The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-31


port the former. Each address lasted
for nearly two hours. but so deeply in
terested were the audiences that they
seemed not to note the fight of time
He said:
No other question could be of deeper
interest to thinking people than the
one now before us--"Where are the
dead?" Our ancestors. our neighbors,
our friends. are dead or dying. and
ourselves with them. What will be
our condition when the spark of life
flickers out?
The Bible confirms the ablest find
ings of science when 1t tells us that the
dead are dead and not alive at all. any
where. The Scriptures declare. 1.-THE
dead know not anything::" their sons
come to honor and they know 1t not:
they come to dishonor but they perceive
it not of them" Again the Bible says:
There is neither wisdom nor device
nor knowledge in the grave [sheol, the
siastes tx, 10I
Where. my dear friends. is the key to
the problem? The Bible hell is the
grave, shcol, hades. the death state. The
salvation which God has provided is
the salvation from sin and from death
The hope set before us in the Gospel
is-the resurrection of the dead. If
nobody is dead there can be no resur.
rection of the dead 1t is not the body
which dies that God has promised
shall be resurrected. but the soul. 1t
was not Adams body merely that was
punished with death. but it was his
soul, which included the body.
Gods provision for the salvation of
mankind is that las by man came
death mot eternal tormentl. by a man
1.-THE man Christ Jesusl comes also the
resurrection Of the dead
The Redemption Price Given.
Not only do the Scriptures clearly set
forth that the wages of sin is death
ind that thus death passed upon the
entire human race [Romans V. 12l but
they also set forth that the redemption
price which Jesus gave was death.
HE poured out His soul unto DEATH"
He made His soul an Offering for sin
isaiah lii. 10. 12).
AS result. ''in due time" there will
come resurrection of the dead, both
of the just and of the unjust. By the
just is meant those justified and
brought into harmony with God
through faith in Christ BY the unjust
Is meant all others Thus the Church
will share in the First Resurrection
with Christ: these are the Elect of the
Scriptures. Their resurrection and
complete change of nature have already
begun in them through the begetting
of the Holy Spirit
They will be like Christ. who is the
express image of the Fathers person.
Like God and the angels they. as spirit
beings. will be Invisible to mankind
These with their Lord and Head will
set up the Kingdom of God-the Mes.
sianic Kingdom. They will reign
with Christ a thousand years" These
are the sanity ones. class recognized
by Catholics and Protestants, by Lu
Their, Calvin and Wesley. All are
agreed respecting such class The
entire point of discrimination is re-
specting the masses of our race fol-
whom Christ died and for all Of whom
the various creeds provide torments
UNRELIABLE. unthinkable.
Do not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
yn hot NIL
writes of those who fall asleep in
| Christ: and again. of those who "sleel
in Jesus" and again that all would
sleep except those saints who would
be changed in a moment. at the second
coming Of Messiah Did not Jesus
say. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth?'
Where do they sleep. and for how long.
The Bible answers. They that sleep IN
the dust of the earth shall awake" Dan
lei xiii, q. The Bible tells us that the
weeping. signing and dying of this
present dark night will give place to q
| glorious morning of better things. the
resurrection morning-the morning OF
the Messianic reign Of glory for the
| blessing of all mankind.
/ Not Universaliem but Universal op.
portunity.
| Pastor Russell disclaims UNIVERSAL
ism. He finds the Bible to teach uni
versal opportunity for salvation ant
everlasting life, but that the gift OF
God. eternal life. Will be given only t.
those who will avail themselves Of the
opportunity. Upon all others will come
the wages OF sin. eternal death.
| The Redeemer taught MS to pray
Thy Kingdom come: THY will be done
on earth as It is done in heaven" Thai
glorious time will come when. as the
Prophet declares. every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess Messiah: nnd
the knowledge of the Lord shall al
the whole earth.
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