The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-10-25

the difference be-.
IA Ny tween human and
"a Divine standards
aS5.755o=a;,5fsiH{ of measurement.
llEaslsSskgssEllJts He said In parts
When we we're
children The d6ysS were longer and the
years seemed tntermlnable. The holi.
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 chnse edeh other and
we marvel al, the brevlty Of life. How
God regdtds time we might not know
if He had not revealed the matter IN
i Els Word. As we read, "a thousand
years In Thy sight are but as yester.
day. and a dny with the Lord is as
athousand years.. Our minds assent
It must be sol And Gods people are
blessed in proportion as they IRE able
ITO take the Divine viewpoint of life
and MI Of It's affairs.
From the Divine standpoint. then,
we see that the siI thousand years Of
earth's history, from; Adams day until
now, are merely the work.day portion
ofa great week whose Seventh Day or
Sabbath Of a thousand years is "the
day OF Christi st'the slast 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
s,the righteous shallS flourish and the
eFildoers shall be cut OF in the Second
Death;n the day during which God
Will ..pour out his Spirit upon all
flesh, as he nowi grants It to His
&seryhnts and hhndmaidens. US ~
In,sthe Dlvinely 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 Kingf
DOM which throughout this Seventh
sDaySwill reign from sea to sen and
from the river to the ends of the
earth" putting down everything con.
tfary5 to the Divine standards and up
lifting the world OF mankind bought
with the precious blood ut Calvary
from sin, meanness. degradation and
the tomb-up, up, up. step by step to
human perfection in worldwide
Eden: The unwilling. resisting Divine
favors and privileges, shall be de-
gstroyed in the Second Death.
"Six days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work, but the Seventh is the Sab
fbnthsof the Lord thy God. In It thou
sshnit not do any work" Whoever
reads carefully. intelligently. the pages
: Of ;history, must be struck with the en-.
ergye which has been manifested by
oursrace and is still being manifested.
The.pyramids and the ruins Of ancient
cities and civilization, NIL tell US Of
the sceaseless 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 ond
further degradation.
Well does the Prophet express the
truthtof our observation. saying, I'VE
have NOT wrought any dellverance in
: tbe eairth, isaiah xvi 1s1 A few
have gnined fabulous riches name or
fame, place or power but the ma ioritv
durinr MI. this neriod have gone down
ia the, strife to the tomb. slain by the
great associated monarchs which the
Bible declares aro now reIepipr-sIn
and Death.
And even the comparatively few who
have gained eminence and whose vic.
tories are most loudly extolled in hu.
manShistory have fallen also-many of
stnemf IN the very prime OF life-ail OF