Signs of the Times, Vol. 20, No. 1. (11/6/1893)

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Nov 6, 1893

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God So Loved the World

"FOR God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

"LOVE is of God," "for God is love." Love is his nature; love is the moral atmosphere in which he dwells. Love is the motive of all his acts and purposes. He is infinite in wisdom, but the wisdom is the wisdom of love. He is infinite in power, but the power is exercised in love. All this must be true, "for God is love."

It was in love that God created man; it was in love that he made man a free moral agent, capable of choosing and appreciating; it was in love that God prohibited sin, and said unto man, "Thou shalt not." It was also in love that infinite wisdom made righteousness life, and sin death. Righteousness in perfection, physical, mental, and moral, means perpetual being; and thus the fittest survives. Transgression of good laws means inevitable death. Thus sin becomes, in the very nature of the case, its own destruction, and the sin-accursed life reaps the most merciful thing—not an existence of continued and increasing sin and misery, but extinction of being, the fruit of the individual's own choice. It is the most merciful thing that Love can do.

But God loves the sinner. Infinite love is not content in permitting the sinner to have his own way, because love knows better; and love believes in the greatest good to the greatest number. But love will not, cannot, compel the sinner to turn from the way of sin and death to the way of righteousness and life. And so love entreats, persuades, pleads, "Turn ye, O turn ye, for why will ye die?" In a myriad of voices love speaks. Of the beauty of life love speaks in the glistening dew, in the various colored flowers, in the sparkling spring, in the songs of birds, in the graceful curve of wing and flight, in ten thousand other ways. Of infinite power and wisdom love speaks in the glories of the heavens, the rolling suns, the ever recurring seasons, and the adaptability of the various parts of nature to each other. And of the horrors of sin, love speaks in every form of death and destruction which our eyes everywhere see—all came because of sin. These all are voices of Infinite Love saying righteousness is joy and life; sin is misery and death.

But God has done more than all this to prove his love; he has done all that he could do; he gave his only-begotten Son, he who was from the beginning with him, to die for a race of sinners, those who had rebelled against his authority. And all that Christ did was a manifestation of the love of God to guilty man, in order that man might be made righteous and so live forever. "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." "For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Sinner, will you not respond to God's love?

TWO POWERS—TWO PRINCIPLES.

THE word of God presents before us two great opposing powers—God and Satan. The One is the great Creator of the heavens and earth, the self-existent God, the only One who has any right to say: "I am God; and there is none else." "I am Jehovah; and there is none else." "There is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me." "I have made the earth, and created man upon it; I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host I have commanded." "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." "I, even I, am Jehovah; and beside me there is no Saviour." "I am Jehovah, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King." Such expressions as the above are abundant, especially in Isaiah, chapters 40-49. They declare as emphatically and clearly as human language can express thought, that the Author and God of the Bible is the one only Creator, Redeemer, and Saviour, possessing eternity and immutability of being, the source of all life and power, the One who created all things by the word of his power (Ps. 33:6, 9), and the One who "giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;" "for in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:25, 28). Even such, and more than language can tell or mind comprehend, is God.

The opposing power is Satan, the adversary. He was once one of the highest and most glorious beings in the universe, none greater save the Father and the Son. At that time his name was Lucifer, the "light bearer," or "daystar." Now he is called Satan, "the adversary;" the Devil, or "the accuser;" Abaddon or Apollyon, "the destroyer," and by still other names indicative of his character. Everywhere he is treated as a personality, chief over a multitude of evil spirits, or demons, who are his angels, or messengers. He is frequently called The Evil One, because in him evil found its origin. He is called the "father of lies," because he was the first that proved false. He is called the king of Babylon, because he controlled the literal king of that monarchy. In Eze. 28:12-19 he is called king of Tyre, in contradistinction to the earthly king of Tyre, who is called the prince of Tyre, because controlled by the spirit of Satan.

In the last-named scripture his exalted position in heaven before sin entered, is thus set before us:—

"Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold; the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so; thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee." Eze. 28:12-15.

At that time in the counsels of God, when all heaven was harmony, was to be executed his purpose of creating the earth, of which the Lord thus speaks to Job (38:4-7):—

"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? . . . when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?"

