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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1912.
JESUS IS GOD'S GIFT
TO ALL HUMANITY
Salvation Is of God's Love, Not
ot Justice or Necessity.
Misunderstanding of What Constitutes
the Divins Penalty For Sin Has Mis
fed Us In Respect to Every Feature
f God's Program For Our Recovery
Prom the Penalty.
Our Lord Jesus pursued an opposite
course, and demonstrated His loyalty
and obedience. St. Paul intimates that
although the Logos was much higher
than was Lucifer, yet He v. as humble,
and "meditated not a usurpation," as
the Greek text declares (Phil, n,
6. He thought not by robbery to be
equal with God On the contrary, our
Lord willingl\ accepted the Divine pro
posal that He should be humbled to the
human plane for a time, in order to
carry out the Father's Plan
To the Church, Jesus is God's un
speakable Gift He is indeed a Gift
to the whole world, unspeakable in
value but He is more to the Church
than to the world. To His footstep
followers. He is the "Captain of their
Salvation." their Bridegroom, their
"Elder Brother." their great High
Pnest Through Him they are priv
ileged to be the Royal Priesthood,
Through the merit of the saerihee of
Christ, thej are privileged to "present
their bodies lhing sacrifices, holy, ac
ceptable unto God
The Pastor then said that Justice is
the foundation of God's Throne In
the past, endea^rs to harmonize Jus
tice with great Creators dealings
with humanity ha\e involved us in
difficulty We were assured bj the
prominent creeds that God had know
lngly brought mankind Into existence
under such conditions that the great
malority would spend eternity in tor
ture We perceived no Justice in any
such arrangement. But while desist
ing from criticising the Creator, we
could not indorse such a course, nor
aee It to be in harmony with the Di
vine regulations governing ourselves.
If we are to love our enemies, should
more be expected of fallen human be
ings than of our perfect Creator?
The Scriptures declare only the con
secrated Church *o the "lengths,
breadths, heights and depths of the
Love of God," which passeth under
standing. This class alone is In any
sense prepared to give thanks to God
now for His unspeakable Gift. Their
thanks go up. not only in words, but
also in actions, which "speak louder
than words." These thanks ascend as
sweet incense to God.
By and by. "All the blind eyes will
be opened and all the deaf ears will be
nnstopped." Then the whole world of
mankind, including those awakened
from the sleep of death during Mes
siah's reign, will be in condition to rec
ognize God's unspeakable Gift and ren
der thanks When wilful evil doers
shall have been destroyed, then every
creature in Heaven, on earth and In
the sea shall be heard saying, "Praise,
glory, honor, dominion and might be
onto Him that sitteth on the Throne,
and to the Lamb, forever,** through the
nspeakable Gift
SCOO
Rochester, X- Y.
Nov, 24. Pastor
Russell of Brook
lyn is here. We re
port one of his ad
dresses from the
text. "Thanks be
unto God for His
unspeakable Gift."
II Corinthians
IX, 13.
The Pastor said
that in order to
appreciate the
Scriptures on all
ubjects. v.e must handle the Word of
God honestly We must recognize that
our Lord Jesus is one person and the
Father another person. The oneness
between the Father and the Son is that
declared by our Master Himself, say
lng that He and the Father are one
in the same sense that He desires all
of His disciples to be onein mind, in
purpose, in will, in effort. (John xvii,
21, 23.) Our Lord Jesus is God's un
peakable Gift.
The Scripture^ declare that the Re
deemer took the nature of men or
der to redeem sinners: but that in Him
there was no sin. Only a sinless one
could give to God a Ransom for Ad.im,
and thus redeem from destruction, uot
only Adam, but all his posterity, in
volved in sin and death through him.
The speaker then showed that God
et before our Lord a great joy, the
Influence of which led Jesus to endure
cheerfully the bitter experiences of His
earthly life This joy is intimated to
have been (1 His pleasure In dome
the Fathers will (2) His privilege of
"bringing many sons to glory"the
Church (3) His pleasure and joy in be
ing by and by the world's Restorer, de
livering them from the power of Satan,
sin and death. "Wherefore," St. Paul
says, "God h.ith highly exalted Him."
far above "angels, principalities and
powers, and every name that is named
An Opposite Course From Satan's.
