The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-05-11

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and all of his children The arrange
meat is that "siucc by man came
| death. by man came also the rcsur?ec-
| ton Of the dead. For as nil in Adam
| die even so all in Christ shall lee
! made alive But every man in bis
own order q Corinthians wv, 2l-2GI
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.
! worthness of life eternal and feel
grateful for proposed assistance
through Christ. but cur great Adver-
sary. operating through ignorance. and
| superstition aud fear. seized the OPP
! poTtuDity to deceive us and misrcpre-
sent our Creator by bringing in what
st. Paul designated. doctrines of
demons" q Timothy iv. D. 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 hui
mainly from God and his revelation
they have put u barrier between God
and 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
1 G,,-t 10 tNlI h,t
the wages of sin is death" These
doctrines of demons assert the con
! trary, that man cannot die. but must
live somewhere to all eternity, Thus
on the basis of mans fears. his doe
trine that God thrust immortality upon
his creatures. the demons built up for
us q theory SO horrible as to be nau-
seating and terrifying to every sane
and healthy mind. These doctrines
of demons" have been promulgated far
but in essence they are all the same
They have come down from the dark
ages" represented in all our crecds
Catholic ana Protestant
| Our Catholic friends have developed
this thought to Il nicely. They tell Us
that of those who die. only Il mere
handful are fit for heaven and &c
! there immediately. They tell us that
| the most rcprehcnSihIe class hrrcticaI
rejectors of Divine Truth. will be sent
| to hell of eternal torture where they
will never die. They assure us, how
ever. that the number who will re
ceivc 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 a
death, and likewise not deserving OF
eternal torture. and that thus the grea
mass of mankind. nine out of every
ten. go at death to Pulgatory. there tt
suffer for centuries or for thousands
of years in expiration of sins. and fol
publication Of their souls. that they
may be eventually fit for Heaven anc
its blessings. our hearts rebel at sucl
a view Of the "hcrcafter." While civ
ing our Catholic friends. and our OWL
fOrefathcrs who We're Catholics. credit
for being rs sincere as ourselves, We
conclude that the light of our day. and
the light of our Intelligence. will not
permit us to believe and rejoice il
such a view of the "hcrpa fter" as this
We say to ourselves. Surely TIE Great
God has something nOhler than this in
reservation for his creatures
Protestant Views Worse.
What Shall we say of the Here
after from the standpoint of our
Protestant crceds? How do these com.
pare with the Catholic views fore
going-how much worse? When our
fOrpfatherS thought they had found
something erroneous in the teachings
of papacy. when they concluded that
| PurgatOry WAS not TO he found in the
Bible, they haroicaly determined to
cast it out of their creedS. But alas
When describing it. they did not re-
aliZe that they were making bad
! matter worse. They held on To the
'doctrinp of demons" that Cod had
created man so that he could not die
and could NOT he destroyed. and 50
|
along that line. Realizing the Scrip
turaIreSS of the proposition that only
the sanity were fit for heaven. aud re-
! iectinG the theory of I'urgatory. they
! logically consigned all except the saint
! ly thereaftC" to eternal torture. Alas.
! How inconsistent it is: how strange
thar we ever thought Divine Fore
knowledge, Wisdom. Justice, Mercy
Love and Power should have created
man To the number of thousands of
millions. with the foreknuwledge and
! fore-intcntion ana desire that they
should safer an eternity of torture.
Parting of the Ways.
Thus. my dear hearers. you with my
self and others of the intelligent peo-
| PIE % the world. find ourselves today
IN most trying position. Our hearts
| have r"pUdiHtpd The doctrine of eter.
nal torture Is hoin" un-ChriSt-like. un-
worthy even or u devil We can be-
lipve neither in Il l'ur@Htory of centu-
! rips. nor IN ricrf.,l torture :s Il conSr-
! quence or penalty for Adams d.sobedi-
| rnce in caring of the forbidden fruit.
nor as II rpnHlty upon his children for
not living perfect lives when they
were "horn in sin lind Sharpen in iniqui-
ty" ana ''pfonp To sin as the SPARKS 20
fly upward &c car hearts cry out FOR
the living God ana the true light upon
his dealings