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    The - Plattsmouth - Journal
t 3 Pulinshsd Semi-Weekly at Plattsmouth, Nebraska
R. A. BATES, Publisher.
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Come to Plattsmouth to celebrate
the Fourth.
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The newspaper men of Illinois are
almost a unit in demanding Lori
mer's resignation. Gut will he?
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Walter I. Smith was renominated
last Tuesday in the Council Bluffs
district, but there is another Tuesday
coming.
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Details of the railroad settlement
in Washington are incomplete, but it
is safe to presume that the Bhlppers
are not to get the best of It.
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The cost of living sas increased
49 per cent in twelve years and
wages have increased 1 per cent In
the same time. And thus our blessed
tariff helps the laboring classes.
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Friends of Prof. Crabtree are urg
ing blm to come out for state super
intendent of schools. And ho has
finally agreed to do so if the pres
ent incumbent decides not to run.
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Plattsmouth will have one of the
finest celebrations In the history of
Cass county this year. Head about
it! Thing about it! And make -your
arrangements to bring the entire
family.
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Dining the last ten months the
net earnings of the Great Northern
railway have increased from 17
million to 2 Hi million dollars. And
the protesting railroad presidents re
gret to note that the Great Norhtern
had no more sense than to publish
tho fact.
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Tho Republican papers don't seem
to like the program adopted by the
Democrats In the western part of tho
slate In holding banquets. Especial
ly the Omaha Hoe. Tho party Is be
coming thoroughly organized and
harmonized In that section, and there
is cui:o for Republican alarm.
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A suit of dothes weighing six
'pounds and worth $10 In Windsor,
Canada, Is taxed 41 cents per pound
or $2.6-1, plus GO per cent ad valorem
or $0, when It is taken across the
river to Detroit, and hence must sell
nt $18.04. Tho United Ftates con
sumer pays tho tax.
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Tho struggle between Ilayward
hud Tobey for the Republican nomi
nation for congress from this dis
trict is growing quite warm. Ho
ward Is using his official position
to boom his candidacy and Tobcy's
friends are criticising him for so do
ing. :o:
The merchants of Nebraska City
will visit tho various towns of Otoe
county for tho purpose of getting
better acquainted with the people
lind for mutual benefit. They will
visit In one body In automobiles. Ia(
, liattsmouth merchants try this same
scheme and maybe they will bo some
benefitted-
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Champ Clark asks: "If It is the
best tariff bill ever passed, as the
president asserts, why does he want
to spend a quarter of a million dol
lars to pick up Information looking
to amending it? Either his verdict
on tho present tariff bill Is absurd or
his desire for money to change It Is
absolutely unjustifiable."
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The defeat of Hull la the Des
Moines district hurts the standpat
ters worso than anything that could
have happened to them In Iowa. Hull
didn't carry a county, and adminis
tration money was plenty and to
Bpare. ' Tho people are evidently
aroused In our sister state across the
Zlg Muddy.
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TIIK IIOXK OF (X)XTIOXTIOX.
The cause of the coldness of the
county optionlsU towards the Aldrlch
gubernatoral boom Is not far to seek.
When Aldrlch waa in the senate he
was depended upon by the opponents
of county option to hinder the meas
ure and he did. He also voted
against it. Another ground of op
positon Is that A id rich Is the prefer
red candidate of the Poulson anti
saloon league. There Is no love lost
between the county optlonists and
the so-called anti-saloon league. So
far as any one has been able to dis
cover the activities of the anti-saloon
league are confined to taking
up collections for the payment of of
ficial salaries. Poulson, the head of
the organization, was Imported from
Ohio, and this does not set well with
tho temperance leaders of the state.
And bI nee he came here months ago
tho only meeting of the anti-saloon
league held was the one which con
fined its work,to increasing tho Poul
son salary from $1,S00 to $2,500 a
year. Kearney Times.
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Mi:X WANTED.
(Scottsbuffs Star, Rep.)
