The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-02-03

SSsE sssssssEal CO cSnia.,cn ms sa''t pr.van.
respecting mans ma
ture as well rs In regard TO his origin
and destiny. We have no quarrel with
those who boast OF monkey parentaGe and
Evolution and who hope against facts
chat mankind will soon be q race OF gods
sno that dying somehow, is q step up
ward into life while II appears to be .
stop down into death. To those who are
happy in this Illogical view ] have nothing
TO say now. I address the more humble
minded. who confess their perplexity and
who have not become no worldly wise ss
TO reject the Bible the voice Divine.
However we may understand the Bibles
declaration respecting tho lower animals
that the water swarmed and brought
forth various kinds-we must admit that
Its statements respecting man are eI-
plicit: he was not thus brought FORTH but
b declared to have been a direct creation
of God In his own image and character
bheness-only on lower plane OF organ
asm Adam possessed God r likeness in
his mental and moral qualities higher
Than those Of brutes. by which man 10
able to reason and philos Jphi1e respect
Ing scientific and moral problems. These
higher human powers were dwarfed and
the lower and more animal powers main
tained to the fun. by reason OF the fall
and Its sentence, Dying thou shalt die "
jesus War Made q Little Lower Than
the Angels
The Scriptures DO not suggest that man
was an imperfect or undeveloped species
whose death could be a change to another
nature and ethereal form and q heavenly
nome. Quite to the contrar:'. The hope
Get before Adam was everlasting life and
an earthly Eden II was this that ne lost
and II is this earthly nature and human
perfection in Gods image in Paradise re-
stored that the Scriptures hold out as the
hope OF the world through the glorified
hessiahs Kingdom-a spiritual Kingdom
In which the faithful, elect Church OF this
age Will participate That Kingdom OF
righteousness will be beyond the vail" OF
human sight Yet Its power will be uni
Versal and exercised on mans behalf for
the restraint OF Satan and every adverse
influence and for human assistance back
TO all that was lost by disobedience in
Eden and all that redeemed by the
obedience of Calvary.
Nor even then will the image OF God as
represented in the human win, be coerced.
Merely the glorious opportunities of rec
onciliation and OF restitution will be at-
forded TO every creature-and those who
decline them will be cut OFF from life in
the Second Death acts ~, 1929.
God answers the question OF our text,
"bat 10 he declares, 'rhOn
madest him Un his Edenic perfection) a
little lower than the angels Thou
erownedst him with glory and honor (the
dignity and power of the perfect Adam.
Thou didst set him over the works of
Thine hands IAN earthly being. he was at
the head of all earthly creatures-the
King OF earth), over the beasts OF the
field, the fowl OF heaven, the fish of the
sea-thou hast put all things under his
YeNt' with EipRly Claarlv pad
and his subjects named). Evidently man
had a mental power for the control OF
the lower creation aside from physical
force as intimated in his primary deal
inBs with them and giving them their
names Hebrews II, 6-s). We have known
men possessed OF wonderful magnetic
power-horse-trainers, such as Rarey, and
tanners OF wild beasts and reptiles. But
Adam, perfect, must have possessed this
power In q still superior degree
little lower than the angels, yet very
much higher than the beasts was this
King OF earth In his perfection And
such man will be as redeemed and re
stored race, when the Divine Plan shall
have been fully outworked; when every
creature In heaven and in earth shall be
heard saying, Praise and glory and hon
OF, dominion and might, be unto him that
stitch upon the Throne and unto the
Lamb forever" and when there shall be
no more signing no more crying and no
more dying, because all the former things
Of sin and death shall have passed
away because the great King, Messiah
the Redeemer OF mankind shall deliver
him from the power OF sin and death
and the tomb. Well did he state his mis-
sion work; THE Son Of man came to seek
and TO recorer that ~hich eos lost"
"The Earth Abideth Forever
Man, then, is an animal OF a high, glori-
Gus type, adapted TO his earthly home and
II adapted TO his welfare when he and it
shall both be In perfection or the earth
II Is written that God made II not In
vain, but to be inhabited" And again,
The earth abideth forever'-"seed time
and harvest, cold and heat, summer and
winter, enduring as long there are sun
and moon" Again, Earth is Gods foot
stool and he will make the place OF his
feet glorious" To this end the earth will
shortly be turned over to the great Re
deemer who will take his great power
and reign" He will put down all enc
niles and lift up mankind. redeemed by
his sacrifice. giving opportunity OF
everlasting life to all, and then, as ST.
Paul declares, after having accomplished
the restitution work for man and for the
earth, the Rcdcemer- King will turn over
the government OF the world to God, even
the Father Il Corinthians Is: 2D.
Our great mistake In the past has been
IN not studying the Bible correctly. Hence
We failed to see that only an elect little
mock" Is invited TO a heavenly reward for
following the Savior in the narrow way OF
self sacrifice. and that then the earthly
reward will I've bestowed during Messiah
reign upon all the willing and obedient
and that thus viii be accomplished the
original Divine intention OF having al
Garth fun OF people amongst whom God
will shall be done as In heaven
Al some future time we may take up
"what is the soul of man? For the
present let us briefly say that the word
soul finds Its synonym In the word being
and that when God had created man o:
the dust OF the earth he was a man only
IN form; he was not soul or beinS, he
had no thought or sentient being. When
God started Adams physical system by
blowing into his nostrils the breath OF
lives (as the Hebrew Scriptures state ~
then Adam, not part OF him, but the
whole OF htn. became a living soul-livinG
being. II was not Adams breath that
was on trial, that was sentenced, nor wa
n his flesh. II was the soul Adam that
was tried, the soul Adam that sinned the
soul Adam that died and the soul Adam
that Jesus redeemed and that IL TO bs
Sesurrected.