The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-21
JOHN MAHUKA ENTERS
THEOLOGICAL ARENA

Editor Advertiser: AS I have read
the recent articles of Father Belssei
and Bishop Restarick. and as I am
unable to harmonic their teachings
with what | find in Gods Word, /
| should like one or both of them to
answer the following questions, for
which / shall be glad if you will give
SPACE in your valued paper:
First-In the Church established by
Christ were there not twelve apostles
who were called to their offices by rev.
citation?
Second-When vacancies occurred in
the quorum of the twelve apostles
were not other men called by revela-
ton to fill the vacant offices?
Third-Did not Christ say that He
did all things to please His Father that
sent Him; and was not, therefore, the
Church as established by Christ, with
twelve apostles IN it, pleasing to God?
Fourth-If a Church with twelve
APOSTLES in it was pleasing to God
then. will a Church that has not
twelve apostles in it be pleasing to
Him today. for do not the Scriptures
say: II am God, I change not?
Fifth-Does not the Bible say that
God set lights in the armament OF
heaven to give light upon the earth,
the sun by day and the moon by night?
And does not the same Bible say that
God also set apostles in the Church to
give light to the Church for the per-
feeling of the saints and for the work
of the ministry?
Sixth-Can the Church of God get
along without the twelve apostles
whom God set there, any more than
the earth can get along without the
lights that He set in the armament?
Seventh-Was Peter the only apostle
TO whom Christ promised the keys of
the kingdom of God?
Eighth-Did not Christ and the apos-
ties teach that the Gospel was the
power of God unto salvation, and were
not the first principles of that Gospel
faith, repentance, baptism in water for
the remission of sins. and the laying on
of hands for the baptism of fire and
the Holy Ghost?
Ninth-Did not Christ teach that they
that are whole need not a physician,
but they that are sick, and that He
came not to call the righteous, but
sinners to repentance?
Tenth-Can little children who are
not capable of committing sin believe
and repent? Why, then, do Father
Beissel and Bishop Restarick, who
claim to be ministers of Christ, who, |
the prophet Isaiah says, was sent as
leader commander and witness, dis |
obey His teachings by baptizing in
fants?
Eleyenth-If the Churches of which /
Father Beissel and Bishop Restarick
are ministers are the Churches Of
Christ. why do they not have quorum
Of twelve apostles in them? Where in
the Bible does it say that the office Of
apostle was to be done away with. and
where does the Bible teach that Peter
was called to be a pope? Or where IN
the Bible do we read of popes, cardi-
nails or archbishops as officers of the /,
Church of God?
TweIfth-Did not Christ and the
apostles teach and practise baptism by
immersion? Where in the Bible do we
read that the ordinance of baptism
was changed from immersion to
sprinkling?
Thirteenth-Did not Christ promise
that certain signs should follow the be-
levers in Him? (See Mark xvi, II, $50
Why are these signs not manifested
the members of the Churches
of which Father Beissel and Bishop
Restarick are ministers, if their
Churches are the Churches of Christ,
for did not Christ say to His true fol-
lowers: "Lo 1 am with you Away,
even unto the end of the world?
Fourteenth To whom does the
Isaiah refer when he says
Isaiah xiv, part of verses and %:
Because they have transgressed the
law, changed the ordinance, broken the
everlasting covenant (verse 81, there
fore hath the curse devoured the eartn,
and they that dwell therein are desc
late; therefore the inhabitants of the
earth are burned, and few men LETT!
Fifteenth-What Church is represent
ed by Babylon the Great, the Mother
of Harlots,'' described in the Book OF
And what Churches rep
resent the harlot daughters?
Yours for the truth.
JOHN NJ MAHUKA.
Honolulu, December IS, 1906.