THE WAY
OF
MAN
By Emerson Hough
PROLOGUE.
A young man and a beautiful
young woman, tost and atone in
a wilderness for months, half
starved and in daily peril of
death from wild beasts and still
more savage Indians this is the
central theme of the most fasci
nating romance that has come
from Emerson Hough's pen.
Read and you will learn how
love came to them; how they
conducted themselves in this try
ing, unconventional situation;
how the man's chivalry and the
woman's purity held them stead
fast to the ideals of civilization,
and how the strange episode
brought tragedies, estrangements
and happiness.
Copyright. IV07, by Ibe Outing Publishing
Company
sldered me either as his foe or his
friend or his patient lie was simply
about to do something which would
test his own nerve, his own resources,
something whlrb. If successful, would
allow him to approve bis own belief
in himself. 1 said to myself that 1
would pay him if he brought
through pay him in some way.
I heard them on the sand again, aui
I saw him come again and bend over
me. All the Instruments they could
find had been a razor and a keen pen
knife; and all they could secure tc
stanch the blood was some water,
nearly boiling. For forceps Orme had
a pair of bullet molds, and these he
cleansed as best he could. by dipping
thorn Into the hot water.
"Cowles," he said. In a matter of fact
voice, "I'm going after It. But now I
tell you one thing frankly, it's life ot
death, and If you move your head it
niiiv mean death at once. That iron's
lying against the big carotid artery. It j
It hasn't broken the artery wall there s
n ghost of a chance we can get it out
pnfely, in which case you would prob
cbly pull through. I've got to open the
neck and roach in. I'll do It as fast aa
I can. Now. I'm not going to think os
you. and, gad I if you can help it-
please don't think of me.
my nouse.
A vast dullness and a throbbing ot
the head remained after they were
quite done with me. but something of
this left me when finally I sat lean
ing back against the wagon body and
looked about me. There were straight,
motionless figures lying under the
blankets in the shade, and under other
blankets were men who writhed and
moaned.
Again Ellen Meriwether came and
sat hy nie. Her costume might have
bom taken from a collector's chesc
rather than a woman's wardrobe. All
at once we seemed, all of us., to be
blending with these surroundings, be
coming savage as these other savages.
It might almost have been a savage
woman who came to me. Her skirt
was short, made of white tanned ante
lope leather. Above it fell the ragged
edges of a native tunic or shirt of yel
low buck, ornamented with elk teeth,
embroidered in stained quills. Her
hair, now becoming yellower and more
sunburned at the ends, was piled un
der her felt hat, and the modlshness
of long cylindrical curls was quite for
got. The brown of her cheeks, al
reudy strongly sunburned, showed In
strange contrast to the snowy white
of her neck, now exposed by the low
neck aperture of the Indian tunic.
"You stand all this nobly," I com
mented presently.
"Ah, you men-I love you, you men!"
She said it suddenly and with perfect
sincerity. "I love you all you are so
strong, so full of the desire to live, to
win. It is wonderful, wonderful! Just
look at those poor boys there some of
them are dying, almost, but they don't
whimper. It is wonderful.
"It is the plains," I said. "They
have simply learned how little a thing
is life."
"Yet it Is sweet," she said.
"You were four different women," I
mused, "and now you are another,
quite another."
At this she frowned a bit and rose.
THE TRINITY
OF THE BIBLE
More Logical Than the Trinity
c! the Creeds,
THE SCRIPTURES ARE LOGICAL
Pattor Russell Show the Bible Stu
dent How to Seek the Mind of tho
Lord on Important Subjects and
Acta aa a Guida In Helping to Solve
Our Man-made Mysteries.
fry, 'C
"You are not to talk." she said, "nor
think that you are well. I must see
the others."
