The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-31

invisible to mankind. These with
their Lord and Head ct. up !ne
Kingdom of God-the Messlanic King
dom. "They will live and reign WIN
Christ a thousand years. These are
the sanity ones, class recognized py
Catholics and Protestants, by Luther'
Calvin and Wesley, All ara agreed re-
snsctinp such a class. The entire point
OF discrimination is respecting the
masses of our race for whom CHRIST
died and all for whom the various
creeds provide torments unreliable, un-
! thinkable.
The Non-Elect to Be Blessed.
Brothers Luther, Calvin and others,
when they smashed purgatory as nn.
scriptural should have said, owe 90
| not know where those poor creatures
are whom we so long supposed were
in migratory. They should not have
felt il incumbent upon them to enlarge
hell and to put the thousands OF mil
| lions out Of purgatory into 1t. BUT as
| matter Of fact, they all are In hell i
tba difference is that it is the hell of
the Bible-the grave, the UNCONSCIOUS
state of death, and not place OF SUI"
| fering and torture.
Do not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
you that the dead fall asleepf 81, faui
writes of those who fell asleep IN
Christ; and again, Of those who 'sleep
in Jesus" and again that all would
sleep except those saints who, would pc
changed in a moment. at the second
coming of Messiah. Do no, we reaa m
that st. Stephen, stoned to death, fell
asleep3 Did not Jesus say, "Our friend
Lazarus sleepeth," and subsequently
explain his meaning saying, Lazarus
is dead7" Do we not read that 80 Abra..
ham slept with his fathers,' and so OF
the kings and prophets and all, good
and bad7 Abraham g fathers, being
heathen, none will claim that they
sleep in heaven. Our Catholic friends
will not claim thta they sleep in pur-
gatory, and surely nobody would claim
ture. Where. then. do they. sleep, and
for how longi The Bible answers,
HThey that sleep in the dust of the
earth shall awake" Daniel xii, p.
The Bible tells us that the weeping,
! signing and dying of the present time
will give place to a glorious morning
of better things the resurrection morn
ing.
Not Universalism, but Universal OPP
portunity.
Pastor Russell disclaims Universal
ism; he cannot find it in the Bible. else
| he would preach it, He finds the Bible
to teach universal opportunity for
salvation and everlasting life, but that
the gift of God, eternal life, will be
given only to those who will avail
themselves of the opportunity. Upon
all others will come the wages Of sin,
ly, preferring wrong to right, after be-
ing granted full opportunity for refor-
nation, will be destroyed in the Second
Death, utterly, as st. Peter declares,
"like natural, brute beasts (II Peter
IL, 12).
Heaven on Earth By and By.
It was not in vain that the Rcdeemer
taught us to pray "Thy Kingdom come,
Thy will be done on earth as it is done
in heaven" That glorious time will
come when, as the Prophet declares,
"Every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess Messiah; and when the
| knowledge of the Lord shall Gil the
whole earth, as the waters cover the
great deep; and when none shall need
longer to say to his neighbor and his
all shall know Him Then "they shall
build houses and inhabit them, and
plant vineyards and eat the fruit of
! them, and long enjoy the work of their
hands" =" Then "the wilderness shall
be glad and blossom as the rose;'' and
"the earth shall yield her increase;'
and the Lord will make His earthly
footstool glorious Isaiah ix.. 13). This
is the hereafter which God has provid.
ed for the world of mankind in gen.
eral
But this long~promised restitution
blessing to the world lifting them up
out of sin and death conditions, canont
come until first the Royal Priesthood
shall have been selected. The election
of the church. in progress during this
! Gospel Age, is God s preparation for
saints will be kings and priests, judges,
etc, in association with Jesus for the
uplifting of the thousands of millions
Of humanity due time