Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1907-02-06

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a A ~kM say that not one in q thousand can
faQE1S@ be called discriminating Bible
students, nearly, If not ALL accepting indifferently
any religious writing without hesitation and with
out queastion; not one in hundred eubjecting the
magazine other fiction to anything like such
critical comparison with the Bible as would reveal
the contrast between the truth and the le This is
one Of the many proofs of alienation to God among
men. Perhaps nowhere is this so apparent among
classes is found among the ordinary church mem
bership; the legitimate issue of the seeds of
sown broadcast in the world but constituting the
worlds estimate OF truth because of its environ
ments. Reverend and doctor being synonomous
with, though very far, often, from the Christians
only text Book, and this will continue so long as
pious lies are found more and more reliable and
atractve no disint9grating wedg has ever operated
disastrously in separating the Christian from the
Bible, the class of lies represented by "Cyrus"
and the genus OF writer's OF the Sheldon stamp. Any
religious book, magazine article which becomes
moro facinating to the Christian than the Bible, is
curse, and proves itself of satanic origin matter
\ who the human author may be. Popular articles
OF this class are of ever increasing interest to
careful observer for the reason that first Impressions
easier to secure good crop from virgin soil than to
reap with Joy the seed Of ones sowing in field pre-
empted by weeds. humble reviewer Of what is
ostensiby good book, lays himself open to criticism
and principally because with the many tnsel is ac-
cepted for gold. The authenticity Of sundry drama
and poetry is considered legitimate field Of discus
son but to insist that much that is dubbed religious
is devilish, shocks the sensibities of many who
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or the Bible. Magazine articles OF late years have
made more familiar than ever the great ones in
history; the names OF Cromwell Napoleon and others
have becbme in sense common to many men and
women who knew little OF them from the historic
pages. Behold how ready the writer's of the day
are to criticise any departure from what con-
sdered the facts Of history; all have the same data
to draw FROM but some are disposed to make of
trivalities than others. Herein s the trend Of the
age seen, writers and readers accepting without
hesitation anything and everything written in the
past OF the worlds celebrities, whine hesitating
the threshold Of truth to accept what was written
aforetime for our learning in the Book Of God and
much more fully attested through time by men who
have put it's promises to the test than any work Of
man down through the ages
'eThe Life Of The Master can get it's conception
Oue nOuECo OnlyS JuSV Vho DVOA3 AoUou A0VVA'
neglected Book, rejected Book. II "Life Of
The Master is divised Of the ancifal, while given
in the simple language Of the Sacred Scriptures,
which would give it all the marks of truth and
genuineness, it would be no more popular than the
book it claims to issue from. All found in the old
book is truth; anything added to "what ia written"
is false. Though 'truth is stranger than felton,"
yet is invention priced the more. Where thousands
might read the Bible in q cursOry way, without
q wrong impression, hundreds Of thousands prefer.
ring fancy, are misled BY half truths as uttered BY
modern writer's and preachers.
One writer says ''Jesus was born in Bethlehem,
He was educated in Nazareth, He was Cruci6ed at
Jerusalem In general way this is true, and yet
we are told, II he was dealing with the life Of
mere man, that sin none Of these arrangements had
He any voice." What misleading, soul-destrOying
nonsense. No common man. accepted .ldea-can be
introduced with reference to the God.man no hum
an language adequately expresses the truth about
Jesus Christ II Is written by inspiration Of God
TO picture Jesus Christ as puppet 90 handicap
ped BY weakness as to be ct the mercy Of man, is