I lay back against the wagon bed,
wondering in which garb she had been
most beautiful the filmy ball dress
I and the mocking mask, the gray gown
I nti.l -oll nt !... iUit nftor the tliln
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Elleu Meriwether still held my head draI)erv of lier nnsty fllKUt in the night,
in her lap. j h(r half conventional costume of the
CHAPTER X.
The Teat ,
I AWOKE. I knew not how much
later, into a world which at first
bad a certain warm comfort and
languid luxury about it Then I
felt a sharp wrenching and a great
pain in my nck, to which it seemed
my depart4 head had, after all, re
turned. I looked into the face of Au
berry. He stood frowning, holding in
his band a feathered arrow shaft of
willow, grooved along its sides to let
the blood run free, sinew wrapped to
hold its feathers tight a typical arrow
of the buffalo tribes. But as I Joined
An berry's gaze, I saw the arrow was
headless. Dully I argued that there
fore, this head must be somewhere in
my neck.
Ellen Meriwether sat on the sand,
gently stroking my forehead.
"They have gone," said she. "We
whipped them." Her hand again light
ly pressed my forehead.
I heard someone else say, behind
me, "But we hare nothing in the
world not even opium."
"True." said another voice, which I
recognized as that of Orme. "but that's
his one chance."
"What do yon know about surgery V,
asked the first voice, which I knew
now was Belknap's.
"More than most doctors." was the
answer, with a laugh. Their voices
.grew less distinguishable, but present
ly I beard Orme say. "Yes, I'm game
to do it if the man says so." Then be
came and stooped down beside me.
"Mr. Cowles." said be. "you're rather
badl? off Tant arrQK-hoid. oustULa
come out but the risk of going after It
Is very great I am willing to do what
yon say. If you decide that you
would like me to operate for it. I will
lo so. It's only right for me to tell
you that it lies very closo to the caro
tid artery and that It will be an extra
ordinarily ulce operation to get it out
without well, you know"
I looked up Into that strange face
the face of my enemy. I knew it Was
the face of a murderer, a man who
would have no compunction at taking
a human life. My mind then was
strangely clear. I saw his glance at
the girl. 1 saw, as clearly as though
he bad told me, that this man was
as deeply In love with Ellen Meri
wether as I myself; that be would win
her If be could; that his chance was
as good as mine, even If we were
both at our best I knew there wan
nothing at which he would hesitate,
unless some strange freak In bis na
ture might Influence him. Remorse.
mercy, pity. I knew did not. exist for
him. But with a flash It rame to my
mind that this was all the better. If
be must now serve as my surgeon.
He looked Into my eye, and I re
turned his gaze, scorning to ask blm
not to t ike advantage of me. now that
I was fallen. Ills own eye changed
It asked of me. ns though be spoke:
"Are you, then, game to the core?
Shall I admire you and give you an
other chance, or shall I kill yon now?"
I say that 1 saw, felt read all this tn
his mind. I looked op into bis face
and said:
"Yon cannot kill me. I am not go
ing to die. r,o on. Soon, then."
A sort of sigh broke from bis lips,
ai though he felt content I do not
think it was because he found his foe
lucthv cno. dfc noLthlnk. be coa
"Are you game can you do this,
Miss Meriwether?" I heard Orme ask.
I felt her hands press my head more
tightly. I turned my face down and
kissed her hand. "I will not move," I
said.
I saw Orme's slender, naked wrist
pass to my face and gently turn me
into the position desired, with my face
down and a little at one side, resting
in her lap above her knees. Her skirt
was already wet with the blood of the
wound, and where my head lay it was
damp with blood. Belknap took my
bands and pulled them above my bead.
day before or this, the garb of some
primeval woman. I knew I could nev-.
er forget her again. The thought gave
me pain, aud perhaps this showed on
my face, for my eyes followed her so
that presently she turned and, came
back to me.
"Does the wound hurt you?" she
asked. "Are you in pain?"
"Yes, Ellen Meriwether," I said. "I
am in pain. 1 am in very great pain."
