Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-01

lessons of the glorious rule of Messiah
will be recognized and appreciated;
and as development will be made IN
the reattainment Of the Divine like
ness, all Of its beauties will be appre-
clated and everywhere seen.
Judging Quick and Dead,
All those experiences Of humanity
under Messiah's Kingdom are in Scrip
tural language declared to be judg-
ments; that is, testings, provings. That
great Day Of Messiah, thousand
years long. is Scripturally styled the
Day Of Judgment. The Church will not
be on Judgment or trial, then; but the
world. The Church, walking by faith,
and not by sight, is having her trial
now. The faithful Of the Church now
on trial, If found worthy, will be CIV
en- the reward Of glory, honor, immor-
tallty, and will be made the judges Of
the world. know ye not that the
saints shall judge the world?"-1 Cor
inthians SO.
st. Paul referred to that Thousand
Year Day, and described 1t as the fu-
ture Day of Judgment saying, God
hath appointed a Day in the which He
will judge the world in righteousness
by that Man whom He hath ordained"
(Acts 17;31.) The Christ will have the
Judgment of the world In His hands,
The Christ has Jesus as its Head and
the Church as its Body, as St. Paul has
declared. Ephesians 1:22, %.
The judgment Of the world will not
be in respect to whether or not they
have been sinners; for that God has
already determined. AS the Scriptures
declare, all men are sinners. That COM
ing judgment will not be to see which
of these sinners is really worthy Of life
and which worthy Of death; for that
also was determined by the Lord long
ago, when He passed the sentence OF
death upon all, without exception. Be
cause all were sinners 1t was neces.
sary that all should be redeemed, in
order that they might have that com.
ing judgment The very object Of the
redemption was to settle forever The.
brews 1922 the death sentence pro-
nounced against Adam and inherited
by all Of his race,
All were redeemed, and all are to be
set free from that Adamic condemna
tion. The moment they are set free
from the condemnation Of the past
they will be put on trial, or Judgment
for themselves. From that moment
their responsibility will begin. the re-
suit of which will be either everlast.
Ing life or everlasting death-Second
Death. And the rewards Of that trial
will be in respect to their course after
they are freed from the Adamic SEN
tence. 1t will not include anything done
by them prior to their being set free.
He Who Sins, Suffers.
Only the Church at the present time
are on judgment. or trial. for everlast
Ing life or everlasting death. because
only the consecrated are set free by
the Redeemer. As 1t Is written. I'VE
we're children of wrath even as 9th.
ers." (Ephesians 2;3) Nor will the
world be on trial, or judgment, for
everlasting life until they shall have
been brought to very clear knowl-
edge Of God, of His arrangements for
them, and Of their opportunities.
However, there Is another law op.
Grating, which affects every member
Of Adams race. Whoever sins lit
tie suffers proportlonately, Whoever
sins much suffers proportionately. But
such punishments for sin are not unto
eternal death. They are merely transi
tory and on account Of misdeeds and
have no bearing whatever on the origl
nal sin unto death and the redemption
from It. The man or the woman who
transgresses law Of nature suffers.
II he transgresses moral law, he
suffers also. lie who steals or who
murders or ISLANDERS another, and seem
ingly meets with no retribution In the
present life, nevertheless does not es-
cOpe-not even If his conscience be-
comes scared and he can forget his
misdeGds
II Is law Of our nature that the
very finest Of our powers are the most
easily injured Thus he who Injuries
his conscience damages that which is
most difficult to repair Those who
have scared their consciences will, dur.
Ing the thousand years, have the most
difficulty in regaining the image and
likeness of God, without which they
can never have everlasting life
st. Paul, after assuring MS that AS
all In Adam die, so all in Christ shall
be made alive" adds, Every man In
his own order" or clnss. Il Corlnthi.
ans 1922, 23) This suggests that God
has the world identified by classes, as
well as individually The Church class
viii be nrst-the Chief Resurrection
(Reyelatlon 206l None win be in II
except those accounted worthy to share
In the Messianic Throne and Kingdom
Later on will come the resurrection
OF the worthy ones Of ancient times
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and all the
Prophets. Their resurrection will be
to human perfection, as examples Of
what all men can attain, II they will
be obedlent to Messiah's righteous re-
quIrements.
Then viii come the world, every
man In his own order" All will be
awakened Each will have an oppor.
tunlty Of coming to knowledge OF