Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-08-17

through specially severe trlals anu teSt-
ings of faith and obedience, under the
inspiration of certain exceeding great
and precious promises III Peter |, a.
of share with Jesus in the divine ma
ture and glory. honor and immortality
This selecting work began with nat
ural Israel. and has extended now
gradually the world around, gathering
from every nation samples and repre-
sentatives, but all sanity; all In heart
at least copies of Gods dear Son, The
Redeemer. With the dawning of the
Seventh Great Day--the Day of Christ
this work of electing or selecting
a special class of saints TO constitute
His Bride and joint-heirs In the King
dom will be complete. Then will be-
gin the salvation of the world-the
reclamation or Restitution Of the world
from sin and death conditions. made
possible by the great redempiye work
of Calvary.
"olory In the Highest"
From what we have seen Of the d.
vine provision for mans recovery we
grasp the force Of the prophetic dec
laration following the question OF our
text--"What is man, that Thou art
mindful of him--the son Of man, that
Thou visltest himT When we think
Of the greatness Of our God, and the
littleness of ourselves. even In our
best estate. and especially when we
think that we are all sinners, we are
amazed that our great Creator was
mindful Of us-mlndful Of preparing
great Plan of Salvation-willing 10 pro
/ vide for our redemption, and making
preparation for the Kingdom which Is
to bless the race! Can we doubt that
He who has 80 loved the world while
they were yet sinners will bring His
Plan to glorious consummationi
Can we doubt that He will do all that
He has promised, exceedingly abun-
dantly more than we could have asked
or neutrality-suspicious. Ill. 70.
Do not understand me to say that
! the Bible teaches universal saliva
ton of our race to life eternal. No.
that would be unreasonable. That
would imply Divine coercion of the
human will, and such coercion
would be contrary to the teachings OF
the Scriptures--that man Is created IN
Gods image and likeness. An essen
tlal feature of the Divine likeness IN
man is the freedom of his will; his
body may be coerced or enslaved or
what not. but the human will Is In
domitable like that of his Creator,
It is evidently not the Divine inten'
ton to destroy the human Will. but to
educate tito allow It to develop as
will. along the lines of experience, SO
that It may be voluntarily submitted
to the Divine will because of apprecia'
ton of the wisdom Of all the Divine
arrangements. regulations. laws. ETC.
The Divine proposition, therefore, IS
that as all mankind shared by heredl'
ty the sentence Of death which came
upon the Hrst man Adam, so the re-
demption accomplished by the Second
Adam shall be co-extensive with the
fall, SO that all Adams race who will
do so may return to God and be abun-
dainty pardoned and finally restored
to all that was lost in Adam and re-
deemed at Calvary.
And what. you ask, will be the fate
Of those who wllfully, deliberately,
persistently, lntelligently resist the
Divine will and refuse the glorious op-
Iportunity Of Restitution? The Bible
answers that all will be on trial for
life eternal or for death eternal, and
that those who refuse the conditions
Of heart loyalty and obedience Will
bring upon themselves afresh the sen
tence Of death But this second sen
tence will differ from the first not IN
the kind Of punishment, but In the
duration thereof.
The frst or Adamic death God from
the first foreordained should be set
aside, and from the very beginning He
had made preparations for the Lamb
OF God to take away the sin of the
world, and to consequently make pos
sible for our race a resurrection from
the dead and a further opportunity or
trial for everlasting life. Wllful sin
ners under the light and opportunity
Of that day, when condemned to death
viii die no more thoroughly than be
fore, but their death will be a hope
less one; no Redeemer has been ap'
portioned for them and none will be
apportioned. no redemption for them
will be effected and no resurrection
will be granted. AS st. Peter declares
they shall perish like natural brute
beasts made to be taken and destroy
ed."-u Peter ii, -.
Some at least in this audience,
trust, have been mentally touched will
the thought Of the great grace of Coz
operating during this Age for the Sc
lection Of jolnt-belrs with Christ In the
Kingdom. / trust that this high ant
heavenly Calling to a change Of natur'
from human to the divine, offered t
the "elect," meets with response II
some hearts here present would en-
courage you. that although the night #
far spent and the glorious Day Of th'
Kingdom is nigh at hand, 1t Is still
worth while to '1ay aside ever
weight" and every besetting sin. ant
make a full conservation Of life ant
energy, wealth, reputation, little o
much, to the Divine service, that thu
you may walk in the footsteps Of Jesus
he begotten Of the Holy Spirit and at