Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-12-19

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be sharers with their Lord on the spirit
plane, partakers Of the divine nature.
far above angels, municipalities and
powers" but how gracious has God
also been in His provision for the
world at large-His promise or an
earthly Paradise for such Of humanity.
as, when brought to a knowledge of
Himself and His requirements. shall
gladly, heartily accept the same!
HoT wonderful is the Wisdom and
Power of God by which He can mate
use of even the reign of sin and death
| to teach great lessons both to angels
and men respecting the exceeding sim
fitness OF sin! And how merciful and
| gracious is the arrangement He has
made that when this reign of sin and
death shall have accomplished His in
tended purposes, He will bring it to an
end. Those twin monarchs which have
ruled the world for six thousand years
Sin and Death-shall be yanquished;
and ultimately every member Of Ad-
ans race shall be delivered from their
power. For the willing and obedient,
ton. the image Of God in the flesh, Is
to be the reward-an earthly reward;
and for the rebellious, the Second
Death. from which there will be no re-
demption, no recovery, and in which.
thank Godl there will be no suffering,
for they shall perish like the brute
beasts, as st. Peter declares.-U Peter
ii, II.
Restitution Will Bring Real Paradise.
Much as your Island may resemble
| the Garden OF Eden, it is not Paradise,
and cannot be Paradise so long as you
have sin and sorrow, pain and death
amongst you. One of the first objects
that greeted my sight as landed was
your cemetery, and l said. Oh! yes,
death is here, and ererylohere-God's
curse, declaring that no imperfect be-
| ing may live. Well. thank God for
that, too. Centuries of life with imper-
| lection would doubtless be too much
| for US to enjoy. Far better Is it as Di-
vine Wisdom has arranged tia birth,
a struggle for existence, battle with
| self and sin, the world, the flesh and
| the Devil, and then a falling asleep in
| death, until the morning of the resur
rection. There will be no conscious
ness Of even a moments intervening
until the glorious day shall have dawn
| ed, and the new order of things shall
have been introduced and established;
and then the sleepers will come forth
| to see a brighter side than any that
they have previously experienced or
| ever heard of.
The Kingdom Of Gods dear Son and
His elect Bride will be in power and
nothing shall hurt or destroy in all His
holy Kingdom. The blessing of the
Lord shall be upon man, and his earth
| ly dominion. Restitution influences
will be at work for the bringing of
everything TO perfection-especially for
the bringing of man up, up, up out of
sin, weakness, degradation and death
to the full glory Of perfection Of mind
and body and vitality-the image and
likeness of God, as at first, before sin
entered.
| Rich and Poor and Socialism.
You still have your rich and poor;
there still is caste amongst the chill
dren of the one parentage; but when
| the uplifting influences of MeSsiah's
reign shall have done their WORK, these
things will all be in the past. He that
stitch upon the Throne shall say, "Be
hold, make all things newr' In that
| glorious time there will not be rich
| and poor, there will be socialism in
| the proper sense, as the Scriptures
clearly point out; they say. Every
| man shall sit under his own vine and
! under his own fig tree; and none shall
| make them afraid" And again. "They
shall not build and another inhabit,
| they shalf not plant and another eat
the fruit thereof" There will be no
| tenantry, no landlordism then.
Do not understand me to be melting
dissatisfaction with the present condi-
tons. In many respects what we have
| today is the very best possible thing
under present conditiOns-man's fallen
nature ana selfish temperament taken
| into consideration. The counsel Of
| Gods Word is that all who trust In
|
| the better conditions. Some very well
| intentioned people are making a sad
mistake; just as the morning is about
| to dawn-abOut to bring in the great
| blessings of restitution, socialism, etc,
| they blindly look in another direction
and declare that unless they bring So
,cialism to pass 1t will never come. We
| grant, indeed, that it would be foolish
| to expect that the rich would bring
about the wonderful changes which
| the Bible foretells-it would be con-
| trary to human nature to so expect
| But we do say that those who think to
bring about socialism by human wis
dom and human strength are deficient
In wisdom. They do not see that what
they propose is absolutely impossible
their eyes are holden.
The Bible alone shows us what will
be the outcome Of the present unrest
and selishness and dissatisfaction.
The Bible tells that what will start as
socialism will eventually develop into
anarchy. The Bible shows that those
who think they can bring in the Mes
sianic blessings by carnal weapons are
deluding themselves-they will instead
bring upon themselves. as well as
upon the rich. the great and awful
trouble which the Scriptures foretell
as being now imminent-"a time OF
trouble such as was not since there
was a nation" Daniel xii. H. Our
Lord Jesus quoted this passage and
added to 1t the words. mo. nor ever
shall be-. Matthew xiv. 81 Thank
God, that this one. great. awful con-
fiict. in which every mans hand shall
be against his neighbor and against
his brother. will be the last. 1t viii be
so awful as to make the entire world
sick of strife Of SelfishneSS. OF sin.