The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-01

~ height OF His
Es755 asa Sanctuary; from
@2!2AGg22W Heaven did the
Lord behold the
earth, to hear the groaning of the prls-
oners, to loose them that are appoint
ed to DEATH" psalm 1O2:1S-2O.) He
spoke in part*as follows .
The Bible declares the only God Of
love, Of sympathy, of compassion. The
heather godsgare all yengeful, ~tyranni-
cal, merciless, captious. And the pic
ture Of God in creeds, formulated
In the Dark Ages, misrepresents Him
rel more than do the heather idols.
All the false gods are repulsive. Only
Of the God Of the Bible can it be truly
said, "My heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God" To rid ourselves
Of the misconceptions Of the Almighty
furnished by our creeds and to appre-
ctate the God Of the Bible should be
the endeavor of all intelligent, people.
Mark the sympathy of God for Has
fallen creatures, as expressed in our
text. Note how it contradicts our theo-
ries respecting the Divine predestina-
ton of more than ~nine-tenths of our
race to eternal torture. The Lord was
mindful Of His Creatures. He did not
abandon them because Of the disobedi-
ence in Eden. He looked down from
the heights Of His holy Sanctuary.
From Heaven He beheld the earth and
its teeming millions plunged into sin
by the Adversary and suffering the pen
atty for sin-"Dying, thou shalt die" ,
Human Wretehedness In Code Sight.
| To behold the earth from the Heav-
emily viewpoint must be a terrible sight
enough to make angels weep-sigh-
Ing, crying, dying, everywhere. Some
are demented' to the extent of prefer
ring darkness to light, wallowing in the
mire Of sin and feeding upon the ap-
pies Of Sodom; some Of them so de-.
PRAYED that they love the wrong and
hate the right; others SO weak that
they cannot do the things that they
would; many Of them in jails, peniten-
tiaries, ETC.; other hundreds Of thou
sands in hospitals; and still other hun
dreds Of thousands in insane asylums;
and thousands of millions gone down
TO the tomb, with q few in compare
tive health, rushing headlong seeking
for happiness, or fighting and cheating
TO amass fortune, which, dying, they
must leave. Verify, as God looks
down, the Earth must appear to Him
like a vast hospital, a cemetery, q
,.
J Not with curiosity did the Almighty
look upon us, but with sympathy
with loving intention. Indeed, from
the very beginning He foreknew mans
Maynard course and it's penalty Of sin
and death, and from that beginning
He planned the great rescue which
now He is to begin. The rescue is not
from a fiery hell Of everlasting torture,
but from the terrible condition Of sin
and death in which we find ourselves.
Freeing Death Appointed Prisoners.
The entire race Of Adam, shackled
with sin and under sentence of death,
have for six thousand years been
marching to the great prison-house Of
the tomb. An ever-increasing number,
they are now entering the prison-house
at the rate Of ninety thousand every
twenty-four hours. Notwithstanding
the efforts they make to be happy, the
Apostle was undoubtedly correct In
declaration-''the whole creation
and travails In pain together"
God has heard the grooming Of these
prisoners, has sympathized with them
and has provided a redemption. As
one mans sin brought the curse upon
himself and, by lawk Of heredity, upon
all OF his children, SO Divine Wisdom
has arranged that a Savior, and a
Great One, should give Himself n RAN
som for Adam and his race. This al
ready has been accomplished, in that
Christ died, ''the Just for the unjust"
to bring back to harmony with God
the condemned Adam and his ace
But this Is not sufficient. It is only
the beginning. The thousands OF mil
lions brought into being as children OF
Adam need to be rescued from the
OF death. 1t is not suf1-
cient that they should be legally loosed.
They need to be actually set free. And
since life has been lost, life itself must
be restored to them ere they car profit
by the Redeemer's sacrifice,
The New Creation.
Gods benevolent design for the re.
ci.utaon "a tue human ranlliy Des~A
Its operation az Pentecost. In His ac-
ceptance OF the Church and the beget-
ting Of Its members by the Holy Spirit
work which will continue until the
entire number OF the fore-ordained
NeO Creation shall have been accepted,
tested, and gloriouslyx exalted by the
power OF the First Observation-Disclosures
elation 20:6.
But the completing OF. the Church
and her exalting with the Redeemer
the Heavenly plane will not be the
end Of the Divine Program OF blessing
and recreation arranged for ADAM
and hls Eaea. Rather. as the Scripture