THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1913.
The Plattsmouth Journal
Published Semi-Weekly
Entered at the Postoffice at Plattsmouth, Nebraska as second-class matter
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
J- The mountain top must
be reached m mailer how &
J- many times we fall in -h
reaching it. The fall is
J counted, it does not regis
J tor; the picking- up and go-
i ing on in lift'
! Flora Howard.
counts. -
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lieaulirul October weather for
farmers to finish up their fall
work. ....
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A large crowd is expected in
town next Saturday tiermaii
lay celebration.
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Mexicans who slaughter pris
oners should not be surprised at
Yaquis and other Indian artoci
ties. :o:
One handicap of the younger
Felix Diaz is his given name.
Felix doesn't suit Mexican con
ditions. :o:
The American Hankers' asf-o-ciaion
approves all of the cur
rency hill except its important
fealu res.
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If all the earth's inhabitants
were as musical as the OcTinans
what a tuneful time mankind
would have.
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It would seem that Platts
mouth residence building would
catch hp- with the population
growth, but it doesn't.
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The decision of Germany to
semi a warship to Mexican wat
ers, doesn't excite the Washing
ton authorities in the, least. It
is a right that Oermany has.
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Kansas City has passed an or
dinance prohibiting young boys
and girls from automobile rides
una! tended by chapcrones. St.
Tospeh is about to follow suit.
Have you any idea that ordin
ances of that kind will remedy
the matter?
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Lincoln is about to merge into
a municipal war, using the keen
bladed sword of the recall in
their commission form of gov
ernment, to "cut out" some of
their offensive officials. That's
just what comes from the com
mission form of government
eternal war.
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Presid'Mit Wilson is beginning
to talk of an adequate navy.
Thai's right. "In time of peace
prepare for war!" The American
people who pride themselves on
living- in the greatest nation on
earth, are somewhat behind some
nations as to war vessels. Let's
get out of the old rut.
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Maggie Tayfe, who tried to
come ashore from the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Oresso wearing
knickerbockers, says she is only
a few years ahead of I lie limes.
She would save a lot, of trouble,
but perhaps not make so much
money, if she would g'o to sleep
until the limes catch up with her.
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President Vincent of the UnU
versily of Minnesota, says we
have too much culture that comes
out of Yale and Harvard univer
sities, and too little that comes
!ut of agricultural colleges. The
latter, he thinks, would do much
to avert that threatened dollar
lieefsteak, while the former does
iittle to make us able to pay for
it if it should come.
at Plattsmouth, Neb.
Secretary of the Interior Lane
recommends large additional
government aid to irrigation.
Many millions have already been
provided for this purpose. Are
not permanently deepened water
ways at least equally important?
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If France will not lend Mexico
any more money, and other na
tions will follow the example of
France, then Mexico will have to
listen to the law laid down about
tumult and disorder of its gov
ennment with the forcible elo
quence which makes money so
convincing when it talks.
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Persons wishing letters to go
through the mail in a hurry
should always write "in haste"
on the lower left hand corner of
the envelope. Then everybody
connected with the postal service
jumps around lively. The stage
drivev whips up his horses into a
jig trot, the postmaster dances a
jig and the route agent pushes
forward and tells the engineer to
pull the throttle open and let her
go.
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Munsey's magazine declares
that since 1907 the American
people have spent for alcohol and
tobacco $15,000,000,0(10 of mon
ey. The smoke and drink mil m
I he United States now reaches
the enormous total of 2,700f
000,000 a year. Most of this
is spent by the wage earners. It
is two and a half times the wages
of all the men on the railroads,
and yet we talk of the high cost
of living.
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No other test of the prosperity
of the American farmer is com
parable to the automobile test.
Without reciting the statistics
for the various slates, the agri
cultural Slate of Kansas alone
boasts of twenty-seven thousand.
This number would, upon the
average, hold good for the other
great agricultural states and de
notes that the farmer who has
adopted this convenience is in
possession of prosperity that
justifies aulo ownership.
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Of course the packers tell you
that it isn't their fault that meat
prices are high. The cat which
consumed the canary has noth
ing on the packers in the matter
of developing a meek and inno
cent expression by way of explan
ation. And yet the blame isn't all
theirs. It isn't their fault that
the range country is passing and
that crops fail, making it hard
for the farmer to winter his stock.
There are two sides to every
question, and frequently more.
