The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-10-27

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measure ment.
He said In part
- h~unanIty's Great Workday
From the Divine viewpoint, earth's
history, from Adams day until now, is
merely the wUrkday portion Of a great
week whose Seventh Day or Sabbath
OF a thousand years is the day of
Christ" 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 God" the day in which "the right
eous shall flourish and the evil
doors shall be cut off in the Second
Death"
In the Divinely-arrunged 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 Kingdom.
which throughout this Seventh Day
VIII reign from sea 10 sea and from
the river to the ends of the earth"
putting down everything contrary 70
the Divine standards and uplifting
the world of mankind bought with
the precious blood at Calvary from
sin, meanness, degradation and the
tomb
six days shalt thou labor and do nil
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
working energy which has been mani
tested by cur race and is still being
manifested.
Next the Lesson of Good
The forbidden fruit of Eden was
from the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. Doubtless the Creator would
eventually have given Il full knowledge
of both good and evil to our first mar
ents. They were merely forbidden an
immediate plunge into knowledge TO
their Owl disadvantage. Craving
knowledge before Its due time, Mother
Eve disobeyed her Maker and enticed
her husband into d~isobedience. The
result has been that instead of learn
Ing the philosophy of good at first and
of evil later, they and their race have
been ~precipitated into lessons espect-
Ing evil first, with the knowledge of
good to come later.
The holy angels. who have never
transgressed the Divine Law, have
continually the lesson Of good@an ap-
probation OF the Divine character. the
principles of Righteousness, etc. Their
lessons In respect to evil they are gain
ing by observation instead of by expe-
rience-the way recommended TO our
first parents by the Creator. but In
their ignorance rejected.
But God foreknew the course which
His human children woS1d take under
the influence Of temptation; He fore
knew that they would fall into sin and
therefore would experience its penalty,
sorrow, pain and death. While His
eye has pitied His poor creatures for
six thousand years, nevertheless He
has allowed His great original Plan of
the Ages to move along slowly to a
grand climax-the Plan which He pur-
posed In Himself from before the
foundation of the world.
God Has Not Neglected Us
From this Divine viewpoint God is
not slack concerning His promises.
Only six days Of the week have vet
passed. The glorious Seventh Day In
which the great Mediator between God
and men will assume His Kingdom
powers Is Just at 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 b counsel of His own
will. We should consider the matter
from the opposite standpoint that God
has exercised great patience with hu-
mainly In not blotting out the race;
de has been long-suffering. And his
assures us that the Interchangeable One
would prefer that none Of His crea-
lures should perish in death, but rather
that all, If they would, might turn
unto Him and live.-II Peter Ill 8:
Ezekiel xxxiii, II.
The great opportunity for the masses
OF our race to turn to the Lord and to
attain 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 Satan. the Prince Of dark.
ness, from the worlds control: after
the Prince OF Peace shall have estab-
| hshed peace upon d proper basis.