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- Plattomouth - Journal
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Did you hare a Merry Christmas?
The Journal hopes so.
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The days now begin to get long
er. Tuesday was tne shortest day
of the year.
Reactionists are those upon whom
the sins of the present congress are
going to react.
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of the noblest men in the land. Born
In the south, and serving in the
confederate army, he is perhaps the
only man in the United States who
represented a northern state, after
having served In the southern army.
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'What Is a Republican?" the New
York World Is asking. A Republi
can, dear World, Is one who believes
that a large number of other Re
publicans are not Republicans.
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South Dakota Republicans voted
yes forty-eight, no sixty-six, not
voting flfty-ono. South Dakota Dem
ocrats votea yes one. no sev
enteen, not voting eight.
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This paper thinks that Governor
Shallenbcrger displayed considerable
wisdom in letting the complaint
against Mayor Dahlman and the
board of fire and police commission
ers of Omaha go by default. Spite
work dont gain anythingln well re
gulated city and especially in a city
II ge the Nebraska metropolis.
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Some felows up abbut Lincoln
Intimate that pollard's special mis
sion to Honolulu was to see how his
family liked the country and that,
In case he failed in the nomination
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There is some curiosity to know VVi L""6'CB"' ""c "u" W"UIU B
what the United States government that h KOt 1UCraUve aPPVntment
in that country. Old Joe, as he
says himself, "never goes back on
his friends." .
You'll have to hurry. If you don't
buy 'em tomorrow we don't believe
you Intend to.
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It seems to be a race between,
the pigs and the airships as to
which can soar the highest. ,
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Christmas comes but once a year,
and we all should fell good until
the next day, at least.
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Good resolutions for 1910 are
now in order. Resolve to do better
next years than you have this.
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Now that the sugar trust's scales
have been rectified, why not give
some heed to those of the coal trust?
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The first real White Christmas the
Plattsmouth people have enjoyed In
several years. The deepest snow In
many years.
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contemplates doing with the Hon
Ecluya after It catches him.
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The revolution In Nicaragua still
goes on and the insurgents seem to There are, perhaps, many little
have everything their own way. They ones In our city who were not re
won't have the new president. membered this Christmas because of
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v..u,nl,0 ju,. er ucuve anu not whlch keep the father.g no80 to the
passive. Every man enjoyed as much grind.Btone ,n order that these little
of Christmas good cheer as the Al
drlch Robber Taflff would allow him
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This is the season of the year
when the matrimonial market takes
a boom, and from the present out
look there will be many weddings
In Cass county before the holidays
close.
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If congress has done any work
since they convened, we would like
to know where it is. The members
might have just as well remained at
home until after the holidays, for
all the good they have done since
convening.
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When Walt Mason lived in Ne
braska a few years ago and loBt bis
newspaper Job he tried horse trad
Ing. At the end of the first week
heh ad made twelve trades, had the
same horse he started with and $80
boot money In his pocket.
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W. R. Hearst's purpose, because
of the austerity of his convictions,
to hold aloft from the Democratic
and the Republican parties, reminds
the New York Evening Post of
railroad timetable "subject to change
without notice."
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Having been permitted to rob the
people with high prices under the
tariff tax the Sugar Trust had reason
to feel that the national guardians
would look with the same approval
on its methods of stealing the tax
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Who wants a Central Bank? What
do they want it for? A Central Bank
would loosen or squeeze money at
Its own sweet will. Why then if you
are not In the money squeezing bust
ness, do you want a Central Bank?
Or do you want your money squeezed
when you want your money?
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It Is the Journal's opinion, public
ly expressed, that ex-Senator Patrick
Is going considerably cut of his way
to engender discord In the ranks of
the democratic party. Such fanatics
as Patrick can do a party more harm
than good in his way and are better
outside the ranks than trying to cre
ate mutiny inside. .
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PEOPLE'S
Setmon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
. Tabernacle.
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Dy Baying it yourself first and
Seating the other man to it you
avoid the nocosslty today of reply
ing: "1 hanks. The same to you, and
.many of them."