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Roosevelt has gone to South
America. lie fore he. left New
York City he delivered an address
to his followers. Part of his
speech was to be given to the
newspapers. Another part was
to be excluded from print, but
w as in I ended as a glorification of
his policy, a flamboyant effort to
show that he had been in it. He
declared that but for him there
would have been no Panama can
al. If he had not taken posses
sion of that country the United
Slates would not have had an op
portunity to build a canal. He
conl lasted this with the policy of
Wilson in regard to Mexico, and
he made his usual self-laudatory
and egotistical effort. And then
he found, to his great disgust,
that the whole speech had been
sent out to the press and he had
been represented to the public
just as he is. 4 Teddy is as great a
blowhard as ever, and his trip
abroad will give him a rest for
awhile.
HALF-BAKED LEGISLATION
Under the above caption Les
lie's Weekly in its last issue takes
a shot at some of Nebraska's
legislation, particularly at the
Nine Hour law for females, in the
following manner: "The farmer
legislators of Nebraska who pass
ed a nine-hour working law for
all "females except those employ
ed by a telephone company, will
be surprised lo find that the strict
enforcement of the law will hit
them harder than they anticipat
ed. The law which prohibits any
female from working more than 0
hours a day or 51 hours a week,
with the single exception noted,
will apply quite as much to
household servants as to store or
factory employees. The "hired
girl" on the farm who begins her
day's work at live o'clock, will be
able to put on her best clothes at
two o'clock and spend I he rest of
the day in idleness. If good nal
ured, she might volunteer to help
her mistress "do" the supper
dishes, but if a woman servant
in the farmhouse or anywhere
else is asked to work more than
the legal nine hours per diem,
both she and her mistress will be
ubject to line. Department stores
under the new law will have lo
close at six p. m. on Saturday.
fhe custom has been to give
clerks a half holiday during some
week day in order that they might
work longer hours on Saturday,
tut the nine-hour provision for
any single day miericres wuu
that. The factories employing
nianv female workers with day or
night shifts are put to great in
convenience. II gins can woik
inly nine hours a day, it will re
quire a fifteen hour period for the
nightshift of men. The injustice
f Mich a procedure will force
Nebraska manufacturers lo dis
charge their female help and em
ploy men only.. Half-baked legis
lation of this sort, while well in
tentioned harms more than it
helps. There are many positions
in life which require a longer per
iod of daily service than nine
hours, and it will be found a sheer
impossibility to enforce legisla
tion which permits only 5 1 hours
work a week and only nine hours
for any single day wjlh one excep
tion of telephone workers."
While there may be some point
in the criticism offered, it is
quite apparent that its construc
tion of the law is somewhat at
variance with its real purpose. It
is quite popular to ridicule the
action of legislators and hold
them to public scorn and execra
tion. Too often, we fear, is their
work misunderstood and their
real thought and purpose wholly
uncoinprehended by the public.
The law in question was designed
to correct the evils of overtime
employment in large establish
ments and had no reference to
ordinary employment. .It is quite
possible that the law may not be
specific enough, but Nebraskans
generally, understand it and
know how lo interpret it.
Now comes the. time when
young men fare forth to pesler
the pig skin and seek each other's
rich joung gore. Technically it
is known as the football season,
and causes many fond parents lo
view with alarm and frenzied fac
ulties lo spend restless nights.
Frequently it compiles a casually
list like unto a Mexican revolu
tion, and convinces the tender
hearted patriots that there ought
to be a law. KITorts to denature
the rules are made from time to
time by the philanthropic and
high-browed, but the riotous
roughnecks who play it continue
to punish each other wilh no in
dication that the facilities have
been impaired. Which may or
may not be just as well. Anyhow
the footballer has war enough jn
that field and isn't disposed to
start a revolution or become a
hoodlum. Besides which, the
seats of Higher Learning must
have a drawing card, ami football
seems to be the answer' couched
in vigorous terms.
PLATTSMOUTH SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
Hucrla-ja making merry down
in Mexico by making his senators
and deputies dance according to
his music. The tyrant should be
riddled wilh bullets; Mexico is
celling into a terrible state
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It is positively asserted that
George W. lierge will be a can
didate for the democratic nomin
ation for governor next year. Mr.
lierge is an able man and bis
friends are legion in every sec
tion of Nebraska.
