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he'll before He made the earth. and
made II large enough to hold the en-
tire human family! because He Gre
ated fre-proof demons 10 inilict tor
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-
lunity o. hearing of the "only name
whereby they must be saved"-and
that He wisely and with devillsh in
tention laid up fuel enough to last to
all eternity for the torture of His
helpless creatures
And are not such evil thoughts and
presentations respecting our great
Creator blasphemy? If not, pray tell
Fne what icouId be blasphemy? Most
nssuredly | 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 1t that we
have been so blinded as respects our
own conduct and misbelief? The
Scriptures answer that Satan has de-
ceived us; he has put light for dark
ness and darkness for light
Still Another elasphemy.
A considerable portion Of thinking
and Christian people will join with us
In saying, Ah! surely Brother Calvin
grievously erred and grieyOusly mis-
represented the God of Love when he
taught the doctrine of the predestina-
ton of the wicked to eternal torture.
Ah say these Christian friends, our
hearts rebel against that theory of
Divine predestinntion. 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.
Ah! my friends. Is not this still an
other form Of blasphemy? If some Of
us basphemed the Holy Name in rep
resenting our Heavenly Father as mer4
ciless. 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 IA 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 nll the while has been al
lowing thousands Of millions Of His
creatures whom He loves to go down
to an eternity Of torture? Alas! 1t
would be nenrly as easy to worship an
nll-powerfu and loveless God as to
worship an all-loving but unwlse and
impotent God who foolshly slnfully,
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 Cod that in this
day the electric lamp of truth Is show
ing up the mistake of these bias
phemous errors which have so defiled
all the precious truths of Gods Boob
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 brendths and heights and depths
OF the love of God which 1t declares.
Now we nre seeing that "the wages
OF sin Ia death"-not eternal tormen
nor Purgatory. Now we are seeing
that Jesus met this death penalty al
, the Redeemer of our race from tn,
power OF the tomb Now we are see
, ling that the salvation that God hal
= promised will be brought to us at th
!. second coming of Jesus and the es
= tabllshment of his medlatorial king
, dom for the blessing Of all the fami
I, lies OF the earth! Now we are seeln
. that the salvation provided Is resur
rection OF the dead-not merely al
awakening from the tomb. but n com
!. plete uplft out OF sin and degradation
to the full perfection Of human ma
. ture In the earthly likeness of the Crt
= ator.
Now we are seeing that this grea
! blessing has been set apart by the A
a mighty as the work of the great Sal
p bath Day of thousand years,
/, which "the last enemy to be destroye
- Is death" Now we are seeing tina
+, the whole earth Is TO be reclaime
4 from the curse and made to hossor
a as IGden--that the place of Jehovah
. feet, His footstool. will be made 81,
y rious and In every way happyfying
:. all the willing and obedient. whom th
great Messiah shall recover fully frol
n sin and death. Now we are seein
|, that the Intelligent rejectors of Divir
, Grace will not be tormepted but, as
n Is written, IAN the wicked will Go
a destroy"
e Tho Church Being Selected.
s Now we see that the free grace an
= glorious opportunity to human restit
. ton viii be ushered In with the Kin
a. dom. but that preceding that gloriol
~ Epoch God is making selection OF
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