The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1911-03-10

Every seat was filed and a few turned
away on the occasion Of his last dis
course here February 5. Today. how.
ver Hundreds were unable to gain
admittance and are promising them
selves to 60 earlier next time. t books
as though a still larger suditorHm
should be sought.
Pastor Russell translated his text to
read, "Thenceforth there shall be no
more death Of an infant Of days. nor
Of an old man who hath not filled his
days; for the dying one shall be but a
child at a hundred years old-a sinner
q hundred years old shall be accursed''
cut off from life. he pointed out
from the text that this statement Is q
prophecy respecting the future-re-
specting the time when Messiah's
Kingdom will rule the world. The
verses following the text, he said. in
dictate clearly that in that glorious
Epoch landlordism will be a thing of
the past. People will build their own
houses aud iphabit them; plant their
own vineyards and enjoy the fruit
thereof. They give a description Of the
period when sin will he giving place
to righteousness; and sorrow and death
will be giving place to happiness and
Weperfect and lasting.
Two Situations Taught In the Bible.
All Of US in the past have misread
our Bibles and not noticed that there
are too salrations. One will be to heav-
emily conditions like unto the angels,
where there will be no planting, no
building, etc. This is the salvation Of
fered from Pentecost to the present
time, to the faithful few who walk in
the footsteps of Jesus and make their
calling and election sure" The other
salvation will be al earthly one. 1t
will recover mankind from sin, degra-
dalton, sorrow and death, to human
perfection. to earthly palaces, in a
worldwide Paradise restored. But this
earthly blessing or salvation has not
come to mankind as yet and cannot
come before its time. St. Peter tells
us that those "times Of restitution of
all things which God hath spoken by
the mouth Of all the holy prophets
since the world began" will begin at
the Second Coming Of Christ-after he
shall have selected the sanity few who
will constitute his Bride, his joint-heirs.
in his glory, honor and immortality
his associates in the Messianic King.
dom.
Living and Dead-Just and Unjust.
Pastor Russell declares that Gods
provision for the Church will include
not only those alive at the Second
Coming of Christ, but also, by a resur-
rection change, all those who have
fallen asleep in Christ throughout this
Gospel Age, These will constitute the
first resurrection" and as priests of
God and Christ will reign with him a
thousand years Revelation Xxx. A..
Just so also, the earthly blessings
Will include not only the people living
at the tim Of the inauguration of hat
Reign Of Righteousness, but also, as
the Redeemer said. "AIl that are III
their graves"-the evil as well as the
good. The sanity ones coming forth
will have their reward Immediately
because Of their f~aithfulness during
their trial time, which precedes the
trial time of the world. Then the mass
Of mankind, aside from the Church
class. will all be brought to a knowl-
edge Of the Truth-heathen and civil
lized-none will any longer be allowed
to grope In darkness or to be blinded
by Satan and the attractions Of sin.
Satan himself will be bound and all
the fallen angels with him will be re-
strained from deluding or having any
thing further to do with humanity.
The light of the glory Of God will fill
the whole earth as the waters cover
the great deep. Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess tt Messiah
to the glory Of God the Father.
Hundred Year Old Children.
In the beginning, before our race
had fallen so far into death. some of
its members lived to be several hun
dred years old, and that under the I'M
favorable conditions Of the curse
thorns, thistles, etc. At that time,
said the Pastor, human kind who were
only a hundred years old were but
as children. Today, after six thousand
years Of experience under the fall,
ce%ntenarians are rare-and these are
old men returning to second childhood.
The restitution processes Of Emanuel's
reign Of righteousness will have so up
lifting and blessed an effect on man
kind as to bring back, not only
strength of morals and of mind and
Of will, but also physical strength
youth, vigor.
Every man will have a century of
schooling, Of instruction, Of prepara-
ton for living. Open and violent sin,
w~ickedness and injury to others will
not be permitted at that time at all.
Nevertheless, there will be many OPP
portunities for testing, proving. teach
ing mankind. The ~disobedient will
receive punishments, stripes" The
wel-doers will be blessed, rewarded.
uplifted. But after having enjoyed a
century Of such schooling and cofrsc-
ton in righteousness, those still resist
inR the Divine feGulati0nu Vim bo G1n-