466 Life and Immortality. 



at His coming." Here it is obvious that the apostle is not 

 writing of all the individuals of the human race, but only 

 such that become the subject of a pardon of life. It is true 

 that all men do die, but it is not true that they are all the 

 subject of pardon. Those who are pardoned are " the 

 many," who are sentenced to live forever. The sentence to 

 pardon of life is through Jesus Christ who in pouring out His 

 blood upon the cross, was made a sacrifice for sin. " He 

 was delivered for our offences, and raiseol again for our justi- 

 fication," that is, for the pardon of those ^vho believe the gos- 

 pel. As it is written, " he that believeth'the gospel, and is 

 baptized, shall be saved." Hence, " the obedience offaitli " is 

 made the condition of righteousness, and this obedience 

 implies the existence of a " law of faith" as attested by that 

 of Moses, which is " the law of works'' Having believed 

 the gospel and been baptized, such a person is required to 

 " walk worthy of the vocation," or calling, " wherewith he 

 has been called," that by so doing he may be " accounted 

 worthy " of being " born of spirit," that he may become 

 " spirit," or a spiritual body, and so enter the kingdom of 

 God, crowned with " glory, honor, incorruptibility and life." 

 From all the above, it must be obvious to the unbiassed mind, 

 that all will not arise to newness of life, " for as many of you, 

 as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ, and if 

 ye be Christ's, then are ye the seed of Abraham, and heirs 

 according to the promise." When they have been thus bap- 

 tized, then they have received the spirit of adoption, or have 

 been elected into God's family, and then they can address 

 God as their Father who is in heaven. 



Thus adopted into God's family through faith in Jesus 

 Christ, it must not be supposed that they have attained to 

 that perfect condition of knowing all that is to be known. 

 New glories will continually open up to their admiring vis- 

 ion, and new facts be revealed through the eternity of futu- 

 rity. Man will carry his earth-acquired knowledge into the 

 other world, and little by little will he add to his fund. Those 



