The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-05

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preach a God of Love who would not
condemn His creatures to torture
At least not without some opportunity.
But handicapped by the error respect
II ing he'll poor Brother Wesley was in a
sad dilemma. He knew not how ANY
could get to the awful place without
Divine foreknowedge And he knew
not how to harmonic such Divine
foreknowledge with Divine Love
Why should such creatures as Divine
grace could not save from eternal tor
lture be created Mt all?
| Noble Christian Brother. he preached
to the best of his light Now with the
clearer light upon Gods Word. we can
see that Brother Wesley and Brother
Calvin both contended for Bible truths
which they knew not how to harmon
ize. Now we see that this Gospel Age
IS the time In which God is calling and
drawing and sealing with His Spirit
and with the Truth His very elect"
| the Bride Of Christ the members of
the Body of Christ, the Royal Priest
hood. Now we can see also that the
Free Grace. which Brother Wesley
| realized must he part Of the Divine
Program. belongs to the coming Age
Then all the blind eyes shall be opened
Then all the deaf ears shall be un-
stopped. Then the knowledge Of the
Lord shall fill the whole earth as the
waters cover the great deep. Then
"whosoever will may come and take of
the water Of life freely" CRev. xii. III,
The &C. pei Age Harvest.
Pastor Russell declares that the
signs of the times. in conjunction with
the prophecies of the Scriptures. clear.
~ indicate to him that we are living in
the harvest time of this Age, which
Is drawing to Il close-in the dawning
time of the New Dispensation, which
will soon be ushered in. He wished
his hearers to clearly distinguish hp.
tween this teaching ana the common
teaching represented in all of our
creeds. Our hymn books. like uul
crecds, tell of the End of this Age H-
the end of hope-"the wreck of matter
and the crash of worlds" in Il huge
bonfire. The Bible. ON the contrUrJ.
shows that the most blessed days Of
the worlds experiences are about to he
ushered in. The election of the Church
completed. the saints, gloritied with
the Redeemer on the spirit plane. in
visible to men. will take control o.
earth's affairs. Gods Kingdom unorr
the whole heavens will be established
Satan. the present spirit Prince
will be dethroned and deceive he na
tons no more for Il thousand 5 AIRS.
The reign of Messiah in the glory ot
Divine power will constitute the sun
of Righteousness, Light and Truth.
and blessing to refresh the poor
death stricken world. HeGiHg will ~.
in the beams of this sun of Righteous
ness Restitution, uplifting from sin
degradation and death. AS the re- IN
of Sin and Death terminates, the
reign of righteousness unto life ever
lasting will begin. The wonderful in
ventions and blessings of our day are
but the forerunners of still greater
blessings. Verify 1.-THE night is far
spent and the day Is at hand"-the
great Day of which Jesus and the
Apostles and the Prophets continually
spoke. 1t will be dOomsday only for
all the systems of iniquity and IN
righteousness.
mot Ashamed Of the Gospel"
Have we not all felt more or less
ashamed of the unsatisfactory pres
entations of our various creeds? said
Pastor Russell. Is 1t not time that.
from self-respect, as well as from
respect for the Almighty, we repudl
ate them? Have l not presented to
you this evening the Bible message
which the angels proclaimed at the
birth Of Jesus-"Behold, we bring you
good tidings of great Joy which shall
be unto all people" duke II. 1O. No
Gospel message reached anybody be-
fore Jesus drought life and immor-
tally to light through His Gospel"
This great salvation began to be
spoken by our Lord" as the Apostle
declares Hebrews II. -. None heard
1t during the first four thousand years.
and not more than One-fOurth of
humanity have heard 1t during the
last two thousand years. And the
message which has been proclaimed
for centuries past is certainly not
good tidlngs" as whole. though 1t
contains precious truths.
What have expressed this evening
is "good tidings Of great Joy" to the
sanity few of the elect class noto. Ana
the lesser blessing Of restitution will
shortly be good tidings" to MI people.
1t will fulfil the Divine promise to our
first parents that 1.-THE Seed OF the
woman" shall crush out evil, "shall
brulse the Serpent's head" 1t will
also fulfil the promise 10 Abraham.
bound by Gods oath--'In thee and in
thy Seed shall all the families Of the
earth be blessed" 1t accounts for
every text appertaining to Election. as
well as to every text teaching Free
GrTce 1t shows the Justice of God In
permitting the death penalty. 1t
shows the Love OF God In providing
the redemption for all. by Ransom
for all" 1t shows the Wisdom Of God
in the ordering Of all the various steps
of the Divine Program. It will show
the Power of God In bringing back
the dead to life and I'm uplifting all
the willing and obedlent of earth TO
human perfection and an earthly
Paradise And surely the exceeding
Love and Power are all demonstrated