The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21

most as mCcn Injury as ulu iuol WoT-
ship to the heather. Nearly all these
creed idols declared eternal torment for
The thousands of millions who had new
er heard Of the Only Name. Indeed,
nearly all of them claimed that only a
small minority Of Chr1stendom would
escape eternal torture. Some Of these
preed-idols declare that so awful q ca
hstrophe as the torture Of twenty
thousand millions was foreknown Of
God and predesinated by Him before
the creation of Adam. Others claim
the contrary, that God had benevolent
Intentions toward our race at the start,
but that His plans miscarried and
would produce the same horrible re-
suits. either because Of Divine unwis-
dom or because Of lack Of power. How
such presentations distressed every
Christian loyal at heart toward His
God and sympathetic toward his fell
lows,
Our colleges and universfties-and,
sad to say, our theological seminaries
are busy turning out unbelievers-
infidels Nor are these people wicked
or immoral in their unbelief; they are
rs wellmeaning as ever, but have
lost their way. They reject the Bible
because they believe it to be the
foundation Of the various inconsistent
cies in their creeds; they are stun
not believe that mans hereafter is
one of centuries Of suffering, or Of
eternal suffering.
Let us now demolish these idols
which so long have misrepresented
our gracious Creator and blinded us
with ignorance and superstition. Let
us receive the Scripture teaching only.
Let US rejoice in the election Of the
Church to be the Kingdom class and
let us rejoice in the hope of its King
dom glory for the blessing of the non
elect. Let us rejoice that "the wilder
ness shall blossom as the rose, and
that the solitary place shall be glad"
and that God will make His footstool
glorious" during the thousand years
of Messiahs Kingdom. So desiring
We will come into line with our text:
"Let him that glorieth glory in this,
that he UNDERSTANDABLE and knoweth
Me, that 1 am the Lord, which exer-
ciseth lovingkindness, judgment and
righteousness in the earth
Now We Soc obsoureIy.
Saint Paul declares Now we see
obscurely." Only by faith can we
see Gods loving-kindness. The reign
of sin and death for six thousand
years has been but the natural re-
suit of the violation Of Divine Law
which our first parents transgressed.
The beginning of Gods work for our
reclamation from its consequences was
In the sending of His Son to be our
Redeemer. Since then He has been
gathering an elect few to be Messiah's
Bride and joint-helr in His Kingdom.
Soon-very soon, we hope and be-
lieve-the Church will be completed
and the Messianic Kingdom will man
ifest Divine clemency, mercy, loving
kindness, judgment and righteousness
In the earth.
The Bible declares that the penalty
for sin is being experienced by hui
mainly at the present tme-the death
penalty-and that the redemption price
Of Christ's death is sufficient for the
sins of the whole world. 1t declares
that on account of this redemption,
ultimately the resurrection of the dead
shall take place-''sll that are in their
graves shall hear the voice of the Son
Of Man and come forth" 1t is be-
cause of the Divine intention that
there shall be a resurrection Of the
dead that the Bible everywhere, both
in the Old and New Testaments,
speaks of those who have died, both
good and bad, as being asleep" and
the promise is that "They that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake"
Nor will they come forth to similar
conditions of sorrow that now sur
round us all. On the contrary, the
First Resurrection Is to be composed
of the holy, the sanity, and they are
to be associated with their Redeemer
as his Bride and Consort, to assist in
delivering and restoring mankind.
Later the imperfect, who have not had
their full trial, the great mass of man
kind, will be brought forth. that they
may learn the ways of righteousness,
that they may learn to know God. and
Jesus Christ and In due time be up
lifted out Of the conditions of sin and
death. Then will come the worlds
opportunity. How joyful Is the mes
sage, There shall be no more death.
neither SORROW nor crying, nor dying:
for the former things have passed
away"
All, how different Is Gods PROPOSE
ton of a general upllft of the worthy
and their assistance back to perfec-
tion--to all that was lost in Adam.
How different Is this from the "doc-
trines of demons" which have per
picked us, which have divided the
Church of Christ into numberiess
sects and parties, and which have al
most driven us from Christ and the
Bible,
Only those can see the grace Of God
now whose eyes have been enlighten
I'd and whose ears have been unstop-
ped. Thank God, however, for the
gracious promise that in due time "all
the blind eyes shall be opened and all