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It costs ono Now York newspaper
lection of clippings.
It IB a wont exciting query wheth
er the now "trouser skirt" IB provided
with hip pockets or not.
Peary gets hla honors at last from
congrosH , which thawed out about as
fast aa the Arctic ocean.
Owing to the luck of snowfall this
year , the only good coasting has been
done on the Culchra cut.
The question In New York scums to
bo "Han Boss Murphy as firm a hold
as his predecessor , Boss I'latt ? "
As girls who wear the harem
skirts are being mobbed , the new
freak seems sure to bo popular.
Governor Dlx Is opposed to coercing
the Now York legislature. Parents of
unruly children usually feel that way.
It was easy enough for Lorlmer to
got by the senate , but for the senate to
get by the people will be another prop
osition.
Anyway congress passed tne appro
priation bills , and once again the of
ficeholders get a year's respite from
the poor house.
The magazines will not have to pay
higher postage , and Miss Spoonomore
can satisfy her languishing soul at the
sarao old price.
Colorado suffragists have had a
splendid chance to break the sena
torial deadlock , even If they had to do
it with n rolling pin.
Nevada votes against the law to
require a year's residence for divorce ,
and the ties between New York and
Reno will grow oven closer.
The French cabinet has resigned.
The politicians over across know bet
ter than ours when the play is over
and the curtain rung down.
The Vermont senate hnd two bar
rels of apples to eat the other day ,
which seems to disprove the charge
that republicans are ungrateful.
The czar is planning to improve the
condition of the Russian peasants.
M ving picture shows at the cross
roads seems to be the first need.
The Lorimer case gave the demo
crats the unusual opportunity of being
virtuous and of manufacturing a
chunk of political capital at ono whack.
Women who kick on the harem skirt
should remember how they have been
weeping for pockets , and what armfuls -
fuls of bundles could bo shoved into
these bags.
The Mexican revolution has stopped
all the trains In Chihuahua. One
would think this chance to ride on a
free pass was Just what they were In-
surging for.
There is said to be quite a marked
decrease in reckless auto driving , duo
to the active work of automobile clubs
in pushing the sentiment against reck
less driving.
President Diaz of Mexico makes
overtures of peace to the insurgents.
As the picnic season Is coming on ,
he probably wants it safe to go out
in the suburbs.
The senate has quit , leaving much
work undone. Like many employes ,
they had their hands washed and over
alls off , ready to skin out the moment
the whistle blew.
The house has voted to fortify the
Panama canal , and if the senate will
send down some of Its long winded
orators , the enemy will keep at a safe
distance all right.
Meat prices have dropped 14 per
cent nt Kansas City under last year
and ono can look a hog in the face
without being reminded of the clmsn
between rich and poor.
The Houston Post's plan of findlnj
Dorothy Arnold is to put all the sprint
hat models in a window and watch it
Wo amend by tagging them all " | G
marked down from $10. "
The power of the English house o
lords is to be curtailed , but as tin
lords can still have their gilt stare
and wear their garters outside , the ;
will not feel very badly.
The railroad presidents must b
ringing Mr. Brandels' doorbell at al
It ! hours of the night now , begging bin
to get out of bed and tell them how t
save that million a day.
The railroads have decided not t
appeal from the rate decision. After
hanging around a year talking politics ,
the pangs of hunger at last persuade
them to go back to work.
The Italian govcrnmont Is trying to
reform the Camorra. but after thcHc
fellowH have been turning a living
with the stiletto , the shovel and pick-
nxo do not look very Interesting.
TlK ) baseball gossip from the south
ern training vamps brings the vital
realities of the universe close homo
to Homo people who fuel superior to
the Bible , Shakespeare and Milton.
The harem skirt has made Its ap
pearance at New York. It Is thought
that by giving It a naughty sounding
kind of n , Turkish name , oven meal
bags may become attractive to the
smart set.
C. D. 11 Ilk1 H Is the president's new
secretary. As ho would have to work
after hours to write the president's
letters By band , wo hope that con
gress buys him a typewriting ma
chine.
