Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-06-21

Many Of our dear Christian friends
say, What lack we yet? Have we not
really attained the goal of our Church
ambition? Should we build finer edi-
ices or pay larger salaries? Are we
not straining ourselves with collections
at every turn? What more could God
ask of us? 1--WE are rich and increased
In goods and have need of nothing"
Revelation iii. l6-l9
In reply we may suppose the Lord to
ask. Where did give you instruction
respecting these things? Where In my
Word did you find the suggestion that
what desired you to do in the world
was to erect great church edifices,
piles of stone and iron and mortar.
polished woods and stained glass?
You are not rightly reading my Word.
However good In intention. you have
failed to ".I0hfiy diUide the Word of
Truth The Temple respecting which
| gave instruction is the spiritual one,
the Temple of the holy Spfy'it-the Body
of Christ which is the Church l
fear that you have forgotten the
true temple OF God while rearing
SC many temples of earthly ma
terials, Concerning the true Temple
| instructed you that 1.-The temple
Of God is holy. which temple We are
''living stones" being shaped and pol
lshed for the habitation of God
through the Spirit" Show me what
you have accomplished in this way.
Show me to what extent you have
rightly divided my Word. and prop
erly instructed mankind respecting my
glorious character and my great Di-
vine Plan of the Agesi Show me
fruitage of the glorious message!
How many In all the millions that
you report are New Creatures in
Christ Jesus" who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit?' Let me
hear the message Of my love and
grace in Christ as you are proclaiming
1t! What mean these sectarian di-
visions amongst you? Why are there
SO many Church edifices and so few
sanity worshipers? Who authorized
you to put these creedal fences be-
tween my people to divide the flock?
Know ye not that said. there is one
flock and one Shepherd? Why have
you so neglected the spiritual interests
of my flock and their instruction In
Why are you so unable
to rightly divide nv Word?
Instead Of coming together as one
Church of the Living God whose names
nre written in heaven you have divided
Into hundreds of sects and parties! In
stead of taking my Word as a whole
md rightly dividing its teachings as
between the different ages and dispen-
sations of my work. you have divided
my Word in a sectarian manner. One
sect has made one selection from my
Word and another sect has made an
other selection Thus We array one
part of my Word against another part
of 1t. and hence get into confusioI
and conflict. What have you to answer
for these things?
With shame of face we must all ac-
that I'VE have done those
things which we, ought not to have
done and have left undone those things
which we ought to have done. and
there is no help in us" The proper
thing for US to do. dear Christian
friends. is to get down upon our knees
before the Lord and in contritiop of
heart to acknowledge that we have
no deliverance in the earth
isaiah XVI. 49,; that our sectarian
differences are our shame; that the ig-
norance that we have all been In re-
specting the Word of Ged Is humil-
Iating. Now that our eyes are open
SO that we can comprehend as never
before the harmony of Gods message
from Genesis to Revelation. it means
a rich feast and blessing to our souls.
The Word of God becomes more pre-
cious to US daily as we become able
to comprehend it Our duty is to fly
to the assistance of our dear brethren
and sisters In Christ. of all denomina-
lions. and to call upon them to join
with us in a determined stand for
righteousness. for Truth. for God and
for his Word.
We must show them that ignorantly
we and they have dishonored our God
by misrepresentation of his character
and Misrepresentation of the real
of the Bible. We must point
them 20 the fact that the Bible does
tot teach that all mankind except the
Elect" saints will be consigned to an
eternity of torture at the hands of fire.
proof demons. We must show them
hat the election of the Church during
his age-a sanity little fiock-does not
mean injury to the non-elect. That.
on the contrary, it is the Divine pur-
pose that the elect saints with their
great Redeemer In glory shall consti-
tute Gods Kingdom. That his King
iom when esta biished will bind Satan,
put down sin. Danish ignorance, error
and superstition and uplift mankind by
restitution" by resurrection processes,
up. up. up. TO all that was lost In
Eden by disobedience and to all Sc
rured for Adam and his race through
The great transaction at Calvary tActs
III. 1929.
Rightly Dividing the Word Of Truth"
Alas. how many intelligent people
have turned aside from following
Christ and from hearing the voice Of
God through the Bible. Alas. how
many are looking 10 Theosophy. to
SpiTitism. 10 Christian Science. TO