Those who have been used to the
activity of honorable conflict in po
litics, as every good citizen ought to
be, find it hard to lie still and wait,
without resistance for something to
hit them. Such Is the unhappy posi
tion now of the Republicans of Ne
braska. Thousands of voters who
have formerly followed that 'party
and would still like to follow It, find
themselves without anybody to fol
low and with nothing ahead of them
this year but an almost certain de
feat. Is it a case of men wantod? The
Republican voters of this state are
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looking for a leader to lead them
out of the wilderness somebody
who stands for progress instead of
reaction, for the Roosevelt ideas of
government Instead of the Cannon
methods of machine politics, for the
common nerd Instead of tho mnnev
iiilc.TKts. So far they are still look
In;, but It Is not yet too late. A
strong man, who with more mental
mllber than tho ordinary Bmoojh po-
litiiian who gets hlnicclf elected to
congrcHS or a state office, might even
yet In this year of 1910 appear and
transform the Republican party of
Nebraska from hopeless opologlsts
Into an organization of men who feel
that they have something to live for
The day of the machine politician
Is past, but this state Is still waiting
for the man to take his place.
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A llOCSi: DIVIDED.
The big fight between the stand
patters and progressives, In the
Iowa primaries, with tho result on
governod still in. doubt at the
time of this writing, has ended in
decisively. The returns show but
one thing clearly; that the Republi
can party In Iowa Is Bplit squarely
down the middle, with the numerical
advantage very slight, whichever aide
may hold It.
It is Impossible to say what a Re
publican in Iowa Is. There is no
such things. There are standpat
ters, and there are progressives. And
the standpatters are much farther re
moved from the progressives than
the progressives are from the Demo
crats. Counting the progressives and
Democrats together, as must be done
for purposes of comparison, Iowa is
no longer a Republican state. It is
overwhelmingly anti-Republican.
But it cannot be said, with any
degree of safety, that the "Repub
llcan party" of Iowa Is itself antl
Republican. The "party" Is tremb
ling in tho ballance uncertain wheth
er to commend itself or denounce It
self, and with half of it hating and
fearing the other half.
There was on progressive Repub
lican congressma nopposod for re
nomination In the primaries Mr
oous, or tne Tenth district. He
was renominated over his standpat
opponent. There were four standpat
congressmen opposed for renomlna
tlon by progersslve candidates. Three
of the four were renominated, In
cluding Walter I. Smith, one of the
leading standpatters in congress v
one, Mr. Hull of Des Moines, chair
man of the important military af
fairs committee, was defeated by
Judge Prouty, a progressive. Six
congressmen were renominated with
out opposition. Four of these are
progressives, and two, Pickett and
Good, of the Third and Fifth dis
tricts respectively, are "near-progressives,"
like our Senator Burkett;
standpatter at heart, with a thin and
Insincere progressive veneering put
on for campaign purposes.
It is only necessary to recite these
facts to show how hopelessly the
party is divided. It ought not be
necessary to say that it Is folly to
expect results, accomplishments, at
the hands of a party so irreconcil
ably at war with Itself. Compared
with the Republican differences of
today the Democratic differences in
1896 were as a gentle summer's
breeze contrasted to a death-dealing
cyclone.
We cannot refrain from quoting,
while on this subject, from a frank-
spoken editorial in the Sioux City
Journal published the day before the
primaries. The Journal said:
"In a nutshell, the Issue to be
decided is whether Iowa Is still
a Republican state. There
has been a revolt in the par
ty, Just as there was In 1896.
... It is based on the theory
that the leadership of the par
ty has been rotten. The accept
ance of this theory must mean
the admission that the party re
cord in recent years has been
against the public interests . . .
Iowa must choose between Taft
and the Republican party and
Cummins and Dolliver and, the
Democratic party. The coun
try Is looking to Iowa to por
rect the mistake of Indiana."
The country has looked in vain.
