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knowledge Of the Truth that they
| may BE- saved.
II the knowledge Of Gods grace has
proven TO be grand. glorious. Insplr-
| ing message TO the sanctifled In Christ
Jesus. the Church OF this Gospel Age,
| called 10 the heavenly calling. Will not
| the message Of reconciliation TO the
| world. in due time. likewise bring 10
| the world comfort. Joy. blessing as
| they shall be invited 10 the earthly
| portion-to full restitution TO human
| perfection-to all that vas lost by
| Adam and that L. 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
| whole creation groaneth and travaileth
In pain together" and that they are
waiting for the manifestation OF the
sons of Cod (Rom. viii. -, 1917.
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. we know that when he
shall appear We shall be like him. for
we shall see him as be is" When he
shall appear In his glory we also shall
appear with him. When be 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 a reconciled
condition toward God except the COM
paratively 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.
in the first resurrection" constitute
the Church Of glory. the Bride, the
Lambs Wife and Joint-Heir.
Brothers Wesley. Whitfield and 9TH
ers were also right in their proposition
that God was not content with electing
merely a sanity handful, but surely
loved the whole world and would sure
~ give to every member of the race
full opportunity to come to a knowl-
edge Of Christ and to seek q share in
the merit of his sacrifice for sins and
an opportunity for life everlasting.
Those dear brethren contended ear
nestly with each other over their differ
ences. 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 di
vine nature and thai in an age follow
ing this Free Grace toward all Of the
race Of Adam will prevail. The
knowledge Of the Loru shall fill the
whole earth" every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess" Then those
who. under the rule and assistance and
uplifting influences Of the "eiect" will
come into harmony with the Divine
Law. will be blessed with full recon
Citation to God and eternal life on the
while the intelligently perverse. in
stead of being eyeriastingly tortured.
as we had supposed. will. as the Apos-
tie says. be punished with everlasting
destruction I'll Thessalonians i, 81.
"HaIlelujah, What a Savior!"
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 to 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
is to be the Savior Of the world. He
tasted death for epery nsaa," as the
Scriptures declare. and, as they ex-
press it. "He shall see Of the travail of
: his soul and be satisfied" isaiah lii.
III. Who could suppose that the Savior
would be satisfied with the result OF
his labor if only about one in million
as members of his Church, reach the
heavenly glory-land:
Who in our day could for a moment
believe the suggestion of Brother iona
than Edwards. the great New England
preacher, who declared that the Lord
and his saints would. together. look
over the battlements Of heaven at thei,
neighbors and friends and children suf
; fering an eternity of UNRELIABLE torture
5 at the hands Of demons. and turn
: around and praise God the louder or
? this behalf? Poor Brother Edwards
, had. we believe. but small concep
, ton Of Divine Justice and Divine Love
And his difficulty was that he did not
I see what is now so distinct and clear
? TO Bible students, namely. that the Bi