The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-04-18

culties to those Which | experienced
difficulties in approaching how our
Heavenly Father could be a good Fa-
ther, good God, a loving Creator
and yet provide for his human crea-
lures such terrible destinies as all the
creeds of the dark ages set forth
There is not a thinking Christian in
the world who does not need the cor
rect understanding of the Bible in
order to be able to stand in the evil
day that is upon us. All need to give
heed to st. Paul's words, "Take unto
you the whole armour of God. that
ye may be able to withstand in the
evil day, and, having done all, to
stand (Epheslans vi, 13). Our day
is blessed one In respect to its Won
derful opportunities and privileges,
being time of great trial and testing
Of faith to Chrstendom.
Thinking minds are rejecting the
doctrine of eternal torment and gener-
ally at the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying that 1t is the in
spred Word Of God These dear
friends are stumbling into infidelity
and think that Higher Criticism and
Darwin's Evolution theory are new
| light. What they need Is to see that
the true light is in the Bible and that,
wearing our grandfathers' spectacles,
we inherited the Word of God and
wrested it to our own injury and to
he. ,,r Of nI
lowship with the Father and with the
Son and with the holy Spirit.
The Key to the Scriptures.
Whoever gets the proper understand
ing of our text has in his possession
the Key to the Bible. If he will use
| 1t, passage after passage will open for
him and the whole Word of God be-
comes a new and glorious revelation
of Justice, Wisdom, Love and Power
Divine. Jonah was In the fish's belly
he was buried alive. 1t Is this that
| Is referred to In our text. The words
hellbellv signify graue-belly or belly
grdre. The context shows all this,
| telling us additionally that sea weeds
were wrapped about the Prophets
head and that God heard his prayer
| and delivered him from the hell-bellU
or belly-grdue. on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up III
you have reference Bible note that
| in the margin there Is reference to
| the words of our text. saying, He
brew, the grave Ab! says one, The
| translators merely made mistake
and translated it he'll when they should
have translated II grdDe Yes. an
swer, and they made the same mis-
| take I'm every case in which they used
the same word Sheol throughout the
| lated OrdUo more times than Ii Is trans
lated he'll in our Common Version; but
1t should bc translated grare every time
| There we have the Key TO the Bible.
The hell OF the Bible, the penalty for
| sin Is death. the grave. the tomb. II
Is not an everlasting hell, for special
| Scriptures declare that shcol (holD shall
be destroyed Il will ransom them
from the power Of the grave (sheoD;
will redeem them from death; o death.
/ will be thy plaques: o grave (sheol
helD will be thy destruction" (Iosea
Kill, IA. st. Paul quotes this prophecy
in conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection, 20 death. where
is thy sting? o grdce hades, where is
thy victory" q Corinthians XIV. 55).
We see, dear friends, what our dear
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re
lease us from the penalty for sin. He
did not go to eternal torment for our
sins. He did go into sheol, into hades,
into the grare. Christ died for our
sins, according to the Scriptures" q
Corinthians XIV -. Thus God has pro-
vided for the resurrection of the dead
-all mankind both of the just and of
the unjust" The inst are the Church,
the saints. The unjust include all 9TH
ers. The blood of Jesus will avail for
the release OF every member Of the