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Consider Now Our Text.

Consider Now Our Text.
Go We into all the world. and preach
the gospel to every creature. He that be-
heveth and is baptized. shall be saved
but he that believeth not, shall Be
damned MARX xvi. Is. IS
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 spurlous-fraudulent.
1t IS additional 10 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. it would never do to add a lie
without a certain amount of covering
Of Truth TO sugarcoat it! But notice
our text and what q wrong thought It
gives-ineonsisten 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 n 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 Undesirable. This is
all wrong-contrary to the authentic
Scriptures.
The authentic Scriptures inform MS
that this Gospel Age is one in which
God is gathering from the world a
little flock" of footstep followers.
sanity and elect, TO constitute the
Bride of Christ-hls joint heirs in his
coming Kingdom. They show that moi
all are expected to hear 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. PAU
tells us that the world in general is
blind and deaf 10 the message now sent
forth Romans Xi, y. and the expert
ences of eighteen centuries ~corroborate
this. ST. Peter tells us (Acts XIV, 49, that
1Vh WIN III lht PitSNhL bbit 10 ny
the conversion of the world (Which GER
talnly is not being accomplished but
that he is now taking out of the world
a 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
may be saved" is not on this account
condemned or damned. They tell US.
that the whole world was born con
demned, because children of Adam and
sharers In his condemnation, but that
God has provided in the sacrifice OF
Jesus a redemption for Adam and all
his race. They tell us that, as o 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 a special class while
the darkness is upon the earth and the
gross darkness upon the heather. and
that the Sun of Righteousness, which is
to enllghten the whole world, will not
arise until the elect Church shall first
have been gathered out. They tell us
that. in the New Dispensation yet to
dawn, all the families Of the earth will
be blessed through The Christ-Jesus,
the Head. and the Church his Body or
Bride. They tell us that then call the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
deaf ears shall be %unstopped" isaiah
xxxv. -. They tell us that hen the
Sun OF Righteousness shall arise with
healing in his beams, flooding the whole
earth with the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God. They assure us that
that will be the period of Messiah's
reign, for which we pray, Thy King
don come; thy Will be done on earth
as in heaven" They tell us that the
object Of that reign will be that the
world in general may have a trial to
determine whether, with the light and
knowledge and experience then grant
ed, they will choose God and righteous
ness and the reward of eternal life, or
will choose sin and its penalty, the
Second Death.
Unbelievers Damned Already.
Our word damned, from misusage and
the bad theology of the Dark Ages,
has a sulphurous odor, whereas its
plain, simple meaning is the same as
the word condemn. Adam was damned
or condemned 5000 years ago because
of his disobedience. And all his chill
dren, by heredity. share his weak
nesses and thus share his condemna-
ton. But Adam is not condemned or
damned 10 eternal torture nor TO Pur-
gatory, The Bible distinctly says in
so many words that his sentence, his
condemnation. his damnation. Is to
death. In the day that thou eatest
thereof, dying thou shalt die" Genesis
ii, II, margin). After has disobedience,
God said, Unfit is the earth for thy
sake. Thorns and thistles shall it
bring forth unto thee. In the sweat
of thy face shalt thou eat bread until
thou return unto the ground from