The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-08-05

Jesus-surely. therefore, they cannot |
be OF his spiritual flock. Concluding !
that these could not be taken 10 heav.
en-, they said. We must take them out |
of Purgatory anyway, wherever we put
them, because we have found out that
there is no such place as Purgatory.
After Conferences, seriously dislik-
ing to make out Gods character worse
than they formerly supposed. they
said under their breaths. We must
take them out Of Purgatory and quick.
ly put them into hell of eternal tor
ture and say as little about the mat
ter MS possible. They were greatly
relieved when long-headed Brother
John Calvin explained to them about
the mere handful going TO heaven and
the great mass going TO eternal tor
ture. He explained that God had fore
ordained and predestinatcd these aw'
ful results-that he might show his
wisdom and his power. AS to a
Love divine, all love excelling''
Brother Calvin seems never to have
thought OF that. Brother Wesley and
others since. though less logical ana
theological did stand up for and de
clare the Love Of God, even though
rather absurdly they claimed that he
was neither wise enough nor powerful
enough to do more than rescue mere
handful of Adams race from the eter-
nal torture to which they thought God
damned them all because OF the DISC
bedienCe In Eden.
"AlI Ir Adam-All In Christ"
In the light OF our better Bibles and
Bible Study Helps and minds freed
from the ignorance and superstitions
of the past we may understand the
! Apostles words and find in them, not
only Justice and love, but harmony and
beauty Instead of all mankind going
/ to eternal torment for Adams sin, all
! 30 into the Bible he'll, the grave, on
! account of his sin-and all OF the men,
tai. moral and physical bemishes OF
our race are a part Of this heredity.
| There would have been no hope of
| future life. good or bad, had not God
in his mercy provided the Savior-the
Life Giver." as the Syriac renders the
word. In Gods due time he set before
his Son the opportunity Of becoming
mans Redeemer. The Logos was made
flesh Iohn l. Ia and obediently gave
himself in death-"tasted death for
every man" AS by one mans diSObcdt-
ence the sentence Of death passed upon
all of the race. even so by the obedience
Of the man Christ Jesus unto death
justification TO life passed for all of
that race. Now we see the wise rea-
son for permitting the sentence to pass
through one mans disobedience to
all of his posterity. 1t was in or
der that one sacrifice for sin might
make possible the reconciliation Of the
entire race.
Now read our text and drink in its
depths and beauty and force. The
resurrection Of mankind from the sin
and death and tomb condition to the
full perfection and image Of God from
which the race fell is the salvation
which God has provided for all. Who
ever will fail to attain the full recov'
cry from sin and death conditions viii
have himself TO blame because Of re
lection of the glorious arrangements
which God made in and through Christ
1.-THE First Resurrection"
God divides the salvation Of man
kind into two PARASITIC Church &c
spirit nature and the world to perfect
ed human nature. The first he is &C
complishing during this Gospel Age
the second he will accomplish through
Christ and the Church during Mes
siah's reign of thousand years.
The Church. the little flock" o.
, saints, called. tried. tested. in the mar
| row way during this Age, are to con
, stitute the First Resurrection" class
: and to become the Bride of Christ,
1.-The Church of the FirstB orns.
These are to be associated with tn,
great Redeemer in his future work
These shall be like him, changed from
earthly to heavenly nature and mad
: sharers of his glory. honor and i'm
mortality. The Kingdom Of God I'm
der the whole heavens will be inaugu
' rated after the glorifcation of tn
= Church and then will begin the bless
D ing the salvation, the uplifting, tn
i resurrecting, of mankind in general
: from sin and death conditions-not t
t spiritual conditions, but to perfec
: earthly conditions.
e All the willing and obedient shall b
blessed by the great Life-Giver VIII
!, eighteen centuries ago died, the Jus
e for the unjust, and who, during tn
period since, has been selecting tn
Y Bride class. With his Bride he Wi
Y reign to bless the world, to make tn
t whole earth beautiful. AS II Is writ
b ten, Il will make the place Of my fee
e glorious" The whole earth will the
e be as the Garden Of Eden and the re
d stored race like our perfect first pal
|. ents. But as for the intelligent
i wicked. we read, "All the wicked wi
v he destroy" psalm cxlv, 20. He wi
@ not preserve them in torture or othel
q wise. They will die the Second Dealt
n But none will die the Second Deaf
IS for Adams transgression. Christ die
= for that transgression and will releas