The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-10-23
de said In part:-
Humanity's Great Workday

he said In part
Humanity's Great Workday
From the Divine viewpoint, earth's
history, from Adams day until now, is
merely the workGay portion of great
week whose Seventh Day or Sabbath
OF thousand years is 1.-The day of
Christ" ".he last day." 1.-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 the right
eous shall flourish and the evil
doors shall be cut off in the Second
4 Denth.''
In the Divinely-arranged custom of
the Jews the new day begun 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 Messiahs glorious Kingdom.
which throughout this Seventh Day
will reign from sea to sea and from
the river to the ends Of the earth"
! putting down everything contrary to
the Divine standards md uplifting
the world Of mankind thought with
the precious blood at Calvary from
sin. meanness. degradation and the
tomb.
six days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work. but the Seventh is the Sab
bath OF the Lord thy Cod In it t.io;,
shalt not do my work Whoever
reads carefully. intelIigently. the pages
or history must he struck with the
working energy which has been mani
tested by our 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 full knowledge
or both good and evil to our first par.
ents. They were merely forbidden an
immediate plunge into knowledge to
their own disadvantage Craving
knowledge before its due time. Mother
Eye disobeyed her Maker and enticed
ner husband into tiisoDedience. The
result has been that instead Of learn
ing the philosophy Of good at first and
OF evil later. they and their rage have
been precipitated into lessons respect
ing evil first. with the knowledge of
good to come later.
Inc holy angels. who have never
transgressed the Divine Law, have
continually the lesson of good-an ap-
preclation 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-
rfence-tte way recommended to our
first parents by the Creator. but In
their ignorance rejected
But God foreknew the course which
His human children would 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 n
grand climax-the Plan which He pur
posed in Himself from before the
foundation of the world.
God Has Not Neglected u.
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 neglectinc and
forgetting to fulfil the Messianic nrom-
ises, we should with the eyes OF faith
realize that He is working all things
according to the 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 ont the race.
He has been long-sufrering And this
assures US that the Interchangeable One
would prefer that none of His crea-
lures should perish in death. hut rather
that all. If they would. might turn
unto Him and live.-lI Peter iii. q
Ezekiel xxxiii, 11,g.s
The great opportunity for the masses
OF our race TO turn to the Lord and /,
attain everlasting life will be afte,
the darkness shall have passed. when
the Sun OF Righteousness shall b,
shining forth: after the highway OF
: holiness shall have taken the place O.,
the broad road to destruction after
Messiah. the great King. shall have
dethroned Satan. the Prince of dark
ness. from tho worlds control; eftes
|she Prince OF Peace shall hnvc cstab
lished neace upon n prorer basis.