The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-17
EARTH TO BECOME
MANS PARADISE
Continued From Page Six.

prophets perfected the earthly repre-
sentatives Of the Heavenly Kingdom.
Gradually the Paradisaic condition
shall fill the whole earth. The wilder
ness shall blossom as the rose, the soil
tary places shall be glad, and streams
shall break forth in the deserts, as we
read In Isaiah S5.
The morally lame shall learn to+Nvalk
an the paths Of righteousness. Yea,
they shall leap for Joy as they come
to a knowledge Of the grace and good
ness OF God. The worlds eyes Of IN
d~erstanding shall be opened and their
deaf ears shall be unstopped. that they
may see ana near the Goodness, the
Mercy, the Justice and the Love Of our
God. '"The willing and obedient shai1
eat the good OF the land" but evil
doors shall be cut off in the Second
Death. Gradually the boundaries will
be spread abroad until they will in
clude~ the whole earth. Gradually the
number enjoying Paradise Will in
crease until, in the end Of the Millen-
MUM, the entire race. Of Adam shall
experience the privilege Of Gods Love
and Mercy through Christ.
St Paul, like st. John the Revelation,
was caught up to Paradise in a vision,
and saw the glorious things Of the fu-
Eure Age, which he was not permitted
20 explain to US, because the due time
had not yet come. Neither was Sc.
John the Revelator permitted to re-
veal fully the particulars OF the Para
disc condition. He could merely give
MS a few symbolcal hints or sugges-
tions respecting the glories OF Para
disc restored. -r
Redemption Through Christ.
We have already noticed that Para
disc was lost through disobedience to
the Heavenly command. Life. Eden
bliss, Divine favor and fellowship.
were all lost to Adam and to us, his
children, under. the death sentence.
There was no hope for any Of us more
than for the brute beast; for while the
latter was born to die, man, created
with possibilities Of life eternal, was
sentenced to the loss Of all. Indeed,
under the demoralizfng influences OF
sin and death, we find many OF the
human family more degraded than the
brute creation and apparently less
worthy Of Divine favor. But God,
rich in Mercy In the great Love where
with He loves U.S. has provided for
mankind C recovery from sin and
death, while He has made no provision
for the future life OF the brute creation.
Gods provision for mans recovery
from the sentence Of death Is the story
of the "Cross Of Christ" Because a
man had sinned, the Redeemer must
be a Man. Because the penalty was
human death, a Perfect Man must die
Cor the sinners release from the death
sentence, to uplift the willing out Of
sin and death c~onditions-up, up, up
to fellowship with God and eternal
life. Because the a Of Adam in
herited naturally his mental, moral,
and physical defects, therefore none
bE his posteritya%~a ~wer*hy oe etcrnui
life. But in the Divine arrangement,
as Adam involved all Of his children
and their Paradise home in the wreck
OF sin and death, go d redemption has
been effected through Christ.
The great work OF Messiah will,
therefore, be the restoration Of tho
world to all that was lost in Eden and
redeemed at Calvary. The work Of
Restitution, St Peter tells us, has been
spoken Of ''by the mouth Of all Gods
holy Prophets since the world began
and will be accomplished by Messiah
at His Second Coming. (Acts 3:21.)
But the Divine Plan changes not. Sin
Gs still abhorrent to God and will al
ways be SO, and the Divine sentence is
that NO sinner shall have eternal life.
Hence the offer Of Divine grace is
merely to all who may have a heart
desire for Divine assistance, resurrec-
lion, restoration, uplifting out Of sin
and death conditions to perfect condi.
tions. These things will be accom-
plished only In those who are willing
and obedient Only such ''shall eat the
good Of the land"--the fruits Of Para
d~ise.-Isaiah 1880; Acts 1928.
Furthermore. it is the Divine ar
rangement for mankind. and a just
one, that every good and noble deed in
the present life works a measure of
characterIdevelopment which will be
assistful in the future life, enabling
the faithful the sooner to mount up
to full perfection Of earthly life. Cor.
respondingly, every wilful sin, every
violation OF conscience and principle,
works d deflement and impairment OF
manhood. which likewise viii have its
effect upon the future life in the diff,
Guilty OF rising out Of degradation to
the heights OF human perfection, Di
vine approval and everlasting life. II
all mankind could appreciate these
Facts, what an influence It would have
in restraining and governing self and
an developing self control and true
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 81.
The Divine Program.
Does some one inquire why He who
redeemed Adam, his Eden home. and
all his race, and who proposes q restor
alton of ali, has not begun this Restf
tuition work during the eighteen hun
Hred years since the sacrifice of Him
self The Scriptures answer that dur
Eng the interim another feature Of the
Divine Program is being carried, out
The Lord IS gathering the elect Church
from Israel and all the nations to BIZ
Messiah's assistants In His Kingdom
and In the gracious work OF uplift-
xesurrection--restitution. This cleo
C~hurch-classs first selected, is In tht