Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-16
Choose Re ThDDay
Between Truth
and Error.
Choose You This Day Whom
Ye viii Serve. If Jehovah Be God,
Serve Him" Joshua XIV, Isl.

We appreciate the loving heart
which prompts this answer and we
agree that it is true-that God has
another way for these. But when we
attempt to point out what that other
way is, some Of these dear friends In
quire, Is it Methodism? Did John
Wesley preach it? Our answer is, No.
Brother Wesley did not preach it and
did not know Of it. Not because it is
new, but because it is 50 very old and
was lost sight of during the dark
ages" for fifteen centuries before
Brother Wesley was born He was
feeling after it. yearning for it. hun
gering and thirsting for it. but the
''due time for it to be made known
to Gods people had not yet come in
Brother Wesley's day. He preached
the eternal torture of all mankind, ex-
cept the sanctifed believers In Jesus
the Savior. But in his preaching of
the love of God he was used of the
Almighty to wondrously prepare the
hearts Of Christendom for the broader
message Of the Bible now due to be
seen and understood. Wesley's Cos
pei Of the love of God has mellowed
the heart of Christendom, which once
was frigid under the cold teachings
Of REORGANIZATION, Predestination, ETC..
Of the Westminster Confession Of
Faith-once the basis Of nearly all
Protestant Communions.
If we and our Methodist brethren
could maintain the same degree of
spiritual warmth that Wesley and their
forefathers enjoyed we might do with
out further instruction. But we can
not do this! None can stand still!
Christians today are losing their holt
ness, their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. zeal for
| God is giving place to zeal for sect.
The light of the Millennial morning
which for century has been gradual
ly breaking upon the world. stimulat-
ing thought in every direction. makes
it necessary for our Methodist breth-
rem. as we'll as for us all. to awaken
to the wonderful privileges of our day
Pr Bible study: to ascertain the real
teachings of Gods Word. which. in the
dark past we all seemingly misunder-
stood and misrepresented. Already the
most intelligent one-fourth of Meth
Odism not only rejects Brother Wes-
ley's theory. but alas. repudiates the
Bible also! It accepts instead of Sal
walton that most dangerous form Of
lnfdelity known as Higher Criticism
| and that most un-Scriptural PROPOSE
ton of human Evolution, which denies
the fall Of our race and makes void
Christs redemptiue work and the glori-
Gus result thereof-human restitution
(Acts iii, 1929.
Bury the Dead Past.
| God forbid that we should bury any
of the doctrines of Christ and his
| twelve apostles. On the contrary let
US strive to reSurrect these from the
rubbish of human traditions which
eighteen centuries have piled upon
them. Let us instead bury our man
made creeds. of which we are all
ashamed. Our Presbyterian friends
some years ago set noble example to
| all Christendom in the burial of their
| Confession of Faith and their substitu-
ton instead of a much simpler and
much more rational statement.
| But, No. ! must correct myself here.
This is what they should have done
but did not do. Instead of burying the
old creed, not only from sight, but also
from odor, they have merely covered
| the corpse which is admitted to be
dead and placed the briefer and better
Confession atop the winding-sheet
They assuredly declare that it is NOT
a substitute but merely a representative
statement Hence every time we read
the re-statement, we must hold our
noses 10 avoid contamination from the
odors Of the carcass beneath. Eot
all must do this. for. as the Apes.
tie suggests. All have not their senses
exercised to discern. But all inceIli
gent Presbyter1ans are being rapidly
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