Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1910-02-16

others shall be destroyed in the Second
Death Thus. 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 sitteth
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
forever Revelation V. 13,.
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 50
wise, so just. so beneficial. No other
method would have so fully demon
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 he Apostle explains that
| the righteousness. the full demands OF
| the Law of God. his full requirement.
| is fulfilled in us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
| CRomans viii. A.. 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-glory. honor, immortality.
| t-heirship with the Lord Jesus
| Christ in his Milennial Kingdom and
its work of blessing all the families of
| the earth Galatians iii, 20; Revelation
| iii. Oh.
Our disagreement with all "orthodoX
| creeds" is in respect to what shall be
| done with the upsaintly-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-that they shall all be
blessed. All the sin-bind 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 will
proceed, while the knowledge of the
glory of God shall 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 qOOd tidingS of great joy
which shall be unto all people" duke
| ii. 10) God who had due time" for
| calling natural Israel and who had
also due time" for calling spiritual
Israel. has Il due time" for making
| hlOWU lLc VI IlS SldCc " Tic
non-elect world of mankind. And the
elect" of spiritual Israel and of nat
ural Israel are to be the channels of
this Divine grace and mercy. which.
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 Humbly.
1t may astonish some that God re-
| quires even more than Justice. which
is his legal standard. In his permits
sion of sin and its wage of death he
| has shown the sinner his own mercy
or love. And it is for the sinners ben
eft and for the good of all. that God
requires that all who will have the
| full benefit of his mercy shall he re-
| quired TO cultivate this lhercy quality
| in their own hearts AS the sinner
| attempts to conform his life to the
| perfect standard and finds himself un-
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