The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-10-27

l@ASI0R RUSSELL He said in part
When we were
children the days We're longer and the
years seemed interminable. The holt
days of the year stood out before us
prominently, but seemed seldom to re-
cur Gradually all this changed as
we reached the zenith of our energy.
Now the days chase each other and
we marvel at the brevity of life. How
God regards time we might not know
il He had not revealed the matter in
His Word AS we read, "A thousand
years in Thy sight are but as yester-
day." and "a day with the Lord is as
a thousand years. Our minds assent
it must be so! And Gods people are
blessed in proportion as they are able
TO take the Divine viewpoint Of life
and all of it's affairs.
From the Divine standpoint, then,
we see that the six thousand years Of
earth's history. from Adams day until
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" 1.-The last day." "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 Cod: the day in which
1.-The righteous shall flourish and the
evil-doers shall be cut off in the Second
DEATH" the day during which God
will pour out His Spirit upon all
flesh" as He now grants it to His
servants and handmaidens.
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 King
dom, which throughout this Seventh
Day will reign from sea to 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 a worldwide
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 Sab
bath of the Lord thy God. In it thou
shalt not do any work" Whoever
reads carefully. intelligently, the pages
of history, must be struck with the en-
ergy which has been manifested by
our race and is still being manifested.
The pyramids and the ruins of ancient
cities, and civilization. all tell us Of
the ceaseless struggle Of humanity
against the adverse conditions prevail
ing in the earth, including the strife
against sickness and death, and, by
few. a noble fight against sin and
further degradation.
Well does the Prophet express the
truth of our observation. saying. I'VE
have not wrought any deliverance in
the earth" isaiah XVI 49, A few
have gained fabulous riches. name or
fame, place or power. but the majority
during all this period have gone down
in the strife to the tomb, slain by the
great associated monarchs which the
Bible declares are now reigning-Sin
and Death.
And even the comparatively few who
have gained eminence and whose vic.
tories are most loudly extolled in HUI
man history have fallen also-many of
them in the very prime of life--all of
them in comparative childhood. Why
is it that man should not live for
hundred years when we have the Di-
vine assurance that even under the
Divine sentence Father Adam resisted
death for $50 years-so vigorous was
his constitution?
Wearied Children Fall Asleep
From the Divine standpoint the chill
dren of Adam, born in sin. shapen in
iniquity, Of a few days and full of
trouble, fall asleep in death-like chill
dren wearied in their play: albeit it is
play grim with tragedy. in which
each actor performs his part most
realistically.
From the Divine standpoint human
ambition and strife and energy are
accomplishing a useful purpose. even
though the efforts are usually selfish
and often british. The lessons now
being learned by Adams children will
not all be lost The greater mellow
ness Of heart and broader views Of