The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-07-03

" proceed from the Father. RE Is the
Source and Fountain, the Father of mer-
| cies. from whom cometh every good and
perfect gift" His great Gift 10 man
kind was the Gift OF His Son. our Lord
Jesus Christ. whom He sent into the
world TO be mans Redesmer.
| Three Gods. equal IN power ana glory.
could not be said to send each other:
neither would they pray to each other.
as Jesus prayed to the Father-"Who In
| the days Of His flesh, when He had Of
| fered up prayers and supplications with
strong cryingg and tears unto Him fJe-
hovahl that was able to save Him from
death, was heard in that He feared
| Hebrews v. ~ An angel was sent TO
comfort Him and to assure Him OF the
Fathers love. that the Father had not
| forsaken Him. that He was well pleasing
| In His sight, and that He should have q
glorious resurrection by tho Fathers
power In due time.
| Our text proceeds to acknowledge our
Lord Jesus. saying to us. There lie one
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ only one
1.-THE Son of the Highest" our gracious
Redeemer. THE chiefest among ten thou
| sand, and the one altogether lovely He
who is to be the Bridegroom. tbs King OF
| the future: He who is shortly 20 receive
Joint-heir in His Kingdom; He who, as
King of the world and as Lord Of the
world, will reign for a thousand years,
| and backed by Divine power. will bring
all into subsection to the Divine will
It is He who will thus deliver UP the
Kingdom to God. even the Father, that
Jehovah may be All and in all, and that
the yglorifed Christ may be at the right
hand of the Majesty on high-next to
the Father--and we as His glorified Bride
next to Him. at Hts right hand.
The Loeos-"First and Last"
The Scriptures very explicitly declare to
US that the Heavenly Father is from ever
lasting to everlasting-God. But not so
His creatures From time to time He has
exercised His Omnipotent Power and
Wisdom in variety of creations Neces-
sarily, however, these had beginning
one was first, and the Bible most clearly
and repeatedly and distinctly tells us that
that first one, 1.-THE Beginning OF the Gre
alton Of God" was the Looos
And the Bible explains that Jehovah 8
First-Born Son was highly honored. In
that the Father used Him as the Channel
and Agency through whom all subsequent
creations were effected. He 1t was who
was given the honorable commission and
privilege of being mans Redeemer. and
of thereby proving His loyalty to Jehovah.
and of being exalted to the divine nature.
"far above angels. principalities and pow
ers. From the very beginning He was
| above all other creations effected through
Him: but by this last exaltation He at
tanned, In His resurrection from the dead.
a place far and away above all others
next to the Father-at Gods right hand.
| where He shall ever remain without q
peer. .lcs1. 5tf4.
And. wonderful thought! The Call OF
this Gospel Age is to become heirs Yof
God, and joint-heirs., with Jesus Christ
our Redeemer. by manifestation of His
spirit of obedience to the Father, and
drinking the cup which the Father hath
poured. and thus 'attesting our loyalty to
Jehovah and to His perfect, will in, al
| things, even unto death.'ssa t~-a.i
"Ths Logos Was / God" tafi
In the opening OF St Johns Gospel we
| have a record of the greatness of the
Lo0os1 And 1t is much more clear and dis
tinot in the Greek than In our English.
| The word logos l remind you, signifies
the 'toord." the message" and hence is a
proper term for a special messenger. In
| olden times kings addressed their people.
not directly. but through such a messen-
ger, or iogos. who stood before the king.
the latter being screened behind lattice
work AS the lo0os or messenger received
the message from the king. he uttered or
proclaimed 1t to the people: hence he was
styled the logos. the Word.
| This is one of the grandest titles given
to our Redeemer. He was the Fathers
logos, or Messenger. or Mouthpiece. He
was the Channel of the Highest In all
His dealings with the angels. and in His
| creative work: and later He became 10
men the Voice of Him who speaketh
from on high. for God hath spoken to
mankind peace, through the blood OF the
| cross of Christ.
| Let us read together the inspired rec
ord of st. John Il. l-3. "A. 10. Id, I'm the
beginning was the Logos and the aLOgos was
with the God, and the Logos, was god,
| The same was In the beginning with the
God. BY Him were all things made
| that were made; and without Him was
not one thing made. -. And the Logo,
| was made flesh and dwelt amongst us,
| and we beheld His glory. as the glory OF
the Only Begotten of the Father. full OF
grace and TRUTH ''He was In the world
and the world was made by Him. and
the world knew Him not, He, came to
His own [people-the Jewsl and His own
| received Him not: but to many as re-
ceived Him. to them gave He liberty
| [privilegel to become sons of God" lpar'
| takers of the divine nature-II Peter l.
A. even to those who believe on His
Name. who were begotten not of blood
nor of the will of the flesh. nor of the
will of man. but of God-at Pentecost and
subsequently.
How beautiful simple and straightfor'
ward and non-mysterious is the Divine
record respecting the Father. the Son anc
the Holy Spirit, and their absolute one
| ness or harmony! How different from the
nonsense which for so long we underworld
| to believe, because we thought 1t support
ed by the Bible! Good Brother Wesley
was one of those honest souls who was
seriously troubled on the subject He re-
marked that only the one text. | John s
! Z, could be used as a foundation for thi:
doctrine. He knew not that the difficulty
| lay In an interpolation-an addition to tn,
| Apostles words. 1t Is only in compare
| lively recent years that the three origina
Greek manuscripts have been brought te
| light, namely, the Snaitic. Vatican No
1909 and the Alexandrian
The Beginning of Gods Creation.
| Let us hearken to the Apostle Paufs
statement respecting our dear Redeemei
and His glorious station. He uttered moi
a word favoring the absurd theory tina
our Redeemer was His own Father anc
| His own Someone in person. He declared
| in harmony with St. Johns Statement
| that our LORD Jesus was "the Begin
ming Of the creation of God" (Revela
| ton Ill., IA ST. Paul declared that Je
| sus was 1.-THE First-Born OF every crea
ture. that in all things He might hav'
! the pre-eminence" (Colossians 1. Is, 49,
And when in one of his statements hi
| spoke of our Lord Jesus as though H,
| usnt he Eat fha OF Ia t,rnYt anti 4