The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-23

I Russell spoke here twice today
to large audiences We report
one of the discourses which treated on
the difference between human and d.
vine standards of measurement. He
said in part:
When we were children the days
were longer and the wears seemed M
terminablc The holidays Of the year
stood oul before us prominently, but
seemed seldom to recur. Gradually All
this changed as we reached the zenith
of our energy. Now the days chase
each other aud We marvel at the
brcvitv of life. How God regards timo
we might not know if he had not re-
vealcd the matter in his word AS
we read. "a thousand years in thy
sight arc but as Yesterday and - A
day with the Lord is ms thousand
years Our minds assent-it must
he so. And God people are blessed
in proportion as they arc able 10 take
the divine Viewpoint of life and all
its affairs.
From the divine standpoint, then.
we see that the six Thousand years OF
earth g history. from Adam S day unlii
now, are merely the work day portion
Of a great week whose seventh day or
Sabbath Of a thousand years Is the
day Of Christ, - the last day "the
day of Judgment or trial for The
world the daY in which ''crcry knee
shall bow and every tongue confess 10
the glory Of God -: the day in which
"thc righteous shall flourish and the
cvjl-doers shall be cut off IN the second
death;' the day during which God
will pour out bis Spirit upon All
flesh, as he nov grants IT 10 his
servants and handmaideus.
In the divincIy arranged custom OF
the Jews the new day began AT sunset.
Thus we are in the evening or begin
ming Of the great seventh day Of the
divine weck-the dav which means so
opportunity of divine favor to our
race through Messiah s glorious king
dom, which throughout this seventh
day will reign from sea 10 sea and
from the river to the ends of the
earth, - putting down everything con
trary to the divine standards and up
lifting the world of mankind (bought
with the precious blood at Calvary
from sin, meanness, degradation and
the tomb-up, up, up. step by step to
human perfection in q world wide
Eden, The unwilling, resisting divine
faVors and privileges. shall be de-
stroyed in the second death
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 6o any work. - Who
ever reads carefully, inteNigently. the
pages of history. must be struck with
the energy which has been manifested
by our race and is still being mani
tested. The pyramids and The ruins of
ancient cities, and civilization. all tell
us OF the ceasecss struggle Of human
lty against the adverse conditions pre-
Vaillng IN The earth, including the strife
against sickness and death. and, BIZ a
few, noble fight against sin and fur
ther degradation.
Well does the prophet express the
truth OF our observation. saving. 'EWc
have not wrought any deliverance in
the earth. (lsaiah XVI. lS.) 4 few
have gained fabulous riches. name or
fame. place or power. but the ma jority
during all this period have gone down
IN the strife TO the tomb. slain by the
great associated mouarcbs which the
Bible declares arc now reiguIpg-siu
and death.
Aud even the comparativ few who
have gained emineucc and whose vie
tories are most loudly eXtolled in hui
man history have fallen also-maDy Of
them ip the very prime of life-all OF
them in comparative childhood. Why
- II That q man should not live for a
=
vine assurance that even under the di.
vine sentence Father Adam resisted
death for $50 ycars-so vigorous was
his constitution?
Wearied Children Fall Asleep.
From the divine standpoint the chi.
drcn Of Adam born in sin. shapen in
iuiquitv, of few davs and full OF
trouble fall asleep in death--llkc chill.
dreD wearlcd in their play; albeit il is
play grim with tragedy. in which
each actor performs his part most re.
alistically,
From the divine standpoint human
ambition and strife aud energy are ac.
complisbIug n useful purpose. even
and often british. The lessons now
being learned by Adam IS children will
not all he lost. The greater mellow
ness Of heart and broader views OF
the ajoritv of those who have thus
battlcd selhsbly Tor even fifty wears
| suggests that. as Il whole our race
might DO better work in a second cen
| tury lban in the first Moreover the
scriptures indicate that the great drama
Of sin. seliishDess and passion being
enacted bv humanity is furnishing a
! lesson TO angelic hosts respecting the
exceeding Sinfulncss of sin--its down
ward teudcncy-lts bitter fruit aud the
! hopclcssncss Of any To escape there
rom except hy divine assistance.
Next the Lesson OF Good,
The forbidden fruit Of Eden wae
from nc tree of the knowledge of GOOD
and evil Doubtless the Creator Woujd
eventually have given full knowlcdoe
of both good and cvil TO our first mr.
cnis They were merely forbidden an
immediate plunge into knowlcdac TO
their own Disadvantage, Craving kuowl-
edge before its due time. Mother Eve
disobeYed her maker and cuticcd her
husband also into disobc,licncc. The re-
suit has been that Instead of Icaruiue
the philosophy of good at first and NJ
evil later they and their rncc have bccn
prccipitateJ into leasops of coed to
come later.
The holy angels. who have never
iransgressed tho divine law, have con.
tipual'y the lesson Of good an appre.
ciation Of the divine character. the prin.
ciples of righteousness. cfc. Their los.
sous in respect 10 evil thcr ave gaininr
b. observation instead Of by experience
the way recommended ia our first ppr.
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