"Oh." she cried. "I am sorry. What
can we do? But perhaps it will not be
so bad after awhile. It will be over
soon
LOCAL NEWS
Krom Friday's Dully.
Mrs. Thomas Sullivan and Mrs.
A. I). Taylor visited OmahnJ
friends this morning.
William Hire. II. C. Ilenke, Wil
liam Hcnke and Fred Wicker were
Omaha passengers on the fast
mail this afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. I. S. While of
Murray were in the city a few
hours today, spending the time
willi county seat friends.
Mrs. John Libersliall and Mrs
Frank Vetesnek departed for
Omaha on the morning train to
day, where they spent ttie day.
, Miss Ida (loodell returned to
her home at (Sleuwood on the
morning train today, after visiting
Miss Olive Oass for a short time.
squatting beyond me. Unknown to the , NOf Ellen Meriwether," I said. "It
girl, I kissed the hem of her garment, wjh not be over soon. It will not go
and then I said a short appeal to the way a au
Mystery. ,T n r.,,,!;,,.,.,.!
I felt tbe entrance of the knife or 4
razor blade, felt keenly the pain when
the edge lifted and stretched the skin
tight before the tough hide of my neck
parted smoothly in a long line. Then '
I felt something warm settle under my
cheek as I lay, and I felt a low shiver.
whether of my body or that of the girl
who held me I could not tell, but her
hands were steady. I felt about me
an infinite kindness and carefulness
and pitying oh, then I learned that
life, after all, is not wholly war that
there is such a thing as fellow suffer
ing and loving kindness and a wish to
aid others to survive in this hard fight
of living. I knew that very well. But
I did not gain It from the touch of my
surgeon's bands.
The Immediate pain of this long cut
ting which laid open my neck for some
Inches through the side muscles was
less after the point of the blade went
through and censed to push forward.
Deeper down I did not feel so much
until finally n gentle searching move
ment produced a Jar strangely large,
something that grated and nearly sent
all the world black again. I knew then
that the knife was on the base of the
arrow head; then I could feel it move
softly and gently along the side of the
arrow head. I could almost see it creep
along in this delicate part of the work.
Then all at once I felt ono hand re
moved from my neck. Orme. hnlf ris
ing from bis stooping posture, but with
tbe fingers of his left band still at the
wound, said: "Belknap, let go one of
his hands. Just put your band on this
knife blade and feel that artery throb,
lsu't it curious?" :
I heard some muttered answer, but;
the grasp at my wrists did not relax.
"Oh. it's all right now, calmly went
on Orme. again stooping. "I thought
you might be Interested. "
I felt sgalu u shiver run through tha
limbs of the girl. I felt Orme's fingers
spreading widely the sides of the
wound along tbe neck and the boring
of the big headed bullet molds as thry
wcut down after a grip, their Impact
softened by tbe finger extended along
tbe blade knife. The. throbbing arterx,
whose location this man knew so well,
was protected. Gently feeling down,
tbe tips of tbe mold got their grip at
last, and an Instant later I felt release
from a certain stiff pressure which I
bad experienced in my neck. Relief
came, then a dizziness and much pain.
A hand patted me twice on the back
of the neck.
"All right my man," said Orme. "All
over and Jolly well dono, too, if I do
say It myself."
Belknap put bis arm about me and
helped me to sit up. I saw Orme hold
ing out the stained arrow bead, long
and thin, in his fingers.
-Would von Hire nr U tail "
"Yes." said I. BTtaAlnf. An I con
fess I have It now soroewbsn abet
Charles Ileeson of Minneapolis,
who has been a guest of his broth
er, A. J. lleeson, and his mother,
Mrs. Alice Beeson, sr., for a few
days, returned to his home this
afternoon.