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ones may have enough to eat and
wear. It Is a shame that these little
Innocents are compelled to suffer for
the misdeeds of the tariff barons of
the east
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HOW IK) YOU LIKE IT?
It the United States lets Zelaya
I'scape without just punishment who
will be to blame? The despot should
Here's something for our Repub
lican friends to chew upon, while
they also mastlcato the cud of re
flection, as thev nolo the necessities
bo caught and hanged the same as of fe g0,ng WgheF h,gher h,gher;
other murderers. ' o-a . n i, q
AAA n..l.nn-ll.n- 11 n..
Anyhow, Doctor Cook salted away ruw "lo
I ftfMin i TV nnnmmtfiit i rA no olmna r a
180,000 or 1100.000 before the blg v "
I mni.lriiV.ln n.,n.,
crash came, which may entitle him
to associate with the malefactors of 0n tne UMUon' Ar 'ou 8atl8"
... fled with the first nine months of
great wi-umi.
..0. the Tart administration," 3,092 Re
Many of our exchanges report that publicans say yes, and 2,490 Repub-
Ice denlers have commenced to cut llcans no; 500 Democrats say yes.
Ice. Wo know plenty of men who and 2,093 Democrats no.
never tut a bit of ice, yet they are
cool propositions.
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To friend and foe alike the Jour
nal wishes all a Merry Christmas,
Life Is too short and eternity too
long everlasting to uarbDr envy,
hate and spite.
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Seereetary Ualllnger's present vin
dication is becoming rather Bhop
worn. He ought to arrange to get a
new vindication not less frequently
than every two weeks.
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The suggestion that the tariff Un 1 showa t H sections. The
"Bhould not be tinkered with at this Questions which were BBked, about
time" meets with prompt and hearty whether the attitude of Aldrlch and
response. What the tariff needs is Cannon on the tariff Were indorsed
not tlnkerlnir. but flxln. or condemned, brought condemna-
:o: tlon of them almost unanimous from
Peary should be compelled to Republicans and Democrats alike the
"show up" the same as suggested by country over. Even In Rhode Island
v,ommanaer ocntey. u no iojis 10 elght republicans voted that they
comply the country will look upon approved Aldrlcu.g courg0( whlIo
him as an tmposter of the first water, twenty-four disapproved and eight
He must prove up to satisfy the pub- dld not vote at ftll
On this same question, eight)
nine Iowa Republicans said yes, 185
no, and 110 declined to vote; 3 Iowa
Democrats said yes, 59 no, and 22
didn't vote. On the same question.
Nebraska Republicans voted yes
flfty-slx, no Beventy-olght, not vot
ing 165. Nebraska Democrats' votes
yes six, No fifty-two, not voting
twenty-one.
The tenitorlttT"8ummiary of the
situation in the whole country, ac
cording to this poll, declares that
the misgiving about the adminlstra-
llc.
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The governor of Connecticut ro
fuses to pardon Jphn Warren, who
hat already served fifty years In the
On the question, "Do you approve
Speaker Cannon's course In the tar
iff legislation," Illinois voted
twenty-seven Republicans yes. 33 no
and eighty-four not voting.
The value of the poll in reflecting
penitentiary for a' murder commit-
t . . .
ted in his boyhood. The grim New
England conscience is still inflexible l'um,C op,n,on ,W
facts that fifteen months ago Sue
LVb8 forecasted (almost Absolutely
)n some directions.
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Now we are to have a bread trust
and It is coming close upon the heels
of the flour trust. It begins to look
like the old German was right when
he hung up thla sign as a. warning to
his customers: .
"To trust Is bust
To bust Is well,
No trust, no bust,
No bust, no h "
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The merchants have been very
liberal in their' holiday advertising,
and deserve a far better trade this
year than they have bad for many
years. The snow last night and this
morning have greatly Improved the
roads, thus giving the farmers and
their wives and daughters an oppor
tunlty to get to town the last day
before Christmas. All our mer
chants are doing a good business
today.
