| Show the earth its fall redemption and final destiny Dest inythe the eternal abode of the righteous BY PROF ORSON the earth was formed to be inhabited it was designed to be the abode of animated existence the he dwelling peace of beings capable of enjoying life and I 1 happiness iness hartiness haT at t the time of its creation it was pronounced by its author to be Iv elgood wry good 21 the term very good could have no meaning unless spoken with reference ence to beings who should be capable of experiencing some benefit from rom its construction however beautifully formed however grand and magnificent its matons however skillfully its elements are combined or its Us parts proportioned to each other yet if not designed to be connected with perceptive beings the earth could not be pronounced good A mass masi of inanimate element cannot be organized in n any po possible isible form or proportion so as to benefit or ii injure ure itself and therefore cannot be good nor bad with reference to itself goodness and its appo opposite site quality when applied tp to unconscious in mistier titter always nava I 1 siave reference to con conscious scions beings capable of deriving happiness or misery from these qualities this was the meaning oie of the creator when he be ascribed the quality of goodness fiess to the earth it contained every necessary ingredient to tender render happiness to the beings who were di designed signed to occupy it after having made every necessary preparation countless species of lavint living moving beings came from the spirit world to dinha inha inhabit it earthly bodies and take up ap their abode upon ohis magn magnificent i creation among the rest manthe man the offspring of deity left his accent ancient aci ent home his big brother and sister spirits and came to a world most beautifully adapted to his autu future e Z wants here he entered a tabernacle of flesh an and bones anti and received dominion and authority over all the lower orders of existence here immortality reigned and death had no dominion the elements were so wisely arranged and proportioned that life was derived f from rom all things ordained for the use of man or beast fowl or inh the nourishing element of life was diffused through the arth the ocean and thi he air lite life pervaded every vegetable and fruit not forbidden to man afe reigned triumphantly throughout this vast creation beath eath was unknown it had not been seen heard beard of diw w experienced in ail all the varied racks of 0 teat earth 17 beings here then tb enva vas creation very good inhabited y beings capable of eternal existence both oth body and mint pi rit here was a creation adapted to the wants of all its inhabitants inhabitant sv calculated to preserve unchanged that immortality with which they were endower endowed U here then was a creation worth possessing g as an eternal abode such was the inheritance inherit ance given to man with its vast treasures and sumptuous luxuries such wat the gift ift of heaven under certain restrictions these rea rca i notions tiong were not complied with min man fell a great change came over the fair face of creation the earth was cursed air sickness kness pain and misery ensued m mortality fy yielded to mortality death reigned triumphantly throughout phout the animal kingdom the everlasting inheritance on the newly formed eat earth th was wag bof cited all seemed to be lost forever lost while all creation groaned in utter despair and death a voice voice was heard riot a voice of wrath aud and indignation but the he voice of mercy and compassion the voice of the creator proclaiming himself the redeemer love oye flowed through ever every sentence man listened with eg eagerness ei the door of hope was opened despair fled away all things again assumed a ne new aspect the earth though chii cursed sed was to be reile redeemed emed the hotly body thou though it cor corruptible r u tible was again to put on incorruption aUt f thing lungs 8 lost lost li by the arsi transgress on to be rii restored stored again irr in their pr primitive excelle excellence nee and beauty enough this great redemption was to be universal 14 yet the change was to be gradual or pro restive not immediate the effect of the fall were to continue for c lar a sea season aon until all the inhabitants inhabitant of the spirit world designed tor for this creation should learn by bitter experience the unhappy consequences of sin hence the whole world still groans under the sad effects of the original transgression sorrow mourning death still prevail the aged middle aged and in infant ant still feel the force of these evils all are made partakers par takers in a greater or less degree of the wretchedness and miseries of the tall fall none escape none can proclaim themselves immortal or tree free from these dired direful ul effects the universal univ eisal redemption of the posterity of abari it from the aall fall will be f ully fully accomplished after the earth has been filled with its it measure of inhabitants and all men haw have been redeemed from f om the grave to immortality and the earth itself has been changed and made entirely new but a universal redemption from the effects of original sin has nothing to do with wih redemption f from om our personal sins for the original sin of adam