Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-05-30

wheat. After the IN BenjGmt"'s
/ brethren had got sdck'"
ten fairly started homeward, Joseph
+ sent servants to demand his cup.
The brethren protested their inno-
cence and declared that il the cup
were found in their possession, they
would willingly become slaves. The
search was made. and the cup found,
In great distress the company wended
It's way back to the palace
Again Joseph was austere and re
proved them, that they might have or
portunity to abandon Benjamin. Pro
testing innocence, they declared their
willingness to become Josephs slaves
But he answered that only the guilty
one - BENJAMIN - should become his
4 slave, and that the rest should return
home, and continue to enjoy the favors
/ Of Egypt. This proposition he knew
would test them. Had they the same
/ heartlessuess that they had exhibited
i when they sold him into slavery?
Then Judah, who had pledged him
self that Benjamin should return in
safety. made an eloquent appeal, and
I entreated that he be accepted as a
slave in Beniamin's stead. He ended
/ with the question, How shall I go up
to my father, and the lad be not with
i me? lest see the evil that shall be
fall my father"
The evidence Of a change of heart
+ was satisfactory to Joseph, and is to us
, all. Those who love righteousness re-
joice in righteousness, as those who
love sin rejoice in It. When we per-
ceive so marked a change in those
men. we rejoice, not only for their
sakes. but also at the general lesson
furnished. The conviction is borne in
upon us that much of the sin, the
/ meanness. the cruelty of today may be
attributed to inherited weaknesses and
immature experience. We say, How
great a change would probably be eff
/ fected by broader, deeper knowledge
of ourselves and others"
And do not life's daily experiences
tend to give US the broadening of sym
pathles, and thus character-develop-
ment? Doubtless there are exceptions
/ to every rule but it is our conviction
that a sufficiency of the likeness of
I God remains in every member of our
race to permit him at times to appre-
ciate the good, the noble, the pure. 1t
+ is because he is surrounded by sin and
selfshness that these godlike senti-
ments are so rarely brought into ex-
erCise.
When Will Men Profit?
Some will say. Admitting that life's
trials teach men the sinfulness of sin
and the wisdom Of righteousness, where
would be the profit Of such instruction
if only the sanity, who walk in Jesus
footsteps under a covenant Of self-sac-
riice, are to share in the Kingdom?
How will the remainder of the race
profit by their experiences, if death
ends all hope?'
The answer is that We have made a
mistake respecting the teachings of the
Bible. The Scriptures nowhere say that
all hope Of salvation ends when we fall
asleep in death. So far as the Church
/ is concerned, it is true that death ends
their probation. But this is not true
concerning. the world. The Church
alone is now on trial. The worlds trial
time will be in the next Age.
ChristS Reign will he the great thou
sand-year Day, in which will be deter
mined the worthiness or unworthiness
Of everlasting life of all humanity.
Those found worthy will eventually
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