The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-02

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tendon celebrates the res
direction of the Lord Jesus
Christ, it is appropriate that
| A our hearts and minds should
| intelligently grasp the sig
| nificance of the event commemorated.
| st. Paul laid great stress upon the
resurrection of the dead, declaring that
| if there be no resurrection of the dead
all those whom we counted as asleep
would never have an awakening, and
| consequently would be as dead as are
brute beasts. Note his emphatic state
ment to this effect q Corinthians Ky,
! 1919. For here as elsewhere his
| words contradict the thought that the
sanity dead pass Immediately to glory
and the insanity to purgatory or 10
general torture.
According TO the gospel oil Cnrlst,
of which st Paul declares that ne
was not ashamed, the dead are to be
esteemed as though they were asleep
at rest from all the commotion and
turmoil and -trife, Ignorance and su-
perstition and sin and trouble incident
to the present reign OF sin and DEATH
They have truly entered into rest
whether they were saints or sinners
shall have come in the Millennial
morning of Christ's reign of righteous
ness, surrounding conditions Will pc
very different from what they are to-
day, thank God! Then satan VIII pc
bound, the Bible assures US (Revela-
ton Xxx, 1-3), and the ignorance and
superstition, selfishness and crime,
which for centuries have marked MS
reign will gradually draw to a close.
for the glorious Messiah King will not
permit them. His reign, on the con-
trary, will be marked with the true
enIightenment of all mankind; and the
''Every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess to the glory or COD
(Isaiah xiv, 23).
Gradually the world will be brought
to an Edenic condition, in harmony
with the divine promise. Indeed, this
work may be said to be already be-
ginning. Already, by artesian wells
and irrigation processes and highways
of travel and good roads and intelli-
gent cultivation of fields, the earth be-
gins to bloom and the wilderness and
solitary place to be glad, as foretold
by Isaiah the prophet (Isaiah xxxv, y;
Under these blessed conditions "Al
that are in their graves shall hear the
voice of the Son of Man and shall come
forth (John V, %, 29)-not all
at once, but Every man in his own
order q Corinthians XIV, 23). The
sanity believers, who alone are fully
pleasing to God, will come forth in
the First, OF chief, or preferable,
Resurrection-come forth perfect, on
the spirit plane, like unto the angels
and like unto their glorifled Redeemer,
to be his joint heirs in the Millennial
Kingdom and it's great work of resus-
Chatting. instructing and ruling and up
lifting all the grooming families OF
the earth (Romans viii. 22). Thus will
be fulfilled Gods promise to the spir-
-itual seed of Abraham, "In thy Seed
shall all the families of the earth be
blessed Galatians Iii. 29)- Gradual
ly, after dealing with the living ma
tions to some extent, the sleeping
world will be awakened. Every man
in his own ORDER q Corinthians XIV,
2S).
Our Lord assures u5 that all except
the sanity few will come forth from
the tomb that they may have a. resur-
rection-a rising up out of sin and
death conditions to righteousness, to
the image of God that was lost by
and obedient, they will receive Gods
gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ
our Lord. But the rebelliouS under
those favorable conditions, we are as
sured will be cut off from life entirely
in the Second Death (Acts iii, 1929.
In speaking of the worlds resurrec-
ton our Redeemer designates it a res
direction by judgments Grew. Yer John
V, %, 29). Messiah's righteous judg-
ments will then be abroad in the
world. The light of knowledge will be
good deed and endeavor will receive
it's reward and every willfully evil
deed will receive its Establishments, cor
rections. to the intent that they may
learn the advantage of the way of |
holiness and go up thereon to life eter-
nal, which the willing and obedient |
may reach by the close of the Millen- |
NAL Age.
Through the prophet Daniel, the
Lord declares that many Of the worldly !