River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-12-31

((RASTOR- RUSSELD) sight are but as
----=~-- yesterday" e Pc
ter 3:8; Psalm 9O:4). He said in part:
All resolutions against sin and in IA
vor of righteous thinking and living
are commendable and helpful. But l
recommend a comprehensive resOln-
ton; namely, to get right with God
through His appointed Channel. the
Lord Jesus Christ. and through the in
structions of His Word. the Bible.
While progressing in the knowledge of
the Truth and in it's spirit, the indi
viduaI will be abiding in Gods Love
under the shadow Of the Almighty"
But this implies faith in God, faith
in Christ. faith in the Bible and the
study of it so as to get fully into align
Inent with the Divine purposes and
away from the perverting influences of
| the creeds. While every creed may be
said to contain some elements of Truth.
nevertheless these creeds are so hOr-
ribly mixed with errors in such poison
Gus combinations that it is a wonder
we did not all follow blind leaders into
the ditch of infdelity long ago.
From the Divine standpoint we see
that the six thousand years of earth's
history, from Adams day until now.
are merely the worl-day portion Of
! great Week whose Seventh Day, or
Sabbath. of thousand years is 1.-The
! Day of Christ" 1.-The last Day." 1.-The
Day Of Judgment" or trial for the
world-the Day in which every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess.
to the glory of God; the Day in which
1.-The righteous shall flourish. and evil
doors shall be cut off, In the Second
Death: the Day during which God will
pour out His Spirit upon all fiesh," as
He now grants it to His servants and
| handmaidenS.
III the Divinely arranged custom of
the Jews the new day began at sunset.
THUS We are in the evening, or begin
ming, of the great Seventh Day of the
Divine Week-the Day which means
so much of blessing, uplifting, privi-
lege, opportunity of Divine favor to
our race through Messiah's glorious
Kingdom. which throughout this Sew
enth Day will reign from sea to sea
EARTH putting down everything con
trary to the Divine standards, and up
lifting the world of mankind bought
with the precious blood at Calvary
from sin. degradation and the tomb
up. up, up, step by step. to human per-
! lection in a world wide Eden. The
unwilling, resisting Divine favors and
privileges. shall be destroyed in the
Second Death.-Acts 1892. %.
Wearied Children Fall Asleep.
six Days shalt thou labor and do all
thy work; but the Seventh is the Sab
bath of the Lord thy God; in it thou
shalt not do any work" Whoever
reads carefully, intelligently, the pages
of history must be struck with the en-
ergy which has been manifested by our
race. The pyramids and the ruins of
ancient cities and civilizations all tell
us of humanity's ceaselesS struggle
against the adverse conditions prevail
ing in the earth, including the strife
against sickness and death and, by
few, noble fight against further deg
radiation.
Well does the Prophet express the
truth of our observation, saying, 1--WE
have not wrought any deliverance In
the earth" isaiah 26:1S) A few
have gained fabulous riches. name or
fame, place or power; but during all
this period the majority have gone
down to the tomb, slain by the great
associated monarchs whom the Bible
declares are reigning-Sin and Death
Even the comparatively few who
have gained eminence and whose VIC
tories are most loudly extolled in hu-
man history have fallen also-many
OF thcG: in the very prime of life-all
OF them in comparative childhood.
Why should not a man live for hun
drcd years when we have the Divine
assurance that even under the Divine
sentence Father Adam resisted death
for 900 years-so vigorous was his con-
st:tution?
From the Divine standpoint the chill
dren OF Adam, all born in sin, shapen
in iniquity. of few days and full Of
trouble. fall asleep in death, like chill
Grcn wearied in their play: albeit that
it is play grim with tragedy, in
which each actor performs his part
Is0st realistically.
From the Divine standpoint human
ambition. strife and energy are ac-
conplishing useful purpose, even
tilo1gh the efforts are usually selfish
anc often british. The lessons now