The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-12-11

az may ne making good. rapid prog
rcss up, up, MP out of weakness and |
dying conditions. back toward the fun |
perfection Of human nature which |
Adam had before he sinned. when he |
was i'm the image of his Creator. |
There will still he the marks of the
wrath upon mankind. the weakness
and inn erfections of the human flesh. |
These marks will not he fully blotted |
out until toward the close Of the thou
sand years of Messiah's reign. This
agrees fully with st. Peters words.
THAT your sins may be blotted out
when times OF refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord" tActs
iii. 10l II is therefore one thing 60
have our sins forgiven and to realize
that God is no longer angry with us
but reconcilcd. and it is quite another
thing TO know our sins are botted out.
The sins of the Church are forgiven
the moment we are accepted OF God
through Christ and made partakers Of
the Holy Spirit and are styled chill
dren of God and heirs. But the
marks. the blemishes of sin. continue
with us as long as we have our pres
ent. imperfect bodies This TO the
Church will mean that the blotting
out of their sins will be in death, be
cause the Church will he awakened in
the resurrection perfect. "spotless."
without blame" '"irreprovable." The
Apostle describes this resurrection as
the Chief Resurrection. saying. ut is
sown in weakness. it is raised in pow
, er; it is sown an animal body, IL is
raised a spiritual body Corinthians
XIV, Al; Rev. xX. G.
"The Wrath to Come"
II we have seen what has constitut-
ed the Divine wrath as II has been re-
vealed for six thousand years. we will
he the better prepared to understand
what TO look for in respect to any
future manifestations of Divine wrath
wrath TO come" We are 10 clearly
distinguish between the wrath of
good man and the wrath OF bad
man, and how these would manifest
themselves; and. similarly. we should
he able to discern between the wrath
of God and the wrath of the devil.
The wrath of God. as exhibited to us
for six thousand years on the pages
of history. has been a just dealing
the abandonment TO destruction of
those who are not worthy of everlast-
ing life. by reason of disobedience TO
Divine Law.
The redemption accomplished for
these through the death Of Jesus will
eventually be goriously worked out,
and give to every man full oppor-
tunity Of recovery, harmony with God
and everlasting life. The reason why
God makes this provision for redemp-
tion is because only one man slnned
wifully and intelligenty. All the re-
mander of his children were born In
sin" aud under the death sentence.
The redemption therefore Is I'm order
that every individual may have an
opportunity for reaching a decision as
TO obedience or dlsobedience.
The lesson OF sin and death is taught
first In the few years Of the present
life. and the marks Of sin will go
over Till the next Age. Those marks
will be deepened in proportion as any
in the present life live below the
plane Of their knowledge Of the Di-
vine standard and in wilful opposition
thereto While being instructed re-
specting the other side Of the Ques-
tion-the Divine requirements and the
blessings attending them, mankind will
he given an mdiridudl trial or test TO
demonstrate whether the great lesson
has been rightly learned. The willing
and obedient will get the reward OF
eternal life, the unwilling and dlsobe-
dient will receive the final penalty, the
Second Death II viii he lnal in that
God will make no provision for rescue
from that Second Death. II will he
everlasting destruction. III Thess. %
AS the wrath of the present time Is
the Divine death sentence upon the
race. so "the wrath 60 come" win be
the second death" sentence. which
will fall upon all who sin wifully
after they have come 10 a knowledge
of the truth. With this wrath "a
come" in this complete sense may
be included inferior manifestations oi
= Divine wrath for instance. such as