Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-01-22

report bis discourse on preferred ren.
dering Of Genesis 22:16-1S. He said;
Six thousand years ago In Eden
our Maker, In justly sentencing His
disObedlent children to death, intl-
mated that ultimately the Seed Of
the woman would brulse the Serpents
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, our Creator re.
strained His mercy for the good OF
His creatures--tha they might learn
to appreciate the exceeding slnfulness
Of sin, For the good Of the angels
also, that they might fully know Of
His Justice. as well as Of Eils 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 conditlonally.
Eternal torment, as we have already
seen. did not In any sense or degree
enter into the Divine purpose His
sentence upon man, plainly stated,
was. Dying, thou shalt dle,' not Liv.
ing, thou shalt live IN torment Gene.
els 2:l7.l God purposed to exempllfy
In His dealings with our race a prin.
ciple OF Divine government to be made
operative everywhere ultimately =
amongst all His creatures on the spirit
plane as well as upon the earthly,
Long centuries after, God spoke to
Abraham, but FIRST tested his faith and
loyalty, To him the Almighty men.
toned the same great Dellverer who
would brulse the Serpent's head, God
gave Abraham the assurance that this
One would In some way be identified
with his posterity, 80 that He might
properly be called the Seed OF Abra-
ham, God said I'm thy Seed shall all
the families OF the earth be blessed"
The Divine Program was not chang.
ed, but more explicit statements were
given respecting IT, Thereafter all
who were taught Of GOd would know
20 look for the MessiNulr blessing
through AbrahOm's Seed This Cove
nant was afterwnrd confirmed with an
Oath 10 Abraham, aud Inter 10 Isaac
and then TO jacob, This Covenant
became the basis OF Gods adoption Uf
the entire nutl0n OF lsrel--all Of Ja-
cOb's children. They were the heirs
OF the AbmhOmic Promise-the oath.
bound Covenant, All the hopes that
have thus fnr preserved Israel as a
people are built upon the foundation
Of this Covenant, secured to them by
tue Word and the Outh VI our un.
'changeable God
II II should seem strange TO MS that
the Almighty Jehovah should conde-
scend TO mike oaths 70 HIS creatures
respecting the gracious gifts of His
hand, | remind you that God knew
what Abraham did not know; namely.
dhat the Promise attested by that Oath
would llnger for more than thlrty.nlne
hundred years without accomplish.
ment God forekuew that without His
Oath TO this Promise israel would
naturally feel either that He had for
gotten Il, or that something had oc.
curred TO alter or amend the Divine
Program Hence the Oath and the
fact that this Covenant Ia called the
Covenant OF the Oath
Promises to Jacob All Earthly
From Genesis 10 Malachi there IL
nothing In the Holy Scriptures that
implies a change OF nature from hu
man to spiritual for mankind In gen
eraL Nothing lntlmates that man
kind will ever bc like the angels. Tn,
prophetic promises, on the contrary
tell OF restitution TO the former estat,
TO human perfection and to an Eder
home rcetored- worldwide. The in
hilee system OF the Law OF Mosei
taught this same lesson On the ~
tieth year every slave was set at lib
rrty and every property reverted to II
original owners, In this God picture'
mans return 10 harmony with Him
self mnn's liberation from the bond
age of Sin aud Death, bis restoration
10 the image o. his Creator frou
which hc foil through sin. and the N
turn 10 him OF the dominion Of cart
IN IT. glorious perfection
I remind You Of the wonderful wor
pictures drawn BY tho Prophet lSaiat