The Ordway new era., 1911-10-06

,It..4--ees-1A I..4sA1s: .A..1t Students Assucia'
LaSIGE- -kO9sLlJJ ton eclipscs all the
in-SeaSOn affairs
Pastor Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle.
now also of London Tabernacle. Is the
principle speaker on the program.
Hundreds of ministers and thousands
of Bible students are in attendance
The program shows more than sixty
public addresses. The Association is
unscctarian. Christian union on the
Bible basis and without sectarian
fences to separate Is the sentiment
the Bible truths. previously misundcr
stood and misinterpreted by the jar
ring. separating crecdS. Is the expla.
nation Gods love and Mercy In the
blessing OF the Church and the world
aud the glorious snlvations provided
Is the keynote. The Convention will
continue In session another week.
Pastor Russell. remarking that the
beautiful grounds and Auditorium are
the property OF the Methodist Breth-
rcn. took for his text John Wesley's
favorite slogan Of Free Grace-"And
the Spirit and the Bride say. Come:
and let him that heareth say. Come:
and let him that is nthirst come: and
ter of life freely" Revelation xii.
~. Pastor Russell remarked that
Professionalism In general was Calvin
istic when Brother Wesley began his
preaching. "God Is Love-" "WhosOever
will may come and take Of the water
of life. freely"-there is no predestina'
ton to eternal torture! The result OF
Brother Wesley's teachings is seen.
not merely in the numbers processing
Methodism and Free Grace: his infu-
ence has overswept NIL the Calvinistic
denominations. Their confessions OF
faith still are Calvinistic, but in their
hearts and on their tongues they have
Brother Wesley's Message. "God is
Love; He never prcdestinated anybody
to eternal torture"
Right In Some PartieuIars-Wrons In
Others.
Pastor Russell declares that Broth
ers Calvin and Wesley were both right
in certain particulars and both wrong
in other particulars. Brother Calvin
was quite right In declaring an elec
ton according to grace. and in speak
ing Of the Church rs Gods elect. and
in exhorting the Church to make their
calling and election sure" He was
right in these matters because no was
in accord with the Bible. But he was
wrong in declaring that God had pre-
destinated the non-elect to an eternity
of suffering-becnuse there Is no Scrip
ture to this effect The only Scripture
respecting Divine predestination re-
lntes to the Church-the elect. 1t tells
us that God foreknew the Church as n
specially elect class and predestinated
that no one could be n member Of this
class except such as would become
copies Of His Son. the Redeemer. To
this. the Scriptural predestinntion.
none can object. 1t is the unscrip.
turnl deductions which have caused Us
dit1iculty.
St. Paul gives the key to the sltun
ton in Timothy ii. 4-G He declares
that it is Gods will that all men shall
be saved (recovered from the condem
nation which came upon NIL through
ADAM and also come to IN accurate
that it is for this reason that Jesus be-
came the Mediator between God and
the world Of mankind and that the
testimony of this great fact will reach
all men sin due time"
In Gods "Due Tire"
Now is the Churcn's due time ~
see and to hear. but not the worlds.
l,lf fn1, nd fl,n ,P
mankind now so that only favored
few. comparatively. hear and see
Gods profrcrcd grace in Christ Great
Is the blessing of those who see and
hear. for they may make their calling
and election sure and become joint
heirs with their Redeemer in His Mes
sianic Kingdom. Then will be due
the blessing of the non-eIect Satan
will be bound for the thousand years
Of Messiah's Kingdom. Darkness, 1g
norance and superstition shall fee.
Those then refusing to bow and con
fess under this full and grucious op-
portunity will die the Second Death.
from which there will be no resurrec.
ton, no restitution. They will per-
ish us brute beasts-be utterly destroy
ed from amongst the people QI Peter
IL, 12; Acts Ill, 1929.
Brother Wesley's favorite text pro.
claiming Free Grace is precious one
still. though 1t does not belong to the
present Age. but to the coming one.
The proof of this Is evidenced by the
context. The Church is not yet com.
plete. She is not yet the Bride. the
Lambs Wife. but merely His espoused