The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-05

work that God has outlined for His
Son and for the church, that He
should consider it necessary to give
us lessons and tests in faith, In low
atty, in obedience? Is it any wonder,
In view of the work which He. has
for us to do for mankind. that He
declare s that the Redeemer Himself
was given deep experiences in suffer
ing, that He might be a faithful and
mercifu1 high priest in the things OF
God in relation to humanity? All,
indeed, when we come to understand
the high calling of God to the church
ard III. great work of God that is to-
to be accomplished for and in the
world of mankind, we are amazed!
Our souls cry out, True and righte-
Gus are Thy ways, Lord God AL
misntyt Who shall not come and
worship before Thee = when
Thy righteous dealing shall be made
manifest!'-Revelation XIV, 4.
The New Order of Things.
Guided by the Divine Word, the eye
of faith nay see, not only the church
in great glory with her Lord, but also
the operation of the Divine plan in
the blessing of humanity, First in
the Kingdom will be the Redeemer
Himself, King of kings, and Lord of
lords. Next to Him, as His queen
c%onsort, will be the elect little flock,
the sanity one. of all nations, having
His Fathers name in their foreheads.
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be infinite, as it is written: He
shall not judge by the hearing of the
Ell. neither by the sight of the eye,
bat Ia shall judge righteous iudg-
ment."
Then next to these will be the great
company. who will do a work of
supervising the affairs of the children
OF Christ, for as a mother may have Il
maid for an assistant. so also will the
bride of Christ have these assistants,
We read in the scriptures that the
bride lis all glorious Within" and that
she shall be brought into the pres
cnce of the Great King, Jehovah, in
raiment ''inwrought with gold" Gold
is Synholical Of the Divine nature.
We read that the virgins, her COM
panions that follow her" Shall also
be brought into the Kings presence.-I
Psalm xiv, 9-15.
As Isaac typified Jul Lord Jesus
and as Rebecca typified these "vir-
gins, her companions a correspond
ing service 20 the Levites Of old. All
these will be on the spirit plane-in-
visible to men. The Heavenly Host
will he quite sufficient to serve the
interests of the redeemed race, whose
to human perfection will
their work for a thousand wears.
"Princes In All the Earth"
But While the Kingdom of God will
be spiritual, it will have earthly rep
resentatives, who will be perfect, and
ensamples Of what regeneration
will mean to the willing and obedient.
These princes God has already Sc
lected from amongst men. They are
composed of the worthless of mankind
who lived before Pentecost, when the
spirit begettal first came to the
church as a result of Jesus appearing
before the Father as her Advocate
Psalm xiv, 16.
Who We're these one-time fathers
who become the children? The scrip
Jacob and the prophets were called the
fathers; that when Jesus came He was
he child of David and Abraham ac-
cording to the flesh, through His
mother; and that these worthless,
therefore, Were His fathers according
to the flesh. But they are not His
according to the spirit. They
had nothing whatever to do with
His present generation as a new crea-
tUre, begotten of the Holy Spirit to
Divine. nature. They are His
no longer. They in turf will
get their life from the slorified Mes
receiving their everlasting life from
liirn, the Redeemer, tho Live-giver, the
Second Adam.
Because of their loyalty and faith
fulness to God in their day we have
the TESTIMONY that they pleased God.
Nevertheless they could not enter into
any blessings until the redemptive
work is finished. Neither could they
follow next to the Redeemer; for that
place, in the Fathers program, was
arranged for the bride, the Lambs
wife. thus st. Paul tells us that God
reserved some better things for us
imam for them, and that they without
us will not be made perfect."--He-
XII, 3S-40.
But when the church has been glori-
fled, and the Kingdom shall have been
established on the spirit plane, the
reXt thing in order will be the blessing
Of the ancient WORTHLESS. They will
be the first members of the human
to receive resurrection, which
will be instantaneous, because they
already been approved by the
Divine standards. Not haNing been
begotten of the Holy Spirit, they will
not be spirit beings in the resurrec-
ton, but perfect men. AS such these