Frankfort Pilgrim College - Pilgrim Yearbook (Frankfort, IN)

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GOD SJ GREAT PLAN IN THE EARTH tContinued.j for Christ 's Kingdom. The ehureh to a great extent, is asleep, Christ's Bride, the eleet from the Church, is making herself ready. She, already, has her wed- ding garments on. 1 But judgment always follows mercy rejeeted. While the Bride is with Christ at the marriage supper of the Lamb and receiving her reward, plagues will be poured forth upon the earth and upon those who refuse to accept Christ. At the close of this period, Satan will be east into the bottomless pit. there to await his eternal doom. The nations Will be judged, and Christ will set up His Kingdom in the earth. Then He will sit upon His father David's throne and rule the nations that are upon the earth, and those who have fol- lowed Him in the regeneration will sit with Him on His throne, while those who rejected Him will be east into the Lake of Fire. Then shall the end be when He shall have delivered up the Kingdom of God,', and when He shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. H.E SHALL COME So I am watching quietly Every day, Wl19llQX'Ql' the sun shines brightly I rise and say, Surely it is the shining of His faee, And look unto the gate of His high place Beyond the sea, For I know He is coming shortly To summon meg And when a shadow falls across the window Of my room, Where I am working my appointed task, I lift my head to watch the door and ask If He is come! And the Spirit answers softly In my home, 'Only a few more shadows, And He will comet 13 0-.

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The ages roll Forward: and forward with them, draw my soul into times infinite sea. And to be glad, or sad, I care no more, But to have done, and to have been, before I come to do and be. is is it its fe God's Great Plan In The Earth N THE beginning God created the heavens and the earth. In the bee ginningf' We have no way of knowing when this beginning was. And while we cannot fully understand God's meaning in the words, yet we can know something of His object in creating the world and the things that are therein. God had a purpose in creating the physical world and the human race, and this purpose is clearly revealed in His word. The Bible is the only book that reveals God's plan. And, although the fall of man has hindered His work, His plan will yet be brought to a iinal consummation. The angels, who 'tin the beginning were created holy and with the power of choice, fell, and were cast out of heaven: and it has been Satan's object. ever since he had to leave his heavenly abode, to try to prove that God is not true, and to destroy the image of God in man. Man was created in the image of God, mentally and spiritually, and had communion with his Maker. His surroundings were perfect. He was made a free moral agent with power to p1'ove himself true and live forever. He did not have to sin. But man separated himself from God. He went to the lowest. depths: down in the awful midnight of superstition and unbelief: down morally and spiritually, until scarcely a ray of light enlightened his immortal soul. The awful night of darkness in Egypt is only a faint type of the darkness into which man drifted. The Egyptians could 1101 help themselves, neither was there virtue in their gods. Man had practically lost all knowledge of the true God. He had no conception of what he could do. and had to be led step by step until he could come to the place where he could discern between good and evil. He could not lift himself out of this awful condition. He had lost the image of God, and must have a Redeemer. But how could those, who were in such darkness, be brought to a saving knowledge of the truth? Moses could, and did lead them to the law. But the law could not make the comers thereunto perfect. It could otfer to them cere- monial blessings and point them to the great Sacrifice, but only the Christ could bring them out of their darkness and back to the image of God. God had promised Israel a Redeemer, a King, who would sit upon His father David's throneg one whose government would be an everlasting gov- ernment. Had the Jews accepted Christ as their King when He came, He could have, at that time, set up His Kingdom in the earth. But Israel failed. They denied ,the Lord of Glory and the true vine was broken off and another was grafted in. It was the privilege of the Gentile Church to evangelize the world, to take the gospel to the ends ofthe earth, to put down sin, and thus prepare the way in 'O EXQXE2

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