The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-08

ond cousins is disapproved and held
responsible for increasing weak-mind-
eduess
We SEC, tnen, that our text, describ.
ing MessHh's Kingdom, merely ex-
plains that Restitution blessings will
recover mankind from the effects of
the fall. so that it shall then be as it
was in Adams day-:hat full human
rightness. maturity. will be reached in
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 hundred years of
age, except wilful sinners who, refus-
i, ing to submit themselves to the regu-
lations of Messiah's Kingdom, will
then be cut off from life as unworthy
Of any further favor at the hands of
the great Redeemer-M essiah-all of
whose dealings will represent Divine
Mans Years as a Trees.
The Scriptures tell us that under
Messiah's Kingdom the days of man
shall be as the days of tree. And
It is believed that some trees live to
be at least 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
postefity - 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 inaugurated 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 know
edge of the Lord shall fill the whole
earth DER. xxi. "a; Isaiah XII. 81.
Whoever. then. by obedience to the
laws of the Kingdom will avail himself
of the blessed privileges of Restitu
ton (Acts iii. 1920. will not only be
helped upward out of mental. moral and
physical imperfection. step by step to-
ward perfection. but. so long as he
progresses he may live-clear down
to the end of that blessed thousand
years. If we had never seen trees: if
our own experiences had been with veg
we might have difficulty in believing
some one who would tell us Of having
seen trees centuries old Such state
ment would seem as unreasonable to
us as to tell us that humanity could
live for thousand years or forever.
Have we not indeed seen children
old and wrinlled looking yet only in
their teens And have we not seen
others cheerful fresh and compare
lively young looking at sixty and sew
enty?
All Unrghteousness 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
fluence 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
it, whoever Injuries it, much or little,
will prOportionately be disadvantaged
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
Scriptural declaration. Whatsoever a
man soweth. that also shall he reap"
With all mankind redeemed there
will be nothing whatever Of the past
chargeable 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 wilful and deliber
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 tempOrize.
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 understanding the terms
of Divine grace. But one hundred
years is quite a 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 Church's Triumph Shorter.
The Church, whose trial is in prog
ress during this Gospel Age. receives
individually a 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 very brief space of life. And