New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-12

Given absolutely. Certain wiltul SINS
have been more or less punished dur
ing the lives Of the sinners: and some
of these. recorded in human weakness
cs. mental, moral and physical, VIII DC
gradually gotten rid Of during Mes
eiah's Kingdom, under the Restitu-
ton processes which will then prevail.
All will have an opportunity OF rising
up. I'D, up to human perfection; and
those who have wilfully degraded mind
and body will have the sleeper path
70 climb and the longer one. Never
theless. they will be able 10 come to
the fulncss Of human perfection and
everlasting life if they will, under the
blessings and with the aid Of Messah's
Kingdom.
Accounts Yet To BE Squared.
At first this might seem to be full
settlement for all OF the worlds SINS,
but not so. according to the Script
ures. In Jesus and in His sanity fol-
lowers all down through this Gospel
Age, the world has had Gods Cause,
tho Cause Of Righteousness and truth,
more or less clearly manifested. Every
persecution against these members Of
the Body Of Christ is crime against
such sufferings the Apostle says. "lf
any suffer as a Christian, let him glori-
~ God on this behalf; for the spirit
Of glory and Of God resteth on such"
L Peter Ala, Is.
Az blessing rested upon all the
Lords faithful people who have SUI
fered unjustly. so correspondingly a
Divine curse, or penalty, has rested
upon all prosecutors of these, their re-
sponsibilty being gagged by the degree
Of their knowledge, and their punish
ment proportionate. On the books Of
Justice. however, God represents that
the lives of all of His faithful ones
cry out for vengeance; and that while
mercy comes 10 all mankind through
the sacrifcial death Of the Savior, this
does not alter the fact that Justice
calls for certain punishments for
crimes more or less wilful and there
fore not included in the Savior's atone
ment.
Thus it was in the end of the Jewish
Age. which may serve US as pattern
or illustration of the ending of this
Age. st. Paul, writing of that time,
says, Wrath is come upon this people
to the uttermost, that all things writ
ten in the Law and the Prophets con-
corning them should be fulfilled" The
great Time of Trouble with which the
Jewish Age ended was a righteous
retributioh for unsettled claims of Jus
tice. The Just One had been slain;
and although the merit Of His sacrifice
will yet avail for every Jew and for
every other member of Adams race,
nevertheless Justice visited a punish
ment uDOn the people who said, His
blood be upon US and upon our chill
dren." Matthew 27:2j.) Notice, how
ever, the vast difference between these
Bible judgments and the eternal tor
ment judgments falsely declared by
every one of our creeds, which indirec--
~ tell Us that every Jew at death
goes TO eternal torment because ne is
not Christian.
But the Scriptures declare that the
punshments upon the Jews which Gull
minated in the destruction Of Jerusalem
i'm 4. D. 20 were, some of them, for
sins committed long before. Notice
Jesus's words, THE blood of all the
Prophets, which was shed from the
foundation of the world, shall be re-
CURED of this generation; from the
blood of Abel unto the blood of Zach
srias, who persisted between the Altar
and the Temple. Luke 1850, 81.
Wherein was the justice in exacting
all that Of the people living in the
close Of that Age We reply that those
people had far more responsibility than
all who preceded them. They had a
great Light amongst them, shining
from Jesus and the early saints. In
their treatment of these lightbearers.
Crucitying them and yariously injuring
them, that last generation of the Jew
ish Age partially eXonersted their fore
fathers. who had done similar things
with much less enlightenment; and
upon the enlightened ones fell the
wrath"
THE Rccompenscs of Zion"
The Bible intimates that similar ag-
gregatlons of punishment are to be
expected in the end Of this Gospel
Age. The great Time Of Trouble, or
Day OF Wrath, is the "recompense of
the controversy of Zion"-the saints,
the true Church. For eighteen hundred
years has Jesus prophetically foretold
that the Kingdom class would suffer
violence; and the violent have usurped
the place of the true by force. Mat
them HE'D All the while. the violent
have outwardly been posing as the
True Church Of Christ, while the
saints of God in every epoch and in
every century have suaered-"as de-
ceivers, and yet true; az poor. yet
making many rich; as having nothing,
yet possessing all things" - CORN
thians 6:s.) "Heirs OF God and Joint
heirs with Christ" Romans SID.
they have been counted "thc filth and
ohscouring of the Garth" "of whom
the world was not worthy" Their
names have been cast out as evil, and
as Jesus prophesied it has been true.
They shall say all manner of evil
against you falsely, for My sake"
Matthew 5:ll.) These arc bid to re-
ioicc and be exceeding glad, know
ing that their reward in Heaven is
great.
But the sin of their persecutor IS
must be liquidated, even though The
prosecutors themselves will all eventu-
ally be forgiven. From this viewpoint,
the Time of Trouble such as was not
since there was nation" and which
Is now beginning and gradually TO be
consummated, will be the squaring Of
Gods accounts with the world, pre-
paratory to handing the Kingdom over
e Messiah. for all to be blessed By
His rule; AS it is written. 81 will give
Thee the heather the Gentilesl :or
Thine inheritance, and the uttermOst
parts Of the earth for Thy posses
sion" Psalm 2:s.) First must come
the breaking in pieces as a potter's
vessel, and the great lessons which
that tribulstion will bring. in order
that the world may be prepared prop
ely to appreciate and love right
eousness and hate iniquity."
As illustrative of this principle, note
the lesson Of Revelation 6:9-ll. Fol-
lowing a great persecution, the Lord
iiguratiyely represents the martyrs OF
that period as crying out to Him, even