"The Bright and Morning Star" now and always is Michael (who is like God), or Christ (Rev. 22:16); and second in brightness under the Father was "Lucifer, son of the morning" or "daystar" (Isa. 14:12). In that morning of earth's creation all was peace; all the angels of God shouted for joy, and Michael and Lucifer sang together. But the honor rested with Michael, the One like God, the One through whom the rolling suns and planets were created and the ages constituted, the One to whom the Father spake, "Let us make man." See 1 Cor. 8:6; Heb. 1:2, 8-10; Gen. 1:26.

Here crept in the first transgression in the universe, by just what process we do not know; for it we can give no reason, for there is no reason for sinning. The choice of honoring God and Him on whom God placed his honor, rested with Lucifer, as with all others. He could choose or refuse. God must have willing service, for no other would be loving service, and nothing but loving service would glorify God and perpetuate happiness. He must therefore leave to angels and to men the awful prerogative and responsibility of choosing or refusing. Lucifer refused the loving service of his Creator. He looked upon himself; he saw the beauty which God had placed upon him, and, instead of giving glory to God, he glorified himself.

In these two powers we have the two actuating principles,—

LOVE AND SELFISHNESS.

"God is love," and all that he did for his creatures was done in love. Love comprehends every moral attribute of his character. It would be absolutely impossible for him to act in any other way save in the way of love. In our finite knowledge and limited perception we may not be able to see how love may enter into all of God's dealings with his creatures, but we should remember that we see only the present; God sees the end from the beginning. The kind surgeon may seem to be cruel to the uninformed bystander when he amputates the limb of the wounded man, but the wisdom of the surgeon knows that the act is necessary to save the life of his patient. So infinite love is guided by infinite wisdom and controlled by infinite power to the best good of not only the greatest number, but also for each one who will choose the way of that love.

It is by love that God would win the hearts of men; it is love which he would implant in them. It is by the motive of love that he would have their service to him rendered. The divine injunctions, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind," and "thy neighbor as thyself," are not only commands but implied promises; for God will enable man to perform all that he commands him, if man will but choose so to do. But the choice rests with man. God will not destroy man's individuality. He only asks willing, unselfish service. He sets before man "life and death, blessing and cursing," and then pleads with man to "choose life," that both he and his seed may live.

All this is for man's highest good. Were man capable of perfecting a righteous character in himself alone, his character would be no broader than himself, and his immediate environments and attachments. It would besides be an intrinsically selfish character. For every achievement self would be honored. For every victory self would be glorified. It does not require special discernment to understand that a number of such characters associated together would cause endless strife. Each one would naturally feel his own superiority, would boast of his own achievements, and would think that he himself would be the only one fitted to rule. Such a state of things would change heaven into a hell. But faith in an infinitely wise and holy Being would continually draw man out of himself, enlarge his conceptions, expand his mind; and yet at the same time, while contemplating the Infinite, and growing ever more and more like God, man would have less and less conceit and love of himself, and more of God and his fellowmen. Forgetting himself for others' sake, he would find the highest and purest happiness while seeking the happiness of others. And this is God's plan; this is God's love; this is the teaching of the Bible; this was the life of Christ, and is still in his followers. But the actuating motive of Satan is self-aggrandizement, self-praise, self-advancement, selfishness in every form. The manifestation of these two principles as shown in Lucifer and the Son of God, will be considered in our next.

IS THIS THE REIGN OF CHRIST?

THIS is what the W. C. T. U. column of an Eastern paper has to say of the opening of the Parliament of Religions:—

Cardinal Gibbons came to the platform, leaning on the arm of Judge C. C. Bonney, president of the World's Congresses, followed by Mrs. Potter Palmer and Mrs. Chas. Henrotin, of the Woman's Auxiliary, these succeeded by Rev. John H. Barrows, D.D., chairman of the Parliament of Religions, and after them the most brilliant and cosmic cortège of ecclesiastics—among which were two women—the world has ever seen. Archbishop, bishop, and priest of the Greek Church marched with Judaism, Christian and Confucian, Hindu with Mohammedan, Parsee and Presbyterian, Buddhist with Shintoist—until ten different faiths of the world were seated on the rostrum, gorgeous in many-hued pontifical robes. Cardinal Gibbons led in the universal prayer of our Lord in the opening of the solemn and majestic event of the World's Parliament of Religions. A Hindu [Dharmapala] said that twenty centuries ago a ruler of India had called a similar gathering of faiths in that cradle of religion at the foot of the Himalayas, but it was demonstrated that such a crowning glory as the fraternal union of religions has not been possible till within the last fifty years, when steam and electricity and science have thrown down the barriers between nations. In this "more than imperial feast" men eager for the truth have come together with mutual respect and tolerance, and without surrender of what each holds most dear. In this new, great act in the historic evolution of the race, the supreme fact is the universal brotherhood in the family of God; and a joy dawns in every devout heart that this day, when "acid sect dissolves in Christian charity," is the precursor of a reign of the Spirit which shall ultimate in universal love and peace. "Joy to the world, the Saviour reigns! Let earth receive her king."