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The rock pile is being discuss
ed to some extent in Plalsmouth,
and very favorably too. We
have plenty of rock close lo the
limits, and why not? Several of
our principal streets could be
greatly benefitted by a rock pile.
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Warden Fenlon's report of
September activities at the stale
penitentiary shows that at the
end of the month there were only
350 convicts in the big institu
tion. Sixteen prisoners were re
ceived during the month, one was
returned from parole, fourteen
were paroled, uiree were un
charged and one was liberated on
further furlough.
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Dr. Anna Howard Shaw declines
lo address the meeting at which
Mrs. Paukhurst is to be welcom
ed to America because Mrs. Pauk
hurst is to receive $1,500 and part
of the gate receipts while she, Dr.
Shaw, has been unable to receive
a guarantee of only s 1,000 for her
cause. This division of the vel
vet does make a lot of trouble
among the big reformers.
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"Bargain Day" hist Saturday
'drew an immense crowd of people
to Plattsmouth, which fully dem
onstrates that it was a great
success in every respect. Bar
gains will bring the people, and
no mistake. This was the first
effort in this direction, and our
merchants are so well pleased that
they are already talking of an
other one in the near future.
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Are the powers that be at
Washington more interested in
securing government positions
for republicans than they are
democrats? It Woul look very
much that way, when Jasper L.
McBrien, a rabid republican, is
picked up in Nebraska and laud
ed in Washington. No one
knows who interceded for the
man who recently pulled off a
lecture bureau stunt, in which he
made a grand failure wilh other
people's money. Is it any wonder
that democrats grumble when
such republicans are called to
positions of honor and trust at
Washington?
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In speaking of the new curency
bill, the Lincoln Slar very truth
fully remarks: "What do you
think of the proposed currency
legislation known as the Owen
Glass bill? Addressed to t hi
lar -welfare. It is a bigger ques
will produce astounding results.
For it is a lamentable fact that a
large proportion will frankly con
fess that they do not know much
about it. Yet Ihe adjustment of
our curency and the method of
its application to our business
and industrial affairs is the big
gest question with which our gov
ernment has lo deal, considered
from the standpoint of the popu
lar welfare. II is a bigger ques
tion than the tariff, or state's
lights, or corporation regulation,
irsocial justice, or prohibition or
even freedom of conscience. It
is a lamentable fact that the great
masses of the people know com
paratively nothing of. how or
when the volume of their cur
rency is regulated. They know
nothing of how it is possible for
men to manipulate, ihe nation's
various kinds of money for their
own enrichment al the expense of
their fellows." They know com
paratively nothing about bonds,
bank mdes and government notes,
or itheir relation to basic money
or to each otner."
iRORS OF DEATH
BED REPENTANCE
Sins of a Lifetime Cannot Be
Gotten Rid of by a Prayer.
A MISUNDERSTOOD TEXT.
It Has Encouraged Sinners to Con
tinue In Sin It Is Folly to Think
That the Murdered Sinner Goes to
Eternal Torment, While the Murder
er, Because of a Death-Bed Prayer,
Is Called to Heavenly Glory A Mis
placed Comma Led to the ErrorIn
Conjunction With Other Errors.
Brooklyn, N. T.
October 12. Tas
' tor Russell deliv
ered an address
here today, taking
for his text Jesus
words to the dy
ing thief, "Verily
I say unto thee
this day, thou
shalt be with Me
In I'aradis e
(Luke 23:43.) He
declared that iew
fflXSTOR. RUSSELL)
of the Master's
words bad been so misunderstood as
has this text, and that' few had pro
duced so terrible a fruitage of sin.
Absurdity of the Proposition..
The influence of the text, the Pastor
declared, is greatly increased by the
unscriptural thought that tne uymg
sinner passes into everlasting torture.
Those under the spell of that false doc
trine cannot be reproved for wishing
to escape from its terrifying influence
As the drowning man grasps at a
straw, so those whoso hopes for their
dead are being held up by this error
grasp at the narrative of the thk-f, and
hope that their departed cxpertenceq a
momentary renentance said "Jesus,
forgive me" and straightway 'was" ear;
ried to Paradise. The arsurdity or. cue
proposition is crowded out by the mln
gling of the hope with their love for
the deceased.
