Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-09-22

and the Poets" His text was, "He
that sat upon the Throne said, Behold,
/ make all things new" Revelation
215.) He said;
The promise Of New Day has long
been before Gods peope-ln the Bible.
1t was limited to our first parents, six
thousand years ago, that eventually
the Seed Of the woman should bruise
the serpent's head. This, interpreted,
is understood to mean that the power
Of Satan will be crushed, and man
kind will be delivered from the reign
Of Sin and Death which has prevailed
since the disobedience In Eden.
A second promise, still more explicit,
made by God to Abraham of old, says,
"In thy Seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed" For centuries Abra-
hams posterity waited for the Mes
siah Of promise, with the anticipation
that lie would use them In connection
with His work Of blessing all peoples.
The Prophets Of Israel foretold the
coming King Of the line Of David
that He should be great Priest, a
relgning Priest, after the order Of Mel
chlzedec. To Him 'every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess" and
through Him a blessing will extend to
all nations as "a feast of fat things
full Of marrow, aud wines on the lees" "
isaiah 1923; 25:6)
Even the disciples Of Jesus. who rec
ognized Him as the "Sent of God"
were disappointed that His glorious
Kingdom. Of which He spoke, was not
Immediately revealed, and that in an
swer to their question He declared, ut
is not for you to know the times and
the seasons which the Father hath put
in His own Power" Still the proph-
ecies respecting Messiah's Kingdom
were repeated and ampiaed in the
parallels of Jesus, In the teachings Of
His Apostles, and finally and graphl-
cally. In the last Book of the Bible, in
the Revelation which Jesus gave the
Church through st. John.
Our text is quotation from this
Revelation, respecting the Kingdom OF
Messiah Through II God is to wipe
away all tears from Off all faces; and
the King Of kings and Lord of lords
whom Jehovah has established as the
great Messiah. assures us that He Him.
self will make all things new"
Even the heather poets sang Of the
Golden Age to come-quite probably
borrowing their thought from the He
brew Scriptures and quite probably
realizing In some measure that a
gracious God would not forever per
init reign Of Sin and Death, but
would somehow. sometime. and through
some agent, bring to earth blessings to
supplant the curse
"Arlss, Look Around Thee"
| After all these centuries Of waiting
nnd hoping and praying, "Thy King
dom come; Thy viii be done on earth,
as IN Heaven" Gods people today are
more and more awakening to realiza.
tlon Of the fact that we are living IN
the very dawn OF the glorious Epoch
for which all have waited, prayed and
hoped. These blessings have come
down Ike gentle shower 80 quietly
that we can scarcely realize that tho
earth has entered upon the foretold
Times Of Refreshing and Restitution
mentioned by st. peter-Acts 9;10-2t.
Many are still asleep, Some are con-
fused, and know not to what the bless.
lngs should be attributed. Having lost
faith In the Bible and It's promises,
many are seeking a solution Of the
wonderful things OF our day along the
lines OF evolution, claiming that a Ma
ture god operates by blind force, under
u law Of the survival OF the tittest,
Surely they overlook the fact that
there were great characters In the past
with whom few OF the present day
may be compared-such as Shake
speare, Bacon, Socrates Plato, St
Paul, King Solomon, King David the
poet Job, Moses, etc.
A far better explanation is furnished
MS IN the Bible II explains that the
wonders OF today are the foregleams Of
Messlah's Kingdom and It's blessings.
II explains that we are in the Day Of
Jehovahs Preparation for the King
dom OF His SON. We have the numer-
nus scrlpural declarations pointing to