Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-04-03

highest conceptions Of authority Of
the triune God-Father, Son and
Holy Ghost. To touch IL at any
point is to mar it, to add to it, to
take from it Is but to snffer the
Just wrath OF a righteous God,
whose unique words are all perva
sive, all wise, all powerful.
The number now under consid
GRAFTON abounds in fragrant depart
ures from the truth. We are in
formed that he (Jesus) stayed at
Johns modest lodging in Jernsa-
lem, as we'll as used the upper
room" of a wealthier friend; we
are told Of the room In the Publ
cans house in Capernaum which
was made sacred because Jesus
had toasted there, and sealed, as
in a sacrament, the salvation oil
Levi. "The romance Of Bethany
is, perhaps, the sllliest Of all his
seDseless productions, where ST.
mon, the Pharisee OF Luke VII,
as through a judgment for his lack
OF courtesy and his hardness and
exclusiveness toward Jesus was
made to become Simon, the leper,
OF Mark XIV; and thought to be
father OF Lazarus, Martha and Ma
ry. In the house Of the later ST.
mon, Martha is made to amend her
fathers lack Of hospitality; Mary
is so affected with the unbidden,
sinful, weeping woman at Simon,
the Pharisee's house, that she will
anoint Jesus also, His head and
His feet, in the house Of Simon,
the leper Cher. father). This doc
tor wOnld have us believe Simon,
the "Pharisee," as separated from
his friends and his family, stricken
with the symbol Of sin, the awful
scourge of leprosy, which COMPEL
ed him to leave his home, his city,
his associates, his children, and
pass into seclusion, and this IL
what the careless reader is to be
wheedled into accepting, led cap
tive by Satan at his will, who
stands in the forefront ready to
abet every effort to rob God of
His glory in reducing the force
and effect Of His most holy word.
There is nothing really known
Of the personnel Of the New Tesla.
ment which ia not found, written
there; to add to it or to take from
it is to cast insult in the face OF
Cob. "But vengeance is mine,
I will repay, saith the Lord" II
changing the force and effect of
mans words may prove a misde-
meanor, how much more heinous
to corrupt the word Of God. Such
an attitude toward the word OF
God suggests q failure to compre-
bend him. The men who esteem it
incomplete and susceptible of i'm
provement at their hands, rush
with unseemly haste into the very
presence Of God, and with auda.
cious effrOntery inject their silly
supplemental paragraphs into
what they esteem defective.
"The destruction Of the poor is
their poverty" With rare ex-
ception poverty is thought to stand
an insuperable obstacle to adj
vancement. The Son OF Man and
those possessing His spirit, refuse
to recognize the distinctions which
wealth suggests. In the bill Of
items embraced in the message de-
livered by our Lord to the discl-
pies Of John Baptist for his
comfort and their instructions,
perhaps nothing was fraught with
more interest than the seventh and
closing thought, ITO the pQor the
gospel is preached" This would
reassure John, for this, too, was
In harmony with the prophetic ut
terance.
The glamour ofWealth has a far
reaching influence withqonr learn
cd doctor. II inherited, cit was
the symbol Of Refinement and gem
tleness;v "ii the issue or toll and
al f