The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-03-27

afternoon, to hear the report Of this
Committee respecting Its findings. A
full report Of the same will be given
in these columns. Pastor Russell's dis
course today was reminiscent Of Ara.
bia as the Cradle of our Race. His
text was: "As all tn Adam die, even
so all in Christ shall be made alive;
every man in his own order."-l CORN.
thians XIV, %, %.
The Land Whore Man Lost Life.
Arabia is accredited with being the
ancient Eden, eastward In which was
the specially prepared Garden where
In our first parents had their triai--not
for q reward Of heaven or a punish
ment of eternal torment, but for re-
ward of everlasting life under perfect
earthly conditions, or for a penalty of
death. Here man, created very good, In
the image Of his Creator, sinned and
became subject to the penalty Of sin
1.-THE soul that sinneth, it shall die"
Here also is Mount Aararat, on which
the ark rested after the food and
! from which came forth the family of
Noah to people the earth afresh. Thus
was Arabia twice the Cradle Of man
kind.
Here is the fertile Mesopotamia,
which Father Abraham left at the Di-
vine invitation, to sojourn In Palestine
to the north, under promise to become
the heir of Divine favor, the father of
the faithful, whose now glorified Seed
the great Messiah, has already redeem
ed the world and is yet to take the
Throne of earth and, during the thou
sand years, conquer sin and death and
lift up from degradation and the grave
Adam and his race.
This is the same Arabia made ia
nous by the tales of the Arabia
Nights, and where also is the tomb of
Mohammed, whose followers rival in
numbers the followers Of Jesus and
still trust in a promise made to Abra-
ham, and, like the Jews, wait still for
Like the Israelites they are blind to the
fact that, before Messiah could bless
and heal and upiift the world, 1t was
necessary that He redeem them with
His own life, and select from amongst
men q spiritual class to be His Bride
and joint-heir In His glorious King
dom.
And now as the day draws near that
the curse shall be lifted from the
world, when ''the wilderness shall bios
som as the rose and the solitary place
shall be glad we behold this Land of
the most ancient civilization awaking.
The ruins OF its ancient cities, Nineveh
and Babylon, are yielding to modern
research the records OF thirty five hun
bred years ago, while modern engineers
and modern capital are at work upon
vast irrigation schemes costing mil
lions Of money, which they tell US will
make that land fruitful and fertile as
the Garden Of the Lord. Are we not
thus witnesses Of the beginning Of the
long promised "tipsee Of restitu tAou II
all things which God AaHh spoken BY
the mouth Of all the holy PnsSAs<s
since the world began F-Acts hi 10
81.
nSGcWPtton by TITS oIoeO.
When could we more appropriately
consider the Divine provision for our
race than when considering this land,
the Cradle Of our Race, where the fall
took place, where the ruin began which
has filled the earth with sin, selfish.
ness, sorrow and dying? All, surely
we greatly erred when we supposed
that a greater penalty for sin was
needed or intended by our Maker than
the penalty we are experiencing. What
more could man lose than our race as
whole has lost? Created in relation
ship with God as son and heir Of the
appropriate blessings of the Almighty
Father, Adam and his race lost that
precious relationship-los Divine ia
vor, Divine communion, Divine care.
and were plunged into death condem-
nation as strangers. aliens, convicts,
dict. Dying. thou shalt die"
How sternly Divine Justice held to
that verdict. How relentlessly, how
pitilessiy the forces of nature were al
lowed to play havoc with man In
eerthquakeg drouths, famines, pesti-
lences and hereditary diseases: For
more than two thousand years the
great Heavenly Parent showed man
kind only His Justice and naught of
His Love And then the first declara-
ton OF the Gospei-ths first mention
that Divine favor would vet rescue