Judging by ability to break these
pestiferous senatorial deadlocks , Gov
ernor Wilson's time for a week in
New Jersey IB worth about the same
pay as Governor Dix's of New York
for a year.
Dorothy Arnold has been seen at
Florence , Italy. Neither the candy
stores nor the spring hats lured her
from cover , but few women could get
by tlioso coral beads they sell on the
Ponte Vecchio.
The government Is after the elec
trical trust , charging It with selling
amps in this country for 17 cents that
re sold abroad for 10. What use are
our fellow countrymen , nnywny , If
ou can't soak 'em ?
The office of mayor In Chicago is
worth to the occupant $18,000. It is
laimed that in the primary and olec
ion campaigns in Chicago this springer
or the mayoralty the total amount ex
ended will be not much short of a
million dollars.
To President Taft belongs the credit
f having been the prime mover In
ringing about the agreement by
vhich the Diamond Match company
; nve up its patents , and so did away
vith the use of her deadly , process
by the smaller match concerns.
Congress as usual tried to do a ses
sion's work In the lost .week. The
proper way to deal with that class of
hired help Is to dock their pay en
elopes for all but the week they
worked. A time clock for them to
punch when present would be useful
The system of thumb prints which
las been so successful in the identi
fication of criminals is being used
with equal success with the Indians
not for identification but as a slgna
ure by the older members of the
ribes who cannot write. No forging
s possible with thumb prints , since
no two have ever been found exactly
alike. The Indians seem to realize
he binding significance of the tnumb
print much more than they did the
old method of touching the pen with
which the clerk made his signature
Out in Billings , Mont , a tennis club
lad great trouble with the dust in
their courts , and since necessity is
he mother of Invention they set their
wits to work and invented a dust
binder. They mixed refuse syrup
'rom a sugar manufacturing estab-
isbment , with salt and poured It over
the ground to the depth of several
nches till the ground was well satu
rated. It worked like magic and the
road builders are planning to try It
on country roads. It will be much
cheaper than the oil treatment , which
has been BO popular.
The prompt ratification by the sen
ate of the new treaty with Japan has
awakened Japanese courtesy and
friendship. We have no reason at
the present time to doubt the good
faith of Japan. Indeed , It is suggested
that the continued Instigation of sus
picion against Japan has had its
source in Europe where some foreign
power would profit from a clash be
tween Japan and the United States
and Hobsons who are always crying
war have spread the suspicions broad
cast. Let us hope all appearance of
discord may bo done away.
THE ONLY "REAL THING. "
Mr. Friday has told us that ho is
the only real mayor that over held
office In Norfolk. No other mayor
ever did anything for the city. And
wo must all admit that Mr. Friday
has done things that no other mayor
ever undertook to do ho has abused
the office of mayor In moro ways
than all the other mayors put together
could ever have thought of.
No other mayor over was so puffed
up with his own importance as to
make a speech In the city council ,
bragging about his achievements and
belittling the work of his predeces
sors ; no other mayor of Norfolk ever
so lowered the dignity and BO dis
graced the responsibility of his office
as to publicly attack a new enter
prise seeking to locate here ; no other
mayor of Norfolk over acted In open
hostility to the Commercial club of
the city , attacking It by Innuendo and
refusing to hold membership In it
with other business men : no other
mayor ever attempted to give work
( as the Htnndplpo painting ) to an out
sider at a higher prlco than n homo
man was glad to do It for ; no other
mayor over had the nerve to ask a
fourth term In office , clinging to the
position with n persistence that has
not yet been satisfactorily explained
hi Mr Friday's case ; and no other
mayor wan ever so paper to have the
city spend such large sums of money
as Mr. Friday has asked the city to
spend under his supervision.
THE COST OF A COLD.
People who arc miserable In the
early spring weather from colds may
perhaps console themselves with the
reflection that the cold caught by Caruso
ruse , the tenor , February C , has al
ready cost him $10,000 and will cost
him $10,000 moro.
For millions of people , however ,
his common malady Is a personal die-
omfort and an Interruption of work
nvolving relatively just as much loss.
The worst of It Is , that no matter
ow miserable you may feel , no mat
er how It slows down your working
> ewer , your doctor does not got much
nterested in so prosaic an ailment.
