Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-11-29

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the sufferer. Hence we read that God
set before his only -begotten Son a
glorious Plan and invited his co-opera-
ton therein. The Son assented, left
the heavenly glory, was made flesh
and Offered himself" an acceptable
sacrifice, 1.-The Just for the UNJUST
for the redemption of Adam and his
race. The Father honored him by
raising him from the dead to a still
higher glory and honor than he had
before, to immortality-the divine ma
ture. Now, from his glorious station,
he is empowered to be the Mediator
between God and men-between Di-
vine Justice and fallen humanity. He
is empowered to give the earthly
rights which he SCIENTIFICALLY laid down
for Adam and his race-to so many of
them as will accept the perfection of
human nature and its rights and priv
ileges upon terms in harmony with the
Divine LaW-the remainder he will de-
stroy, annihilate ''as brute beasts III
Peter ii, II; Acts iii, 23)
1AS titOOSA ali lllS were uOl SuIIl-
GENTLY wonderful; as though with all
this the Heavenly Fathers Wisdom,
Justice, Love and Power would not
be sufficiently illustrated, exemplified,
God added another feature Before
beginning to deal with the world as a
whole, to give back to the willing and
obedieift of the race human perfection
and an earthly Eden Paradise and
eternal life; before commencing this
work of restitution (Acts iii, 19), the
Father made known to the Son anoth-
er feature of his Plan. He would give
to the Son a Bride, a class selected
from amongst the fallen race-calIed,
chosen, faithful overcomers. These,
as the Joint-Heirs of the Second
Adam, will share with him in the up
lifting of those of Adams race who
will become the children of Christ
through obedience and adoption.
The trials and testings of all those
who will become the Bride of Christ
must be similar to those of the Re-
deemer. They must suffer with him
if they would reign with him. AS he
sacrificed his earthly life and rights
and interests, so must they. He ex-
horted them, Present your bodies liv-
ing sacrifices, holy and acceptable to
God, a reasonable service (Romans
xii, u. True, there is a difference be-
tween these followers of Jesus and the
Captain of their salvation. He was
brought into the world holy, harmless,
indebted and separate from sinners;
hence his sacrifice is a perfect one.
Those accepted as his members, as his
Bride, belong to the race of sinners
They We're children of wrath even as
others" (Ephesians H. 81. Their ac-
ceptance as sacrifices, therefore, was
not possible except as the great Cap
tain of their Salvation imputed to those
sacrifices a sufficiency of the merit Of
his sacrifice to compensate for their
defects and to make their sacrifices ac-
ceptable to the Father with his and as
a part of his-they being counted in
with him as members of his Body"
My dear friends, those of us who
have the eye of faith and the hearing
of faith to appreciate this, the Message
of Gods Word, may surely be thankful
to the last degree. What more could
our Heavenly Father do for us than he
has done-redeeming us. inviting us
to new nature, giving us the aids by
the way, and making us sharers in the
Kingdom glory of his Son? More than
this, he has been blessing our friends,
our children, our parents, our neigh
bors, the heathen-all of mankind, of
one family.
Thanks Because God Is Good.
80, give thanks unto the Lord, for he
is good; for his mercy endureth for
everr' During this Gospel Age his
mercy has been manifest to all those
who take up their cross and follow
Jesus. By and by these will be glori-
fed by the First Resurrection" Then
his mercy will return to natural Israel,
under the New Covenant Jeremiah
XXI, 81, of which Christ and the
Church are able Minister'S" Servants,
Priests and Kings. Could all the world
discern, through the trials and tears
and sorrows and imperfections and dy-
ing of their present experience, the glo-
rious outcome which God is providing
the whole world, they would be filled
with praise to him who loved US and
bought us back from the penalty of
death and who ultimately will COM
plete his glorious work through Mes
siah's Kingdom.
Have we not, as followers of the
Lord as Christians, misrepresented the
facts of the case and endeayored to
have people give thanks to God for
unkindness, injustice, lovelessness to
a God whose mercy never reached US
and would never reach any but a small
proportion of our race through the
knowledge of Christ; to God whose
mercy, even to the one-tenth of those
who had ever heard of him, he said,
would endure only for the present life
and even among these bring a blessing
only to a mere handful of the elect!
Let us go back to the Word of God
and free our minds of the prejudices
of superstition and misinterpretation
handed down from the Dark Ages.
Let us see the glory of our God, as re-
vealed in the Bible Let Christians
give thanks that. by the grace of God.
their eyes and ears of understanding
are opening to a better knowledge of
him. Let them give thanks, not only
for redemption from the death sen
tence, but also for their call to saint
ship and its consequent suffering in
this present time and its promise of
reward of glory on the spirit plane by
and by!
Let the world give thanks in pro-
portion as it is able to discern Gods
goodness and mercy for Adams race
that eventually through the channel Of
the glorified Church the Divine bless
ing viii be extended to every member
of Adams race. giving opportunity TO
all to attain life everlasting with full
human perfection and an everlasting
Eden mon this now Sin-curSed earth.