"Well do I remember conducting a
funeral service which was interrupted
by the wails of the widow. The hus
band had been shot by an assassin's
bullet In a distant mining; region.. He
had died not being a member of a
church, and by no means a saint. ; The
poor widow's wails, I afterward learn
ed, were caused by the tliought that,
not having had a moment? warning,
the murdered man had failed to say,
"God forgive me," and thus to gain
Paradise. v '
Who cau blame the poor woman for
the absurdity of her reasoning? Had
she not been taught so to think by all
the great croeds of Christendom? Had
not her husband and herself been tak
ing that very chance of having a jno
ment for repentance before expiring?
It is a shame that this wrong thought
has been so long allowed to keep peo
ple back from making their peace with
God in earlier life. ' '.
Repentance Always Proper, of Course.
Let me not be misunderstood. I
would not discourage a death-bed re
pentance, or any other. I would, how
ever, have all to recognize that there
are fixed rules of Divine Justice which
forbid us to think that there Is a bell
full of unfortunates who died sudden
ly, with no opportunity for repentance;
that there is a Heaven full of lucky
murderers, thieves and vagabonds,
who were carried to glory without any
real change of Heart, or character, lit
merely as a reward for momentary
prayer. "Whatsoever a man sowcth,
that shall he also reap." Whoever
sows a lire or sin ana seu-nmuintin-c
will not reap glory, honor and immor
tality, but a more depraved disposition
than that with which he was bom.
.The Dying Thief's Prayer.
The supposition that the dying thief
asked to go to Heaven with Jesus as a
reward for a few kindly words is a
mistake. The supposition that Jesus
promised that he would go to Heaven
that same day Is also a mistake. Jesus
did not go to Heaven that day. In
stead, He went to the Bible hell
Hades, Sheol, the tomb. He remained
dead, St. Peter tells us, until the third
day, when God raised Him from the
dead by Divine Power. It was after
His resurrection on the third day that
He appeared to Mary and said, "I
have not yet ascended to My Father
and your Father, to My God and your
God." John 20:17.
The Bible tells that Paradise was
lost through Adam's sin, six thousand
years ago; that it is to be restored as
a result of Jesus' death; and the time
of its restoration will be during the
thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom.
Since there was uo Paradise when Je
f.s died. He could not have meant that
the thief would be there with nim
that day The claim made by Jesus
was that He was to be a King. The
thieves had heard Pilate's question,
rt Thou a King, then?" They had
heard Jesus' reply, that to this end was
He born. But He added, "My King
dom is not of this Age."
The thief caught the thought that
tie grand, kingly character beside him
was probably the Messiah, the. King
of Israel. How-to explain thoclr
fiunstauces of that, dark hour ; he
knew not, but be defended Jesus.
Then with a measure of hope he said.;
"Lord, when Thou coiuest into Thy
Kingdom, remember me." In other
word. I believe that you are a King,
and that somehow you will yet have a
7l
I
Kin'traomV"'! "have" sufficient faith to
ask you to grant a. poor thieit a bless
ing when you reach that Kingdom-
Misstatement of Comma by Transla
- . . , i tors. - , - , .
Jesus' repiy 'liquid, be carefully stud
led. In, substance it. was. Poor thief, 1
annreclate your Words; arid when My
Kinzdom eball be established, I will
remember yoir kindness an! will re
ward It. Notwithstanding tms dark
day with .Its .unfavorable setting.;! am
really a King, and-thee3 experiences
are necessary for Me, that I may enter
into My Kingdom. Thu Jesus said
Be it as you have' Disked I will re
member yoii when I come Into posses
sion of My Kingdom. "Verily I say
unto you this day, thou shalt be with
;. i -. T n l f bin
J.tT III A uiuic. - t .
The difficulty lias, been with? the
wrong thought of the translators, and
the misplacement or the comma
Punctuation is a modern convenient
in nil languages. . There is none In the
original Scriptures.. The translators
nut the comma where they thought It
should W. but evidently they made
great mistake. It would be thoroughly
inconsistent to sav that Jesus went to
Paradise, when He bad not yet ascend
ed to the Father, and when the prom
ised Paradise Is to be established in
the earth after the Second Coming of
Christ, as a result of His Millennial
Reign. Revelation 21 :4-5
Placing the comma where we have
done leaves the passage thoroughly in
accord with all the Bible. That pas
sago, properly understood, leaves not
a shadow of Scriptural support to the
thought that a pra3er a moment lefore
death would change the everlasting
destiny of anybody.
Both Thieves In Bible Hell.
