The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-03-07

GfaAST Tor fSU56ELi-g at poth eager ana
S===' deep interest was
manifest. The text of the after
noon service was. "THENCEFORTH
THERE SHALL Bic. NO MORE
DEATH OFF AN INFANT OF
DAYS. NOR OF AN OLD MAN WHO
HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS.
FOR THE DYING ONE SHALL BE
BUT THE CHILD At AN HUN
DRED YEARS OLD-7A SINNER AT
A HUNDRED YEARS OLD, HE
SHALL BE ACCURSEb"-CUT OFF
FROM LIFE GSAIAH LXV. 20,. The
speaker said:--
Our text Is n part OF the Divine
prophecy of the blessings which will
come to Israel and TO the whole world
during Messiah's glorious reign of a
thousand years-beginnlng with the
close of this Gospel Era. Succeeding
verses tell that In that glorious Epoch
landlordism will be thing of the
past. "They shall build houses and
inhabIt them: they shall plant vine
yards and cat the fruit OF them they
shall not build and another inhablt;
they shall not plant and another eat"
Additionally we rend, "They shall not
labor In vain nor bring forth for tr0u-
ble." Further we read that then the
"Wolf and the lamb shall feed togeth-
er and the lion shall eat fodder like
the bullock"
No Spiritual Sheep, Oxen; Wolves, Etc.
No end of confusion has been Gre
ated by the intent of weil-meaning
people to apply these prophecies as
the reward OF the Church In heaven.
Nothing In the Scriptures warrants us
in thinking that there will be spirit
ual. heavenly sheep and oxen. wolves
and lions. vines and houses. planting
and building. Those who reject the
clear Bible teaching respecting Mes
sianlc reign of righteousness cannot
understand the Bible Mt ALL Not a
single passage OF the Old Testament
tells OF heavenly hopes or promises.
Only few OF them teach heavenly
things at all. and then Indirectly.
AS. for instance In the types of the
Old Testament the garments of the
High Priest. glorious and beautiful.
symbolic. we believe. the heavenly
grandeur. honors and eiorIes OF Mes.
siah during the period OF His reign.
Similarly Gods promise to Abraham
declares that His Seed. HIs poaterity,
shall be as the stars OF heaven and
as the sands OF the senshore. Moth
ing In this statement would necessa-
rily teach heavenly state or cOndl-
ton. Only by the aid OF the New Tes-
lament and the Holy Scriptures illu-
mination can we zee that two Seeds
of Abraham are distinctly referred TO.
the stars indirectly Implying the Spir-
itual Seed. while the sands OF the sea
shore refer Ia Abrnhams Natural
Seed. AS II is written. ~ have con
stituted Thee father OF mnny ma
tIons"- like unto God.
SO the Spiritual Seed Of Abraham Is
now being developed with its cont
pletion this Age will eud. aud thr Nnt-
ural Seed Of Abraham will return Ia
special favor and bccomc the leading
nation of the world under the gnid-
ancr and direction of the spiritual and
invisible. yet Al-pUwcrf'h, Kingdom
OF Messiah
The blessing through natural ls-
raeI will gradually extend 90 every
nation. In that the door viii be open
ed by which all nations may come
into and become u part OF Abrahnms
Seed. and thus int" harmony with
Messlahs Kingdoms whatsoever re-
fuses this great privilege aud blcasina
OF Messiah's Kingdom will be- destroy
ed from amongst the people in the See
ond Death.
Hundred Year Old Children.
Centenarians Of the present time ARE
fey. ard they by 10 means are like
children. Usually they are wrinklcd and
haggard We are 20 remember. how.
ever. the Bible record that several OF
the earlier mcmhors of Adams race
lived nine hundred years. or rather
they were more than nine hundred
years In coming fully under the seu
tence against siurcrS BY one mans
disobedience sln catered into the
world. and death as result Of sin
and thus death ppSscd upon all men
because all are s.nners tllOunns V. ~
Gradually. and esJrciaIly since the
food. when Il great change took plac,
in our cosmogony, human longevity
has decreased. wbiir mental mora
and physical ailments hnve Increased
Several OF Adams childrcn did no
have their hrst born child until aftel
they were a century Old Ia conhrma
sion OF thls. and correspOndlngly Il
contradiction OF the ilvolutlon theory
we ind shat the hocIents were strong
'er than we. mentally us well as phys
ically: for they intcrmarricd brother
with sisters aud cousins without In
Jury. whereas today the mentai weak
ness Of the race N such that one or
OF every one hundred and Gfty adult
Is In an insane asylum. and the mar
riage OF brothers and sisters Is pro