Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-03-02

Ito save the
world and who, on the other hand,
believe that all for whom Jesus did
not pray and labor would surely at
death be cast into eternal torment.
Such inconsistencies, he claimed, were
turning many noble men and women
from God and from the Bible, neither
of which are at fault. The fault lies
with the unscriptural proposition that
all except the "elect," all except the
"ittle flock" who now have the hear
Ing ear and understanding heart and
who now receive the Divine Message,
will be punished for their mental blind
ness and deafness with eternal torture
He asked, Can it be true, as 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 understanding? Can it
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 emphatically, 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-ike than Brother Calvin's
teaching of Predestination. Neverthe-
less, he reasoned, Would an all-wise
God, knowing the end from the begin
ming, prepare devilish tortures for his
creatures from before their creation?
Why then would he bring them into
existence at all? Calvin's theory ex-
hibits wise and powerful God, lack
ing love. Wesley's theory exhibits a
loving God lacking in wisdom and
power. The true view. the Pastor rea-
soned, must show God possessed of
wisdom as we'll as love; of power as
well as justice; else he would not be
the God for whom our hearts crave
and whom we could realize as our
Heavenly Father.
Christendom in general has greatly
erred. Some appropriate one part of
the Divine message and some another.
What we need is Calvin's God of Wis
dom and Power and Wesley's God of
Love and Justice. But how can these
sible that God could make an Elec-
ton and vet allow Free Grace to His
creatures as a whole? This, he de-
clares, is the solution. God is select
ing or electing a Church now-since
Pentecost With its completion there
will be no more Election, but Free
Grace. And the elect Church, glorified
to the spirit plane Of being and associ-
ated with the Redeemer in His call pow
err in heaven and in EARTH" will be the
Teachers, Rulers. Helpers, of mankind
out of sin and degradation, back TO
perfection, the image Of God, and
eternal life.
Tasted Death For Every Man"
Although Jesus tasted death for ev-
cry man 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 1t was ap-
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. eye are not Of the world;;'' eff
We were Of the world. the world would
love its own, but I 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 change of ma
ture from earthly to heavenly, to all
who would walk in the narrow way in
the footsteps of Jesus. The world will
be dealt with in another manner en-
tirely when the due time comes.
TASK Of Mo and Will Give"
In the Second Psalm we are told
that eventually Jesus will pray for the
world and His prayer will be an
swered God said. "Ask of Me and I
will give thee the heather for thine
Inheritance and the uttermost parts
Of the earth for thy possession" psalm
ii, 81. But that time has not yet come
1t will not come until the last mem
Der Of the elect Body of Christ shall
have attained share in the glories 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 will be turned over
to him. His first work will be the
binding Of Satan and the overthrow of
every human institution. out Of har-
mony with righteousness. Although
this drastic treatment, the Scriptures
tell us, will bring great time Of trou-
BILE, nevertheless it will mean for the
race as whole the beginning Of ''the
Times of Restitution of all things
which God hath spoken by the mouth
Of all the holy Prophets since the
world began beginning Of the