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Show DIVINE REWARDS ABE ETERNAL LIFE, Divine Piinisnment Far Incorrigible Incor-rigible is Eternal Death, Pastor Russell, In Eloquent Diccourco, Yerterdoy at Columbus, Ohio, Brought Comfort and Satisfaction to Mnny Who Listened to His Expoci-tion Expoci-tion of a Text Mioapplied by Many. fsslsr.ffiifwuc M Columbus, Ohio, gjHtSj RusBell chose for BSft -S hi3 tcxt loda7 onfi PgHiPci.J t-1)nt has doubtless wTwpi! 7 many thcoioRt-gi'HfBy thcoioRt-gi'HfBy iins. It was the BssssKie 'a3t verse of the jfftft ffiw Prfl' &mgi shall go away Into IPAS1QR. RH.5SELLM cverlastfDp pun-I pun-I ishuicut, but the righteous Into life eternal." Mntthew 3xv, 4G Pastor Russell proved on this occasion, occa-sion, as he usually does, thnt be has a long lend on rumiy of the theologians of the post and present His position with respect to this Parable Is that the application of It Is not to this Arc but to tho future one. This Ik distinctly Hhown In the opening vense of the Parable Par-able Itself, he nald: "TFfton the Son of Man shall mme in Bis plory, and Jill the holy angels -with Him, tlicn shall He sit upon the Throne of His Glory." 0 31 ) And besides, the Pastor snld. When the Son of Man shall sit in His Throne and have before Him nil nations, it is evident from Scripture that the true Church -irill sit with nim; thnt the nations vrill be the remainder of humanity. hu-manity. As proof of tills he quoted Scripture: "To him thnt overcometh will T jrrant to sit with Me in My Throne." (Revelation ill. 21.) Anoth- er, "To him that overcometh will I give power over the nations." (Revelation 11, 2fi.) And apnln. "Know ye not that the saints shall judge tho world?" "all nations." I Corinthians vl, 2. That this work of Judging: and reigning reign-ing over the Da tions of earth is not to be during n dny of twenty-four hour?, he Gald, is evident from Scripture also For instance. "They shall be priests of God aud of Christ and shall rebju with Him a thousand years " (II Peter III. 7, S; Revelation x. G.) There Is no doubt that the correct view of the doctrine of Election has much to do with clarifying the theological theo-logical atmosphere of the mlnsma of the past If everybody could get tho Bible focus upon this important doctrine, doc-trine, every other theological question would become as clear as noonday If everybody .could fee clearly that tho true Church Is being elected, or selected. select-ed. In this Age. nccordlng to faithfulness faithful-ness and character-development, by way of preparation for the great serv Ice to be rendered the world ln tho next Age, there would be tevr problems prob-lems reinnining to be clenred up. Tho Shocp tho Goate ths Firo. The Pnrnble proceeds to show tho separating work that will progress ' throughout the thousand-year exercise 1 of Divine power and authority on earth. At Its conclusion all the peoples peo-ples of the nations will have taken their places, cither as sheep or goats. To the sheep class will be said. "Come, ye blessed of My Father, Inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." This carries the mind back to the time when tho worH was established. Adam being its tlrst representative wns, by Divine command, given do-j do-j minion, or rulcrshlp. over It all was I given the Kingdom of earth But he proved his unfitness for further eser-slse eser-slse of his God-given responsibilities by placing hlmself'in opposition to his J Creator and ou the sldo of the Adversary. Adver-sary. At once Adam lost his dominion. ' and lost also bis right to eternal life ' The sheep class of the Parable rep- i resent all of Adam's race brought back I i to perfection by the process of Restitu- ' i tlon during Messiah's reign of a thousand thou-sand years. (Acts ill, 1SJ-21.) To them , will come the dominion which Adam loat and which Jesus redeemed at Cal- vaty. Next the fate of the goat class is stated not In literal language, but in symbol. It 3honId be borne ln mind that "without a parable fcpnke He not to tho people." In other -words, everything every-thing which Jesus said to tho people was flgnratlve, lo the end that only those of the right condition of heart n!ght be able to understand, as this "was the character of the class that God designed' should be accorded the honor of reigning with Messiah over the earth. To these "It Is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom " The message of the great King to the goat class, the Parable proceeds to show, will be. "Depart from Me. y cursed, Into everlasting fire prepared for thoDovll and his nngete." There Is a large class of short-sighted people who while thinking that the goats represent rep-resent an incorrigible class, insist that the fire is real, and not twmbollc. Bnt there Js an Increasingly large class of Bible sfndents who rocognbee, said Pastor Pas-tor Rturgell, thtt "Are" throughout the Bible in used figuratively to represent destruction. He pointed to St. Peter's summing' up of the fate of the incorrigibly incorri-gibly wicked ns follows: "These, as natural nat-ural bTutc beasts, mado to be taken and destroyed speak, evil oC the things that they understand not; nnd shall utterly perith In tbelr own corruption, " n Peter 11, 12. |