The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-19
THEJUDGMENT
DAY BRINGS A
RECOMPENSE
DR.. WISDOM DELIVERED INTER
ESTiNG LECTURE ON "LoVE OF
GOD AND FIRE OF HELL" TO A
LARGE NUMBER OF HEARERS
AT SAN CARLOS AUDITORIUM.

Mr.. w. NJ. Wisdom, of New York
City, delivered his lecture on The
Love of God and The Fire of He'll to
a large and attentive audience Sunday
afternoon in the San Carlos audi
toriun.
The speaker had the closest atten-
ton throughout. In summing up he
said: by providing the Lord Jesus
Christ as the Redeemer of the church
and the world, God has made possible
: trial or judgment for Adam and his
race. Adams first judgment or trial
day was in Eden. There he lost every
thing by his disobedience and brought
upon himself and all of his race the
divine sentence to death. Christ has
appeared that He might redeem Adam
and his race, for the very purpose of
giving them individually full, fair
trial or judgment for life everlasting
or death everlasting.
That general Judgment Day men
toned by st. Pau is neither a damna
ton day nor a tWenty-four hour day.
1t is the thousand day of Christ
the period of His Mediatoria1 reign, in
the which Satan will be bound, all
evil influences be removed and the
light of the knowledge of the glory
of God be made to fill the whole |
earth.
Sod Hath Appointed Day"
The Mediatorial reign will be the
Day of Judgment. or trial. in the sense
that all mankind, the living and the
dead, will then be brought to a full |
knowledge Of God and to full oppor- |
tunity to regain by resurrection pro- |
cesses complete uplift from all weak |
neSses, imperfeCtions and Ignorance. !
Sins to the extent that they were will |
full will to the same extent be punish |
able and receive a just recompense of |
reward (Heb. 2:2) Every good en- |
deavor will be rewarded and every |
transgression will be punished.
But why did not God wait until |
the Messianic Age and give them all |
a surprise? Why did He send them !
the message of His love and a revela
ton of this knowledge of His future
the past eighteen centuries have
proven, namely, that few of mankind
would have the hearing ear and that
fewer still, after hearing, would so love
righteousness and so hate iniquity as
to sacrifice the interests of the present
life by espousing the Gospel message,
of sin, and seeking to live
a sanity life, in opposition to all I'M
God Knows.
Yes, we answer, it is written,
known unto God are all His works
from the beginning of the world. God
surely knew that the message of His
grace would generally fall upon ears
that were dull of hearing That we
Right know this He caused it to be
written in the prophecies in advance,
that few would have the hearing ear
for His message of love and mercy.
We answer that there was two rea-
sons for His so doing:
% He intended that a witness
should be given so that those compre-
hending would have an incentive to a
of life. He wished all to
clares that he who knew not and was
would be punished with
few stripes, while those
who knew better and sinned with de
liberation would be punished with
many stripcs-in that New DISPENSE
ton.
CD Another reason for the promul-
cation of the Gospel Message is that
COD wishes to use this message as
primary lesson TO do a primary work of
for n special class of elect
whom He is seeking in the
present time before the inauguration
IF the MediatoriaI Kingdom. He calls
these His Jewels the Bride of Christ
His members
Competent Judges.
THE experiences of this class in the ,
present life, battling against the world
and the flesh and the Devil and COM
ng off conquerors through the as
sistance of the great High Priest. will
make them competent judges of the
world; competent priests to assist and
% bless the world; competent under
priests to govern the world from the
spirit plane.
I'VE are glad to warn all men every
where - report, and glad also to give
hem the good reason why they should !
'epent-to tell them of Gods appointed
lime, the Messianic Epoch, in which all /
shall have a full opportunity of gain t
ng eternal life through Christ. We j
IRE glad to assure them that every +
sndeayor for righteousness put forth
now will bring large returns of char G
icter development and better position :
hem We warn them that every will ,
'ul aggression, all wiifui ignorance t
sill react upon them to their disad +
and make for their shame and ;
asting contempt, under the glorious
sunlight of that New Day. 1t vii ?
search out and expose to all humanity {
heir weaknesses, their sins, to the {
extent that these have been recognized +
n approved or have rot been re- ?
sisted.