Surely no one will claim tbat any
but a little Hock has ev^r attained to
this honored condition heUce our for
mer ideas respecting the non-elect
would consign the majority of our
families, neighbors, friends aud all
the heathen, to eudless woe. Bnt now
how differently we see in God's Word
that "the elect class is' selected' Iti ad
vance, that in God's due time, with
the Redeemer, it may bless every crea
ture with fullest opportunity to return
to bumau perfection in a Paradise re
gained—restored during the Millenni
um. This proposition of the Scrip
tures includes those who have goue
down to tbe prison-house of death—
into Sheol, into Hades, both the evil
and the good. All shall then know,
as to re at ha
earthly plane during the 'Millennium.
1 address you, dear friends, uot from
a sectarian standpoint, but from a
Federation-standpoint yea, more than
this, from the standpoint of those who
desire to be doctrinally, as well as out
wardly. in agreement with the Lord
and witb each other. Have We not, in
this beautiful election of the Bible, the
basis for the grandest of all bOpes, the
highest of all ambitions—to be "heirs
of God and joint-heirs with Jesus
Christ our Lord?" Can we want moire
than this for ourselves! And ttoei it
not enhance the glory of this prise to.
