Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-09

$ESNX&Y# XH3tfE one OF the diScOurses
3NEsSa$S $%as which treated on the
ESMaEANIG8MN#a ff&6@s difference between
es9s human and Divine
l@sl2R RVssETp uremsnt. He SAID 'is' in
part:
From the Divine
viewpoint, earth's history, from, Adams
DAY until low, is merely the workday por-
ton of a great week, whose Seventh Dav
or Sabbath of 1000 years is ..the day of
Christ the last day tin day OF juds-
ment' or trial for the world. the day in
"hich every knee snail bow and every
tongue confess to the glory of God" the
DAY IN which 1.-The righteous shall flourish
ana the evil-doers shall be cut Off in
lne second Death. the day during which
sod Will pour out His Spirit upon all
fess. as He now grants it to His serv-
ants and His handmaidens.
In the Divinely arranged custom oi the
Jews the new day began at sunset. Thus
we are in the evening or beginning of the
great Seventh Day Of the Divine Week
the day which means so much of blessing.
upllftlng, privilege. opportunity of Divine
favor to our race through Messiah's gior-
lous Kingdom. which throughout This
Seventh Day will reign from sea to sea
and from the river to the ends of the
earth putting down everything con-
trary TO the Divine standards and uplift-
ing the world of mankind (bought With
tne precious blood at Calvary from sin.
meanness. degradation and the tonab-up.
up. UP. step by step to human perfection
in a worldwide Eden.
Six days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work. but the seventh is the Sabbath
of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not
do any work Whoever reads carefully,
intelligently, the pages of history, must
he Sfri1cE with tho Uorkfnc avoro,- u-;jct
has been manifested by our race and is
still being manifested. The pyramids and
the ruins of ancient cities. and civ:liza-
tion. all tell US of the ceaseless struggle
OF humanity against the adverse condi-
lions prevailing in the earth, including
the strife against sickness and death. and
by a few Il noble fight against sin and
further degradation.
Next the Lesson of Good.
The forbidden fruit of Eden was from
the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. Doubtless the Creator would even
tually have given a full knowledge of
both good and evil TO our first parents.
They We're merely forbidden an immediate
plunge into knowle> sc to their own DIS
advantage. Craving knowledge before it's
due TIME. Mother Eve disobeyed her Max
er and enticed her husband into disobedi-
erce. The result has been that instead OF
ACdi iifiS III tllilOSOijil. oL SOOu tt IIISC
and OF evil later, they and their race have
been precipitated into lessons respecting
evil first, with the knowledge of good to
come later.
The holy angels. who nave never trans
crossed the Divine Law. nave continually
the lesson OF good-an appreciation of the
Divine character. the principles of right
seousness. etc. Their lessons in respec. to
evil they are gaining by observation in
stead OF by experience-the way recon-
mended to our first parents by the Gre
ator. but in their ignorance rejected.
But God foreknew the course which His
human children would take under the in
.huence OF temptation: He foreknew that
they would fall into sin and therefore
would experience it's penalty, sorrow, pain
and death. While His eye has pitied His
poor creatures for 5000 years, nevertheless
He has allowed His great original Plan of
the ages to move along slowly to a grand
climax.
That Climax in human affairs, We be-
heve, is near at hand. It marks a great
change In Dispensation. The 6,OOO years,
the reign OF sin and death, are to be COM
pleted by q terrible time OF trouble which
might not improperly be termed the nat
nral result of human selfiishnes (sin) OPP
Grating under the influence of the great
principles of the New Dispensation now
usherdng In. Selfishness. as represented
In the accumulated financial power and
energy called trusts and combines, is
about to come into conflict with selfish
ness Sim. represented in the combining
forces of humanity, labor unions, etc. The
head-on collision which thinking people
foresee. and which the scriptures graph
cally portray. will give to society an
earthquake shock: the graphic picture is
a world-conf1agration which will involve
the heavens" or ecclesiastical powers. as
well as the earth" or social system. and
Tho ~1,,, 0tN- - n.
world.
God Has Not Neglected Us.
From this Divine viewpoint God is not
slack concerning His promises. Only six
days of the week have yet passed. The
glorious Seventh Day in which the great
Mediator between God and men will as
sumo His Kingdom powers is just at
han Instead OF thinking that God is
neslecting and forgetting to fulfil the
Messianic promises, we should with the
eyes of faith realize that He is working
all things according to the counsel of His
own will. We should consider the mat
ter from the standpoint that God has ex-
ercised great patience with humanity in
not blotting out the race: He has been
long-suffering. And this assures us that
the Interchangeable One would prefer that
mono of His creatures should perish in
death. hut rather that all. If they would,
might turn unto Him and live.-I Peter
Iii. 9; Ezekiel xxxiij. II.
The great opportunity for the masses OF
our race to turn to the Lord and to attain
everlasting life will be after the darkness