The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-10

;q5as az f{Us55T- at both eager and
SA=zsz.szz-sz==!s==ss====== deep interest was
manifest. The text of The after
noon service was. "THENCEFORTH
THERE SHALL BE NO MORE
death OFF AN INFANT OF
DAYS. NOR OF AN OLD MAN WHO
HATH NOT FILLED HIS DAYS.
FOR THE DYING ONE SHALL BE
But THE CHILD AT AN HUN
DRIED YEARS OLD-A SINNER Al
\ HUNDRED YEARS OLD, HE
SHALL. BE ACCURSED"-CUT OFF
FROM LIFE ISAIAH LNN, 2ol. The
speaker said
Our text is part of the Divin.
prophecy OF the blessings which will
come to Israel aud to the whole world
during Messiah's glorious reign Of q
thousand housekeeping with the
close of this Gospel Era Succeeding
verses tell that in that glorious Epoch
landlOrdism will be a thing Of the
past They shall build houses and
inhabit them: they shall plant vine
yards and eat the fruit Of them: they
shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat.
Additionally we read, They shall not
labor i'm vain nor bring forth for trou
BILE" Further we read that then the
Wolf and the lamb shall feed togeth.
or and the lion shall eat fodder like
the bullock"
No Spiritual Sheep, Oxen. Wolves, Etc
M end OF confusion has been ere
atcd by the intent Of well-meaning
people to apply these prophecies as
the reward OF the Church in heaven.
Nothing iu the Scriptures warrants Us
in thinking that there will be spirit
ual, heavenly sheep and oxen, wolves
and lions vines and houses, planting
and building. Those who reject the
clear Bible teaching respecting q Mes
sianiC reign Of Righteousness cannot
understand the Bible at all. Not a
single passage OF the Old Testament
tells of heavenly hopes u, promises.
Only few Of them teach heaveDl;
things at all, and then indirectly
As, for instance. in the types OF tho
Old Testament tho garments of the
High Priest. glorious and beautiful
symbolic, we believe the hcavenl,
grandeur, honors and Giorics Of Mes
siah during the period Of His reign
Similarly Gods promise to ABRAHAM
declares that His Seed. HIS postcrity
shall be as the stars Of heaven 1nC
as the sands of the seasbore, Moth
ing in this statement would uccessa
rily teach heavenly state or coudi.
ton Only by the aid Of The Now Tcs
lamont and the Holy Scriptures illu
minatiou can We see that two Seeds
Of Abra ham are distinctly referred to-
the stars indirectly implying the Spir
tual Seed, while the sands of t1e sea-
shore refer to Ahraham's Natural
Seed As ii is written, Il have con
stituted Thee father Of many ua.
tiOns'-iike unto God
So thc Spiritual Seed Of Abraha is
now being developed With its com
pletion this Age will end. and The Nat
ural Seed OF Abraham viii return to
special favor and become the leading
nation OF the world under he guild
ance and direction Of the spiritual aud
invisible, vet All.Powerful, Kingdom
cf Messiah.
The blessing through natural Is
rael will gradually extend TO every
nation in that the door will be open
ed by which all nations may come
into and become a part OF Abrahams
Seed aud thus into harmony with
Messah's Kingdom Whosoever re-
fuses this great privilege and blessin:
OF Messiahs Kingdom will be destroy.
ed from amongst the people in the See
ond Death
Hundred Year Old Children.
Centenarians Of the present time are
few, and they by no means are like
children. Usually they are wrnked and
haggard We are to remember how
ever. the Bible record that several of
The earlier members Of Adams race
lived nine hundred years or rather.
they were more han nine hundred
years in coming fully under tue sen
tence against sinners-"By one mans
d'sobedience sin entered into the
world. and death as result, of sin,
and thus death passed upon all men.
because all are sinners Romans V. -,
Gradually, and especially since the
food, when great change took place.
N our cosmogony. human lOngevite
has decreased, while mental moral
and physical ailments have increased
Several Of Adams children did not
have their first born child until after
they we're century old In coufirma
ton OF this, and correspopdingly in
contradiction of the Evolution theory.
we find that the Ancients were strong,
er than we. mentally as we'll as phys.
ically; for they intermarried brothers
with sisters and cousins without in.
jury, whereas today the mental weak.
ness Of the race is such that one out
Of every one hundred and fifty adults
is in an insane asylum. and the mar.
rage Of brothers and sisters is pro.