The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-25


ton. He had heard that Bible stu
dents were scarce In France. but al
ready he had found some very alert
for clearer light upon the Word OF
God now due because we are in the
dawning Of the New Dispensation.
Once he and other Bible students,
confused with the errors Of the Dark
Ages, thought Of man as spirit being
lnhnbiting body of flesh, coming into
it at birth and departing from it at
death. Bible study Is rapidly driving
away that error. The Bible clearly
tells that the genus homo is an animal
being, of the earth earthly not heav-
emily or spirit being. This Is ia har-
mony with what science has been tell
ing us-that which we could not re-
ceiye until we found 1t to be the Mes
sage Of God The Bible does not place
man upon an equality with the brute,
but far above. His superiority is that
of form and species His larger brain
and its better shape than that OF the
hrutes indicate his knowledge and In
telIectual superiority over them. BE IS
to them Gods representatiye-their
king, created in the moral image and
likeness Of his Creator.
The fact that man dies has led some
to the conclusion that he is spirit be-
ing and at death merely finds release
from his body of flesh and scars back
again to n spirit condition in which he
once was How inconsistent! How II
logical The Bible tells. on the con-
trary. that God made man as He de-
sired to have him-adapted exactly
to the conditions provided for him
an earthly Eden. Paradise. The Bible
tells that God proposed to him ever
lasting life as a man on condition of
continued obedience. 1t explains that
dying is not going home, nor going to
eternal torment, but ceasing to be.
"Joy Ia tho Morning"
This penalty passed upon Father
| Adam-4he lost the right to live and
| fell under the sentence, dying. thou
| shalt die" TN the sweat OF thy face
| shalt thou eat bread until thou return
unto the ground from which thou vast
| taken" Genesis iii. 19) The fallen.
death-sentenced Adam could not give
to his children rights which he had
| lost. Hence we are MI sinners by In
| heritanee. We are all dying. By one
mans disobedience sin entered into the
world, and death as result of sin, and
thus death passed upon all men, be
| cause all are sinners. Romans Y, IL.
i The Scriptures speak of the past and
/ present as a night time of sorrow and
pain and trouble. but tell of the New
/ Dispensation, when the curse shall be
removed. and style that a Glorious
/ Day, in which the Sun of Righteous
ness shall arise and drive sins clouds
/ away God through the Prophet de-
! clares, weeping may endure for the
4 night, but joy cometh in the morning.
The signs that we are in the morn
i ing. the gray light Of the New Day. are
! already manifest to those who are
/ awake. The wonderful blessings that
have come to mankind during the last
century. ana particularly during the
last fifty years. are foregleams of the
great Day of Messiah, the Day Of
eartl's reconciliation, the Day of the
cancelling Of the penalty of death, the
Day in which God, through Messiah,
will wipe away all tears from off all
faces. The result of that Day, a thou
sand years long. will be that NIL the
willing aud obedient will be uplifted
and all the wilfully disobedient and
wicked will be remanded to death-"th
Second Death."- Revelation Xxx, IA.
/ Why So Long DeIay7
1t is easy to see why these blessings
OF Restitution and uplifting out of sin
and death conditions did not begin be-
fore the first advent of the Redeemer
The uplifting work could not be accom-
plished until two things would first be
done. One was that redemptive
price needed to be given. Adams life
was forfeited. The life OF Redeem
err must be given In his stead This
was what Jesus did. He left His
heavenly glory. hnmbled Himself tc
human nature. and then the Mar
Christ Jesus gave Himself Ransom
price for all This is plain.
But. according to the VIII Of God. In
stead Of beginning the blessing Of the
world, He did first another work
namely. the gathering Of the Church
to be His Bride. Their Invitation
is to suffer with Him and to reigr
with Him--to present their bodies
living sacrifices. holy and acceptable
to God through Christ. (Roman,
XII. IL So consecrated. the flesh Of
all believers Is counted as the flesh OF
Jesus. and suffers. as such, trials. liz
nominles-"Let us 70 to Him outside
the camp. bearing His reproach;" al
ways hearing abont In the body ths
dying of the Lord Jesus. - Hebrews
xiii, 10; II Corinthians IL. 10