Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-09-17

looked ut one 0nOtnef In COnSJefnat tlOn.
They had hearts and sympathies and
felt that as It had devolved upon them
to smash Purgatory, II must also de
volve upon them to relocate all those
thousands Of millions whom they had
on their hands. They felt the weight
Of the responsibility. Could they de-
mand Of God that they should be put
into heavenf Surely not! Surely only
the sanity few are At for heaven!
They, as well as all, recognized that
fact. Then, with blank CONSERVATION,
they determined that they must crowd
the entire mass into hell Of eternal
torture and shut the gates upon them
forever and write upon the gates,
"Who enters here abandons hope"
Brother Calvin to the Rescue.
Taking from practically all human
ity all future hope made the Reformers
for the time heartslck. 1t would be
awful to do that for one person, but
to thus "do" all humanity seemed ter
rlble. And then to be obliged to label
that gospel Good Tidings" must GER
lullllY nave Dttu a u ms GARNAANhNS
for the Reformers.
But Brother John Calvin helped
them amazingly and took from them
their burden. He told them that they
should not worry, because It was all
Gods fault and not theirs. God had
predestinated them to that awful fu-
ture long before he created man. Now
they should merely try to think Of
themselves as the "elect" and try to
forget everybody else. OF course, 1t
seemed horrible to charge all these
things against the God Of all Justice,
wisdom, Love and Power. But it was
the only solution which occurred to
them. John Calvin's theories were
afterwards embodied In the West
minister Confession Of Faith" And
that confession Of faith became the
foundation Of nearly all Protestant
creeds. Brother John Wesley after
ward objected, but admitted that only
the sanity went to heaven and every
body else went to eternal torment.
His protest was that. instead Of this
being by Divine foreOrdination and in
tention, it was, on the contrary, be-
cause Of Divine unwisdom and ircom-
potency.
"Good Tidinas of Great JOY"
Surely no sane person can any longer
defend any OF the above Gospels as
the true one, of which st. Paul was
not ashamed Surely st. Paul never
preached any of those Gospels, nor did
any Of the Apostles-nOr does the Bible
support such theories, except by the
turning and twisting Of language, mis-
translatlons OF the original and misin-
terpretations of some parallels. The
plain statements of the Scriptures are
all directly to the opposite.
The Bible teaches that "the wages
of sin Is DEATH" not Purgatory nor
eternal torment "The soul that sim
meth. 1t shall die" Adam, the perfect,
was placed on trial for life eternal or
death eternal. He sinned and the sell
tence against him was, Cursed is the
earth for thy sake; thorns and thistles
shall it bring forth unto thee. In the
sweat Of thy face shalt thou eat bread
until thou return unto the ground from
whence thou vast taken" Genesis Iii,
17-19). st. Paul declares the same:
''By one mans disobedience sin enter
ed into the world; and thus death
passed upon all men, because all are
sinners" (Romans V, 12).
Looking about us we find tli4 true,
Everybody who is not dead Is dying,
As the Bible says, we are living un-
der a reign of Sin and Death. Nothing
that man can do can either eradicate
sin or lift us out Of our dead and dy-
ing condition. God alone can help us!
He proposes to help us and the mes
sage respecting that help Is, in the
Scriptures, called the Gospel, Its an
nouncement by the angels on the night
of Jesus birth is full, complete, sat
isfactory, viz: Behold, we bring you
good tldings Of great Joy which shall
be unto all people; for unto you is
born this day In the City Of David a
Savior 0lfe-glver) which is Christ the
Lord" duke ii, 10).
All, now we have the Truth! The
penalty Of sin is death And the good
tidings" is that God has provided for
our recovery from sin and death. The
Savior gave his life for the cancella-
tlon Of our sin, for the satisfaction of
Justice, that In due time Adam and all
his condemned and imperfect race
might be released from the condemna-
tion and be lifted out. Of the sin and
death conditions which now prevail
That uplifting is Scripturally called
the resurrection OF the dead. Hence
the preaching OF the early Church was,
Jesus and the Resurrection"-the Re
deamer and his work.
Still More Good Tidinss.
The good tidings for the race in gem
eral is that the Redeemer in Gods due
time toill become King Of kings and
Lord of lords-the Messiah Of glory,
Gods glorious Representative. For
thousand years the regeneratlng
work for Adams race viii progress
(Matthew xix, IS; Acts III, 1929
Gods Chosen People, Israel, win be
the earthly agents OF the heavenly and
invisible King OF glory. BY the close
Of his reign the whole earth win have
been transformed into the Paradise OF
God. "He will make the place of his
feet gloriOus" " And mankind win all