San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-03-09
THE ENDL EsS NELL MUD.
DIE ANALYZED.

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DIE ANALYxED.
BY GUILFoRD N. CADE, n. D.
The only iufallible method of solv-
ing this endless hell muddle, to insur.
ance of perfect harmony, aud original
essence OF all the fundamental scrip.
Fture teachings, developing . solution
cougenial with reason, conscience and
experience. Secret things belong
unto the Lord our God; but those
things which are revealed belong unto
us and to our children forever. -
Deut. 29: 20. Those Of Gods crea-
lures who are oapacitated, are expect-
ed to separate to clear view, void of
mystiication, every revealed fun a.
mental truth, to tointelligent comprehen-
sion of true believers, or there is q
want Of harmony aud fitness Of those
things made, with those revealed. Who
will rashly sustain a course which
alone leads to confusion and imperfec-
ton of creation? 1t required wisdom
above human power or conception, for,
pressing into being what we see and
feel, what human agency could hope to
spring into view, the almost impene.
trable revelation, which purports to
come from an unseen, hidden, myster
ious source? They are realities, and
there is no alternative left dependent
men but to appropriate them to their
best interest. This is the sage conclu'
sion Of the purest. wisest men earth
ever produced. Will any man with
rational reflection bubble over his
duty? With my experience, or whole
reas nable existence, | appropriate
this entire host of wisdom as springing
Immediately from superhuman, pure,
wise reality, to whom all creation is
directly responsible for past, present
and future condition; and our para
mount hope for correct knowledge is
primarily derived from this revelation.
One of the mediators between God and
men says: "All scripture is given by
| inspiration. - Second Tim, 3: IL.
Certainly emanating from perfect wis
dom of righteousness. through ohosen,
purified human instruments. All
christians must assent to this; and to
those, especially, appeal. Every
passage Of this scripture l obediently
reverence and seek to obey. by search.
ling the original, clear, uncramped
meaning, to perfect har rnony in all its
parts which original harmony is sure
iy partially lost by the christian world
in the gloomy meshes of human tradi'
ton; for christian teachings are in
unmistakable antagonism to the plain
est scripture positions, as we'll as Grim
inally to each other.
Every protestant religionist openly
condemns the mother church of Rome
as an apostate! And who can gainsay
80 sure a charge? What church lived
and kept its sameness Of doctrine and
spirit as taught by the apostles to all
the churches, uncontaminated, through
the centuries Of blightingdsrk ness, when
the ecclesiastical world were. soul. mind,
body and strength minlstered, and i'm:
mediately supervised, by the universal
authority of the Popes and Councils OF
Rome? This mother church certainly
once held and taught every fundamen-
tai doctrine 10 its original purity,
under the apostles ministration, with
no additions or detractions, After she
acquired universal dominion (Which
history clearly sustaius) the entire
churches of God on earth we're certain
" swallowed iu completeness, into the
Popc and Councils of Rome. This,
then, being q demoustrable matter OF
history, there are surely no christian
bodies in life, since the acquired uni
yersal domination of authority by
Rome, save this sovereignty and the
protestant christians. 1t Rome, to
attain this universal authority, have so
basely corrupted the gentle, lovely.
sameness of teachings bequeathed
them. and the prptestauts can so easily
verify and point out the additions and
detractions for base corruption; why
the rising generations are to-day de-
manding Of the representatives OF pro-
testaptism. Yes. why have they not
made a clean expurgatiop, to the exclu-
sion of every schism, which is carnal +?
II certainly is not necessary to the
bible historian to give the countless
examples of the change of the true
word of God into lie The history
Of the children Of Israel, and the
Romish church with their complication
Of Ietractious and additions, ought TO
,dmonish every bible reader of the
fearful danger Of reliance in my way
for doctrine upon human tradition.
Our protestan; reformers certainly de-
serve great credit fOI cleansing the