The Daily Missoulian., 1911-01-29

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necessity for His requirement. Of abso-
lutte righteousness and perfection
Surely. the result eventually will be
as the scriptures declare, that all shall
learn righteousness, and hate iniquity
and that every creature in heaven and
in earth and under the earth shall ac-
claim both Jehovah, who sitteth upon
the throne OF the universe, and the
lamb, the redeemer, forever.
Were we to allow ourselves to spec
ulate respecting the future--respecting
the divine purposes in relation to the
millions of worlds around US, our spec
ulations would run thus: Those In
structed and used Of Jehovah in con-
junction with the initial development
Of the divine plan In the. earth will
thereby be fitted and prepared to be
the divine agents to other worlds. The
Great Redeemer and His ELECT" assoc
ciates. after dealing with humanity
for their .uplift out OF sin and death
conditions. viii surely be qualified for
further service .4in other worlds; to
SHOW forth the praises Of Him who
called them out Of darkness into His
marvellous light
And what shall we say Of humanity
when perfected at the end OF Messiah's
glorious reign? VIII not all be well
prepared, not only to approve right
eousness in themselves, but to tell in
other worlds, To other races, the story
of the fall and yof the reign or sin
and death resulting. and Of the re-
demption accomplished by Gods love;
and fthe great restitutiQn; and Of
the lessons thus learned? +
The unchanseabls Ono.
The qualities Of the divine char
acter which we have just considered
wisdom, Justice, love and power
belonged to our creator in the great
eternity preceding creation But
there was no one at that time to ap-
preciate God-it requires fun view
OF the perfected plan of the ages to
make known to any and to all the
glory Of the Lord. AS we have just
seen, thus far the secret of the Lord
and the ,glories. of His character are
known only to His sons begotton of
His holy spirit. But the time nears
when i.the whole earth shall be full
Of the knowledge Of the glory of the
Lord as the. waters cover the great
deep. n He.s and His glorious govern
lnent Will then be the desire of all
nations; sthe glory Of the Lord shall
be revealed and all flesh shall see It
together, tHaggai 81: Isaiah, 11-5).
st. Paul assures Us that every fea--
tuge Of the divine plan which we, see
in process of execution was known
to Jehovah, from before the founda-
ton OF the, world. ; He declares that
these things God purposed In HIM
self before the founGation of the world
The creative processes, which have
been operating for. thousands, ,,of
years. were all surely elaborated. in
the mind of JehoYah before the, cre-
ative work began. In that purpose
angels had "a 1 part--of how many
grades we may not surely know. but
they are variously designated in the
holy scriptures as angels, principal
tiles and powers" Later came the
creation of man, "a little lower than
the. angels" and crowned with earthly
honor, dignity and power, in the i'm
age and likeness of his creators glo-
rious power.
4.. These creatures varied not in de-
grees of perfection and imperfection.
Each was perfect on Its own plane.
Each intelligent creature was a free,
moral agent. and hence, whether on
the angelic or human plane. was Gre
n ia ~ yn1 ~ N
ished. but with different capacities
and abilities. Almighty God. infinite
In wisdom, justice, love and power,
purposed the orderly exercise of His
infinite powers as a great father, de-
sirous OF giving life and happiness to
His creatures,
These intelligent ones were desig-
mated Sons of Cod" 50 long as they
maintained their attitude of perfect
loyalty to Him, their creator and
father. Not only was it, the divine
intention thus to give pleasure. to
millions of creatures to be created,
but it was also the divine win to man
ifest to His creatures His own great
goodness that they might enjoy Him
and He enjoy them. eyerlastingly.
We are not to understand that
Almighty God was lonely in that
great eternity before creation began
On the contrary. human loneliness is
largely because of human deficiency
What we lack We seek for in others
But the great Jehovah lacked nothing;
He was complete in himself; He needed
not co1npanionship to complete or to
supplement His happiness. Tt was His
pleasure to, create that His creatures
might have joy by reflecting as a
whole His divine qualities implanted
in their constitutions.
The wreck of the human race pro-
dueed by sin He well foreknew Nor
did this wrecking OF human hopes de-
feat, nor was it in danger of defeat
ing the divine purpose. 1t merely
demonstrates Ito angels and to men
the graees of the divine character and
sheys suntosfi all more fully the
qualities of God proper to be appreci-
ated and copied
The Seven Sealed Scroll.
When God would illustrate to us His
own personality, when He would show