The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-02-17


! others shall be destroyed in the Second
Death. Thus. eventually. every knee
| shall bow and every tongue confess 20
| 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 be unto him that stitch
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
| forever Revelation Y, 49,.
You Are Bought With a Price.
| Possibly God could have arranged
some other way of dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re-
! guired the death of Jesus as the Ran
som price, the purchase price, the re
| demption price for sinners. But t.
fact that this method was adopted
our great Creator assures us that
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 har-
mony with himself, provided they wish
to 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 it away from our thoughts and
words and deeds combined with faith
! in the Redeemer'S sacrifice and full
conservation of heart and life to dc
| 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 fun 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 tn,
| School of Christ. disciplining chasten
| ing, proving them, testing the sincerit!
of their conservation Vows and f.
| loyalty Of their hearts. To those W
! prove faithful the great reward
! promised-g glory, honor immortal
ioint-heirship with the Lord Je.
! Christ in his Millennial Kingdom
! its work of blessing all the families
the earth Galatians lii, %; Revelat
Iii. 2D.
Our disagreement with all "orthoc
creedS" is in respect to what shall
done with the unsaintly-with tn
who do not present themselves to c
and who are not begotten again
! the holy Spirit Our creeds of L
dark ages miSrepresented the teach
ings of the Bible in respect to thes'
and told us that they are all to be cor
signed for hundreds or thousands {
years to Purgatory or for all eternit
| in he'll torment Not such is the teacl
ing Of Gods Word, but the very r,
verse. as we have previously showl.
| The Scriptures do not declare. In thee
| and in thy Seed shall all the families
Of the earth be dGmHcd; 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 Christs 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 shall be
unto all people. Their message wa
the reverse of this: Fear not; behold
we bring you good tidiH0s of great jo.
which shall be unto all people, Uuk
| ii, 10l. God who had a due time" f.
calling natural Israel and who ha
also a due time" for calling spiritus
| Israel, has due time" for maxim
known the riches of his grace to tn
non-elect world of mankind. And th
elect of spiritual Israel and of ma
ural Israel are to be the channels
this Divine grace and mercy, whiC
during the AIillennial Age, will flo
as a river of salvation, to which
mankind will be invited to come
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Humbly.
1t may astonish some that God
! quires even more than Justice, viii
is his legal standard. In his perm
sion of sin and its wage of death i
has shown the sinner his own mere
or love. And it is for the sinners be
eft and for the good of all, that G.
requires that all who will have I'll
/ full benefit of his mercy shall be +.
| Quired to cultivate this mercy Qualit
! in their own hearts. AS the slime
attempts to conform his life to til
perfect standard and finds himself ~
/ able to keep Gods Law and obliged Z
come for mercy TO the Throne
! Grace. he is Informed that he can ha'
! that mercy only upon condition tn
| he will exercise similar mercy iowa
! those who trespaSs against him, L
ideals and interests.
Humility is a quality very necessa
to every creature. Pride is a f