The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-16

| luz apostle urges that however mum
BILE the position OF Gods saints in the
present life. I'VE know that when
He shall appear in His glory we also
shall appear with Him. When He
shall reign as the king of kings and
lord OF lords. when TO Him every knee
snail 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 up
iifting the Notwithstanding the
world to God.
Calvin and knox-Wesley 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 a reconciled
condition toward God except the com
paratively 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. IL 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 PROPOSE
ton that God was not content with
electing merely sanity handful, but
surely loved the whole world and
would surely give to every member of
the race full opportunity to come to
knowledge Of Christ and to seek a
share In the merit Of his sacrifice for
sins and an opportunity for life ever
lasting.
Those dear brethren contended ear
nestly with zach other over their DIFF
ferences, the one unfolding the doc
trine OF election, the other contend
ing 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 divine nature and that
in an age following this free grace to-
ward all OF the race OF Adam will pre-
vail. The knowledge Of the Lord
shall all the whole EARTH" every
knee shall bow and every tongue
confess" Then those who, under
the rule and assistance and uplifting
influence OF the "elect" will come
into harmony with the divine law,
will be blessed with full reconcilia-
ton to God and eternal life on the
human plane-in Paradise restored
while the intelligently perverse, in
stead OF being everlastingly tortured.
as we had supposed, will, as the
apostle says, be punished with ever
lasting destruction (II. Thessalon-
ians I, 81.
"HalleIuJah, What q savIorI-
From this viewpoint the glory OF
our Redeemer and the glory of our
heavenly Father are multiplied a mil
lion times. Our Redeemer not only is
to be the Savior OF the little flock"
His church, His bride, on the spirit
plane OF glory, but additionally,
through the agency Of his Millennial
kingdom, He Is to be the Savior OF
the world He tasted death for every
man." as the scriptures declare, and,
as they express II, "He shalt see OF
the travail Of his soul and be salts
fed" isaiah liii. III. Who could sup
pose that The Savior would be salts
fed with the result of His labor II
only about one I'm a million, as mem
bers Of His church, reach the heaven
ly glory-land?
Who In our day could for a moment
believe the suggestion OF Brother
Jonathan Edwards, the great New
England preacher. who declared that
the Lord and his saints would. to-
gether, look over the battlements OF
heaven at their neighbors and friends
and children suffering an eternity of
UNRELIABLE torture at the hands of
demons, and turn around and praise
God the louder on this behalf? Poor
Brother Edwards had, we believe, but
small conception OF divine justice
and divine love. And his difficulty
was that he did not see what Is now
SO distinct and clear to Bible students,
namely, that the Bible hell to which
all humanity goes is not a place OF
torture nor OF consciousness at all,
but the grave, sheol, hades the
tomb.
Instead of Christ and the saints
praising God because OF the tortures
OF the poor groaning creation, the d.
vine program shines resplendently,
showing us that the Redeemer and his
church will for a thousand years be
engaged In a missionary work of the
sublimest and most gigantic character
"a work not only for living rem
nant OF the race, but one which will
include In its blessing all the thou
sands OF millions OF humanity under
the divine sentence, The wages of
sin is death" Truly the scriptures
declare, As the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are Gods ways and
Gods plans loftier than mans con.
ceptions.
Notice next the context St Paul
after mentioning Christ as the head
of the body. the church, who is the
first-begotten, the first-born from the
dead, that in all things he might have
the pre-eminence, adds. "for Il
pleased the Father that In Him should
all fulness dwell" and that (after)
having made peace through the blood
Of His cross by Him to reconcile all
things unto himself--both the things
in earth and things In heaven" (Colos.
slams I. 1920. The apostle indicates
the great scope OF Christ's work as II
shall be eventually when finished. He
Is appointed OF the Father to estab.
lish peace and righteousness through.
out the Universe. But he has not ret
accomplished all of this. He has only
begun. He has died for the sins
OF the world, as we'll as for the sins
Of the church But He has not vet
offered 10 Justice the satisfaction for
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