Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-04-19

become the custom for each minister 10 De
spoken of as the proprietor of the church, as,
for instance the Rev Dr. AS church. 1t has
become a custom. too, for the preachers 70
speak of the people as my people, MY
neither part nor lot in II. / have no churcn'
and wish for none There is but the one church
the church Of Christ-'the church OF the Living
God"-''the church of the first-oorns. whose
names are written in eaven." That church
includes in its membership every true saint OF
God who trusts in the merit OF Christ ano
IL systems such may be identified with are
without divine authorization. Their standing
in Gods sight is merely because Of their identi.
fication with Christ members Of His BODY
In Gods providence / was led to publish s1x
volumes Of "Studies in the Scriptures" or Bible
keys. These were taken up Py the Bible ana
Tract society and published 'at cost price, to
enable all of Gods people everywhere to pro.
cure them. They are now published In ten OF
the most prominent languages. The first vol
ume 'The Plan Of the Ages. +" has passed the
5000 OCO mark. have received not one cent
Of royalty My life is a very simple one. My
expenses are small. accept no salary and take
up no collections. Voluntary donations from
those who have been blessed by my labors supply
my needs and the surplus goes to the Bible and
Tract society for the general forwarding OF Its
work-"The PRONUNCIATION OF CHRISTIAN hho"l'
edge"
Each earnest Christian who obtains the as
sistance Of these Bible keys and enters into the
treasures of Gods word and becomes rich him
self in spiritual knowledge and in joy and
peace of heart is glad TO call the attention OF
others to these Bible keys. Thus the interna-
tional classes of Bible students OF all denomi-
nations in all parts of the world are springing
I'D and a blessed light, believe, Is going
forth from these, assistful to all who love
righteousness and hate iniquity. Although L am
the regular pastor of the Brooklyn tabernacle
congregat ton, there several assistants anu
am privileged to speak to thinking Christians
Of various parts Of the world. especially in the
thank Him for this privilege of service and
for the still larger opportunity afforded me
through the clumns of some Of the principal
newspapers OF the United States.
Ny sermons are handled by syndicate, and
I am advised that now they appear in nearly
500 newspapers. aggregating circulation OF
80. coo. 900 renders. All Of these dear people
of, every denomination who do any thinking at
all, / am sure have had similar difficulties TO
those which l experienced difficulties In appre-
chatting how Heavenly Father could be a
good Father, good God, loving Creator and
yet provide for His human creatures such terri
BILE destinies as all the creeds OF the dark
ages set forth. There is not thinking Chris
tian in the whorld 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 We may
be able to withstand in the evil day, and, haV-
ing done all. to stand" (Ephesians. 6:13). Our
day is blessed one in respect to Its wonder
full opportunities and privileges. but 1T Is an
evil one in the sense of being a time Of great
trial and testing Of faith, TO Christendom.
Thinking minds are rejecting the doctrine OF
eternal torment and generally at the same time
rejecting the Bible and denying that 1t is the
inspired Word Of God. These dear friends are
stumbling into infidelity ana 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' spectaticles, we Inherited the
Word OF God and wrested ii to our own Injury
and to the loss of our peace of mind and fef-
lowship with the Father and with the Son and
with the Holy Spirit.
THE KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES.
whoever gets the proper understanding Of our
text has in Ais possession the key to the Bible.
II he will use II. passage after passage viii
open for him and the whole Word of God becomes
new and glorious revelation Of Justice, wis
dom love and power divine Jonah in the
fish's belly-he buried alive 1t is this
that is referred to in our text. The words he'll
belly signify grave-belly or belly -grave. The
context shows all this, telling additionally
that sea weeds were wrapped about the prophet s
head and that God heard his prayer and delivered
him from the hell-belly, or beny-grave on the
third day by causing the fish TO vomit him up
If you have q reference Bible note that In the
margin there is reference TO the words OF our
text saving, Hebrew, the grave" An. says
one the transatOrs merely made mistake and
translated it hell" when they should have
translated it grave" Yes. 1 answer. and
they made the same mistake I'm every case in
which they used the same word ''sheOE' through
out the Old Testament. As 1T Is, sheOl is trans
lated grave more times than II is translated
hell in common version; but Ii should be
translated grave every time There We nave
the key TO the Bible The hell of the Bible
the penalty for sin. is death, the grave, the
tomb. 1t is not an everlasting hell. for special
Scriptures declare that sheo (helD shall be
destroyed Il will ransom them from the power
of the grave (sheolI: I will redeem them from
death; death. | will be thy plaques; o grave
(sheol, held I will be thy destruction tHosea.
1910. St Paul quotes this prophecy In con-
junction with his great discourse the resur-
rection 20 death. where is thy sting? grave