L. h. Drown, from near Keno
sha, was in the city today look
ing after some business matters
and visiting with county seat
friends. Mr. Drown say9 his sis
ter, Mrs. Nix, is still quile sick.
i nave r.nersoie ana sons. David
and Oeorge, who have been visit
ing relatives at Middletown, Penn
sylvania, for several weeks, re
turned this morning. Mr. Eher
sole looks much improved in
health.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Halmes,
from Weeping Water, auloed to
IMaltsmoulh this morning, where
they will spend the day. Mr.
Halmes will he interviewing our
merchants in the interests of the
Weeping Water flour, while Mrs.
Hnlmes will spend the time visit
ing with friends and relatives.
They will return home this even
ing.
T. D. Dates and wife and little
niece, Miss Octa French, were
Omaha passengers this nfternoon,
where Mr. Dales took in the hall
game between Omaha and St.
Joseph. Miss Octa has visited
her aunt, Mrs. T. D. Dates, for a
week, and has been very nice about
the Journal office, and her return
home is regretted by the Journal
force.
Syracuse. N. Y..
Juue 30. Pastor
liussell addressed
two large audi
ences here today,
one in the Empire
Theatre. We re
port one of his dis
courses from this
text: "To us there
is but one God,
the Father, of
whom are all
things, and we in
IIlm;andone Lord
Jesus, by whom are all things, and we
by Illm. Uowbelt there is not in ev
ery man that knowledge," I Corinthi
ans vill, 0, 7.
For long centuries God's people have
been confessing a Divine trinity, taught
by the creeds, which was incompre
hensible; and meantime they bave
been neglecting the trinity taught by
the Bible, which Is more reasonable.
If the trinity of the creeds was ques
tioned, holy hands were lifted In hor
ror, and the questioner was told that
the subject was a mystery, which be
could not possibly understand, but to
doubt It would mean his damnation!
Therefore he must profess to believe
what he did not understand, and there
fore could not believe.
The mysterious proposition was
sometimes put in ono form and some
times in another. Some stated It to
be 3 x 1 Is one. But others stated it
differently. 1 x 3 is one. No wonder
if some of the more intelligent spec!
mens of our race declared themselves
Incapable of understanding such niathe
matlcs. and too honest to confess and
profess whnt they could not believe
Many of these honest bouIs have been
forced by their candor to remain out
side the various denominations of
Christendom.
Under such pressure It should not
surprise us that there has sprung up
so equally unscrlptural theory, styled
Unlversallsm. desiring to worship God,
yet too honest and conscientious to
make false pretensions of faith. These
bave been driven to an antagonism of
the popular theory of the trinity to
the extent of Ignoring the Divinity of
our Lord Jesus Christ and tbe teach
Ings of tbe Bible to this effect In
word, the great Adversary, during the
Dark Ages, succeeded in swinging the
pendulum first to one extreme and
then to tbe opposite extreme, while
the very Truth, which tbe Bible pre
sent lies midway between them. As
Rlble students, let us seek to know
the mind of the Lord on this subject
as well as on other subjects, assured
that the Wisdom which comes from
above Is alone capable of giving us
proper Instruction and guidance, and
of solving our man-made mysteries.
Consider Now Our Text.
Note the simplicity of the Bible
statements our text being an exam
ple. Not once from Genesis to Reve
lation does the word trinity occur. Not
once Is there any hint of such a trinity
as the creeds describe except in the
one text-I John v. 7-whlch all schol
ars. Including trinitarians, agree is
spurious not found In Greek manu
scripts of an earlier date than the
seventh century-evldently "doctored"
by some trlnltarlan Doctor of Divinity
to meet his long-fdlt want Our Re
vised English Version omits the In
terpolated parts of this text intro
duced about the seventh century to
support the trlnltarlan theory-al-though
the revisers all profess to be
trlnltarlans. When one's attention Is
called to this spurious passage, tbe
bungling character of the addition to
the Apostle's words Is quickly discern
ed. 8t John Is thereby made to say
that the Father, the Son and the Holy
Spirit are going about heaven testify
Ing to the angels that Jesus Is the Son
of God. Even a child's mind can dis
cern tho absurdity of this statement.
for surely the angels knew that Jesus
was the Son of God before lie came
Into the world and during Ills earthly
ministry and since, without any neces
slty for a testimony to this effect from
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
The Testimony of the Bible.
