Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-04-20

through the columns of some Of the
principal newspapers of the United
States.
My sermons are handled by Syndi-
cate, and / am advised that now they
appear in nearly FIVE hundred news
papers. aggregating a circulation of
six million copies, or, according to
newspaper count, thirty million read
ers. All of these dear people of every
denomination who do any thinking at
all, / am sure have had similar diff
culties to those which experienced
difficulties in approaching how our
Heavenly Father could be good Fa-
Their, good God. loving Creator
and yet provide for his human crea-
lures such terrible destinieS as all the
creeds Of the dark ages" set forth.
There is not a thinking Christian in
the world 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. having done all, to
stand" Ephesians vi, 49,. Our day
is blessed one in respect to its Won
derful opportunities and privileges.
but it 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 gener-
ally at the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying that it is the in
spired Word Of God. These dear
friends are stumbling into infidelity
and 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' spectacles,
we inherited the Word of God and
wrested it to our own injury and to
| the loss of our peace of mind and fell
! lowship with the Father and with the
Son and with the holy Spirit.
The Key to the Scriptures.
! Whoever gets the proper understand
ing of our text has in his possession
the Key to the Bible. If be will use
it. passage after passage will open for
him and the whole Word of God be-
comes a new and glorious revelation
of Justice. Wisdom, Love and Power
Divine. Jonah was in the fish's belly
he was buried alive. 1t is this that
is referred to in our text. The words
heILbeJly signify graUe-belly or belly
Craze. The context shows all this.
telling US additionally that sea-weeds
were wrapped about the Prophets
head and that God heard his prayer
and delivered him from the he'll belly,
or belly-grGUe, on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up. If
you have a reference Bible note that
in the margin there is a reference to
the words of our text, saying. He
brew, the grave" All! says one, The
tranSlatOrS merely made a mistake
and translated it he'll when they should
have translated it grave. Yes. l an
swer, and they made the same mis-
take in every case in which they used
the same word she0l throughout the
Old Testament. AS it is. sheOl is trans
lated Craze more times than it is trans
lated hell in our Common Version: but
it should be translated grace every time
There we have the Key to the Bible
The hell of the Bible. the penalty fol
sin. is death, the grave. the tomb. 1t
is not an everlasting hell. for special
Scriptures declare that sheOl (heIb shall
be destroyed Il will ransom them
from the power Of the grave (sheOt;
will redeem them from death; o death
l will be thy plaques; 0 grave (she0l
held l will be thy destruction" Hosea
xiii. ~. st. Paul quotes this prophecy
in conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection, 20 death. where
is thy sting? o Craze blades, where is
thy victory" Il Corinthians XIV. 55,.
We see. dear friends. what our deal
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re
lease us from the penalty for sin. HI
did not go to eternal torment for ou
sins He did go into sheol. into hades
into the craze. Christ died for ou
sins. according to the Scriptures" {
Corinthians XIV, 81. Thus God has pro
vided for the resurrection of the deat
all mankind. both of the Just and O
the unjust" The inst are the Church
the saints. The unjust include all 9th
ers. The blood of Jesus will avail TO
the release of every member Of tn
race from the great penalty Of death
Now it operates under special cal
to the sanity few who are invited t
become joiht-heirs with the Redeeme
in his great Kingdom which shortly i
to bless all the families of the earth
not only those then living. but also al
who have gone down to the tomb. Th
general resurrection will not be an in
Simultaneous one, as in the case of tn
saints. 1t will be gradual one il
two senses.
o. All will not come forth at once
but, as the Apostle declares. Ever
man in his own order" company O
band q Corinthians XIV, 23l.
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