River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-12-04

dying began when he was perfect. IL
included all the processes which final
ly led him to the tomb. His resurrec-
ton, or raising again. will not signify
merely his coming from the tomb. but
will include all the steps of progress
up, up, back to all that he was at first
to all that he lost through sin-to all
that was redeemed for him at Calvary.
And the same principle will hold with
all his children, his race. In him they
all fell from pe&fection. and through
Christ they may all reattain the perfec-
ton which they lost.
Only Two Exceptions.
This blessing Of Restitution will in
clude the whole race. with two eXcep-
lions. The first exception will be those
who will reject the gift Of God eternal
life. through Jesus Christ our Lord, by
refusing to cooperate with God in the
love and service of righteousness and
in the hatred of iniquity.
The second exception will be the
Church Of this Gospel Age-not the
nominal Church, but the Church whose
names are written in Heaven-all
saints. out Of all nations and denom-
nations. These will not be returned
to the perfectio4 of Adam. because ac-
cording to the call of this Gospel Age
they are invited to a change of nature,
and in the present life experience a
begetting of the Holy Spirit. Ii faith
full, they will share the Firsts or SUI
periOr, Resurrection. and will be made
perfect on the Heavenly plane, that
they may be associated With the Mas
ter in the great work of blessing and
uplifting humanity in general
Satan the lncorrieible.
For all these six thousand years Sa-
tan has maintained his attitude of en-
nifty toward God and antagonism to
ward all the Divine arrangements
laws and regulations God, all-power,
full, could have restrained Satan at
any moment if He chose. The fact
that He has allowed him to remain
and to practise to some extent his
evil work assures us that the results
will fully justify the course pursued by
the Almighty.
In the sight of the holy angels, the
vicious, schemipg, plotting. deceiving
lying, murderous spirit of Satan has
been fully manifest; and by and by the
whole world of mankind. now subject
to his receptions, will be fully recov'
cred and fully informed respecting
them. God undoubtedly sees that the
permitting Of sin to take its course
will eventually bring to the world, tc
angels and to the Church. a wider
knowledge of good and evil, of right
and wrong, than could have been com
municated to them in any other way.
Satan, evidently always hopeful that
he might OutWit the Almighty and &C
complish his purpose, has especially
labored during the past nineteen cen
turtles. When he could not seduce the
great Redeemer to disloyalty to God
he sought to put Him to ignominious
death, only to find that in this he had
fulfilled the Scriptures. Later, in per
scouting the Church and in bringing
in damnable heresies. through seducing
spirits intoxicating doctrines of demons
Satan has sought to turn the hearts OF
all against the Heavenly Father, and
to mislead them in respect to the Di
vine character and Plan.
The Kingdom and Its Work.
Gods great Plan will soon have ma
tured Soon the Church will be com
pleted. Then Christ will receive hel
to Himself as His Bride and int-heil
in His Kingdom. Then the work OF
that Kingdom, the rescue of the world
will begin Mankind must first be res
cued from error superstition, dark
ness, ignorance of God, brought on
them by Satan. He shall see the
wreck of all his deep-laid schemes, but
he will be powerless to any further
deceive humanity and misrepresent the
Creator. One of the first acts of Mes
siah in His Kingdom will be to "lay
hold on that old Serpent, the Devil
and bind him a thousand years, that
he may deceive the nations no more y
Revelation 20:1-3.
Sins Wage Is Death.
Our great Creator has one Law fol
His Empire: 1.-THE wages of sin is
death; the gift of God is eternal life
Satan was given this gift; but it was
onditional-dependent upon his obedi
ence. From the moment of his rebel
lion he was worthy of the sentence OF
death But it was not decreed. Time
was given him to see the folly of his
course. Century after century increas-
ed Satan's spirit of opposition to God
and to righteousness. Even the terri
Bile disaster of sickness, sorrow and
death which he has brought upon man
Lind srnrund him not from his evil