Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-01-20

in his great work Of the Millennium
the blessing of the world of man
kind with a mental, moral, social and
physical uplift.
Cannot we all Congregationalists,
Presbyterians and Methodists, and all
Others Of Gods people, unite as one
body upon this Scriptnral hypothesis?
Are. we not satisfied with the terms OF
this election-that they are suuf1-
GENTLY stringentto exclude all except
the sanity? Hearken to the Apos-
ties declaration, which we once SC
grievously misunderstood: He says
of Gods election, Whom he did fore
know he also did predestinate to be
conformed to- the image of his Son. -
In other words, when our Heavenly
Father foreknow and predetermined
to gather an elect Church as the
Bride Of Christ, he also predetermin-
ed that none could be members OF it
unless they attained through faith
and obedience in the School of Christ
character-likeness OF Jesus-heart-
likeness to him-hence, as nearly as
possible, an obedience of the flesh
IT his Law.
Surely no one will claim that any
but little flock has ever attained to
his honored condition; hence our
former ideas respecting the non-elect
would consign the majority Of our
:amilies, neighbors, friends and all
he heather, to endless woe. But now
low differently we ase in Gods Word
. hat the elect class is selected in adj
lance, that In Gods due time, with
che Redeemer, it may bless every
reature with fullest opportunity to
ceturn to human. perfection in a
Paradise regained-restored during
he Millennium. This proposition of
he Scriptures includes those who
lave gone down to the prison-house
If death-into Sheol, into Hades both
he evil and the good. All shall then
know, from the least to the greatest,
hat "Jesus Christ, by the grace of
God, tasted death for every man. 7"
They shall know that the redeeming
blood was not shed in vain, but will
secure to each member of Adams
race, not eternal life, but an oppor-
tunity to attain eternal life-either
on the heavenly plane during this
Age or on the earthly plane during
the Millennium.
/ address you, dear friends, not
from a sectarian standpoint, but
rom Federation standpoint; yea,
more than this, from the standpoint
Of those who desire to de doctrinal-
ly, as we'll as outwardly, in agree
ment with the Lord and with each
other. Have we not, in this beauti
full election of the Bible, the basis
for the grandest of all hopes, the
highest Of all ambitions-to be ''heirs
of God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ our Lord?" Can we want more:
than this for Ourselves? And does
it not enhance the glory of this prize
to have the prospect of conquering
the world for Jesus and for the
only way in which it ever can be
conquered-God's way.
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Redeemer taught us to pray, ''Thy
come; thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven?",' Is 1t
not for this Kingdom that he taught
US to wait. saying, "Fear not, little
flock; it is your Fathers good pleas
ureS to give you the Kingdom" duke
xii, 32)? Is it not for this Kingdom
that the world waits? Unto him
every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess 1.-THE knowledge of
the Lord shall fill the whole earth.
''All shall know him from the least
to the greatest" ''And it shall come
to pass that every soul will not hear
that Prophet shall be destroyed from
amongst the people" (Acts iii, 2S).
Shall we, then. stop merely with an
outward federation or confederacy?
Shall we not rather unite our hearts
and heads and hands along the lines
Of the Divine promise given to us
I'm thee and in thy Seed shall the
families of the earth be blessed?"
{ Galatians iii, 2s.)