Most people can lenrn to cure them-
elves of n trouble that sometimes
as dangerous consequences , and that
t the best depresses vitality. People
, vho live In the open air , rarely have
olds , It is not cold weather , for arc-
Ic explorers never have them. If peo-
ile would ventilate homes and offices ,
lecp with windows open , and have
he very slight operations often nee-
ssary for tonsils , adenoids , and nose
ibstructlons , they could got rid of this
nnoyiug handicap.
BALLINGER'S RESIGNATION.
Secretary Balllnger has resigned his
losltlon In President Tnft's cabinet ,
is head of the interior department ,
ifter a long siege of attack In some
} f the public prints and at the hands
Gilford Pinchot , the deposed for
ester , and his followers. President
Taft has accepted the resignation with
eluctance , expressing his perfect con
Idence in the personal and official in
egrlty of Mr. Ballinger and character
zing the attacks upon his as one of
he most unjust conspiracies in his
ory.
ory.Mr.
Mr. Ballinger announces that he will
prosecute his accusers and that the
ruth regarding him shall be known.
An open investigation , 'such as this
prosecution would seem to promise ,
ivill perhaps be the only means of ever
setting the true status of the ex-secre
ary before the public. With his en
emies on the one hand painting him In
such untrustworthy colors and with
resident Taft on the other upholding
him as an honest and much abused
man and official , the ordinary citizen
has a pretty hard proposition to deter
mine the justice of the case in his own
mind. So the libel action ought to
help clear things up and set the case
ilown In its true light for historical
purposes.
On the whole , the opinion of the
president ought to be more acceptable
than that of Mr. Ballinger's enemies.
In naming an enthusiastic supporter
of Pinchot as the new secretary of the
nterlor , the president has drawn the
Pinchot fangs and put up to his fac
tion the responsibility of the office
which proved so burdensome to Mr.
BaUinger.
"UNCLE JOE. "
Though we may not all agree with
Uncle Joe" Cannon in all of bis
opinions , the fact remains that there's
something about the old man who
has just stepped down and out of the
speaker's chair in the bouse of repre
sentatives after so long a service , that
can but attract the keen admiration
of the average American.
Despite his ago Uncle Joe is still
a vigorous fighter , as all who have
clashed with him have had opportun
ity to observe. Ho Is gameness to the
very last and his staying qualities In
a battle , his unflinching nerve and
his flashes of quick wit and homely
wisdom make him a picturesque fig
ure in American life who will be
missed when the next congress opens
and Champ Clark takes the speaker's
chair.
Few men in public life have been
assailed as was Uncle Joe , and ye
he has stood his ground with unfail
ing grit. And although ho has been
attacked in the house as a "czar , '
there was something good about the
lusty cheer that went up Saturday
when , in answer to the Kentuckian
who said ho wished Cannon were a
younger man , intimating that he'd re
sort to fists ff he were , Uncle Joe
flashed back his defiance , declaring
ho wouldn't take advantage of his age
Uncle Joe is down and out , so far
as the speakership Is concerned. Ho
goes down with the republican party's
control of the house. Ho has been
termed an unreasonable czar , but after
tor all ho only followed the rules o
the house as they had been laid down
many years before ho came Into hi
position the same rules that Reed
and others before him had to follow
The real downfall of Uncle Joe be
gan when ho refused to agree to pus
through congress a bill putting papo
on the free list Many of the muck
raking magazines and newspaper
took their rovetigo out upon him by
beginning a bombardment that ended
in his waning popularity.
Once mentioned as a candidate fo
the presidential nomination , Uncle Jo
s now merely a congressman. Hut
10 way he holds his office liows
nit the folks at homo must think
retty well of him , despite all of the
bii-e ! that has been hurled at his
ead.
Mnnv of his political Mean are out
f date and not In tune with public
ciitliiient. Ho was vetting too elder
or the spcnkcrshlp , but there's some-
hlnc about Uncle .Joe , for all that
ometlilng typically American , some-
iiltig about his courage and his ability
o stand pnf upon n proposition he
thinks is right , that makes people love
him. despite his faults.