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An exchange gives these season
able and sensible remarks upon the
subject: The farmer who is too poor
to buy" a pair of warm blankets for
his team, with hogs at $8 and milk
at '$1.50 a hundred, ought to try
doing the chores In a union suit and
see how ho likes It. The man who
will allow a faithful team to stand
for hours In the teeth , of a bitter
wind, whllo he hugs the grocery store
stove and settles the tariff question
has a disposition which would make
a hyena turn green with envy. We
have seen men who had plenty of
time to gabble about Joe Cannon and
the steel schedule,' but who were
too busy to slip a couple of blankets
on a shivering team. If there Is a
hell, the man who allows his team
to freeze to the pavement on a wlnt
er's night will be called to do the jig
at the tall of a toasting fork that will
last 150,000 years.
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Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Farm
ers Mutual Insurance company of
Cass county, Neb., will be held at the
Hell school house in district No. 88
in Eight Mile Grove precinct, on Sat
urday. January, 8, 1910, at 1:30 p.
m., for th,o election o officers for
the coming year and transaction of
such other business as may regularly
come before the meeting. i.
j J. P. Trltsch, Pres.''
J. Falter, Sec. '"" l "- ;' , '
Richmond, Va., Dec. 20.-rastor Rus
sell of the Brooklyn Tabernacle preach
ed here today to a large and attentive
audience from the aboTe text He
said:
There is an appropriateness In the
general joy of the Christmas season,
even though some of it is not wisely
expressed. The happy custom of giv
ing tokens of love and friendship pre
vails everywhere the story of Jesus
has gone. Eveu the alms-houses and
prisons make special provision that the
day which celebrates the Savior's birth
may, so fur as possible, be a happy
one, a joyous one, to all mankind. The
poorer of our citizens and the unfor
tunnte of slender means are often
kindly remembered by their more high
ly favored relatives and neighbors,
Surely this is as It ought to be. Some
may have been Injured by receiving
bounties, but few. if any) have ever
been other than blessed In the giving
of them. Herein we see corroborated
the Savior's own words. "It Is more
blessed to give than to receive." it is
godlike to give.
Our text tells us of God's great Gift
and although It Is evident that our
Lord Jesus was born about October
1st. Instead of December 25th. this
makes no material difference, for It Is
the great fact that we commemorate,
and not the particular day of its occur
rence. Let us consider today, the
great gift of God's love which the
Apostle refers to as "the unspeakable
gift" (II Corinthians ix. 15). As wr
discern something of its length and
breadth, and height and depth, our
amazement Is the more, our Joy In
creases, and we have the more desire
to be likewise generous with all with
whom we have to do. especially with
all who are less fortunately situated
than ourselves, either in temporal or
spiritual mutters.
All meu realize, to some extent at
least, their tmperfectldn that all have
sinned and c-ome short of the glory of
God. ' Men's thoughts toward God
seem to run along the lines of feur;
unworthy of Divine favor, they fear
Divine wrath. So it was with the
shepherds as related In our context.
When the angel of the Lord appeared
to them to announce Messiah's birth
In the death of cx-Scnator liar-1 the result of the national election
rls of Kansas, the country loses one 'from a poll of the same subscribers,
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PULPIT...':
CHRISTMAS
JOYS.
"The Angel Said Unto Them, Feai Not; .
For, Behold. 1 Ering You Good Tklmgi ol
Great Joy, Which Shall Be to All People;
Fo Unto You It Bom Thi Dy, In the City
ol David, a Savior. Which UGhrut the Laid"
(Luke ii. 10, II).
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and death Is a part of the great lesson
which God designs all to have learn
ing the exceeding sinfulness of Bin.
