Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-07-01
CHALLENGE TO ACCOMPLISH
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beginning. planned a world In which crea-
lures OF his image should be guaranteed
the high privilege OF working out their
destinies through their own efforts sup
plemented by divine guidance. What a
challenge TO accomplishment is found in
the possibilities open to mankind IF God
had placed us in the world full-statured
and mature we would have been denied
the fine joy of growing. The man who
nherits fortune misses the greatest
fun IN life--that of accommodating by his
own efforts. The wisdom and love of God
We're never manifested more certainly
than in bringing to man. from the be-
ginning. the high privilege of perfecting
himself. The Garden Of Eden idea. as
for the purpose of showing the conse-
Quences attendant upon the fall Of man
MS to emphasize the failure Of fault
less environment, provided without sac
rihcc Of those TO whom IT was given, to
produce the spirit of real contentment. It
Is difficult to conceive of world more
dun than one in which the inhabitants
live and move and have their being sur
rounded by a perfection they had no part
I'm making
four thousand years to bring his chosen
peopl" mp to the point whore they might
b" ready to enter into an approximate
understanding Of a plan of salvation Of
tcred through the viCarious atonement Of
His own Son. The forty symbolic CEN
turtles Of types and shadows. with their
concrete examples. were necessary pre-
liminarics to an appreciation Of the spir
itua significance of Jesus as the world s
Rcdeemer. For nineteen hundred years
We have been struggling toward the light
and sometimes We grow faint with the
effort. Even the faithful and believing
are prone to become discouraged because
the goal established by the standards OF
Christcndom still seems 50 far away. We
forget. though, that we measure achieve
rlonts by different yard sticks from those
employed by the God of the Ages. We
are hoping for tho consummation of Chris
tian civilization within the allotted three
score and ton years that belongs to the
average man. forgetting that the forward
movements of men are under the direction
of one "who was ard is and is to come
Tho inspired author Of our letter has
told us that with God "a thousand years
is as one day" Nineteen hundred and ff-
teen \. p.-What does It mean?
Whv II means that we are only in the
second day of the Christian era. What
viii the world he at the end of the first
week. when six thousand wears of Chris
'tuitN have done their work? Will not
tnHt seventh day. five thousand years
from now, he a Sabbath dav of glory that
the most vivid imagination of the super
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ration, is to be all It may be- it is safe
to predict that long. long before the end
of God s first year evil will be lost in
everlasting good, that poverty. disease
and all human suffering will be abolished
and that roquicms and msereres will he
buried in the silence Of eternal joy. Even
before God shall have ended the first
Christian week there may he futillment
Of the prophecy of Isaiah, Numbered from
the parapets Of Jerusalem seven hundred
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