Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-30

some extent. has neutralized the effect
Of our errors.
Starting from their misunderstand-
Ing Of Bible teachings respecting the
wages of sin, Brother Luther and his
noble companions battled bravely for
many truths. but made one great blum.
der. When they concluded that Pur-
gatory was contrary to the Scriptures
and threw It away, not seeing the
Bible hell. the tomb. they adopted an
other hell and thereby went from bad
to worse on this subject. They said.
The heather and the masses Of the
civilized are surely not saints-surely
they do not follow In the footsteps of
Jesus surely. therefore. they cannot
be of his spiritual flock. Concluding
that these could not be taken to heav-
en-, they said, We must take them out
Of Purgatory anyway, wherever we put
them. because we have found out that
there is no such place as Purgatory.
After Conferences. seriously dislik-
ing to make out Gods character worse
than they formerly supposed. they
said under their breaths. We must
take them out of Purgatory and quick
~ put them into hell of eternal tor
ture and say as little about the mat
ter as possible. They were greatly
relieved when long-headed Brother
John Calvin explained to them about
the mere handful going to heaven and
the great mass going to eternal tor
ture. He explained that God had fore
ordained and predestinated these aw-
full results-that he might show his
wisdom and his power. As to
Love divine, all love excelling,"
Brother Calvin seems never to have
thought of that. Brother Wesley and
others since. though less logical and
theological, did stand up for and de-
clare the Love of God, even though
rather absurdly they claimed that he
was neither wise enough nor powerful
enough to do more than rescue a mere
handful Of Adams race from the eter-
nal torture to which they thought God
damned them all because of the DISC
bedience in Eden.
"All In Adam-AIl In Christ"
In the light of our better Bibles and
Bible Study Helps and minds freed
from the ignorance and superstitions
of the past we may understand the
Apostles words and find in them, not
only justice and love, but harmony and
beauty. Instead Of all mankind going
to eternal torment for Adams sin, all
go into the Bible hell, the grave, on
account of his sin-and all Of the men,
tai, moral and physical blemishes of
our race are part Of this heredity.
There would have been no hope of a
future life, good or bad, had not God
in his mercy provided the Savior-the
"Life-Giver," as the Syriac renders the
word. In Gods due time he set before
his Son the opportunity Of becoming
mans Redeemer. The Logos was made
flesh (John /, 14l and obediently gave
himself In death-"tasted death for
every man" AS by one mans disObedi-
ence the sentence of death passed upon
all of the race~even so by the obedience
Of the man Christ Jesus unto death
Justification TO life passed for all of
that race. Now we see the wise rea-
son for permitting the sentence to pass
through one mans disobedience to
all Of his posterity. II was in or
der that one sacrifice for sin might |
make possible the reconciliation of the |
entire race
Now read our text and drink in its |
depths and beauty and force. The |
of mankind from the sin |
md death and tomb condition to the .
'ull perfection and image Of God from
which the race fell is the salvation
which God has provided for all Who
'ver will fail to attain the full recOv-
ry from sin and death conditions will
ave himself TO blame because of re-
ection of the glorious arrangements
which God made in ana through Christ.
THE First Resurrection"
God divides the salvation Of man
ind into two parts-the Church to
pirlt nature ana the world to perfect
d human nature The first ne is ac-
JmpIishing during this Gospel Age;
ne second he win accomplish through
hrist ana the Church during Mes
ah's reign of Il thousand years.
The Church, the little flock" of
hints, called, tried, tested in the mar.
NV way during this Age, are to con
iute the First Resurrection" class
ld To become "the Bride of Christ"
he Church Of the First-Borns."
hese are 60 be associated with the
'eat Redeemer in his future work.
hese shall be like him, changed from
lrthly to heavenly nature and made
iarers of his glory, honor ana i'm,
The Kingdom Of God I'M
,r the whole heavens will be inaugu-
tied after the glorldcntion of the
hurch and then will begin the bless
q. the salvation, the uplifting. the
of mankind in general
ON sin and death cOnditions-not TO
'rltuai conditions, but TO perfect
rthly conditions.
All the willing and Obedient shall be
essed by the great Life-Giver who
ghteen centuries ago died. the just
r the uniuSt and WIN durin0 tho