The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-02-19

government shall be perfected, and ali
others shall be destroyed In the Second
Death Thus eventually. every knee
shall bow and every Tongue confess To
the glory OF God Then every creature
which is in heaven. and on the earth,
and under the earth. shall be heard
saving. Blessing. and honor and glory
and power be unto him that sitteth
upon the throne. aud unto the Lamb
forever Revelation v. 49,
You Are Bought With 3 Price.
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way OF dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re
quired the death Of Jesus as the Ran
som price. the purchase price. the re-
demption price for sinners. But the
fact that this method was adopted by
our great Creator assures US that no
other method would have been so
wise, so just, so beneficial. No other
method would have so fully demon.
strated Gods Wisdom. Justice. Love
and Power.
10 brief. then. Gods arrangement is
that all Of his human creatures shall
have opportunity Of full return TO har.
mony with himself. provided they wish
TO do so. provided their hearts, their
wills. are fully responsive to the letter
and spirit Of his Law-the require
ments set forth in our text. God has
provided In Jesus for the satisfaction
Of Divine Justice as respects all OF the
condemned race who desire to return
to his favor.
We agree with all the orthodox
creeds Of Christendom that only re
pentance from sin and an endeavor to
put Il away from our thoughts and
words and deeds. combined with faith
in the Redeemer's sacrifice aud a full
conservation Of heart and life to do
the Fathers Withholding short Of
this attainment will gain the salvation
which God is now holding out TO man
kind. To such the Apostle explains that
the Righteousness, the full demands Of
the Law Of God. his full requirement
lis fulfilled In us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
Romans viii. A.. From the moment Of
our conservation and begetting of the
holy Spirit God deals with this class
as with sons. He trains them in the
School OF Christ, dlscipllning, chasten-
ing, proving them, testing the sincerity
of their conservation Vows aud the
loyalty Of their hearts. To those who
prove faithful the great reward is
promised glory. honor. immortality.
joint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
Christ in his Mlllennial Kingdom and
its work Of blessing all the families of
the earth Galatians iii, 90; Revelation
Iii. 21l.
Our disagreement with all "~orthodox
creeds" is In respect to what shall be
done with the insanity with those
who do not present themselves to God
and who are not begotten again OF
the holy Spirit. Our creeds Of the
dark ages mlsrepresented the teach
ings Of the Bible in respect to these
and told us that they are all to be con,
signed for hundreds or thousands Of
years to Purgatory or for all eternity
In hell torment. Not such is the teach,
ing Of Gods Word. but the very re
verse. as we have previously shown
The Scriptures do not declare. In thee
and In thy Seed shall all the families
of the earth be damned; but the re
verse of thls-that they shall all be
blessed. All the sin-blind eyes shall be
opened. All the deaf ears Of Ignorance
shall be unstopped. For the blest
thousands years Of Christ's reign the
worlds uplifting or resurrection will
proceed, while the knowledge OF the
glory OF God shall fill the whole earth
The angels on the plains OF Bethlehem
did not declare to the shepherds, Feal
greatlyl for behold, we bring you bad
tidings Of great misery which shall be
unto all people. Their message was
the reverse of this: "Fear not; behold
we bring you good tidin0s Of great joy
which shall be unto all people" luke
II, 10l. God who had a "due time" fol
calling natural Israel and who haC
also a due time" for calling spiritua
Israel. has a due time" for maxim,
known the riches of his grace to th'
non-elect world Of mankind. And th'
elect OF spiritual Israel and of nat
ural Israel are to be the channels o
this Divine grace and mercy, which
during the Millennlal Age. will nOv
as a river OF salvation, 10 which nj
mankind win be invited to come an,
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Humbly.
1t may astonish some that God re
quires even more than Justice. which
Is his legal standard. In his permis
sion Of sin and It's wage OF death h,
has shown the sinner his own mercy
or love. And 1t is for the sinners ben
eft and for the good OF ali, that Coz
requires that all who will have th,
full benefit OF his mercy shall be re
quired to cultivate this mercy qualit,
In their own hearts. AS the SHINE
attempts to conform his life to tn
perfect standard aud finds himself un
able to keep Gods Law and obliged t