Sabbath Service | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 12, 1901

Sabbath Service.

THE venerable pastor of the church, Elder I. D. Van Horn, occupied the Tabernacle pulpit, Sabbath, Nov. 9, 1901, taking for the foundation of his remarks 1 Cor. 15: 1-3. After singing by the choir, reading of Scripture by Elder H. M. Mitchell, and prayer by Elder A. C. Bourdeau, Brother Van Horn gave a good gospel sermon from the Scripture named. These old gems of truth shone with new light under his polishing. He traced the work of Christ in all its departments, showing that the gospel pertains to all dispensations, and that it is all wrong to single out the dispensation since Christ and apply to it exclusively the term “gospel dispensation,” as the dispensations from the garden of Eden till the present time have all equally had the gospel. He traced events down to the present time, showing that we have passed down this side the beginning of the message of Rev. 14: 6; showed what death it was (the death in Adam) which Christ abolished when 2 Tim. 1: 10 was fulfilled; contrasted the “hour of His judgment” of Rev. 14: 6, with the “day of judgment” of Acts 17: 31; 2 Peter 3: 7. He then traced the work of judgment down through the thousand years, which time is occupied with examining the records of the wicked, when such passages as 1 Cor. 6: 2 are fulfilled; then at the end of the thousand years, sentence is executed upon the wicked in the second death, from which a clean universe comes forth. There is no flaw nor failure in any part of the work of the Lord. Shall we be prepared to have a part in the final outcome?