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The lights which God provided in His
followers have been as candles set
upon candlesticks. They have indeed
reproved the darkness. but they have
been powerless to scatter 1t. Nor did
God so intend. Ills declaration
through the Prophet is. Weeping may
endure for the night. but joy cometh
in the morning" psalm xxx, 81
Again. Darkness covers the earth.
gross darkness the people," but "the
Sun of Righteousness shall arise with
healing in His beams Isaiah TX, .:
Malachi iv. g
This promised Sun of Righteousness
earth, we are told distinctly, consists
of Jesus and those who hgte walked
in His footsteps throughout this Cos
pei Age. These approved of the Fa-
ther, will be glorified beyond the veil
by a resurrection to glory, honor and
Immortality. Then speedily these will
"shine forth as the Sun in the King.
dom of their Father" Matthew xiii,
43) This will mean the ushering in of
the great Seventh Day--Messah's Day.
God Has Not Neglected Us
From this Divine viewpoint God is
not slack concerning His promises.
Only six days of the week have yet
Slssed. The glorious Seventh Day in
which the great Mediator between God
and men will assume His Kingdom
powers Is just Mt hand. Instead of
thinking that God is neglecting and
forgetting to fulfil the MeSsianic prom
ises, we should with the eyes of faith
realize that He is working all things
according to tho counsel of His own
will. We should consider the matter
from the standpoint that God has ex-
ercised great patience with humanity
in not blotting out the race; He has
been long-suffering. And this assures
us that the Interchangeable One would
prefer that none of Ills creatures
should perish in death, but rather that
all. IL they would, might turn unto
Him and live.-Ezekiel xXxiii, IL.
The great opportunity for the masses
of our race to turn to the Lord and at
tain everlasting life will be after the
darkness shall have passed, when the
Sun of Righteousness shall be 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 Sa-
tan, the Prince Of darkness, from the
worlds control; after the Prince Of
Peace shall have established peace
upon proper basis. Who cannot sing
heartily with the poet:
"A thousand years, earth's coming glory,
IT'S the glad day so long foretold.
TITS the glad morn of Hion's glory.
Prophets foresaw in times of old"
Waiting For the Mother
Our race was generated by Father
Adam as well as condemned to death
through his disobedience. What the
race needs is another father or life
| giver, and this Is exactly what the
| word Savior signifies Life-Giyer, Ia
ther. The Redeemer, at the cost of His
own life, became the purchaser of
| Adam and his race with view to
from sin and from death. Is not one
| Of the Redeemer's titles "The Everlast-
Ing Father"-the Father who gives
everlasting life? Unquestionably He
has not yet fulfilled this glorious office
OF Life-Giver TO Adams race; He will
fulfil it, however-"in His Day"
Speaking to His faithful disciples,
His followers I'm the narrow way, Jesus
promised them, I'm the regeneration
ye shall sit upon twelve thrones" Mat-
thew xix, 2S) That regeneration pc
rlod corresponds exactly to st. Peters
"times of restitution" or years OF
restoration (Acts ill., 10), and both of
these periods agree to the general
teachings of Scripture respecting n
resurrection at the last day-Mcssiah's 3
day-the thousand years of regenera-
tion, resurrection, restitution, which
Will afford Adam and his race fullest
opportunities for attaining perfection
of human nature In an Edenlc world
wide Paradise.
The Lord through the Prophet as
sures us of the wonderful success
which will attend the establishment
of tho New Empire of earth the do
minion of the Prince of light. which
will supersede the dominion of the
Prince of darkness. when Satan shnlI
be bound for a thousand years. that
he may deceive the peoples no more.
Thus II Is written. He shall lay
Righteousness to the line and justice
to the pummet and the hail [Truthl
shall sweep away the refuge of lies"
Qsaiah xviii, III
But why the delay. do you ask2 All,
we answer, God did not permit Adam
to begin the establishment OF his race
until first He gave him Eve as his
bride, his wife. The world needed not
merely llfe-giver but mother, a
care-taker, u hclpmate,
Similarly in the Divine arrangement
God has provided that the restitution
time, the worlds uplifting period. the
regeneration epoch for mankind, shall
not begin until first the true Church.
the 'little fock," the Bride of Christ,
shall be completed and be united or
married to the Heavenly Bridegroom
boyond the veil--mndr nprtalSer with