Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-05-14


and all Of his children The arrange
ment is that. since by man came
death, by man came also the resurrec-
ton Of the dead For as all in Adam
die. even so all in Christ shall be
made alive But every man In his
own order" q Corinthians xv. 21-23J.
Doctrines Of Demons"
The truth about this matter is severe
enough; It shows forth Divine Justice.
intertwined with Divine Mercy and
Love. We admit our present un-
worthiness Of life eternal aud feel
grateful for proposed assistance
through Christ. but our great Adyer-
sary. operating through ignorance. and
superstition and fear. seized the Op-
portuDity to deceive us and misrepre-
sent our Creator by bringing in what
St Paul designated. doctrines of
demons q Timothy iv, II. These have
been promulgated. not merely IN heath
en- lands, but amongst the civilized
These false doctrines have tended to
ALLEVIATE the hearts and minds Of hu-
manity from God and his revelations
they have put barrier between God
aud his creatures
These doctrines Of demons" are pre-
sented from various standpoints. but
they are alike in one respect; namely,
they all teach that God deceived our
first parents when he told them that
the wages Of sin IS death These
doctrines Of demons assert the con
trary. that man cannot die. hut must
live somewhere to an eternity. Thus
on the basis Of mans fears this doc
trine that God thrust immortality upon
his creatures, the demons built up for
us q theory so horrible as to he nau-
seating and terrifying TO every sane
and healthy mind These doctrines
of demons" have been promulgated far
and near. and with various colorings.
but IN essence they are all the same
They have tome down from the dark
ages" represented in all our creeds
Catholic aud Protestant
Our Catholic friends have developed
this thought to a nicety. They tell us
that of those who die. only a mere
handful are tit for heaven and go
there Immediately. They tell us that
the most reprphensible class heretica
reiectors OF Divine Truth. will be sent
to n he'll OF eternal torture where they
will never die. They assure us. how
ever. that the number who will re-
ceive this extreme punishment Is small
In comparison with the race as
whole. They tell us that the majority,
Catholics and Protestants. civilized
and heather, are unfit for heaven at
death, and likewise not deserving of
eternal torture. aud that thus the great
mass of mankind. nine out of every
ten, go at death 70 Purgatory. there to
suffer for centuries or for thousands
Of years ia expiation of sins. and for
publication Of their souls. fhat they
may be eventually fit for Heaven and
It's blessings. Our hearts rebel nc such
a view OF the thereafter" While Civ
ing our Catholic friends, and our own
forefathers who were Catholics. credit
AOA DNAlE AN NlAAfAN ~ OulNNlNtn VIZ
conclude that the light of our day. and
the light of our Intelligence. will not
permlt us to believe and rejoice In
such view OF the thereafter as this
We say TO ourselves, Surely the Great
God has something nobler than this In
for his creatures,
Protestant Viows Worse.
What shall we say of the Here
after" from the standpoint of our
creeds? How do these com
pare with the Catholic views fore
much worse? When our
thought they had found
erroneous in the teachings |
Df Papacy, when they concluded that |
was not TO be found In the |
Bible, they heroicaily determined TO |
cast IL out OF their creeds. But alas. |
When discarding It, they did not re-
alize that they were making bad /
matter worse They held on TO the |
doctrine OF demons that God had J
treated man SO thar he could not die. |
and could not be destroyed and so |
hey proceeded 10 interpret matters /
along that line Realizing the Scrip |
.uralness OF the proposition that only /
he sanity were nc for heaven. aud re-
Iecting the theory OF Purgatory, they |
logically consigned all except the saint
" thereafter 20 eternal torture. Alas. |
How Inconsistent u Is; how strange |
hat we ever though, Divine Fore
knowledge. Wisdom. Justice, Mercy |
Love aud Power should have created |
man TO the number OF thousands OF |
with The foreknowledge aud |
aud desire thar they |
should suffer an eternity OF torture.
Parting Of tho Ways.
Thus my dear hearers. you with my /
self aud others OF the intelligent peo-
pie OF the world. find ourselves today /
N most trying position. our hearts
have rcpudiaIed the doctrine Of eter
lal torture as heing un-Christ.like, un.
worthy even OF deyn We can be-
ieye neither IN l'nrgutory OF centu.
lies. nor Ia eternal torture as a conse /
luence or penalty for Adams disohedl /
,nce ln eating 0f the forbidden fruit, /
nor as penalty upon his children for
lot living perfect lives when they 1
we're "horn ia sin and shapen In inlQni- 4
IN" and 'turone 10 sin as the sparks To i