Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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that he said the Lord had sent an angel and shut the
lion's jaws, that they should not hurt him; but have we
not reason to believe that this fact was governed by law?
We read that Daniel and the three Hebrew children
would not eat. of the king's
exclusively pulse and grains.
meat, that their food was
Now, it is well known in
some of the mystic orders, and to individuals not associated
with any of the orders, that the soul of man, thru
the compliance of the intellect, may make a covenant of
peace
planet,
with all life, or with the spirit of the life of the
to henceforth neither kill nor destroy, nor in
any way partake of that which is killed; and that after
sufficient time has elapsed for his own flesh to be changed
-purified from the life of the animal-he will find that
his soul and body is at peace with all flesh, and that the
animal world is at peace with him.
cast intoaden of lions,
danger, and no harm to him will ensue.
Then he may be
or into any other position of
We hold that
persons who are not keeping this covenant could not have
sufficient faith in God to make them fearless under such
circumstances; and if they were that it would not save
them from destruction. This is true of every condition in
which man has need of faith in God. He must live up
to the requirements of the law, that he may not be under
the condemnation of the law; then divine justice will
manifest itself even thru the wild beast.
Before man
will be able to protect himself from the
brutality of man, he must have conquered it in himself
and risen superior to it. Then, and not until then, can
he unite his will with the will of God, and he sufficiently
imbued from on high with that infinite power to speak
peace to the angry mind of an adversary and cause it lo
turn from its wrath. Thus, faith in God is an attainment,
a gift-but not in the sense of God giving scmething
to some one which had not been earned or possest;