The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-09-16

looked at one another In CONSERVATION.
They had hearts and sympathies and
felt that as It had devoived upon them
to smash Purgatory, 1t must also de-
volve upon them to relocate all those
thousands of millions whom they had
ON their hands. They felt the weight
of the responsibility. Could they de-
mand Of God that they should be put
into heavenq Surely noti Surely only
the sanity few are fit for heaven!
They, as wen as all, recognized that
fact Then, with blank CONSERVATION.
they determined that they must crowd
the entire mass into he'll of eternal
torture and shut the gates upon them
forever and write upon the gates.
.sWho enters here abandons hope"
Brother Calvin 10 tho Resove-
Taking from practically all human
fly all future hope made the Reformers
for the tiIDs beartsick- It would be,
awful to DO that for one person. but
to thus do" all humanity seemed ter
rfbie. And then to be Obliged 70 label
that gospel Good Tidings" must GER
Z tainly have been a trying experience
for the Reformers
But Brother John Calvin helped
them amazingly and took from them
their burden he told them that they
should not worry, because It was all
Gods fault and not theirs. God had
predest1nated them to that awful fu-
ture long before he created man Now
they should merely try to think OF
themselves as the select and try to
forget everybody else. OF course, IT
seemed horrible to charge all these
things against the God Of ell Justice,
Wisdom, Love and Power. But IT was
the only solution which occurred 10
them John Calvtn's theories were
afterwards embodied IN the West
minister Confession of Faith" And
that confession of faith became the
Foundation Of nearly all Protestant
creeda Brother John Wesley after
ward objected, but admitted that only
the sanity went to heaven and every
body else went to eternal torment
His protest was that, instead Of this
being by Divine foreordination and In
tention, 1t was on the contrary, be-
cause Of Divine unwisdom and incom-
potency.
Good TIdines Of Great Joy"
Surely no sane person can any longer
defend any of the above Gospels" as
the true one, of which St Paul was
not ashamed! Surely St Paul never
preached any Of those Gospels. nor did
any of the Apostles does the Bible
support such theories, except by the
turning and twisting of language, mis-
TRANSACTIONS OF the original and misin-
terpretations Of some parallels. The
plain statements of the Scriptures are
all directly TO the opposite.
The Bible teaches that "the wages
of sin Is DEATH" not Purgatory nor
eternal torment The soul that sin
meth. It shall die" Adam. the perfect,
was placed ON trial for life eternal or
death eternal. He sinned and the sen
tence against him was, Cursed Is the
earth for thy sake; thorns and thisoes
shall It bring forth unto thee. In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
until thou return unto the ground from
whence thou vast taken" Genesis Ill.
1T-10. St Paul declares the samei
by one mars disobedieDce SIN enter
ed into the world: and thus death
passed upon all men, because all are
sinners" Romans v, 10.
Looking about US we find this true
Everybody who is not dead Is dying.
AS the Bible says, we are living un-
der q reign of Sin and Death Nothing
that man can do can either eradicate
sin or lift Us out Of our dead and dy~
ing condition. God alone can help usi
He proposes to help us and the mes
sage respecting that help is, In the
Scriptures, called the Gospel Its an
nouncement by the angels on the night
of Jesus birth Is full, complete, sat
isfactory, viz: Behold, we bring you
good tdings Of great Joy which shall
be unto oil people; for unto you Is
born this day In the City Of David a
Savior Qife-gfver) which Is Christ the |
Lord" duke Il. 10D.
All, now we have the Truth The
penalty Of sin Is death And the good |
tdings- is that God has provided for
our recovery from sin and death The
Savior gave his life for the canceila-
ton of our sin. for the satisfaction OF
Justice, that In due time Adam and all
his condemned and imperfect race
might be released from the condemna-
ton and be lifted out of the sin and
death conditions which now prevail
That uplifting is Scripturaliy called
the resurrection Of the dead Hence
the preaching of the early Church was.
Jesus and the Resurrection"-the Re
deemer and his work
Still More Good Tidinea.
The good tidings for the race In gem
eral Is that the Redeemer In Gods due
time toil become King Of kings and
Lord Of lords-tbe Messiah Of glory,
Gods glorious Representative. For
a thousand years the regenerating
work for Adams race VIII progress
Nfatthew xix, Is; Acts IT, 1879.
Gods Chosen People, Israel VIII be
the earthly agents of the heavenly and