"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of LifePenrose, Charles W. (Charles William)
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"Mormon" Doctrine Plain and Simple; Or, Leaves from the Tree of Life
Penrose, Charles W. (Charles William)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
The ushering in of the great millennial day, a glimpse of which
has been seen by all the holy prophets since the world began, with
the sweet rest of earth and its inhabitants, is not, however, the
completion of Christ's glorious work. His kingdom must not only be
established from pole to pole and from shore to shore, but His saving
power must penetrate to every lost soul of our race in, the regions of
the damned.
A just judgment will be meted out to all. They who reject the gospel
must suffer the penalty. Those who are found worthy of many stripes
must receive their portion. The wicked will be turned into hell, with
all the nations that forget God. Each condemned person will pay the
uttermost farthing for his sins. Justice, tempered, not warped or
thwarted, by mercy, will mete out to all their right deserts, "every
man according to His works." The punishment is always existent,
therefore it is eternal punishment. But each one who suffers,
receives only his just portion thereof. Shall the murderer and the
Sabbath-breaker, the adulterer and the thief, the drunkard and the
profane, all merit the same doom? Would human courts proclaim such
judgment? Shall man have more equity than God? When stern justice has
claimed its own and filled its purpose, shall there be no place for
sweet mercy?
While there is one soul of this race, willing and able to accept and
obey the laws of redemption, no matter where or in what condition it
may be found, Christ's work will be incomplete until that being is
brought up from death and hell, and placed in a position of progress,
upward and onward, in such glory as is possible for its enjoyment and
the service of the great God.
The punishment inflicted will be adequate to the wrongs performed. In
one sense the sinner will always suffer its effects. When the debt is
paid and justice is satisfied; when obedience is learned through the
lessons of sad experience; when the grateful and subdued soul comes
forth from the everlasting punishment, thoroughly willing to comply
with the laws once rejected; there will be an abiding sense of loss.
The fullness of celestial glory in the presence and society of God and
the Lamb are beyond the reach of that saved but not perfected soul,
forever. The power of increase, wherein is dominion and exaltation, and
crowns of immeasurable glory, is not for the class of beings who have
been thrust down to hell and endured the wrath of God for the period
allotted by eternal judgment.
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