Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-07-06

Inree COOS, equal IN power ana glory, |
could not be said TO send each other; |
neither would they pray to each other. |
as Jesus prayed to the Father-"Who In |
the days Of His flesh, when He had Of
fered up prayers and applications with |
strong cryings and tears unto Him lJe- |
hovahl that was able TO save Him from |
death. was heard in that He feared"
Cdebrews v. ~ An angel was sent 10 |
comfort Him and TO assure Him Of the |
Fathers love, that the Father had not |
forsaxen Him, that He was well pleasing |
In His sight. and that He should have |
glorious resurrection by the Fathers |
power in due time.
Our text proceeds to acknowledge our
Lord Jesus, saying to us. There Is one
Lord and Savior Jesus Chrisr-only one !
1.-THE Son Of the Highest" our gracious
Redeemer. THE chiefest among ten thou
sand, and the one altogether. lovely"-He |
who is TO be the Bridegroom, the King OF |
the future; He who is shortly 10 receive
the Church to Himself as a Bride and |
Joint-heir In His Kingdom: He who, as
King Of the world and as Lord OF tho
world, will reign for thousand years
and, backed by Divine power, will bring |
all into subsection to the Divine will
II IL He who will thus deliver up the
Kingdom to God, even the Father. that |
Jehovah may be All and In all, and that
the glorifed Christ may be at the right |
hand OF the Majesty on high-next to
the Father--and we as His glorined Bride
next to HIN, at HE right hand
The Logos-"First and Last"
The Scriptures very explicitly declare to
US that the Heavenly Father is from ever.
lasting to everlastng-G But not so
His creatures. From time to time He has
exercised His omnipotent Power and
Wisdom In variety Of creations. Neces-
Barily, however, these had a beginning
one was first, and the Bible most clearly
and repeatedly and distinctly tells US that
that first one, 'The Beginning Of the cre-
alton OF God" was the LogOs.
And the Bible explains that Jehovah's
First-Born Son was highly honored In
that tho Father used Him as the Channel
and Agency through whom all subsequent
creations were effected He II was who
was given the honorable commission and
privilege Of being mans Redeemer. and
Of thereby proving His loyalty to Jehovah.
and Of being exalted ~ the divine Nature,
'far above angels, princlpalitles and pow
ers." From tho very beginning He was
above all other creations effected through
Him; but by this last exaltation He at
tained. in His resurrection from the dead.
a place far and away above all others
next to the Father-at Gods right hand,
where He shall ever remain without a
peer
And, wonderful thought The Call OF
this Gospel Ago 10 to become heirs OF
God, and jolnt-heirs with Jesus Christ
our Redeemer. by manifestation Of His
spirit OF obedience to the Father. and
drinking the cup which the Father hath
poured. and thus attesting our loyalty TO
Jehovah and to His perfect will In all
things. even unto death
"Ths Losos Was a Cod
In the opening Of st. Johns Gospel we
have a record Of the greatness OF the
LOgos. And II Is much more clear and dis
tinct In tho Greek than In our English.
The word lo0os, | remind you, signifies
tho 'pord." the message" and hence In a
proper term for a special messenger In
oldon times kings addressed their people.
not directly, but through such messen.
ger. or logOs who stood before the king.
the latter being screened behind a lattice
work. AS tho lOOos or messenger received
the message from the king, he uttered or
proclaimed It to the people; hence he was
styled the loOos, the Word
This Is one OF the grandest titles given
log0s, or Messenger, or Mouthpleco lie
was the Channel Of the Highest In all
His dealings with the angels, and In His
creative work; and later He became to
men the Voice OF Him, who speaketh
from on high. for God hath spoken to
mankind peace, through the blood Of the
orosB OF Christ
Let ua read together the inspired rec
ord OF st. John Il, i-9, H. 10, ID "ln the
beginning was the LOgos and the Log0s was
with tho God, and tho Logos was god,
The same was In the beginning with me
God By Him were all things made
that were made and without Him was
not ono thing made . - And the LOg0s
was made flesh and dwet amongst ua,
and wo boheld His glory aa the glory OF
the Only Begotten OF the Father. full OF
grace and truth" He was In the world
Ind tho world was made by Him. and
tho world knew Him not lie came to
His own lpeople--the Jewsl and His own
received Him not. but 10 no many as ne.
coived Him, TO them gave lie liberty
| Iprlvegel TO become sons Of Cod lpar'
takers Of the divine nature-ll Peter T.
a, even to those who believe ON His
Name, who were begotten. not Of blood.
nor OF tho win Of the flesh. nor OF the
will Of man, but Of God-at Penteeost and
subsequently
How beautiful. simple and stralghtior-
ward and non-mysterioua Is the Divine
record respecting tho Father. the Son and
tho Holy Spirit and their absolute one
ness OF harmonyl How diferent from the
nonsense which for 40 long we endeavored
TO believe, because we thought II support
od by tho Biblol Good Brother Wesley
was one OF those honest souls who was
seriously troubled ON the subject lie re.
marked that only the one text John 4
Z could be used as foundation Tor this
doctrine He knew not that the difficulty
lay In an lnterpolatlon-on addition 80 the
Apostles words Il IL only IN compare.
lively recent years that the three orlglna'
/ Greek manuscripts have hcon brough, TO
light namely, the slnaltic, Vatican No
100 and the Aloxandrian
The Beginning OF Gods Creation.
Let w hearken to the Apostle pau's
statement respecting out dear Rvdremef
and His glorious station Tie uttered not
word favoring the absurd theory that
our Redeemer was His own Fnthrr ana
nls own Someone In person he declared
IN harmony with St Johns statement
that our Lord Jesus was the bepin-
ming Of the creation OF God" ,Revela
ton M. 40 g. Paul declared that Jo.
aua was 'rha First Born " every crea'
ture. that IN all things To might have
the presomlnenoo" tColosaans l. "a, IN
And whom In one OF hts statements he
spoke OF our Lord Jesus as though tie
were the Father. the Apostle promptly
followed tho statement with another. say
ING. "It Is manifest that the Father
IA excepted Il Corinthians ~ 90, IN all
comparisons, for a. Jesus declared. the
Father "a above all
Our lord Jesus own testimony " that
lie iR the First and the Last the Alpha
and the Omega, the Heglnnlng and the
End" OF tho Divine creation In Other
words. when the Father created the Son
/ fIa navor Afterwards dlrRafiV created nnV