The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-01-27

ieves some Of them arc honest, or
will tell you sorrowfully that some Of
them have lied TO him time and again
and IL he be an advanced and expe-
rienced Spiritualist he will tell that
at times some of these evil spirits
have made all manner Of vile sugges-
lions TO him. But he will tell also
that at first it was not so; instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more
Afterwards he was jeered at and
Knocked and told that the Scriptures
were nonsense and that although
there is God the inquirer is too rene
gade TO hope for any blessing from
God.
We have neglected our Bibles too
much; we have trusted too much to
worldly wisdom. The Bible alone
gives the solution OF the matter. II
alone tells lis respecting these spirits;
that they are not humans and never
were: that they are the fallen angels.
d. V. we will consider them a week
from now.
"A Mans Man For A That"
The Bible is thoroughly consistent
with itself: from first TO last it main
aims that man is an earthly being.
According TO the Greek and the He
brew of the Bible he is an animal soul
or animal being in contradistinctiOn TO
a spirit soul or spirit being. Man
that Is born of woman is Of few
days and full of trouble; Man dieth
and wasteth away, and where is he?
He shall not awake nor be raised out
of his sleep until the heavens be no
more''-uutil the present order or
things shall have passed away COB
xiv, 1-1U.
Again we read respecting the death
sentence and mans hope Of recovery
out of death by resurrection. Thou
turnedst man to destruction; thou say
est return we children of mem: Cease
We from man, whose spirit (breath Of
life is in his nostrils' psalm xc. 3;
Isaiah ii. 22): eff a man die, shall he
live again? All the days of niue APP
pointed time will I await until my
Tesurrectiou) change come. Thou shalt
call and will answer thee awakening
from the sleep OF Death. for thou wilt
have desire unto the work Of thy
hands: There shall be q resurrec-
ton Of the dead, both of the just and
Of the unjust Job xiv, IA; Acts xiv,
15).
They are dead. they are not alive as
spirit nor in any other sense. They
will be dead until Gods time for the
resurrection Of the dead Resurrection
OF the living would be unnecessary.
and if death brought to man change
to higher plane of existence as a
spirit being. then the resurrection Of
the dead would not be set before hui
mainly as blessed hope. for rather
1t would be punishment. even to the
holy.
Whencs Came the Error?
It seems probable that this serious
error. which has had so much to do
with the worlds theological confu-
sion. came about through the miSun-
Outstanding of the Bible teachings re-
specting the Church--the applicat ton
of things said concerning the Church
to the world, to whom they did not
apply. Bible students are coming
more and more to see, In the light
which one passage of Scripture throws
upon another. that the Church is q dis
tinctive class, separate from the angels
hn Of nj ind in nro1
The Divine Plan revealed in the
Scriptures sets forth one salvation for
the Church-On the spirit plane. 1t re-
vcals TO us two classes who will be
blessed on that spirit plane. II shows
US that one Of these classes was typi-
hed in the priesthood of natural Is
racl and that the other class was typi-
fed in the Levites who assisted the
priests as servants. The remainder OF
the tribes of Israel represented. typ
lcally. the entire world of mank ind who
will ultimately be saved, not to a beav-
only state or condition. but as men TO
y restored earthly condition.
II will be remembered that the Priests
and Levites had no inheritance In the
land, thus typically showing that they
represented that portion of humanity
which, by Gods grace. will obtain
heavenly inheritance and experience
change from human TO spirit nature.
AS the Levites and Priests represent
cd the firstborn of Israel saved at the
Passover. SO those who will attain a
resurrection to the spirit plane are
Scripturally designated "the church OF
the first-born," and again. 1.-The first
fruits unto God of his creatures" The
elect Of this Gospel Age are not, there
fore. all who are to be saved, but mere
~ all who are to be saved 10 the spirit
plane. With the completion of the
elect Church and her gloriication with
orr Lord In his resurrection. the first
resurrection" philippians iii, 10; Rev.
Citations Xxx, o., the Kingdom will be
established for which we pray.
The Kingdom, per Sc, will be spirit.
invisible to men, but it will have
earthly agents and Representatives,
and its dealings will be with mankind
to uplift Adam and his race from sin
and degradation-not to spirit coudf.
lions, not to the heavenly plane, not
TO make them like the angels. but, as
the Scriptures declare, to restore them
TO human DerfcciiOil-tO perfection of