The question was put up to the Re
publicans of Iowa themselves, and
the result is a hung jury six voting
'guilty" and six "not guilty." Half
of the party votes that the party
leadership Is "rotten" and the party
eeord "against the public interest,"
half prefers "Cummins and Dolliver
and the Democratic party" to "Taft
and the Republican party."
Tho Republican party is a house
d ivhled against Itself. It cannot
stand. World-I Ierald.
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Some Trouble.
A broken water plpo In the floor
ing of the closet on the first floor
of the court house today ha3 been
giving Janitor Tom Svoboda a bad
half day. The water Is percolating
down into the closet on the base
ment floor and threatens to cause
a lot of the plastering on the celling
of that place to fall to the floor.
The leak is in a bad spot and will
take a good deal of work and trou
ble to get at it. However, Mr. Svo
boda hopes to have it fixed by night.
L. A. Melslnger, wife and baby son
and Mrs. W. G. Melslnger were a
party coming in from their home in
the country this morning to take
the Burlington train for Omaha,
where they will spend the day with
friends.
MUHIATK NO'l'M'i;.
State of Nebraska,)
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dim Count v.
IN TIIR MATTKTt OF THIS NSTATE
ANN M. DAVIS, DKCEASKD
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You are liprphv notified thnt n niH.
tlon ban been filed In thin court pray
ing that loiter of administration be
InmupiI upon the pxtate of Ann M. Dnvln,
dociMiMeil; tbat a hearing will be had
upon mild petition on the 2Sth day of
iii nr. a. ii., inu, at m n clock a. n., In
my office In lMatteinouth, NehraKka. on
or before which hour all objection!
thereto imiBt be filed.
Witnenn my band and official seal
thin SrU day of June, A. !., 1910.
(Seal) , Allen J. Ileeson.
KuniMey & Ramsey, County Judge.
Attorneys.
OR
Herman Gresdcr,
Graduate Veterinary Surgeon
(Formerly with U. S. Department
Agriculture)
Licensed by NebraskaState
Board
Calls Answered Promptly
Telephone 378 White, IMatUmouth.
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PEOPLE'S
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
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Philadelphia, Pa., June 12. Pastor
Russell of The Brooklyn Tabernacle
preached here twice today to large and
attentive audiences. We report his
discourse from the text, "I, the Lord
thy God am a Jealous God, visiting the
Iniquities of the fathers upon the chil
dren unto the third and fourth genera
tion of them that bate me; and show
ing mercy unto thousands of them that
love me and keep my commandments"
(Deuteronomy v, 9, 10). A report of
the discourse follows:
No one of experience can question
the fact that our text is corroborated
by all our experiences In life. How
ever uujust some may claim It to be
that the children should Inherit the
weaknesses resulting from parental
dissipations and violations of the Di
vine law, the fact remains that how
ever atheism may question the exist
ence of a God or Infidelity doubt the
inspiration of his Word, no one can
question tho two facts of this text, (1),
that 6in and its penalty can be inherit
ed and (2) the fact that God Is merci
ful to such ns renounce siu and turn
to him and seek to walk according to
his direction. However these bless
ings upon evil doers and their children
and these blessings upon well doers
and their posterity may be termed
natural laws and laws of heredity, it
does not alter tho fact, because the Al
mighty Is tho one who made those
laws of heredity.
Under the delusion banded down to
us from the 'Mark ages" that God
had condemned to eternal torment all
the children of Adam because of his
sin we are all Inclined properly
enough to feel rebellious against any
6ttch matter and to assert that from
the stnndpolnt of human reasoning
it would be entirely unjust to torture
the posterity of Adnm eternally for
his transgression "original siu." Dut
as we get the eyes of our understand
ing opened to see what is the real
penalty for sin. that It Is death, ex
tinction, and that our perfect parents,
fully Informed respecting the divine
will, were culpable, worthy of death,
and when we loam further that what
ever is enjoyed by Adam's posterity
in the way of life, however disad
vantageous the conditions, is so
much of divine leniency and mercy
and comes so much short of being
the full penalty, death, extinction
then wo begin to Fee that life under
any conditions and disadvantages is
still a boon, better than extinction.
