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

plane, partakers Of the divine nature
"far above angels, prfncipalities and
powers,", but how gracious has Goo
also been in His provision for thu
world at large-His promise Of al
earthly Paradise for such Of humanity
as, when brought to a knowledge Of
Himself and His requirements, shall
gladly, heartily accept the same!
How wonderful IL the Wisdom and
Power Of God by which He can maxi
use Of even the reign of sin and dealt
to teach great lessons both to angel!
and men respecting the exceeding sin
| fitness of sin! And how merciful ant
gracious is the arrangement He hal
made that when this reign Of sin ant
death shall have accomplished His in
tended purposes, He will bring 1t to ar
end. Those twin monarchs which have
ruled the world for six thousand year.
Sin and Death-shall be vanquished
and ultimately every member Of Ad
ANS race shall be delivered from theiI
power. For the willing and obedient
the earthly Paradise, human perfec
ton. the image Of God In the fiesh, 4.
to be the reward-an earthly reward
and for the rebellious, the Second
Death, from which there will be no re-
demption, no recovery, and in which
thank God! there will be no suffering
for they shall perish like the brute
beasts, as st. Peter declares.-II Peter
Ii, IL.
Restitution Viii Bring Real Paradise.
Much as your Island may resemble
the Garden Of Eden, 1t Is not Paradise
and cannot be Paradise 50 long as you
have sin and sorrow. pain and death
amongst you. One Of the FIRST objects
that greeted my sight as landed was
your cemetery, and I said, Oh! yes
death is here, and erervphereGod's
curse. declaring that no imperfect be-
ing may live. Well. thank God for
that, too. Centuries Of life with imper-
lection would doubtless be too much
for us to enjoy. Far better is 1t as Di-
vine Wisdom has arranged tia birth.
a struggle for existence, a battle with
self and sin. the world, the flesh and
the Devil, and then a falling asleep in
death, until the morning Of the resur-
rection. There will be no conscious
ness Of even a moments intervening
until the glorious day shall have dawn
ed. and the new order Of things shall
have been introduced and established
and then the sieepers will come forth
to see brighter side than any that
they have previously experienced or
ever heard Of
The Kingdom Of Gods dear Son and
His elect Bride will be in power and
nothing shall hurt or destroy in all His
holy Kingdom. The blessing of the
Lord shall be upon man, and bis earth
ly dominion. Restitution influences
will be at work for the bringing Of
everything to perfectton-espscislly for
the bringing Of man up, up, up ont Of
sin. weakness. degradation and death
to the full glory of perfection Of mind
and body and vitality-the image and
likeness Of God. as at first, before sin
entered.
Rich and Poor and Socialism.
You still have your rich and poor
there still is caste amongst the chill
dren of the one parentage; but when
the uplifting influences Of Messiah's
reign shall have done their work. these
things will all be in the past. He that
stitch upon the Throne shall say, BE
hold. make all things new~ In that
glorious time there will not be rich
and poor, there will be socialism in
the proper sense. as the Scriptures
clearly point out; they say, EVERY
man shall sit under his own vine and
under his own fig tree: and none shall
make them afraid" And again, They
shall not build and another inhabit,
they shall not plant and another eat
the fruit thereof" There will be no
tenantry, no landlordism then.
Do not understand me to be melting
dissatisfaction with the present eondi-
tons. In many respects what we have
today is the very best possible thing
under present conditions-man's fallen
nature and selfish temperament taken
into consideration. The counsel Of
Gods Word is that all who trust in
Him are to wait for Him to bring in
the better conditions. Some very well
intentioned people are making a sad
mistake; just as the morning IN about
to dawn-about to bring in the great
blessings of restitution. socialism, ETC.,
they blindly look in another direction
and declare that unless they bring So
cialism to pass Il will never como. We
grant. indeed, that IL would b fcS1ish
to expect that the rich would hrinS
about the wonderful changes which
the Bible foretells-it would Be cen
trary to human nature to 20 expect.
But we do say that these who think to
bring about socialism by human wis
dom and human strength are deficient
in wisdom. They do not see that what
they propose is absolutely impossible
their eyes are holden.
The Bible alone shows us what will
be the outcome of the present unrest
and selishness and dissatisfaction.
The Bible tells that what will start as
socialism will eventually develop into
anarchy. The Bible shows that those
who think they can bring in the Mes
sianic blessings by carnal weapons are
deludiug themselves-they will instead
bring upon themselves, as well rs
upon the rich, the great and awful
trouble which the Scriptures foretell
az hnino now in, mi m apt-sss TINA ~