MITCHELL DRIVEN OUT.
John Mitchell , the former head of
ho United Mine Workers , seems to
mve committed the sin of consorting
uid dining too much with the million-
ilres , in connection with his work as
hnlrman of the trade agreement de-
mrtment of the National Civic federa-
ion. At least so the socialists think ,
and the Mine Workers have , forced
him out of the federation.
Of course one must have sympathy
or the blind helpless rage often dls-
> layei by the under dog , at the In-
ranched arrogance of wealth. Feei
ng In his heart and mind the power
o love , to enjoy , to know , he finds
himself but the slightest cog in a stu-
tendons machine. The mechanism
night not grind quite true without
ilin , to bo sure. But he feels himself
ompelled to travel one narrow circle ,
while others outside lead on the dance
of wealth in merry indifference ,
lence the widespread hatred of all to
whom fortune has cast her gifts.
But few advances In life are achiev
ed by those who merely seek to tear
down those who are higher up. The
man who climbs Is the man who takes
advantage of existing forces and pulls
limself up/
The Civic Federation , at Its 1010
neeting , showed its aims and attitude
by considering such subjects as pro-
ection of children , compensation to
working men for accidents , consorva-
, ion of resources , speedy litigation.
The makeup of the committee that
nvestlgated municipal ownership
show its methods. There were but
three men representing corporations.
Two were city officials. Nine were
rom callings like newspaper work ,
college professors , etc. The labor
union men , six in number , were the
argest single group. The whole com-
: nittee must have been very friendly
: o working people.
Such an Influential body is a vast
engine of social progress. If n man
ike Mitchell could have been permit-
: ed to remain in it , he might have
turned Its efforts still more forcibly in
behalf of the toiler.
A PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM.
At the city election which comes
within a month , candidates for office
should be elected who are enthused
and inspired by the possibilities that
are now opening for a better and
greater Norfolk. The city is now at
a crucial stage in its career and It
needs a city government more the next
two years than ever before that will
put a spirit of progress and enterprise
nto its transactions , because largely
upon the attitude of the administra
tion will depend whether we will make
the long strides necessary to take our
position as the commercial center of
a vast territory to which our geograph
ical location entitles us. There should
bo prominently written into the plat
form of those who are to become a
part of the administration for the next
two years , declarations for the up
building of Norfolk that are certain
and unequivocal. Among these should
bo :
Favoring equal rights and a square
deal to all , without fear , favor or pre
judlce.
Favoring an economical but pro
gressive administration.
Favoring liberal treatment of need
ed public improvements , but rigid hon
esty and economy In securing them.
Favoring the most careful conserve
tlon of public funds and denouncing
graft in every form.
Favoring th atauliu' * 4 our str
ing system and a willingness to vote
bonds required for the paving of Inter
sections.
Favoring the extension of our school
facilities by voting bonds to erect
needed additional school rooms.
Favoring the expenditure of suffi
cient money to put our water works
in condition to supply the needs of the
city , same to be done under compe
tent supervision.
Favoring the regulation of public
service utilities , so that a fair price
shall be paid by every Individual for
service rendered , that all may be
treated alike.
Favoring a liberal attitude toward
new enterprises , a cordial Invitation
for them to locate hero and promising
to encourage and boost for them while
establishing their business.
Against municipal ownership of pub
He utilities that arc now supplied by
private enterprise , until such time as
the law will take their operation and
management out of city politics , and
until such time as all our public funds
and credit are not required for more
necessary improvements.
Favoring the extension of water
works , street lighting , sidewalks and
bettor streets to Edgewater park , a
part of the city that Is now receiving
nothing In compensation for the clt ;
taxes it Is paying.
Favoring competent appointees am
better kept streets.
UTAH'S BATTLESHIP SERVICE.
The proposition that the silver ser
vice to bo given the battleship Utah
bf > engraved with the pictures of the
Mormon temple and Brlgham Young ,
has stirred up the animals. The 1're.s-
b > terlnu niliilstcrn of Now 'York reg
istered the first formal protest at
their association meeting Monday.
They take the proper attitude that the
iletmo of no ehUreh bus any place
n 1'nltcd States property.
