praise him. praise him as we
Length, Breadth-Height, Depth.
How wonderful 1t at first seems to us
to find that we ready have good kind.
loving, God, and not an unmereifu1 and
vengeful onei. So grossly were we de-
ceiyed respecting, his character. by the
traditions handed down from the past,
that we gave him the reverence of fear,
rather than that of love and devotion
revelation of the meaning Of the Apostles
words when he wrote about lengths and
bFeadths and heights ana depths Of love
The words of the Lord through the
prophet come to our minds, Fear not
precepts of man. .sAs the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are my ways
higher than your plans" OH Thank God
that it IS SO! TO all eternity we shall
forefathers to make him or change his
character. Yes, and he is the same yes
terday; today and forever. He changes
for the salvation of mankind which he is
how he 1apryng out the WHICH
was created" The plan of selecting the
Church through fiery trials, through the
straight gate and narrow way, for nine
teen centuries, was what he purposed 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 fore
knew 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 Respondent
1y when the n1ists have cleared away. and
when the Sun of Righteousness shall arise
with healing in his beams, scattering all
the darkness and degradation of sin and
superstition.
ITO You It Is Given"
We are well 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 appreciate
ing the depth of the Divine message But
we are sure that all such will rejoice more
they come to appreciate his worthinesa
of our loveand confidence and devotion.
AS for those who shall under Divine tests
prove themselves sympathetic with in
lqulty, We are glad that the Divine SEN
tence Is that they shall have from fI1e
Eternal One destruction total conplete
One from which there will be no recov-
shall be as though they had not heeI,
But. all the willing and the obedient shall
have the blessing of the Lord INTO life
eternal-either on the spirit plane as mem
bers of the Church of the firstborns or On
the human plane as members of the
saved Israel restored to human perfec-