The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-08-21

Royal Priesthood for q thousand year
for their edincatien, Instruction and
uplifting out Of sin, degradation
death, back to full perfection Of the
image Of God In the flesh, freely pro
vided for all who WIN come unto the
Father through the precious arrange
ments then operative.
The same original sin Of Adam wal
inherited BY an Of his race and there.
fore was as much against the class
chosen as The church as against the
remainder OF the world. This the
Apostle declares, saying, I'VE Nhe
church, were children Of wrath, ever
as others" (Ephesians II, 81 We
have merely been delivered from the
curse, the death sentence, In advance
Of the world as q result of special Di.
vine favor enjoyed by us-whether
that favor consisted In not being SC
seriously fallen as some, or whether il
consisted in special opportunities for
coming into this grace. And II the
Church has enjoyed some special IA.
vor of God in being constituted the
| first-fruits Of His creatures to be de-
livered from the power Of sin and
death, why should we ever have i'm
agined that He had no grace whatever
remaining for our less fortunate
brethren (he world in generally And
how could we think Of ourselves of
the Church as the first-fruits and sup
pose that there would be no after
fruits-no general harvest for the
world?-James i, 10.
Our text forcefully calls attention to
this double action OF Divine grace
first upon the Church and secondly
upon the woodland points us to the
fact that the salvation of the willing of
the Church Of this Age, and the saliva
ton Of the willing Of the world In the
next Age-two distinct situations
both proceed or result from the one re-
demptive sacrifice Of the Lord Jesus
Christ finished at Calvary. Notice the
statement, HE Is the Precipitation (sat-
isfaction) for our sins fhe Church's
SINS. and not for ours only. but also for
the sins a. .sa pholc porld."
WV; Truth Injure7
| Many minister's all over the world,
| following the suggestions Of the /. b.
8. A. Convention, have informed their
congregations and the world in gen.
eral through the newspapers that they
do not believe in hell Of eternal tor
ture. and that they do not believe that
the Bible, rightly interpreted, teaches
this. But there are others who, by
some influence, take an opposite course.
They denounce the Bible Students,
and myself in particular, for telling
the people the Truth. These ministers,
generally without much influence even
In their own congregations, have, am
told, threatened the newspapers all
over the world that are publishing my
sermons that they will, boycott them
and influence their Congregations.
But the editors are finding out that
narrow minded people never have
much influence, good or bad. Hence
the sermons still appear in nearly if
teen hundred newspapers in the Eng
fish language and are spreading. l am
told. into the German and Swedish.
These brethren claim that the world
is likely to be injured and to be turned
away from God and the Bible by its
proper Interpretation. We answer, Not
so. After the preaching Of eternal tor
ment for sixteen centuries the net re
suit is that everybody is closing faith
in the Bible. which has been misin-
terpreted. and many are even losing
faith in a personal Creator Is It not
time, even for policy's sake. to discon-
tinue the Misrepresentation of God and
His character to see II the Truth will
not accomplish more than the error
has done? And aside from the policy
question, If we have been slandering
our Creator and misrepresenting the
Bible for centuries, is it not all the
more incumbent upon us now to set the
matter right?
Who will deny the fact that life and
property are less secure in 30 called
Christian lands, where the eternal tor
ment has been preached for centuries,
than in any other part OF the world?
We assure the dear brethren who are
lcdl III llluC VIC navy MANY
to prove the very contrary of their
fears-to prove that better knowledge
of God and His love. as expressed In
the Divine Plan of the Ages. is help
ing many. not only out Of ignorance
and darkness. but also out of indif-
ference and wickedness, into fellow
ship with God. But anyway, how dare
we. as Christian ministers. either d.
rectly or indirectly, SANDER the charac-
ter of our God in a way and to degree
that we would resent II charged against
our worst enemy?
We fear that some Of these misguid-
ed brethren are more solicitous for
their own supposed welfare and the
supposed interest of their own church
es than for the glory of God or the
welfare Of the people. They are afraid
to have the people see the light of
Present Truth and gain clear COM
prehension Of the Bible, possibly be-
cause they fear that this would reflect
upon them as not having properly in
structed the people. They seem to
know that If the people will read they
will be convinced-and II convinced,
they will no longer be sectarian, nor
pay good money TO help to misrepre-