Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-01-16
Prince Of GLORY The Redeemer. tie

who knew the end from the beginning
and who fOresaw how even the permis-
sion Of a reign Of sin and death could
be made eventually TO work out to his
own glory and TO the blessing and in
structlon Of his creatures on both the
human and the angelic planes Then
will be revealed 10 all the glorious
character Of their Creator, and the ne
cessity for his requirement OF absolute
righteousness and perfection.
Surely. the result eventually will be,
as the Scriptures declare. That all shall
learn righteousness. and hate iniquity,
and that every creature In heaven and
In earth and under the Garth shall ac-
claim both Jehovah, who sitteth upon
the Throne Of the Universe, and the
Lamb, the Redeemer, forever.
Were we to allow ourselves to spec
ulate respecting the future-respecting
the Divine purposes In relation to the
millions Of worlds around us, our spec
ulatlons would run thus: Those in
structed and used Of Jehovah I'm CON
junction with the initial development
Of the Divine Plan I'm the earth will
thereby bO fitted and prepared to be
the Divine Agents to other worlds
The Great Redeemer and his elect"
associates, after dealing with human
ity for their uplift out Of sin and death
conditions, will surely be qualified for
further service In other worlds: to
SHOW forth the praises of him who
called them out OF darkness into his
marvellous light"
And what shall we say Of humanity
when perfected at the end of MessIah's
glorious reign? VIII not all be well
prepared. not only to approve right
eousness In themselves, but to tell In
other worlds, to other races, the story
Of the fall and OF the reign Of Sin and
Death resulting: and OF the redemption
accomplished by Gods love; and Of
the great restitution; and OF the les.
/ sons thus learned?
| Iho Onchangeablo one,
The qualities Of the Divine character
which we have just cOnsidered-Wis-
dom, Justice, Love and Power-be-
lOnged TO our Creator In the great eter-
nifty preceding creation But there
was no one at that time TO appreciate
GOd--it requires full view Of the
perfected Plan Of the Ages to make
known to any and TO all the glory Of
the Lord. As we have just seen, thus
far the secret of the Lord and the
glorles of his character are known
only to his sons" begotten of his
holy Spirit But the time nears when
"the whole earth shall be full Of the
knowledge Of the glory OF the Lord
as the waters cover the great deep.
He and his glorious government will
then be "the desire OF all nations;''
"The glory Of the Lord shall he reveal.
ed and all flesh shall see It together
! Haggai II, I; Isaiah xl, o.,
St. Paul assures us that every fea
ture of the Divine Plan which we see
In process OF execution was known tC
Jehovah from before the foundation
OF the world. He declares that these
things God purposed In himself before
the foundation of the world. The
creative processes, which have been
operating for thousands of years, were
all surely elaborated in the mind OF
Jehovah before the creative work be
gan, In that purpose angels had a
part-of how many grades we may
not surely know, but they are various,
ly designated In the holy Scriptures as
angels, princpalitles and powers. u
Later came the creation OF man, "a
little lower than the angels" and
crowned with earthly honor, dignity
and power, in the image and likeness
Of his Creators glorious power.
These creations varied not In degrees
of perfection and imperfection. Each
was perfect on its own plane. Each
intelligent creature was n free, moral
agent, and hence, whether on the an
gellc or human plane, was created in
the likeness OF God, unbemished, but
with different capacities and abilities
Almighty God, infinite In Wisdom
justice, Love aud Power, purposed the
orderly exercise Of his infinite powers
as Il great Father, desirous of giving
life aud happiness to his creatures.
These intelligent ones were deslg
mated Sons of God' so long as they
maintained their attitude of perfect
loyalty to him, their Creator and Fa
ther Not only was It the Divine
intention thus TO give pleasure tC
millions OF creatures TO he created, but
II was also the Divine win to manifest
to his creatures his own greatness and
the perfection of his own goodness
that they might enjoy him and he en-.
Joy them eyerlastingly.
We are no. to understand that Al
mighty God was lonely In that great
Eternity before creation began, On
the contrary, human loneliness is
largely because of human deficiency
What we mck we seek for In others
But the great Jehovah lacked nothing
he was complete in himself he needed
not companionship to complete or to
supplement- his happiness. Il was his
pleasure to create that his creatures
might have JOY by reHectlng as a
whole his Divine qualities Implanted
in their constitutions
The wreck Of the human race pro
duced by sin he well forcknew Nol
did this wr~klng of human hopes de,
feat, nor was Il in danger OF defeating
! the Divine purpose. II merely demon