Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-20

ture upon the poor unfortunateS who
were born in sin, shapen in iniquity,
in sin conceived by their mothers. and
many of them left without an oppor-
tunity of hearing of the "only name
whereby they must be saved"-and
that He wisely and with devilish in
tention laid up fuel enough to last to
all eternity for the torture of His
helpless creaturesi
And are not such evil thoughts and
presentations respecting our great
Creator blasphemy? If not. pray tell
me what iUould be biasphemy? Most
assuredly | can think of nothing that
could possibly enter the human mind
or pass the human lips more bias
phemous than this doctrine. And yet
those who bow down before this creed
number some of the ablest and most
intelligent. most enlightened and most
benevolent of our depraved, fallen race.
How is this? How comes it that we
have been so blinded as respects our
own conduct and misbelief? The
Scriptures answer that Satan has de-
tCANtO ntAo put lOI
ness and darkness for light
Still Another Blasphemy.
A considerable portion of thinking
and Christian people will join with us
in saying, Ah surely Brother Calvin
grievously erred and grievously mis-
represented the God of Love when he
taught the doctrine Of the predestina-
ton of the wicked to eternal torture.
All. say these Christian friends, our
hearts rebel against that theory of
Divine predestination. We claim that
the Almighty is Love itself-that He is
sympathetic with His creatures and is
using every effort to avert the great
calamity of eternal torture.
All! my friends. is not this still an
other form of blasphemy? If some of
us blasphemed the Holy Name in rep
resenting our Heavenly Father as mer-
CHESS, loveless. have we not in another
way blasphemed that same Holy Name
in declaring that He lacks the power
and the wisdom to do the good which
His loving heart would prompt? Do
we worship a stupid and impotent
God, one who blundered in the creation
Of our race, and who, for six thousand
years, has been striving to rectify that
error and all the while has been al
creatures whom He loves to go Down
to an eternity of torture? Alas! ii
would be nearly as easy to worship an
all-Dowerful and loveless God as to
worship an ALLOWING but unwise and
impotent God who foolishly, sinfully,
brought thousands of millions of in
telligent beings into existence only to
cause them to suffer an eternity of
agony through His incompetence.
Earth Full of Gods Glory.
Thank God! dear friends. for the
glorious day in which we are living.
with its electric light and other evil
dences that we are in the dawning of
a New Age. Thank God. that in this
day the electric lamp of truth is show
ing up the mistake of these bias
phemous errors which have so defled
all the precious truths of Gods Book
for years, for centuries. Thank God
that our Bible is becoming a new
Book to those whose eyes of under
standing are opening to the lengths
and breadths and heights and depths
of the love of God which it declares.
Now we are seeing that 1.-The wages
of sin is death'-not eternal torment
nor Purgatory. Now we are seeing
that Jesus met this death penalty as
the Redeemer of our race from the
power of the tomb. Now we are see
ing that the salvation that God has
promised will be brought to us at the
second coming of Jesus and the es-
Enlistment of his mediatorial king
dom for the blessing of all the fami-
lies of the earth! Now we are seeing
that the salvation provided is a resur-
rection of the dead-not merely an
awakening from the tomb, but a COM
plete uplift out of sin and degradation
to the full perfection of human ma
ture in the earthly likeness of the Gre
ator.
Now we are seeing that this great
blessing has been set apart by the Al
mighty as the work of the great Sab
bath Day of a thousand years, in
which 1.-The last enemy to be destroyed
is DEATH" Now we are seeing that
the whole earth is to be reclaimed
from the curse and made to blossom
as Eden--that the place of Jehovah's
feet, His footstool, will be made glo-
rious and in every way happyfying to
all the willing and obedient. whom the
great Messiah shall recover fully from
sin and death. Now we are seeing
that the intelligent rejectors of Divine
is written. IAN the wicked will God
destroy"
The Church Being Selected.
Now we see that the free grace and
glorious opportunity to human restitu-
ton win be ushered in with the King
dom, but that preceding that glorious
Epoch God is making a selection of a
sanity class to be the Bride of Chris. -
''the Lambs Wife" This explains
why the darkness has been so long
permitted-because God would test the
"elect" by obliging them to walk by
faith and not by sight-He would test
them by obHging them TO endure hard
ness as good soldiers-He would test
them by requiring that they shall suf-
fer for righteousness sake and thus
manifest their love of righteousness to
remarkable degree Now we see
that the faithful of these are TO ex.
perience change from earthly TO
heavenly conditions. in the First Res.
direction. and that this change has its
beginning in the Divine begetting of
the Holy Spirit. Now we see that
these. with the Redeemer, will consti.
tute the Kingdom class which. in
,isible to men. will bind Satan for