Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-09-09
him, a well Of water springing up unto
everlasting life" lJohn ". 1A.
The New JerusaIem symboI.


The Church in her glOrifed condition
after the change Of the First Resur-
rection, after becoming the Bride, is
symbOllcally represented as a City, as
a GoyeTnment-the capital Of Gods
Kingdom. the New Jerusalem, which
will then SOme to, or be established in.
the earth--nOt literal city, but, bet
ter, symbolical one. OF the Kingdom.
II will be from under the Throne
Of that New Jerusalem, the Messianic
Kingdom, that the river Of the water
Of life will flow, clear as crystal" On
either bank Of the symbOlical river will
be trees Of life. whose leaves will be
for the healing Of the nations. Then
will be their due time" to come to
knowledge Of the Truth that God
loved them and did not predestinate
them to eternal torture, nor to purga
torial suffering, but sent His Son to die
for them-tO pay their death penalty
and thus to make possible their restitu-
tlon to Divine favor (Acts iii, 19-2D
and to all the earthly blessings, privi
leges and rights originally given to
Father Adam-lost by his disobedience
and redeemed at Calvary.
My dear friends, here we have the
grandest and broadest Free Grace pos
sible to be imagined, in connection with
our Heavenly Father and His great
salvation provided in Christ. AS every
creature shares in Father Adams i'm
perfection and dying conditions, so
each one is to share in the merit Of
Christ's righteousness and sacrifcial
death; 1t shall be testified to all in
due time" There will be stripes, les
sons, instructions, but they will all be
corrective-wlth a view to the relOrma-
ton and the regeneration Of Adam and
his race as human belngs-nOt as spirit
beings, not as angels; Adam and his
race never were such. Only the Church
has been begotten Of the Holy Spirit
to a spirit nature; only the Church will
share In the resurrection to spirit con-
dltions and be thus like unto the an
gels"
This Is Not uniVersalism.
These two salvatlOns, now Of the
elect, and during Messlah's reign Of
the non-elect, do not imply universal
salvation Of our race, but merely
universal opportunity for everlasting
life, The Scriptures most clearly teach
Second Death like the first death,
except that none will be redeemed
from the Second Death, and none will
be resurrected from it. 1t therefore
will be, as st. Paul declares, an ever
lasting destruction" Oh Thessalonians
1, 81. AS st. Peter declares, the wilful
sinners against light and knowledge
will perish, like natural brute beasts"
The lessons from these great truths
of the Bible are powerful They make
plain to us that none can hope to be
Of the heavenly class of the Bride Of
Christ, except such as enter the strait
gate and narrow way-the saints, the
faithful unto death. They teach us
also in harmony with other Scrip
lures, that those who now either see
not and hear not, or who see and hear
lmperfectly, will miss this great prize
Of our high calling" Nevertheless for
these, heather and others, God has
provided more than they could have
thought or Gsllcd-an opportunity for
obtaining human perfection and
worldwide Eden Paradise restored.
1t teaches, also, that every misstep,
every failure to do our best, is costly
both to the world and to ourselves.
To whatever extent the world demeans
and degrades itself, it will have. In
proportion, difficulty and stripes in
connection with the possibilities and
opportunities of recovery during Mes
siah's Kingdom.
Let us herald wide the story of the
grace of God I'm Christ for every crea-
ture; let us show the love of God to
all who have the eyes and ears of ap
probation. There Is no greater influ-
ence for righteousness than this-The
love Of God and the love of Christ con-
straneth us Oh Corinthians V. 10. And
In proportion as mankind receive the
same their constrants toward right
eousness increase. Thus, with clearer
light upon our Fathers Word, 1t is
time for us all to cast aside the things
of darkness and sectarianlsm which so
long have separated the people Of God
from each other
The Groat Lesson Of This.
The lesson to the Church is gratitude,
loyalty, faithfulness to Him who called
her out of darkness to the high calling
Of Joint heirship with the Redeemer.
"The Bride, the Lambs Wife," is to
make herself ready by putting on the
fruits and graces of the Holy Spirit
and being renewed and transformed.
The lesson to the world yet is only
to those who. to some extent, hear it
that God is Love, that His mercy has
provided great opportunity for resti
tuition that is nigh at hand; and fur
ther, the lesson is that every good and