Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-05-11

are leaving Gods Book, and leaving
oil of the Churches to go after Theos-
ophy, Christian Science. and especially
after Evolution, with its companion
teaching of Higher Criticism-that the
Bible is thoroughly unreliable. We are |
living now in q time of great falling /
away from the faith; few intelligent |
people any longer believe in the Bible.
Our colleges and universities-and, sad
to say, our theological seminaries-are
busy turning out unbelievers-infidels
Nor are these people wicked or immor |
al in their unbelief; they are as well |
meaning as ever. but have lost their
way. They reject the Bible because
they believe it to be the foundation OF
the various inconsistencies in their
creeds: they are stumbling for lack OF
knowledge; they cannot believe that
mans hereafter is one Of centuries of
suffering, or of eternal suffering.
Seeking the Old Paths.
The Lord through the Prophet Jere
miah. tells his people to Inquire fol
the old paths," and this is the appro
pirate lesson for each of us. We do,
indeed. need to discard the creeds Of
the past, not because they contain
nothing of truth. but because error
commingles in them to such a degree
as to make them perversions of truth
as a whole. We need to take off the
creedal spectacles with which we have
hitherto been studying Gods Word,
and come to the Bible afresh, to hear
it's message Thus coming, many OF
us have been surprised as we have
found it's purity and consistency and
harmony with itself. We have already
intimated the Bible view of mans
death sentence. and the Bible presen.
tation that Christ died for our redemp
ton, and the Bible assurance that as
a consequence. in due time" 1.-The
knowledge of the glory of God shall
fill the whole earth" We have also
the Bible assurance that not merely
the living will profit by the provision
of Gods grace. but that "all that are
in their graves shall come forth to
share in and to be blessed by the ia
and by inaugurate.
The Bible declares that the penalty
for sin is being experienced by hu-
manity at the present time-the death
penalty-ard that the redemption price
of Christ'S death is sufficient for the
sins of the whole world. 1t declares
that on account of this redemption,
ultimately the resurrection of the dead
shall take place-"all that are in their
graves shall hear the voice of the Son
! of Man and come forth" 1t is be-
J cause of the Divine intention that
there shall be q resurrection of the
dead that the Bible everywhere, both
IN the Old and New Testaments. speaks
of those who have died, both good and
bad. as being asleep" and the prom
Use is that ''They that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake"
Nor will they come forth to similar
conditions of sorrow that now sur
round us all. On the contrary, the
First Resurrection is to be composed
of the holy. the sanity. and they arr
to be associated with their Redeeme1
!, as his Bride and Consort. to assist il
delivering and restoring mankind
Later the imperfect, who have not hat
their full trial. the great mass of man
kind, will be brought forth. that the.
may learn the ways of Righteousness
that they may learn to know God. an(
Jesus Christ, and in due time be UP
lifted out of the conditions Of sin ant
death. Then will come the time men
toned in our text, The Hereafter TO
, the world. How joyful is the mes
sage, There shall be no more death
neither sorrow. nor crying. nor dying
for the former things have passe
. away" All, how different is God
, proposition of a general uplift of til
worthy and their assistance back t
- =, perfection-to all that was lost i
= Adam. How different is this from th
doctrines of demons" which hav
perpleXed US, which have divide
the Church of Christ into numberles
: sects and parties, and which have a
r most driven us from Christ and til
l. Bible.
: Life, Not Immortality.
b, ., Thus we see that Gods provision
Christ for mankind is that each ind
= vidual member of our race may yet
= he will, attain to everlasting Ii
~ through the merit of Christ's sacritic
=, and through the operation Of his Kin
q dom. Each may attain to all that W;
= lost in Adam and redeemed at Cf
70 vary; namely, human perfection al
"A Edenic blessedness But additional
q note the blessings which God has pr
30 vided for the Church-a spiritual bles
PC ing, a change of nature. These a
~. called out now from amongst me
" that they might be kind of fir!
% fruits unto God of his creature