The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-08

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some of its teachings respecting the
mission Of the Church. the hope OF the
Church and the hope of the world!
Missionaries are thus handicapped,
Full of cOmmendable zeal they leave
our shores to tell the heather that
their forefathers have gone to eternal
torment and that they are going there.
too, unless they accept Christ 1t is
rude awakening to be asked
where hell is? and why God should
have condemned them and their fore
fathers to such horrible eternity T?
and how this could be true and vet he
be a God of pity, compassion, Love?
The heather ask, Why the different
denominatiOns-th different theories
OF the terms of Salvation-by Water,
| by Election, by Free Grace, by joining
the Church. etc. The missionary, Who'll
ly unable to answer the adult native,
gathers children about him, starts a
school and does all he is able perhaps,
to justify his presence in foreign
land-helping the sick and doing many
other acts of kindness which are very
cOmmendable. whether from religious
or humanitarian standpoint.
Preach the Gospel to All Nations.
Our Lords instruction was that his
| people should preach the Gospel in all
the world for oitness-not to convert
all the world, but for "icitaess' to all
the world The mission of the GOSPEL
Is to select the Kingdom class, a "little
flock" The first opportunity to be-
come members of this Royal Priest
| hood was offered to the Jews and, aft
er the gathering of remnant from
them, and after their national rejec-
ton. the message was to go to the
whole world irrespective Of national
lines, boundaries or language-any-
body, everybody having the hearing
ear" was to be instructed respecting
Christ and the opportunity of becom-
ing his disciples by full conservation
of mind and body. time and talent,
even unto death. These were to be
promised the reward of Il share i'm the
| First Resurrection. to be members of
the Royal Priesthood which, during
the Millennial Kingdom Of Messiah,
will bless all the remaining families
of mankind all the nOn-clect.
We are not complaining about the
failure TO convert the heather! We
| are not fauting the missionaries! We
are taking the Bible stand that all Of
Gods purposes are being accomplish
| ed: that Gods Word Is accomplishing
'that whereto it was sent" isaiah w.,
| III; that it was not sent to convert
the world. but to gather an elect
! sample or ''firStfruits" from all ma
| lions Revelation xiv. ~. Let cirili.ing
| influences continue in heathendOm, as
well as in ChristendOm. But let all
| Christians. missionaries and others,
know assuredly that their labor is not
! in vain if they are seeking for the
| Lords jewels to the best of their abil-
| ity. am in touch continually with
laborers in India and Africa and well
know that the pure Gospel of Christ
! is not greatly affecting their teeming
millions. But the Gospel of the King
| dom is seeking out, blessing, sancti-
/ flying. happifying, encouraging some,
here and there; some, who have ears
Of faith TO hear. eyes of faith to see,
and obedient hearts to obey the "call'
| to suffer with Christ and by and by
! to reign with him for the effectual
| blessing of al the families Of the
earth. by uplifting the willing out
| of lai of eli
! degradation and death.
The Millennium Necessity.
We have shown the value and nee
essity for the doctrine of the Alillen
/ nium-that all Christians who would
hold fast to their Bibles as faith
| anchor and who would make progress
| i'm their study of the Word and be
co-ilborers with God in the gathering
| Of 1.-THE elect need to see that the
elect only are now called to be heirs
of the Kingdom for which we pray,
''Thy Kingdom come" They need to
see that that Kingdom is Gods provi-
sion for the future blessing of the non
elect They need to see that the Bible
does not teach. as many of them sup
pose. that the saints are called of God
| to sit in the heavenly balcony and
look over ut the nOn-elect in eternal
! anguish, and hear their cries.
| Next let us note that the Millennium
itself is an absolute necessity for the
world. according 10 the statistics of
! the WOrldly-wiSe Many college pro-
| fessOrs and d. DIS are inclined to
speak Glibly of the Second Coming of
Christ being far in the future-"ffty
thousand years yet" say some. But
evidently these learned gentlemen have
not used their educational advantages
in connection with such statements.
Any school boy can figure up what the
population of the earth would be one
thousand years from now, taking the
present population as per the census
ut sixteen hundred millions and the
ratio of increase as shown by the cen
sus reports ut 8 per cent IN ten years.
The total would show 1876, 80 OOO, 900
I population for the year goo A. D.
more than 1000 for each person now
living.
What would humanity do II the
earth were crowded TO that extent?
Where would the necessary food. fuel
and clothing be found? Computing all
the tillable portion of the earth at
twenty-five million square miles or six