"The Age to Come"
BY JOSEPH MARSH
ROCHESTER, N. Y., PUBLISHED AT THE ADVENT HARBINGER OFFICE 1851
LONG LIFE
will be restored to man. Not the immortal saints, for they will have eternal life, but to men and women in the flesh who shall be "left," after the great destruction that will take place near the ushering in of that day. There will be no premature deaths then, as are now daily witnessed. For,
"There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days:
for the child shall die an hundred years old * * * for as the days of a tree are the days of my
people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." Isa. lxv. 20, 22.
For several generations after the fall of Adam, the life of man was perpetuated from some hundreds to
near a thousand years; and it is reasonable to suppose, it will be continued equally long, in the Restitution,
under the reign of Christ.
Had not the first happy pair fallen, we think they and their posterity would have been continued in a state
of probation, ~~ strangers to sorrow or pain, ~~ until fully ripe for immortality, when, instead of falling
under the power of death, they would have received eternal life as the reward of their obedience. But
such is not the lot of man now; his days are few and full of evil, which terminate in the triumph of death
over him. But in the Age to come the dark and mournful scene will be changed to one of light, life and
joy; such as it would have been, had man never sinned.
In addition to this state of things, there will be a . . .