The Daily Missoulian., 1914-08-02


the highest type OF civilization to
Are there amy 50 blinded rs to be
Unable to perceive that the conflict
will be along the lines OF se1fishness-
| desire 70 hold ON the one part, and
desire to acquire on the other2
take Away tbs stony Heart"
The speaker pointed out that dur
ing the thousand years of Messiah's
reign satan will be bound, His allure
ments ended and the curse lifted.
Then the earth will yield Its Increase.
| The stress being removed, it will, he
easier for mankind to learn the les
sons Of love and brotherly kindness,
! and to rise out of their present con
dition of meanness, hard -heartedness
and selffshness-back to the glorious
image of God.
This will mean the dissolving of the
stony -heartedness of the human race;
or, as the scriptures put it, the Lord
/ will take away the stony heart out
Of their, flesh, and give them a heart
of flesh"-a heart of sympathy. All
who then refuse to return to harmony
with God will be destroyed in the sec
ond death, as set forth in Acts
iii: 1928.
1t was pointed oct, however, that
while such a restitution under the
! favorable conditions of the Messianic
kingdom is Gods provision for the
world, He has a different provision
for the church, now being called and
proven. BY nature their hearts We're
hard and selfish, and, as the apostle
says they were children Of wrath,
even as others" But the fact that
God has called these to joint t-heirship
with His son in the glorious kingdom
that is shortly to bless the world does
not signify that He win accept them
in their natural conditions OF hard
heartedness and selfishness.
On the contrary, If the church are
to be the kings, priests and judges of
the world, In association with their
Lord and head, the great King, it is
readily seen that they must be rid
of this condition themselves before
they can properly be capable of help
ing the world up out Of its hard
heartedness.
1--WE Walk by Faith"
Several differences were pointed out
between the Lords dealings with the
church at the present time and His
dealings with the world by and by.
These differences are due to the fact
that the church are called to SO high
an honor; and correspondingly it is
appropriate that they should manifest
more love and zeal than will be ex-
pected of the world.
? To illustrate: The church must walk
by faith and not by sight; they must
voluntarily accept the Lords provi-
dences, and voluntarily cooperate
/, with Him in putting away the stony
: heart, accepting instead the spirit OF
e the Lord-a spirit of" love, kindness
: gentleness, meekness, patience and
long suffering toward all. Moreover
during the thousand years of the
worlds recovery from sin, selfishness
and hard heartedness, doubtless eac1
n individual will have several centuries
e for his gradual development But the
). Father seeks in the church class
: those who will give such heed to His
d instructions, and show such earnest
g ness in copying His character, tha
J, they will succeed in attaining a hear
condition of tenderness sympathy anl
VI love like unto that of the Heavenly
: Father, in the present years OF theil
: Christian experienee.
q The discourse closed with an earnes
q exhortation that all who are the Lord,
d grid up the loins of their minds, de
e termining that with His help the,
will be rich toward God; that eacl
n think less and less of earthly riches
'f and more and more prize the kingdom
: which the Lord has promised to Hi
n. faithful ones. All who attain thi
20 kingdom will be rich toward God II
s. the highest sense. Not, only will the.
D be rich in the possession of the high
p, est prize that God has to giye--Hi
D Very best-but rich i'm His character
Sc likeness, rich in experience, rich II
te faith, rich in benevolence rich In al
H. that is good and great, however poo
be they may have been in earthly good
or at the end of their course