The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-10

the world for its highest possibilities DR.. SUIT
ton well said there is no prospect of an end. and
rs there il no Bible authority for teaching 1t
let Us burn our Old sermons 10
ages has been interviewer and adapt
our teachings 10 the more enlightened ace IN
which We 1--we OF course we will be criticised.
Less liberal and less advanced thinkers viii
want to silence US. and failing TO do IL by ar
gument. they will, as far possible. treat as a.
Calico was treated There 10 no reason why
we should cot be pronounced heretcs and some
grave ecclesiastical assembly fulminate anathe-
mas at u.s. but this Alliance 10 made OF stun
which viii answer, none Of these things move
me-" / have said that the disciples IL that
branch OF their question 30 singularly omitted
by all bat OF the sacred writer's while other
parts Of the question are mentioned by all, said
not word about the end OF the world.
In not c single instance does single
writer of the New Testament use aionos
when speaking of the world; it 10 always kosmos.
Thus. Matthew: the Kingdoms OF this kosmos
the light Of this kosmos; the field is the kosmos;
gain the whole kosmos John: he was ia the
kosmos; the kosmos Was made by Him, and the
kosmos knew Him not. Paul: the kosmos by
wisdom knew Him not; ye have received not tho
spirit of the kosmos-aud so on through every
Gospel and every Epistle; through the Acts and
through the Apocalypse. Seeing then that We
have no Scripture authority for the antiquated
notion that this world, which 10 jus. In its forma-
tive period, with its capabilities just unfolding,
science ccntradicts the notion, why should We
adhere to that Interpretation OF the Scripture
which gives countenance to 1T What II half
dozen or q dozen dogmas which rest upon this
a their only foundation. should toppls by the
removal of the basisl Truth 10 20 be preferred
to tradition or dogma The sacred truths Of the
Bible ere not intended for those only who ac-
cept without question whatever may be uttered
from the pulpit in the name OF
truth. This spirit hungerings Of the
20 psp1f fsod
as the thirstnes Of the hart drive it to seek the
water brook. and the learned as we'll rs the I'M
learned feed and grow upon the pure food the
gospel supplies, but when they are compelled to
take that food adulterated by the admixture of
legends and fables, and PHILOSOPHERS that are re-
puRnant to their senses, In rebelling against the
extraneous and false they are liable to reject the
truth their spirit nature so much longs for.
They do not go to church to hear science or phi
losophy discussed. but TO feed on the sincere
milk OF the word; hence when dog
mas are thrust at them and insisted
upon as beyond question because Thus saith tho
Lord. they learn to doubt the truth itself and
come to antagonize it because ito teachers blend
il inseparaby with what they cannot believe.
But = better day is dawning. In the near fut-
ure-within six thousand years. IL not within
one thousand-whsn other elementsin the heav-
ems above. occult now IS lightning was less
than two centuries ago. when other agents Ia
the earth beneath. as little known now as nat
ural gas aud petroleum were less than century
aeo-shall come troopine from above
and from beneath to do service for
man, and when the pure Gospel of
the son of God shall have been
stripped OF the membranes with which ira
dition and bigotry have hampered 1t. and it
goes forth to bless q world-tho watch,uen
upon the walls of our Zion will look with equal
wonder upon the inquisition that imprisoned q
Calico, and the General Assembly that only
300 yearslater ostracissd Woodrow as Identical
in spirit and almost synchronous In time, each
belonging to the period Of intolerance. and as
they read and expound the same Scriptures we
now read and expound, but with the clearer light
of the growing day, not even then at its zenith,
they will wonder at the narrow views
once entertained of those Scriptures as We now
wonder that the sublime propheciss of Isaiah
were ever interpreted to apply only to q tempor-
al prince, and wonder especially that all along
the early ages Of the Christian dispensation, and
especially during the sacred millennium. mon
who looked for sudden closing mp of earths
affairs. when in fact il was only preparing to en-
ter upon its great mission. Then, too, will
those dogmas that interlock with it, or grow
out of it,, all have been numbered with the
strange things that even intelligent men be-
lieyed