The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1911-10-26

6.s79sA,, and Divine
iEA2!Q& kW22ElllJ standards Of
measure ment.
He said in part:-
Humanity's Great Workday
From the Divine viewpoint, earth's
history, from Adams day until now, is
merely the workday portion of great
week whose Seventh Day or Sabbath
OF thousand years is 1.-THE day of
Christ" 1.-The last day." 1.-THE day of
judgment" or trial for the world. the
day in which every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess to the glory
of God," the day in which 1.-THE right
eous shall flourish and the evil.
doors shall be cut off in the Second
Death"
In the Divinely-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 Week-the day which means SO
much of blessing. uplifting, privilege.
opportunity of Divine favor to our race
through Messiah's glorious 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 contrary to
the Divine standards and uplifting
the world Of mankind (bought with
the precious blood at Calvary from
sin. meanness, degradation and the
tomb
"Six days shalt thou labor and do oil
thy work. but the Seventh is the Sab
bath of the Lord thy God. In it thou
shalt not do any work." Whoever
reads carefully. tntelligently. the pages
OF history must be struck with the
working energy which has been mani.
tested by our race and is still being
manifested.
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
eventually have given full knowledge
OF both good and evil to our first par
ents. They. were merely forbidden an
immediate plunge into knowledge to
their own disadvantage. Craving
knowledge before its due time, Mother
Eve disobeyed her Maker and enticed
her husband into disobedlence. The
result has been that instead of learn.
Ing the philosophy Of good at first and
of evil later. they and their race have
been precipitated into lessons respect.
ing evil first. with the knowledge of
good to come later.
The holy angels. who have never
transgressed the Divine Law, have
continually the lesson of good-an an.
probation of the Divine character. the
principles of righteousness, etc. Their
lessons in respect to evil they are gain.
ing by observation instead of BY expe-,
rience-the way recommended to our
first parents by the Creator. but in
their ignorance rejected.
But God foreknew the course which.
His human children would take under
the influence of temptation: He fore
knew 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
six thousand years. nevertheless He
has allowed His great original Plan of
the Ages to move along slowly to a
grand climax-the Plan which He pur-
posed in Himself from before the
foundation of the world.
God Has Not Neglected Us
From this Divine viewpoint God is
not slack concerning Els promises
Only six days of the week have vet
passed. The glorious Seventh Day in
which the great Mediator between God
and men will assume His Kingdom
powers is just at hand. Instead of
thinking that God is neglecting and
forgetting to fulfil the Messianic prom.
Uses. we should with the eyes of faith
realize that He is working all THINGS
according to the counsel of His OWE
will. We should consider the matter
from the opposite standpoint that God
has exercised great patience with hu
manity in not blotting out the race:
He has been Iong-suffering. And this
assures us that the Interchangeable Oh"
would prefer that none of His crea
lures should perish in death. but rather
that all. II they would. might turn
unto Him and live.-II Peter iii. .:
Ezekiel xxxiii. 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 shall have passed. when
the Sun Of Righteousness shall he
shining forth: after the highway Of
holiness shall have taken the place of
the broad road to destruction; after
Messiah. the great King. shall have
dethroned Satan. the Prince of dark
ness, from the worlds control; after
the Prince Of Peace shall have estab.
llshed pence upon q proper basis.