The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-25

.he majority Of those who have thus
battled seillshIy for even tlfty years
suggests that, as d whole. CDR rnee
might do better WORK In a secopd cen:
turs than In the first Moreover. tho
Scriptures indicateiihat tie great drn.
mn % sin. selhsilhess and passion
being enaetM By humanity Is furnish.
ins a lesson 10 angelic hosts respect.
Ing the exceeding sinfulness Of sin
Its downward tendency-its bitter
fruit md The hopelessness OF amy to
escape therefron except by Divine
assistance. {,
Next the Lesson Of Good
The forbidden fruit OF Eden was
from the tree of the knowledge Of good
md evil. Doubtless the Creator would
efehtudlis have given a full knowledge
Of both good and evil to our first par.
.ents. They were merely forbidden IN
immediate plunge into knowledge to
tileir own disadvantage Craving
knowledge before It's due time. Moth.
er Eve disobeyed her Maker and en-.
ticed her husband also Into disobedl.
cnce. The result has been TINT In.
stead Of learning the philosophy Of
good ut first and of evil later. they
and their race have been preclpitntcd
into lessons respecting evil 1rst. with
the knowledge of good to come later.
= The holy nngels. who have never
transgressed the Divine law. have
continually the lesson of good-nn np-
probation Of the Divine character. the,
principles OF righteousness. etc. Their
lessons In respect to evil they are
gaining by observation instead Of By
experfehce-the way recommended to
our first parents by the Creator. but
in their ignorance rejected.
But. God foreknew the course which
His human children would take under
the Influence Of temptation: &c, fore
knew TINT they would fall Into sin and
therefore would experience It's penalty.
sorrow. rTi..1 and death. While His eye
has pitled Bis poor creatures for six
thousand years. nevertheless he hns
allowed His great original Plan Of tho
Ages to move nlons slowly to grand
climnx-tlic Plan which He purposed
In Himself from before the foundation
Of The world.
! Tint climax in human affairs. we be-
,lieve. Is. near at hand. 1t marks a
great change in DispensatIon. The six
thousand years, the reign Of sin and
death. are to be completed by n ter
rlble time of trouble which might not
improperly be termed the natural re-
suit Of human selflshncss (sinl opernt-
ing under the influence of the great
principles Of the New Dlspensation
now being. ushered In. selhshness. as
represented In. the accumulated fnan.
;cial!power and energy called trusts and
combines, Is about to come into con.
fllct with selashness (sin). represented
in the combining forces Of humanity.
labor unions. etc. The head-on collision
which thinking people foresee. and
which the Scriptures graphically por-
tray. will give to society an earthquake
shock: more than this. the graphic pic
tnre Is of a world cohHagration which
will involve the heavens, or ecclesias.
teal powers. as we'll as the earth. or
socinl system, and the mountains. or
kingdoms OF the world. The picture
would be too terrible to paint. and
useless ms well. were It not for! the sill:
yer lining TO the cloud.
& The awful shock which Gods people
are warned to avoid so far as possible
by following peace-peace and benero-
-lence-will mercy prepare the way for
the glorious blessings. Of the great Sew:
enth' Day. in which man will rest from
his own schemes and endeavors and
come. fully under the control of the
great King. Messiah. whose rule Of
righteousness for human uplift has
been 'prophetically pictured for centu-
ries.
~ Tho Picture In Retrospect
stu looking from the Divine stand.
point at the six great thousand.yenr
days in which sin and death have
reigned. wo perceive that one effect
has been as foretold to Mother Eve.
II win greatly multiply thy sorrows
ond thy conception" We perceive
that our race has multiplied much
more rapidly than 1t would have done
had 1t remained perfect rs at first, for
the first children. even In the days fol.
lowing the fall. were frequently born
when the father was m hundred years
old.
We hase already referred TO the les.
son respecting the sInfulness of sin
which comes to all mankind-most
fully, most consciously to those IA.
vored by contact with the people OF
God who have received the Divine
Revelation. The enlightened ones hnve
been but small proportion Of the
whole. After two thousand years OF
the reign Of sin md death God fore
told in an obscure manner the bless.
ings He intended TO bring subsequent
Is to the race: To Abraham He said.
All the families Of the earth l will
bless-through thee and through thy
Seed Tint message. followed In Is.
rael by the giving Of the LAW Cove.