This is what the Woman's Christian Temperance Union thinks. Mr. Dharmapala thinks that the Western civilization was never ready to receive Buddhism till now. What kind of a religious meeting must that be which is so especially cheering and hopeful to both "Christian" and "Buddhist"? If Christianity were a compromise religion, we could understand the matter, but it is not. It stands for Christ, the Alpha and Omega of all salvation, with Jesus himself the only Saviour. Buddhism, and other isms also there represented, hold that man is his own saviour. The only Bible reconciliation possible is for all to yield to God's love, and that would obliterate every religion save that of Christianity. The only union between these religionists is for the so-called Christian to compromise Christianity, and then they are no longer Christians. Jesus Christ said, "My kingdom is not of this world," and his Spirit said, "What concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?"

The Church of Christ.

The one organization given of God and fully equipped with spiritual gifts and all necessary offices and power, is the church founded by our Lord Jesus Christ. For the fullness of these blessings and gifts see 1 Corinthians 12; Rom. 12:4-8; Eph. 4:4-16. Whatever success, therefore, may attend the church, to God will be all the glory. Men will not boast themselves, nor glory in men, because of the triumphs of the body of Christ. All the glory will be given to the Head, which is Christ. But of the very necessity of the case a different spirit is manifest in the exploiting of the success which has attended the work of the church through some other organization. It is what the Sabbath school has done, or the Endeavor Society has done, or this society or that association, and, therefore, you ought to belong to this or that, by paying a dollar or fifty cents or twenty-five, whereas the church of God, and Jesus Christ its Head, get second glory at best. It is the, "WE have done." And yet every power, every talent, which will make any work effectual for God, must come through the church. Jesus Christ has honored the church, and honor paid his church in his way is honor paid to him. But when human organizations, with human conditions of membership, come in between the people and the divinely ordained agencies, it is man, not God, who gets the glory. Organization for work is good, but let the organization be such as will not interpose itself between Christ and the people. There are simpler, better, more effectual ways, all of which God will develop among his faithful ones in due time. Oh, for more of his Spirit for the purging of the carnal and human, for the development and manifestation of the power of the Divine!

Prophecy Fulfilled in Sabbath Persecution

In 1884 Seventh-day Adventists published the following:—

As the defenders of the truth refuse to honor the Sunday sabbath, some of them will be thrust into prison, some will be exiled, some will be treated as slaves. To human wisdom all this now [1884] seems impossible; but as the restraining Spirit of God shall be withdrawn from men, and they shall be under the control of Satan, who hates the divine precepts, there will be strange developments. The heart can be very cruel when God's fear and love are removed.—Great Controversy, Vol. 4, edition of 1884, p. 426.

The jails of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Maryland are witnesses to the first prediction; the streets of Paris, Tenn., witness to the third in the Sabbath keepers who were worked on the streets in the chain gang, as slaves are worked; and Russian Colonies witness to the second; and how long ere "free America" will do the same?

The International Congress on Sunday Rest

On September 28–30 was held the International Congress on Sunday Rest in Chicago. The meeting served to show the growing universality of feeling on the question over the entire world. Says the New York Observer:—

It was an interesting sight to see Protestants and Catholics, ministers and laymen, women as well as men, artisans as well as professional men, soldier and civilian, indeed, all classes of the community, combining to emphasize the need of Sunday rest and urging the duty of its religious observance. The meetings were well attended and throughout the interest was firmly sustained.

Sunday is becoming the great rallying center of the nations, the Diana of apostasy,

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