Notes and Comments

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 18, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 51.

Notes and Comments

It is stated that during the month of November more than a million dollars a day was coined by the various mints in this country.

A fearful mine explosion occurred in Monongah, W. Va., December 6. The last report stated that 373 miners were buried, and all probably killed.

The articles on the human nature of Christ on page eight were prepared entirely without reference to each other; but tho they discuss the same text, they are sufficiently different to make them both of interest to the reader.

The Goldfield troubles in Nevada promise to be serious. President Roosevelt has ordered General Funston to send sufficient troops to meet any emergency. One detachment which has gone forward has been stopped by a wreck, and an attempt to blow up the train on which the troops were was frustrated by timely discovery of watchman between Tonopah and Goldfield. The fight seems to be between the Western Federation of Miners and the mine operators. The troops are there to keep peace.

There are some words in all great languages which can be used equally in a moral, physical, or mental sense. One of these is the Greek katartizo, meaning to complete thoroly, repair, adjust. It is rendered in our common version fit, frame, mend, perfect, perfectly joined together, prepare, restore. It is used with the thought of full development. In Matt. 5: 48, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Here it is used in the sense of moral perfection, the fullest development of character. But in Luke 6:40 it is used in a neutral sense, "Every one that is perfect shall be as his master;" that is he will have the knowledge of his master, whether the master be good or evil. Vincent on 1 Peter 5:10 says: "The radical notion of the verb is therefore adjustment—the putting of all parts into right relation and connection." So God adjusted for Christ the body, perfectly prepared for Him, that He might experience in His humiliation just what the sinner himself must meet. Heb. 10:5. So also thru Christ God adjusted the ages (not material worlds) in the development of the plan of salvation, so as best to reveal the glory, the power, the love of God.