Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-07-25

next shown. The Great Master Crafts
man, the Lord Jesus Christ, laid the
foundation and arranged all pertaining
TO 1t. lie alone founded this great
Secret Society. Members OF the or
gunlzation may indeed recognize as
sistants In the work, but there is only
the one Grand Master. who has super
vision OF the whole He Himself has
said, One is your Master even Christ.
and all ye are brethren"
The Pastor then set forth the facts
relative TO our Lords life on earth
nearly nineteen hundred years ago
The world did not recognize the Great
Master Jesus alone the Founder of
the Order which is His Church. had
the secret plans for the great Temple
which God desired TO have construct
ed. When He was crucifed, more or
less Of the Mystery connected with the
Temple was lost. The Scriptures also
Intimate that certain features of that
Mystery We're not to he completed un-
Ill His return. SO the members of this
Society have been waiting for the re-
turn Of their Master who gave His
life In connection with the secret Of
the construction OF the Temple. the
Church.
Jesus preached in public. the Pastor
declared. and while thousands heard
Him, very few understood. So now.
when the members Of His Church tell
the Glad Tidings OF great joy. very few
understand; for only those who are
called to join this Order which Jesus
founded have the power to cOmpre-
hend-the hearing ear. TO His dis
ciples the Master once said blessed
are your eyes, for they see; and your
ears, for they hear" Only those who
have come into this Divine order have
this spiritual Insight and spiritual
guidance; and only these may know
the things that are freely given unto
the initiated. These things are freely
given to one class, but are not intend.
ed for any one else.
The speaker then showed the reason
for this discrimination. During this
Age God is not dealing with the world.
After He has built His great Temple.
then He will deal with the world. But
mankind will never be priests. menl-
bers Of the Temple class. Ncverthe-
less, they will have n great blessing
Restitution to human perfection. lost
In Eden, redeemed ON Calvary. He de-
clared that it would never do for the
world to know all about the secrets
known only to the members of Gods
great Secret Order; otherwise mankind
would interfere with the Plan Of God.
He Illustrated his point by referring
to the Scriptural statements that If
the Jews had understood about Jesus,
If they had understood His parallels
and dark sayings, they would not have
cruclfied the Lord of glory. Then the
Scriptures would not have been fulfill
ed; Gods Plan would not have been
carried out
st. Peter called the attention of the
Jews to this fact, saying, Now, breth-
ren, | wot that through ignorance We
did 1t, as did also your rulers. But
those things which God before had
showed by the mouth of all His Proph-
cts, that Christ should suffer. He hath
30 fulfilled" st. Paul corroborates this
statement, declaring, "None of the
princes Of this world knew; for If they
had known it, they would not have
cruclaed the Lord of Glory" The
Pastor praised the Wisdom of God,
which withheld from the world Sc
cret the knowledge of which would
have increased their responsibility
without benefiting them in the least
lem nles of thu HOLY Shirt