Let us get back to the Bible. Let us
get rid of the foolishness of the creeds
Let us remember that a dead man is
dead, as the Bible declares. "His sons
come to honor, and he knowrth It not
they come to dishonor, but he per
ceiveth it not of them." "There is nei
ther device nor knowledge nor wisdom
in Sheol Hades, the tomb, whithei
thou goest" whither all go.
But nothing In the Bible suggests
that man dies In the same sense as the
brute. There is no hope for a future
life for the brute, but God's Word
stands pledged for a future life for hu
manity. 1 "There shall be a resurrection
of the dead, both of the Just and of
the unjust." "AH that are in their
graves shall bear the voice of the Son
of Man and come forth.
The Bible tells, that unless Christ
had redeemed the life of mankind by
the sacrifice of Ills own life, there
would have been no resurrection of
the dead. But from the foundation of
the world God purposed a resurrection;
and that Jesus should eventually bo
the Lamb of God. to tafce away tne sin
of the world. "As by a man I Ada nil
ciime death, by a man TJesus comes
the resurrection of the dead: for as all
in Adam die, even o all in Christ shall
be made alive" "every man in bis own
order." 1 Corinthians 15:21-23.
' Jesus Himself, we read, was the first
to rise from the dead to be fully re
leased from the power of death. Laz
arus, Jaims' daughter, etc.,. were not
resurrected In full, but merely awak
ened temporarily. They fell asleep in
death azain. and will have In tneir
own due time the Divinely appointed
opportunity for a resurrection.
According to the Bible, the Church
will be the next in order, and will
have a resurrectioa to spirit nature.
similar to that of Jesus: hence the
Apostle's desire to share in Christ's
resurrection by having a share in Ills
sacrificial death. "For If we be dead
with Him. we shall also live with
Him." 2 Timothy 2:11.
Next after the Church will come the
resurrection of the Ancient Worthies,
of whom John the Baptist was the
last. Their resurrection was referred
to by St'TauI in Hebrews 11, where
he declares that "God has reserved
some better thing for us fthe Church,
that they without us should not ne
made perfect."
Each In His Own Order.
St. Taul declares that In the resur
rection every man will come forth in
his own order, or band, or company.
When the due time shall come for the
awakening of the generation which
crucified Jesus, quite probably both the
thieves will come forth from death at
or about the same time. Both thieves
will receive the blessing purchased ror
i- the Redeemer's death to be
i.
brought to a knowledge of the Truth,
to be helped up out of ignorance, su-
nertition. blindness by rewarcis,
stripes, punishments if they will, to
human perfection, lost in Adam, re
deemed by Jesus. .
But . there will be a difference be
tween the conditions or tne io
thieves. Both will be In Paradise: ror
tb lmle earth is to be a l'aradiss.
The hardened thief may have had a
less favorable birth, or" a less ravor
able environment in life. niymr
Lord, the great Judge, is able to know
how much excuse should be made for
him and how much penalty should at
tach to him. '. a ;
wu. nonttenf thief will be much more
favorably conditioned, not merely be
cause he spoke some kindly words to
fnRter lii Ills hour or tiimuatioii,
but especially because those words in
dicate that his heart was In a more
ICf n,..l tender condition. Addition
ally we are to remember that the Lord
hno osnerlallv promised that every
good deed done to Himself, or any of
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His followers, siiau recene a
row:irrt Anv -such sympathy or kind
ness would. lmi!'y a condition of heart
not far from the Kingdom; hence the
promise of a special blessing for such
nod deeds bespeaks Divine . recogni
tion of principle and character. ,
There's a Wideneis In God's Mercy,
Like the Widess of the Sea."
It 6eems difficult to many to think
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God's having a provision for the
majority of our race in the future.
Somehow the impression has gone
abroad that everlasting destinies are
fled at death. The only text ever
quoted In support of this thought Is a
statement that "where a tree falleth
there shall it lie." (Ecclesiastes 11:3.1
Sure enough, the fallen tree cannot
raise ' Itself . And sure enough mnn.
fallen Into death, is equally powerless.
Thern he would be forever were it not
for-the Divine arrangement for bis
awakening by the Lord Jesus Christ
Many of us have been too free to be
lieve that the penalty for sin may be
entirely escaped by a simple word of
prayer, and yet reversely have believed
that there could be no forgiveness of
sins after death. The only explana
tion of this persistent thought In tho
minds of the masses is that they were
taught that destinies were fixed at
death by the taking of the dying ono
over to a fiery Hell, or to a blazin.j
Purgatory, or to a blissful Heaven.
