The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-12-22

F, disc for the Church, that they should
| be sharers with their Lord on the spirit
plane. partakers of the divine nature,
''far above angels. principalities and
powers" but how gracious has God
also been in His provision for the
world at large-His promise of an
| earthly Paradise for such of humanity
! as. when brought to Il knowledge OF
Himself and His requirements. shall
! gladly, heartily accept the same!
| How wonderful is the Wisdom and
| Power of God by which He can make
use Of even the reign of sin and death
/ to teach great lessons both to anget
and men respecting the exceeding sin
| fulness of sin! And how merciful anu
! gracious is the arrangement He has
made that when this reign of sin and
death shall have accomplished His in
! tended purposes. He will bring it to an
end Those twin mOnarchs which have
ruled the world for six thousand years
Sin and Death--shall be vanquished
and ultimately every member of Al
| ANS race shall be delivered from th2ii
power. For the willing and obedent.
| the earthly Paradise. human perfec
ton, the ina ge of God in the flesh. il
/ to be the reward-an earthly reward
/ and for the rebellious, the Second
! Death. from which there will be no re-
! demption, no recovery. and in which.
| thank God! there will be no sufferinc
| for they shall perish like the brut,
beasts, as st. Peter declares.-II Pete.
| ii, IL.
Restitution Will Bring Real Paradise.
Much as your Island may resemoi,
| the Garden of Eden, it is not Paradise
| and cannot be Paradise so long as you
have sin and sorrow, pain and dealt
| amongst you. One Of the first objects
that greeted my sight as | landed WAS
/ your cemetery, and | said. Oh, yes.
death is here and cre,yUhere-God'.
curse. declaring that no imperfect be
ing may live. Well. l thank God f0i
that, too. Centuries of life with imp2r.
lection would doubtless be too much
for us to enjoy. Far better is it as hi
! vine Wisdom has arranged it---a birth
a struggle for existence, Il battle with
self and sin, the world, the flesh and
the Devil, and then a falling asleep III
death, until the morning Of the reSiir-
rection. There will be no conscious
ness Of even moments Intervening
until the glorious day shall have dawn,
ed, and the new order of things snail
have been introduced and esta blished
and then the sleepers will come forth
to see brighter side than any that
they have previously experienced or
ever heard of.
The Kingdom of Gods dear Son and
nothing shall hurt or destroy in all His
holy Kingdom. The blessing of the
Lord shall he upon man, and his earth
ly dominion. Restitution influences
will be at work for the bringing Of
everything to perfectiOn-especially for
the bringing of man up, UP. up out Of
sin. weakness. degradation and death
to the full glory of perfection of mind
and body and vitality-the image and
likeness of God. as at first, before sin
entered
Rich and Poor and Socialism.
You still have your rich and poor;
there still is caste amongst the chill
dren of the one parentage; but when
the uplifting influences of Mcssiah-s
reign shall have done their work, these
things will all be in the past He that
stitch upon the Throne shall say. BE
| Ill Il I T.. L., /,
glorious time there will not be rich
and poor. there will be socialism in
the proper sense, as the Scriptures
clearly point out: they say. Every
man shall sit under his own vine and
under his own fig tree: and none shall
make them afraid" And again. They
shall not build and another inhaDit.
they shall not plant and another eat
the fruit thereof" There will be no
tenantry. no landlOrdsm then.
Do not understand me to he melting
dissatisfaction with the present condi-
tons. In many respects what we have
today is the very best possible thing
under present cOnditions-man's fallen
nature and selfish temperament taken
into consideration. The counsel Of
Gods Word is that all who trust in
Him are to wait for Him to bring in
the better conditions. Some very well
intentioned people are making n sad
mistake: just as the morning is about
to dawn-about to bring in the great
blessings of restitution. socialism. etc.
they blindly look in another direction
and declare that unless they bring so
cialism to pass it will never come. We
grant. indeed, that it would be foolish
to expect that the rich would bring
about the wonderful changes which
the Bible foretells--it would he con
trary TO human nature TO so expect
But we do say that those who think to
bring about socialism by human wis
dom and human strength arc deficient
i'm wisdom. They do not see that What
they propose is absolutely impossible
their eyes are holden.
The Bible alone shows us what will
he the outcome of the present unrest
and selfshness and dissatisfaction.
The Bible tells that what will start rs
socialism will eventually develop into
anarchy. The Bible shows that those
who think they can bring in the Mes