Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-28


glorious Savior, Messiah, will cause a
general enlightenment of mankind and
a full opportunity for all, rich and
poor, great and small, TO rise up from
dust and ashes and the grave to the
full perfection CT human nature.
The Sun Of Righteousness Will arise
with healing In his beams. blessing
mankind, healing their diseases, men,
tai, moral and physical. and causing
the knowledge Of the Lord to fill the
whole earth. No longer will any need
to say to his neighbor or his broth
er, know thou the Lord, for ali
shall know Him, from the least to the
greatest" And only the wilfully wick
ed and disobedient will be cut of
from life in the Second Death-not
torture: but, as st. Paul declares,
''They shall be punished with everlast-
ing destruction"
We see, then, that our Lords reason
for not praying for the world was that
He knew the Fathers Plan that the
world was not to be dealt with during
this Age, but during the next, the
Kingdom Age. The Master prayed for
His own, for the class which He has
been selecting during the past nine
| teen hundred years. These are vari-
ously called 1.-THE elect" the dis
ciples," His followers" members
of His Body" a Royal Priesthood"
the Bride" ''the Lambs Wife," the
''little fiock," to whom it is the Fa-
theirs good pleasure to give the King
| dom.
Elect 20 Bless Non-eIect
Seeing, then. that there is a differ
ence between Gods provision for the
world, to be dispensed in the next Age,
and his provision for the Church to be
| given now, we ask, What is the diff
ference between these? The answer
] is that the worlds salvation is to be to
/ human nature and an earthly Paradise
| worldwide; while the elect class is a
special one called of God, chosen in
| Christ and faithful in adversely and,
by the Lords grace. is to have heav-
| emily nature. like unto that of the an
| gels. but superior. Theirs is a "heav-
| emily calling" a high calling" They
are to be like their Lord and Redeem
in His glorified state. far above an
gels and principalities and powers, and
every name that is named"
| Is this an arbitrary election? Does
| God arbitrarily draw and call enc
| above another? Yes. He thus select
: oil tho Iawich nation to ha HiS naou
| liar nation-not, however, to the detri-
ment or injury of other nations. He
thus called Isaac. instead of IShmael,
| and Jacob instead of Esau to be the
progenitors of His chosen nation Is
| rael, whom He foreknew as a people
| and predestinated to a certain service
But this selection worked no injury to
either Ishmael or Esau. Similarly
during this Gospel Age God chooses
from the world d certain class and
| grants them the hearing ear and the
seeing eye, and He passes by others
and gives them not this special favor
This, however, is not to be to the dis
advantage of the others-non-elect,
unchosen, uncalled.
According to His Purpose
| St Paul speaks of the Church as
called according to His purpose" He
even tells US what the purpose is,
namely, that in Ages to come He
I might show forth the exceeding riches
of His grace in His loving kindness
| toward us in Christ Jesus (Ephesians
| IL, y. Toward this specially called
class God will to all eternity manifest
| special favor. But we are not to sup
pose that there is no reason for this
selection and favor. There is a reason.
1t Is because Of certain intrinsic quail
ties or characteristics possessed by
this class which God is now selecting.
They will all be Saints" They will
all love the Lord more than they love
houses or lands, parents or children,
self or any creature. They will all
possess the fruits and graces Of the
Holy Spirit
Indeed, this IS Gods particular pre-
destination. 81. Paul tells US that He
foreknew ttat He would provide His
| only -begotten Son to be the Savior of
| mankind and the Head over the
Church, and He foreknew that He
would have Church, Royal Priest
hood under the great High Priest, as
members of His Body. God foreknew
| also the kind of a Message He would
send forth and that it would be at
tracttve only to a certain class pos
sessed of a love for righteousness.
These only would hear His call. These
only would have the eyes of their un-
Outstanding specially opened, because
these alone would accept of His assur-
ances and make a full conservation to
His service. Such He would beget of
His Holy Spirit, and such, in due time,
would be born of the Spirit in the res
direction and enter into the fellowship
and companionship and kingly joys of
| their Master.
1t is Of this special class that the
Apostle declares, Whom God did
foreknow, these He also did predesti-
nate to be conformed to the likeness
That is to say, Gods predestination
was not only that He would have a
Church, but, additionally, that the
terms or conditions of fellowship in
that Church should be that each one
would become Christ-like Surely this
is good predestination. with which
no one could find fault. Whether we
shall gain place with the ''elect" on
the heavenly plane, or a place with
the non-elect world in restitution to
earthly nature, we canLot do other
wise than recognize the justice OF God
in SO deciding, that none but the saint
" copies of their Lord. could be mem
bers Of the elect Church and joint
heirs with Him in His Kingdom.
True and righteous are Thy ways,
Lord God Almightyw "Who shall not
come and worship before Thee. when
Thy righteous acts are made mani
fest 81 Truly IL Is written of this