The Detroit times., 1910-09-22

, he is sending us now the electric light
| instead OF the tallow candle, so through
4 His Word (the Lamp 60 His peoples
/ footsteps Gntil the day dawn. Is now
shining brighter than ever before
which IL the True Gospeis
Catholic and Protestant orthodoxy
4 have set forth for centuries TWO gen
cral views 81 thc Gospel OF Christ To
whatever extent they now disagree
WITH these they should publicly disown
are besmirched with Whatever odium
The Catholic Gospel Good Tidings)
is that all the heather. all Catholics
handful. go 10 furgatory OF awful
suffering, terrible ans uish, lasting Tor
decades centuries anu thousands OF
years. roasting, boiling, agonizing, ana
thus purging away their SINS and droSs
that they may ultimately attain 10
heavenly bliss Tor me , remalnd T. cs oi
be considered such only IN contrast
with something more horrible, III that
! be imaginable
Our Protestant Gospel.
Our Protestant Gospel. OF which we
are so proud that We want TO thrust
! IL upon Jews anu Catholics and heath
ems everywhere. we should thoroughly
understand. enjoy and appreciate De
giving il 10 others Here IL is: Four
centuries ago our forsfathers We're not
Protestants but Catholics and believed
in Purgatory. etc. as above Then
what was known as the Reformation
Movement set in Catholics, Jews and
infldels VIII admit with ProteStants
/ that g great blessing OF enligh tenment
and civilization has come TO the world
in the train Of the Reformation Move
ment But none OF us Is prepared 10
admit that the Reformers were per-
feet. nor their work perfect
The Reformers criticized the Catho-
lie teachings which they had former
~. believed. They examined their
effect that Mary was the mother OF
God. nor that We should pray TO saints,
nor that We should use pictures or inn
sacrifice OF Christ In the mass was
proper, nor that there was a Purga-
tory anywhere. The Reformers threw
out these things as unscriptural They
completely demolished Purgatory in
their minds. declaring that IL had new
err been anything more than magma
ton. Then came another thought, viz:
What must we do with the thousands
OF millions OF mankind that We and
our fathers for centuries supposed
were in Purgatory roasting. stewing
tortured, but hoping for heaven. They
looked at one another in CONSERVATION.
They had hearts and sympathies and
felt that as il had devolved upon them
to smash Purgatory. IL must also de-
volve upon them TO relocate all those
thousands OF millions whom they had
on their hands. They felt the weight
mand OF God that they should be put
into heaven? Surely not, Surely only
the sanity few are. nj for heaven!
They. as we'll as all. recognized that
fact Then. with blank CONSERVATION.
they determined that they must crowd
the entire mass into hell or 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 Rcformers
for the time heartsick. II would be
to thus do" all humanity seemed ter
rible. And then to he obliged 10 label
that gospel Good Tidings" must GER
tainly have. been trying experience
But Brother John Calvin helped
them amazingly and took from them
their burden He told them that they
should not worry. because II was all
Gods fault and not theirs. God had
predestinated them TO that awful fu-
ture long before He created man. Now
themselves as the elect" and try to
forget everyday else. OF course, II
seemed horrible 10 charge all these
things against the God OF all Justice,
Wisdom. Love and Power But IL was
the only solution which occurred to
them. John Calvins theories were
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 10 heaven and every
body else went TO eternal torment.
being by Divine generalization and In
tention. IL was, on the contrary. be-
cause OF Divine unwisdom and incom-
potency.
.Good Tidings OF Great JOY
Surely no sane person can any
longer defend any OF the above Cos
pels" 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
cept by the turning and twisting OF
language, mistra nslations of the orig
inal and misinterpretations OF some
parallels The plain statements OF the
scriptures are all directly TO the oppo-
site
The Bible teaches that "the wages
OF sin IS death" not purgatory nor
meth. It shall die" Adam. the perfect
was placed on trial for life eternal or
death eternal He sinned and the SEN
earth for thy sake; thorns and thistles
shall u bring forth unto thee. In the
sweat OF thy face shalt thou eat bread
until thou return into the ground from
whence thou vast taken" Genesis ILL.,.
! 1910. st Paul declares the same .
| by one mans disobedience sin entered
into the world, and thus death passed
upon all men. because all are sinners"
| CRonans ". 12).
Looking about US we find this true.
everybody who is not dead IL dying
As the Bible says. we are living under
n reign of sin and death. Nothing that
man can do can either eradicate sin or
lift us out Of our dead and dying con-
ditton. God alone can help u.s. He
proposes 20 help us and the message
respecting that help is. IN the Scrip
lures. called the Gospel It's announce
ment by the angels on the night Of
Jesus birth IS full. complete. satIsfac-
tory. viz: Behold, we bring you good
tidings OF great Joy which shall be
unto all people. for unto you is born
\ this day In the City OF David n Savior
/ Qife-giverl which is Christ the Lord
! Uuke H.. 10b.
! All. now we have the TRUTH The
/ penalty OF sin Is death. And the good
/ tidings' u that God has provided for
Savior govc his life for the cancella-
I tion Of our sin. for the satisfaction Of
Justice that In due time Adam and all
! his condo mned and imperfect race
2 might he released from the condemna-
/ ton and be lifted out OF the sin and
death conditions which now prevail
That uplifting Is Scripturally called
the resurrection OF tho dead Hence
the preaching ~ the early church was
Jesus ana the Resurrection"-the Re
deemcr and His work
SIN More Good TIdfnR.
The good tidings for the race In gen
time viii become King OF kings and
Lord OF lords--tfe Messiah OF glory,
Gods glorious representative. For
; thousand years the rpKencrattng