The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-11-15

fectly appreciate the whole Is it not
present work and ultimate designs?
The poet has well said
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace,
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
Ills purposes will ripen fast.
| Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet win be the flower
If we stand beside a great sculptor
with his freshly chosen block of mar
Bile, we may mt first feel shocked to
note the apparent rouEhness and care
lessness with which he smtcs off large
pieces of the stone, as though bent on
its destruction But let patience have
| her perfect work, and gradually we
will see that the sculptor has not been
careless or Indifferent in respect to n
single blow.
All the while that he seemed so
reckless lie was working according TO
the ideal before his own mind. With
his minds eye he saw his ideal in the
stone, and blow afSer blow. chip after
chip merely revealed to our eyes what
he had purposcd in himself from the
beginning Of his work. Not until his
work was finished could we compre
bend fully the ideal. Is not this prin
ciple still more true of our Creator?
He tells MS that He IS working all
things according to the counsel of His
own will" which He purposed in Him
self before the world was" (Ephe
SLAMS j. IL; iii. 10, IL
The great Master Workman Of tho
Universe viii eventually show both to
angels and men all the various attri
butes of His nerfection-His Wisdom
Justice, Power and Love. Meantime
"None of the wicked shall under
stand" but in the End of this Age the
wise will increasingly understand His
purposes, hidden from all except His
saints, of whom it is written, 'Thc
secret Of the Lord is with them thai
reverence Him. He will show you
things to come. Psalm XIV, IA; John
xvi IS.
Now Apply the Principle.
Let us apply this principle to the
work Of our great Creator. Let u
see how far it has already progressed |
In what state of development is The |
Divine Plan today? What viii be re !
CURED to complete it and to NANTES
Divine Wisdom, Justice. Love and |
Power? Only by careful eXamina
ton of the Great Architects revealed |
plan can we judge ut all of the degree |
to which Ills purposes have already |
attained perfection.
The wreck and blight of human in |
terests resulting from Father Adams |
disobedicnce progressed for twenty |
five hundred years before the first step |
was taken in the Divine Program on
mans behalf That first step was
merely the making Of a rough outline |
drawing with various crude ilIustra
lions which merely h'nted mt one or
another of The Creators glorious pur
poses This taGrt outiuiHG was done |
during the sixteen hundred years we
call the Jewish Age.
Israel as nation pictured al the |
world Of mankind Tho win ultimately |
come into fellowship with God. Their
one tribe Of Levi tspiucd the House
hold of Faith. "thc Church Of the !
First-bogu" OF this Gospel Ago. |
through whom ali blessings win come |
to the remainder The select Levites |
the priests typitd the Royal Priest |
hood of the better Mediator. The !
sacrifices hy vhich that Covenant was |
established and that people brought |
into harmony with God, typiGcl the |
better sacrifices of Christ, which began |
with our Lord ard have continued in |
His faithful followers who present |
their bodies living sacrifices, wholly |
and acceptable to God through Him !
Romans Mi ~
Israels Jubilee year tyrifed the |
great Times Of Juhiation soon to |
come, the blessing of all the families |
of the earth"-the Times of Restitu- |
ton OF all things" TO be inaugurateG |
at the second coming of Christ ana |
the establishment of His Kingdom. |
Manifestly only those who could TN |
derstand those roughly sketched draw |
ings could comprehend to any degree |
the great Divine Plan Of the Ages.
With this Gospel Age God began a
great work which is yet far from fin
ished and which rs yet does not show |
forth fully to mankind in general His |
Justice, Wisdom, Power or Love. The |
work of this Age, according to the |
Scriptures is the selection Of both the |
Church, which is THE Bride, the |
Lambs Wife" and "the virgins, her
companions, who follow her" psalm |
xiv, S-1S)
The Bible declares that Jesus, the |
Redeemer, having finished His sacri- |
fee passed into glory-beyOnd the veil |
to the right hand of Divine Majesty.
1t declares also that when this Age
shall be completed all the faithful fol
lowers of Jesus viii pass to Him be |
yond the veil and share His glory and |
His Kingdom and Immortality on the
heavenly plane. But how few there
are who see this much of the Divine
Plan and if they cannot see this much
how could they I've expected to see still
further into the future developments
of the Divine Program?
AS the sentence of death came rs
the result of one transgression but in
volved the race, so one sacrifice for