The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-07-17
THAT THEOLOGICAL
Discussion enthusiastically Meth.
err will be Convinced.

VI WIN w SoufiuCtus
RANDALL, July l0.--In answer to my
letter your esteemed Hagans CORES !.
pendent speaks of my sect. My dear
friend don't belong to any sect. See.
iarianism has created nearly all the wars
during the last 1900 years. Sectarianism
has created more distress upon the
earth than almost all other causes com
hined Take the history OF England for
the last 500 years and what do we find.
First the Catholics Cypress the Protes.
tanrs Tiien the Episcopalians got the
sscendency and they oppressed the
catholics, Presbyterians and Puritans.
Then the Puritans got the power and
they in turn oppressed the Catholics,
Presbyterians and tho church OF Eng
land.
Now let us examine our own so-caled
free America. The puritans and quakers
were driven from England and settled
in America. Then the puritans drove
the quakers out Of Massachusetts. AS
sassins were hired to murder Charles
Wesley when he visited America, and
only two years ago quite number OF
Christians were incarcerated in prisons
in Tennessee on account Of their relig-
ioussbelief. | am an eclectic in religion
as am in medicine. | accept the good
hat is in each sect and cast away the
bad. | quote from your Hagans cor
respondent: lie says the honest and
moral man cannot be saved" Please
read my letter again and you will find
that | say just the reverse. | sta
ted in nv letter that in order for one to
be saved he must obey the ten COM
Il Inn 1.s.s L., -.
as | understand il, is synonymous with
To be honest and moral, but he must in
addition believe in God and reverence
Him. have heard OF Atheists but |
don't believe there ever lived man who
sill honestly say there is no God.
Your correspondent says, Listen
here at what Henry VI. Field says. IL
believe that in the future world every
man viii % judged according to the
deeds done in the body" That is Just
my belief. There is nothing more EN-.
phatic within the lids OF the Bible than
that, and it is repeated over and over
again. don't believe that any ones
sins are forgiven until the day Of iudg-
ment and no wlful sins will then be
forgiven unless restitution has been
made for those sins, because the Bible
tells us that las he that knoweth his
Masters will and doeth it not shall be
beaten with many stripes" | believe
that very few will be eternally lost be-
cause Christ says all sins shall be for
given except the sin against the Holy
Ghost. Then from the above quotations
from the Bible my deductions are that
all who wilfully sin without rendering
restitution will be severely punished,
i. e., beaten with many stripes or
some other form of punishment. Some
may even undergo the torture of fire and
birthstone. Then after receiving their |
punishment their sins will be forgiven,
and when the new earth is formed they
will be placed upon the new earth
wherein dwelIeth righteousness.
Some tell us, "If our sins are as scarlet
and we go forward and become
converted our past sins are all forgiven
at once" But cannot find any proof
for this in the Bible. 1t is true that
Christ says: Repent and be baptized
for remission OF SINS" But Christ was
here speaking to the Jews, and as the
Jews had rejected Christ, they, the |
Jews had an extra sin to answer for and |
according to the Bible no Jew could re-
ceiye the Holy Ghost until he repented |
and. was baptized.
I1Ilsb says III Tic Otil cNdDLcT anu
23d and oath verses OF Mathew: "If
thou bring thy gift to the altar and there
that thy brother had aught |
against thee, first be reconciled to thy
brother and then come and offer thy |
gift" ! asked a minister OF the gospel |
to explain that passage for me- Hel
said, st means that no one could be |
converted who had wilfully wronged |
another until he had righted the wrong
he had done, after which God would |
hear his petition and would answer it. |
1t also meant that If any one who had |
been converted and was church mem
her would willfully wrong another per-
son God would not listen to his prayers
until he had rendered restitution or sat- |
isfaction to the one lie had wronged, af- |
ter which God would listen to his pray |
ers." In the language OF great writer
1t is fearful thing to meet our God ("
And it is the most astonishing thing to |
me that those both in and out OF the |
palcs of the church will.continue in will |
full sins Of different kinds and trying to |
believe that they can cheat God and |
thus enter the golden gates of heaven,
when il they would study their Bible
carefully and without prejudice, they I
would learn that there is fearful pun
ishment in store for them in the here
after. DIV. !