The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-03-07

IEIsSNt&XA yssWtsl This is their third
I8HVEyA&]&&L%X%sN week in India and
yGNLE9&2N&kAEs10k%l they have ALREADY
lCRAsI02 oUSsELD) travelled near 2,@,
miles. They are
keenly interested
in the heather and in the bible, but they
declined to give I'm advance any hint of
what their report will be as respects the
missionary work here.
Pastor Russell, chairman of the com.
nittee, preached twice today to large ana
attentive audiences in our finest audlto.
rum. One Of his addresses, from Jer. TX.
%, "a. we report. He said:
Your City OF Palaces" greatly i'm.
presses me. as doubtless It does all who
visit II. But as / look at its splendor I
am reminded If that portion of my text
which declares, Let him that glorieth
glory in this, that he Tnderstandeth and
knoweth Me, that 1 am the lord, which
exerciseth loving kindness, judgment and
righteousness in the earth" Wherever
we go re perceive that man. by virtue Of
his creation, is a worshiper. The organs
of reverence developed and much shat.
tered by ignorance and superstition. are
to be found in the organism of every man.
My journey to this city has impressed
this thought deeply.
I stopped en- route at Juggernaut: the
very name called up the stories of my
childhood which so greatly aroused my
sympathies for the poor heather. Mis-.
sionary reports told of how in ignorance
the natives would throw themselves he.
fore the great Car Of Juggernaut. feeling
1t an honor to thus sacrifice their lives.
And now. here am / on the Gauges river,
of which in childhood / heard so much
that thrilled my heart with sympathy
how mothers threw their babes into the
Gauges, not because they had no sympa-
tiny with their offspring, but because they
desired to sacrifice to and propitiate their
gods. Now that I am here ! do thank
God that, although the heather nave not
been converted to a true knowledge Of
the great Jehovah, they have. neverthe-
less, come under the strong hand of the
British government, which whatever its
defects. seeks at least to protect its sub
tects from the extremes of their own L.
norance and superstition.
1.-THE Desire Of All Nations"
While 1t is true that the worst form of
government imaginable is preferable to
anarchy, and while 1t Is also true that the
British government Is amongst the most
just in the world. nevertheless, no gov
ernrrynt that fallen man has ever made
or CAN make cali ever satisfy the ideals
of the more intelligent. Hence for GEN.
turtles the heather world has dreamed Of
Golden Age to come and bible students
have rejoiced in the Divine promise that
the Messianic Kingdom will follow our
present arrangement and hat 1t will
prove to be 1.-The desire of all nations
Since We perceive the ignorance and su-
perstition of heathendom, our hearts cry
out for the promised reign of Messiah and
the blessing that then will accrue to man
kind. The very best that we have yet at
tained in the most civilized n comes
far short of the Divine promise Of the con-
ditions to prevail as a result of Messiah's
rule. Then all ignorance, all superstition,
all sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death shall
be abolished and, finally. the wilfully
wicked destroyed In the second death, the
time will have come when Gods will shall
be dom on earth as fully as it is now
done in HEAVIER
"NoN We Know in Part"
st. Paul wrote, Now we know in part,
but then we shall know even as also we
are known" q Cor. xiii, 12.) Alas! How
every true Christian must realize how his
own knowledge of God and that of his
forefathers has so slightly exceeded the
knowledge Of the heather, that he found
It difficult to glory in his understanding
of God. Only those who are adherents
10 tIS utCldI dtlOhS VI lit plUic that pOu
is Love-" that His mercy endureth ever,
tina He is like a plying father, that He
is a God Of All Grace, the Father Of
Mercies. whose loving kindness we cannot
measure-only such have the assurances
which enable them TO offset the horrible
theories of our creeds formulated in a
darker past, and which told us more hor-
rible things respecting our God and His
treatment of mankind than our poor
heather brethren ever imagined.
But now the better day is dawning! We
are seeing the glorious outlines of the Di-
vine character in the Divine Plan as never
before! Our hearts first led the way and
rebelled against the dictum of our fal.
lacious reasoning. And now, in Gods due
time, when nature Is yielding up her Sc
erets and chemistry is making the world
anew, behold the key to the Divine Word
is thrust into our hands. unlocking its
mysteries and explaining its parabolic
symbols to our astonished faith!
Knowing Our God.
Our Redeemer declared, This is life
eternal, that they might know Thee, the
only true and living God, and Jesus
Christ, whom Thou hast sent" Evidently
the great Teacher had in mind the thought
of our text-not merely a knowledge about
God, but an acquaintanceship with Him,
such as can come only through a fellow
ship of spirit and an understanding of the
Divine Program.
Thus knowledge Is intimately bound up
with our eternal prospects. Earth's teem-
ing millions know not God. Even those
portions called Christian. worship the true
God with but. slight appreciation of His
true character. None Of these. therefore.
are In the condition to claim everlasting
life according to the teaching OF the Mas
ter. They are the non-elect, In contrast
with the faithful few. who are Scriptural-
ly styled Gods Elect" 1.-The Vesy
Elect and who are urged to make Their
calling and election sure by persevering
loyalty even unto death.
In our blindness of the past. assuming
that all the non-elect would be consigned
10 an eternity of torture, we nave pub
lished in our missionary reports that go
600 every day go dow in death, into
Christless graves-and. by inference, into
eternal torture. Alas, how misunder-
stood and how unintentionally misrepre-
.sented has been our gracious Father, the
God Of All Grace, the Father Of Mercies!
Now we read Gods character in fairer
lines. Now we perceive that for l,WW
years. the Elect, on the heavenly plane,
invisible to men. like unto the angels,
will live and reign with Christ (Rev. Xxx, y
for the blessing Of the non-elect-for their
uplifting from conditions of sin and i'm
perfection back to the glorious heights OF