In Wrath Have Mercy, Lord.
Recognizing tho wrath of God as
manifested in the death penalty (not
In an eternity of torture) we can see
that the Scriptures everywhere de
clare that the wrath of God is resting
upon our race; that every member of
it is subject to this very penalty which
came upon father Adam and has been
entailed upon all of his posterity.
The Almighty Creator did not wait
for us to cry out for his pity and
compassion, but from the very be
ginning, foreknowing our fall Into sin.
he had the plan arranged for our re
demption and ultimate recovery from
this condition of wrath, curse, death.
We are informed that our Lord Jesus
was the Lamb of God slain from the
foundation of the world in the Divine
purpose and arrangement though only
now being made manifest to the
Church and shortly to tho world. Thus
viewed there baa been no. Injustice
practised against our race in permit
ting the children to share with their
father Adam In his penalty. Itather
they had esteemed it and do esteem it
better than the sentenco itself, and
furthermore in the Lord's providences
the world's present experiences In tho
fall and later on In the recovery from
tho fall In the bands of the great Re
deemer during the Millennial Age, Is
to prove a lesson, a schooling, In the
exceeding sinfulness of sin, which the
race as a whole will never forget and
out of which many (now the Church,
later on the world) will draw lessons
of wisdom and- grace.
Looking still moro deeply Into the
Divine Tlan as it Is revealed In the
Lord's Word for those who are his
rsatm xxv. 11). we find a particular
reason why it was not only advisable
but necessary that this lnw of heredity
should operate In our race, even though
it brought In its train a terrible list of
experiences to our ruce. The reason
for this Is based upon one element of
the Divine character Justice the very
element which at one time we sup
posed was violated by this law of
heredity. As our eyes open to tho
teaching of thp Scriptures we perceive
that If God had not permitted his law
of heredity to operate, but had per
mitted each Individual of the race to
come forth to perfection and to stand
an Individual trial such as father Adam
was subject to. It would doubtless
have meant that at least one-half of
the race, possibly more, would have
deliberately chosen n course of sin as
father Adam chose It. To expect more
than one-half to be obedient would be
unreasonable, rather, from what we
see about u In the experiences of life.
we would have been liable to conclude
that only o very small majority, per
haps one-tenth, would have been obe
dient to God. whllo the remaining nine
tenths would have been disobedient.
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PULPIT...
The Law cf Retribution
Sowing and Reaping Visit
ing Sins of Parents Upon Their
Children Justice of the Divine
Arrangement Grace So Much
More Abounds Else Were
Your Children Unholy.
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Some might ask, Would not even
that have been better than the Divine
arrangement as we see It operating
now, that the whole race should suf
fer for one man's disobedience? We
answer, No! Not according to the tes
timony of the Scriptures. The Bible
shows us that while this law of retri
bution has worked such terrible havoc
In Adam and bis race for now G.000
years while 20,000,000,000 have been
born In sin and sorrow and pain and
after a few years of trouble have died
in sorrow and pain, nevertheless in
God's due time all of these shall have
more favorable opportunities of know
ing of God's true character and of at
taining to a full character development
In his likeness during the Millennial
Age. This means that probably mote
will gain eternal life and blessing un
der the divine arrangement as we have
It than we could reasonably expect
would have been saved had the Lord
not provided this law of heredity and
condemnation of nil, but on the con
trary bad permitted each to be born
In perfection and to stand his trial ns
between loyalty to God with the re
ward of eternal life or disobedience
punished with death. But we shall
see tbat it means much more than this.
Condemned In One Redeemed by One.
A great economic law Is connected
with the djvine arrangement: The
condemnation of a race in one man's
loins because of his transgression
made possible the divine arrangement
that a Second Man should pay the
penalty for the first and redeem both
him and nil who were In him at the
time of his condemnation. This Is at
once a demonstration of Divine Wis
dom and of Divine Justice. Suppose,
for instance, that the law of heredity
had not prevailed, had not been in
stituted by our Lord, but that each
Individual had come forth perfect and
had been personally placed on trial
and been persoually condemned to
di:ath. Would It not have required an
Individual savior for each one con
demned under such an arrangement?
