Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-01-19

their doctrine of Free Grace belongs tC
the Millennial Kingdom. As for in
stance. the Bible. after telling US OF |
the completion of the Church now |
espouSpd to the Lord and after hei
marriage or union with him at bis
Second Coming. as 1.-The Bride. the
Lambs Wife," tells that then 1.-THE
Spirit and the Bride shall say. Come
and whatsoever will may come and take
of the water of life freely" (ReyelatiOr
xii. Ia.
All. yes. we failed disastrously tc
keep the Apostles command. study
to show thyself approved unto God.
| workman that needeth not TO he
ashamed. rightly dividing the word OF
| Truth" I'll Timothy ii. 15'. We failed
| to thus divide the Truth and TO note
| the portion applicable now and the
other portion applicable during the
| Millennium. Thank God. we are not
| yet too old TO learn. We surely have
been thoroughly sickened by our mis-
| taken interpretations of the past.
| which made nonsense Of both the doc
| trines- Election and Free Grace-and
worse than this. DETAINED and vilitied
our Heavenly Father. 1.-The God OF ali
| Grace"
In the light now shining we may see
| that the terms of the Divine election
of the Church are III every sense OF the
word without Partially. except as re-
CARDS character and faithfulneSs.
| Those now called with the heavenly
calling to be Of 1.-THE elect" are indeed
| invited to eternal life on the spirit
plane, to he like unto the angels. but
more exalted. while the opportunities
to be granted to the world in general
during the Millennium will be inferior,
earthly, reStitutionary-yet grand tActs
iii. 1920. But this difference of re-
ward is cOunterbalancPd by the Sc
verer trials and teStings of those now
called to be of the elect. They must
walk by faith and not by sight. They
must take up their cross and follow
the Lamb hithersoever he goeth.
They must count their lives not dear
unto them. but willingly sacrifice their
earthly interests that they may be par
| ticipatorS with their Redeemer in glo-
ry. honor and immortality, and i'll his
great work of the Millennium-the
blessing of the world Of mankind with
mental, moral. social and physical
uplift.
| Cannot we all. Congregationalists.
Presbyterians and Methodists. and all
others of Gods people, unite as one
body upon this Scrptural hypothesis?
Are we not satisfied with the terms of
this electiOn-that they are sufficiently
stringent to exclude all except the
sanity? Hes';..ien to the Apostles dec
laratiOn, which we once SO grievOuSly
misunderstood: He says of Gods elec-
ton, Whom be did foreknOw he also
did predestinate to be conformed to
the image of his Son" In other words.
when our Heavenly Father foreknew
and predetermined to gather an elect
Church as the Bride of Christ. he also
predetermined that none could be
members of it unless they attained
through faith and obedience in the
School of Christ likeness OF
Jesus-heart likeness to him-hence. as
nearly as possible. an obedience OF the
flesh to his Law.
Surely no one will claim that any
|
this honored condition; hence our for
mer ideas respecting the nOn-elect
would conSign the majority OF OUT
families, neighbOrs. friends and al
the heather. to endless woe. But now
how differently we see in Gods WORD
that the elect class is selected in ad
vance. that in Gods due time, witt
the Redeemer. it may bless every crea
; ture with fullest opportunity to return
/ | to human perfection in Il Paradise re
; gained-restored during the Millenni
UNI. This proposition CT the Scrip
: lures includes those who have gou
5 down to the priSon-hOuSe OF death
' into Sheet. into HddeS. both the evi
y and the good. All shall then know
e from the least to the greatest. tina
! Jesus Christ. by the grace of God
: tasted death for every man." The,
! shall know that the redeeming bloc,
t was not shed in vain. but will secur
e to each member of Adams race, no
t eternal life. but all opportunity TO nj
tain eternal Iife-either on the heaven
e ~ plane during this Age or on tn
:. earthly plane during the Millennium.
o / address you. dear friends. not fror
e a sectarian standpoint, but from
e Federation standpoint: yea, more tina
s this, from the standpoint of those VIII
: desire to be doctrinaly, as we'll as Out
= Wardly. III agreement with the LORI
> and with each other. Have we not. il
\ this beautiful election of the ABible. til
basis for the grandest of all hopes tn
i highest Of all ambitions-to be their
e OF God and joint-heirs with Jesu
u Christ our Lord" Can we want NOR
|. than this for ourselves? And does
a not enhance the glory of this prize t
r have the prospect OF conquering tn
p world for Jesus and for the Fathe
0 during the Millennium. in the OIL,
e way in which it ever can be conquere>