The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-01
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Consider Now Our Text,

/ the gospel to every creature. He that be-
lieveth and is baptized shall be saved;
! but he thar believeth not, shall be
| damned."-AIark xvi -, 16.
One of the most important of these
! interpretations or poisonous additions
engrafted upon the Word of God is in
the sixteenth chapter Of Mark, all of
which, from the ninth verse to the end
of the chapter, is spurious-fraudulent
1t is additional to anything that st.
Mark wrote, as evidenced by the fact
that these verses are not found in any
of the three oldest Greek MSS.
OF course some of the items OF
! these verses are found in other Cos
pels 1t would never do to add lie
without a certain amount of covering
of Truth to sugarcoat it. But notice
our text and what a wrong thought it
ves-inconsistent with the remainder
of the Scriptures. Its intimation is
that the preaching of the Gospel to
every creature will result either in his
believing it and being baptized, and
thus being saved, or IN his diSbelieving
and being damned. And this word
damned carries with it, in the light of
other misunderstanding fire and
blazings, roasting and torture, shrek
ing and woes indescribable This is
all wrOng-contrary to the authentic
Scriptures.
! The authentic Scriptures inform US
| that this Gospel Age is one i'll which
God is gathering from the world a
| N1it+1a To1l-', of f0o+e+pr, followers
sanity ana elect, to constitute the
Bride OF Christ-his jOint-heirs in his
coming Kingdom. They show that not
all are expected to near this message
at the present time-not many wise,
great, learned or rich, but chiefly the
| poor. They assure us that to have the
| hearing ear is a special favor saying
| blessed are your ears for they hear
! and Your eyes for they see st. Paul
I tells us that the world in general is
blind and deaf to the message now sent
forth (Romans ", =. and the expert
| ences Of eighteen centuries corrohoa1e
this. St. Peter tells US (ActS wv, 49, that
| Gods work in the present time is not
the conversion Of the world (Which Ger
fanny - 4-'l b'4Il- az A'l44 ll4NllN'if i'it
| that he is now taking out Of the world
| people for his name Ito bear the
! name Of Christ, as his Bride. The au-
thentic Scriptures everywhere teach
US that the poor. blind. deaf world,
which has never yet heard fully and
clearly of "the only name given under
| heaven or amongst men whereby we
! 4 OF INT
| condemned or damned. They tell us
that the whole world was born CON
demned, because children of Adam and
sharers in lis condemnation, but that
God has provided in the sacrifice Of
| Jesus a redemption for Adam and all
his race. They tell us that, as result.
in Gods due time, Christ, as the true
Light, the Sun of Righteousness, shall
enlighten every man that cometh into
the world. They explain that God is
now calling out special class while
the darkness is upon the earth and the
gross Darkness upon the heather. ana
that the Sun of Righteousness, which is
~ eliiiS n.,n inc "H0lG "','u' ~ i0l
bo,o Loo,, o,athorod ont Tbo,, ION nc
that in fbo Now Disno7eation vot 70
dawn al +bo families ~ tho oorib Will,
no blessed tbrouqh Tho christ rasrs
+bo Hood and Tho Church his Rod,. or
pride Tbav toll us that tbnn "oII fine
h1i,d oroe ebou bo ononnd and oil tho
deaf oars shall ba unstonnodv isaiah
WV n Tbov toll ne tbo+ tbon tho
S,,n of Righteousness srou orise with
baoIinoy in 1,fs hams aoodiro, tho whole
Garth with tho Iiobt of tho krouladoa
of tho olo,.,. If cod Thov assure nc mar
tbo+ win ba tha nariod Of NIassiab.s
raion for which we nrav "Tbv Eipo-
dom come. tbv will ba done on eartb
&C in baoron =" They tell nc that tbn
object Of that roion will he that +bn
world in oaparal may have trial to
determine whether with the Iioh+ and
knoyvIedoa and evnerfenca then Grant
cd +hov win choose Cod and rirbtaous-
ness and tbn reward Of eternal life. or
viii choose sin and its nenaltv fine
! Second Death
~ 1"NS'
Our WORD d0mRe0' from nlSusaGe ana
Jhe Dau IheOlogy OF the Dark Ages
: has q SuiUlQTOuS OQOr, whereas It's