Nevada County picayune., 1889-07-10
RELIGIOUS COLUMN.
Edited by =. GEO. A. GARDNER.
THE GENERAL JUDGMENT
 ITS RESULTS.

! DtIltNGIS Ol lllC biis'p a tti ee'' definite day has been appointed by i God, in which He will judge the world; that all nations and genera tons will be summoned on that day before the august and flaming bar Of the infexible Judge, to be rewarded or punished according to the deeds done in the body. The judicial aspects and results of that day will render it, in some respects, the most remarkable epoch in the moral history of the universe for not only will the destinies of all men be settled and fixed, beyond all possibility of change, but the doom of tho devil and his angels will also be announced and executed by the same Almighty power.
 It is said in the New Testament, that our Savior "shall reign until He hath put all enemies under His feet, y and "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death; ;' and In Revela- tions we are told that 'death and hell are cast into the lake of fire, thereby denoting their final and com plete destruction. The Judgment will witness, therefore, the destruc- ton of all evil and evll-doers. Sin, sorrow, suffering, death-the devil and his angels, and wicked men, will alike be consumed in the fires of the last great conhagration. A new heaven and new earth, wherein dwell righteousness, will take the place of the old heaven and earth; for the fiat goes forth, immediately after the judgment, '.Behold 1 create all things new" and all traces of former things pass away and a universal scene of beauty and grandeur and harmony bursts upon the enraptured vision of saints and angels, as they gather around the great white throne.
 Thus we see that sin and suffering constitute mere episode in the moral plans of the great Jehovah, while righteousness and happiness shall shine forth in ever-increasing splendor during the ceaseless roll of eternal years.
 We have been so long accustomed to the antithesis of good and evil, Of light and darkness, of happiness and sorrow, of heaven and hell, that it is difficult to realize the universal de- struction of all evils and enemies, and the enthronement of virtue and happiness in kingdom which shall never be destroyed. The kingdoms of sin, satan and death, shall pass away; the judgment will be signal ized by their everlasting destruction but the kingdom of righteousness, which our Savior came into the world to establish, is an everlasting king dom, and will survive "the wreck of matter and the crash of worlds by virtue of the power and immortality of its great Founder. Truth is i'm mortal; as one of our poets has beau tifully expressed it:
 Truth. though crushed to earth, shall rise again | The eternal years of God are hers;
 But error, wounded, writhes in pain,
 And dies amidst her worshipers"
 St. John, in the closing chapter Of Revelations, after an impressive description of the general judgment, says, 'There shall be no more curse :" and in the preceding chap ter he announces in the most forcible manner that "there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, for the former things are passed away.
 Let us sum up the grand and glo- rious results of the general judgment of the great day, so that we may take in the details of the magnificent pie ture in all their beauty and grandeur. There will be new heaven and a new earth, which means that the en- tire material universe will be created anew, in accordance with the Divine command, "behold make all things new" It must he remembered that in the account of creation in the book of Genesis, it is said, ''In the be- ginning God made the heavens and the earth" which embraces the whole material universe, or every thing that was made; hence, the phrase, new heaven and the new earth must be taken in the same broad, comprehensive sense as includ- ing all things celestial as well as ter restial in its colossal sweep. All evil of every kind will be forever plotted out-not only will the devils and wicked men be destroyed, but i all their works will also be destroyed {;