River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-10-29

special sins call upon Justice for ex-
traordinary penalty? The Pastors text
was, "And the nations were angry, and
Thy wrath is come."-Revelation IL :18.
After some Introductory comments
upon his text, the speaker read a num-
Der Of corroborative Scriptures-Isaiah
34:1-6; jeremiah 25:15, 16, 27-38; Isaiah
66:15. 10; Luke 81 :24, 26; Revelation
6:9.11; 2 Thessalonians 1910. Com
menting on these Scriptures, the Pas
tor claimed that their united testimony
referred to the present, mistranslated
the end of the world; properly inter
preted, the end of this Age, tapping
upon and inaugurating the New Age
1.-THE world to come"
Only Jews, Genties and Saints.
The Pastor declared that the whole
world are Gentiles, according to the
Scriptural presentation, except the true
followers of Christ and the loya1-heart-
ed Jews, who are still Gods people
under their Law Covenant. In class
ing the great mass of Jews and of pro-
fessed Christians as part of the world
the Pastor meant no unkindness; but
declared that to understand Gods deal
ing in the present time, nominal Chris
tians, or mere professors, must not be
COMPOUNDED with the little fiock' who
have responded to the Gospel Call,
Gather My saints together unto Me
saith the Lord; those who have made
~ on1ssF
self-sacrifice. psalm 50:5; Romans
12:1) If we shall recognize these
sanity Christians of every nation and
denomination as being the one true
Church, whose names are written in
Heaven" and if we shall recognize all
others as Gentiles, we shall be getting
the eyes Of our understanding into true
alignment with the mind Of God as ex-
pressed in the Bible.
Thus seen, God is not merely calling
but in more particular sense the call
is to this Gentle class irrespective OF
national boundaries. And it is worthy
of note that throughout the Scriptures
the great masses Of India, China, etc.,
are comparatively ignored. Because
they have not come into particular con-
tact with Gods Messages they are not
so particularly included in the judg-
ments, chastisements, troubles, fore
told to be coming upon the earth at the
close of this Age In other words, I'M
intentional ignorance of God is not
crime to be punished, but defect to
be corrected in due time by the bless
ings Of Messiah's Kingdom.
Wrong Thoughts of Gods Wrath.
When thinking Of the wrath of God
coming upon the world, we are not to
think of the Almighty as having exer-
cised great patience for centuries and
finally losing His temper and wreak-
ing vengeance upon His creatures.
Such a thought might be gathered from
some of the expressions of the Scrip
lures, because of adaptation Of Ian
guage to human comprehension, and
more or less loss of the true sentiment
in translating and through the mental
gloss of the translators.
In any event let us remember that
this wrath of God and the judgments
coming upon the world are wholly diff
ferent from the legends namely, eter-
nal torture at the hands of demons,
taught us by our creeds. Instinctively,
part Of the dread we have of death
in every form-by war, famine and
sickness the fear Of that eternal tor
ture nightmare thrust upon US from
childhood. inculcated by all the creeds
of Chlistendom, but without Bible
foundation when the latter is properly
translated and rightly understood.
Furthermore, we should remember
that while God has foretold the trou-
bles of the Day Of Wrath for centuries
and indicates that He will have to do
with their precipitation upon the
world, nevertheless elsewhere He also
shows us that these troubles really
come from ourselves, that they are
the outgrowth of human wrongdoing,
and that these dire penalties Of sin
would have wrecked our social and
religious fabric long, long ago, had
not Divine Providence forfended us
holding back the storm Of human pas
sion and avarice, and permitting 1t to
come only now, in the end of the Age,
at the time when Divine Providence
has Messiah's Kingdom in full readi-