Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-01-18
Pastor Russell's Sermon

D ~ dn euuI having accomplished tn
II purpose for which it was designed, OF
a permitted-the selection of the Bride
J. class, Messiah's jolnt-heirs, or Cabinet
e in His Kingdom.
The Highway which Messiah's King
y dom will open up to all the children OF
II Atlantic the non-elect-will lead them
i back to perfection. When God made
Father Adam, He made him a man, not
an dn0e-an earthly being, not heau.
+ enIy being. God crowned Adam with
e earthly glory and honor. and set him
l. as king over the earth its fish. fowl.
: beasts. God changes not. His purpose
/ Is the same today as in the beginning.
2 For six thousand years God has al
lowed humanity to propagate and 20
; down into the sleep Of death. there to
await better time future Meantime
, God sent forth His Son and redeemed
mankind, and then clarified the oOpdi.
ent Savior. Since then, God has been
, electing a sanity few to be Alessiuh's
Joint-heirs. The next thing in order is
the blessing Of all the remainder of
Adams race by Restitution-restora
tion to the earthly glory and honor
originally intended, but lost by sin and
redeemed at Calvary.
Let this thought come to our hearts
and minds as in the future we look at
the Union Depot and read the inscrip-
ton there: THE desert shall rejoice
ana blossom as the rose" So doing
our hearts will be drawn nearer to the
Lord. Our increasing faith will make
increasing obedience more nearly pos
sible, And love for our Creator will
come In to sanctify our hearts and to
assist us in showing forth the praises
OF Him who hath called us out Of dark
ness into His marvellous light.
The Prophet declares respecting the
hosts that will pass over the Highway
of Holiness, that they are all the ran
somed of the Lord-the redeemed |
world OF mankind He says, "The |
ransomed of the Lord shall be restor.
ed and come to Zion with songs and
everlasting joy upon their heads; they
shall obtain JOY and gladness. and sor.
row and signing will fee away" And
Jesus adds that there shall be no more
signing, crying and dying, because all
the former things of sin and death
shall have passed away. He that sit
teth upon the Throne shall make all
things new.-Revelation 21:4, 8.
JeSuS a Ransom For All.
Once in our ignorance we supposed
that Jesus died only for the Church
that only the Bride class, the Little
Flock, were to be ransomed by the
precious blood Now we see different.
ly-that Gods Love and the provision (
He has made in Christ are world |
wide, We knew that the Scriptures |
stated the matter broadly, but we look G
ed through the narrow spectacles of
the creeds Of the Dark Ages. Thus :,
we dlsregarded the words of the Apos-
tie, God will have all men i
to be saved, and to come to the knowl. Y
edge Of the Truth, For there is one t
God, and one Mediator between God II
ana men [mankindl, the Man Christ ,
Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for =
al, to be testified in due time" Il
Timothy 24-6) How strange that we
could have read these precious words u
over and over again without seeing "
their real import! How doubly strange D
when we so well know that few of n,
our friends, relatives and neighbors y,
belonged in any sense or degree to the
sanity Little Flock the Elect, "
How glad we are that in this Morn II
ng time when the light is shining In al
lpon all subjects, and when all man W
'ind are learning to think more con. in
lectedly, we may enjoy the clearer n,
lght or Gods Word! 1t is so very -,
road In one sense Of the Word, and "
'et SO very narrow, In another, that It "
meets every condition. at
None but the sanity followers in the Sa
ootsteps OF Jesus can enter the King. pc
ON class. Then the Wilderness Of Gods th
leroy will operate, through the King. th
ON class on the spirit plane, to give ~,
II humanity a blessed opportunity to IT,,
ONE to knowledge Of God. As they '"'
hall experience the blessings secured ia
Or them through the Ransom for ALL" Th
ley Will have the privilege Of going inf
p' up, UP the Highway OF Holiness, thi
lring the thousand years, to It's end. am
The reward will be human perfection NJ,
nd worldwide Eden, gradually 1T. on,
lined under the assistance Of the -,
hurch In glory, the Kingdom. Ulti. Blu
ately, Gods blessing and everlasting ehl
Ie VIII be given to all the willing and
'edient, Even the wilfully wicked
III not be tortured eternally, but will
destroyed with an everlasting de-
ruction from which there will be no
co'ery All! now we see the glorious -
we before the Church and the neces. oot
" Tor her narrow way Of trial, test. 49,
&! Now do we see that the wide '"e
1873 Of Gods Mercy Is as the wide. Wa'
1873 or the sea, In the provision that, eac
all came under the reign Of sin and Of
attn, through Father Adam, all may for
me under the blessed reign Of right. hou
usness and life everlasting through
0 Redeemer, the Second Adam! y
L Is from that destruction toward =
lich all are tending that Christ has 40"
lcemed all, And His Kingdom will tori
for the very purpose Of destroying One
broad way and rcscuing the poor -
generates born in sin and shapen In