For Thou has created all things.—The all things, the Universe, Greek. “Across the vista of ages He saw in His purpose the glory of an intelligent creation in His own likeness, established in righteousness and worthy of His gift of eternal life. He therein foresaw the mutual pleasure of the Creator and the creature, and with a peaceful patience He resolved to wait for the glorious consummation.”—Z. ’95‐154. And for Thy pleasure they [are and] were created.—“He desired that love should respond to love, admiration to admiration, virtue to virtue, and grace to grace, in the Creator and the creature, as face answers to face in a glass. In this natural attitude of the Creator and the creature generous benevolence and filial gratitude combine in mutual happiness. God is happy in the realization and in the exercise of all the noble traits of His glorious character, which happiness is enhanced by appreciation of the same on the part of His creatures, and by manifestation in them of the same qualities and dispositions of mind and heart. And likewise man must both realize and exercise the noble endowments of his nature and form a character modeled after that of his Heavenly Father and meeting His approval, if he would find that true happiness which consists in the approval of his own conscience and of his Creator and Judge, in whose favor is life, and at whose right hand there are pleasures forevermore.’—Psa. 16:11.”—Z. ’95‐167. “Sun of my soul, my Father dear, I know no night when Thou are near. O! may no earth‐born cloud arise To hide Thee from thy servant’s eyes. Shield of my soul, though tempests rage, And ’gainst me hosts of foes engage, My refuge and my fortress Thou, Before Thee every foe must bow. Thy grace and glory Thou dost give To those who near Thee ever live; And no good thing dost Thou withhold From sheep which stray not from Thy fold.” [Illustration] Hindrances To Christian Progress [Illustration] The Thinking Public Declines To Endorse The Modern Political Preaching Revelation 5—The Executor Of The Plan 5:1. And I saw in the right hand.—“The Divine Plan, known only to the Father, Jehovah Himself, was kept in His own power—in His own hand—until some one should be _proved_ worthy to know it, and become its executor as Jehovah’s honored Agent and Representative.”—E. _39_, 36. Of Him that sat on the Throne.—“He that sits upon the Throne is Jehovah. The scroll in His right hand is His Plan for human redemption, sealed from all until One should be found and proved ‘worthy.’ ”—Z. ’97‐150. A book.—“Not the Bible, but the Divine Plan, with its times and seasons.” (Z. ’16‐252.) “This was the _Mystery_, the _Secret_ of the Lord, unknown to any one but Himself—His plan for the salvation of the world.”—Z. ’97‐256.