The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-25

and superstition and uplift mankind
by restitution" by resurrection pro-
cesses. up, up, up, to all that was lost
in Eden by disobedience and to all Sc
cured for Adam and his race through
the great transaction of Calvary (Acts
i'll, 1e-21).
Brightly Dividing the Word of Truth"
Alas, how many intelligent people
have turned aside from following
Christ and from hearing the voice Of
many are looking to Theosophy, to
Spiritism, to Christian Science, to
Figher Criticism, to Evolution-wan-
dering farther and farther daily from
the faith once delivered to the saints
dude iii). We fault them no more
than we fault ourselves. AS a whole
we have been workmen who need to
be ashamed. We have dishonored God
through misunderstanding and mis-
representing his word and his charac-
ter. We have driven away from God
and the Bible some of the most intel
ligent of our fellows. by reason of the
c ntradictory nonsense of our creeds.
The apostle urges, Study to show
myself approved unto God" We are
not to suppose. therefore, that the
highest of all sciences, 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 that
wisdom that cometh from above
along the lines of the inspired scrip
lures. we must study Whoever will
not study will not know. THE secret
Of the Lord is with them that rever-
means the giving of our best thoughts
and talents to the study of his word,
that we may know "the things freely
given to US of God" Il Corinthians ii,
12).
We should note further as Bible stu
dents that we must not study to be
approved of men. but to have the d.
vine approval. This will bring to us.
as 1t did to the Master and his apos-
ties the disapprobation OF the world
was the chief priests and scribes and
pharisees, and not the common peo-;
pie of the Jews, nor the Roman sol
diers, who were guilty OF the cruel
fixion of our Lord And we must ex-
pect similar conditions, because, as
the apostle says. GAS 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. III b ar s-'-,. .-Ft.
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 d.
vine wisdom this gospel age of nearly
nineteen centuries for the sole pur-
pose of selecting from the world .thel
Church of the firstborns''-the restric-,
ton Of his message, the darkening or
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 it.
It is those few. that little flock"
jealous for God, FOB 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-1
mites for earthly salvation-"retribu-
ton The trials of the faith. the pa
tience. the love. the devotion of this
little fiock' are all designed and not
think to thwart the divine plan and
may mislead and use humanity as
their tools, but 1T shall yet be seen
that all of the divine purposes shall be
accomplished. 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
every way. Looking to the past we
find great excuse for our dear forefa-
Tiers 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
harshIy of them for this-as though
they lived today under the greater adj
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