The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-07-31

Throne" We re-
port the former Each address lasted
for nearly two hours. but so deeply in.
terested were the audiences that they
seemed not to note the flight of time.
He said:
No other question could be of deeper
interest to thinking people than the
one now before us-"Where are the
dead?" Our ancestors. our neighbors,
our friends. are dead or dying, and
ourselves with them. What will be
our condition when the spark of life
flickers out7
The Bible confirms the ablest find
ings Of science when 1t tells us that the
dead are dead and not alive at all, any
where. The Scriptures declare. 1.-THE
dead know not anything their sons
come to honor and they know it not:
they come to dishonor but they perceive
1t not of them" Again the Bible says:
There Is neither wisdom nor device
nor knowledge in the grave [sheol, the
Bible hell whittier thou goest" Eccle-
siastes TX, 1O).
Where. my dear friends. is the key to
the problem? The Bible hell is the
grave. shcol, hadcs. the death state. The
salvation which God has provided is
the salvation from sin and from death.
The hope set before us in the Gospel
is-the resurrection of the dead. II
nobody is dead there can be no resur-
rection of the dead. 1t is not the body
which dies that God has promised
shall be resurrected. but the soul. 1t
was not Adams body merely that was
punished with death. but it was his
soul, which included the body.
Gods provision for the salvation of
mankind is that ,'As by man came
death mot eternal tormentl. by man
1.-THE man Christ Jesusl comes also the
resurrection of the dead.
The Redemption Price Given.
Not only do the Scriptures clearly set
forth that the wages of sin is death
and that thus death passed upon the
entire human race [Romans v, 12l but
they also set forth that the redemption
price which Jesus gave was death.
He poured out His soul unto death"
He made His soul an Offering for sin
isaiah Iii. 10. 12).
AS result, Tin due time" there will
come resurrection of the dead, both
OF the just and of the unjust. By the
Just is meant those justified and
brought into harmony with God
through faith in Christ By the unjust
Is meant all others. Thus the Church
will share in the First Resurrection
with Christ: these are the Elect of the
Scriptures. Their resurrection and
complete change of nature have already
begun in them through the begetting
of the Holy Spirit
They will be like Christ. who IS the
express image of the Fathers person
Like God and the angels they. as spirit
beings, will be Invisible to mankind.
These with their Lord and Head will
set up the Kingdom of God-the Mes
sianic Kingdom. They will reign
with Christ thousand years" These
are the sanity ones. a class recognized
by Catholics and Protestants. by Lu-
Their, Calvin and Wesley. All are
agreed respecting such a class The
entire point of discrimination is re-
specting the masses OF our race for
whom Christ died and for all Of whom
the various creeds provide torments
nnthinkable.
Do not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
you that the dead fall asleep9 st. Paul
writes of those who fall asleep In
Christ: and again. of those who "sleep
In Jesus" and again that all would
sleep except those saints who would
be changed In a moment. at the second
of Messiah. Did not Jesus
say. Our friend Lazarus sleepeth?"
Where do they sleep. and for how long?
The Bible answers. They that sleep In
the dust of the earth shall awake" (Dan.
lei xiii. y. The Bible tells us that the
signing and dying of this
present dark night will give place to
glorious morning of better things. the
resurrection morning-the morning of
the Messianic reign Of glory for the
blessing of all mankind.
Not Universalem but Universal op-
portunity.
Pastor Russell disclaims Universal
ism. He finds the Bible to teach uni
versal 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. eternal death.
The Redeemer taught IFS to pray.
Thy Kingdom come: THY will be done
on earth ms 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
the knowledge Of the Lord shall fill
the whole earth