Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-08-09

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Students Associa.
Z lion. lie had heard that Bible stu
dents were scarce In France, but al
ready he had found some very alert
I for clearer light upon the Word or
/ God now due because we are in the
dawning Of the New Dispcnsation.
( Once he and other Bible students,
/ confused with the errors Of the Dark
/ Ages, thought of man as n spirit being
I Inhahlting body Of flesh. coming into
it at birth and departing from 1t AT
I death Bible study is rapidly driving
away that error. The Bible clearly
| tells that the genus homo is an animal
( being, Of the earth earthy-not heav
1 emily or spirit being This is In har-
/ mony with what science has been tell
/ ing us--that which we could not re-
/ ceive until we found Il TO be the Mes
/ snge 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 It's better shape than that OF the
I brutes Indicate his knowledge and In
teIiectual superiority over them. He Is
to them Gods representative-their
king. created in the moral image and
likeness of his Creator.
I The fact that man dies has led some
to the conclusion that he Is spirit be
ing and at eeath merely finds release
from his body of flesh and soars back
again TO a spirit condition IN which he
once was. How inconsistent! How H.
logicall The Bible tells. on the con
trary, that God made man as He de-
sired TO have bim--adapted exactly
to the conditions provided for him
an earthly Eden, Paradise. The Bible
tells that God proposed TO him ever
lasting life cs man on condition OF
continued obedience. It explains that
dying IL not going home, nor going to
eternal torment. but ceasing 10 be.
"Joy In the Morning"
This penalty passed upon Father
/ Adam-he lost the right to live and
fell under the sentence. Dying, thou
shalt die" I'm the sweat Of thy face
shalt thou eat bread until thou return
unto the ground from which thou vast
taken" Genesis iii. 1917 The fallen.
death sentenced Adam could not give
TO his children rights which he had
lost. Hence we are all sinners by IN
heptance. We are all dying. BY one
mans disobedience sin entered into the
world, and death as result of sin, and
/ thus death passed upon oil men. be
] oil a. ~ y
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
/ night, but Joy eometh in the morning"
The signs that we are In the morn
7 ing, the gray light Of the New Day. are
/ already manifest to those who are
awake. The wonderful blessings TINT
I have-come to mankind during the last
/ century. and particularly during the
! last lfty years, are foregleams Of the
great Day Of Messiah. the Day Of
earth's reconciliation. the Day Of the
cancelling Of the penalty Of death. tho
Day in which God. through Messiah.
( will wipe away all tears from off all
faces. The result Of that Day, thou
sand years long. will be that all the
willing aud obedient win be uplifted
and all the wifully disobedlent and
wicked will be remanded to death-"the
Second Death."-Reye.ation TX, Ii
Why So Long psIay7
II IS easy TO see why these blessings
Of Restitution aud 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-
pllshed until two things would first be
done one was that n redetuptiye
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. humbled Himself to
human nature, and then the Man
Christ Jesus gave Himself Ransom.
price for all This is plain.
But. according TO the win of God, I'm
stead Of beginning the blessing Of the
world. He did 6rst another work,
namely, the gathering Of the Church
TO be His Bride. Their invitation
Is 10 suffer with Him and to reign
with Him-to present their bodies
living sacrifices. holy and acceptable
to God through Christ (Romaus
XII. ~ So consecrated. the flesh Of
all believers is counted as the flesh Of
Jesus. and suffers. as such. trills. ig.
nominles--''Let as 90 70 Him outside
the camp, bearing His rcproach:' al
ways bearing about In the body the
dying OF the Lord Jesus. Hebrews
Kill, 10: III Corinthians IL, 10.