River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-11

/ saying, pray for them that Thou hast
| given Me, that they all may be one in
Us, even as Thou, Father, and 1 are
one. John 17:9, 20-24.) Surely no one
would claim that Jesus expected His
Church to become one perso4! And it
| is equally absurd to think that He and
| the Father are one person.
Because Jesus was thus the Fathers
Representative, in the only sense that
men could see the invisible Jehovah, He
answered Philip on one occasion, HE
| that hath seen Me hath seen the Fa-
| Their" Thus the Presidents secretary
would say to a caller, II represent the
President"
"In the Beginning Was the Logos."
AS Matthew's and Luke's Gospels
make very plain how the glorious Son
of God was made flesh, yet not a par
taker of human sin, so st. Johns Cos
pei provides US with information still
further back, pointing out and explain
ing clearly the glorious prehuman ma
ture Of the Son Of God. The transla-
ton, however, is slightly defective, and
hides from the English reader the full
import of the opening verses which,
literally translated, read:
"In the beginning was the Logos, and
the Logos was with the God, and the
Logos was a god. The same was in
the beginning with the God. By Him
were all things made, and without Him
was not one thing made. +" And the
LOgos was made flesh and dwelt among
us; and we beheld His glory, the glory
Of an Only Begotten Of the Father, full
of grace and truth."-John l:1-3, IA.
The beautiful simplicity Of this ac-
count is wonderful. The beginning it
mentions was not that Of Jehovah's
existence, which the Bible declares was
without beginning. The word refers
to the beginning Of creation, and i'm
mediately introduces us to the great
Logos, "the Beginning of the creation
of God" Revelation 3:14) While the
name Logos may be not improperly
translated Word, it has much fuller
significance; namely, representative,
messenger, mOuthpiece.
Jehovah's entire Message has been,
men through the great LOgOs. He was
the Alpha, the first; the Father created
none before Him. He is the Omega,
the last; the Father has directly ere
ated none since Him. This explains
simply, satisfactorily, that all subse-
quent creations, while executed by Je-
hovah's Power, were worked out by
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were all things made that were made"
When the time came for the out
working Of the great Divine Plan for
human salvation, and, incidentally, the
showing forth Of Gods Justice, Wis
dom, Love and Power, the offer prop
erly came first to the Logos. The
proposition to be mans Redeemer car
ried with it a great blessing, as st.
Paul explains. (HebreWs 1872; ColOs-
slams 1:18) This eXaltation to Gods
right hand, far above all other crea-
lures, was an advance step. Although
originally higher than all the others,
the Logos was not so "far above"
then.
1t was Gods purpose to have New
Creation; and the LOgOs, through the
redemptive Plan, was to be the first
and chiefcst on that highest plane
the Divine nature. During this Gospel
Age, God has been calling and accept
ing the honest, the obedient, lovers Of
righteousness, haters of iniQuity, to be
associates with Jesus in the Kingdom
and participants with Him in the high
est nature of all-the Divine. So, st.
Peter declares, God hath given unto
us 1.-THE truly consecrated, the Church.
exceeding great and precious promises,
that by these we might become par
takers Of the Divine nature."-2 Peter
Ia; Hebrews 2:10.
Is it right, is it Christian, is it true,
is it manly, to charge my teachings
with denying that Jesus is the Son OF
God? What object could there be in
SO doing except to keep the Lords
hungry sheep away from the green
pastures Of Divine Truth? Well do
my traducers know that they have
nothing Biblical, sane or sensible to
give instead The very bitterness
manifested by ministers against me is
being used Of the Lord to arouse in
vestigatiOn amongst those who are tru-
~ His people. If my reputation must
be thus assassinated in order that the
true sheep may hear the Masters
voice, I shall acquiesce as joyfully as
possible, remembering that it will be
difficult for them to say bitterer or I'M
truer things Of me than they said of
my Master.
My crime is the same that melted
the Pharisees against Jesus and the
Apostles. 'They were angry that they
taught the people" Preachers who do
not believe in eternal torment any
more than l do are angry that am
informing the people; for they fear
that the people will justly think that
their ministers deal dishonesty, re-
ceiving wages for keeping them in
darkness. The time has come when
all who are for the right, the Truth,