Pastor Ru-sell then contrasted the
course pursued bj Satan with that fol
lowed by our Lord Meditating am
bitious designs Satan found an oppor
tunity in Eden He beheld in our hvst
parents a new order of beings, design
ed to biing into existence a race that
would fill the earth. Satan essayed to
be ruler prince over this human ere
ation. and by so doing, he not only be
came a rebel against God, but brought
sin and death into the world
CU
E
REPORTER
Honeymoons.
An Englishman and his wife have
recently had a honeymoon, the second
since their marriage. They left the
babies at home and went to the place
where they went on the day they were
married and stayed as long as they
could stand it. They didn't like it at
Bll They didn't see how they'd man
aged on their previous honeymoon
without the children' In short, the
times had changed and honeymooning
wasn't to their way of thinking any
longer. Honeymoons do read well.
We hear about people going on them
and we think we'd rather like to go
Hlong. Or go again. But if we did
really, I think going again would be
almost as bad as going along! I
guess the English couple sized it up
correctly. There's no "Backward,
turn backward, oh! time, in thy
flight'" No chance of a second hon
eymoon. Unless we get a second hus
band or a second wife.
Accepts the Rebuke.
A resident of an English city has
made himself a marked man by in
sisting on saying 'nought" instead of
"O" when he calls a telephone num
ber having ciphers in it. The tele
pone operator usually corrects him
when he says "three double naught''
by saying "Three double O." The
other night he called up central and
said, "Hello," and the girl replied:
"Hell-naught." He accepted meekly
the "quiet rebuke."Springfield Re
publican.
Phoenician Relics Found in Spain.
Some months ago important arch
eological discoveries were made at Ca
diz. They consisted of Phoenician
tombs, and fresh excavations have
yielded satisfactory results. A few
days ago further tombs were discov
ered, and one contained a fossilized
Skeleton. Golden amulets, rings and
peals have also been found.
Coats
Girls1
We have not forgotten the girls. Every coat in the store
has been reduced in order that the girls, both large and
and small can have anew Thanksgiving coat.
Munsing Underwear--Musser Hose
Sweaters
Ont door sport requires a good sweater. We can fit the
man, woman or child in a good sweater. Price 75c to $6.
THE BEUBJI DAILY PIOHZEB
Scoop, Don't Try To Kid The City Editor A pa
change in ti.c roscman
This small boy, three and one-hall
years old, was accustomed to meet
the postman and get the letters foi
the family. He and the postman were
friends and the postman always had a
smile and pleasant word for him.
But one morning when the post
man came around he neither smiled
at the hoy nor said a word to him
he just handed the letters over th
gate to him and passed on, which was
a great surprise to the boy. The fact
was that this was another postman,
taking that morning the place of the
regular man on this route, but the
small boy wasn't quite old enough to
realize it. This new postman wore
the same uniform, carried the same
bag, was just like the other man in
every way, except as to his face. But
certainly that was different, as the
small boy could see, and so when he
carried in the letters this morning he
announced to the family:
"Our postman has got a new head."
Ou sales people will have a half-holiday Thursday afternoon. Kindly do
your shopping tommorrow and Thursday forenoon.
Store Will Close Thursday at Noon
SMART WEARING APPAREL
FO THANKSGIVING
The price has been reducee on all Ladies' Coats and Suits,
bringing the price within the reach of all. No excuse for not
being well dressed on Thanksgiving Day.
Two Specials in Ladies1
One lot of Ladies' Late Fall Dresses, consisting of extra good all wool serge dresses
and dresses made from pare soft taffeta silk, beautifully embroidered in silk. Gowns fit
for party wear, only $6.95 each.
LaFontisee Millinery
Formerly the Conger Hat Shop
Is Closing Out
Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats
at a
Discount of 25 per cent
Telephone 24-7
209 4th Street Bemkiji, Minn.
no
Bv "HOP
Dresses
Thanksgiving Table Linen
Good quality bleached linen, 50c to $1.50 a yard. Linen
sets===a large sized table cloth and one dozen napkins to
match, $7.00 to $15.00 a set
Fancy Wor Materials
Ladies who are making their holiday gifts can find near-
ly every article needed here. Beldings Silks, Royal Society
Floss and D. H. C. Art Lines, Scrims, Laces, Ribbons, Satins
and Silks.

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