The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-03-14

forgive human sin and to raise man.
kind out of their degradation and bring
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 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: Q AS mans redemption
price; (o) AS evidencing His own faith
fulness to God. His own loyalty even
unto death. and consequently His right
| to the Divine promise of glorious ex-
altation. compensating His devotion,
| His self-Sacrifice, and hOnoring His
name above every name-making Him
! partaker of the Divine nature. With
out His redemptive 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
hot will f,pnl,nh 1icnhndi
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. assembled up Oh 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 unfavorable. 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-sacritice
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
Reconsideration earthly to Heaven
~ conditions.
Then will come the general blessing
which God has provided. through Mes
siahs sacrifice. for the world. All sin
ned in the one man-Adam. All have
been redeemed by the other Man
Christ Jesus. q Corinthians 1920
All are TO be awakened from the sleep
of death All are to have full OPP
portunity to come to a knowledge of
the Truth And all are to be given
everlasting life. who develop the spir-
it Of holiness. Only the incorrigible,
those who love iniquity and hate right
e0usness, will eventually be sentenced
to the Second Death, from which there
will be no recovery
Necessity For Chrst'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 heathen would
make saints of them. forgetting that
education i'm 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. 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 ma or- !
ity reason that whoever else gets I
these experiences. they will not Thus !
we find that nearly all the murderers !
lmpIISUucu are SuCb do 10 we AhoW u tue (
erroneous teaching Of eternal torment. !
and yet have been unabashed thereby |
In other words, they have given an
outward assent TO the teaching. hut /
really have never believed it or been |
Influenced by it.
What the world needs is strong |
government. which will hold i'm re
straint the weaker and baser elements !
of society. and seek to help them mp
out Of their difficulties But no gov /
eminent yet devised is either strong
enough or wise enough to accomplish /
much along these lines, This is evil |
denced 10y the fact that crime increases |
in proportion with intelligence: so !
much so that using all Of our modern !
ppliances-telephone telegraphs, die |
tograp hs, etc.--we are scarcely able to
keep even with law-breakers.
All who have anything to do with
police affairs shudder at the thought of i
what might occur should the time ever
come when the majority Of city
should become stubborn and vicious
through lack of work. want Of bread, |
etc. They tell us that such conditions
would let7ioose the tiger of human pas
sions as it has never before been known
in the world: for the tiger is now edu-
Gated. and the masses are on a par
with The maSterS-SOcial financial and