Surely It would. Hence, had one-half
of the race proven themselves sinners
and been personally condemned it
would either have been necessary to
avoid redemption altogether or to re
deem the sinner half of the race, by
giving a life for a life a perfect be
ing's sacrifice for or instead of each
Imperfect life. Estimating the total
number of our race at 20,000.000,000.
Justice would have been obliged to
require 10.000,000.000 of perfect be
ings to be offered as the ransom price
for the 10.000,000.000 of sinners.
Under the very best estimate that
we can possibly make, this would
hnve required the death of all the
perfect ones of the race as redeemers
for all the Imperfect members of the
race, and what a havoc that would
have lmplied-with Just as many dy
ing as under present conditions, name
ly, one-half as sinners and the other
half as redeemers, ransoms. Besides.
we perceive that it would not have
been Just on the part of the Almighty
to compel the righteous ones to suf
fer for the unrighteous as their re
deemers, hence there would have been
no assurance even then that any but
a rraction or tne Biuncr race wouiu
have been redeemed. On the contrary,
how wise, conservative and econom
ical was the Divine arrangement that
by one man's disobedience under the
laws of heredity the many would be
born Rlnners and sharers in his pen
alty, death, oud that then in due time
one Savior, one perfect one. the "man
Christ Jesus," might redeem Adam
and, redeeming him, redeem all of
his race from the death sentence, the
curse, the wrath of God, and as a
result of the redemption obtain the
right, the authority, the power during
his Millennial Kingdom aud in asso
ciation with his glorified Church of
the Gospel Age, to bless all the fam
ilies of the earth and to uplift as
many as would be willing out of all
their Ignorance, weakness and sinful
and dying conditions to all that was
lost In Adam.
We have seen that In harmony wltu
the Divine law It would not have
been just for the Heavenly Father to
obligate the righteous to die for sin
ners and that hence the redemption of
tho sinners would have beeu prob
lematical very doubtful. But on the
contrary the Heavenly Father well
knew In advance the loyalty of his
First-Begotten, his only Begotten, who
Is declared to have been the "begin
ning of the creatlou of God" (Revela
tion ill. h. Fie knew not only of Jesus'
loyalty but that his experiences with
hl'm in glory would every way qualify
our Lord for the tests and the sacrifices
uecessary for the redemption of the
race with his own precious blood.
Tho Scriptures assuro us furthermore
that the Father set before him some
certain Joys, certain blessings, certain
promises, lu connection with this work
cf man's redemption; as we read.
"Who for the Joy set before him en
dured thp cross, despising the shame,
and Is now set down on.the right hand
of the majesty on high" (Hebrews
xli. 2l.
Retributive Joys and Rewards.
We are to remember, too. that the
Scriptures distinctly teach that the
condition of the affairs of our world
sin, retributive punishment, the re
demption through Jesus, the call of
the Church and their sufferings with
their ttedcemer aud the promises of
future blessing and glory both for the
Church aud for the world are sub
jects In which the angels of God are
Interested. As the Apostle Peter says.
Of which salvation the prophets have
enquired and searched diligently. . . .
Searchlug what or what manner of
time the Spirit of Christ which was In
them did signify, when it testified be
forehand the sufferings of Christ, and
the glory that should follow. . . .
Which things the angels desire to look
into" (I Peter, L 10-12). They won
dered when all the sufferings of Jesus
and the Church would be completed
and when the glory time would come
and recovery from sin and death con
ditions; when God's purpose would
thus ripen and bear fruit In the recov
ery of those who fell from his favor
In Adam's disobedience but were re
deemed by the precious blood.