Later when the second great lesson
shall be given to mauklnd the desira
bleness and profitableness of right
eousnessthe schooling as a whole,
will be the more effective. , . . , ! ,
(2) We must also learn that our dear
friends and neighbors who go down
into death are as if ouly asleep, and
have no consciousness In either joy or
sorrow, waiting for the Millennial
morning the Resurrection uiorning
Their death would have been absolute.
as in the case of the brute beast, had
not God with his great love provided
for their redemptlou aud resurrection
(Eccleslu-stes v. U: John xl, 11; ,111. 13:
Acts 11. 34). In view of this provision
the whole world Is said to sleep' in
Jesus in the sense that their bop?
rests In the great work which Jesus
accomplished when he gave himself a
"ransom for all to be testified hi due
time" (1 Timothy 11. G. There Is a
difference, therefore, between the
world sleeping iu Jesus and the Church
who full asleep In Christ. The Church
Is composed of those begotten of the
holy Spirit during this Gospel Ape,
who maintain their relationship to
Christ, the Head, as "members" in bis
Body, and whom God bus promised
that ns they share with Christ la his
sacrificial deuth. they shall also share
with hint In his glorious resurrection
to honor and Immortality (Philippluus
li. 8-11).
The Scriptures make very plain, the
fact that while Jesus was. born of a
woman, this was not the beginning of
his existence, for "He was with the
Father before the world was." He
was the very "bejilnuiug of the Crea
tion of God" (Revelation Hi. 14). As
St. John declares. "In the beginning
was the Word (Logos) and the Logos
was with The God und the Logos was
a God. By htm were till things
made that were made and without him
was not one thing made." He was
"made flesh and dwelt amongst us."
"he came unto bis own and bis own
received him not. but to us many as
received him. to them gave he privi
lege to become sons of God" (John 1,
1-14).
The Scriptures make clear to us that
the Father did not compel the Son to
be our Redeemer on the contrary, he
they feared. For what purpose would I invited him to do so. and set before
an angel or messenger come to them. uua le
except to render some denunciation or
to foretell some catastrophe? It was.
therefore, that the first words of the
messenger were, "Fear not." So lu
approaching mankind in general with
God's message to sinners it is appro
priate that we begin by saying. Fear
not! The God we preach unto you Is
not a demon seeking your Injury and
your torment. He is a God of Wis
dom and Justice and Love with all
Power to carry to successful conclu
sion his Wise, Just and Loving Pro
gram respecting our race, "which he
purposed in himself from before the
foundation of the world (Epheslans I.
0, 4).
Satan has used this human tendency
of fear us a lash wherewith to drive
man away from God. aud from the
Bible, bis Revelation. We are not.
therefore, to accredit to our fore
fathers the vlclousncss of character
which seems to be Implied In the
creeds of the "dark ages" handed
down to us: rather we are to credit
those vicious misrepresentations of our
Heavenly Father to the great "Father
of Lies." He It Is who In the dark of
the past planted the seeds of what the
Apostle terms "doctrines of devils" (l
Timothy iv. I). Wo thank the Lord that
gradually we are getting our eyes of
understanding opened to recognize the
true character of God and Jesus Christ
whom he hath sent, and who Is his
express linage.
Hark to the Lord's message through
the prophet Isaiah. Foreseeing our es
trangement from himself and our en
slavement by the Adversary, he tells
us In so many words, Their fear, to
ll) The privilege of proving his loy
alty to the Father (Hebrews x. 7;
Psalm xl. 8).
(2) The privilege of serving the fall
en race, as their Redeemer and Re
storer (Matthew xx, 28).
(3) The honor of high exaltation to
even greater dignities than he bad be
fore he left the Father to honor, glory
and Immortality, far above angels and
principalities and powers and every
name that is named. St. Paul, in re
ferring to the matter, tells us that our
Lord, "for the Joy that was set before
him. endured the cross, despising the
shame" and now, in consequence. Is
set down on the right baud of the
Father on high (Hebrews ill. 2).
