Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-02-15

Death mus. eventually, every knee
|. shall bow and every tongue confess to
the glory of God. Then every creature
which is in heaven, and on the earth,
and under the. earth. shall be heard
saying. Blessing. and honor and glory
and power be unto him that stitch
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
forever Revelation v. 1Sl.
You Are Bought With Price.
Possibly God could have arranged
some other way OF dealing with sin
and sinners which would not have re-
quired the death of Jesus as the RAN
som price. the purchase price, the re-
demption price for sinners. But the
fact that this method was adopted by
our great Creator assures US that no
other method would have been SO
wise. so just. so beneficial. No other
method would have so fully demoa-
strated Gods Wisdom. Justice, Love
/ and Power.
In brief, then, Gods arrangement is
that all of his human creatures shall
have opportunity of full return to har-
mony with himself. provided they wish
TO do so. provided their hearts. their
wills. are fully responsive to the letter
and spirit of his Law-the require
ments set forth in our text. God has.
provided in Jesus for the satisfaction
Of Divine Justice as respects all Of the
condemned race who desire to return
to his favor
We agree with all the orthodox
creedS~ of Christendom that only re-
pentance from sin and an endeavor to
put it away from our thoughts and
words and deeds. combined with faith
In the Redeemer's sacrifice and full
conservation of heart and life to do
the Fathers withholding short OF
this attainment will gain the salvation
which God is now holding out to man
kind. To such the Apostle explains that
the righteousness. the full demands of
the Law of God. his full requirement.
sis fulfilled in us who are walking not
after the flesh but after the Spirit
| (Romans viii. II. From the moment of
our conservation and begetting Of the
holy Spirit God deals with this class
as with sons He trains them in the
School of Christ. disciplining. chasten-
| ing, proving them. testing the sincerity
| of their conservation Vows and the
| loyalty of their hearts. To those who
| prove faithful. the great reward is
| promised-giory. honor. immortality.
| ioint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
| Christ in his Millennial Kingdom and
| its work of blessing all the families Of
! the earth Galatians iii. 20; Revelation
iii. 21,.
| Our disagreement with all orthodox
| creeds" is in respect to what shall be
| done with the unsaintly-with those
who do not present themselves to God
| and who are not begotten again of
| the holy Spirit. Our creeds of the
dark ages misrepresented the teach
| ings of the Bible In respect to these
and told us that they are all to be con-
signed for hundreds or thousands OF
years to Purgatory or for all eternity
in hell torment. Not such is the teach
ing of Gods Word, but the very re-
verse. as we have previously shown
The Scriptures do not declare. In thee
and in thy Seed shall all the families
Of the earth be damned; but the re-
verse of thiS-Cha they shall all be
blessed All the sin-blind eyes shall be
opened All the deaf ears of ignorance
shall be unstopped. For the blest
thousands years OF Christ's reign the
worlds uplifting or resurrection villa
proceed, while the knowledge of the
glory of God shah fill the whole EARTH
The angels on the plains OF Bethlehem
did not declare to the shepherds, Fear
greatly! for behold. we bring you bad
tidings of great misery which shall be
unto all people. Their message was
the reverse of this: Fear not; behold.
| we bring you good tidings Of great joy
which shall be unto all people" duke
| ii, 10). God who had a due time" for
| calling natural Israel and who had
also due time" for calling spirituai
| Israel. has due time" for making
known the riches Of his grace to the
non.elect world of mankind. And the
elect of spiritual Israel and of nat
| urai Israel are to be the channels of
this Divine grace and mercy, whichs
during the Millennial Age. will flow
as a river of salvation. to which all
mankind will be invited to come and
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Hunbiy.
1t may astonish some that God re-
quires even more than Justice. which
is his legal standard. In his permis-
sion of sin and its wage Of death he
has shown the sinner his own mercy
or love- And it is for the sinners benz
eft and for the good Of all, that God
requires that all who will have the
full benefit Of his mercy shall be re-
quired to cultivate this mercy quality
in their own hearts. AS the sinner
attempts to conform his life to the
perfect standard and finds himself IN.
able to keep Gods Law and obliged to
come for mercy to the Throne Of.
Grace. he is informed that he can have
that mercy only upon condition that
he will exercise similar mercy toward.
those who trespass against him, his
ideals and interests.
Humility is a quality very necessary
to every creature. Pride is a foe
/. which DeSetS not merely the weak and
imperfect. but which overcame the
great angel of light. Lucifer, and trans.
formed him from faithful servant Of
Jehovah into Satan. the Adversary Of.
God. We are glad. therefore. that Di-.
vine Wisdom requires humility as one
OF the conditions of our acceptance
with him. This requirement assures
US of the security of the Divine En-
pire against all treason in the future;
for none win be admitted to the ctr
nal life conditions either now or in the
Millennial Age. except the humble,
Let US hearken then to the lesson %.
our text and conclude with the words
of the Apostle. Humble yourselves.
therefore. under the mighty hand Of
God. that he may exalt you In due
time II Peter v 81