The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-23

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people of Capernaum were evidently
harder-h hearted than the people of
Sodom and, from the Lords stand
| point, were more blameworthy.
| What shall we say, then, of our day
of still greater privilege in many re-
spects--Bibles in every home. preach
ing In every city, education in ev-
cry family. What might not the
Lord reasonably expect Of us?
We have already referred to Day
of Judgment as the thousand year
| day of Christs Millennial Kingdom,
when the people of Capernaum with
those OF Tyre and Sidon and Sodom
and Gomorrah and all the other cities
and nations, except the elect Church
OF this age, will he placed on trial.
| for life everlasting or death ever
| lasting.
According to our Lords words
present knowledge, great or small,
brings its proportion of RESPONSE
bility. The greater the favor of God
enjoyed now, the greater will be our
responsibility then, Evidently this
means surprises for the world. Not
only the Sodomites. but many of the
heather who have thus far enjoyed
little or nothing of Gods grace, will
be in more favorable condition as
respects of the future than some who
are now richly favored but are ne
glecting their privileges. our Lord
intimatcs that the Judgment or trial
of the Millennium will be tolerable,
not intolcrable for the people of Ca
pernaum and more tolerablc Tor the
| V..l.
reasonable this is than the unscrip-
tural nonsense that was once taught
MS by our well meaning deluded fore
fathers, who made the various sectar-
ian creeds that are now causing
trouble. and who then burned each
other at the stake because of diff
ference of opinion respecting these
creeds and claimed that In SO doing
they were copying God. who was tor
turing the people of Tyre and Sidon
and Capernaum, and the Sodomites
and hundreds of millions of others,
heather and civilized.
How seriously we have all misun-
derstood and misrepresented the Cos
pei message? Let us turn to the pro-
phecy referred to by our Lord and
note this. In. Ezeltiel's prophecy, l6:
49-61, the Lord rehearsed in advance
the greater wickedness of Israel than
of her neighborlng sister peoples.
Samaria and Sodom, and tells that
nevertheless he will restore all three
of them. bringing them again from
the tomb and establishing his Co
vcnant with them through Messiah
i'm the Millennial Age. Let us re-
member, too, that our Lord made
this promise of restitution (Acts 3:
19-21) through the very Sodomites
who were destroyed by fire which
came down from heaven. Guke IL:
leo, 800 They We're temporarily de-
stroyed by fire as an example or IL
lustration of the absolute annihilation
destruction, which ultimately VIII
come upon all willful sinners the
Second Death. But before any VIII
be thus cut off from all hope he
| must be brought to a clear know
hedge OF the Truth and have fun
| trial In the great and glorious day of
Judgment, which st. Paul tells us God
has provided and in which the saints
of this age. the Bride of Christ, with
her Lord, will share in the work OF
| Judging.
| IIH fhtlti lldin utiiN'i'' N'N -
his great work into the hands of the
Lord Jesus, and only by knowing
him can we know the Father in the
proper sense, in the intimate sense,
| because the Son as the Great Teach
err, reveals the Father to all who are
pupils in his School--V. 27.
our study closes with our Lords
| invitation to those who now have the
hearing ear and seeing eye of obed-
| lent faith. To these, life's exper-
fences, sins, burdens, and general un-
| rest are preparations for the DIVINE
| message, "Come unto me, all ye that
labor and are heayy-laden and | Will
give you rest" Those invited must
expect to be servants and to wear the
| yoke" of obedience to the DIVINE
will--the yoke of Christ, the service
Of Christ. To he successful they must
learn of him. walk i'm his steps. They
must he meek and lowly In heart
Such and such only, will find his
yoke an easy one and his burden
light one--much lighter than the
yoke and burden OF sin. only such
will find rest unto their souls now
and be prepared to enter into the
| heavenly rest as "joint-helrs" with
| Christ In his heavenly Kingdom
which Is shortly to bless and Judge
| tba Nunrl1