The great lesson of what constitutes
disobedience, and how serious a sin It
Is, and what it woukl lead to if allowed
to take its course, was Illustrated In
man's experiences; and all the hosts of
angels looked on wlthamazement, no
doubt. God's Justice was fully dem
onstrated In the Infliction of the death
penalty and tho permission of its in
roads upon the mental, moral and
physical perfection of bis creatures,
bringing many of the race down al
most to brutality. God's Love was
manifested in the gift of his Son. in
the arrangement of his ilan by which
for the joy set before him. Jesus might
become Adam's Redeemer, and the
Bridegroom of the Elect Church anl
ultimately the great King of Glory
who, during the Millennial Age, Is to
restore, revive and bless and test
Adam and all his face.
Christ and the Church Crucially Tested
We cannot wonder if all the holy an
gels looked on In amazement as they
beheld the Only Begotten Son of God
leave the "glory which he bad before
the world was" and humble himself to
take Iiumnn nature to be born a man
tbat be might redeem Adam and his
race. It must have seemed wonderful
to them not only that the Heavenly
Father would arrange such a plan but
wonderful also thnt the glorious "Only
Begotten," "First-Born." should bo the
one to whom the proposition would be
made to show his fi.ith aud love for
the Father, to do his will to the ex
tent of such a sacriiice. not only of
glory, but, evonru illy, of life. They
hnd yet to see a fur'hor operation of
the divine law of retribution operating
In Jesus for his blessing aud honor.
So Intent wen they In looking at the
humiliation of the Only Begotten, and
then at bis death, that apparently they
did not so carefully uote the fact that
the Heavenly Father had set before
him great Joys, profit blessings, great
exaltation, when be sho'ild finish his
work.
Already the Only Begotten was next
to the Father lu glory and dignity,
honor and power; what more of divine
honor could be bestowed upon even
the First-Born of every creature?
The Ouly Begotten himself appears
not to have" thought particularly of
the promised glory: The joy set be
fore him, however, seems to have
been that he would do the Father's
will and thus demonstrate his abso-.
lute loyalty even unto death. While,
no doubt. It was a joy to the Lord
to be the Father's Agent In the rescuo
of Adam and bis, race from sin and
death, nevertheless we believe that
his chief Joy In connection with the
matter was that thus he might demon
strate to the Father his absolute love
by his submission and obedleuce.
Our Lord's own words were, "Father,
glorify thou me with the glory which
I had with thee before the world
was" (John xvll. C). He knew of
the Father's proposed exaltation of
blm as a reward, but he did not men
tion this; be would merely ask of the
Father that when he had accom
plished the Divine purpose he might
have back the same honor and posi
tion aud divine favor which he had
laid aside when be humbled himself
to become Adam's redemption price,
the world's Savior. Such modesty
and loyalty are difficult for us to
comprehend because of our fallen.
Imperfect conditions.
But the Apostle explains to us.
speaking under the power of Inspira
tion, that because of our Lord's obedi
ence in leaving the glory and becom
ing a man and dying for our sins,
therefore "God hath highly exalted
him and given blm a name above ev
ery name, that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow, of things In
heaven and things in earth" (Phlllppl
ans II, 0, 10). Elsewhere In the Scrip
tures we are assured tbat our Lord be
came partaker of the Divine nature lu
his resurrection; that thus he attained a
reward far above unything that could
have beeu thought, not only above an
gels, but also far above his own prehu
man condition. In thus rewarding tho
faithful the Lord is carrying out tho
spirit of our text he has been exem
plifying what Is otherwise taught lu
the Scriptures "whatsoever mau sow
eth that shall he also reap" (Galatlans
vl, 7). Adam sowed disobedience and ho
and his race have reaped a terrible
harvest of degradation, suffering and
death. The Only Begotten sowed obe
dience, as prophetically expressed or
him at the time of his baptism, 'i de
light to do thy will, O my God; thy law
Is written In my heart" (Psalm il Si
Laying down his life in harmony with
the Divine program was his sowing
and the reaping at the resurrection
was glory, honor nnd Immortality, the
divine nature. How richly Jehovah re
wards every demonstration of loyalty
to himself and the principles of righteousness.