Carson City daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1907-1930, 1911-09-19
Q.-lf God has all power, why does
He not establish peace in the earth2


Answer.-God has all power and
cure peace on earth. But that would
be very expensive peace for human
ity: it would destroy nearly all Of
the race. not many Of whom have the
Masters spirit and are peace makers.
The majority, because of inbred sin,
are more or less in sympathy with
''anger, malice. hatred. envy, strife
works of the flesh and Of the Devil.
God could have exercised His power
so as to make man mere machine,
incapable of wrong-dOing. But God
did not please to have creatures of
that kind The Father seeketh such
to worship Him as worship Him in
spirit and in truth Dohn iv. 241. And
to have SaeA.sa liberty of choice as
respects right-doing. well-doing, i'm
plies an equal choice or opportunity
for wrong doing. God chose. there
fore. to create man perfect. to permit
him to sin and to taste the bitter fruit
of disobedience: then to redeem him.
and by and by to give all fullest OPP
portunity of reconciliation, obedience
and everlasting Understanding the
finally disobedient and rebellious in
the everlasting destruction of the
Second Death" When we under
stand the Divine Plan thus. it com
mends itself to us as being the very
essence of wisdom--the saved world
of mankind will worship and serve
God inteligently and voluntarily; APP
preciating the fact that His ways of
righteousness and mercy are the right
ways. They will to all eternity be
loyal to principle, and grander results
will be thus attained than by any
other process of which we can think.
Q.-For a long time ! have desired to
know more about the deep and secret
things Of God, but ! am somewhat dis
courased when | read in my Bible that,
THE secret things belong to God"
deuteronomy xxx, 29). Does this
mean that we cannot find out anything
about Gods secrets?
Answer-From the beginning Gods
Great Plan was a secret He spoke in
times past through the Prophets in
dark sayings and parallels, because
it was not His due time for man TO un-
derstand Jesus Christ was the first to
understand Gods Plan. In Revelation
we have beautiful picture OF the
making known of His Plan to His Be
loved Son The Book there men
toned represents the Divine Plan. kept
secret from all. None was found
worthy to he intrusted with the open
ing and execution of the Divine Plan.
until Jesus. described there as 1.-THE
Lion of the Tribe Of Judah" by His
faithfulnesS unto death. proved His
wOrthinesS God had revea led to Him,
prior thereto. much of His Plan. but
now the glorifed Christ is entrusted
with the whole thereof Since Pentecost
those who have fully consecrated
themselves to the Lord have been Civ
en- a measure of ability to understand
some of the deep things of God. The
Apostle says. THE mystery has been
hid from Ages and generations. but is
nOr made knOttn unto the saints Co
lossians i. 26). 1t is yet a mystery to
the world. only the sanity class. the
fully consecrated Christians. having an
understanding of the secret things. If
then we would have an understanding
Of the deeper things of God. we must
approach Him in His appointed way
through Christ Jesus. having faith in
His blood shed for us: and then. fully
consecrating our lives to Him, apply
our minds and hearts to the study and
understanding of His Word. which Is
written for the man Of God (ROmans
XIV. 4; III Timothy iii, 16, 10.