Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-01-16


past. We are in the very dawning of
the morning of Messiah's Kingdom,
which is TO bless the world The ris-
ing of the sun of Righteousness is to
bring the New Day of emancipation
from ignorance, superstition and death.
The more awake we become the more
clearly do we see the beauty of Gods
Word and the ridiculous inconsistency
of things we once believed
st. Paul explains to US why Satan
strives to put darkness for light and
light for darkness. He explains why
Satan represents himself as an angel of
light and endeavors to besmirch the
Divine character and to make God the
very personifcation of wickedness and
injustice. 1t is a part of his general
endeayor to thwart the Divine Plan, to
mislead those who are seeking to know
God. Heaken to the Apostles words:
''The god of this world hath blinded
the minds Of them that believe not,
lest the glorious light of Gods good
ness. as it shines in the face of Jesus
Christ our Lord, should shine into their
hearts Ill Corinthians, iv. A.
In proportion as humanity miscon-
ceives Gods character and His Word,
in that same proportion they will shun
the Bible and its God. and thus get
away from the faith and hope revealed
in the Bible. AS have told you. had
my own bitter experiences along this
/ fhanl- Eo
salve" and for the glorious vision of
the Divine character and Plan which
now stands out so distinctly before the
eyes of my understanding!
Good Tidings of Great Joy.
The Gospel of the Bible. the Message
of the great God, Infinite in Justice,
Wisdom. Love and Power. is a Mes
sage of grace. Of mercy. as has EN-
anated from no other quarter-such as
no other religious book In the world
presents. And what else should we ex-
pect than that the great Supreme Be
ing would be a Fountain of grace, of
blessing to His dependent creatures
1t should not surprise us, then, to find
the Bible clearly teaching that the God
of all Grace has in store for humanity
great blessings-'times of restitution
of all things spoken by the mouth Of
all the holy Prophets since the world
began" (Acts iii, 1920.
Another Message should not surprise
us; it is the message that was sung by
the angels on the night of Jesus birth.
Behold. we bring you good tidings of
great Joy, which shall be unto al peo-
ple'-the thousands of millions of the
Chinese included! 1t is joy to me to be
permitted to tell this glorious Message
to such as have the ear to hear it. 1t
is a further joy to me that in the Di-
vine arrangement the time is coming
when "all the deaf ears shall be I'M
stopped" and when the clear knowl-
edge of Gods goodness shall fill the
earth as the waters cover the deep.
God first told this Message of His
benevolent designs toward humanity
about thirty-siX hundred years ago,
when He declared to His friend Abra-
ham. intend to bless all the families
of the earth. and this shall be done
through your pOSterity-"ln thee and
in thy Seed shall the families of the
earth be blessed" The natural seed
of Abraham was first developed and
instructed. and consequently uplifted,
under a Low Covenant. This arrange
ment prepared the natural seed Of
Abraham more than others of the
worlds peoples to receive Jesus; hence.
when He presented Himself, and when
afterward His message was proclaimed
by His twelve Apostles, approximately
sixteen thousand Jews became His
foOtstep followers. were begotten of
the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and after,
and thus became members of the Spir.
itual Seed of Abraham.
The Number In the First Resurrection,
But this number was short of the
Divine intentional hundred and
forty-four thousand" Revelation
xiv Hence in due time, the Mes
sage of grace and the privilege of be-
coming members of the Spiritual Seed
of Abraham was extended to one ma
ton after anOther-to the Jew first,
but also to as many as the Lord our
God has called, of every nation, people,
kindred and tongue. This elect num-
Der of spirit begotten followers of Je-
sus will very soon be completely chang
ed by the glorious First Resurrec-
ton, when this mortal and corruptible
shall put on Immortality. All those
found faithful will be made partakers
of the divine nature, far above angels,
principalities and powers-associates
with the Redeemer. (Ephesians i, 21.)
Then the Seed of Abraham will be
completed and qualified for its great
work Of blessing the race.
st. Paul declares, Know We not that
the saints shall judge the world? e.
Corinthians vi, p The judging will be
in the nature of trial or testing to de-
termine how many of humanity can be
helped up to human PERFECTION and har-
mOny with God and everlasting life.
and how many unworthy win be de-
stroyed in the Second Death God, who
has elected these kings, priests and
judges, has appointed a Day in which
they shall rule. bless, instruct. judge
mankind in general 1t will be the
thousand years of Messiahs Kingdom.
iUT "A day with the Lord is as a thou
sand years."-GI Peter iii. Z, 81
1t affords me great pleasure to have
the opportunity of delivering this Mes
sage of the grace of God in this, the
Chinese Paris. May the Lord bless it.
n5t only to the Chinese. but to all who
have hearing ears and hearts appre-
ciative o. the Divine character May it
assist some in making their calling
and election sure" to membership in
the 'littIe flock" to whom the Kingdom
is soon to lie given. May it favorably
influence others that they may walk
nobly. reasonably. and be the better
prepared to receive the Kingdom bless