Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-08-28

| blessed Of the Lord with the ear OF
faith, the eye of faith. let us rejoice
therein with the blessed opportunity.
Let us seek indeed To- make our calling
and election sure to this heavenly es-
tatc of glory. homer aud Immortality
and joint-heir,hip vith our Lord. the
King Of kings anl T. rd Of lords
christ's Aten, n,snt
Both the thieves cru .iel with our
Lord lost their right tp the original
Eden or Paradise Of God through
father Adams disobeiicnce, as dll we
all. Both Of those thieves were born
I'm sin aud shipu iu inlquiiy, in sin
| aid their mothers conceive tdeuL" as
with us all BDJh Of thuse thieves
were redeemed by the precious blood
! Of Christ, ~ were we all: for "Chri {
Jesus. by the grace Of God tasted
death for every man." HE is the
propitiaton for otu. sins 1.-THE Church's
sinsl, and not for ours only, but also
for the sins Of the whole world"
Thus, as we have seen. the Redeemcr
has made provision FOR both of those
thieves, MS well as fyr all of us-all OF
Adams race-to he recovered from the
sin and death conditions of the fall
and to be restored to Paradise. The
Church now called during this Gospel
Age may reach the spiritual Paradise
or highest condition of holiness and
happiness. The two thieves and the
remainder OF mankind will have their
opportunity during the Millennium.
Their opportunity will he for a return
to earthly life and perfection and hap
piness aud an earthly Eden world
wide. How much grander work will
thus result from our Lords death than
we hnd previously supposed!
Let none suppose however. that those
two thieves will enter Paradise on the
same footing While both were guilty
OF robbc:y, they evidently were dis
similar IN the condition of their hearts.
The one was hardened MS evidenced
10y the fact that ho could speak thus
rldrly to thn Rcdccmcr. whose face hc.
spoke gcntlcncss purity and innocence
of crime. Such cruelty implied u deep
degradation ui miud-implied thHt he
was sa ahnrdcacd Aud yet We mus
remember that others Of the mulDitul'
standing by used similarly crurl laH-
guage. And we must rcWcmhcY MAT
there are many thieves who are NOT
caught and many, perhaps ~ morally
wrong ~ evilly mtcntioncd, who, for
fear of the consequences, never cuu
mlttcd the wrongs We can oven sup.
pose that some of the scrih's ana PJ1r.
isccs and Doctors of Divinity uf thna"
Cs.s were In God's >lght much worse
tbun the imprultcul lhicf-murdcrers
at heart ard in decd. Yet of the latter
81. Peter declares. II wot. brethren,
that In ignorance SO dld Il. as dii also
your rulcrs," whom ycu cruclGed the
Lord Of glory
An Earthly Paradise.
Ignorance and rupcrSt'iul and In
hcrtcd dcpmvlty AN bore down Ipon
the lmpcnitcut thlef To degree which
We are not cJphc of properly cSti-
mating The Lord will Judge him
both thievcs-,l mauGmd The prul.
tent thief will unquestiouably have a
two-fold blessing First he viii hc
blessed because oi his pcuir"rt attitude
OF mind, secondly because Of mis- faith
fulness lu expressing ina prnitcnce
and mercy to our Lord IN his al ,rca.
our Lord declared That even q yup Of
cold water given tu the lHlst of his
disciples VIII have It's reward, Surely
Il vii he u harmony then that the
penitcut thief viii have q reward for
his defence nr the Master,
That reward viii consist, frst nt all !
lu the blessing rp his own q ur,
through the action thrrr.l "t ,hr mpr- !
ciiul sentiment \ reward will cuuo |
tu him Ia proportion Ia the eylgruclsa !
u. the occasion ana the greatness of |
the ouc whom he loved ~ the one |
who mvors righteous mm viii re-. |
cciNe righteous mans reward aul |
the one who .lyorH % prophet win re. |
ccivc a prophr's reward. surely the !
one who favored lhc l;pdrvmry would |
receive -p,giai rrna-d. such as the |
icdcrmer u.git %" ,.pc'.,d 90 G.unt, !
The prul..nt thlvt nluilested not |
only sympathy hui honesty and Ii is |
entirely In hccplNg with the General |
teachings e., cur luvd's WORT thut the !
houvst-h~yyd and tac WeyyiBl have |
special blessings. Those @. ..,sn-s can /
not reach thcm Boo Jur -ayc aud Il Is |
not always tMt thor reach them In the I
present life, Virtue 9, NOT always It's
own reward. cur Load declares the
Truth ON the subject, assuring us that
such shall bc "rycompeused in the res
direction ot thc just" That is TO say
when the just The Justified, the Church,
shall be resurrcted IN the First Rcsur-
rectlon and when then the heavenly
Kingdom shall be established amongst
men and the general awakening of the
world from the sleep OF death shall
gradually follow-then every good aud
every evil word, every good aud every
evil act, will be recompensed-lu Para
disc, Let us be glad and rejoice that