The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-27
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The heather and TIE masses or HI.
civilized are SUI. ~ n7' saints surely
they Go not fJu3-, Fl the footsteps Of
Jesus sr"cly, therefore. they cuHnoi
bo Of his spiritual ~ X. Con"lodina
that these could not lie t%';cn 70 hcay-
en-. they said We must takc them ont
of purgaiory anyway. wherever we put
them. berausa we have found nut that
there is 70 such place as Pur%ator".
After Conferences. seriously Gislik-
ing to make out GODS character worse
than they formerly supposed. they
said under their brcaths. We must
take them out of PurgGtOry and Quick.
ly put them into a hell of eternal tor
turc and say as little about the mat
ter as 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 predestinated these 6w
full results-tIIat he might show Iris
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 aud
theological. did stand up for and de-
clare the Love of God. even though
rather absurdy 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.
AL In 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
go into the Bible hell. the grave, on
account of his sin-and all Of the men,
tai, moral ana physical blemishes OF
our race are Il part of this heredity.
There would have been no hope of "a
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 Uohn i. Al and obedientsy gave
himself in deatl-"taSted death for
every man" AS by one mans disobedi-
eHce the sentence of death passed upon
all of the race. even so by the obedience
of the man Christ Jesus unto death
that race. Now we see the wise rea-
son for permitting the sentence to pass
through one mans diSobedience to
oil 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 will
have himself to blame because of re-
lection of the glorious arrangements
which God made in and through Christ
THE First Resurrection"
God divides the salvation of man
kind into two PARASITIC Church to
spirit nature and the world to perfect
ed human nature. The first he is ac-
complishing during this Gospel Age:
the second he will accomplish through
Christ and the Church during Mes
siah's reign of II thousand years.
The Church. the little flock" of
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"
the Church of the First BornS."
These are to be associated with the
great Redeemer in his future work.
These shall be like him. changed from
earthly to heavenly nature and made
sharers of his glory. honor and I'M
| mortality. The Kingdom of God un-
der the whole heavens will be illaugu-
rated after the gloritication of the
| Church and then will begin the bless
ing. the salvation. the uplifting. the
resurrecting. of mankind in general
from sin and death conditions-not To
spiritual conditions. but to perfect
earthly conditions.
All the willing and obedient shall be-
blessed by the great I.ifeGiver who
eighteen centuries ago died. the just
For the unjust. and who. during the
| period since. has been selecting thu
Bride class. With his Bride he will
reign To bless the world. to make the
whole earth beautiful AS il is writ
ten. Il will make the place of my feet
glorious" The whole earth will then
be as the Garden Of Eden and the re-
stored race like our perfect first pa.
ents. But rs fer TIE intelligent
wicked, we read, "AH the wicked WI
he destroy" psalm cXlv. 20. He vi
not preserve them in torture or othe
wise. They will die the Second neatu
But none will die the Second Deatn
for Adams transgrcssion. CHRIST died
for that traUSgrcSSiun and wiz "ppH Sc
Adam and aI his race thcrefruu,, even
while he will hold them responsible for
every wilful trauSgressiou and give
stripes or punShmonts therefor lo
teach them to love Righteousness |"d
to hate iuiGuity facts IT.. 49,.