and the personal sins of his children are two different iblings the first was committed by man in his immortal second was committed by man in a mortal state the former was vas committed in a state of ignorance of good or evi the latter was wag committed by man having a knowledge of both good and evil As aa the sins are different and committed entirely under different circumstances so I 1 the penalties are d 3 f ferent also the penalty of the first transgression was an eternal separation of body and spirit arid and eternal banishment from the pres presence ence of jehovah while the penalty of our own transgressions does not involve a disunion of body and spirit but only eternal banishment the first penalty not only shut man out from the presence of bf god but deprived him eter nal lyof a body the second penalty permits him to retain his bis body th though bukh in a banished condition As tha penalties are different so also is the redemption redemption from the first penalty is i unconditional on the part pan of man redemption from the second penalty is conditional unconditional redemption is universal ah it takes take within its scope all mankind it is as unlimited T as ag the fall it redeems men f om alt all its effect it restores to them their bodies 2 it restores them to the presence of god the children of adam kad bad no agency in the transgression gres sion of their first parents and thedore the fore they their are not required to exercise any agency tn in their redemption from its penalty they are redeemed from it without witti out faith repentance baptism or any other act V either of the mind or body conditional redemption i is also universal in its na tuo auit it is iq offered to all but not received by all it is A 4 universal gift though not universally accepted its benefits can be obtained only through faith repentance baptism the laying la iring on of the hands and obedience I 1 to all other requirements cements of the flie gospel I 1 unconditional redemption iii ia a gift forced upon mankind which they cannot reject though they were 6 disposed not so with conditional can call be received or rejected according to 6 the wu of the creature IRe A dempt ion from the original rial sin is ig without faith or work redemption from our ow own n sin sins is given through faith and works both are the gifts of free grace but while one is a g gif aft t forced upon us unconditionally the other is ir a gift merely offered to us conditionally the reception of the one is compulsory the roc reception eption of tather is voluntary man cann cannot 0 t I 1 by bv any possible act prevent his redemption from the buttes fal 61 but he can utterly y refuse and prevent his redemption demp tion from f the penalty of his bis own sins sins the earth earlb like the posterity of adam was cursed because of the 01 original sin and like them it will he be redeemed unconditionally and restored ic stored again into the god sofa so far r as agthe the original sin ip concerned mankind and the earth keep pace with each other when one falls alls the other falls also when one is redeemed the ollier oher is redeemed also had there been no other sin b but u t that of adams adam sf the redeemed eai earth th aou would ld have become the eternal abode of all the posterity I 1 of f adam without one exception cep tion but both m man an and the earth have been still I 1 further corrupted brother by other sins the posterity of adam have transgressed transgressed the code of laws given since the faill and subjected themselves to its penalty this penalty does not interfere with the first penalty perci ty man will be redeemed from the first before the sec mil nd will be fully inflicted when his redemption from the first death is completed then comes the judgment when his bis own wm sins will be enquired enan u ed into and not I 1 adams As he stands before the judgment jud n lent seat tie he ifil wu find himself himi elf entirely innocent of iAda adana transgression and entirely entire lv redeemed from the effects of it but he be stil finds himself guilty of his own individual sins s ms the pernety of which is a second deatha death enot a dissolution of b bady ady and spirit like that of the beath but a banisin ba nishn A ent from the presence of god p aad trofa fr agn the glory of sis is power from roin the second death as we have already observed is 13 conditional man having volun 4 R sin sifi must voluntarily comply with ae Os pf af redemption otherwise he be must suf if any should feel dig disposed posed to doubt j whether the second penalty will be let ti them er look at the infliction of the first during the last years the first death with all its attendant evils L has extended its ravages among carnations all aR nations and gener genei actions since since the first taw law amont was broken if god then I 1 has fulfilled his hia word in in the first pi provocation evocation to the very letter why should any one suppose that he will not ingli inflict ct the second death deat as a 4 penalty of the second provocation all generations bear witness to oie faithfulness of f his word woid spoken in in the garden of eden why then i i should we suppose that justice shall be frustrated i and his word become null and void in regail to any future penalty with which the sinner is threatened if the sin