The Bible sets forth that Jehovah Is
tbe Almighty God. and that our Lord
Jesus Is Ills Son. His offspring, glorl
ously exalted to the Father's right
hand of power, dominion and glory-
as Ills Chief Representative and
Agent Jo all matters. The Father and
the Son, although different persons, are
one in the sense In which our Lord
Jesus stated-oue in mind, in purpose.
tn plan, in action. In everything except
In person. Bow clearly the Master
stated this to us, and bow strangely
we overlooked the force of Ills words
when He prayed Tor the Church that
we might all be "one. even as Thou.
Father, and I are oner The oneness
of tbe Church is certainly not a one
ness of person, but a oneness of faith,
hope, harmony, fellowship, even as is
the oneness of the Father and the Von.
Read over tbe Master's words at your
convenience at home. They are found
in the 17th chapter of St John's Goo-
pel.
As for the Holy Spirit the spirit of
Truth, the spirit of God. the spirit of
Christ, the spirit of holiness, the spirit
of a sound mind It Is the antithesis.
or opposite of a spirit of error, a spirit
of vacillation, the spirit of Satan, or
opposition to God. a spirit of un
righteousness, or unholiness. These
are not different plrlt beings, but
emanations from spirit beings. As the
spirit of Satan is a spirit of evil, or an
evil Influence, mind or disposition, a pow
er emanating from Satan, so contrariwise,
tha spirit ot God is a spirit ot ho 1 1 nous,
righteousness, truth, the emanation and
display of tho Divine will, purpose, ener
gy and power. And thla Holy Spirit pro
ceeds from God the Father.
And our Lord Jesus Christ, being In the
fullest harmony with the Father. Ills
Spirit la the same spirit ot holiness and
truth. And all of God's consecrated peo
ple, to the extent th.ft they have the mind
of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, have the
Holy Spirit, and shed forth thla holy In
fluence upon all with whom they come In
contact.
Thus we see that there la a trinity of
the Scriptures very different from the
trinity of the creeds a beautiful trinity.
Ilefore we proceed to demonstrate the
Bible trinity and to give an array of
8crlpturo texts proving It, let ua glance
backward and note well the conditions
and circumstances which gave riae to the
erroneous theory of the trinity set forth
In our creeds, namely, aa stated by some,
that there are three Qoda In one person
God the Father, God the Son, Uod tha
Holy Spirit Or. aa atated by aome other
persona. There la one God In three per
sona, or a trinity of Gods with one aim
and object.
The Origin of the Error.
tt will not be disputed that for more
than four thousand years there waa no
suggestion of a trinity of Gods, nor of
more than one God, amongst the Israel
Itea. The heathen natlona recognlied gods
many polytheism and at least one of
those aa having a trinity. But Ood'a peo
ple were warned against all these, being
Instructed In these words, "Hear, O IS'
raol, the Lord our Ood Is one Lord Je
hovah. Thou ahalt have no other gods
mighty ones, rulers) before me." (Deu
teronomy vl, 4.) It should be noted thnt
our Bible recognizes earthly soda or nil
era, but none of these were ever to rank
with the grent F.tcrnal Ono, whose Word
and authority must atnhd supreme with
those who would be Ilia people. Indeeil,
the word cluhim, as used In tho Bible, and
translated gods, signifies morely mighty
one.
Jehovah, being tho Mightiest One of all.
Is frequently referred to by this word
tlohft. And sometimes, by way of show
ing His pre-emlnonce over other mighty
ones (elonim), He la styled the All
Mighty One. The word elodlm la also
used In the Bible In respect to angola,
because they are mightier than men, es
pecially when they came to men as Di
vine agents, bearing the Divine message.
