The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-26

and abundance Of idlcucss was to her,
neither did she strengthen the
hand OF the poor aud the needy And
they were naughty, and committed
abumiuatiuu before me. therefore |
took them away rs | saw good LGod
| did not see good to take them to n hell
| Of eternal torture; but he did see good
to destroy them and to make them an
example ~ the destruction OF all ulti-
matcly dispensing to him after enjoy
ing knowledge " his grace and an
| opportunity for eternal life
"Thou also which hast condemned
thy sister nations bare thine own
shame for thy sins. They nre more
righteous than thou (as Jesus de.
/ clnred). when shall bring again their
captivity bring them from the prison
house OF DEATH then will I
bring again the captivity OF thy cap
lives In the midst OF them that thou
mayest bear thine own shame and
mayest bc COMPOUNDED in all that thou
| hast done, In that thou nrt comfort
unto them. When thy sisters Sodom
and her daughters shall return TO their
former estate, and Snmaria and her
| daughters return to their former o.
| tate. then thou and thy daughters
shall return TO your former estate
l viii 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 IL 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
nentl Jeremiah XXI. 81.
Then thou shalt remember thy
ways and Toe 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 Its better Media
tori that thou mayest re
member and he COMPOUNDED and never
open thy mouth any more, because OF
| thy shame, when | am paCitled toward
thee for all that thou hast done, saith
the Lord God" Ezekiel xvi, 1863.
Length and Breadth - Height and
Depth.
How wo.dcrful IT at first seems to
us to find that we really have good
| kind, loving God, and not an unmerCt-
full and vcngcful one, SO grossly were
we deceived respecting his character,
| nv ln
| the past, that we gave him the rev
erence of fear rather than that of
! love and devotion. The clearer light
comes to us MS Il 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 prccepts 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
IA
was created" The plan Of selecting
the Church through fiery trials, through
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 viii
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 Wen see what God hath wrought!
Then wen praise him, praise him as we
ought"
ITO You II Is Given"
We are we'll aware that only the few
ran see the beauties OF this subject as
we see them. We are aware that only
those to whom at 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 to
appreciate his worthiness Of our love
and confidence and 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 destruction
total, complete-one from which there
will be no recovery. no redemption, no
resurrection They shall be as though