The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24

creatures as has the God of the Bible
the God of Christianity. 1t is the Love
of God which constrains us-draws us
And His exceeding great and precious
promises work in our hearts both to
will and to do His good pleasure" And
this is the test His wisdom has pro-
vided. Although Messiah will use CO,
ercion to some extent during His reign
of thousand years, yet the Heavenly
Father will not use coercion in respect
to any of these sons whom He is now
inviting. He seeketh such to worship
Him as worship Him in spirit and in
truth-such as need no coercion-such
as delight to know and to do the will
Of the Father in Heaven-such as in
these respects are copies of His Son,
the Redeemer.
The Narrow Way Of Sacrifice.
But, although God will not urge,
force or compel any to be sons on this
high plane of the divine nature, He
does, to the contrary, set obstacles in
the way and make the way narrow"
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their Leader. He does this for the
very purpose of hindering any from
coming except the class which He spe-
cially desires. His Message is through
Jesus, eff any man will be My disci-
pie, let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow Me-" Again the
Apostle expresses the Fathers terms,
saying, 81 beseech you, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that we present
your bodies living sacrifices, holy and
acceptable to God, your reasonable
service" Again says the Master,
Strait is the gate and narrow is the
way that leadeth unto life, and few
there be that find it."
Surely we cannot say that these
stringent restrictions are unreasonable
How could we expect our gracious
Creator to want any except the most
loyal of heart and most faithful and
obedient to be associated with the
Lord of Life and Glory in His glorious
Kingdom work? This is the only call
ing which God has yet opened to hui
manity, and not until this elect class
shall have been completed will the
worlds blessing be due to begin. 1t is
my understanding Of the Scriptures
that the time for making our calling
and election sure to this Kingdom
class is now very short. 1t therefore
behoOves all who desire this glorious
relationship with Messiah to "give all
diligence" and to run with patience
the race set before u.s. in the Gospel.
looking unto Jesus the Author Of our
faith, until He become the finisher.
The Non elect Also Exhorted.
The wonderful blessings of our day,
which make it so different from any
other Epoch in the worlds history,
have reached even here to China, and
we now see what already appear to
be the beginnings Of wonderful things.
Evidently Divine Power, within the
past century. has been lifting the veil,
because we are just on the threshold
Of the New Dispensation-because the
Church (the elect sons Of Cod is about
complete--because "the manifestation
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"groaning creation" is at hand-be-
cause Messiah's Kingdom glory is
about to be ushered in. The blessings
of the present are only foretaste Of
those glorious blessings for the world
Of mankind. Oh, what compensations
our loving God has provided for all the
lessons of. sin and sorrow, pain and
death! He has promised that the
former things shall be removed, nor
can the mind comprehend what the
glory of the future things will be!
So then, to the patient, persevering,
civil Chinese, my message is an assur-
ance that Gods blessing is nigh at
hand. For eighteen centuries He has
been pouring out His Holy Spirit upon
these sanity ones, His servants and
handmaidens, for their comfort and joy
and preparation for the Kingdom glory
The next thing in order is the pouring
out Of His spirit upon all flesh; that
will include your race and all the fam
lilies of the earth.
1 cannot hope that many Of you will
feel drawn to become footstep follow
ers of the lowly Nazarene, and even if
many Of you should so desire, we have
the assurance of the Scriptures that
the entire number will be but ''little
flock;" but I do set before you the
glorious prospects of human Restitu-
ton to all that was lost by Adam, to
all that was redeemed at Calvary. l
admonish you that all development Of
character you may make at the present
time means so much of preparation and
advancement for the future, and that
all violation of conscience and antag-
Onism to the principles of righteousness
will work to your disadvantage In the
future.
Therefore as the Scriptures enioln,
seek meekness, seek righteousness; 1t
may be that we shall be hid in the day
of the Lords anger" (Zephaniah H. 81
The day of Divine anger and special
retribution is In the close Of this Age
at the Inauguration of the Kingdom.
The whole world of mankind will
then be transferred into the hands Of
Messiah, who will take them just as
they are. They will be in various con-
ditions. Some will be more depraved,
others less depraved; some will be more
scared in their consciences and some
less. and these deficiencies of charac ter