The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-07-22

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! called to the heavenly calling, win not
| the mcssag" Of reconciliation to the
world, in due time, likewise bring to
| the world comfort, JOY, blessing as
they shall be invited To the earthly
| portion--to full restitution to human
| pcrfcctiOn-to all that was lost 10y
Adam and that is to bc recovered 10y
| the sacrifice of Jesus. No wonder the
| Scriptures assure us that the night OF
weeping is nearly over and the morn
| ing of JOY already dawning! No won.
! der the Apostle declares that "the
whole creation groaneth and travaileth
in pain together" and that they are
waiting for the manifestation of the
sons of God" Rom. viii. 90, 49,
The work Of this Gospel Age has
been the calling, the testing the prov
ing, the fitting, the polishing of these
sons Of God for the glorious heavenly
state to which they have been called.
The Apostle urges that however hum
bic the position OF Gods saints in the
present life, we know that when he
! slltl UII'UI we Suull ne IKE MIN, LOT
we shall see him as he is" 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 shall
bow and every tongue confess, the
elect Church, his Bride. will be with
him in his Throne, sharers of his glory
,,y.s,,. L., L.,
OF blessing and uplifting the world
reconciling the world to God.
Calvin and knox-WesIey 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 Il 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. If faithful they will shortly,
in the first resurrection" constitute
the Church of glory, the Bride, the
Lambs Wife and Joint-IIeir.
Brothers Wesley Whitfield and 9th
ers were also right in their proposition
that God was not content with eecting
merely Il sanity handful, but surely
loved the whole world and would sure
ly give to every member of the race a
full opportunity to come to a knOwl-
edge of Christ and to seek share in
the merit of his sacrifice for sins and
an opportunity for life everlasting.
Those dear brethren contended ear
nestly with each other over their differ
ences, the one uphoding the doctrine
of Election, the other contending 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 di-
vine nature and that in an age follow
ing this Free Grace toward all of the
race of Adam will prevail. THE
knowledge of the Lord shall fill the
whole earth every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess" Then those
who. under the rule and assistance and
uplifting influences of the "elect" will
come into harmony with the Divine
Law. will be blessed with full recon
citation 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 Apos-
tie says, be punished with everlasting
II l.,
"HaIIeIujah, What Savior!"
From this viewpoint the glory of our
Redeemer and the glory of our heaven
ly Father are multiplied a million
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 erery man." as the
Scriptures declare, and, as they eX-
press ii, HE shall see of the travail of
his soul and be satisfied" isaiah lii
~. Who could suppose that the Savior
would be satisfied with the result OF
his labor If only about one in million
as members of his Church, reach the
heavenly glOry-land?
Who in our day could for moment
believe the suggestion of Brother iona
than Edwards the great New England
preacher who declared that the Lord
and his saints would, together, look
over the battlements of heaven at their
neighbors and friends and children suf.
fering 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 concep.
ton 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 BIZ
BILE Hell to which all humanity goes is
not place Of torture nor Of conscious.
ness at all, but the grave, sheol, hades
the tomb.
Instead OF Christ and the saints
praiSing God because of the tortures