The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-08-21

of such people as hearing the Divine
Voice. They are serving as are the
heather. who have never heard " she
true God. in any sense Of the word.
We may be inclined TO wonder that
onr Almighty Creator has apparently
pursued the human family with His
voice Of love and mercy and invitation
TO reconciliation for so long. i'm so
peculiar manner-cf1ecting such n
small proportion of The thousands OF
millions of our race. Once this great
ly perplexed us all; nolc. through our
study of the Scriptures we are learn.
ing desr Bible Students. why things
are thus. we are learning that God Is
now calling merely special class
"the elert"-those who love righteous
ness and hate iniqulty those who hun.
ger and thirst after righteousness and
fellowship Divine. To these God is now
holding out special invitation. His
message is, "Gather together My saints
unto Me-thosc who have made
covenant with Me by sacrifice"
Why Not q Greater Work.
Some may inquire. Why does not
God do a greater work? Why docs
He allow clouds and darkness to OBJ
scure His Character, and Word, aud
| Plan? Why does He allow darkness
to cover the earth and gross darkness
the heather? Why does lie permit sin
to be so prevalent that whosoever will
live godly shall suffer persecution,
shall find the way of righteousness a
narrow one, difficult one? Why does
God not restrain the powers Of Satan,
and spread the light Of the knowledge
of His glory throughout the whole
earth? Why does lie seem to leave
the entire matter in our poor. bun
Cling, imperfect hands?
Why does He seem thus Indifferent
to the heather thousands Of millions
and to the masses of Chrlstendom +?
| All! there is reason, which sanity
ones are gradually coming TO see. and
which, more and more, Is causing
| them to rejoice, through faith. We
now see plainly stated in Gods Word
| that the class now being selected Is
called for pnrposc-a glorious pur-
pose-ln which Adam and all of his
race shall eventually have a blessing.
We see that Divine grace Is now Sc
lecting the Church, and that while few
have been called as compared with
the masses of mankind. many more
are called than will eventually be
chosen. The "elect' class is to be-
made associates with Jesus in His
Messlanlc Kingdom, "heirs of God.
| joint-heirs with Jesus Christ"
SO. as soon as the fun number of
''elect" shall have been found and
shall have been tested and found
worthy, the present method of Divine
operation will change completely. No
] longer will God call after the sinner,
where art thouf" No longer will
preaching be the Divine method of
pursuing sinners. On the contrary.
everything pertaining to human inter
ests will, for thousand years, be
| turned over to McSSiah's Kingdom.
HE shall reign from sea TO sea. and
from the river to The ends of the
earth" His Kingdom will exercise
force. "The Law shall go forth from
Mt Zion. and the Word of the Lord"
respecting that Law, from Jerusa-
LEM" "and It shall come to pass that
the soul who will not obey that great
Prophet, Priest, King, Instructor, will
be destroyed from amongst the peo-
pie" (Acts Ill, 1929.
All the Blind Eyes Shall Be Opened
To what extent the various beliefs
of the heather and the creeds Of
| Christendom are the work of demons,
| Satan and his hosts, no human being
can tell. We may merely surmise. on
the strength of the Apostles words,
that we wreste not with flesh and
blood merely. but with invisible "prin-
cipalities and powers. wicked spirits
in high places" We may Judge this
also from the intimatlon that Satan
has been deceiving the whole world.
We remember the Apostles declara-
ton respecting the doctrines of de-
mons" (Ephesians vi. IL. II. Il. ";
Timothy iv, u.
When the True Light shall shine,
when the Prince of Light. the King of
glory, shall take to Himself His great
power and reign. aud the Prince OF
darkness shall be bound. then the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God
shall fill the whole earth--then the
many misrepresentation of the Divine
character and Divine Plan will vanish;
the blind eyes shall be opened. the
deaf ears shall be unstopped, and the
knowledge of Gods will and of His
gracious Plan Of Salvation will be
fully made known TO every creature.
AS we have already seen, these bless
ings will begin Mt the time when the
Elect Church shall be completed. The
blessings of the Messlanc Kingdom,
according to the Bible, will come first
to the Jews. Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob and all the Prophets will be
the earthly Representatives of the in
visible Messiah These will be the
Princes in all the earth Psa. xiv. i6),
The Judgments of tho Lord Soon.
Soon the race will he started up the
Highway of Holiness, encouraged by
rewards OF health and strength and
uplifting blessings, and stimulated by
the stripes and punishments which