Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-03-15

them back into harmony with Gods |
Law, fully justified through the blood |
Of the Redeemer. Not only the Jews |
failed to see the necessity for a dying |
Savior, but the whole Gentle world |
may be said to equally fail to grasp the |
import of Jesus death.
The death of Jesus was necessary for |
two reasons: OJ AS mans redemption
price; C2I AS evidcncing His own faith !
! fulness to God, His own loyalty even
unto death, and consequently His right |
to the Divine promise of glorious eX-
altation, compensatlng His devotion,
| His self-saCriliCC, and hOnOring His
name above every name-making Him
partaker Of the Divine nature With
out His redemptiye work, the penalty
Of Divine Justice would have rested
forever upon the human race, and
none could have been resurrected from
| the dead The sentence of death upon
man would bring him to the same con-
dition Of nonentity as the dying Of the
brute accomplishes in him. But God
knew In advance Of His own purpose
to arrange for mankind the payment
Of the penalty through His Son, who
died, the Just for the unjust, to bring
them back into harmony with God.
1t is for this reason that none living
prior to Jesus were accepted to sonship
in Gods family, after Father Adam
lost that privilege through disobedi
ence Only after the redemption could
the invitation to sOnship be extended.
Those who accepted needed to wait
until Pentecost TO receive it, They
waited until Jesus, who died for their
sins, ascended up on High to make
reconciliation on our behalf, Forth.
with the Father accepted all who came
unto Him through Christ, and the Holy
Spirit came upon such, inducing them
into the Divine family as sons.
The difference between the Church
and the world is that the Church is
called out from the world now, when
everything is unfavorabe. while Satan
is unbound, while ignorance and SUI
perstition hold sway, and while the
reign Of sin and death is in progress.
These circumstances make for the
Church a narrow way Of self-sacrifce
in walking in the footsteps Of Jesus
But because of this severer trial of the
. narrow way, the Church is to have the
superior blessing alsO-glOry, honor,
immortality, Divine nature, the First
characterization earthly to Heaven
ly conditions
Then will come the general blessing
which God has provided, through Mes
siuh's sacrifice for the world. All sin
ned in the one man-Adam. All have
been redeemed by the other Man
Christ Jesus. Il Corinthians 1921
All are to be awakened from the sleep
Of death. All are to have a full op-
portunity to come to a knowledge Of
the Truth And all are to be given
everlasting life. who develop the spir-
1t Of holiness. Only the incorrigible,
those who love iniquity and hate right
eousness, will eventually be sentenced
to the Second Death, from which there
will be no recovery.
Necessity For christ's Reign.
More and more we realize that edu-
cation will not do for the world all
that we once hoped. Many Of us hoped
that the education Of the heather would
make saints Of them, forgetting that
education in the homeland has not
made saints very generally. There are
good people moral people, trustworthy
people, who are not Christians at all.
But they are the exceptions. The ma
jority Of people are not sufficiently
strong Of character to stand thus alone
, without the help Of Christ,
The great mass Of mankind seem to
need something in the way OF chastise-
ment, punishment, to Offset the down
ward tendencies Of their own fallen
flesh. A few possibly have been re.
strained by the absurd teaching Of
eternal torment at the hands Of de-
mons, presented for long time in the
name Of Christianity. But the major
lty reason that whoever else gets
these experiences they will not. Thus
we find that nearly all the murderers
imprisoned are such as have known the
erroneous teaching Of eternal torment,
, and yet have been unabashcd thereby.
, In other words, they have given an
outward assent to the teaching, but
really have never believed 1t or been
> Influenced by It,
What the world needs Is strong
government which will hold In re.
straInt the weaker and baser elements
, of society, and seek to help them up
] out Of their difficulties. But no gov
ernment yet devised Is either strong
, enough or wise enough to accomplish
a much along these lines This Is evil
> denced by the fact that crime increases
In proportion with intelligence; 40
much so TINT, using all Of our modern
, npplances-telephones, telegraphs, die
a tographs. etc.-we are scarcely able Ia
I keep even with lawbreakers.
All who have anything 10 do with
q police affairs shudder at the thought Of
!. what might occur should the time eveI
come when the majority Of n city
. should become stubborn and vicious
4 through lack Of work, want " bread
!. etc. They tell us TINT such conditions
i. would let loose the tiger Of human pas
a yions MS II has never before been knowr
q in the world, for the tiger Is now edu
a cated. and the masses nrc on pnl