The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-09

Scriptures on all
| subjects, we must handle the Word of
God honestly. We must recognize that
our Lord Jesus Is one person and the
Father another person. The oneness
between the Father and the Son is that
declared by our Master Himself, say
ing that He and the Father are one
In the same sense that He desires hl
of His disciples to be one-in mind, in
purpose, In will, in effort. John XVII,
81, 49, Our Lord Jesus Is Gods IN.
~speakable Gift.
The Scriptures declare that the Re
deemer took the nature of men in or.
der redeem sinners; but that in Him
there was no sin. Only a sinless one
could give to God a Ransom for Adam,
and thus redeem from destruction, not
only Adam, but all his posterity, In
volved In sin and death through him.
The speaker then showed TINT God
set before our Lord a great JOY, the
influence of which led Jesus to endure
cheerfully the bitter experiences of His
earthly life. This JOY is intimated to
have been: "a His pleasure In doing
the Fathers will; (2) His privilege of
bringing many sons to glory'-the
Church; CD His pleasure and JOY In be-
ing by and by the worlds Restorer, de
llvering them from the power of Satan,
| sin and death. wherefore" st. Paul
says, "God hath highly exalted Him."
far above angels, p~rincipalities and
powers, and every name that Is named
An Opposite Course From satan's.
Pastor Russell then c~ontrasted the
course pursued by Satan with that fol
| lowed by our Lord. Meditating am-
bilious designs, Satan found an oppor-
| tunity In Eden. He beheld In our first
parents a new order of beings, design
| ed to bring into existence a race that
| would I'LL the earth. Satan essayed to
| be ruler or prince over this human Gre
| alton; and by SO doing, he not only be-
| came a rebel against God, but brought
| sin and death into the world.
Our Lord Jesus pursued an opposite
| course, and demonstrated His loyalty
and obedience. st. Paul intimates that
although the Logos vas much higher
than was Lucifer, yet He was humble,
and 'meditated not a usurpation," as
the Greek text declares. Ghil. Ii,
g. He thought not by robbery to be
equal with God. On the contrary, our
Lord willingly accepted the Divine pro-
posal that He should be humbled to the
human plane for a time, in order to
carry out the Fathers Plan.
To the Church, Jesus is Gods un-
| speakable Gift. He Is indeed a Gift
to the whole world, unspeakable In
! value, but He is more to the Church
than to the world. To His FOOTSTEPS
followers, He is the Captain of their
Salvation" their Bridegroom, thesf
elder Brother their great High
Priest. Through Him they are priv.
ileged to be the Royal Priesthood.
Through the merit of the sacrifice Of
Christ, they are privileged to present
their bodies living sacrifices, holy, &C
| ceptable unto God"
The Pastor then said that Justice l.
the foundation of Gods Throne. In
the past, endeavors to harmonic JUS
/ wv Will N kAtot StthNoA -
| with humanity have involved us III
difficulty. We were assured by the
| prominent creeds that God had know
ingly brought mankind into existence
| under such conditions that the great
| majority would spend eternity in tor
ture. We perceived no Justice in any
| such arrangement. But while desist-
ing from criticising the Creator, we
could not indorse such a course, nor
see 1t to be I'm harmony with the Di-
vine regulations governing ourselves.
II we are to love our enemies, should
more be expected Of fallen human be-
ings than of u perfect Creator?
The Scriptures declare only the con-
| secrated Church see the lengths,
breadths. heights and depths of the
| Love OF God,' which passeth under
standing. This class alone Is In any
sense prepared to give thanks to God
now for His unspeakable Gift. Their
thanks go up, not only In words, but
also In actions, which speak loudsr
than words" These thanks ascend rs
sweet incense to God.
BY and by, "All the blind eyes viii
be opened and all the deaf ears will be
unstopped." Then the whole world VI
mankind, including those awakened
from the sleep Of death during Mes
| slabs reign, will be In condition to rec
ognize Gods unspeakable Gift and rem
der thanks. When wilful evil doers
shall have been destroyed, then ever
creature In Heaven, on earth and II
the sea shall be heard saying, "Praist
glory, honor, dominion and might i
unto Him that stitch on the Thro,a
and to the Larnb, forever" through I
~unsrcakable Gift.