Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-16

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J IN Heavenly places" We have not set
gone into Heaven itself-beyond the
second veil-but we are In Heavenly
I condition. ''Oid things have passed
away. and all things hive become
new" We have left the Camp. niIl
have passed ont Of the Court condition
/. into the blessed condition Of the light
OF the presence Of the Lord. Each OF
I these different pictures helps us to see
( how great things God hns done for US
"a Living Sacrifice"
The Pastor declared that membership
in the Body of Christ is the all-impor-
, tant thing to the Christian. This Body
OF Christ. which is the Church, Is un-
der another figure called the Royal
/ Priesthood 1t Is the Divine purpose to
prepure in ndvnnce Of the world II com
pany that will he able TO instruct man
kind and to help them IN every way
with respect to morals. and education
In things relating to God. This espe
cially prepared class is the Church.
who as kings and priests will also have
authority under their great High
Priest. to rule the world during the
thousand years Of the McSsinnic King
dom. Their work will he not only to
rule mankind for their good. but also
to uplift the race Of Adam from sin,
4 degradation and death.
The opportunity to be member of
this Royal Priesthood Is certainly the
greatest privilege that has ever come to
any creature. II is to lit and prepare
this class for jolnt-heirshlp with Jesus
in the Kingdom that God deals with
the Church as He does. He calls them
out of the darkness Of the world into
the light of the knowledge Of His own
glorious plans for the salvation of hui
mnnity.
Next the Pastor showed that this
matter of sacrifice may he viewed from
either of two standpoints-God's view
and mans. From the standpoint of
humanity. conservation seems to he
very hnrd. There Is no slavery In the
world like that Of being child of God
and I'm associate Of Jesus. they think.
Everything must be given up. One can,
not have anything of his own; he, may
not eat. drink. Sleep think. or do any
thing as he would choose. On the con-
trary. he must ask whnt the Lord
would have him do about everything.
EIe must have no viii of his own. Any
other slave would be allowed to eat
Ia. 4, f,,l. l,of In
chose. at least; hut the Christian can.
not do So. He must say, Not my
thoughts. not my way. not my will,
hut the Lords, This is the worldly
view of c0nspcration: it seems hxrd;
Indeed. some will say 1t Is too much.
The view from the Divine standpoint
is altogether different. We who look
ut the subject from this standpoint
say. What have we, ut best? We, are
dying creatures. We have very little
strength, very little wealth; 1t requires
nearly all Of our time to provide for
the necessities Of life. We have very
little to give to the Lord Therefore
,. we do not see why the lord should az.
cept our sacrifice ut all.
To cerroborate this view, the Pastor
cited the case of st. Paul. who de
cnred that he counted all things but
loss and dross for the excellency of
the knowledge Of Christ Jesus his
Lord st. Paul had more than have
most of the consccrited. A Roman
citizen by birth. he was also II mem.
Der of noble family, and had every
advantage of wealth and education.
He had good powers of speech and
reason, as his Epistles demonstrate.
, | Whoever will read his Epistle to the
: Romans will see that the master mind
! behind that writing could handle a
, case at law anywhere. Yet. after
, summing up all his advantages, the
Apostle considered these things as
mere droSs. lie willingly sacrificed
, them all in order to win Christ; for
the things of this present life are not
, worthy to be compared with the glory
[ that shall be revealed. This. the
: speaker declared, is the right view Of
/ consecration-God's standpoint.
! Look Not at the Things Seem
The Pastor then discussed the expe-
riences of the Christian who is walk
ing in the narrow way Of sacrifice. He
has pleasures of which the world
knows nothing. His trials seem. as
,, , the Apostle says, light Affections,
which are but for a moment, and
which are working out for him far
more exceeding and eternal weight Of
!. glory. while he looks at the things un'
q seen. The Christian is looking Mt the
!. unseen things with the eye Of faith
n the eyes of his understanding.
h The Pastor made practical nppllca-
q ton of his point by declaring that
h whenever an experience begins to be
!. rather hard, the Christianis then look
il ing at the things that are seen, and for
- getting to look ut those that are invis-