DISCOURSE I
Dear Friends, we are met together as a company of the Lord’s people all inter-
ested, we trust, in God’s great Plan of Salvation- THE PLAN of THE AGES.
From the fact of our presence here we assume that all accept the Bible as
God’s Word. We will consider now such portions of the Word as outlinc the
DIVINE PLAN OF THE AGES. Our talk on the Plan of God will be illus-
trated by this Chart.
The Chart is designed as an aid to the mind through the eye in grasping the
subjects to be presented. We believe in the old theology of the Lord and the
Apostles and Prophets. We have no new thing to present to you-no plan or
theory of our own; and we do not wish you to receive anything that the speaker
says simply because he has said it, but because he has shown it to you in the
Word of the Lord. Much that we have to say we trust you will recognize as old
and familiar truths, while some things will be recognized as truths forgotten or
overlooked or never noticed heretofore; but we believe that all will be ready to
accept without equivocation whatever shall be shown from the Scriptures to be
the Word of the Lord-whatever has been “written for our learning,” as the
Apostle suggests.- Rom. 15:4
It is in order that we may be “thoroughly furnished” that we are told to
“search the Scriptures” (John 5:39); and if we wish to be wise toward God, we
must come as learners and receive the instruction which God gives us in His
Word, which is “able to make us wise unto salvation,” with the “Wisdom that
cometh down from Above.” (2 Tim. 3:15; James 3: 17,18.) We want to put
on
the “whole Armor of Cod.”Eph. 6:11
(Point to Chart.) We will now consider some of the features of God’s Plan as
illustrated by this Chart. Let us dismiss from our minds for the present this
lower part of the Chart-all below this upper horizontal line. (Point.) That part
of it will be considered at future meetings. Now we wish to give our attention
to these upper arches and these smaller ones within them. We do not approach
the subject of the Divine Plan from a scientific standpoint. The boasted phi-
losophies of this world are often “falsely so-called,” and tend more to confuse
