The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-02-28

the bud. Every evil deed will he
promptly punished in it's incipency.
without being allowed to progress to
the injury of others Soon the great
! lessons Of the glorious rule of Messiah
will be recognized and appreciated;
and as development will he made in
the reattainment OF the Divine like
ness. all OF its beauties will be appre.
riated and everywhere seen
Judging Quick and Dead.
! All those experiences of humanity
under Mrssah's Kingdom are in Scrip
| turai iangla@e declared to be iudg.
mentS; HAT is. teStingS. provings That
| great Day Of Messiah. thousand
years long. is Scripturally STYLED the
! my 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
OF trial. If found worthy. will be Civ
ell the reward Of glory. honor immor.
, tally. and will be made the Judges OF
the world. know ye not that the
saints shall judge the world:"--l Cor
inthians o.
st. Paul referred TO that Thousand
Year Day. and described il as the fu-
ture Day Of Judgment. saying. God
hath appointed Day in the which He
will judge the world in righteousness
by that Man whom He hath ordained
facts lT:3l., The Christ will have the
judgment Of the world in His hands
The Christ has Jesus as its Head aud
the Church as its Body. as St Paul has
declared. -Ephesians l:222. %
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. Re
cause all were sinners it was ueces.
sary that all should be redeemed. 10
order that they might have that com.
ing Judgment The very object OF the
redemption was to settle forever HE.
brews t0:t2I the death sentence pro-
uouuced against Adam aud inherited
by all Of his race.
All were redeemed. and all are to be-
set free from that Adamic condemna-
ton 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 tile rewards OF that trial
will be in respect TO their course after
they are freed from tue Adalnk. sen
tence. 1t will not include anything done
by them prior to their being set free.
He Who Sins, Suffers.
DULY the Church at the present time
are Oh Judgment. or trial. for everlast-
ing life or everlasting death. because
only the consecratcd are set free by
the Redeemer. AS it is written. We
were children of wrath even as 9th
ers." tEphesians 2:3.i Nor will the
world he on trial. or Judgment for
everlasting fife until they shall have
been brought TO a very clear KNOW
edge of God. OF His arrangements for
them. and OF their opportunities.
However, there is another law OPP
Grating. which affects every member
OF Adams race. Whoever sins liz
tie suffers proportionateiy. Whoever
sins much suffers proportionately. But
such punishments for sin are not unto
eteruai death. They are merely transi-
tory and on account Of miSdeeds. and
have no bearing whatever on the origi.
nal sin unto death and the redemption
from it, The maD or the woman who
tranSgreSseS q law OF nature suffers
If be trapsSresses a moral law. he
suffers also He who steals or who
murders or SANDERS another. and seeu,-
ingiy meets with no retributiou ~ the
present life. nevertheless does not es-
cape-not even il his conscience be-
comes scared and be can forget his
miSdeeds.
II is a law Of our nature that the
very finest OF our powers are the most
easily injured Thus he who Injuries
hs conscience dumages thai which is
most difficult to repair. Those who
have scared their consciences will. dur
ing the thousand years. have the most
difficulty in regainins the image aud
likeness OF God. without which they
can never have everlasting life
st. Paul, after assuring us that LAS
all IN Adam die, SO all in Christ shall
be made alive" adds. Every man in
his own order" or class q Cornthl-
ans l5:22. 23.p This suggests that God
has the world identified by classes. Us
well as individually The Church class
will be trst--tbe Chief Resurrection
tRevelatiou 2O:6.t None will be IN 1t
except those accounted worthy to share
in the afessianic Throne aud Kingdom
Later on will come the resurrection
vi the worthy ones OF ancient uuIes--
Abraham. Isaac. Jacob and all ine
Prophets. Their resurrection will be
to human perfection. as examples OF
what al meD can attain. II they will
he obedieni to Alessiabs righteous re.
quirelueuts
Then will come the world every
man IN his owU order" All will liz
awakened. Each will have an oppor.
tunity vi coming 10 kDowledge OF