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Show REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN The General Resurrection and the First Resurrection. Pastor Russell's Address at th International Inter-national Bible Students Convention In Scotland Several Thousand Hear Explained Much-Misunderstood Text. flBHpgEWfcUfek-tjfl Glngow, Scot-Hjp" Scot-Hjp" M land, July 2S. Rl-oRf?Xa Rl-oRf?Xa ,v5 ble students of this $iiPwbi .-5 vlc'n't?' numbering aSaaSeyft; tfi hundreds have had nsssrBnjL'l a tnrec daJs' Cn" f$mfr M, vcntlon. Another ttjF&teW' ffBf General Conren- agVHB tion of Dlble Stn- ssssssss&assH (lcQts ";vI11 held I IBtssss IbsH m LDllon August ISsBEsflBsBtl B 'u Todny'n soa- KSIOMIED Blon (att;ndcd b yy "",) sovcrn thousand, wan addressed by Pastor RuHseJL VTo report oue of his addresec based on Revelation xx. 4-G. It was uunounccd that next Sunday Sun-day he would address a similar Convention Con-vention In London. Christianity Vorsus Platonism. Mnuy Christians whowt faith cannot can-not accept the Divine promise have turned Instead to the theory advanced advanc-ed long before Jesus' day by the Grecian Gre-cian philosophers headed by Plato. Their teachings respecting death, although al-though less logical than the Bible theory, require less faith. Thus vrv have it today that Chrintlan faith re-npecting re-npecting the future life Is supported, not by the Bible, but by the teachings of the heathen from Plato down. Plato and ail the heathen claim with out cvideuce thnt dying wns uot the pennlty for aln. that, on the contrary, it is another step of an evolution process, proc-ess, a passage-way to a new life, under un-der new conditions, of which thej know nothing. Theirs Is merely a guess, a philosophy, and. of course, has no use for a resurrection of the dead, because the fact of death Is denied anil the dead are said to be more alive than when they were alive. Tho Bible declares that from the very beginning God purposed the resurrection resurrec-tion of the dead and that, therefore, all believers were privlloged to speak of the deceased, not as dead In an absolute abso-lute sense. like the brute, but as bein? asleep waiting for the glorious morning morn-ing of Messiah's Kingdom and the resurrection. res-urrection. Thus tho Prophet dechires. "Weeping may endure for the night, but Joy cometh in the morning." Thin the Bible tells us that "Abraham slept with his fnthers.'" etc. etc. St. Paul says, "If there be no resurrection resur-rection of therrj(. then those who are fallen asleep in Christ ure perished." fl Corinthians xv, 13-lS.i How could this be true If they have been alive In heaven for centuries? Firot or Chief Resurrection. Not all nf the dead will have the same resurrection. Some will be rais ed to the likeness of the llrst Adam, while others, inemlwrs of the Body of Christ, will be granted a superior resurrectionto res-urrectionto gloryr honor, Immortality and tile divine nature. Of tbe In tier St. Paul explains. "own In weakness, raised In powr: sown In dishonor, raised In glory: sown an animal hody. raised n spirit body." d Corinthians xv, 43, 44. t Of the same clasn our text declares. "Blessed nnd holy are all they that have part In the ffr.t Resurrection: they Khali be Priests unto God. and unto Christ, and shall reign with Film a thousnnd years." (Revclntlon s., (!: v, 0 I "But the Rest of tho Dead." Ah! this part of our text Is sadly mis understood nnd has thrown many Bible Bi-ble students oft tbe track of truth They have understood the piibsnge to mean thnt Christ nnd UN glorified Bride class will rrlgn for a tbousand years over such of humanity as will be alive at the time of the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom. They think-that think-that this passage teaches that all tin millions of t lie world who have died during the past six thousnnd years will have uo share In the blessings of Mcs slab's Kingdom Tlio proper thought Is this: Adam had life nnd tbe right to rontinue It unceasingly unceas-ingly so long as hi wns In harmony with God. When ht meil he en me under the sentence. "Dying, thon sbnlt die." Our race, his ihlldrcn. shared his sentence by heredity, flence we are all dying. From the Divine standpoint none hnve life. Those who become disciples dis-ciples of Jesus are snld to paps from death unto life, although their new life will not be completed until the First Resurrection. But speaking from this standpoint Jean said. Let the dead bury their desd. but go thou fbelleveri and preach the Gospel. Luke Ix. GO. From this DIvluc standpoint the world In general today Is dead, has no right to life and can obtain eternal life only through ncccptlng Jesus: "He thnt hath the Son bath life: Ho that hnth not the Son hath not life." I John t, 12. Thus seen the world, whether In the grave or out of the graic. are all from the Divine standpoint dead During tho thousand years of Mosslnh's relm the? will I) helped up, op. np. out of sin and death, back to perfect life and all that Adam lost The upraMngof tbe world during that thousand years Is the general reinrrcctloa. This Is the mennlng uf the word cnajJaWj-lt does not refer to tneff awakening from tbe torah Hence, although tbe world wMl be KTSduaUy rising oat of sin and death roodlilooK. tbey will not live agsln In ' the ene of nualnlne perfection of life intll the theuvmd years are finished, I |