The Anaconda standard., 1895-04-08
WITH THE ADVENTISTS
Elder Stone DsliVsrs a Powerful Ad-
dress 10 a Large Congregation.
FINAL HOME OF THE SAVED
New Converts to the Faith-Christ's
Mission to the World to Seek
and Save That Which
Was Lost.

still attracting large congregations. Last
night seven went forward for prayers and
conservation. Elder Stone delivered a
discourse on "The Final Home of the
Saved" taking for his text the 10Th verso
OF the 10th chapter of Luke. He said the
text would admit of much broader ap-
plication than was usually applied to 1t,
and that the general idea prevailed that
Christ's mission to this world was merely
to redeem man, but the object, as clearly
stated in the text, was "to seek and to
save that which was lost" This included
more than man.
Not only was man lost by the transgres-
sion, he said, but man lost the dominion
given him at the beginning. The earth
lost much of its beauty and, as the result
OF sin, the curse rested heavily upon it,
as well as upon man. As result, satan
gained dominion of the world, and Christ
came that he might redeem lost world.
When Christ began his work upon the
earth, satan came to him with his most
powerful temptations, one of which was
his taking Christ up into a mountain and
showing him all the ''kingdoms of tho
world and the glory of them" sand the
devil said unto him, all this power will
give thee, and the glory of them, for that
is delivered unto me, and to whomsoever
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wilt worship me, all shall be thine" This
was not Christ's plan of redeeming the
world by yielding to. satan and worship
Ing him, but rather by yielding obedience
to God, and overcoming satan. Christ
gained the victory, and insured salvation
and redemption completely, not only for
man, but for the whole universe, and
when Gods plan is fully carried out, not
only will man be redeemed from the curse
or sin, but the world will again blossom
with all its edenic beauty and glory and
the earth restored to its primeval beauty,
will again be given to man for his ever
lasting habitation. This is not a theory
OF mine, hut a fact revealed in many
places in Gods holy word.
In lisa. As :lS, we are told that God made
the world to be inhabited; but this was
not to be inhabited by a race of rebels.
Far from 1t. Christ says: blessed are
the meek, for they shall inherit the earth"
Some have imbibed the idea that this
world 10 finally to be burned up, having
ing so interpreted second Pet. $40. But
We do not so understand this text. Let us
read 1t: But the day of the Lord will SO
come as thief in the night; in the which
the heavens shall pass away with q great
noise. and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat. the earth also, [melt with
fervent heat and the works that are
therein shall be burned up" We fail to
see by this text that the world is TO be
burned up. 1t is to melt with fervent
heat, and then out of this molten mass is
TO come a new earth as described in the
thirteenth verse of this same chapter.
The works that are to be burned up are
the works of satan, as we read in
first John. 3:aA "He that committeth sin
is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from
the beginning. For this purpose was the
Son of God manifested that no might de-
stroy the works of the devil.n Then the
works that are TO be burned up and de- |
stroyed are the works of the devil. This |
includes the curse brought upon tho |
world as well as that that came upon |
man, and the earth after passing through |
this purifying process is to abide forever,
for thus we read in Eccl. a.
This same idea is taught in the Lords |
Prayer. Our Father which art in heaven, |
hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom !
come. Thy will be done on earth as it is |
done in heaven" That time will come |
II is in heaven; but not until sin and sim |
ners are forever removed from its fair |
domain. and the earth is possessed by the |
saints of God. There is text of scrip |
ture in Dan. 1927, that is in harmony with |
the ideas here set forth. "And the king /
dom and dominion and the greatness of |
the kingdom under the whole heaven, |
shall be given to the people of the saints /
of the most High, whose kingdom is an |
everlasting Kingdom" Here Is a king
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der the whole heaven. That could be |
nothing less than the whole earth. Aud it |
says that IL shall be given to the saints of /
the most High for an everlasting king
dom. This matter Is most aptly ex-
pressed in our Savior's words in Matt.
25 :31-34 "When the Son of man shall |
come in mis- glory, and all the holy angels
with him, then shall he sit upon the throne
or kingdoml of his glory and before him /
shall be gathered all nations; and he
shall separate them one from another, as
a shepherd divideth his sheep from his
goats; and he shall set tho sheep on his
right hand. but the goats on his left. Then
shall the King say unto them on his right |
hand, Come, We blessed of my Father. in
herit the kingdom prepared for you from
the foundation of the world" Here is
brought into view that Gods peo-
pie are to inherit, and il was prepared
from the foundation of the world. That
could be nothing more or less than the
world itself, aud this kingdom the saints
are to possess for ever and ever.
The Bible abounds with numerous state
ments to this effect. We will read ono
more, you will nud il in the 37th Psalm.
with the ninth verse, "For evil
doers shall be cut of, but those that wait
upon the Lord, they shalt inherit the
wicked shall not bo yea, thou shalt dill.
gently consider his place, and IL shall not
be. But the meek shall inherit the earth,
and shall delight themselves in the abun-
dance of peace"
The earth having passed into the hands
of satan through mans yielding to him,
Christ came TO redeem man and the world
out OF the power and dominion of satan;
and when this work shall have been fully
as it will be when Christ
comes the second time to gather his peo-
pie. tho dominion lost by Adam will be |
restored TO Christ, as brought to view i'm
Micah :S. and he will be king over all the |
earth, Zech. Ia Is, and il wo are Christ,
then arc we heirs according to the prom
Use. and with him will inhabit the earth |
with the curse all removed, not |
one stain of sin and Of this time il is
said in Rev. 21 IA. "And heard n great
voice out of heaven. saying, behold, the
tabernacle of God Is with men, and He
will dwell with them, and they shall be
HIS people. and God himself shall be with
them, and be their God, and God shall