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delivered from the bondage OF cor
ruption into the glorious liberty Of
the children OF God" Rom. 8:21.
In all of this testimony we can ar
rive at no other conclusion than the
pardon and obedience Of all. The
divine law of God is written upon the
tablets of the heart All are to be
His people, and He to be their God.
All, from the least to the greatest are
to know him-which is ''eternal life"
Their sins and iniquities are to be for
given them, and remembered no
more.
But, in all candor, how can this be,
if large portion of the human fam
lily are to be punished to all etcrnityg
In what way can the Apostles testi-
mony be true, when he declares that
the creature, which means the entire
creation, shall be delivered from the
bondage Of corruption into the glo-
rious liberty Of the children of Godf
How can this be verified, when a
great number of the creation are un-
alterably fixed in endless bondage,
and instead of being the children Of
God, are children of the devili And
instead Of their sins and iniquities be-
ing forgiven, and remembered no
more, the doomed in hell will never,
to all eternity, be forgiven, and their
sins will be remembered against them
throughout the wasteless cycles of
eternity.
The reader must see that the doc
trine Of endless punishment for sin
and iniquity contradicts this plain
testimony Of the Bible
But it is very probable that the
mind OF the reader is resting upon
some passages Of the divine record
which he honestly believes teach the
doom Of endless retribution. II those
passages teach such Q doctrine, then
one portion Of the evidence contra
diets the other - which no Christian
should ever attempt to prove
From the standpoint which we oc-
cupy, there is not q single passage in
the Bible that teaches the doctrine of
endless punishment. The Bible can
be made to harmonize without that
doctrine, and never can with il. The
doctrine Of endless misery is one of
the counterfeit representations of
Gods divine word. The genuine
represents all sin and evil connected
with the Adamic nature MS being can
celedin Christ. We invite the reader
to see how Paul understood this sub-
ject when writing to the Romans -
Therefore, as by the offense OF one,
judgment came upon all men to con-
demnation, eUen so by the righteous
ness Of one the free gift came upon all
men unto justification of life.
But when sin abounded, grace did
much more abound.
As sin hath reigned unto death,
cpen so might grace reign, through
righteousness, by Jesus Christ, our
Lord.
For as by one mans disobedience
many were made sinners, 80 by the
obedience of one shall many be made
Rom. 8.
"As in Adam all die, even so in
Christ shall all be made alive" Cor,
15:32 ~ a 3e
We have no point OF doctrine more
clearly taught in the Bible than the
Of all sin and disobedience
which has been through and in con-
nection with our earthly organism, in
md through Christ. The healing rem
edy Of the Gospel is as extensive as
the wound Of sin. The same "many'
who are made sinners, are by the Of
licacy Of divine grace made alive in
Christ. This is the holy mission OF
is the travail OF his soul
and he can never be satisfied short OF
accomplishing the work that the Fa-
ther gave into his hands.
1. We observe that all mankind
ire TO be made "alivein Christ :" and
being made alive in him constitutes
hem new creatures In him. III Cor,
5:17.
2. All who are made alive in Christ
wear the image of the heavenly.
3. The divine grace Of God, which
S his favor, reigns wherever sin has
humanity.
4. The identical number who are
made sinners" and have been cor
upted, and in the bondage Of sin,
o wit, all men, are .made righteous.
The inevitable conclusion is, tho
Universal redemption Of the whole
luman race, and the willing obedi-