Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-11-14

present work and ultimate designs
The poet las well said
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace,
Behind frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
seIIis purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have bitter TASTE
But sweet will be the flower
If we stand beside a great sculptor
with his freshly chosen block OF mar
! BILE. we may at first feel shocked to
note the apparent roughness and care
lessness with which he smites off large
pieces of the stone, as though bent on
its destruction. But let patience have
her perfect work, and gradually we
will see that the sculptor has not been
careless or Indifferent in respect to
single blow.
All the while that he seemed SO
reckless he was working according to
the ideal before his own mind. With
his minds eye he saw his ideal IN the
stone. and blow afSer blow, chip after
chip merely revealed to our eyes what
he had purposed in himself from the
beginning of his work Not until his
work was finished could we compre-
bend fully the ideal. Is not this pr1n-
ciple still more true of our Creator!
| He tells us that He is working all
things according to the counsel OF His
own WILL" which He purposed in Him.
self "before the world was" (Ephe-
slams /, II; iii, 10, H.
The great Master Workman of the
| Universe will eventually show both to
angels and men all the various attri-
butes of His perfection-His Wisdom,
| Justice, Power and Love. Meantime,
"None OF the wicked shall under
stand" but in the End of this Age the
wise will increasingly understand His
purposes, hidden from all except His
saints, Of whom it is written, THE
secret Of the Lord is with them that
reverence Him. "He will show you
| things to come. Psalm XIV, IA; John
xvi, Is.
| Now Apply the Principle.
| Let US apply this principle to the
| work of our great Creator. Let US
see how far it has already progressed.
In what state of development is the
Divine Plan today? What will be re-
quired to complete it and to manifest
| Divine Wisdom, Justice. Love and
Power? Only by careful examina-
ton of the Great Architects revealed
plan can we judge at all of the degree
to which His purposes have already
attained perfection.
The wreck and blight of human in
terests resulting from Father Adams
disobedience progressed for twenty
! five hundred years before the first step
was taken in the Divine Program on
mans behalf. That first step was
merely the making of rough outline
drawing with various crude illustra-
lions which merely limited at one or
another of the Creators glorious pur-
poses. This rough outlining was done
during the sixteen hundred years we
call the Jewish Age.
Israel as a nation pictured all the
world of mankind who will ultimately
come into fellowship with God. Their
one tribe of Levi typified the House
| hold of Faith, "the Church Of the
First-born" of this Gospel Age,
through whom all blessings will come
to the remainder. The select Levites,
I the priests, typifed the Royal Priest
hood of the better Mediator. The
sacrifices by which that Covenant was
established. and that people brought
into harmony with God, typified the
| better sacrifices Of Christ, which began
with our Lord and have continued in
His faithful followers who present
their bodies living sacrifices, wholly
and acceptable to God through Him.
| Romans xii, ~
Israels Jubilee year typifed the
| great Times of Jubilation soon to
come, ''the blessing Of all the families
of the earth"-the "Times of Restitu-
ton of all things" to be inaugurated
at the second coming of Christ and
the establishment of His Kingdom.
Manifestly only those who could I'M
derstand those roughly sketched draw
ings could comprehend to any degree
the great Divine Plan of the Ages.
With this Gospel Age God began a
great work which is yet far from fin
ished and which as yet does no. show
forth fully to mankind in general us
Justice, Wisdom, Power or Love. The
work of this Age, according to the
Scriptures, is the selection of both the
| soI e. Drfd hn
Lambs Wife," and "the virgins, her
companions, who follow her" psalm
xiv, S-1S)
| The Bible declares that Jesus, the
Redeemer, having finished His sacri-
fee, passed into glory-beyond the veil
to the right hand Of Divine Majesty.
| 1t declares also that when this Age
| shall be completed all the faithful fol-
lowers of Jesus will pass to Him be-
| yond the veil and share His glory and
| His Kingdom and Immortality on the
heavenly plane. But how few there
are who see this much of the Divine
| Plan; and if they cannot see this much
how could they be expected to see still
| further into the future developments
of the Divine Program?
AS the sentence of death came as
the result of one transgression. but in
| volved the race, so one sacrifice for
sin. by the imam Christ Jesus" was
| sufficient to be a Ransom-Price for the
sins of the whole world-a mans life
for a mans life. Thus as condemna-
ton came through one man unto
death. so justification is provided
through this other man unto everlast-
ing life.-Romans V. 16. IS
christ's Sacrifice Offsets Adams Sin.
But although so broad foundation
for h1man salvation was laid by the
great Master Workman. the Message
and the blessing therein have not been
granted as yet to the majority, but to
the few-''He that hath an ear to hear,
let him hear" .'As many MS the Lord