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was pleased to have it so! because He

nell before He maze me eartn, ana
made it large enough to hold the en-
tire human family. because He Gre
ated fire proof demons to lnf1ict tor
ture upon the poor unfortunates who
were born in sin. shapen in iniquity.
in sin conceived by their mothers. and
many of them left without an oppor
tunity of hearing of the only name
whereby they must be swaziland
that He wisely and with devilish in
tention laid up fuel enough to last to
all eternity for the torture of His
helpless creatures.
And are not such evil thoughts and
presentations respecting our great
Creator blasphemy? If not, pray tell
me what ,cOaid be blasphemy? Most
assuredly I can think of nothing that
or pass the human lips more bias
phemous than this doctrine. And yet
those who bow down before this creed
number some of the ablest and most
intelligent. most enlightened and most
benevolent of our depraved, fallen race
How is this? How comes it that we
have been so blinded as respects our
own conduct and misbelief? The
Scriptures answer that Satan has de-
ceived us: he has put light for dark
ness and darkness for light.
Still Another RIaspheny.
A considerable portion Of thinking
and Christian people will join with us
in saying. All, surely Brother Calvin
grievously erred and grievously mis-
represented the God of Love when he
taught the doctrine Of the predestina-
ton of the wicked to eternal torture!
All. say these Christian friends. our
Divine predestination. We claim that
the Almighty is Love itself-that He is
Sympathet with His creatures and is
using every effort to avert the great
calamity of eternal torture.
All. my friends. is not this still an
other form of blasphemy? If some Of
us blasphemed the Holy Name in rep
resenting our Heavenly Father as mer-
CHESS, loveleSs, have we not in another
way blasphemed that same Holy Name
in declaring that He lacks the power
and the wisdom to do the good which
His loving heart would prompt? Dc
we worship stupid and impotent
God. one who Numbered in the creation
of our race, and who for six thousand
years. has been striving to rectify that
oil hn uyhiIn hoc haon oil
lowing thousands of millions of His
creatures whom He loves to go down
to an eternity of torture? Alas. it
would be nearly as easy to worship an
all-powerful and loveless God as to
worship an ALLOWING but unwise and
impotent God who foolishly. sinfully,
brought thousands of millions of in
telligent beings into existence only tc
cause them to suffer an eternity of
agony through His incompetence.
Earth Full of Gods Glory.
Thank God. dear friends, for the
glorious day in which we are living.
with it's electric light and other evil
dences that we are in the dawning of
ii New age HuIh NOu. Ihdt III thio
day the electric lamp of truth is show
ing up the mistake of these bias
phemous errors which have 80 defiled
all the precious truths of Gods Book
for years. for centuries. Thank God
that our Bible is becoming new
Book to those whose eyes Of under
standing are opening to the lengths
and breadths and heights and depths
of the love of God which it declares.
Now we are seeing that the wages
of sin is death"-not eternal torment
nor Purgatory. Now we are seeing
that Jesus met this death penalty as
the Redeemer of our race from the
power of the tomb. Now we are see
ing that the salvation that God has
promised will he brought to us at the
second coming of Jesus and the es-
adjustment of his mediatOrial king
dom for the blessing of all the fami-
lies of the earth. Now we are seeing
that the salvation provided is resur-
rection of the dead-nOt merely an
awakening from the tomb. but COM
plete uplift out of sin and degradation
to the full perfection of human ma
ture in the earthly likeness of the Gre
atOr
Now we are seeing that this great
blessing has been set apart by the Al
mighty as the work of the great Sab
bath Day of thousand years, In
which the last enemy to be destroyed
is DEATH Now we are seeing that
the whole earth is to be reclaimed
from the curse and made to blossom
as Eden--that the place of JehoVah's
feet. His footstoOl, will be made glO-
rious and in every way happyfying to
all the willing and obedient. whom the
great Messiah shall recover fully from
sin and death Now we are seeing
that the intelligent rejectors Of Divine
Grace will not be tormented but. as ii
is written, 'All the wicked will God
destroy"
The Church Being Selected.
Now we see that the free grace and
glorious opportunity TO human restitu
ton will be ushered in with the King
dom. but that preceding that glorious
Epoch God is making selection of q
the Lambs Wife" This explains
why the darkness has been so long
tted-becauSe God wOuld fest the