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thousand years and Eupplant his reign
of darkness and sin 0y reign of light
and righteousness. helpful and uplift-
ing to mankind.
"Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God"
We come now TO our text: Ii de-
clares that the time is coming when
the whole earth shall be full of Gods
glory. Ahi, glorious Day. Then the
shadows of ignorance. superstition
misunderstanding and misrepresenta'
zion in respect to the Divine character
will all fee before the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God-the
appreciation of the Divine character as
manifested in the Divine Plan for hui
man salvation. Could this Scripture
ever be fulfilled. could the Divine
character ever be appreciated by In
teligent. honest, just and loving
hearts. IL in any corner of the UNI
verse there were such orgies and tor
lures of His creatures as the creeds OF
the Darker Ages have set forth? Sure
Iy not! On the contrary, In this glori-
Gus Day will be fulfilled the Scriptural
prediction: "All in\heaven and in earth
and under the enrth [everywherel
heard saying, praise. glory, honor.
dominion and might be unto Him that
sitteth upon the throne and unto the
Lamb forever!'
AS we emerge from the darkness
and praise the Lord in thought and
word and act. we thus "show forth
the praises of Him who has called us
out of darkness into His marvellous
light"
Unto the Liberty of Sons of God"
The Apostle Paul Romans viii. 2D
declares that the grooming creation
shall be delivered from its bond
age to corruption into the liberty Of
the Sons of God. The meaning of this
is clear. The corruption came upon
all through Adam. the deliverance
from that corruption is to come TO all
through the second Adam. All are to
be delivered from such bondage, how
ever they may use the deliverance and
the privileges of liberty. Those who
use them rightly will come into har-
mony with the Redeemer and with
the Heavenly Kingdom and will be
blessed eventually with the eternal
life. Those who reject these liberties
after they come to understand fully.
and comprehend their lengths and
breadths. will thus be choosing for
| themselves the Second Death.
The liberty of the Sons Of God, their
freedom from corruption, death, is
here distinctly shown The angels are
not subject to. not bound by, such cor
ruption. such dying conditions. They,
as sons Of God. are free from corrup-
ton. from death. Adam in his orlgi-
nal perfection was n son OF God. as
the Scriptures declare luke Ill, 3S,.
but he lost his sOnshipN for himself and
for all of his race and received in
stead degradation and bondage to cor
ruption. The hope for Adam and for
his race. then, in Christ. is deliver
ance from the power of sin and death
into the liberty proper to them AS
sons of God. The entire reign of
Christ OH the earth. as the Scriptures
show us, will be devoted TO this work
of setting free the human family from
the various bondnges OF ignorance.
superstition, weakness. heredity and
bringing back all who will by restitu-
ton processes to the original image
and likeness of God. and making them
again human sons of God like unto
Father Adam before he sinned. plus a
large and valuable experience gained
during the 6.000 years OF the fall. and
also through the 1000 years of the
raising up-the Restitution Age, the
Resurrection Age (Acts Ill, 1921.
The Light Shining More and More.
How glad we are that in this dawn
ing time of the New Dispensation thu
light is shining upon the Divine WorC
as well as throughout the realm o.
nature! How glad we are that we NJ
longer must think of the Church alon,
as the subject of salvation and thu
world as n whole the subject Of con
demnation and eternal torture How
, just, how reasonable, how loving ar
the Divine arrangements! TO see thes
things should draw our hearts near Il
: the Lord In appreciative love. and W
, should worship with the greater devO
ton One whom we thus see worthy o
: praise and alteration.
We are not. however. to expect tn
/ world 10 be able to realize these things
: 1t is not the Divine intention that the
: should grasp the Plan, as the Maste
! said to the faithful disciple of old an
] still says to us--"ro you It Is given I
know the mystery of the Kingdom O
God. but to outsiders all these thing
! are spoken In parallels and dark say
5 ings that hearing they might hear an
: not understand. They will both hea
D and understand In due time, but no'
e Is the time for the calling out Of th
q elect, the perfecting of the saints,
Z etc.
Q Let us whose ears and eyes hav
( been blessed Of the Lord respond wit
4 all gratitude and humility, not merel
with outward praises of our lips. br
also with our hearts let us confess IL
a loving kindness and tender mercy, an
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