"The Age to Come"

BY JOSEPH MARSH 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., PUBLISHED AT THE ADVENT HARBINGER OFFICE 1851

RESTITUTION OF BEASTS

to perfect that glorious work. Before the fall, the animal creation were all in perfect harmony with each other, and submissive to man. But now they devour each other, and are at enmity with man. This enmity and devouring disposition must be taken away from them, before things can be brought back to their Eden state, or as they were before the fall. That such will be the case in the Age to come, is evident from the following prophecies: 

Isa. xi. 6-9 "The wolf, also, shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." 

Speaking of the same day of glory, the same prophet, in ch. lxv. 25, says: 

"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." 

Does the reader doubt the most literal fulfillment of these blessed promises? He should not; for the wise, benevolent and omnipotent God, who at first created them with lamb-like disposition, is able to restore that disposition to them again. And that Savior, who, in the days of his humiliation, could, by his word, calm the tempest and smooth the foaming sea, cause the fish to bring the tribute money, and the young, untutored and timid ass to be submissive to his will; can, and will, in the great day of his exaltation and power, cause all things, animate and inanimate, to obey his righteous and universal law, and pay homage at his feet. 

Finally in that great and long expected day, the . . . 

Glory of God Will Fill the World