Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-07-28
The Millennium.

copied from the Dodgevillo paper on
the fanaticisms of the age, you mems
toned the millennium as a scriptural
and human sequence to follow pre-.
ceeding the grand tinality of things,
How shall the like be brought about
will you answer?
DUPLEX
Fennimore, July 81, 'es.
REMARKS. We aim to answer from
rational standpoint, leaving theo-
logians to take care of the revealed
testimony. Ii is sufficient that we
hold to a scripturaI millennium, as we'll
as to q millennium that shall be
brought about by general drift and
concurrence Of human affairs.
We write not as an oracle, but from
a judgement formed upon a general
knowledge and view Of the past and
present.
Natural truth is constantly receiy
ing a vast expansion in some de-
partments such expansion amounts
to perfection, SO that nothing more
can be added. Perfection is being
arrived at in many departments of
natural or physical truth and from
all the lights before us, it is evident
that knowledge will soon make man
kind the master of the situation.
The present progressive whirl
must soon carry us torw ard to mill
lennium IN some things, and by and
by to higher degree of millennial
life. 1t would appear that the mill
lennium must be in some sense an $50
lated period, essentially different
from any condition we know of, I'M
less it be that of primitive purity of
our first parents, of which we know
but little, From that little however
We reason the approach Of a cores
ponding era OF final purity Because
in the very nature Of cause and final
effect, there must be at the end bet
ter state Of things than at the begin
ming. 1t is so with all governments,
the human as well as the divine
Nations often have theirrise in wrong,
but they soon disappear as by stran.
gulation. But when nations rise on
holy ground, having purity Of origin,
they struggle long, pass under many
cloud, even appear to have lost all
favor with the God Of nations, Saw
Tor is promised and salvation offered,
then bondage long and terrible, next
false prophets and task ma stcrs, fol,
lowed with bloody wars-at last lib
erty and glory, which we call q rude
millennium. And it is the same with
persons, in whom good seeds are
sown. The good, after severe trial,
are, saved by grace-the end being to
them an improvement upon the be-
ginning.
We resume: preparations are 60
ing on for q millennium, in discovery
and practical knowledge, and in APP
plying the benefits of the arts and
sciences-all the work of centuries,
but of late the forward evolution be-
ing seventy times accelerated.
The promised millennium then is
condition of society, in which man
shall perform the utmost good by
acting correctly. His enjoyment
shall be a maximum enjoyment. All
of which can only follow when men
shall have arrived at the highest at,
tainable state Of knowledge.
knowledge is power-power to
turn the earth and all that is to the
fullest account. Ignorance, selfish
ness and depravity must give way
so soon as it is known that knowl>
edge and obedience to the laws of
wisdom insure for man millennial
degree Of happiness. Once let it be
known that know ledge enables any
one to live 100 to 200 years, with sew
eral life renewals, and great plenty
to eat and wear, all these upon six
hours labor each day except Sun
days, and there will be a mighty rush
for such knowledge, rush that would
dethrone the Pope and level the
world to q common grade In which
none will care to become lord or mas
| ter
Viewing the progress of affairs,
moral, political, industrial, and in the
arts and sciences, we are indeed has
tening toward a strange sphere,
which can only be millennial.
We believe all this to be consistent
with Gods revealed plan Of dealing
with man toward the close of the
human mission upon earth. But the
tendency Of things toward millenial
era we believe to be wholly under
Divine guidance-though each and
every one of us feels and acts as an
uninspired, self-willed, and selfish,
free moral agent in whom God does
not work to will and to do. Yet all
the while we toll and sweat, drive
and delve, think and invent by and
| through Almighty supervision, that
His ends may be done, not ours
We think and act and seek invention
because we cannot help doing So
God so moving our will, He having
the glory, yet SO as that He is not
the author of sin but the Power by
which great good cometh out of evil,
the manner infinitely above our COM
prehension because we are finite and
God infinite.
Such are our views as to near
approaching miliennial era, when men
shall give up their greed for power
and their selfshness. We believe in
a coming reign of benevolence, when
wise and great men shall abandon
their wickodness and turn to God,
and when the masses shall follow the
wise and great in doing good to all
AID in glorlfyipg the Creator. Let
none suppose however that mans
probation is to close with this cen
fury or that Satan is to be chained up
so very soon.