The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-01-19

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%#:=4 81 % s ing exhibition
Of the Internation-
al Bible Students
~ production Of the
yyl Bible in pictures,
VHA2lSM kUSSELIJI The Photo Drama
Of Creation" In
celebrated Music Hall. We
report his discourse on a preferred rem
dering Of Genesis 22:16-18. He said:
Six thousand years ago in Eden
our Maker, in Justly sentencing His
.disobedient children to death, init
mated that ultimately the Seed Of
the woman would bruise the Serpent's
head. This hidden promise was the
first intimation Of the Divine mercy
which our gracious Creator had pur-
posed in Himself from before the
foundation Of the world. Ever noble,
kind and gracious, u Creator re"
strained His mercy for the good Of
lis creatures-that they might learn
to appreciate the exceeding sinfulness
of sin. For the good Of the angels
also, that they might fully know Of
His Justice, as well as Of His Wisdom
and His Power, God insisted upon
dealing with His creatures from the
standpoint Of exact Justice. Man had
sinned, and thereby had forfeited all
CLAIM upon the eternal life which God
had given him conditionally.
Eternal torment, as we have already
seen, did not in any ems or degree
enter into the Divine purpose. His
sentence upon man, plainly stated,
was, Dying, thou shalt die," not Liv-
Eng, thou shalt live in torment. Gene
sis 2:17) God purposed to exemplify
in His dealings with our race a prln-
eiple Of Divine government to be made
| operative everywhere ultimately -
amongst all His creatures OF the spirit
plane as we'll as upon the earthly.
Long centuries after, God spoke to
| abraham, but first tested his faith and
| NOyalty. To him the Almighty men
htioned the same great Deliverer who
Rwould bruise the Serpents head. God
rave Abraham the assurance that this
t3ne would in some way be identified
Agith his posterity, so that He might
"A ,roperly be called the Seed Of Abra'
Nam. God said, "In thy Seed shall all
k4e families Of the earth be blessed"
/ Che Divine Program was not chang
ell, but more explicit statements were
given respecting 1t. Thereafter all
who were taught Of God would know
TO look for the Messianic blessing
through Abraham's Seed. This Cove
nant was afterward confirmed with an
Oath to Abraham, and later to Isaac
aud then to Jacob. This Covenant
became the basis of Gods adoption OF
the entire nation Of Israel-all Of ia
cob's children. They were the heirs
OF the Abrahamic Promise-the Oath
bound Covenant. All the hopes tha1
have thus far preserved Israel as
people are built upon the foundation
Of this Covenant, secured to them b.
the Word and the Oath Of our un
Echangeable God.
7 If it should seem strange to us tina
the Almighty Jehovah should conde
Ecend to make oaths to His creature
respecting the gracious gifts of HI
hand, / remind you that God kns
what Abraham did not know; namely
that the Promise attested by that Dat
would linger for more than thirty-nin
hundred years without accomplish
ment. God foreknew that without Eli
Oath to this Promise Israel woui
naturally feel either that He had FOL
!, gotten 1t, or that something had o.
Cured to alter or amend the Divin
Program. Hence the Oath and tn
fact that this Covenant Is called th
Covenant Of the Oath. go
Promises TO Jacob All Earthly.
, from Genesis to Malachi there
) nothing in the Holy Scriptures thf
, Implies a change Of nature from hi
Z Imam to spiritual for mankind in gel
) eral. Nothing intimates that maj
Z kind will ever be like the angels. III
prophetic promises, on the contrar.
tell OF restitution to the former esta1
: to human perfection and to an EIDE
g home Observation-Disclosures. The j
bilee system OF the Law Of Moss
r taught this same lesson. On the q
tieth year every slave was set at Ii
} Ihrty and every property reverted to
Original owners. In this God picturt
:. Fman's return to harmony with Hir
gesf-man's liberation from the bon
' age of Sin and Death. his r~estoratit
TO the image Of his Creator, fro
which he fell through sin, and the 7
: Eurn to him of the dominion OF ear
In its glorious perfection.
:" I remind you Of the wonderful wo
- e!cfslres drawn by the Prophet Isaia
% He tells that the wilderness shall oh
s. som ais the rose; that streams SIN
break forth in the desert; that I
blessing of the Lord shall be upon
earth, and 1t shall yield its increa
He tells that then the ~iniaabitazlf 81
= :. no naore say, I am sick, when al