The Mormons would much bettor Ho
ow cite It may occur to the govern-
neiit to ask M > IIH > Impertinent quos-
Ions as to the extent to which they
mvo kept their pledges to quit po-
ygamy.
With about 1000 Mormons jailed
or polygamy In 1890 , they were then
cady to "eat out of the hand" of al-
niopt anyone. It was evident that It
vas necessary to their business to get
ulmlttcd to the union as a state.
At the nick of time the heavens open
ed , and a "revelation" was handed
lown to the suffering saints and mnr-
yrK of the sago brush , requiring theme
o quit polygamy.
At the same time , the astute 51 or-
nous were flirting desperately with
ioth the republican and democratic
parties. Both were led to regard
ftah as hopefully affected toward
their doctrines ; and a desire to en-
lance the glory of the union by a few
nero electoral votes for the party led
o a general withdrawal of opposl-
Ion.
Now it is the common report'that
lolygamous wives are once more re
ceived back under the old oaken buck
et , the clouds having rolled by and
bat young people are again nttnin-
HK the spiritual exaltation of a prnc-
Ice universally condemned as mere
physical passion , reducing women to
vhite slaves , denying children father-
y attention. Introducing disunion into
lornes.
The Mormon faith Is honeycombed
vith this fleshly sensualism. Some
Mormon writers declare that Jesus
was a polygamist , and Mary and
Martha his wives. Why even name
i battleship for a state if it IK now
laying tag with its pledges , and with
he foundations of social morality ?
AROUND TOWN.
How would the March winds do for
street sweeper ?
Among other blessings that March
jrings forth , are St. Patrick's day
ind the teachers' convention.
Can't yon almost whiff the fra
grant odor of the spring bonfire ?
How would you like to bo a con
gressman out of a job today ?
The M. & O. railroad ran a milfc
train part way to Norfolk the other
day. The cow jumped out , though ,
before the train arrived.
Miss March is behaving pretty well
ip to date.
Two years from today we'll be in
augurating a president.
"I don't dare go without an over
coat , " a Norfolk man says , "because
it would show off my shiny clothes. "
President Taft has again indicated
who's president.
What's become of those March
winds ?
Senator Bailey ought to learn to
count four.
The president is putting , the recall
Into practice.
LOOK OUT ! Don't you see that
flock of automobiles headed for Nor
folk ?
What ever became of the plan to put
a bill through the legislature to per
mit Nebraska cities to adopt a com
mission form of government ?
Oh , you April shower.
Did you get your share of soft wa
ter , to wash your hair with ?
Mother Earth did.
That rain was worth some dollars ,
all right. More dollars than we've got
time to count or could count.
They say at least , they say "they"
say that an average "crib" In a game
of crlbbage , is 4. We're ready to de
bate the question with 'em. Having
kept track of the "crib" in several
thousand games all winter , we're
ready to prove that It averages moro
than 5. ( P. S. You people who don't
play crlbbago , won't understand this
paragraph , so don't try. It's not a
joke. )
Goodbye , buckwheat cakes. See you
next winter.
First thing you know , It'll bo the
Fourth of July.
Are we going to celebrate ?
A game of G f IB about the beat
celebration.
But it's the deuce to pay when
you've got a sprained ankle on the
Fourth and on top of that have to
work nil day getting out an extra edi
tion to cover a prize light story.
Hero's hoping the pig bruisers won't
schedule any fight for the Fourth.
Want to go to Mexico , as n volun
teer ?
Why is it that when you light a pipe
the red hot head of the match invaria
bly falls off on the carpet before you
can get to nn ash tray ?
Doesn't this give- you spring fever ?
It'll-foon be tlmo to mow the grass.
Don't you love the summer time ,
with not nn ash to carry out of the
collar ?
A Norfolk girl who was a brldo less
than a year ago. Is telling her friends
flint she wants n divorce ; that she
doesn't like her husband ; and that
she only married him because , she had
gone with him so long she thought she
ought to.
The robins and ducks have arrived
on schedule , but where In thunder are
the March winds ?
ATCHI80N GLODE SIGHTS.
A man who brags rarely makes
good.
