Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-06-24

dleu OFe-prOOI demons 10 luulct 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-
tunity of hearing OF the "only name
whereby they must be saved'-and
that He wisely and with devilish in.
tention laid up fuel enough to last to
all eternity for the torture of His
helpless %creaturesl
And are not such evil thoughts and
presentations respecting our great
Creator blasphemy? If not. pray tell
me what could be blasphemy? Most
assuredly | 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
Onh OuuuC anu ulSutlel' Luz
Scriptures answer that Satan has de,
ceived US; he has put light for dark.
ness and darkness for light.
Still Another B~lasphemy.
A considerable portion Of thinking
and Christian people will join with us
in saying, All. surely Brother Calvin
grievously erred and grievously mis-
represented the God Of Love when be
taught the doctrine of the predestina-
ton of the wicked to eternal torture!
All! say these Christian friends. our
hearts rebel against that theory Of
Divine predestinatiOn. 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.
All. my friends. is not this still an
other form of blasphemy: If some Of
US %blasphemed the Holy Name in rep
resenting our Heavenly Father us mer-
CHESS, 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 Il stupid and impotent
God. n who b%lundered in the creation
of our race. and who. for six thousand
years, has been striving TO rectify that
error and all the while has been al
lowing thousands of millions Of His
creatures whom He loves to 20 down
to an eternity Of %tUrturet Alas. it
would he nearly rs easy to worship an
ll-pOwerful and lovplrsS God MS to
worship au ALLOWING hui unwtse and
impotent God who fOoliShly. S%infully.
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 hight and other evil
denceS that we are in the duwning Of
a New Age. Thank God! that in this
day the electric lamp of truth is show
ing up the mistake Of these BIAS
phemous errors which have so deiled
all the precious truths of Gods Book
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 it declares.
Now we are seeing that the wages
Of sin Is death"-nOt eternal torment
o PurgatOry. Now we are seeing
that Jesus met this death penalty as
the Redeemer of our race from the
power Of the tomb. Now we are see
ing that the salvation that God has
promised will be brought to us at the
second coming Of Jesus and the es-
adjustment of his mediatorial king
dom for the blessing Of all the fami-
lies Of the earth! Now we are seeing
that the salvation provided is a resur-
rection Of the deud-not merely an
awakening from the tomb. but a COM
plete uplift out Of sin and degradation
to the full perfection of human ma
ture in the earthly likeness of the Gre.
ator.
Now we are seeing that this great
blessing has been set apart by the Al
mighty ny the work of the great Sab
bath Day Of a thousand years. in
which the last enemy to be destroyed
is death" Now we are seeing that
the whole earth is TO be reclaimed
from the curse and made to blossom
as Eden-that the place Of ~,Jehovah's
feet, His footstool. will be made glo-
rious and in every way %happyfying to
all the willing and obedient, whom the
great Messiah shall recover fully from
sin and death. Now we are seeing
that the intelligent rejectors Of Divine
Grace will not be tormented but, as it
is written. "All the wicked will God
destroy"
The Church Being Selected.
Now we see that the free grace and
glorious opportunity to human restitu-
ton will be ushered in with the King
dom, but that preceding that glorious
Epoch God is making Il selection of a
sanity class to be the Bride Of Christ
"the Lambs Wife" This explains
why the darkness has been so long
permitted because God would test the
elect" by obliging them to walk by
faith and not by sight-He would test
them by obliging them to endure hard.
ness as good sOldiers-He would test
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