The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-20

In goods and have need Of nothing
(Reveletion I'll, 18-19).
In reply we may suppose the lord to
ask. Where did give you instruction
respecting these things? Where In my
Word did you and the suggestion that
what | desired you to do In the world
was to erect great church edihces
piles Of stone aud iron aud mortar
polished woods and stained glass
You are not rightly reading my Word
However good In intention, you have
failed to "rightiy divide The Word OF
Truihr The Temple respecting which
| gave instruction 10 the spiritual one.
the Temple Of the holy Spirif-the Body
Of Christ which is the Church. ]
fear that you have forgotten the
true temple OF God while rearing
60 many temples Of earthly ma
terials Concerning the true Temple
I instructed you that the temple
OF God is holy, which temple We are
diving stones" being shaped aud pol
ished 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 Ages! Show me
fruitage Of the glorious message!
How many I'm all the millions tha
you report are New Creatures III
| Christ Jesus" who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit" Let mt
hear the message of my love and
grace IN Christ as you are proclalminp
IT. What mean these sectarian di
visions amongst you? Why are there
so many Church ediices and so Few
| sanity worshipers? Who authorized
you to put these creedal fences be
tween my people to divide the flock
Know We not that l said. there Is oue
| fock and one Shepherd? Why hav,
YOU SO neglected the spiritual interests
of my flock and their instruction iu
righteousness Why are you so unable
to rightly divide my Wordi
| Instead of coming together as one
| Church OF the Living God whose name'
are written In heaven you have divided
into hundreds of sects and parties! In
stead of taking my Word as whole
and rightly dividing its teachings az
between the different ages and dispen
sations Of my work, you have divided
my Word In sectarian manner. One
sect has made one selection from my
Word and another sect has made an
other selection. Thus ye array one
part of my Word against another part
of It. and hence get into confusion
and conflict. What have you to answer
for these things3
With shame of face we must all ac.
knowledge 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 contrition of
heart to acknowledge that We have
wrought no deliverance In the earth
Qsaiah XVI, 49, that our sectarian
differences are our shame; that the ig.
|
specting the Word of God 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, 1t means
rich feast and blessing to our souls
cious to us daily as we become able
to comprehend It, Our duty Is to H.
to the assistance of our dear brethrel
and sisters In Christ. of all denomina
tions, and TO call upon them to join
with us in determined stand foI
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
teachings of the Bible. We must point
them to the fact that the Bible does
not 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
that the election of the Church during
this age-a sanity little fock-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.
dom when established will bind Satan,
put down sin, Danish ignorance. error
and superstition and uplift mankind by
restitution" by resurrection processes,
mp, up, up, TO all that was lost In
Eden by disobedience and to all Sc
cured for Adam and his race through
the great transaction at Calvary (Acts
| III. 1921.
Rightly Dividing the Word Of Truth"
Alas, how many intelligent people
have turned aside from following
Christ ana from hearing the voice OF
God through the Bible! Alas, how
,nany are looking 10 Theosophy. to
Spiritism, TO Christian Science. 10
Higher Criticism. to Evolution-wan-
dering farther and farther daily from
the faith once delivered to the saints
Jude iii). We fault them 10 more