Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-11

/ ing Messighs Kingdom. merely eX-
plains that Restitution blessings will
| recover mankind from the effects OF
| the fall. so that Il shall then be as II
was In Adams day-that full human
rightness. maturity. will be reached in
a century and that man dying then
would be dying In childhood as COM
pared with the remainder Of the race.
! The further guarantee is that none
will die even at a hundred years OF
age, except wilful sinners who. refus-
ing to submit themselves to the regu-
lations of Messiah's Kingdom. will
then be cut of from life as unworthy
Of any further favor at the hands Of
the great Messlah-all Of
whose dealings will represent Divine
| Justice. Wisdom. Love and Power.
Mans Years as Trees.
The Scriptures tell us that under
Messlah's Kingdom the days of a man
shall be as the days Of tree. And
1t is believed that some trees live to
be at least a thousand years old. This
Is Gods provision for every man-ev-
cry member of the human family
after He shall have accomplished the
work of this Gospel Age, the selection
Of the Spiritual Seed of Abraham, typi-
fed by the priests and Levites. "The
Church Of the First-born. whose names
are written In heaven"
Messiah's Kingdom Is to dominate
, the earth for thousand years, with a
view to blessing Adam and all Of his
posterity - with view to uplifting
them from sin and degradation and
death. The uplifting influences will
begin at once. following the great time
Of trouble with which the Kingdom
will be iuaugurated. The judgments
of the Lord will be abroad in the
| earth and the inhabitants Of the world
will learn righteousness. None shall
longer need say to his neighbOr or his
brother. Know thou the Lord; for all
shall know Him. from the least unto
the greatest of them" for "the knowl-
edge Of the Lord shall I'LL the whole
earth" Ger XXI, "a; Isaiah Xi, 81.
Whoever. then. by obedience to the
laws of the Kingdom will avail himself
of the blessed privileges Of Restitu
tion tActs Ill. l9.21. will not only be
helped upward out Of mental, moral and
physical lmperfection, step by step to-
ward perfection. but, so long as he
progresses. he may live-cear down
to the end Of that blessed thousand
years. If we had never seen trees: If
our own experiences had been with veg
citation such as perlshes within year,
we might have difficulty in believing
some one who would tell us of having
seen trees centuries old, Such a state
ment would seem rs unreasonable to
us as to tell us that humanity could
live for thousand years or forever
Have we not indeed seen children
old and wrlnkled looking, yet only in
their teens? And have we not seen
others cheerful. fresh and compara-
lively young-looklng at sixty and sew
enty?
All Unriehtcousneos Is Sin.
At the present time God "winks"
at much of the wrong-doing that
there is In the world. He does not
interfere with It, But Of course ev-
| cry transgression carries with 1t nat
urally more or less Of depraving in
fuence on the transgressor's mind and
body. The conscience Is the most ten
der and the most important element of
our human nature, Whoever violates
II, whoever Injuries 1t. much or little,
will proportonntely be dlsadvantaged
In the future and will have all the
more difficulty In rising up gradually
out OF his degradation and weaknesses.
even with all the helps that will then
be available. Thus will be fulfilled the
Scrlpturnl declaration. Whatsoever a
man soweth, that also shall he reap"
With all mankind redeemed there
will be nothing whatever Of the past
chnrgeable against any on the books
Of Divine Justice. The great High
Priest" by his better sacrifices, will
have made full satisfaction to the de-
mands of Justice but the weaknesses,
mental, moral and physical. resulting
from more or less wilfu and dellber-
ate sin, must still be reckoned on and
thus every idle word and every idle
thought, every idle and vicious action
Of the present time, by making its
mark upon the characters of men. Is
providing for corresponding difficult
ties on their part in that glorious day
OF their opportunity.
The suggestion of our text is that
the great Messiah will not temporlze.
for the entire period Of His reign,
with those who do not show proper
appreciation Of opportunities when
fully brought In contact with them
and clearly Unit rsNnding the terms
of Divine grace. But one hundred
years Is quite II considerable period OF
probation and surely every reasonable
! mind will concede that SO long de-
lay In meeting out the full penalty
OF sin, Second Death, manifests the
extreme limit OF reasonable mercy.
The chureh's Triumph Shorter.
The Church, whose trial is in prog
ress during this Gospel Age, receives
individually much shorter period of
probation than our text declares will
be granted to mankind In the future.
Gods sanity people are expected to
develop character and to approve
themselves TO God as "overcomers"
within a very brief space of life And
not only 80, but they are required TO