The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-30

finding Purgatory in the New Tesla
ment. He tried to interest the pope
in Bible study, but failed, and instead
was branded a hereto. He protested,
and others protested; hence came the
name Protestant
These Professionals were undoubtedly
as sincere before their protest as they !,
were afterward; hence their protest |
was against the very doctrines which |
once they had proclaimed as the
Truth. Their minds were full OF the
thought that dead person is not dead
| but more alive than when he died, !
and that some of these at death went |
| to heaven while the great majority
went to Purgatory. They did not see
wages of sin is death'-that all go into
death, good and bad, and that this
death state is the sheol and hades OF
the Bible. Instead of getting this true
light upon Gods Word, they went
| from darkness into greater darkness
on this point. Here we wish to empha-
size the thought that all these noble
| men. Catholics and Professionals, In
| their day. like all true people today,
held a measure of Truth in combina-
ton with errors. 1t is the measure or
Truth possessed and enjoyed that has
given any power and force to our va
rious Christian systems and that, to
some extent, has neutralized the effect
! of our errors.
/ Starting from their misunderstand-
ing of Bible teachings respecting the
wages of sin, Brother Luther and his
noble companions battled bravely for
many truths, but made one great blum
der. When they concluded that Pur-
gatory was contrary to the Scriptures
and threw it away, not seeing the
Bible hell, the tomb. they adopted an
other hell and thereby went from bad
to worse on this subject. They said,
The heather and the masses OF the
; civilized are surely not saints-surely
they do not follow in the footsteps OF
|
r be of his spiritual flock. Concluding
r that these could not be taken to heav-
. en- they said, We must take them out
of Purgatory anyway, wherever we put
them, because they have found >out
: that there is no such place as
/. Purgatory.
After conferences, seriously dislik-
ing to make out Gods character worse
than they formerly supposed. they
4 said under their breaths, We must
take them out of Purgatory and quick
4 lv put them into a hell of eternal tor
Il ture and say as little about the mat
relieved when long headed Brother
John Calvin explained to them abou
3 the mere handful going to heaven ant
the great mass going to eternal tor
ture. He explained that God had fore
ordained and predestined these. aW
full results-that he might show hi
wisdom and his power. AS to a
Love divine, all love eAcellinS,
Brother Calvin seems never to hav
thought of that. Brother Wesley an
others since though less logical an
y theological, did stand up for and de
clare the love of God, even thong
In rather absurdly they claimed that h
is was neither wise enough nor POVERTY
enough to do more than rescue a mer
handful of Adams race from the eter
ie nal torture to which they thought Go
he damned them all because of the disc
s. bedience in Eden.
lie "Au in Adam-An in Christ"
1t In the light of our better Bibles an
fe Bible study Helps and minds free
10 from the ignorance and superstition
I'd of the past we may understand tn
/? apostle's words and find in them, M
ne only Justice and love, but harmony an
is beauty. Instead of all mankind goin
ar to eternal torment for Adams sin, a
es 90 into the Bible hell, the grave, o
is account of this sin-and all of the mer
st tai. moral and physical blemfshes
at our race are part of this heredity.
ne There would have been no hope of
at future life, good or bad, had not Go
ey in his mercy provided the Savior-tf
c. "Life-G iver,'' as the Syriac renders tt
it word. In Gods due time he set befol
m his Son the opportunity of becomir
i'll mans Redeemer. The logos was mao
UT flesh (John i, 14) and obediently ga