The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-27


Christ our Lord Ntomans vi, 80
What statement could he more sim
. pie? The wicked will not he granted
life ut all either in pleasure or in pain
They are under sentence of death-dc
struction. Eternal life is gift. And
it will be given only to those to whom
It will be Al blessing to those who will
accept it through Jesus Christ our
| Lord.
| Let us turn to Genesis and note the
statements made to our first parents
| respecting sin and its penalty. Let us
note that. without the twistings of
theology. we should have no difficulty
in understanding the Divine sentence.
as our first parents evidently had no
difficulty. The sentence upon Father
Adam for disobedience was, Dying
thou shalt die; Dust thou art. and
unto dust shalt thou return; Cursed
Is the ground for thy sake; "Thorns
and thstles shall 1t bring forth unto
thee until thou return unto the ground
from which thou vast taken" Genesis
iii. ., 3, 1910. 2n.
Thus we see that the penalty for sin
upon Adam and his race was that they
should return TO the dust. AS we read
again. Thou turnest man to destruc-
ton" psalm Xc. 81. And this penalty
is sufficiently awful when we think of
what it means to die. to lose mental.
moral and physical perfection and
gradually 20 into the tomb-into the
Bible hell (ShcOI. throughout the Old
TESTAMENT. And this shcOl. the gr0re.
the tomb. to which the Bible says all
go. good and bad. rich and poor, holy
and unholy. was the only hell known
amongst any of the people Of God for
the more than four thousand years.
by the teachings of the
Old Testament. Then came the New
Testament times and the teachings of
effect. In III" New Testament the
Greek word mates. representing the
tomb. the death state. takes the place
of the Old Testament She0l in every
passage translated from the Old les
lament into the New Testament.
1t was nearly three hundred years
after Jesus and the Apostles. after the
writing of the New Testament. before
the doctrine of purgatory was invent
ed. And fer this reason neither the
word Purgatory nor the Purgatory
thought is expressed in the Scriptures
But Bibles were few. and the people
could not have read them even if they
had possessed them; hence for long
centuries the teachings of the clergy
were accepted without Eih!e proofs.
all over ChriStenlom. Al of our fore
fathers believed in it. 1t became the
teaching of Christians everywhere that
the mere handful of saints. instead of
dying when they seemed to die went
to heaven and that the great mass of
Instead of dying when they
seemed to die Went in some myStrri-
DuS manner 10 mysterious place
"a He'd lurgatory. of which nobody
knew anything except what they were
ally all of humanity 20 to Purgatory
here 10 be roasted and otherwise tor
'ured for centuries Ultimately TO gain
release from the torture, when fitted
for heaven. Upon this doctrine in turn
sprung the doctrine of saying masses
to be dead but intensely alive. The
fear Of Purgatory drew the people very
close to the priests as the supposed
of the Almighty and the
mass money drew the priests very
close to the people. They We're all
intentioned. but all deceived
by the great deceiver-Satan.
A Bad Matter Made Worse.
BY and by a priest, a Catholic thco-
Logan and teacher in one of their col
leges. by name Martin Luther. acct
dentally ran across Il copy of the New
Testament in the Latin language. Be
read it: for there was not one copy in
the German language anywhere. Lu-
Their tells us of his perpleXity in not
finding Pllrgatory in the New Tesla
ment. He tried to interest the Pope
In Bible study. but failed and instead
was branded hereto He protested.
and others protested; hence came the
name protestants.
These Irotestants We're undoubtedly
as sincere before their protest as they
were aftcrward: hence their protest
was against the very doctrines which
once they had proclaimed as the
Truth. Their minds were full of the
thought that Il dead person is not dead
but more alive than before he died
and that some of these AT death went
went TO purgatury. They did not see
The tcachinN of the Bible. that THE
wages of sin is dcath"-that all so into
Heath. good and bad. and that this
death state is the &hcOi and h0dcS of
the Bible Instead Of getting this true
light upon Gods Word, they went
from darkness into greater darkness
ON this point. Here we wish to cmpha-
size the thought that all these noble
men. Catholics and Irotcstants, in
their day. like ull true people today.
held measure of Truth in combina-
ton with errors. 1t is the measure of
Truth poss sSCd and enjoyed that has
given any power aud force to our va
rious Christian systems. and that. to