[Songs in the Night - December 24]
Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10
WHEREVER the story of God's redeeming love has
gone, even though confused by various falsities, it has
carried more or less of blessing with it—even to neglectful
hearers and not doers of the Word, it has
brought blessing; and still more blessing to others who
hear partly and obey partly.
But its greatest blessing
has been to the little flock, the royal priesthood who,
entering into the spirit of the divine arrangement, have
realized themselves justified through faith in the precious
blood, and in harmony with the invitation of the
Lord have gone forward presenting themselves living
sacrifices that they might have fellowship with Christ
in the sufferings of this present time, and also, by and
by in the kingdom glories that shall follow.
It is this
class chiefly that is now rejoicing in a still fuller
opening up of the divine Word so long beclouded by
the falsities coming down from the Dark Ages; it is
this class that is chiefly now rejoicing in the discernment
of the lengths and breadths and heights and
depths of the divine love and of the divine plan which
has purchased the whole world and will eventually
recover from present degradation all who under the
favorable conditions of the millennial kingdom will
develop the character which God demands of all who
shall have eternal life—a love of righteousness and
hatred of iniquity. Z'02-364 R3115:6 (Hymn Appendix S)