It Is dangerous to compliment cheap
people.
Poor advertising : A dirty apron on
a butcher.
Hunting for a soft snap Is no way
o find one.
Memory ought to be bell enough for
some persons.
Had weather is good weather to
duck hunters.
Some of the best sellers are books
you shouldn't read.
You can't beat the fellow who works
when you are asleep.
Does a sermon about hell do much
good on a cold day ?
Advertising will bring results in al
most every line but rnlnmnking.
All that seems to be expected of a
young girl is that she get married.
Why doesn't some one establish a
fund for a new way of serving eggs ?
A party is never as important as it
seems to the person who Is getting it
up.
A fan who is interested in midwinter
baseball news is carrying his loyalty
too far.
To hear some men talk , one gets
the impression that their whole life is
a crisis.
When a woman says she Is tired of
a man it usually means that he is
tired of her.
"Well , " said a brakeman this
rsorning , "I see George Gould has
been bumped. "
You can't tell how much a student
knows by the noise he makes with
the class yell.
Many of the disagreeable things we
tiear are from persons who claim to
be our friends.
It would add a good deal to the joys
of life if baseball players and sailors
talked English.
When a politician can't think of any
other excuse , ho says he doesn't want
to stultify himself.
A gossip dearly loves to say that
"where there is so much' smoke there
must be some fire. "
You can nearly always tell a mar
ried couple by the way they take their
seats in a railroad car.
No one has much sympathy for the
mule , but no ono has much on the
mule In this particular.
An old-timer says there hasn't been
much Improvement In ferryboats or
liver pills In forty years.
Some persons never think there's
much In a newspaper unless they sec
their own name mentioned.
An ornery boy's Idea of a good tlmo
Is to whip some mamma's boy who
wears curls and good clothes.
There la a general disposition to
take the unwritten law moro seriously
than those on the statute books.
Speaking of the movement of art on
nature , one might suggest the shoe as
compared with the average foot.
Do you remember the old fashioned
man who wore squeaky shoes and
nearly always came to church late ?
While people generally are honest ,
there may bo some exaggeration in
the pictures a fruit agent shows you.
You may figure out that your defeat
is a great moral victory , with the
moral on your Bide , but don't expect
anyone else to look at It that way.
While corsets may bo Injurious ,
they will continue to bo popular with
the women untU some ono discovers a
form of active exercise which is as
easily put on.
There are various ways of meeting
trouble before It arrives , but the man
who carries a revolver , expecting It to
save him from such an occasion , has
selected about the most uncertain.
Ono trouble with gentle spring
time Is that the sweet music the birds
inako has to enter Into competition
with the velghbor girl playing the
piano with all the windows open.
When a woman entertains and an
nounces she has Invited only those to
whom she Is " "
"Indebted" the women
not Included pick out several women
guests and Bay : "I know she was
never' Invited to their homes. "
WHY JESUS REFUSED /
TO PRAY FOR THE WORLD.
Election and NontUctien Vlewid frm
a New Standpoint PaiUr <
Rutted on God'i Timei '
nd Seaioni.
"I pt y not for Oin world , but for them
which Thou linut riven me. " John xyll , f. A
p
1
Feb. 20.-Pastor
RiiKfloll thought
that thcue words
must o u n d
strangely to tlion * \
who Ktlll belloTO }
on tin- one hand , :
that JesiiN luvrd
and F.T in pa tliln * *
with tlin vroria
and cnmo niuvlally
"tnvnvetli *
world , " and who , on the other hnni ,
believe that all for whom JruuH dl *
not pray mid labor would mirely at
death t > o cnst Into etenml tormrnr ,
Much lncontlttencli ) ! , he claimed , nrro
turning many noble men and women
from God and from the Bible , neither
of which nrc nt fnult. The fault llf *
with the unNcrlptuntl proposition that
all except the "elect. " all except tb
"llttlo flock , " who now have the hwir-
ItiK ear and understanding heart and
who now receive the Divine McHHnice ,
tvlll lie punhbcd for their mental lillud-
nt'SH and dcnfncus with eternal torture.
