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have gone down TO the tomb shall come
, forth, that they may be raised up, up.
up again to tho perfection Of life and
fully lire again at the. end OF the thou
sand years:-Rey citation Xxx. j.
In the Ages to Come. ..-.
Nor will the lengths and the breadths
Of Divine love toward the elect Church.
the Bride of Christ, be fully exhibited
| to angels and TO men. even during the
glorious period OF Nfessiah's reign.
Saint Paul explicitly declares. that in
the Ages to come He might shew the
exceeding riches OF His grace in His
Kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus" Is it asked what opportunity
there will be for further farors to be
bestowed upon the Church at the con-
clusion of the Millennial reign? We
answer that as the Scriptures. declare
that God formed the earth not in vain
| but made it TO he inhabited. and will
make il glorious as His footstool in due
| time. SO We may reason with respect TO
the ether planets of our solar system:
Gradually through coming Ages Divine
power will be exercised iii bringing into
being millions of"inteiligent creatures
on every planet of our system,
And still more than this. il our astro.
nomical concepts are. correct. all the
fixed stars are suns. aud around each
! sun are planets. Arc there. then. q
thousand blazing suns? Yes. more.
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Are there ten times fen thousand: Yes.
more. Are there ten times hundred
thousand million? Yes. more, Are
there ten times ten millions q hundred
millions? Yes and more. And IL we
allow an average Of ten planets. to each
sun this would make more than thou
sand million planets, ali made not in
vain, but eventually to be Inhabited.
And astronomers assure US that we
have every reason to believe that If we
could stand upon the very furthermost
sun Of our knowledge we would see as
many millions more beyond. ~
Alas! our poor minds are bewildefed
with such immensity, with such mani
festations Of the lengths and breadths
of Divine Power and Wisdom, even as
we have already been bewildered in
our attempt to appreciate the lengths
and breadths aud heights and depths
OF Divine Love, Will there not in
deed, then. be quite a suff1ciency Of the
Divine Program to be. outTorked
through Christ and the Church to JUS
tify the Apostles statement that In
the Ages to come God will manifest
the exceeding riches Of His grace In
His +. loving kindness toward US in
Christ Jesus? !. {. ;>.-~. -
.lndia's Share. In Gods. Grace.
India,s- hundreds of millions have
not. gone to- a hell, OF, hopeless, despair
and endless torture! Thank, God. no!
They have gone to the same hell to
which Jesus went. the same to which
the Apostles and Prophets went. the
same to which all mankind. both good
and bad GOETHE Bible he'll. the tomb.
the state Of death-sheol, in the Old
Testament Hebrew. and h0des. in the
New Testament Greek. They are all
asleep, UNCONSCIOUS. until the morning
Of the resurrection. Thus "Abra ham
slept with; his fathers" as did Kings
David and Solomon. and all. both good
and bad. Thus Jesus friend. Lazarus.
fell asleep and was awakened by the
Saviour on the fourth day. called forth
from the tomb Thus also Saint Ste
phen, stoned TO death. fell asleep: and
Saint Paul speaks of mankind in the
tomb as sleeping in Jesus. and OF the
Church as being asleep in Christ.
/ in the glorious morning of tue New
! Dispensation. inaugurated by Messi-
abs Kingdom. the awakening Of man
kind win gradually. proceed. Our Saw
ior informs us that His Church.. the
elect Bride. will constitute the First
Resurrection, and that subsequently
all that sleep in the dust Of the earth
shall come forth. every man in bis
own ORDER" in his own rank. Even
tually all shall be brought forth and
thus Skcol will be no more, Hodes shall
be destroyed as the Scriptures say.
"Oh. Sheol. will be thy destruction"
Hosea xiii. 14.) Our Lord declares
that He has the keys Of lHades-the
rightful authority to open the tomb
and ultimately release all the prisoners
of sin aud death aud TO grant them
restitution privileges under His Mes.
sianic Kingdom. which first Of all will
bind Satan and overthrow his fling
dom of darkness and sin. ignorance
and superstition.
AS for those who will ultimately re.
ject Divine favor. the message is that
they shall die the Second Death. From
1t there will be no redemption. no res
direction, no recovery. As Saint Peter
declares, they shall perish like natural
brute beasts. ~ j.. 49,
1t is time that we should begin to
magnify Gods Love, the lengths and
breadths and heights and depths Of
which are beyond all human apprecia-
| ton. AS we do this our hearts are en-
| larged; our lives are ennobled; the
grace Of God is shed abroad in our
hearts; the light of Divine Truth shines
out from our words and conduct more
/ and more Thus we become copies of
Gods dear Son, little by little. in the
spirit OF our minds: and thus we are fit
ted and prepared for share with HIM
in His glorious Kingdom, which shall
bring in Restitution-uplift from sin
and death for Adam and his race
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