In one Instance the term (onlnt, or goda,
la used in referring to men men placed
In posltlone of might or authority the
seventy elders of Israel.-Exodua xxl, (;
axil, S. 9. S; Psalm Ixxxll, 1
A a we shall shortly ahow, the worda of
Jeaua and the Apostles fully corroborate
the teaching of the Old Testament, adding
that Jesus la the Bon of Ood, ana mat
the call of thla Ooapel Age la tor the
gathering of the Church, to be under and
associate sons, "partakers of the divine
nature."-II Peter L 4.
It waa after the death of the twelve
Apostles that, without Divine authority,
the blshoDS of the church were proclaimed
to be the successors of the Apoatles, and
to possess Apostollo authority, as teach
ers In the church, and whose worda were
to be taken aa of plenary Inspiration, it
waa these bishops In council who declared
the doctrine that S a 1 la one that Ood la
one being, of three personalities or man
ifestations, all three being equal In power
and In glory. The question Is, Why did
they make auch a statement? Why should
they concoct so unscrlptural and ao un
reasonable a proposition? The answer Is
that It was done to combat certain errors
prominent in their day. They flew from
one extreme to another.
As soon aa Christianity became promt
nent enough In the world to attract the
attention of the Grecian philosophers.
they confessed some of He teachings to be
grand and noble, but they attacked the
thought that Jesus waa more than a man
and that Ilia death was In any sense of
the word necessary aa the Atonement
price for the alna of the world.' in pro
portion aa they endeavored to discredit
the Redeemer and to deny Hla prehuman
existence, proportionately did the other
party exalt and extol Him, until tney
claimed for Him that which neither He
nor the Apostles ever claimed, namely,
that He waa the Father as well aa the
Son that He waa not only equal to the
Father In power and glory, but was the
same In person, etc, eta.
Hearken to the Words of Jesus.
A little Scripture la worth far more than
a great deal ot reasoning, much more
than all the statements In all the creeds
because the Word of God la Truth, and
the testimony of our creeds haa long ago
been proven untrue In many particulars.
We will take the worda. of Jeaus first of
whom the Father eald. "Thla la My be
loved Son. In whom I am well pleased;'
"htar y 0im" -Matthew 111, 17; Luke Ix. 36
Jeaua declared, "My Father la greater
than I." John xlv, 28.
"My Father la greater than all." John
a, IS.
"Of Mine Own Self I ean do nothings
John v, 30.
"Aa the Father hath sent Me, so send I
you." John xx, 21
"I came not to do Mine Own will, but
the will of Him that sent M."-John
vt, 3S.
There Is a unity here manifested an ab
solute unity of mind and purpose, because
the Redeemer sought not to do Ilia own
will, but the Father's wllL Hence they
were one, even aa we will be one with
each other If we aa disciples are In har
mony with the Father's will and Word,
and In harmony with our Redeemer's
counsels.
Hear Jesus again: After His death, after
fill resurrection, when speuklng to Mary,
He said, "I have not yet ascended to My
Father. I ascend to My Father and
to your Father; to My Ood and to your
Sod." (John xx, 17.) "Bay ye of Him whom
the Father hath sanctified and sent Into
the world, Thou blasphemest, because 1
said, I am the Son ot God V John z, 36.
Perhape the strongest testimony of the
Scriptures respecting the exalted position
held by the Redeemer Is the word ot
our Lord Jesus Himself, "That all men
should honor the Bon, even aa they honor
the Father." (John v, 23.) This la In
harmony with the thought of the Father
and the Bon being of one mind, one will,
one purpose; but It distinctly ahowa that
they are separate persona, otherwise we
could not reverence the one aa we rever
ence the other.
