The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-22

Age, will not this solve our problem and
give us doctrinal union instead of a mere
federation based upon the ignoring or doc
trine7 We can all assent to this, there
fore let us examine the facts.
The Bible assuredly declares Divine
election according to Divine purpose
foreordained-but not such an election as
Brother Calvin outlined. God foreor-
dained the selection of Church, predes-
It's membership and the character of each
one who would be acceptable as mem
Der. He foreordained tests of the worthl-
ness of these members and the glorious
reward that should be theirs and great
work which they shall be priylleged to DO
for enthusiastically now, fully during
the Millennium Accustomed to the cleo
ton of fellow citizens to the Presidency,
to the for
we should have carried this same thought
to the Divine election of the Church. we
Church, the seed of Abraham (Gala-
tians Iii, 29), is especially intended to be
the channel Of Divine blessing to an the
La. z7-se-
How strange that we overlooked this
and the assurance that with the compile
ton of the Church Messiah would exalt
her in the First Resurrection to be his
Bride and joint-heir in his Mille sl1ni
ing of all mankind! How strange that we
did not notice that every text OF scripture
used by our Methodist 9reSnre1 9r 10 SUB he-
longs to the Millennial Kingdom! AS for
instance, the Bible, after telling US of the
to the Lord and after her marriage or
union with him at his Second Coming, as
the Bride, the Lambs WIFE; tells that
then 1.-The Spirit and the Bride shall say,
Come and whosoever will may come and
take of the water of life freely (Reve-
! All. yes, we failed disastrously to keep
the Apostles command, Study to show
myself approved unto God, a workman
that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of Truth I'll Timothy
ii, 15). We failed to thus divide the truth
and to note the portion aRP a6e e,, npw
the Millennium. Thank God. we are not
yet too old to learn. We surely have oeen
thoroughly siea X t by a etr Wheh made
nonsense of both the doctrines-Eiection
and Free Grace-and worse than TINS: De
famed and villified our Heavenly Fatner'
1.-The God of all Grace
In the light now shining we may see
that the terms of the Divine eiectlen +S ~
word without Partially, except as re-
CARDS character and faithfulness. Those
now called With the heavenly n ; ealing e
eternal life on the spirit plane, to be like
| unto angels, but. more exalted, while the
| opportunities to be granted to the world
| in general during the Millennium will be
inferior, earthly, restitutionary--yet Crane
| (Acts III, 1920. But this difference OF re.
! ward is counterbalanced by the severel
trials and testings of those now called te
be of the elect. They must walk BY
| L.
up their cross and follow the Lamb with
, ersoever he goeth. They must count theil
| lives not dear unto them, but willingly
may be participates with their Redeem:
| er in glory. honor and immortality, ano
this re tbs oEE or 95 t o anfnd NTH
mental. moral, social and physical uplift
Can not we all, Gongregauonasiis Is
others of Gods people, unite as one body
| upon this Scriptural hypothesis! Are we
not satisfied with the terms of this cleo,
| tion.-that they are sufficiently stringent
to exclude all except the sanity? Heark
! en- to the Apostles declaration, which We
says Of Gods election, whom he die
| foreknow he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son." In
foreknew and predetermined to gather an
elect Church as the Bride of Christ. he
also predetermined that none could be
members of it unless they attained
| through faith and obedience in the School
of Christ Observation-Disclosures of Jesus
heart likeness to him-hence, as nearly
| as possible, an obedience of the flesh to
Surely no one will claim that any but
! little flock has ever attained to this
honored condition; hence, our former ideas
respecting the non-elect would consign
| the majority of our families, neighbors
friends and the. heather, to endless woe
| But now how differently we see in God
M0Td sa mat in od due te with the
| Redeemer, it may bless every creature
with fullest opportunity to return to hui
man perfection in a Paradise regained-
restored during the Millennium This
proposition. Of the Scriptures includes
those who have gone down to the prison.
house of death-into Sheo1. into Hades,
both the evil and the good. All shall
then know, from the least to the greatest
| that Jesus Christ, by the grace of God
tasted death for every man" 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 opportunity to attain eternal life
either on the heavenly plane during this
Age or on the earthly plane during the
Millennium.
! I address you, dear friends. not from
a sectarian standpoint, but from a fed
GRAFTON standpoint: yea, more than this,
to be doctrinaIly, as well as outwardly, IN
agreement with the Lord and with each
other Have we not in this beautiful cleo