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HIS PURGAT0RlAL VIEWS.

until restored TO life, and having an
swered the brother who signs himself
in Greek, 'Alethou Huperaspistos, "
which means in English, Truth over
infdelity or unbelief, and having lit
tie time, will be glad to avail myself
of the Lords opportunity to comment
little on the article, ''Purgatory'', on
page 3 of July 10Th News, and to pre-
sent some of the Scriptural evidences
that the purgatory of the Bible will be
the glorious millennium, the golden
age of prophecy. In other words, it
will be 1.-THE times Of restitution of all
things, which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all His Holy prophets since
the world began. See Acts 3;19-21.
But in approaching our subject we re-
cognize one hinderance which protes-
tants encounter when replying to or
offering the truth to Catholics and that
is, they rely on books which they
themselves brand as ApOcryphal, /. e.,
not canonical. However we are not
discussing the validity of the apocry-
phy and will do our best, and with the
Lords help, ''for without Him we can
do nothing" will show from the prop
hets of scripture what we declare and
define, to wit: that the Purgatory OF
Catholicism when introduced will be
the worlds judgement day, its time
of instruction, trial and testing, when
all the obedient will be granted etern-
al life as perfect human beings, on
the perfect human plane where Adam
was created, and fell from, and when
all the irretrievable wicked will be
hopelessly destroyed.
We all recognize that the race is
dead or dying AS Paul says 'by one
man, (Adam) sin entered into the
world and death by las result of)sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned." In fact, from
the divine standpoint the living are
better described as dead than alive
(See Matt. S:22; . Cor. 5:14. We all
understand too that our ransom has
been provided : that "Jesus Christ, by
the grace of God, tasted death for ev-
ery man. - "Who gave Himself as a
ransom for all, to be testified Ito all)
in due time. That "He is propit-
iation for our sins (the churches sins)
and not for ours only but also for the
sins of the whole world ''In whom
we have redemption through his blood,
even the forgiveness of SINS For
as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
all shall be made alive" There shall
be resurrection of the dead, both of
the just and unjust wonder not
at this, because an hour comes In
which all those in the TOMBS will
hear his voice, and shall come forth
those having done good things to re-
surrection Of life, and those having
done evil things to resurrection Of
Judgement. Now the question arises
why has the human race been redeem
ed by the precious blood. and why the
promise of resurrection We agree
that the just will come forth to per
feet life; but what about the unjust
the unrighteous, the great bulk Of
mankind? Are they to be restored tC
life for short time only or as some
say, be brought out of torment to bt
exhibited before the just only to bt
again remanded to the flames? This is
one of the so called orthodox views
But what say the Scriptures? We have
it on the authority of the Almighty
oath, and the value of the ransom
that they are to be blessed, even al
the families, nations and kindreds o.
the earth. Nothing short of this would
fulfill the requirements of the word
sworn to and subscribed, to-wit: "By
myself have 1 sworn. saith the Lord
for because thou hath done this thing
and hast not withheld thy son, thint
only son; -. That in blessing l will
bless thee, and in thy seed shall all tn,
nations of the earth be blessed, becaus,
thou hast obeyed my voice. Gen. %;
1919. This oath-clad promise wa
made to Abraham and repeated to Is
aac and Jacob. David sang about i
in the Psalms. The blessings are fore
told and elaborated by all the hol!
prophets. 1t was the hope of the earl.
church. 1t was ian anchor to Paul
soul "both sure and steadfast Sc
Heb 6:13-19. 1t was Peters hop
when he so fervently exhorted tn
Jews to repentance and proclaimed tn
impending "Times of restitution of al
things. in Acts 3: 1926. From thi
there can be no doubt that blessing
is promised, and outstanding. becaus
all the families of the earth were no
blessed in Abraham's day and they ar
not being blessed now. Therefore w
properly inquire. what is the blessing
promised, and when or how is it to b.
realizedl Answering the first part o
our question we find the blessing is 3
be LIFE;as onr Lord said, Il am com
that they might have life, and tha
they might have it more abundantly.
1. e., life in full measure as Adam ha
Il before the fall-Jno. 1910. In an
swer to the last part Of our question
we read of "A day in which he vii
judge instruct, try, test the worl
IN righteousness by that man whom h