After all, In confusion did we not
once say that everybody, for a time at
least, would be brought out of Heaven.
Purgatory and Hell to attend a Judg
ment scene quite contrary to reason
and the Bible a Judgment to deter
mine whether any mistake had been
made in regard to who had Heaven,
who had. Hell and who had Purgatory?
How foolish -we have been bow stu
pid, how inconsistent, bow unscrip
tural! Every Knee Shall Bow."
Now we see that the dead are sim
ply sleeping until the Morning, when
all the sleepers will be awakened by
Him who died for all. Now we seo
that no changes take place In the moral
status of the dead, nor In the Divine
standards. He who forgave us our
sins when we confessed them and for
sook them is "the same yesterday, to
day and forever," and will be just as
ready to forgive the world of man
kind, when in due time He shall send
them light and they shall believe and
repent.
Surely there Is no more reason why
a sinner could not be forgiven In the
future than that a sinner could not be
forgiven In the present. When sinners
are forgiven now. It does not mean
that they obtain full release from some
proper penalty for their sins sickness.
sorrow, pain. Nor will the forgiveness
of sins In the future Age mean that no
stripes will be put uion the trans
gressors. Jesus distinctly tells us re
specting that future Age tnat tnen
those who have sinned against knowl
edge, light, will be punished with many
stripes, while those who have sinned
with less light will be punished wltn
fewer stripes. Luke 12:47, 4S.
Take for example the son of the wid
ow of Naln. or others or those awaK
ened by our Lord. We know little re
specting their relationship to God.
This widow's son may have been a
good man or a wicked man; but the
fact that he had been awakened from
the sloen of death by the Master would
certainly work no Injury to him after
ward in the matter of forgiving sins
for which he might repent.
God's entire object in providing the
Kingdom of Messiah and in restrain
ing Satan and causing the knowledge
of God's glory to fill the earth Is to
-rive mankind a better opportunity
than is now generally enjoyed for re
pentance and reconciliation with Him
self. Now, only the favored few can
see, can hear, can understand. Then,
all, from the least to the greatest, shall
be brought to a knowledge of the Lord
and Ills goodness, and unto Him
eventually "every knee shall bow and
every tongue confess.
Judgment For a Thousand Years.
Vow we see bv the light of the Bible
that good and bad. civilized and heath
en, all go, at death, to the Bible hell
to Sheol. Hades, the tomb. Now we
see that all are waiting for the glorious
Morning, to be ushered in by the Sec
ond Coming of Jesus. Now we see
that only the few have yet had the
lin-hr. -iind blessiiic which determines
their everlasting destiny; that thoover-
oniers of this Gospel Age will le as
sociated with Jesus as spirit leings hi
the Kingdom, while the overcomers of
previous times will be associated witli
the same Klugdom as its earthly
representatives., J n their, cases only
will the Divine judgment have been
settled.
The remainder of mankind, dying hi
more or less ignorance of God and His
terms of acceptance of sinners, are to
lmve their ludgment. or trial, during
the thousand yenrs oXJIessiah's King
dom. The willing and obedient shall
blessed and enter Into life eternal.
The disobedient, wilful sinner will die
the Second Death.
More Tolerable For Sodomites.
Jesus, in speaking of that coming
Judgment Day of the world, declared
that the Sodomites will be there, as
wc
ell as the people to whom He preach-
ed.
. And significantly He staten mnr
would 'ha more tolerable for Sodom
it
and Gomorrah In the Day of Judgment
than for Ciiorazin, .Bethsalda and a-pernaum;-for
if the Sodomites had
been privileged to enjoy the preaching
of Jesus they would have repented lu
sackcloth and ashes.
From, the Master's word we thus
perceive, how serious might be our
mlsjudgnients of the lienrts of men.
The people of Bethsaida. Chorazin and
Capernaum were regular attendants
of the synagogues decent people, hav
ing a form of godliness, but knowing
little .or nothing of Its jwwer. They
will have an opiortunity also during
the 'thousand-year Judgment Day of
Messiah's Kingdom. If they will, they
may then learn the lessons necessary
and eventually attain everlasting life.
But because of their greater privileges,
the blessings they will enjoy In the fu
ture will he correspondingly curtailed:,
and It will be more tolerable for Sodom
than for them. - . .