The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-15
PASTOR DRAPER
TALKED AT BIJOU

A unique meeting was held at the
Bijou last night under the auspices Of
the international Bible Students as
ISOLATION which is becoming quite pop
ular in the city, Pastor Draper was
the speaker, n he took for his text
Eph. iii, II, and quoted: According
to a plan of the ages, which he form
ed for the Amounted Jesus, our Lord
The speaker said that we had not
been taught that our Father had a Sc
cret, but that he had been trying for
several thousand years to make plain
his purposes or plans concerning man,
and yet his own people were so con
fused over the matter that there are
between 500 and 700 different beliefs,
all purporting to come from the Bible,
the revealed plan of God. He said that
If the Bible was the plan of God, then
it should be one harmonious whole and
should reveal a plan far superior to
anything that man could conceive, and
SO from the chart of the ages we can
see that God has Systematically and
g~loriously planned, but that it was
necessary for him to keep each part
secret until the appointed time for it
to be revealed. We remember that
none of the princes knew, 'for had
they known they would not have cru
Gifted the Lord of glory 1 Cor. ii, 8.
We remember St. Peters words when
X ~ aGNlhp l. OH LAAohSI IS
norance We did it. as did also your
rulers" Acts iii, II, st. Paul also
called our attention to a mystery
which has been hid from ages and
from generations, but is now lin this
Gospel age) made manifest to his
saints" The speaker said, Our minds
have been much confused in the past
as to the definition saint. We have
been taught by religious. leaders that
a saint was n who after having been
dead for a long time was remembered
! as having done something notable and
then was brought up or c~anonized as
a saint, but now we know that the
word saint means one set apart to
a service; hence, those who are set
apart to Gods service must know
what the mystery is as our Lord de-
clared, Unto you it is given to know
the mysteries of the Kingdom oil
Heaven" Matt. xiii, II. When we look
back over the world for 5000 years
and take into consideration all per.
mission of evil and remember tina
GOD declared that all Of his purposes
Or plans) should be accomplished, i
would certainly be very mySteriou!
from the popular view II God had pur
posed or planned that all Of the unre.
generate a gone to a place Of eter'
nal misery or even to a place called
Purgatory and permitted them to liv,
in agony thousands of years, but Whel
we see from the Bible that God ha
given the whole human family a Iittl
experience with sin, suffering, signing
crying and dying; also a little sun
r shine. rain and blessings and then per
: mitted them to lie dow in sleep 81
!. the dust of the EARTH" Dan. xii, 2, an,
1 then will r~e-awaken them throug
Christ and will give them an expert
o ence with life, joy, peace, health, an
Z happiness so that they may be suffi
i. GENTLY qualified to choose which the
: would prefer for all eternity, eithe
life or death, then W. a appreciat
the statement Of Scripture that "Who
e soever will let him take the water c
x life. freely" Rev. xxi, II.
e The speaker showed from the Bib
that the selection of the church wa
the mysterious part of. Gods plan an
when the church had been selecte'
: proven and tried the mystery of Go
n would be finished. and in place of cor