The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-14

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Church OF the firstborns, whose names
are written In heaven" That roll con
tains the names of all the sanity.
faithful, consecrated believers in the
Redeemer-of all denominations and
outside of all denominations.
"sanotify Them Through Thy Truth"
II is not sufficient that we get rid Of
the errors and supprStitiuns of the
past. We must suppiant those with
the Truth, that I'VE may be able to
withstand in this evil day" EpheSians
vi, l3J. 1t alone will constitute the
armor of God. Christian people hold
much precious Truth. but hold It in
so illogical and confused manner
that IL fails to give them the needed
strength. God permitted us to come
to this very hour and has permitted
the present tests for the purpose of
developing the characters of the "Is
raeites indeed, In whom is no guile"
and for the purpose of gathering out
from them all the tares, all the chalt.
and all not at heart copies of his dear
Son Let me now briefly summarize
the errors of our creeds and briefly in
dicatc the Bible remedy.
None of our Creeds were too strict
in defining the snntliness of the
Church class, invited TO become the
Bride of Christ and his Joint-heirs in
his Kingdom. On the contrary, in
many respects they We're too loose
they were not neprly mp to the stand
| ard of the Masters word, "lf any man
will be my disciple. let him take up
his cross ana follow me" "Strnit is
| the gate and narrow the way which
| leadeth unto life; and few there be
| that find IL" Nlatthew VII. IA Jesus
taught that his followers must drink
of his cup of suffering and be Jdptised
into his dGaHt-and not merely into wa
ter Our too-low standards have adj
mitted to membership in all denomina-
tons millions who are far below the
| Masters standards,
Our error and deception was the sup
position that all who are not sanity.
all who would not become the Bride Of
Christ, all who are not baptized into his
death. all who do not drink of his cup
of ignominy will be eferndllD tortured.
This great mistake common to all
Protestants land in the much modi-
fed form of Purgatory shared also by
Catholics) must be displaced by the
Bible teaching that as soon as the
elect Church shall, be completed and
glori6ed the antitypical Year of Jubi-
| 81, Of.
sand years of the reign of Christ and
the Church MS the spiritual Seed of
| Abraham, the HOR-eiect. of all the fam
lilies of the earth viii be blest- by the
elect Galatians ILL, 10, %; Acts ILL.,.
| 1920 Let us. dear brethren. choose
this day TO stand by the Word of God,
to reject all human traditions contrary
to It and to hold fast the things that
are true, just, loving. good.
If occasibualy thoughtless friend
asks. why do you believe in Mlllen-
mum? answer that it Is one Of the
oldest doctrines Of Christendom and,
above all the Bible doctrine. Answer
that he who does not believe in the
Millennium and the resurrection then
| OF tue WOIIu VI Hldhhiuu- All NuNl
are in their graves must account for
the dead in some other way-must
claim that they have been experienc-
ing pain or pleasure for thousands Of
years, or must claim that they are ex-
tinct MS the brute beast and will have
no resurrection or must believe in uni
versal salvation regardless of a knowl-
| MI
on next Lords Day, we will discuss
the Millennium and show its absolute
necessity, not only from Bible stand,
point but also from a scientific stand
point. Choose We this day"-to stand
for the Bible and reason and to op-
pose the Creeds of the hark ages and
their unrenson.