Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-21

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man OF the committee. as follows.
had a great interest in your LAM and
IT'S people before coming to your shores,
but my interest has been greatly increased
by what 1 have witnessed during the past
three weeks in lndia-not only in your
largest cities, but also in your towns, VIII
lagos and agricultural districts. AS there
are no other extremes in the world so
great as between the caps OF your Him,
llaya mountains and the wash of your
coral strands, 5000 feet below them, go
likewise there can be found no greater1
contrast socially and financially han be-
iween your wealthy princes and your pow
rty-stricken lower castles. Although suchs
contrasts are deplorable we nave no rem
sdy to suggest, except the Divine one-l
The establishment of Messiah's Kingdom.
Meantime If poverty he favorable to
:aintship, there should be excellent mate
'ial in abundance here. Indeed, one of tho
ihings which has impressed me is the re-i
igious sentiment of India. The religious
lervor of the thousands who battle in the
Ganges, and the numerous temples andl
:hrines in every city, remind me of Saint
Pauls words respecting some of his day
feeling after God, II haply they might
ind Him" Although / have remarked Of!
your hundreds OF millions of hopelessly|
Door. I have not overlooked the fact that.
tome of your wealthy ave shown that
hey are not without generous instinctsl
Many of you merchant princes have evil
aenly given largely to the charitable instt-)
buttons. notably in Bombay, large animal
hospitals having been provided for de-
,repit chickens, donkeys, etc.
However we may consider such bene-
factions. IN view of human need and sui
sering. we m overlook the fact that
sympathy Is there, only waiting for the
proper direction, which Messiah's King
Bombay l noted with establishment the
Towers of Silence, where the Parsee ele-
ment of your population gives the flesh
of it's dead to feed the vultures. Alas!,
my soul cries out, Is not such heroism
worthy of a better cause! How I rejoice
In the Divine promise that the true Light
of the world shall yet tighten every man
that cometh into the world! Uohn l, 81
Heights end Depths Divine.
Our f0refathers saw the height of Gods
love for the holy angels and its conde-
scension to the sanity of men. but they
did not see its depths. They did not see
hat the Redemption accomplished by Je-
sus is ultimately to reach down to and
embrace the very humblest and most de-
graded of humankind. How the precious
Scriptures which tell of Jesus as the Sa-,
All vi lh0 NOAAoS aO WIZ oe VI SAAO
church, escaped notice. who can explain?
This fuller appreciation of the lengths
and b.eadths and heights and depths OF
love Divine Is coming to Christian people
as a benediction from heaven, just as the
time when many are Extraordinarily re-
pudiating the bible and it's God as un-
worthy OF belief. The true view of Gods
Word we have intimated, namely. that all
the antilles of the earth are to be blessed
by Messiah's Kingdom, and that the
church, in process OF election for the past
IS centuries, is to be sharer with her Lord
In that Kingdom.
"in tho Ages to Come"
Nor will the heights and depths and
lengths and breadths OF Divine love to-
ward the elect church, the bride OF Christ,
be fully exhibited to angels and to men,
even during the glorious period Of Mes
siah's reign. Saint Paul explicitly de-
clares, that in the ages to come He might
show the exceeding riches Of His grace in
His kindness toward US through Christ
Jesus" (Esph ii, 6, ~ Is 1t asked what
opportunity there will be for further ia
vors to be bestowed upon the church at
the conclusion of the Messianic reign?
We answer. that since the Scriptures de-
clare that God formed the earth not in
vain. but made 1t to be Inhabited" and
will make 1t glorious as His fOotstool-in
due time-sO we may reason Will respect
to the other planets of our solar system.
Gradually through coming ages Divine
power will be exercised in bringing into
being millions of intelligent creatures on
every planet Of our system.
And still more than this. IL our astro-
aomical concepts are correct, all the liked
| ttars are suns, and o each sun are
blanets. Are there, then. a thousand blaz-
Mg suns? Yes, more! Are there 10000?
les. more! Are there 10 times 10000?
| Tes. more! Are there 10 times 100000,
i,OOO, 900? Yes. more! Are there 10 times
100000 100 100000. Yes. more! And II we
| allow an average of 10 planets to each sun
this would make more than 1000 million
planets, all made not in vain, but event.
ually to be inhabited.
Alas. our poor minds are bewildered
with such manifestation of Divine pow
err an wisdom, even as we ave already
been bewildered in our attempt to appre-
ciate the heights and depths of Divine
love-. Will there not indeed, then. be quite
= sufficiency of the Divine program to he
outworked through Christ and the church
10 justify the Apostles statement?
In the glorious morning of the New Dis
pensation. i~naugurated by Messiah's King
dom, the awakening of mankind will grad
ually proceed. Our Savior informs US that
His Church. the elect Bride. will constitute.
the First Resurrection. and that SUISSE
quently all that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall come ~fOrth-"every man In his
own ORDER in hts own rank. Eventually
all shall be brought forth and thus sheol
will be no more, hades will be destroyed:
as the Scriptures say, "Oh. sheol. will
be thy destruction!" (Hos. Kill. AZ Our
Lord declares hat He has the keys OF
hades-the rightful authority to open the
tomb and ultimately release all the pris-