Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-19
A Blessed JUDGMENT Day.

According to the Bible the worlds Judg-
ment Day will be the worlds time OF OPP
pOTtunity for coming TO knowledge OF
God and then being tried, tested. or
judged. as 10 their willingness TO serve
and obey God and his righteous govern
ment. Those found heartily obedient Will
be granted everlasting life with every JOY
and blessing appropriate to man in his
perfection Those rebellious TO the light
OF righteousness OF Jehovah viii be de
stroyed in the Second Death without hope
of any future whatever.
That will be the time when all the
heather will have their trial, after they
shall all be brought by Mcssiah's King
dom to a clear knowledge Of the Truth.
That will be the time when the great
masses of Christendom will for tho first
time hear OF the real character Of God
and his requirements Of them. Although
some OF them may have been in churches
occasionally and may have seen Bibles
occasionally, nevertheless the eyes OF
their understanding were darkened. They
saw not they heard not they understood
not The god OF this world blinded them
Oh Corinthians iv, q.
That Judgment Day. the thousand years
of Messiahs Kingdom. will not only bind
Satan, but chase away with the glorious
beams OF the Sun of Righteousness all
the darkness, superstition and error OF
the world
The Church will not be judged during
that thousand-year Judgment Day be-
cause her trial, her Judgment. takes place
now-during this Gospel Age. The saint
Iy few who will gain the great prize Of
joint-heirship with the Redeemer, Messiah.
will be his Queen and sit with him i'm the
Great White Throne Of Judgment men.
toned in the text; as the Apostle declares,
know We not that the saints shall judge
the world?" q Corinthians vi, p
Former Views We're Erroneous.
Our former and very unreasonable view
was that man, born in sin, shapen In
infquity,' depraved in all of his appetites,
would be condemned of God in the JudS-
ment Day on account of this heredity and
environment for which he is not respon-
sible The theory was that the heather
also would be damned in that Judgment
Day, because they did not know and did
not accept the only name given under
heaven. The theory was also that the
masses Of civilized society would in that
Judgment Day be damned because they
would not, and because they did not, live
perfectly. Notwithstanding their heredty.
Now, said the speaker, We see that the
death sentence was upon Adam and all of
his race who were in his loins when he
sinned. We see that they could not be
put on trial a second time until released
from the first sentence. We see that their
release will be at the Second Coming OF
Messiah in the glory Of his Kingdom,
when he shall cause the knowledge of the
Lord to fill the whole earth and open all
the blinded eyes. Then. because OF hav-
ing satisfied the claims Of Justice against
the race, the Great Redeemer. as the
Mediator of the New Covenant. will grant
the world of mankind another judgment
or Unconstitutional to the one given TO
Adam, in which they all failed and from
the penalty of which failure Jesus re-
deemed them.
True. the measure OF light and knowl-
edge now enjoyed and wiifully sinned
against will work a corresponding deSra-
dalton OF character; all such, downward
steps viii need TO be retraced.
"Ths Great White Throne"
symbolically the wilderness cf The throne
indicates the purity Of the justice anG
judgment which viii be melted out-b y tl5e
Great ReJeemer as the Mcssi..h-Kin
The heavens and earth which VIII fec
away from the presence Of teat throne
are not the literal. but the symbo.icai
The ecclesiastical heavens and the social
earth Of the present time VIII not Stand
in the presence Of that August Tribunal
The people will not be judged nationally
ETY.. but individually. The judgment or
trial will not merely test those living at
the time of the establishment OF the
Kingdom. but viii include all the dead.
The books OF the Bible will then all be
opened-understood All viii then see
that the Golden Rules laid down by in
spiration through Moses and the Prophets,
Jesus and his Apostles. are the very ones
which God will require Of men in the
future and which Messiah viii then en-
: able the willing and obedient TO comply
with by assisting them up out Of their sin
and degradation. The judgment OF that
time the test, viii not be Of faith, for
knowledge will be universal and all the
darkness and obscurity created by igno-
rance and superstition viii have passed
away The test at that time viii be OF
works. whereas the tests Of the Church at
the present sime are Of faith.
Another Book of Life Opened.
Pastor Russell declared that the Lambs
Book OF Life alone is open now and only
those called to be members Of the Bride
class and Eghe accept the call ara written
therein But in the great day Of the
worlds trial or Judgment another book Of
life will be opened. a record win be
made Of all who, by obedience. sl1ow
themselves worthy Of everlasting life Oh
the human plane. and. IL faithful. they
win eventually be accepted q The Father
TO life eternal