The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-19

would be blasphemy? Most assuredly
enter the human mind OF pass the human
| lips more blasphemous than this doc
| trine. And yet those who bow down be-
| fore this creed number some OF the ablesl
and most intelligent. most enlightened
and most benevolent of our depraved
fallen race. How is this? How comes It
| that We have been so blinded as respects
our own conduct and misbeIef? The
| Scriptures answer that Satan has de-
ceiyed us; he has put light for darkness
and darkness for light.
Still Another Blasphemy.
A considerable portion OF thinking and
| Christian people will join with us in say
ing. All. surely Brother Calvin grievously
God Of Love when he taught the doctrine
| of predestnation OF the wicked TO eternal
torture, All. say these Christian friends;
Divine predestination. We claim that
the Almighty is love itself-that He Is
sympathetic with His creatures and is
using every effort to avert the great
calamity Of eternal torture.
All. my friends. is not this still another
form OF blasphemy? II some of us bias
phemed the Holy name in representing
less. have We not in another way plas-
phemed that same Holy name in declaring
thar He lacks the power and the wisdom
to do the good which His loving heart
would prompt? Do we worship a stupid
and impotent God. one who blundered
in the creation OF our race, and who,
Tor SIX thousand years, has been striving
to rectify that, error and all the while
has been allowing thousands OF millions
OF HIS creatures whom He loves to go
1t would be nearly as easy to worship
an al-powerful and loveless God as to
worship an all-loving but unwise and
ihmpotsnt God who foolishly ,slnfuIly,
brought thousands of millions Of intelli-
sent beings into existence only TO cause
them TO suffer an eternity of agony
though His incompetence,
Earth Full of Gods Glory,
We come now to our text: 1t declares
tnat the time Is coming when the whole
earth shall be full of Gods glory. All!
glorious day! Then the shadows OF igno-
rance, superstition, misunderstanding
and MISREPRESENTATION in respect to the
divine character Will all flee before the
light OF the knowledge of the glory OF
acter as manifested in the divine plan
for human salvation! Could this Scrip
ture ever be fulfilled, could the divine
character ever be appreciated by intelll-
In any corner OF the universe there were
such orgies and tortures of His creatures
as the creeds of the darker ages have
set forth? Surely not on the contrary
In this glorious day will be fulfilled the
Scriptural prediction: ''All in heaven
and in earth and under the earth (every-
Where) heard I saying, praise. glory. hon
or, dominion and might be unto Him that
sitteth upon the throne. and unto the
lamb forever,'
As We emerge from the darkness and
praise the Lord in thought and word and
act, we thus show forth the praises of
Him who has called us out OF darkness
into His marvellous light"
The Church Being Selected.
The Apostle Paul (Romans VIII. 9D
declares n hal
be delivered from It's bondage TO corrup-
tlon into the liberty OF the Sons OF God
The meaning OF this is clear. The COR
ruption came upon all through Adam.
the dellverance from that corruption is
10 come TO all through the second Adam.
All are 20 be delivered from such bond
erance and the privileges of liberty. Those
who use they rightly VIII come into
harmony with the Redeemer and with |
the heavenly kingdom. and will be blessed |
eventually with the eternal life Those |!
who reject these liberties after they come |
to understand fully. and comprehend |
their lengths and bredaths, viii thus be
choosing for themselves the second
death.
The liberty OF the Sons Of Cod their
freedom from corruption, death, is here
subject TO- not bound by such corruption
such dying conditions. They. as sons OF |
God. are free from corruption, from |
death. Adam is in original perfection !
clare Luke Ill.,, 3s). but he lost his SON
ship for himself and for all Of his race
and received instead degradation and |
bondage TO corruption. The hope for
Adam and for his race. then. in Christ, |
Is deliverance from the power of sin and !
death into. the liberty proper TO them
as sons OF God The entire reign of
Christ on the earth. as the Scriptures
show US, will be devoted TO this work of |
setting free the human IA amily from the |
various bondages OF ignorance. supersti- |
ton. weakness. heredity and bringing |
back all who will by restitution processes |
10 the original image and likeness OF |
God. and making them again human
sons of God like unto Father Adam be-
fore he slnned. plus a large and valuable |
experience gained during the 600O years
Of the fall. and also through the 1000
years Of the raising up-the restitution |
age. the resurrection age (Acts ill.,, 19-
2D.
Holy, Holy Holy Lord Cod
Thank God. dear friends. for the
glorious day in which we are living. |
With its electric Hight and other evil
dences that we are in the dawning OF |
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