Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-02-16

government shall be perfected. and all
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 stitch
upon the throne. and unto the Lamb
forever Revelation V. 49,,
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 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 the Apostle explains that
the righteousness, the full demands of
the Law of God. his full requirement.
lis fulfilled in us who are walking not
after the flesh. but after the Spirit
Romans viii. Il. 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.
joint-heirship with the Lord Jesus
Christ in his Millennial Kingdom and
it's work of blessing all the families of
the earth Galatians iii. %; Revelation
iii. 21).
Our disagreement with all "orthodoS
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-that they shall all be
blessed. All the sin-blind eyes shall be
~ Of;
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 cart b
The angels on the plains of Bethlehem
did not declare to the shepherds. Feal
greatly! for behold. we bring you baC
/ tidings of great misery which shall bt
unto all people. Their message wa:
| the reverse of this: Fear not: behold
we bring you good tidiHgs of great JOY
which shall be unto all people" Luke
| ii. 10l. God who had due time" fO
calling natural Israel and who haC
also due time" for calling spiritua
Israel, has a due time" for makins
known the riches of his grace to thu
non-elect world of mankind. And TIT
''elect" of spiritual Israel and of nat
ural Israel are to be the channels o
! this Divine grace and mercy. which
! during the Millennial Age. will flow
as a river of salvation, to which al
mankind will be invited to come ant
drink freely.
Love Mercy and Walk Humbly.
| 1t may astonish some that God re
quires even more than Justice. whici
is his legal standard. In his permits
sion of sin and its wage of death hi
has shown the sinner his own mere.
or love. And it is for the sinners ben
! eft and for the good of all, that Coz
requires that all who will have thu
full benefit of his mercy shall be re
quired to cultivate this mercy qualit,
in their own hearts. As the slime
attempts to conform his life to TIL