Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-16

knowledge Of the Truth that they
may be saved.
If the knowledge Of Gods grace has
proven to be grand, glorious, inspir-
ing message to the sanctifed In Christ
Jesus, the Church Of this Gospel Age,
called to the heavenly calling. will not
the message Of reconciliation to the
world. In due time. likewise bring to
the world comfort, JOY, blessing as
they shall be invited to the earthly
portion--to- full restitution to human
! perfection-to all that was lost by
Adam and that is to be recovered by
| the sacrifice of Jesus: No wonder the
] Scriptures assure us that the night Of
/ weeping Is nearly over and the morn
ing Of joy already dawning! No won
der the Apostle declares that ''the
in pain together" and that they are
waiting for the manifestation of the
sons of God" Rom. viii, o. 19).
The work of this Gospel Age has
been the calling, the testing, the prov
ing, the fitting, the polishing Of these
sons of God for the glorious heavenly
state to which they have been called.
The Apostle urges that however hum
| BILE the position Of Gods saints in the
present life. I'VE know that when he
shall appear we shall be like him, for
we shall see him as he is" When he
shall appear in his glory we also shall
appear with. him. When he shall reign
as the King of kings and Lord of
lords, when to him every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess, the
elect Church, his Bride. will be with
him in his Throne, sharers of his glory
and participants in his work-the work
of blessing and uplifting the world
reconciling the world to God.
Calvin and knox-WesIey and Whit
field.
Calvin. Knox and others Of the re-
| formers, we may then see. were quite
right In their insistence that none at
the present time are in reconciled
condition toward God except the COM
paratlvely few of our race-the saints.
These turn from sin to righteousness,
| turn from disobedience to faith and
conservation. and in and through the
merit of the Redeemer are acceptable
as probationary members Of the elect
Church. If faithful they will shortly,
III the first resurrection" constitute
the Church of glory, the Bride, the
Lambs Wife and Joint-Heir.
Brothers Wesley, Whitfield and 9TH
ers we're also right In their proposition
that God was not content with electing
merely sanity handful, but surely
loved the whole world and would sure
ly give to every member of the race q
/ full opportunity to come to a knowl
edge Of Christ and to seek a share In
the merit of his sacrifice for sins and
an opportunity fer life everlasting.
Those dear brethren contended ear
+, nestly with each other over their differ
enees, the one upholding the doctrine
of Election. the other contending for
the doctrine of Free Grace. Now we
see that both were right! Now we see
that the election belongs to this Gospel
Age and TO the High Calling to the dl-
vine nature and that in an age follow
ing this Free Grace toward all of the
race of Adam win prevail. "The
knowledge of the Lord shall ill the
whole EARTH" every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess" Then those
who. under the rule and assistance and
uplifting influences of the "elect" will
come into harmony with the Divine
Law win be blessed with full recon
ciliation TO God and eternal life on the
human plane-in Paradise restored
while the ntelligently perverse, in
stead OF being everlastingly tortured,
as we had supposed, will. as the Apos-
tie says, be punished with everlasting
destruction al Thessalonlans 1, 81.
"Hallelujah. What Saviorl"
From this viewpoint the glory Of our
Redeemer and the glory of our heaven
ly Father are multiplied a million
times. Our Redeemer not only is 20 be
the Savior OF the little flock" his
Church. his Bride. on the spirit plane
Of glory, but additionally, through the
agency Of his Millennial Kingdom, he
IL to be the Savior of the world He
'tasted death for every man" as the
Scriptures declare, and. as they ex-
press It. HE shall see OF the travail OF
his soul and be satisfied" isaiah ill,
III. Who could suppose that the Savior
would be satisfied with the result Of
his labor II only about one In a million.
as members Of his Church, reach the
heavenly glory-land?
Who In our day could for moment
believe the suggestion OF Brother Jona-
than Edwards. the great New England
preacher, who declared that the Lord
and his saints would. together, look
over the battlements OF heaven at their
neighbors and friends and children suf-
fering an eternity Of unreliable torture
at the hands OF demons. and turn
around and praise God the louder on
this behalf? Poor Brother Edwards
had we believe. but a small concep-
ton OF Divine Justice and Divine Love.
And his dihiculty was that he did not
sec what Is now so distinct and clear
to Bible students. namely, that the Bi-
BILE Hell 20 which all humanity goes Is
not place OF torture nor Of conscious
ness nt all. but the grave, sheol, hades,
the tomb.