River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-09

Prophets peEIecIeu, tue earJnly 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 30.
The morally lame shall learn to walk
In the paths of righteousness. Yea,
they shall leap for joy as they come
TO knowledge of the grace and good
ness of God. The worlds eyes of un-
derstanding shall be opened and their
deaf ears shall be unstopped. that they
may see and hear the Goodness, the
Mercy. the Justice and the Love of our
God. 1.-THE willing and obedient shall
eat the good of the land" but evil
doors shall be cut off in the Second
Death. Gradually the boundaries will
cIude 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 Revelator
was caught up to Paradise in vision.
and saw the glorious things of the flu
ture Age, which he was not permitted
to explain to us, because the due time
had not yet come. Neither was St
John the Revelator permitted to re-
veal fully the particulars of the Para
disc condition. He could merely give
us a few symbolical hints or sugges-
tions respecting the glories of Para
disc restored.
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 demoralizing 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 us. has provided for
mankind a 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, Perfect Man must die
for the sinners release from the death
sentence. to uplift the willing out of
sin and death conditions-up. up. up
to fellowship. with God and eternal
life. Because the race of Adam in
herited naturally his mental, moral.
and physical defects, therefore none
of his posterity was worthy of eternal
life. But in the Divine arrangement.
as Adam involved all of his children
and their Paradise home in the wreck
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been effected through Christ.
The great work of Messiah will
therefore, be the restoration of the
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 3:21D
But the Divine Plan changes not. Sin
is 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
ton, 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
dise-Isaiah 1880; Acts 1923.
Furthermore, it is the Divine ar
rangement for mankind, and a just
one. that every good and noble deed in
the present life works measure of
acknowledgment 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 a deflement and impairment of
manhood, which likewise will have it's
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. If
all mankind could appreciate these
facts, what an influence 1t would have
In restraining and governing self and
in developing self control and true
anhoodLGalatians 81.
The Divine Program.
Does some one inquire why He who
redeemed Adam, his Eden home, and