Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-12-14
Pastor RusseIl's Sermon


nourish, sustain, care for supervise
the interests of mankind In the Re.
generation,
Is 1t any wonder. IN view Of the work
that God has outlined for His Son and
for the Church, that He should consid.
er 1t necessary to give US lessons and
tests in faith in loyalty, in obedience?
Is 1t any wonder, in view Of the work
which He has for US to do for man.
kind, that He declares that the Re
deemer Himself was given deep exper.
lences in suffering, that He might be a
faithful and merclful High Priest in
the things Of God In relation to hui
manity? All, indeed, when we come
to understand the high calling of God
to the Church and the great work Of
God that is to be accomplished for and
In the world OF mankind, we are amaz-
ed! Our souls cry out "True and right
eous are Thy ways Lord God Al.
mighty! Who shall not come and wor.
ship before Thee when Thy
righteous dealings shall be made man.
ifest!"-Revelatlon xy, H.
The New Order Of Things.
Guided by the Divine Word, the eye
Of faith may see, not only the Church
In great glory with her Lord, but also
the operation Of the Divine Plan in the
blessing Of humanity. First in the
Kingdom will be the Redeemer Him.
self, King Of kings, and Lord Of lords.
Next to Him, as His Queen Consort,
will be the Elect Little Flock, the
sanity ones of all nations, having His
Fathers name In their foreheads. I'm
seen Of men, their knowledge will be
infinite, as 1t is written: "He shall not
judge by the hearing Of the ear, nel-
ther by the sight of the eye, but He
shall judge righteous judgment"
Then next to these will be the Great
Company, who will do work of super
ylsIng the affairs Of the children Of
Christ; for as mother may have
maid for an assistant, 50 also will the
Bride OF Christ have these assistants,
We read In the Scriptures that the
Bride rs all glorious Within" and that
she shall be brought into the presence
Of the Great King, Jehovah, in raiment
"inwrought with gold" Gold is sym
bollcal Of the Divine nature. We read
that "the virgins, her companions that
follow her" shall also be brought into
the Kings presence.-Psalm xiv, 0-15.
As Isaac typlAed our Lord Jesus, and |
as Rebecca typlned the Church, so Re
becca's maids typihed these virgins,
her companions" corresponding serv-
ice to the Levltes of old All these !
will be on the spirit plane-invisible
to men. The Heavenly Host will be
quite sufficient to serve the interests
Of the redeemed race, whose regenera-
tlon to human perfection will be their
work for thousand years
"Prinoes In All the Earth"
But while the Kingdom Of God will
be spiritual, 1t will have earthly repre-
sCntatIyes, who will be perfect, and
thus ensumples Of what Regeneration
will mean to the willing and obedlent.
These Princes God has already selected
from amongst men. They are compOs-
ed Of the Worthless of mankind who
lived before pentecost, when the spirit
bogcttal first came to the Church as a
result of Jesus appearing before the
Father us her Adyocate-psulm xiv, 10.
Who We're these one-time fathers who
become the children? The Scriptural
answer Is that Abraham Isaac, Jacob,
and the Prophets were called the faith
nrs; that when Jesus came He was
the child Of David and Abraham ac-
'ordlng TO the flesh, through His moth
'T and that those Worthless, therefore,
were His fathers according to the flesh.
But they are not His fathers according
to the spirit They have had nothing
whatever to do with His present gen
'ration ms New Creature, begotten Of
The Holy Spirit to the Divine nature.
They ure His fathers no longer. They
IN turn will get their life from the glo-
ilicd Messiah; hence they viii be His
receiving their everlasting
lie from Him, the Redeemer, tho Life.
yiycr the Second Adam.
Because Of their loyalty and faithful.
lcss TO God in their day we have the
estimony that they pleased God. New.
they could not enter into any
blessings until the rcdemptive work is
iuJshcd Neither could they follow
leNt to the Redeemer; for that place, In
he Fathers program, was arranged for
he Bride. the Lambs Wife. Thus st.
Paul tells us that God has reserved
.omc better thing for us than for them,
md that they without us viii not be
made perfect Hebrews xi, SS-4O.
But when the Church has been glorl-
led, and the Kingdom shall have been
ON the spirit plane, the next
hing IN order will be the blessing OF
he Ancient Worthless. They will be
he first members OF the human family
o receive resurrection, which will be
instantaneous, because they have al.
ady been approved by the Divine
tNndards. Not having been begotten
It the Holy Spirit they will not be
put beings In the resurrection, but
euect men, AS such these will be
'ringes In all the earth superior to the .
ematnder OF the race The Great Mes
iUh win appoint them to be Princes,
hjets or rulers amongst men. They
.tll constitute the earthly phase OF the
Kingdom of Messiah Men win see
hem ma receive their instructions
trough them, but win not see the real,