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OBJECTIONS CONSIDERED.             159
       slain this world with the sword of death, over fifty times
       in the present dispensation.
         Think of it! more than fifty worlds gone down in the
       whirlpool of  death.  Each generation brings on  to  the
       scene an  entirely  new world.  And how few out of these
       are converted. How few are reached by the gospel  life-
       boat, and how few of those reached heed the message of
       salvation.  The great mass sweep on, like a wrecked vessel,
       in darkness and unbelief, to the Judgment.
         The coming of Christ will inaugurate a far better state
                For, when He comes, all things that offend shall
       of things.
       be gathered out and the kingdom shall be established in
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       righteousness.  And even though the subjects of the king-
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       dom (not Ihe reigning ones)  may die during the millen-
       nial age, yet shall they die in a good old age, the child
       even  a hundred years  old,  132  and  their death  shall be
             133  and though the Millennium
       blessed,                        is not the perfect
       state, yet Judgment will speedily follow the sinner of that
       day, or the nation which shall swerve from serving God.  134
         (130)  Mat.  13:49.  So  shall  dred  years  old,  shall  be  ac-
       it be at the end of the world:  cursed.
       the angels shall come forth, and  (133) Rev.  14:13.  And  I
       sever  the  wicked  from among  heard a voice from heaven say-
       the  just,               ing unto me, Write, Blessed are
        50. And  shall cast them into  tne dead which die in the Lord
       the furnace  of  fire: there shall  from henceforth: Yea saith the
                                8 P irIt ' that the y may rest from
      be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
                                their labours.
        Also verses 31-43.                       And
                                 (134) Zech.
                                                     it
                        Ut
         5       2  :35 '  * ^ ^  ^all come  to  14:16. that every
       which shall              Qne that  is  left pass,  all  tfae na _
        LV ^ ^l be accounted worthy
                                            of
       to  obtain  that  world  and  the  tioQS  w h came  inst Jeru .
       resurrection  from  the  dead,
                                       ,  eyen     from
       neither marry, nor are given in
                                year to year to worship tbe Klng>
                                the Lord of  hosts, and to keep
        36. Neither can they  die any  the feast of tabernacles,
       more:  for they  are equal  unto  17. And  it shall be, that who-
              ; and are the children
       the angels               so wm not come up of  all the
       of God, being the children of the  families of the earth unto Jeru-
       resurrection.            salem to worship the King, the
        Also Rev. 20 :4-6.      Lord  of  hosts, even upon f>em
         (132)  Isa. 65 :20. There shall  shall be no rain,
       be no more thence an infant of  18. And if the family of Eb/Pt
       days, nor an old man that hath  go not  up, and come  not, that
       not filled his days : for the child  have no rain, there shall be the
                                plague wherewith the Lord will
       shall die an hundred years old ;
       but  the  sinner,  being an hun-  smite the heathen that come not
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