Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-27


How say some
among you that there is no resurrec
ton of the dead? - If Christ be not
risen. then is our preaching vain and
your faith is also vain; = then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are persisted" The speaker said
Bibles Have Been Read Too CareIessly.
For years Gods people have had ex.
-ellent Bibles and thus been blessed
far in advance Of brethren who lived
during the Dark Ages" We have
read our Bibles too carelessly and Of.
ten have most of us wondered at the
great stress st. Paul laid upon the
resurrection. Rarely is the subject
ever preached upon now and rarely is
1t ever thought of except as an absurd.
ity.
The reason for this is not far to
seek. From childhood we have been
taught that nobody is dead, that in dy-
ing everybody, good and bad, gets more
alive than ever before, that this alive.
ness to the sanity few means spiritual
powers and an immediate entrance
into heaven. death being swallowed up
IN life. The insanity masses also, we
were told. would have quickened sensi.
bilities after dying; that they became
more alive. more able to appreciate and
suffer pain.
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the majority would Immediately go to
Purgatory. there to be tried by various
sufferings and tortures-later on to en-
ter heaven. Our Protestant teachings
We're to the effect that the insanity
masses. unfit for the presence of God
and the holy, would be consigned to an
eternity of torture and made very much
more alive to their awful sufferings.
Thus we were taught to believe that
death Is portal or door into an in
tenser life-thGt nobody is dead. Many
OF us perplexed ourselves and were
perplexed by others with questions re.
speeding how there could be '.resur.
rection OF the deGd' If nobody is dead.
We avoided the question. or gave the
answer. Mystery; go run and play
Now What Do We Find?
When once we see that 1.-The wages
of sin is death" and not eternal tor
ment; and that the Bible hell is the
tomb and not fiery furnace; and that
all mankind go to sheol-to hades-just
as did our Savior; then we begin to
see that what we all need is to be
saved from sheol, from hades. just as
the Savior was. A resurrection saliva
ton is thus the salvation hope of the
Church and of the world.
What relief this gives us as re-
spects parents, children, neighbors,
friends and the heather, who have died
out of Christ, insanity. What com
fort it brings to know that they are
sleeping in the great prison-house of
death, unconscious of the lapse of
time, waiting for the Redeemer, who
will set up His Kingdom in glory, as.
sociating His Bride with Himself for
the blessing of all the families Of the
earth.
The bringing forth of the prison
ers out of the prison-house of death
will be to set before them, under the
glorious provisions of the New Dispen-
sation. an opportunity for life euerlast-
ing by obedience to the laws of the
Kingdom under the assistance of the
heavenly One-the alternative being
not eternal torment. but death-Second
Death, from which there will be no
hope Of recovery.
All Souls Go to SheoI.
Some one may say, Pastor Russell,
what about the soul? If the body goes
to sheol, hades, the tomb, where goes
the soul? l reply that it is the soul
that goes to sheol, to hades. the grave.
the tomb, the state of DEATH Although
the words sheol and hades are translat-
ed craze more times than translated
he'll, nevertheless they refer. not to
the mound of earth, which is in the
nature Of monument. but to the Sc
cret, hidden condition, preferably styled
the tomb, the abyss.
| As Jesus descended into hades, so do
all mankind. AS the Father raised
Him from the dead on the third day,
so it is promised that He will raise us.
the Church, up from the dead. More
than this, the unjust also, those who
have not been approved Of God in the
present life, shall all be awakened from
the sleep Of death They will come
forth informed respecting sin, having
lived under the reign Of Sin and Death.
They will come forth that they may
learn the ways of righteousness. the
reward of which is life everlasting.
The glorified Jesus and His glorified
Church. the Bride. will be the Royal
Priesthood. whose special work for "
thousand years will be the uplifting
Of mankind. not only from the tomb.
but also to perfection of life, every
man in his own order" or rank. The
uplifting will bless as many as are
willing, lifting them up from the degra-
dation and meanness and imperfection.
into which all have fallen by one
mans disobedience. under the laws Of
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