The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-12-20

and attentive hearing. His text was
from Isaiah Xvi. g. respecting the
birth of a nStion in day. He said
In my childhood days every penny
] could save was devoted to Foreign
the Fiji Islands We're prominent be-
fore the Christian world as missionary
fields. l remember well that the es-
Enlistment of civilized government
in these Islands was hailed as the full
flment of the text | have chosen-"a
nation born in a day" The thought
then was that thus speedily the world
would be converted and the glorious
promises of the Hebrew prophets full
filled. How earnestly we abored and
prayed. THY Kingdom come" think
ing all the while that we were bring
ing the Kingdom of God to earth and
fulfilling the Lords Prayer!
Alas! we are having rude awaken
ing from such dreams. We are finding
that il the. Kingdom of God must be
established by human power it will
never be established. We are finding
that the worlds population is doubling
every century II we double our mis-
sionary enterprises every century we
would only be keeping pace with the
natural increase of the human family.
Statistics show us that there are
twelve hundred millions of heather
today and that a century ago there
We're only half as many. Alas! those
missionary hopes of ours have gone
Slimmering.
But the awakening has done us good !;
it has taught us to think little. We
are now sensibly inquiring. Suppose
we should convert all the heather and
make the whole world a Christendom
of the same sort that we have in Eu-
rope and America! What then? Would
Gods will be done on earth as 1t is
done in heaven-perfectly? Could we
thus hope to bring in the glorious con-
ditions prophesied, in which not only
the knowledge of God would I'll the
whole earth. but additionally every
knee should bow and every tongue con-
TESS in such a manner as to be 10 the
glory of God? We see that such hopes
would be worse than foolish; they
would be ludicrous. Thus our awaken
ing has done US good, and sent us again
to. Gods Book to see wherein we erred
in our expectations.
What Say the Scriptures7
The disillusion respecting great works
of our own humbled us before God and
made US realize our dependence upon
Him for the fulfilment Of the glorious
prophecies. We have read our Bibles
afresh. We have taken from our minds
the spectacles of our forefathers with
the color and gloss which they handed
down to US. We are now reading Gods
Book in its own light, allowing God to
be His own Interpreter, and Himself
to make it plain. And what do we
find? All! wonder of wonders! We
find the Divine Plan wider and deeper
and higher than we had ever dfeaussd
We find that the present Age, from
Calvary and Penteeost to the second
coming of Jesus. is not Gods tfnAs for
dealing with the world, opening their
blind eyes, unstopping their deaf ears
and making every knee to bow and ev-
cry tongue to confess. 1t is merely
His time for the gathering out from
every nation, people. kindred and
tongue a 'little flock" of such as have
the hearing ear and the appreciative
heart, to become the Bride of Christ
and His joint-heirs in His glorious
Kingdom, the establishment of which
will mean the blessing Of all the fami-
lies of the earth. as was promised to
Father Abraham.
Well may we reason that II our God
waited for four thousand years before
He sent His Son to redeem the world,
and has since waited two thousand
more for the selecting of the Bride OF
Christ. He must intend that the great
Kingdom Of His Son, the Messianic
reign of thousand years, Is to do a
great work for mankind in general
Such broad foundations, such deep laid
plans and arrangements foretell a
grand and glorious outcome Evident
~ Gods Word shall be fulfilled, which
He spoke, saying, MY Word that 60
eth forth out OF My mouth shall not
return unto Me void. but it shall ac
complish that which please, and shall
prosper in the thing whereunto I sent
it,"
The message went forth in primary
sense in Eden. when God declared that
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