The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-11

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
whole creation groaneth and travaileth
In pain together" and that they are
"waiting for the manifestation Of the
sons Of God" Rom. viii, %, 1877.
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. 1--WE 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
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-WesIsy 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. II 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 waa not content with electing
merely a 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 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 that in an age follow.
ing this Free Grace toward all Of the
race Of Adam will prevail THE
knowledge of the Lord shall 6ll 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, will be blessed with full recon
ciliation TO God and eternal life on the
human plane-in Paradise restored
while the inteligently perverse. In
stead OF being everastingly tortured
as we had supposed. will, as the Apos
tie says. be punished with everlasting
destruction III Thessalonians 1. %.
"tialieIujah. What a savior"
From this viewpoint the glory Of oul
Redeemer and the glory of our heaven
ly Father are multiplied millior
times. Our Redeemer not only is to b,
the Savior of the ''llttle flock" hi
Church, his Bride. on the spirit plane
of glory, but additionally. through tn,
agency Of his Millennial Kingdom, III
IL TO be the Savior of the world. HI
tasted death for eUerv man." as tn,
Scriptures declare. and, as they ex
press 1t, "He shall see Of the travail o.
his soul and be satisfied" Qsaiah iii
III. Who could suppose that the sayio
would be satisfied with the result o
his labor II only about one In mVl!on
as members Of his Church, reach tn,
heavenly glory-land?
Who In our day could for momen
believe the suggestion Of Brother iona
than Edwards. the great New England
preacher. who declared that the Lore
and his saints would. together. lool
over the battlements of heaven at thei
nelghbors and friends and children SUI
fering an eternity of unreliable tortur
at the hands OF demons. and turl
around and praise God the louder ol
this behalf? Poor Brother Edward
had. we believe. but small concer
tion of Divine Justice and Divine Love
And his difficulty was that he did no
see what is now so distinct and clea
to Bible students, namely, that the 81
BILE Hell TO which all humanity goes
not a place Of torture nor Of conscious
ness at all, but the grave, sheol. hadei
the tomb.
Instead OF Christ and the saint
Draising God because of the torture
Of the poor groaning creation. the ID