He asked. Can It be true , nn our
Westminster Confession tenches , that
God panned by the greiit inn MS of
mankind without drawing them , with
out calling them , without giving them
the hearing cnr , without opening the
eyes of their uiidcrKlnndlngV Can It
be true that God , foreknowing nil
these conditions , predestinated and ar
ranged for the eternal suffering of
these thousands of millions of Immun
ity. His answer wns eniphnilcnlly , Nol
Although trained In these doctrines
of Election and Predestination , the
Pastor , even In youth , felt pomebow
that Brother Wesley's teachings or
Free Grace were iiUH-b more noble unit
more God-like than Brother Calvln'B
teaching of Predestination. Neverthe
less , he reasoned. Would nil all-wise
God , knowing tha end from the begin
ning , prepare devilish tortures for bin
creatures from before their creation ?
Why then would he bring them Into
existence nt nil ? Cnlvln's theory ex
hlblts n wise and powerful God , lackIng -
Ing love. Wesley's theory exhibits n
loving God lucking In wisdom unil
power. The true view , the Pnntor rea
soned , must show God possessed of
wisdom as well as love ; of power B
well as justice ; else he would not be/
the God for whom our hearts crave
nnd whom we conld reull/.e as our
nenvenly Father.
Christendom In general ban greatly
erred. Some appropriate one pnrt of
the Divine message and Home another.
What wo need Is Calvin's God of WlB-
dom and Power nnd Wesley's God of
Love nnd Justice. Hut how cnn these
attributes be harmonised ? IB It port
Bible tbnt God could inalto nn Elec
tlon nnd yet nllow Free Grace to Ills
creatures ns n whole ? This , he do-
clnres , IB the solution. God 1 selectIng -
Ing or electing n Church now since
Pentecost. With Its completion there
will be no more Election , but Free
Grace. And the elect Church , glorified
to the spirit plnnc of being nnd associ
ated with the Redeemer in His "nil pow
er In heaven nnd In earth , " will be the
Teachers , Rulers , Helpers , of mankind
out of Bin nnd degrndntlon , back to
perfection , the Image of God , and
eternal life.
"Tested Oeith Fop Every Man. "
Although JeaUH tnsted death for ev
ery man he understood the Father's
Program-that first his elert Bride
clnBB should be selected from the
world , that these , In turn , might bo
with him , the Missionaries , Kings ,
Priests , Judges , of mankind In the
great thousand-year resurrection day
of Mesalnh'8 Kingdom. It was ap
propriate , therefore , that he should
pray for these Elect ones first and not
pray for the world , because Ita time
would come Inter. Of his disciples be
said , "Ye are not of the world ; " "If
ye were of the world , the world wonlrt
love Its own , but I hnve cho
sen you out of the world. " His dls-
clplea were sent to choose or draw
others from the world and were In
structed to preach n chnnge of na
ture from earthly to heavenly , to all
who would wnlk In the nnrrow way In
the footsteps of Jesus. The world will
be dealt with In another manner en
tirely when the duo tlmo comen.
"Ask of Me and I Will Give. "
In the Second Psalm we are told
that eventunlly Jesus will prny for the
world nnd His prayer will bo nn-
Bwered. God raid , "Ask of Me nnd I
will give thec the heathen for thine
Inheritance nnd the uttermost partH
of the earth for thy possession" ( Psalm
11 , 8) ) . But that time has not yet come
it will not come until the lust mem
ber of the elect Body of Christ shall
have attained n share In the glories of
Messiah's Kingdom.
As our Lord asked blessings upon
the elect Church nt the beginning of
this Age. so ho will ask blessings upon
the world In the beginning of the New
Age to follow nnd now n en ring. And
the entire world will bo turned over
to him. Ills first work will be the
binding of Sntnn nnd the overthrow of
every human Institution out of har
mony with righteousness. Although
this drastic treatment , the Scriptures
tell UB , will bring n great time of trou
ble , nevertheless It will menu for the
race ns n whole the beginning of "tho
Times of Restitution of nil things
which God hntli spoken by the mouth
of nil the holy Prophets since the
world began" the beginning of the
rclgn of Messiah , who IB now n spirit
Being with n spirit Bride nnd spirit
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