The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-03-03

many NOBLE men anu WOuaeu
rom God and from the Bible, neither
IF which are at fault. The fault lies
with the unscriptural proposition that
all except the ''elect," all except the
''little hock," who now have the hear
Ing ear and understanding heart and
who now receive the Divine Message.
will be punished for their mental blind
ness and deafness with eternal torture.
He asked. Can 1t be true. a. our
Westminster Confession teaches, that
God passed by the great mass Of
mankind without drawing them. with
out calling them, without giving them
the hearing ear without opening the
eyes Of their understandings Can It
be true that God. foreknowing al
these conditions, predestinated n ar
ranged for the eternal suffering OF
these thousands of millions Of human
ity. His answer was emphatically, mol
Although trained In these doctrines
Of Election and Predestination. the
Pastor, even In youth, felt somehow
that Brother Wesley's teachings OF
Free Grace were much more noble n
more God-like than Brother Calvin's
teaching of Predestination. Neverther
less, he reasoned. Would an all-wise
God, knowing the end from the begin
ming. prepare devilish tortures for his
creatures from before their creationS
Why then would he bring them into
existence at all? Calvin's theory ex-
hibits a wise and powerful God. lack
ing love. Wesley's theory exhibits \
loving God lacking in wisdom and
power. The true view, the Pastor rea-
soned, must show God possessed Of
wisdom as we'll as love; Of power az
, well as justice; else be would not be
! the God for whom our hearts crave
and whom we could realize as our
Heavenly Father. sHr~~
/ Christend0n in general has greatly
erred. Some appropriate one part Of
the Divine message and some another.
What we need is Calvin's God Of Wis
J., dom and Power and Wesley's GOD Of
Love and Justice. But how can these
attributes be harmonized? IL 1t pos
sible that God could make an Elec-
ton and yet allow Free Grace to His
creatures. as a whole? This, be de-
clares, is the solution. God is select
ing or electing a Church now-since
Pentecost. With its completion there
will be no more Election, but Free
Grace. And the elect Church. gloriied
to the spirit plane of being and associ-
ated with the Redeemer in His "all pow
err in heaven and in earth" will be the
Teachers, Rulers. Helpers. OF mankind
ont of sin and degradation. back n
perfection, the image Of God, and
eternal life.
Tasted Death For Every Man,"
Although Jesus tasted death for ev
ery man he understood the Father,
Program-that first his elect Bird
class should be selected from tn
!, world, that these, in turn, might b.
with him, the Missionaries, Kings
Priests, Judges. Of mankind in tn
t great thousand-year resurrection da'
Y Of Messiah's Kingdom. 1t was ar
propriate, therefore, that he shout
I r for these Elect mes first and no
I pray for the world, because its tim
would come later. OF his disciples b
said, EYE are not of the world" II
4 ye were Of the world. the world wOul
love it's own, but I have che
y sen you out Of the world" His di
ciples were sent to choose or dra'
others from the world and were Il
!. structed to preach a change Of N
u ture from earthly to heavenly. to Z
who would walk in the narrow way
the footsteps Of Jesus. The world vi
be dealt with In another manner d
tirely when the due time comes.
,e ASK o. Ne and I Will Give"
oI In the Second Psalm we = to
: that eventually Jesus win pray for d
world and His prayer will be .
la swered. God said. ASK Of Nj and
i'd will give thee the h9Gthen for THU
RS Inheritance and the 6ttermost par
p Of the earth for thy possession" (Psal
II, 81. But that time has not yet cor
1T will not come until the last mel
Der of the elect Body Of Christ sh'
he have attained a share In the glories
by Messiah's Kingdom.
Of As our Lord asked blessings up
ed the elect Church at the beginning
as this Age, so he will ask blessings up
the world in the beginning Of the M
DE Age to follow and now nearing. A
the entire world will be turned oy
~ to him. His first work will be (
binding Of Satan and the overthrow
every human institution out Of b
mony with righteousness. Althou
this drastic treatment, the Scriptul
rk. tell us, will bring a great time Of tn
BILE. nevertheless 1t will mean for
race as q whole the beginning Of =
Times Of Restitution Of all thu
which God hath spoken by the mol
Of all the holy Prophets since
world began"-ths beginning Of
%: reign Of Messiah. who II now . ~
J, Being with . spirit Bride and ~
~. influences.