The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-12

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true sentiment In translating, and
through the mental gloss of the trans
lators In any event let Us remember
that this Wrath OF God and the judy
mcnts coming upon the world are
wholly different from the legends
namely. eternal torture at the hands of
demons, taught us by our creeds In
stiuctivciy part Of the dread We have
Of death In every form. by war famine
and sickness, Is the fear. that eternal
torture nightmare thrust upon us from
childhood, inCulCated by all the Creeds
Of Chri-tondom, hut wholly without
Bible foundation when the latter IL
properly translated and rightly under
stood
Furthermore we should remember
that while God has foretold the troubles
~ tho Day Of Wrath for centuries, and
indicates that He will have To do with
their precipitation upon the world !.
nevertheless. elsewhere lie also shows
MS 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 Provi-
dence forcfended us--holding back the
storm OF human passion and avarice,
and permitting 1t to come only now In
the end Of the Age. at the time when
dom In fun readiness To take control.
Just SO soon as the storm OF human
passion shall have taught humanity It's
needed Lessons. and shall have liqul-
dated the long standing accounts, Mes
siahs Kingdom. with a clean slate. will
be lnauguratcd.
We have reached the end Of this
world-,he end 81 this Age The long
promised Day Of blessing and Divine
favor Is already dawning. God. through
Jesus's sacrifice. has provided for all
human sins and frailtie~ trhCeable To
original sin. These are all u be for
given absolutely. Certain wilful sins
have been more or less punished dur
ing the lives Of the sinners, and some Of
these. recorded in human weaknesses,
mental, moral and physical. will he
gradually gotten rid of during Messiah 3
kingdom under the Restitution pioc-
csses which will then prevail An will
have an opportunity OF rising up. up.
up To human perfection, and those who
have wilfully degraded mind and body
will have the sleeper path to climb and
7 the longer one. Nevert heless. tl,y will
he able TO come to the fulneSs of human
perfection and everlasting life II they
will. under the blessing and aid OF Mes
, slabs Kingdom.
Accounts Yet to he squared.
Ms lllEul Sftiu AT IESI 10 De u nun
settlement for al " the worlds sins: but
not 50 according to the Scriptures. In
Jesus and His sanity followers all down
through this Gospel Age. the world has
had Gods Cause, the Cause Of righteous
ness ana truth, more or less clearly
manifested Every persecution against
these Members of the Body of Christ Is
crime against God and against right
'ousncss. pf such suflerinEs the ApOstl,
says. II any suffer Rs a Christian. 10
him glurify God on this behalf, for the
spirit ~ glory and of God resteth OF
such. II Peter !: IA. 49, As BLESSING
rested upon ali the Lords faithful PEG
pie who have suffered unjustly, so cor
rcspondingly. a Divine curse or penalty
has rested upon all prosecutors OF thes,
their responsibility being gaugcd NJ
the degree Of their knowledge and then
punishment pruportionatr ON the book
of Justice. however. God represents thai
tho lives OF all Of his faithful ones CRY
out for vengeance. and white mercy
comes To all mankind through the saCri
iicial death Of the Saviour, this does no
alter the fact that Justice calls for Ger
tain punishmcnts for crimes more o'
less wilful and therefore not include,
in tho Saviour's atonement
Thus It was in the end Of the Jcwisl
Age. which may serve us as "A pattcrr
or illustration Of the ending Of this Age
wrath Is come upon this people to thu
uttermost. that all things written in tn
Law and the Prophets concerning then
should hc fulfilled" Tho great Time q
Trouble with which the Jewish Ag,
ended, was "a righteous retrihutlon 70
unsettled claims Of Justice. The Jus
one had been slain, and although th
merit Of His sacrifice will yet avail 70
every Jew and for every othcr memhe
of Adams rHCt. nevertheless, Justlc
, visited a punishment upon the pcopl
who said. His blood be upon ny an,
J upon our children Matt 27:25.
Notice. however. the vast differepc
between these Bible Judgments and III
Il eternal torment Judgments falsely de
clared by every one of our creeds. whic
indirectly tell us that every jew a
death goes to eternal torment bccau-
he Is not "A Christian.
But the Scriptures declare that N
puuishments upon the Jews which Gu
! minated in the destruction OF Jcrusa
Z lem ~ II. 40 were. some of thcm. 10
: sins committed long before Motto
! lesus's words, THE blood of all tn
prophets. which was shed from IN
foundation Of the world. shall he re
{ quired OF this generation; from tn
l blood OF Abel unto the blood Of Zachn
rias who persisted between the altar an