The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-02

who now sleep in the dust of the earth
shall come forth unto shame and last
ing contempt. We can readily realize
the shame that will be theirs when
the light of full knowledge shall pre-
vail and all of their past shall stand
revealed to themselves and to others
derstand that this will bring contempt
to many now highly esteemed amongst
men. But we can rejoice in the
thought that the MillenniaI Kingdom
ly with all. The stripes of punish
ment will be tempered with mercy;
and gradually by their change of char
acter the contemplate ones will cease
power of grace and truth now operat-
ing in the church will be equally force
full then, operating upon the world of
mankind. AS perfection is gradually
attained the shame of the imperfection
VIII gradually abate, while all of the
shameless Will be destroyed in the
Second Death. Thus we see the Di-
vine Purpose of the resurrection of the
dead and our glorious hope, far differ
ent from all the fears that were taught
US by the n'usty traditions of men,
from the dark ages" And thus we
see the force of the apostles words
that If there De no resurrection Of the
dead our hope is vain, our faith is
vain q Corinthians XIV 14-19).
'EBut Now Is Christ Risen.n
The apostle argues. eff tn, dead rise
not" if that is an impossibility so far
as the world in general is concerned,
then it is an impossibility SO far as
Christ is concerned. And eff Christ
be not risen." then all hope. all faith,
is vain. And all preaching is not only
foolish. but worse. (See Corinthians
XIV, I'D But now is Christ risen from
the dead and become the first fruits
ening from sleep, as in the case of
Lazarus, Dorcas and others, is here
left out of the question. Nothing is
counted as resurrection except the
full, complete rising up out of death.
Our Lord was the first that should
rise from the dead" (Acts XVI, 23), in
this full sense. And he was a first
fruits, or proof, that others still Sleep
ing will come forth by Divine Power
to be exercised by him in the resur-
rection morning-the Mi1lennial morn
ing. The Church will be the next in
order-she is to be the Bride Consort
with him in his glorious work of up
lifting the race which fell from the
Divine image into the sin and death
through Father Adam. The redemp-
death of Jesus: and the time for be-
ginning the great work of restitution
of all things" merely waits until the
completion Of the election of the saint
ly Church (Acts iii, 1920.
Christ Arose From Hades.
Preaching on the Day of PentecoSt,
st. Peter declares that God raised
Christ from the dead. Then in proof
that this was the Divine intention
from the beginning, he quotes from
the prophetic psalm of David, "Thou
shalt not leave my soul in hell" The
apostles quotation (Acts ii, 27) is in
the Greek, in which the word hell is
hades. His quotation is from the He
brew, in which the word hell is sheol-
the only word rendered hell through
out the entire Old Testament.
I am not stating this as something
new, although I am confident that it
is new to many of my hearers and to
many of the eighteen millions who will
read my discourse in tomorrow morn
ing's papers For the sake of such, I
note the fact that in the morning of
our Lords resurrection, he said to
Mary, ''Touch me not: for I am not
yet assembled to the Father and your
Father; to my God, and your God"
(John Xxx, I'D. I remind them further
of the language of the so-called Apos- |
ties Greed, which is coming more and |
more into vogue with all denomina- |
ton and which declares, He de- |
scended into hell and rose again the |
third day." In version of this creed |
published by the Presbyterian Board |
OF Publication of Philadelphia, a foot |
note very properly explains that the |
word hell here used is. in the Greek, /
hades. which signifies the state or con-
dition of death.
I consider this a very important mat
ter. which should be made widely /
known, because of the false conception /
Of hell handed down to US through our
creeds formulated in the dark ages,
and since a miSinterDretaxion of SheOlt