Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1910-06-09

have died in the far away past2 These
are certainly powerless to help them
selves All of poor humanity's efforts,
however commendable, to lift itself up
out of the dunghill of disease and
death have proved futile, and any
hope from that quarter is baseless.
But on coming to the Bible we hnd
that God has proposed salvation, anu
that by glorious plan of The Ages
He is accomplishing this step by step
The first step was that of redemption,
the payment of sins penalty against
us. This price, this ransom was paid
by our Lord Jesus, as we read, He
gave himself ransom for all, to be
testified in due time" He died, the
just for the unjust, that he might
bring us to God. "Christ died for
the ungodly." But says one, you
must be a Christian, you must get saw
ed before you can have part or lot with
Christ; you must be believer before
you can experience the salvation pro-
vided. Very true, but all must hear
and understand before they can call
and believe and be saved. from. 10:
1851 And this is the purpose of re-
demption-that all may hear intelli-
gently and decide for themselves. The
great mass of men who have not heard
appreciatively, will in the future, be-
cause God s grace must be testified to
all in due time. By and by in the re-
surrection age, all mankind will hear.
| The church class, who hear and under
stand now, in all "little flock" as
compared to the great mass of hu-
mainly, have heard the testimony of
the ransom. These have heard Gods
word, speaking peace through our
Lord Jesus Christ However, this
message of peace is not denial of the
fact of sin and its processes of sorrow
and death, but a reiteration of these as
! our Lord declares: 81 am the resur-
rection and the life" ''They shall
come again from the land of the enc
N.Y. 81 will redeem them from
death" ''All that are in their graves
shall hear and come forth" All shall
have benefit from the ransom as
Paul declares, 'He is the Precipitation
(satisfaction) for our sins(the Church S
sins), and not for ours only, but also
additionally and subsequently, for
the sins of the whole world" Il Jno.
22:. Here, surely is basis for hope
for all, an anchor to the believer
soul. Heb. 6:13-20.
But, some say, Jesus died and arose
long time ago. Why does the curse
continue? Why does sin and death
prevail. Why doesn't deliverance fol-
low redemption? We reply that death
was on the world four thousand years
before the redemption price was paid,
and God still delays the blessings for
his own wise purposes.
First, we believe to permit enough
of Adams race to be born to properly
''ill the earth as was originally in
; tended which, when accomplished,
the resurrection age will follow and
the earth be restored to the perfection
of Eden, and the whole world become
Paradise.
Meantime the world is learning many
needful lessons through the exceed
/ ing sinfulness of SIM, and coming
gradually to learn of the great inven-
tions that will, in Gods providence,
make for the blessing of all "All the
nations, families and kindreds of the
{ earth" (Gen. 22:15-18 Acts 3:19-25.
, The time when this will be accom-
plished is the millennial age. 1t il
> otherwise called "day in which ht
will Judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained.
= 1t is the thousand years during which
4 Satan will be bound, and Gods knowl
Q edge and glory made to fill the earth
! The blessings of this great day or ag'
e will apply to all who have never heart
: intelligently of the only name givei
: whereby they may be saved. 1t will
t apply to the billions in the great pris
a on house of death as, our Lord declares
s II have the keys of death, and of tn
= tomb. "
: Secondly, dearly beloved, God ha
= delayed the blessings provided for b.
r the ransom, the general uplift by pour
d ing out of His Spirit on all flesh (Act
i 2:16-17) in order that during this Cos
pei age he might call, instruct and ties
= Church from among the redeemed
J. This Church is to be an Select" elias
, in all "little flock" who are to b
IS associated with him as His ''Roys
3 Priesthood, "joint heirs in his gle
. rious kingdom to be inaugurated q
his second advent. These are bein
lie developed under adverse conditions
1T and for their loyalty to the King the
r will be like him, and share his throne
/. and participate in the grand and glol
1t ious uplift of the world. Soon, W
A. trust, these meek and lowly ones wi
,e all be found and polished and NANTES
1T ted. Then the blessings of an Edeni
es home, with all the ecstacies and gran
" possibilities of life eternal, will n
is place the little novels of death an
lie mourning and famine during tn
# night of sin. Then the blessed Sun
j. Righteousness will arise with health
at in his beams, and the poor, groanir
th creation will cease to groan and grol
o. and the curse of thorns of briars al