The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-04-27

suffer all the more from the shame
and ignominy connected with the mis-
sion He undertook.
AS it was not a babe, but a man
that had sinned and was to be re-
deemed, therefore Jesus needed to
wait until He cached manhood's es-
tate-thirty years-before He could
begin His ministry. Promptly at 80
He made His conservation, and SYM
bolized it by water immersion at Jor-
dan. Then He went forth, declaring
the message which He knew would
be misunderstanding message of
, Gods love, the message that there
must be a sacrifice for sin, the mes
sage that He was the in-offering, the
message that as a result of that sin
offering, blessed fruitage afterward
would come, in the millennial king
dom, which would bless all the fam
lilies of the earth.
AS He foreknew, mankind, even the
best prepared-the Jewish people
We're not ready for the message. Thus,
as He foresaw and as the Scriptures
foretold, they crucified Him-tgnor-
antly-for as st. Paul declares: Had
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crucified the Lord of glory q Cor
inthians 2:S.) st. Paul reminds US
that we should consider Christ's un-
deservedness of persecution. lest We
should re weary and faint in our
minds Similar experiences must to
some extent come upon us. And if
He who was perfect endured patiently,
we who are imperfect may well eXer-
else great patience. And so in our
ext the exhortation is that we per-
ctive how Jesus humbled Himself,
and that We should think it a great
privilege and pleasure similarly to ex-
p%erience humiliations.
Rewards of Humility and Loyalty.
No doubt the Logos, the beginning
of the creation of God" the first
born of every creature" the one by
whom all things We're made, had such
loyalty to the Father that He would
rave been obedient, even had no re-
ward been. attached to the invitation
given Him. But, on the other hand,
it would not have been consistent
with kindness, love or justice for the
Father to demand of His Son such 4.
sacrifice. Justice can make no such
demand. And if love makes such a
suggestion, it should properly back
up the suggestion with some prom
Use of special favor Or blessing. Ac-
cording to the apostle, God did just
this. He informed His Son that He
would appreciate such a sacrifice, and
set before Him a joy, a hope.
The apostle does not explain the
details of that hope, but we may infer
them: % The joy of the Fathers
blessing in a superlative sense. (2)
The joy of bringing many sons of
God to the plane of glory as His
bride class. (3) The joy of rescuing
the world of mankind from sin, sick
ness, sorrow, pain, death and of up
lifting, or resurrecting all the willing
and obedient of the race to human
perfection, and all that was lost by
Adam. 4) An exaltation to a still
higher station thai that which He
had left. He would be made partaker
of the divine nature, far above angels,
~principalities and powers, and above
His w previous high station as the
only begotten of the Father, the Lo-
gos-the Word. (John 1:1-3.)
we olN, ( bltllli eli, Will
the apostles words and the full scope
of his inspired testimony before us.
He tells us that if we desire to be of
the glorious class of more than con-
querors, who will be honored by the
Redeemer, we must humble ourselves
to the doing of the divine will to the
best of our ability, as our Redeemer
humbled Himself to do the Fathers
Will perfectly. Not that the Father
will accept anything less than p%erfec-
ton, but that u Redeemer will make
up to us by the imputation of His
righteousness for all that which we
lack through our share in Adams fall
and its consequence. In other words,
If we have the same loyalty of heart
that the Master had, we will do what
we can, and so doing shall be ac-
ceptable to the Father, through the
Son.