Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31

recovering2 One is the healing of the
physical man; the other is the healing of
the mor-I or spiritual man. From being
drunkard to being sober.
Again Director says: SIN all the modern
churches am taught that 1 can lay my sins
on Christ; that he, the Sinless One, will
bear all my iniquities; that after life
spent in wickedness he, the Spotless One,
will assume all my crimes. Where in the
Gospel is this taught?' Director is not ex-
pGcit and full IN his statement of what is
Taught in modern pulpits. SIN is a violation
of law imposed by God and binding on man.
Hence sin is against God. In modern pulpits
you will hear something preached besides
faith in Christ. John the Baptist said:
is at hand.'' "And they were bap-
tised of him in Jordan, confessing
their sins" Marki, Is: Jesus preached,
Repent and believe the gospel" Mark
vi, IL: 'They went and preached that men
should repent" Luke xiv, n: ''That re-
pentance and remission of sins should be
preached" Acts Xxx, 81: ''Testifying both
ance towards God and faith toward our
Lord Jesus Christ" Now as man has
sinned against God the Father, you will
hear in modern pulpits that man must re-
pent toward God, whereupOn God offers
him the gift of eternal life through faith in
Christ. He that believeth on the Son
hath everlasting life" THE gift of God is
eternal life.''
As to mans sins against his fellow-man,
he must make PREPARATION or his conscience
will not cease to lash him. God will see
that the scales balance, And instead Of
being unpopular, as Obiecter says, the
doctrine of Gods retributive justice boldly
preached. will fill the house rather than
deplete the membership For men love to
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hide behind their speculative faith. True
religion makes not only hearers but doors
of the word.
Again Director states, Immortality is the
reward of him who loves God and his fel-
low men, Also, "that God promises i'm
mortality" I wish to say in reply that
God nowhere promises Immortality. He
who fears God and keeps his command
ments, who accepts the promise of adop-
tion and thereby becomes child of God
and heir of God, and joint heir with Jesus
Christ, that man has not the promise of
Immortality, but everlasting life. John Vi,
"a: He who rejects the offer
lasting punishment. Matthew XIV, 40:
''These ishall go away into everlasting
punishment" Thus you see Christ used
''everlasting' in reference to both the
righteous and the wicked, which use at
tributes immortality to both. 1t is the
difference in their condition that makes
heaven or hell. With God is fullness of joy
and pleasures forever more. This is
heaven. To be without God is the absence
of the source of all good, which is hell
Thus saith Christ.
Our friend, Director, starts out to follow
Christ, but follows only in so far as Christ
agrees with him, as he himself says, and
exemplities the saying: each man must
make his theology to lit himself"
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will vanish" History has not so recorded.
Let truth rule, would be better. God seeks
such as worship him in spirit and in truth.
Lastly, he says mo Ingersoll can lead our
unchurched millions astray if the gospel of
Christ be preached. and his teachings
made our guide To this we say amen.
But according to his suggestions. con-
sidered above, there shall be no church
houses, and no supported ministers to de-
vote their attention to the teachings Of
Christ. Then the unchurched millions
would have TO organize, build
churches, and depend upon every
one in general and no one in
particular to guard them from being led
astray by the champions of infidelity. In
short, you would deprive most people in
our land of having opportunities for hear
ing the gospel of Christ at all, and then By
doing away with foreign and domestic mis-
sions you would prevent the carrying out Of
the commission, go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel to every creature.
If Director viii study the Scripture more,
he viii interpret it more correctly.
If he will follow Christ as he wants
others to do, he will have all his time en-
ployed in going about doing good, and will
have less time TO observe the shortcomings
of others. When the ''urchurched mill
ions" do more good than the ''churched
miilions' then the advice of Director viii
be timely. PAX VoBIsCUM.