Our text la to the point It declares the
faith once delivered to the saints, and
aays nothing about the trlnlty-three
Ooda In one person. "To ua there la one
Ood, the Father." The context shows
that the Apostle Is contrasting our faith
with the faith of others who recognise
gods many and lords many. We Chris
tians, says the Apostle, recognise only
One Supreme Ood of all goda "The Ood
and Father of our Lord Jeaus Christ." as
8t Peter styles Hlm.-I Peter I, I
Our text declares that all thtnga are of
or proceed from the Father. He Is
Source and Fountain, the Father of
clca, "from whom cometh every good and
perfect gift" His gnwt Gift to man
kind waa the Oltt of His Son. our Lard
Jeaus Christ, whom He sent Into that
world to be man's Redeemer.
Three Gods, equal In power and glory,
could not be said to send each other;
neither would they pray to each other;
aa Jeaua prayed to the Father "Who tn.
the daya of His flesh, when He had ot
tered up prayers and supplications with,
strong cryinga and tears unto Him Je
hovah that was able to aave Him front
death, waa heard In that He feared.
(Hebrews v. 7.) An angel waa Beat to
comfort Him and to assure Him of the)
Father s love, that the Father had no
forsaken Him, that Ho wUa well pleaa1n(
In His sight and that He ahould have a
glorious resurrection by the Fathet'a
power In due time.
Our text proceeds to acknowledge) our
Lord Joeus. saying to ua, "There la on
Lord and Savior Jesus Chrlst"-only one.
The Son of the Highest." our gTadoua
Redeemer, "The chlefest among ten thou
sand, and the one altogether lovely- Ha
who la to be the Bridegroom, the King of
the future: He who la ahortly to receive
the Church to Himself aa a Bride and
Jolnt-helr In His Kingdom; He who, aa
King ot the world and aa Lord of tha
world, will reign for a thousand years,
and, backed by Divine power, will hrlac
all Into subjection to the Divine wllL
It la He who will thus deliver up tha
Kingdom to Ood. even the Father, that
Jehovah may be All and in all, a ad that
the glorified Christ may be at tha right
hand of the Majesty on high-next to
the Fatherand we as Hla glorified Bride
next to Him, at BU right hand.
The Legoe "First and Last
The Scrlpturee very explicitly declare to
us that the Heavenly Father la from ever
lasting to everlasting-God. But aot aa
Ills creatures. From time to time Ha haa
exercised Hla Omnipotent Power and
Wisdom In a variety of creatlona. Neces
sarily, however, these had a beginning
one waa first, and the Bible most clearly
and repeatedly and distinctly telle ua that
that first one, "The Beginning of tha cre
ation of Ood." waa the Logoi.
And the Bible explains that Jehovah'
Flrat-Born Son waa highly honored. In
that the Father used Him aa the Channel
and Agency through whom all subsequent
creatlona were effected. He It was who
waa given the honorable commission and
privilege of being man's Redeemer, and
of thereby proving Hla loyalty to Jehovah,
and of being exulted to the divine nature,
"far above angels, principalities and pow
ers." From the vory beginning He waa
above all other creatlona effocted through
Him: but by this Inst exaltation He at
tained, In Ills resurrection from the di id.
a place far and away above all others
next to the Father at Uod's right hand,
where He shall ever remain without a
peer.
And. wonderful thought ! The call or
this Gospol Age la to become helra ot
God, and joint-heirs with Josus Christ
our Redeemer, by a manifestation ot Hla
spirit of obedience to the Father, and
drinking the cup which the Father hath
poured, and thus attesting our loyalty to
Jehovah and to His perfect will In all
things, even unto death.
"The Logos Was a Ood."
In the opening of St John's Ooapel wa
have a record of the greatneas ot tha
Logo. And It la much more clear and rita
ttnet tn the Greek than in our English.