While the Savior was the Christ
mas gift to us In one sense of the
word, yet the gift wus more from
another standpoint although It was nil
contained in that primary gift. Our
Lord first, by obedience to the Divine
Law, demonstrated his right to eternal
life; and. nt the same time, by his con
secration to death, he laid down the
life he was privileged to have. Nor
did he ever take ( back, lie arose
from the dead on the third day. per
fected ns a New Creature as n spirit-
being (II Corinthians ill. 17). He did
indeed appear to the apostles during
the subsequent forty days, but not as
before. Although, after his resurrec'
tlon. he appeared In the flesh, he was
not flesh. He had taken the body of
flesh "for the Buffering of death." and
not to keep eternally. Wheu he hud fin
ished sacrificing It. the flesh had served
his purpose. His high exaltation is on
the spirit plane, far above angels. Ills
ward me Is not of me. but is taught by appearances during the forty days
. ... anil taw' nftPP IMP
County Superintendent Mary E.
FoBtcr spent Christmas and Sunday
with her parents near Union.
the precepts of men-as Inspired by
our adversary, the devil (Isalnn xxix.
13).
God's Christmas Gift.
Intending from the first not to aban
don his falleu human creatures to ut
ter destruction, the Father purposed
In himself. In advance., the great Tlun
of Salvation now In progress. From
before the foundation of the world he
purposed that Jesus should bo the
Lamb of God to take away the Bin of
the world and eventually to bring all
the willing and obedient back to har
mony with himself, so that only the
wilfully wicked would experience the
wages of sin, deuth-"Second Death."
But God has a due time for every fea
ture of his grcnt Plan. Four thousand
years sped by before It became "due
time" to send the Only Begotten Son
luto the world to redeem it.; "In the
fulness of time God sent forth his Sou,
born of a . woman" (Galatians lv, 4)
"In duo time Christ died for the un
godly" forty-ono hundred nud sixty
years after sin had eutered (Romans
v C). At first we are amazed at such
a delav, Nor can the matter be lath
fuctorlly understood until we learn
two things:
(1) That man's experience with tin
were very brief and few. after the
manner In which angels had previously
nnnonrod in the flesh. They were
for the purpose of convincing the dls
clples that be was no longer dead, and
to convince them also tuat ne was no
longer limited to earthly powers, as
before hla death. He was "put to
death in . the flesh, but quickened In
spirit'1 (1 Peter 111. 18k'. . .
Ths Body of Christ."
Notice bow God's gift expands, car
rying blessings with each change. The
glorified Jesus, wheu he ascended up
on high, hnd to ni crrtfif. so to speatt
the humau. earthly rights which he
had sacrificed. Those rights were
sufficient for the whole 'world. Be
cause all had been condemned through
one man, all could be Justified, atoned
for, by the sacrifice of one perfect mnn
"the man Christ Jesus, who gav
himself a ransoiU for all" (1 Timothy
11, 6, 6).
But the ascended Savior, although
he came Into the world to lie the Sa
vlor of the- vorltli .'did uot apply the
merit of his sacrifice for the world,
but. as the Scriptures show, he ap
plied it for his Vhurch and the entire
household of faith. Unbelievers are
not covered by that application of
Christ's Utt-rii. Iu oidi-r to get uudtT
the merit vt Clui. t uo.r tliey must be
lieve, renounce iu and make u -otise-cratioO
of themselves to walk In the
Redeemer's footsteps as living sucrl
fiees. Under this provision the Uospel
call has been going forth for now
elhteeu centuries. The object of this,
the Scriptures tell us. Is to select pri
marily the Church of Christ, a "little
flock." "the Bride, the Lamb's wife"
and joint-heir with him lu his Milleu
niul Kingdom, which is to bless thti
world.
Throughout this Gospel Age a faith
ful "little flock" has gradually beeu
gathered. Their test Is their willing
ness to lay down their lives in the '
Lord's service in the service of tbe
iruiu buu iu luo :i i ild vi lur uiriu-
ren In doing this they are sacrificing
with Jesus; as the Apostle suggests, "I,
beseech you, therefore, brethren, by
the mercies of God, that ye present
your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and
acceptable unto God, which Is your
reasonable service" (Romans ill. li.
