The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-28

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men. But we can rejoice in the
thought that the Millennial Kingdom
ly with ALL The stripes of punish
ment will be tempered with mercy;
and gradually by their change of char
acter the contemplate ones will cease
to be contemplate. The transforming
power of grace and Truth now operat.
ing in the Church will be equally force
full then, operating upon the world Of
mankind As perfection is gradually
attained the shame of the imperfection
will gradually abate, while all of the
shameless will be destroyed In the
Second Death Thus we see the III.
vine Purpose of the resurrection of the
dead and our glorious hope, far differ
ent from all the fears that were taught
us by the musty traditions of men,
from the dark ages" And thus we
see the force of the Apostles words
that if there be no resurrection of the
dead our hope Is vain, our faith Is
vain Il Corinthians xv, 14-19).
"But Now Is Christ Risen."
The Apostle argues, "If the dead rise
not" II that is an impossibility so far
as the world In general Is concerned,
then 1t Is an impossibllity so far as
Christ Is concerned. And "if Christ
be Not rlsen." then all hope, all faith
is vain. And all preaching is not only
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XIV, 14) But now Is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruits
of them that slept" The mere awak-
ening from sleep, as I'm the case of
Lazarus, Dorcas and others, is here
left out Of the question. Nothing Is
counted as resurrection except the
full, complete raising up out of death.
Our Lord was the first that should
rise from the dead" (Acts XVI, 23), In
this full sense. And he was n first
fruits, or proof, that others still sleep
ing will come forth by Divine Power
to be exercised by him in the resur-
rectlon morning-the Millcnnial morn
ing. The Church will be the next in
order-she is to be the Bride Consort
Of the Great King and to participate
with him in his glorious work of up
lifting the race which fell from the
Divine image into sin and death
through father Adam. The redemp-
tion-price has been provided in the
death of Jesus; and the time for be-
ginning the great work OF restitution
of all things" merely waits until the
completion of the election Of the saint
ly Church (Acts Ill, 10-2D.
Christ Arose From Hades.
Preaching on the Day of Pentecost,
| st. Peter declares that God raised
| Christ from the dead. Then In proof
| that this was the Divine intention
from the beginning, he quotes from
the prophetic Psalm of David, "Thou
shalt not leave my soul In hell" The
the Greek, In which the word hell is
hades. His quotation is from the He.
brew, In which the word hell is sheoi-
the only word rendered he'll through.
out the entire Old Testament.
| am not stating this as something
|
is new to many of my hearers and to
many of the eighteen millions who will
| read my discourse In tomorrow morn
ings papers. For the sake of such,
note the fact that In the morning OF
our Lords resurrection, he said ia
Mary, "Touch me not; for | am moi
! yet assembled to my Father and your
Father: to my God, and your God
! Dohn Xxx, ~. | remind them further
of the language OF the so-called Apos
ties Greed, which is coming more and
more into vogue with all denomina
tions and which declayes. "He de
scended into hell and rose again the
third day" In a version of this creed
published by the Presbyterian Board
of Publication of Philadelphia, a foot
note very properly explains that the
word hell here used Is, In the Greek
hades, which signifies the state or con
dltlon of death.
| consider this very important mat
ter, which should be made widely
Known, because of the false conception
of hell handed down to us through oul
creeds formulated In the dark ages,
and since misinterpretation of SheoI
and hades has been given to the pub
lie mind-the impression that these
words signify place of torture, All
this is wholly false, as every Greek
and Hebrew scholar knows, and, II
oss-questioned. will admit. 1t Is M
important question TO the public be
cause this misconception Of the mean