The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-08-28

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Devil of the Bible transforms himself
into an angel Of light in his endeavors
to EliSlcad the people of God and to
make void the Word of God. The Bible
nowhere represents the Devil with
hoofs and horns and forked tail ca
vorting amidst flames of hell. tOrturing
hup!ess beings-and stocking fires.
The Bible hell is sheol hades-the
tomb the state of death. where both
good and bad go and from which al!
are to be recovered in due time. The
| Church will be the first: blessed and
holy are all they that have part i'll the
| First Resurrection: they shall be
priests unto God and shall reign with
Christ thousand years.-Rev. Xxx. 6.
During that thousand years all the
remainder Of the race will have resur-
rection privileges. The worlds resur-
rection will include not only an awak-
ening from death. but much more.
AnostasiS, the Greek word for resur-
rection. means a raising up again-im-
plying that the person was once up.
fell down and is to be raised up again.
The Apostle declares that man fell
from perfection and the raising up
again is to he to human perfection.
None will be forced to return. but all
the willing will be assisted to !obedi-
encc-the reward Of which will be
gradual uplifting to all that was lost
in Eden and redeemed at Calvary. The
disobedient. after full opportunity. the
Pastor declared. will be destroyed in
the Second Death. which the Scrip
lures symbolically represent as the
Lake Of Fire.-Revelation Xxx. IA. 10
One Redemption-Two SaIvations.
Pastor Russell called attention to nu-
merous Scriptures which seemed in
harmony with his contention that the
redemption provided in Jesus IS to be
cO-eXtensive with the condemnation
which came to all through Father Ad-
am. Father Adam alone had been
tried and. because Of sin. had beeE
sentenced to death The remainder of
humanity have never yet been individ-
unlly tried. They have merely shared
in hereditary weaknesses. mental. NOR
al and physical, and shared also in the
hereditary death penalty which in
volved them in sin, sorrow and pain in
conjunction with the ultimate result.
death. 1t is because all were thus con.
demned through one mans disobedi-
ence that the death Of the Man Jesus
once for all can be justly the redemp.
tion-price for the sins Of the world.
Christ has died. And the fact that
but one class of humanity for whom
He died has been blessed should be to
| US Il guarantee that the remainder will
| be blessed. since He has tasted death
| for every man. Hebrews il. 8.
Who is so blind as not to be able to
see the difference be:ween the Church
| and the world in our text? 1t reminds
| MS. said the Pastor, Of Jesus words to
| His disciples. "Ye are not OF the world.
even us am not Of the world" for
have chosen you out Of the world
No. only the Apostles were chosen out
Of the world and separated by their
call and spirit beSetting and develop
| neDt in the School Of Christ. but all
| of the followers of Jesus throughout
| this Gospel Age have been sharcrs in
| this same call to separateness from
the world They walk by faith and
| not by sght-their faithfulness in liv-
| ing unto the Lord ana not for self. is
promised the great reward of share
in the Messianic Kingdom glory.
Then when the Church shall have
reached her glory will be the time for
| the world to be blessed. The Church
as the spiritual Seed of Abraham
| Galatians iii. 90 will with her Re-
| deemer bless all the families of the
earth for thousand years and make
good to them their share in the merit
of Chrst's sacrifice
Geneva's Monument to Scrvetus.
The Pastor said that week before
| he had been in Geneva and looked at
| the monuments to Calvin and to Ser
vetus Che Christian brother whom
| Calvin had caused to be roasted alive
| by slow fire for five hours,. The lat
ter monument had been erected by
| Calvin's followers to show that they
had no sympathy with their leaders
course in this matter.
| Pastor Russell declared that Calvin
had not invented the Doctrine of Elec
| ton, for 1t was in the Bible fifteen