The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1888-02-25
and kindness is from everlasting to
everlasting.

| tnlS Inc scriptures teach plainly and
unequivocally, that gospel privileges
extend beyond the grave; otherwise it
is impossible to harmonic those pro-
phetic scriptures which cannot be full
filled wholly in this life.
/. In Gen. iii. Is, we are taught that
the seed of the woman Christi should
bruise (crusb) the serpent's head A
complete fulfillment of this, and of the
overthrow of evil, cannot be realized
until the completion of the time spoken
of in Heb. ii. 10-17, when Christ shall
destroy the works of the devil and de-
liver all those who were subject to
bondage, and when the devil (the per-
sonitication of eviD shall be cast into
the lake of fire, as recorded in the Goth
chapter of Revelation, when Christ, who
hath assembled shall also descend and
lead captivity captive, and give gifts
unto men.
2. The promise made to Abraham,
Gen. xii. 3, that in time all the families
of the earth should be blessed, and the
quotation of Peter in Acts iii. %, in
which he says that God shall raise up a
prophet like unto Moses, in whom all
the earth should be filled with the glory
of the Lord, has not yet been fulfilled
in this life, seeing that millions of fam
lilies aud many nations have died with
out having heard whether there be
any Christ.
B. The scriptures teach that every
knee shall bow and every tongue con-
Tess the Lord Jesus, to the honor and
glory of God. This is taught by Isaiah
III the sd chapter, 10th verse; also in
the 455h chapter, %, "a, and the same
was confirmed by Paul, Rom. xiv. IL,
and again in Phil. ii. 10, where it is
said Christ is highly exalted above
every name, that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bow of things in
heaven, of things in earth, and things
under the earth, and that every tongue
shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the honor and glory of God.
Now, since my brother Nelson claims
that the phrase under the earth -
means the place of the endlessly
damned, it follows by this passage that
they shall yet be redeemed from that
place, even if his position be true.
Paul concludes this argument in Eph.
iii. 1920, with his universal prayer
bowling his knees unto the Father, Of
whom the whole family in heaven and
earth is named, praying that He would
grant exceedingly abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the
power that worketh in us, whereby
there should be glory in the church
throughout all ages, or as it is in the
original, throughout the consummation
and the completion of the ages.
This contamination of the ages can
not be realized in this life.
4. 1t was revealed to jeremiah XXI.
33 "a, and xxxiii. IA, that the time should
come when all should know God, from
the least to the greatest, and sin and
iniquity should be remembered no
more. Ezekiel xxxvii. % 2S speaks of
the time when the sanctuary of God
should be established in the midst of
the heather forever. Christ also con-
firms these promises when he says, in
Matt. v. II; xviii. Is, 10, that all things
were given to him by the Father, in
Guiding all spiritual power in heaven
and earth. st. John also confirms the
same truth when he says in chap. xvii.
2, 3, that God had given to Christ
power over all flesh that he might give
eternal life to as many as God had
given him. Peter also tells us in Acts
xiii. 80, 33, that God had exalted Christ
at his right hand to be Precipitation
for the sins of the world, and to give
repentance to Israel and forgiveness of
sins. To this Paul likewise bears tes-
timony in Rom. viii. 20, 2l when he
tells us that the creature 1.-THE creation)
is to be delivered from the bondage of
corruption and brought into the liberty
of the children of God, and made
fellow-heirs with the saints. He there
fore exhorts in 2 Cor. vii. l, that hav-
ing these promises we should cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness, and he ex-
horts us in Heb. x. 10, to hold fast the
profession of our faith without waver-
ing. Christ also declared, Luke iv. IS,
that he had been sent to heal the broken
hearted, to preach deliverance to the
captives, and to set at liberty them that
are bruised.
This ended the discussion of the first
proposition, and the second days de-
bate. In this presentation think Br.
Street made the matter so clear that
every unprejudiced mind was thor
oughly convinced.
The second proposition relative to
the endless punishment of the wicked
was then taken up and discussed, Mr..
Nelson affirming that the punishment
of the wicked will be eternal, and that
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