This sacrifice of Christ's "members" is
counted in as part and parcel of the
sacrifice of Christ. When this sacrific
ing shall be finished It will mean that
the merit of Christ's sacrifice at. Cal
vary appropriated to the Church will
have been laid down again returned
to the credit of the Redeemer. Then,
at the conclusion of this Age. w hen the
last "member of the Body" bus suf
fered with hlui, and been glorified, the
great High Priest will apply the blood
afresh not again for his members und
the household of faith, however, but
for the world, ns the type clearly
8UOWB. ' '
"The Riches of His Grace."
Glance backward uow, und see the
unfolding of the Divine l'lau: The
Babe of Bethlehem; the Man of Sor
rows; the Risen Lord; the Ascended
High I'rle?t and Advocate; the appro
priation of his merit to the Church;
the joy of forgiveness of Bins and rec
onciliation to God experienced by nil
believers; their instruction in the
School of Christ; their testing and
proving by triuls aud difficulties; and
finally, their glorilicution with their
Lord in the Millennial Kingdom, lu
turn, the glorious Prophet. Priest. Me
diator, King. Head and "members"
complete, will Institute the Millennial
Kingdom reign of righteousness for
the blessing of the world. Applying
his merit for the world aud using it
also to seal the New Covenunt. he
opens up the way whereby all then
living may become reconciled, to God
may be blessed with restitution to full
perfection of mind and morals and
physique and have buck ngulu the
Paradise, lost by sin but redeemed m
Calvary.
The Savior purposes. In harmony
with the Divine Program, that not
merely the members of the race liv
ing at the time of his Second Com
ing and the establishment of his
Kingdom shall be blessed by God's
great Christmas Gift, but additionally,
every member of Adam's ruce. Hem e
the arrangement is. as the Master tells '
us, "All that are in their graves shall
hear the voice of the Son of man and
come forth." ' . '
The "overcomers" of this time of
evil, having passed their trial, will
come forth perfected in , life the
Church on the Spirit plane, being the
"first fruits." The remainder of man
kind, unapproved of God. shall come
forth unto a resurrection of crii
trial, judgment, testing. They will come
forth that It may be testified lo tliem-
in that, their due time that Christ
died for their sins and that redemption
through bis blood has been provided
for them and for all of Adam's race.
During that thousand years of trial
they must either uccept God'8 grace
and co-operute in their advance to in
fection or be destroyed In the Second
Death as unworthy of any further Di
vine favor and blessing.
"Great Joy Unto All People."
Truly, dear friends, we are begin
ning to understand the message sent
us through the angel when our Savior
was born. The message Is not. Feur
greatly; I bring you bad tidings of
eterual toruieut and misery for all peo
ple. It is the very reverse of this,
namely. "Fear not; I bring you good
tidings of great joy which shall be
unto nil people." The Joy has not
been to all people as yet. Kven the
knowledge of the Lord has reached
only about one lu ten of earth's popu
lation thus far. And what did reach
them was generally a very unsatisfac
tory, unreasonable message of damna
tion and great misery. As we have
Just seen, however, the great Plan of
the Ages is rolling onward towards
completion, and its progress at every
stace makes for fresh blessings and
fresh revelations of the glorious things
which God purposed In himself from
before the foundation of the world.
Truly the Scriptures say. As (he heav
ens nre higher than the earth, so are
God's ways higher than man's ways
and his thoughts higher than man's
thoughts (Isulah Iv, 0).
Thankful and faithful we should be;
for the further kuowiedge of God's
great Plan, which now Is streaming
forth from his Word for the blessing
of all whose eyes of understanding
and ears of faith are open. We are
truly thankful that our friends anil
neighbors are not lu everlasting tor
ture, but, on the contrary, waiting for
the glorious Millennial morning and
Its blood-bought opportunity of resti
tution (Acts 111. 19-21). We are thank
ful, too, that In God's providence we
have been called to be "members" of
the Body of Christ, to share in hi;
sufferings and In his glorious reign
and work of the future. It 1b possible
for those who thus see the real, value
of Christmas Day to be a thousand
fold more happy and more grateful t
God than others could be. In turn
they should seek to distribute tin'
Messing and to glorify our Father In
heaven, who has called as out of dark
ness Into his marvellous light.