material, then from this material or out of it, all things were made or formed, and the word was with God when all things were made, and nothing was made without him.do

1 Cor. viii: 6, "To us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things and we in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and we by him." This teaches that God caused al things to be created, and caused all things to be made by the Son, the first begotten, who existed from all eternity, before a world was created, of an angel made. John xvii: 5, "O Father glorify thou me, with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." John i 18, "No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him." Jesus is the first and the last in the scheme of redemption. There will be no last in creation, as the saints will never die Heb. x. 7, "A body hast thou prepared me, then said I, lo, I come to do thy will, oh God." Joh vi: 38, "I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will but the will of him that sent me." And Rom. xv: 6. See God made a body for the Son, and sent the Son to dwell in it; God was thus ex

hibited to man in his Son, and that wonderful love displayed in dying to redeem man, was the greatest inducement that could be offered to win man's love, and bring him from eternal death, to unending life, with all the redeemed spirits that burn around the throne of the Majesty in the heavens. 2 Cor. iii: 18, "But we all with open face beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the spirit of the Lord." If you look into a glass while a person is standing in front of it, you can recognize the person, without ever seeing him, thus we recognize God in Christ. We cannot see the spirit bodies with physical eyes, therefore that God might be seen and be brought nearer to us, it became necessary for the Lord to assume a physical body,

which the prodigal son is used as an emblem to show God's transcendent love, and readiness to embrace the returning prodigal. But the devil has counterfeited it, as he has every other good thing used for man's redemption, and has unblushingly put God's name to the forgery. Listen to the lesson now taught by this beautiful parable, as it is now paraphrased. "A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after, the younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in the land, and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his field to feed swine; and he would fain have filled his belly with the husks the swine did eat, and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said: How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger. I will arise and go unto my father and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against