Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-02-19

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| Acts iv. 12i.
But how is this done Justly: and.
why does God so limit his gift Of eter-
nal life?
Gods Law represents himself and
cannot change. He cannot require less
than perfection. To do so would be TO
| fill the Universe to all eternity with
deprayed aud imperfect beings. God
has higher plan than this aud de-
ciaFes. "Aa the heavens are higher than
The earth. 50 are my ways higher than
your ways" isaiah ", 81 He explains
that his ultimate purpose is that there
| shall be no imperfect creature in all
his Universe. All whose hearts are
loyal to him and the principles Of bis
government shall be perfected. and all
others shall be destroyed In the Sec
Death. Thus. eventually. every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess to
the glory Of God Then every creature
which is In heaven, and on the earth.
and under the earth. shall be heard
saying. Blessing. and honor and glory
and power he unto hire that stitch
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
| forever Revelation Y. 49,.
You Are Bought With Price.
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way Of dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re-
| CURED the death Of Jesus as the Ran
| som price, the purchase price. the re
| demption price for sinners. Bul the
| fact that this method was adopted by
| our great Creator assures US thai IT.
other method would have been SO
wise. so just. so beneficial. No other
method would have so fully demon
strated Gods Wisdom, Justice, Love
and Power.
In brief. then, Gods arrangement is
that all of his human creatures shall
have opportunity of full return to bar
mony with himself. provided they wish
10 do so. provided their hearts. their
wills, are fully responsive TO the letter
and spirit Of his Law-the require
| ments set forth in our text. God has
provided In Jesus for the satisfaction
OF Divine Justice as respects all Of the
condemned race who desire to return
| to his favor.
We agree with all the orthodox
creeds of Christendom that only re
pentance from sin and an endeavor to
put Ii away from our thoughts and
words and deeds. combined with faith
| In the Redeemer's sacrifice and full
conservation OF heart and life to do
| the Fathers withholding short of
| this attainment will gain the salvation
which God is now holding out to man.
kind To such the Apostle explains that
| the righteousness, the full demands of
| the Law OF God. his full requirement
lis fulfilled in us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
| Romans viii. a.. From the moment Of
our conservation and begetting of the
holy Spirit God deals with this class
as with sons. He trains them in the
School OF Christ. disciplining. chasten-
F, ing proving them, testing the sincerity
OF their conservation Vows and the
| loyalty OF their hearts. To those who
prove faithful the great reward is
| promised-glory honor. immortality.
| joint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
| Christ in his Milennia Kingdom and
| its work of blessing all the families of
| the earth Galatians iii. 20; Revelation
| ill., 2D.
Our disagreement with all orthodox
creeds" is in respect to what shall be
done with the uusaintly-wth those
| who do not present themselves to God
and who are not begotten again OF
! the holy Spirit. Our creeds of the
dark ages misrepresented the teach
| ings OF the Bible in respect to these
and told us that they are all to be con-
signed for hundreds or thousands OF
years to Purgatory or for all eternity
in hell torment. Not such is the teach
ing of Gods Word, but the very re-
verse. as we have previously shown.
The Scriptures do not declare, In thee
and in thy Seed shall all the families
/ of the earth be damned; but the re-
verse of this-that they shall all be
blessed. All the sin-blind eyes shall be
opened. All the deaf ears of ignorance
shall be unstopped. For the blest
| thousands years OF Christ's reign the
| worlds uplifting or resurrection will
proceed, while the knowledge OF the
| glory of God shall fill the whole earth.
| The angels on the plains of Bethlehem
did not declare to the shepherds, Fear
greatly. for behold, we bring you bad
| tidings of great misery which shah be
unto all people Their message was
| the reverse Of this: Fear not, behold.
we bring you good tidiHgs of great joy
| which shall be unto all people luke
| ii, 10 God who had due time" for
calling natural Israel and who had
| also a "due time" for calling spiritual
Israel, has due time" for making
known the riches OF his grace TO the
non-elect world of mankind. And the
'elect" of spiritual Israel and of nat
| ural Israel are to be the channels of
| this Divine grace and mercy, which,
during the Millennial Age, will flow
| as river of salvation, to which all
mankind viii ha invited 70 CANA and