The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-06-24

Let US note carefully LndL as pe71SHtng
does not mean eternal torture, so the
Redemption price which Jesus gave Is
not eternal torture nor purgatorial suf-
fering. but-death Christ died for the
ungodly." Other Scriptures tell US that
the death Of Jesus was a Ransom
price. or price corresponding to the
penalty that was upon Father Adam
and inherited by his race. The Bible
thus explains that God, by providing
an equivalent price for the sin-penalty
against Adam can be just In releasing
US from the death penalty.
All Saved From Perishing.
The simple proposition of the Bible
is that as Adam and all of his race
legally persisted. so they have all been
legally redeemed from that persisted
condition--the death of Jesus being the
Satisfaction price. 1t is because of
US that there is to be "a resurrection
Of the dead, both of the just and the
unjust" because all were redeemed
redeemed from the persisted condition
Hence the Bible lays great stress
upon the resurrection of the dead, and
further. 1t assures us that the resurrec-
ton of mankind must wait until the
completion OF the Church. Then the
Second Coming of Christ will be in
order. that He may exalt His Church
with Himself MS the reigning Power
the Spiritual Seed OF Abraham. which
God for four thousand years has prom
ised shall be exalted to glory for the
very purpose of blessing all the fam
lilies of the earth-the non-elect.
"Them That Sleep In jesus"
Surely no Bible. student worthy of
the name has overlooked the fact that
the Bible everywhere speaks of the
dead as asleep-nowhere does 1t tell
about their being In Heavenly glory
or purgatorial suffering. or in hell Of
torment Neglect of the Word Of God
has confused our poor, imperfect judg
-ments We lost our way in the fogs
of the Dark Ages. conjured up by Sn
tan In support of his lie. ''Ye shall not
surely die" and in contradiction of the
Lords Word THE soul that sinneth 1t
| shall die Ezekiel 1874. 20.
Now we remember that Jesus plain
ly said. mo man hath assembled up to
Heaven Now we remember that nei-
Their Lazarus nor any awakened from
death had any tales to tell respecting
the things seen or heard when dead
| Now we remember the particular dec
laration of Gods Word. 1.-THE dead
know not anything" Now we remem-
Der that the Scriptures teach that the
dead are asleep-our own unconscious
ness every night being an illustration
to us. If we had only needed the Word
Of God instead of the word Of men
Now we see that the death state is call
ed sleep. because of Gods intention
to have great awakening, or resurrec-
ton of the dead. 1t will come in the
morning of the New Dispensation.
The One who died for mans sin is to
be the great Restorer who will awaken
all the sleeping ones. Did He not H.
lustrate this at His First Advent and
thus show forth the glories of His com
ing Kingdom? Did He not declare
that Jairus' daughter was asleep, and
awaken her? And did He not say,
Lazarus sleepeth." and awaken him ?
He did not resurrect any Of these.
They were merely awakened-and be-
fore the time for the general awaken
Ing. Hence they fell asleep again. A
great awakening Day, however, is near
at hand. the Pastor declared.
He carried his hearers back to the
remote past He reminded them OF
the record respecting Abraham, that
he slept with his fathers. He asked
who the fathers were and where they
slept. and replied that they were hea-
| then. He asked whether they could
sleep in Heaven, or whether they
could sleep in so warm place as Pur-
gatory is supposed to be, or in the still
more unreasonable hell. He took 1t for
granted, apparently, that his hearers
agreed with him that sleep under such
conditions would be impossible, and
that the only conclusion must be that
they slept in death.
The Pastor reminded them that SINH
lar expressions were used In respect to
the good and bad kings and judges and
prophets. They were gathered to their
fathers, they slept with their fathers.
Similarly, when st. Stephen was stoned
to death, we read that 'he fell on
Sleep" He cited St Paul as teaching
that all the Church will sleep, except
those who are alive at the time Of the
Second Coming of Jesus: I'VE shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed"
He quoted Jesus words, "All that are
In the graves shall hear His [Jesus'l
voice and shall come forth"-the faith
full, the sanity, to a resurrection of
Interpretation, honor; the remainder
of mankind unto resurrection Of trial.
testing Corinthians 1851.
Without the death of Jesus, said the
Pastor. all of the race would be per-
ished, and only In the resurrection
have we any ground whatever for be-
lieving in salvation from death Only
because Christ died is there an oppor-
tunity for the Church during this Cos
! pei Age to respond to "high calling
to the Divine nature. Likewise only
through the merit OF Christ's death
will the world Of mankind be saved
from perishing and have an opportu-
nifty during Messiah's Kingdom to be
recovered from sin and death condi-
tons, from ignorance, superstition
etc.-from the tomb.
Gradually they will be raised ND. ND.
up, In the image and likeness of God
In the flesh, ultimately to enjoy Him
forever In worldwide Paradise, from
which will be cut off in the Second
Death all wilful evil-doers, all who pre-
fer sin to righteousness, when the
Truth shall be made clear to them and
when the opportunity will be fully
within their grasp. incidentally. the
Pastor mentioned gross mistransla-
ton of the inspired Word In John
5:29 namely, resurrection of damna-
ton" The Greek word here, he said.
Is krisis. and has not in 1t the slightest
suggestion of fire or torture or suffer
ing. The Revised Version renders this
verse properly "a resurrection of
Judgment"
Only "He That Believeth."
l am not forgetting, said the speak
er, that our text proffers Divine bless
ings only to believers. Neither am l
forgetting that only a few are believ-
ers In the Scriptural sense now. Sta
tistics mention four hundred millions
of Christians; but Us we all know, this
Includes practically everybody in Eu-
rope and America, with a few In Asia
and Africa. 1t includes many in pris-
ons and insane asylums, penitentiaries,
etc. And that leaves three times as
many whom we call heather, who have
no knowledge of Christ Whatever