Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-10-28

1 far as light, truth. knowledge Of God
is concerned, have all been dark days.
The lights which God provided In His
followers have been as candles set
upon candlesticks. They have indeed
reproved the darkness. but they have
been powerless to scatter It Nor did
God so intend. His declaration
through the Prophet Is. Weeping may
endure for the night. but Joy cometh
in the morning" Psalm XXX, 3D.
Again, Darkness covers the earth.
gross darkness the people," but "the
Sun Of righteousness shall arise with
healing in His eams."-Isaiah IL. 2;
Malachi iv. 2.
This promised Sun Of Righteousness
which is to scatter the darkness of
earth, we are told distinctly. consists
of Jesus and those who have walked
in His footsteps throughout this Cos
pei Age. These. approved Of the Fa-
ther, will be glorifed beyond the veil
by a resurrection to glory, honor and
Immortality. Then speedily these will
"shine forth as the Sun in the King.
dom of their Father" Matthew Kill,
43) This will mean the usherlng in Of
the great Seventh Day Messiah's Day.
God Has Not Neglected Us
From this Divine viewpoint God is
not slack concerning His promises.
Only six days of the week have yet
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 the counsel of His own
will We should consider the matter
from the standpoint that God has ex-
ercised great patience with humanity
In not blotting out the race; He has
been long-suffering. And this assures
US that the Interchangeable One would
prefer that none of His creatures
should perish In death, but rather that
all, If they would, might turn unto
Him and live.-Ezeliiel xxxiii, IL.
The great opportunity for the masses
Of our race to turn to the Lord and at |
tain 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 IN destination. a Ptor NToeeg,I, tl,a
great King, shall have dethroned Sa-
tan, the Prince Of darkness, from the |
worlds control; after the Prince of |
Peace shall have established peace |
upon proper basis. Who cannot sing
heartily with the poet
"a thousand years, earth's coming glory, |
'Tis the glad day so long foretold
It's the glad morn Of Zlon's glory.
Prophets foresaw In times of old"
Waiting For the Mother
Our race was generated by Father
Adam as well as condemned to death |
through his disObedence. What the
race needs is another father or life
giver, and this is exactly what the
word Savior signifies-Life-G Giver Fa.
ther. The Redeemer, at the cost of His
own life, became the purchaser of
Adam and his race with a view to
their resuscitatlOn, their resurrection
from sin and from death Is not one
Of the Redeemer's titles "The Everlast.
Ing Father"-the Father who gives
everlasting life? UnquestiOnably He
has not yet fulfilled this glorious office
Of Life-Giver to Adams race; He will
fulfil 1t, however-"in His Day"
Speaking to His faithful disciples,
His followers In the narrow way, Jesus
promised them, I'm the regeneration
ye shall sit upon twelve thrones" (Mat.
thew XIX, 2S) That regeneration pc.
riod corresponds exactly to st. Peters
times Of restitution" or years OF
restoration (Acts iii, 19), and both Of
these periods agree to the general
teachings Of Scripture respecting
resurrection at the last day Messiah's
day-the thousand years of regenera
don, resurrection, restitution, which
will afford Adam and his race fullest
opportunities for attaining perfection
of human nature In an Edenic world
wide Paradise.
The Lord through the Prophet as
sures us of the wonderful success
which will attend the establishment
of the New Empire of earth, the do
minion Of the Prince of light, which
will supersede the dominion of the
Prince Of darkness. when Satan shall
be bound for thousand years, that
he may deceive the peoples no more.
Thus 1t Is written, He shall lay
to the line and Justice
to the plummet and the hail [Truthl
shall sweep away the refuge of lies."
Qsaiah xviii, III
But why the delay, do you ask? Ah.
we answer, God did not permit Adam
to begin the establishment of his race
until first He gave him Eve as his
bride, his wife. The world needed not
merely llfe-giver but mother. .
care-taker. u helpmate.
Similarly in the Divine arrangement
God has provided that the restitution
time, the worlds uplifting period, the
regeneration epoch for mankind, shall
not begin until first the true Church.
the little fock," the Bride of Christ
shall be completed and be united or
married to the Heavenly bridegroom ,
beyond the veil-made partaker with
Him of glory, honor and Immortality
the divine nature.