Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-01-26

t1stI mankind VIII soon De a race OF gods
and that dying, somehow, Is step up
ward into life While it appears to be a
step 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
VINO nave not become so Worldly-wise as
to reject the Bible as the voice Divine
However we may understand the Bibles
declaration respecting the lower animals
that the water swarmed and brought
forth various kinds-we must admit that
Its statements respecting man are ex
plicit: he was not thus brought forth. but
is declared to have been direct creation
or God In his own image and character
hkeness-oniy on lower plane Of organ
ism. Adam possessed Gods likeness in
his mental and moral qualities higher
than those of brutes, by which man Is
able to reason and philosophize respect,
ing scientific and moral problems. These
higher human powers were dwarfed and
the lower and more animal powers main
tanned to the full, by reason OF the fan
and It's sentence. dying thou shalt die
Jes. Was Made a Little Lower Than
~ the Angels
The kriptures do not suggest that man
was anafmperfect or undeveloped species
whose death could be change to another
nome. Quite to the contrary The hope
set before Adam was everlasting life and
an earthly Eden. It was this that he lost
and 1t 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 glorined
Messiah's Kingdoms spiritual Kingdom
IN which the faithful. elect Church Of this
age will participate That Kingdom of
righteousness xUi01 ho
human sight. Yet its power will be uni
versa1 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 was redeemed by the
obedience of Calvary.
Nor even then will the image of God, as
represented in the human viii, 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 of from life in
the Second Death {Acts Ill, 1929
God answers the question of our text.
What Is man?' He declares. Thou
madest him Tin his Edenic perfection)
little lower than the angels Thou
crownedst him with glory and honor (the
dignity and power of the perfect AdamJ
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
Held, the fowl of heaven, the fish Of the
sea-thou hast put all things under his
feet with kingly power clearly outlined
and his subjects named). Evidently man
the lower creation aside from physical
force, as intimated In his primary deal
fngs with them and giving them their
names CHebrews II. 6-N. We have known
men possessed OF wonderful magnetic
power-horse-trainer 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 win 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.
or. 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: 1.-THE Son of man came to seek
and to recorer that sohich scas lost
"The Earth Abideth Forever"
Man. then, is an animal OF high, glori-
Gus type, adapted to his earthly home and
1t adapted to his welfare when he and it
shall both be in perfection. OF the earth
It is written that God made it 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 as 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
mics and lift up mankind, redeemed by
his sacrifice, giving an 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 Redeemer- King will turn over
the government of the world to God, even
the Father u Corinthians Is: ~.
Our great mistake in the past has been
In not studying the Bible correctly. Hence
we failed to see that only an elect little
fiock'' Ia invited to a heavenly reward Tor
following the Savior in the narrow way OF
aelf-sacrifice, and that then the earthly
reign upon all the willing and obedient
and that thus will be accomplished the
original Divine intention Of having an
earth full Of people, amongst whom God 8
WIN shall be done as in heaven
At some future time we may take up
.sWhat 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 Of
che dust OF the earth he was man only
n FORM: he was not soul or being; he
had no thought or sentient being. When
I God started Adams physical system by
blowing into his nostrils the breath Of
lives Gas the Hebrew Scriptures state IT..
then Adam, not part Of him, but the
whole Of him, became living soul-living
being. It was not Adams breath that
was on trial. that was sentenced, nor was
It his flesh. It was the soul Adam that
was tried, the soul Adam that sinned the
h soul Adam that died and the soul Adam
that Jesus redeemed and that 10 to be
Yeslrrected