Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1908-12-04
Communication

There appeared in the issue of the
Ledger of Nov. " short article
credited to the "New York Press, "
that ought not to be allowed to pass
without notice.
The subject alluded to is one that
concerns all alike, regardless of race,
color. creed or what not.
Just why certain class of newspaper
men seem to delight themselves in
treating an event of such .solemnity
and awful reality as the day of judg-
ment in such vein of filppancy and
levity is hard to account for.
Now we believe the Editor of the
Ledger is willing and able to make
repartion for his oversight in letting
this piece get into his columns, and
the writer hopes he will allow neces-
salrly brief statement of what consti-
tutes the great day of judgement.
The day of judgment in its very
nature cannot be limited to a single
twenty four hour day., This soon
becomes apparent when we begin to
study the matter. The term day. is
used in the sense or 'this is day of
great discoveries" Washington day
and as the saying goes-''it may
not come in my day but it certainly
will in yours said of most any look
ed for event and meaning a certain
or rather uncertain length of time.
If this is correct it is possible that
we may know positively just when
the judging of the race began-that
we are now in that m omentous and
thrilling period of earth's history is
susceptible of the plainest proof of
the holy scriptures.
The prophet Daniel gives facts and
figures that are easily worked out and
understood; fixing the exact time
when the investigative judgment
should begin in the heavenly court
above.
We are told each individual case
is called and acted upon separately.
That is, there is record kept of all
ever lISsd and these records are ex
amineoN and passed upon. Rewards
and punishments Will be given at
their proper time. In the meantime
the dead are quietly sleeping, good
and evil awaiting the life giver's call
to arise and be rewarded according
as their works have been. The good
to everlasting life and all that makes
that life perfect and enjoyable, brief
ly a restoration of all that was for
feited by man In Eden.
Upon the other hand the incorrig-
IDLY evil receive a just rccompense
for their wickedness by being blot
ted out of existence; hrelbeing the
agency employedsfor this purpose.
That there is now or ever will be
such a place as a burning everlast-
ing place of torment is purely mag
mary. Its advocates like the Sad
ducees of old "know not the teaching
of the sanctuary service of the He
brew host in their wilderness wander
ings The judgment day is beautiful
ly typified by the day of atonement
and confession of sins by the entire
congregation. This day is still oh
served although In a somewhat desul-
tory manner by the Jews. The "Y on
Kippur" of tmodern Jewry however,
seems to have degenerated into mean
inglesa act of superstition, judging
from what one reads of the way it IS
observed.
The great day of judgment will
not come upon the world unan-
nounced. If those to whom has been
entrusted the duty of unfolding the
truth due the people in their proper
time fail to do SO, God can and will
set them aside and IN thunder tones
make known His message. Even now
by tornadoes, earthquakes. fire and
food, accident by sea and land, lie
Is sp eaking to world paralyzed by
iniquity and calling its Inhabitants
to repentance.
W. Lelninger.
We publish this article at the
urgent request of the writer. We do