River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1913-12-11

showing Him to be the lnSIlgatOf or
eternal torture for all our race, this
blasphemy has served to turn their
hearts from Him and from the Bible.
1t is high time that we realized the
terrible mistake we made. 1t is high
time that we began to preach the Mes
sage of our text. "His mercy endureth
forever" This expression respecting
the endlesSness of Divine Mercy is re
peated twenty-five times in this one
Psalm alone. And yet we as Chris
tianS have denied this statement. and
have declared instead that Gods mer-
cy is only for the Elect; that the thou
sands of millions of heathendom and
other hundreds of millions in Christen-
dom will have no mercy
Knowing that the majority of minds
are darkened through sin, ignorance.
and superstition: knowing that the
Apostle declares that Satan has blind
ed the minds of all unbelievers; know
ing that the Lord through the Apostles
and the Prophets has declared that
the coming Age of Messiah's Kingdom
is the time when all the deaf ears will
be unstOpped and all the blinded eyes
opened, and that the glory of the Lord
shall cover the whole earth-in spite
of all this we have cried out to the
world that there will be no mercy for
them beyond the grave, that Gods
mercy does not endure forever. but
merely for the time we call the pres
ent life
Why do we thus contradict the AL
mighty? What motive is there behind
this? In seeking to restrict the grace
of God to the present unfavorabe time
of blindness and darkness. we have
had the encouragement of Satan, and
the visions. messages and dreams
caused by the fallen angels. st. Paul
pictured our day exactly, saying,
MANY shall depart from the faith,
doctrines of devils
Tell the Truth-Shame the Devil.
1t is time for all who love the Lord
and the Bible to get straight them
selves and then to help others. 1t is
time that the world knew what real
cause it has for gratitude to God and
for cOntentment with the blessings
now being enjoyed. 1t is time to tell
them that the death of Christ is to be
the full offset of the sin of Adam, and
that the death penalty of Adams sin
is to be fully lifted. 1t is time to tell
them that during Messiah's Reign Of
a thousand years the world will rise
again out of sin and death to righteous
ness and life eVerlasting-the reversal
of the present reign of Sin and Death.
1t is time to tell them that God in
deed has been electing, or selecting
sanity ones, but not to the injury Of
the non-elect; that the work of the
ELECT, in association with Jesus for
thousand years, will be the blessing Of
all the families of the earth-the non
elect.
1t is time to tell the world that the
Bible hell is the tomb, SheOl, Hades;
that from it all will be redeemed and
will have opportunity for resurrection
to perfection of life everlasting; and
that only the wilfully wicked will die
the Second Death, symbolically illus
trated by Gehenna. 1t is time to tell
them that all-both good and bad, rich
and poor-have been going to the Bi-
BILE hell, the tomb; and that the First
Resurrection will be constituted only
of the sanity, the Church, who are to
be associated with Christ in His King
20:6.
10, 70 FOIL
cept those begotten of the Holy Spirit
since Pentecost will ever reach the
Heavenly condition and share the Di-
vine nature 1t is time to tell them
that Gods blessed provision for Adam
and the remainder of his race is Resti-
tutiOn-reStoratiOn to human perfec-
ton from which they fell, and to
world wide Eden-God's footstool made
glorious.
1t is time to tell them that all the
thOrns, thistles, trials, difficulties. sOr-
rows and tears Of the past six thou
sand years are part of the penalty,
Dying, thou shalt die" 1t is time to
tell them that God during Messiahs
Kingdom, by uplifting the race, will
wipe away the tears from off all faces.
1t is time to let them know that He
is indeed a God whose mercy endur-
eth forever; and that although His
mercy is as yet extended only to the
Church and to Natural Israel, eventu-
ally in the coming Age it shall extend
to every member of the race for which
Christ died.
On This Basis Thankfulness.
On the oasis of this knowledge of
God, knowledge of why sorrow and
death prevail, the world would be
ready to acknowledge the grace Of
God. His boundless mercy. and willing
and glad 20 give thanks to Him.
We make a sharp distinction be-
tween the privilege of prayer and
Gods goodness may offer worship in
the sense of thanks. acknowledgment.
appreciation. Prayer is a wholly diff
ferent matter. None have the privi-
lege of prayer with the assurance it
will be heard except those who ap-
proach God through the great Advo-
cate whom He has appointed. And
none can approach through this Advo-
cate except on the Divine terms that
they become His disciples, and take
up their cross and follow Him.
Thus the number privileged to ap-
proach the Throne of Heavenly Grace
and obtain help in time of need is linn