River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-09-24

grant everlasting lifel, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world" When God
laid the foundation OF the earth and
planned for its human habitation, it
was His design to give 1t to you. Now
has come the time for you to enter
into this kingdom and possess 1t.
This is not the Messianic Kingdom
On the contrary, II Is the kingdom
which God gave Adam. but which he
lost through dlsobedience and which
Christ redeemed by the sacrifice of
Himself. 1t will be given only to
those who will have developed the
God-lfke character-those who during
the Millennium have become the Lords
sheep.
To the goat class He will say, DE
part, We accHrsed ones doomed onesl,
into everlasting punishment" Grant
ed all the privileges, blessings and ex.
periences of a thousand years of con-
tact with righteousness, truth and the
Spirit OF God, you indeed render Oh
outward obedience, but at heart you
have not come into harmony with God
| cannot present you to the Father as
bhmeless and irreprovable. You must
be destroyed In the Second Death
everlasting destruction" The penal
ty upon you is everlasting. because
there Will be no further provision
made for your redemption or your res
direction from this Second Death
You will be as though you had never
been. You have failed utterly to ap-
preciate the goodness of God and to
copy His character-li likeness. Eternal
life IS for those only who have the Di-
vine likeness and spirit.
Both classes were surprised at what
the King. the Judge. declared to be the
basis of His judgment To the sheep
He said, II was hungry, and We gave
Me meat; l was thirsty, and We gave
Ne drink; | was a stranger, and We
took Me in; naked. and We clothed Me:
| was sick, and We visited Me; was In
prison, and We came unto Me-" The
goat class, He declared, had failed to
meet these tests.
Both sheep and goats claimed to have
no knowledge of such experiences. But
the answer was, Inasmuch as We did 1t
unto one Of the least of these, My
brethren. or did it not unto them, We
did 1t, or did it not, unto Me.
The Resurrection of the World.
Then the Pastor explained who these
are respecting whom there will be
test upon the sheep class and the goat
class, and how it is that there will be
sickness. poverty, hunger and prisons
during the Messianic Kingdom. With
the esta blishment Of the Kingdom all
who come into harmony with it will
have the great privilege Of doing some
thing to help others. The world is
blind and starved now, for want of
spiritual food and the amounting eye
salve Of Truth. While the Millennial
blessings will be showered upon those
who accept the Lords terms, there will
be others who will need assistance
YssaEA WA~ hsxsNe the Spirit Of God, the
sf6rA Of ioae. will be glad to carry the
Heavenly Message Of reconciliation to
all humanity, glad to apply the eye
salve to the blind, glad to unstop the
ears Of the deaf, glad to help the sin
sick back into harmony with God, glad
to help them to cover their nakedness
with Christ's merit
Those who take pleasure In this work
will thereby demonstrate that they have
Gods Spirit and are co-labOrers with
Him. All these will be the sheep. But
those who are careless respecting their
Vow, and merely enjoy the Millennial
blessings themselves, will be of the
goat class and will thus mark them
selves as goats. Correspondingly they
will be out of favor with the King of
kings, their Judge.
The Prison House of Death.
The prison referred to In the parable
10 undoubtedly the great prison-house
OF death. into which approximately
twenty thousand millions already have
gone. All these are to come forth, not
Ill at once, but every man In his own
order" as the Scriptures declare. Only
the Church will be In the First Resur-
rection. During the Millennium the
awakening from the sleep of death
will, we believe, come about by Divine
prayer. Each family circle. as 1t can
prepare for another and another mem
Der, will be glad to do SO, and will
make request for his return. Thus the
race will come out of the prison-house
in reverse order to that in which they
entered, and will be acquainted with
their friends and relatives, who will
have prepared for them and will iden-,
tify them.
While the blessing Of the Lord will
provide an abundance for all, never
theiess we may safely assume that the
provision will be In the hands Of their
fellows. 1t will be the sheep that will
be especially interested In those In the
great prison-house of death, and who
will be praying for them and prepar
ing for them. By so engaging their
time and energy these sheep will be
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