of one man brought the first death upon unnumbered millions why not the sin of each man brin bring the second death lupori upon himself 9 there is no escape for the sinner from the second death only through the conditions of the gospel all who will believe in I 1 christ arid and repent of their sins sins and be baptized by I 1 immersion for the remission of them and receive the holy ghost through the ordinance of the laying on of hands and continue faithful unto the end shall escape the penalty of the second death all who reject itol t these conditions must suffer it for tile the word of god cannot become void and justice be thwarted from his stern decrees though all mankind are to be fully redeemed from I 1 the effects of the ori original inal sin yet we have great reason leason leai I 1 to fear that burlew but few will be redeemed from their own is bitis those few who are redeemed will w 11 receive 1 the earth for an eternal for the earth as awe we have already observed will be unconditionally redeemed from the curse course of the or original ginal sin sin and so far as that sit sirl is concerned it will te be no obstacle to the earths entering into the presence of gol asit 11 it as the me earth has hag been by other sins than the original it must partake pai take of the cu curses ses of the second death after it is redeemed from fi om the curses of the fist fi st unless god has provid provide edh db a 0 way fur for its sanctification and redemption it has seemed e tint anto 0 the Redee redeemer mpr to institute ordinances for the cleansing cleans ingi sanctification ion and eternal redemption of the earth not from from the original sin sin but from the sins of the posterity of adam the first ordinance instituted for the cleana cleansing of the earth was that of immersion in water it was buried in the liquid element and all things kinf il upon apon the face of it were washed away As it came forth foith from the ocean flood like the newborn new born child it ws was innocent p it arose to newness of life it was it its s second birth fro from m the womb of mighty wafers 3 new world wo id is issuing from the ruins of the old clothed with all the innocence of its first creation As A man cannot be born bom again of water without an administrator so the earth r required aired an agency independent of itself to administer minis er t this is grand ci cleansing ordinance and restore resto e it to its infant purity that administrator damin 2 jS was the redeemer himself the second ordinance instituted for the tion tinn of the t arth is iii that of fie and the holy ghost the day will come when it shall burn as an oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall bp be as st stubble after which the gloy glo y of god shill shall cover the earth as the waters cover the deep here then is a baptism of fire fie fi e fi t then hen of lie he holy ebly spirit A As man receives the babli m of fie and th the H hav ay spirit through the bair laying AZ or of the hands hand of a legal administrator administrate 9 so the earth eai th receives the samp same not through its own agency but bat through the agencies ordained of or god As man becomes a i new creature by y being born again fiston fi st of then of the ap sant rit in the same manner the earth becomes a now new earth by being born again of these cleansing and puri pim dying elements elemen ls As inan man becomes a r man by the new birth so the eattle becomes a righteous earth through the same process p icess righteousness ic abde iddo upon tip 0 it lis its face dibi ipg a thousand years Q and the savior S ividor will bless it with his ners personal onal presence after which the end soon comes an ana d the earth itself i self will die and its elements be d s solved ved through the agency of fi e tins tais death 0 dissolution disso lud on of the earth is is a penalty of the original sin I 1 difanti if ants and righteous men die not as a penal y of their own cinq sins but because aiato A lain sinned so the earth eaith dies d es or undergoes undergo eq a similar chanze change not because of the h of tb the a children of adam but because of the original transgression but dil all mankind are arc made alive f aiom rom the first death through the resurrection ur so the earth will again be renewed its elements will aga again n be collected they will again be recombined and reorganized as when it fist issued from the womb of chaos As the bodes bod es of the ri righteous I 1 libeous ois are made immortal eternal unchangeable and glorious so the earth itself will be so constructed I 1 as to be capable of everlasting endurance immortality I 1 will be indelibly stamped upon every depart ment of this creat on 01 it will be crowned with the 1 p of god the father and shine foi foith th in in all ah the splendors s of celestial glory but who will be it its in in hah tan those who have passed through I 1 tires line pi 3 of and none noie else els As all who partake of the second death must be banished fi from om the presence of god it necessarily necess anly follow that they mii must t be hini banished shed from the gloried eat caiti th for that is redeemed redeem pd d into the presence of god and enjoys e the glord of I his h s powei and no being can in inhabit ha b t it 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