The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-14

ture, similarly said to me. Truly maj
In his original perfection must have
been created in the image Of his Crea
tor. Ny visits to Rome impressed upor
ne the fact that although the wort
VI death has progressed In our race
nevertheless, In q measure the decay
Of the masses has by Divine provi
dence found compensation; for al
though We have no Michael Angeles
today we have legions who are inspir
cd by his example, and who have
copied him with wonderful success, &c
that today our treasures of art are
not only multitudinous but grand be
yond those Of any previous day.
The great st. Peters at Rome is 1t
self a treasury of art such as never be
fore was known in the world, besides
which all the great capitals Of Europe
abound with art galleries which illus
tats the power of the human mind
and the skill of the human hand in the
appreciation and execution Of the beau
tiful. And in this connection | must
not forget the similar treasures Of my
home land. America
Utilities Of Our Day.
But, my dear friends. you and are
living In a specially unitarian Age,
and for one am glad of it. The skill
Of humanity has during the last cen
fury been turned into a new channel,
which is making for us a new world
Instead Of the narrow streets and lanes
of a century ago, we have broad as
phalt avenues and boulevards; instead
Of ordinary houses of a century ago,
our cities are replete with handsome
and commodious residences that in
comparison are palaces. Beautiful.
graceful bridges span our great rivers
and serve to consolidate our interests.
Wonderful tunnels pierce our noun
tains and facilitate the movement Of
luxurious railway coaches. Palatial
steamers with regularity connect port
to port.
Often Of late I have found myself ad-
miring some Of our grand hotels and
palatial capitols and engineering feats
of bridge work and tunnels, saying to
myself the while, What is man? And
then reflect, If man in his fallen con
dition has learned gradually to accom-
plish 50 much. what may we reason
ably expect would have been the ulti
mate capacity Of perfect man had sin
not entered into the world, and had the
experience of centuries been accumu.
lsting in many brains! BY now how
wonderful b. Father Adam might
have been!
Times Of Resti.~ zion.
Then my mind reverted to the great
Creator and the Message He has given
US in His wonderful Book. the Bible
l remembered the inspired Message Of
that God looked down In
pity on us as race in our fallen cop.
dition and that He planned even before
our fall for our recovery as race from
the curse. from sin. from death.
hearkened to St. Peters words Of en-
respecting the glorious
blessings to be ushered in by the great
Redeemer when at His second advent
He shall take unto Himself His great
power and begin His Messianic reign
for the blessing, recovery and uplift OF
our race. will remind you of His
words. although you are familiar with
them. He said, Times Of refreshing
shall come from the presence Of the
Lord. and he shall send Jesus Christ
who before was preached unto you
whom the heavens must retain until
the Times of Restitution Of all things
which God hath promised by the mouth
of all His holy Prophets since the world
iii. 1921.
All. God is better than all our fears
During the Dark Ages terrible night
mare became associated with the glo
rious Gospel Of Gods love and mercy
revealed by Jesus and the Apostles
Under that nightmare we lost sight OF
all the glorious promises of the Bible
and lost our confidence in God becaus,
OF the terrible propositions declared t,
US to be His intentions toward our race
True, all acknowledged the hope tina,
a sanity few would attain an eterna
weight OF glory on the heavenly plane
but all the remainder except the SANITY
ones. the Elect. were consigned either
to a terrible purgatorial fire or to al
eternal holocaust of torture. Wha'
blasphemies against our God, the Goo
of Grace. we thus unwittingly, unde
siringly entertained.
The effect of these teachings in all
parts Of the world. in every religion
has been TO convert mans natura
quality of reverence for his Creator
into a terrible fear. and this fear has
more and more separated us from God
and the Bible.
Mankind and tho Church.
We are now coming to understand
more fully the Bible doctrine of cleo
ton and we see it to be not unjust
and cruel as 1t once appeared, bui
and nonelect The Divine Plan was
and still Is. universal Plan-a Plar
granting universal opportunity to
Adam and TO all his race for a recov
cry from the penalty Of sin-for a re
covery from sin and death to all thai
Father Adam had In the beginning
and which he lost through disobedi
encs, and which Jesus redeemed fol
him and his race at Calvary, anC
n, loh MI xrillinn nd ohod io.,