The word logos, I remind you. algnltlee)
the "word," the "mfage," and henoe U a
proper term for a speelol metttngtr. Itk
olden times kings addressed their people
not directly, but through such a messen
ger, or lo?of who stood before the kmc
tha latter being screened behind a lattice
work. As the loeos or messenger received
the message from the king, he uttered or
proclaimed It to the people; henoe ha waa
styled the logo, the Word.
This Is one of the grandest titles give
to our Redeemer. He was the Father'a
tapM, or Mesaenger, or Mouthpiece. He
waa the Channel of the Highest tn alt
Ills dealings with the angels, and la Has
creative work; and later He became to
men the Voice of Him who spaaketli
from on high, for Ood hath spoken to
mankind peace, through the blood of tn
cross of Christ
Let ua read together tha Inspired rec
ord of Bt John (I, 1-8. li, 10, 11): "In tha
beginning waa the Logo and the LofO waa
with tae Ood. and the Logo waa a god.
Tbe aame waa In the beginning with fa
Ood. By Him were all things mud
that were made, and without Him waa
not one thing made. And the t'loes
was made flesh and dwelt amongat ua,
and we beheld Hla glory, a the glory or
the Only Begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth." "He waa In the world,
and the . world was made by Him, and
tha world knew Him not He came to
Ills own people the Jews and His own
received Him not; but'to aa many aa re
ceived Him. to them gave He liberty
privilege) to become sons of Ood" I par
taker of the divine nature II Pet it L
4, even to those who believe on Ills
Name, who were begotten, not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the
will of man, but of Ood at Pentecost nnd
subsequently.
How beautiful, simple and straightfor
ward and non-mysterious la the Divine
record respecting the Father, the Son nnd
the Holy Spirit and their abaolute nne
neas or harmony I How different from tha
nonaenaa which for ao long we endeavored
to believe, because we thought It support
ed by the Bible! Oood Brother Wesley
waa one of those honest souls who waa
seriously troubled on the subject He re
marked that only the one text I John t:
T, could be used as a foundation for thla
doctrine. He knew not that the difficulty
lay In an Interpolation an addition to tho
Apostle's worda It is only In compara
tively recent years that the three original
Oreek manuscrlpta have been brought to
light namely, the Blnaltlo. Vatican No.
1209 and the Alexandrian.
The Beginning of God's Creation,
Let ua hearken to the Apostle I' jut's
statement respecting our dear Redetrner
and Hla glorious station. He uttered not
a word favoring the absurd theory that
our Redeemer was His own Father und
Hla own 8on one In person. He decl.ired
In harmony with Bt John's statement
that our Lord Jeaua waa "the IWIn
nlng ot the creation of God" (Revela
tion 111, 14). Bt. Paul declared thai Je
aus was "The First-Born of every crea
ture, that In all things He might nave
the pre-eminence" (Colosslans I, la. IHt
And when In one of hla statement ha
spoke ot our Lord Jeaua aa though Ha
were the Father, the Apostle promptly
followed the statement wltb another Hav
ing. "It 1 manifest that the Father
Is excepted (I Corinthians xv, 27), In alt
comparisons, for, as Jesus declared, the
Father Is above all.
Our Lord Jesus' own testimony l that
He Is the First and the Last "the Alpha
and the Omega, the Beginning and the
End" ot tho Divine creation. In other
words, when the Father created the Son
He never afterwards directly created any
other person or thing. The Logo waa the
First and the Last, and by Him were all
things made that were made.
Let ua then honor the Bon aa the Son
and as the glorious Agent and Represent
ative of the Father In all things by whom
(through whom) are all things of th Di
vine Plan; and let ua honor also the Fa
ther, as "the Father of lights." and Fin her
ot mercies and grace and truth, "of whom
are all tilings." The tostlmony of th Bi
ble Is beautiful, honoring to the Father,
to the Son and to tha Spirit of holineea.
As the Scriptures declare, "The worda ot
the Lord are pure, making wise tbe elm-ple"-the
teachable.
