Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-03-04

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will be punished for their mental blind
ness and deafness with eternal torture,
He asked, Can 1t be true, AZ 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 1t
be true that God, foreknowing all
these conditions, predestinated and ar
ranged for the eternal suffering OF
these thousands OF millions Of human
ity. His answer was emphattcaily, No!
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 and
more God-like than Brother Calvfn's
teaching Of Predestination. Neverthe-
less, he reasoned, Would an all-wise
God, knowing the end from the begin
ming, prepare devilish tortureg for bis
creatures from before their creatiouf
Why then would he bring them into
existence at AM Calvin's theory ex-
hibits a wise and powerful God, lack
ing love. Wesley's theory exhibits 4
loving God lacking in wisdom and
power. The true view, the Pastor rea-
soned, must show God possessed Of
wisdom as well as love; Of power u
well as Justice; else he would not be
the God for whom our hearts ray
and whom we could realize as our
Father.
Christendom in general has greatly
erred. Some appropriate M part OF
the Divine message and some another.
What we need Is Caivin's God Of Wis
dom and Power and Wesley's God OF
Love and Justice. But how can these
attributes be harmonized? Is 1t pos
sible that God could make an Elec-
lion and yet allow Free Grace to His
creatures as a whole? This, he de-
is the solution. God Is select
ng or electing a Church n~ow-sInce
pentecost. With Its completion there
Kill be no more Election, but Free
Grace. And the elect Chdrch, gf0rfh1u
to the spirit plane OF being and associ-
tied with the Redeemer IN His tall pow
II In heaven and In earth" viii be The
Teachers, Rulers, Helpers. OF mankind
,ut OF sin and degradation, back TO
perfection, the image of God, and
life.
Tasted Dssth For Every Man."
Although 1esns tested death for ey-
cry mar he understood the Fathers
Program-that first his elect Bride
class Should be selected from the
world, that these, In turn. might be
with him, the Missionaries, Kings,
Priests, Judges. of mankind In the
great thousand-year resurrection day
of Messiah's Kingdom. It was APP
propriate, therefore, that he should
pray for these Elect ones first and not
pray for the world. because its time
would come later. OF his disciples he
said, rye are not of the world III
We were of the world, the world would
love It's own, - but / have cho-
sen you out Of the world" His dis
ciples were sent to choose or draw
others from the world and were In
structed to preach a change OF ma
ture from earthly to heavenly. to ali
who would walk In the narrow way in
the footsteps Of Jesus. The world viii
be dealt with In another en-
tirely when the due time me
"Ask Of No and i viii Give"
In the Second Psalm we are told
that eventually Jesus win pray for the
world and His prayer will be an
swered. God said, ASK of Ne and
will give thee the heather for thine
inheritance and the uttermost parts
ofthe earth for thy possession psalm
II, 81. But that time has not yet come
lit will not corae until the last mem
Der OF the elect Body OF Christ shall
have attained a share in the glortes Of
Messiah's Kingdom.
As our Lord asked blessings upon
the elect Church at the beginning Of
| this Age. so he will ask blessings upon
the world In the beginning of the New
Age to follow and now nearing. And
the entire world viii be turned ovel
to him. His FIRST work will be tbs
binding of Satan and the overthrow o.
every human institution out OF bar
mony With righteousness. Although
this drastic treatment. the Scriptures
tell us, will bring a great time Of trou
bic, nevertheless 1t Will mean for the
snce rs : whole the beginning q sths
Times OF Restitution of all things
which God hath spoken by the nlautf
Of all the holy Prophets since ths
world heg3n-the beginning OF th'
reign OF Messiah. who Is now q spiri
Being with 4 spirit Bride and spiri
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