The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-06-23

Many of our dear Christian friends
say, What lack we yet? Have we not
really attained the goal of our Church
SHOULD we build finer edi-
fees or pay larger salaries? Are we
not straining ourselves with collections
at every turn? What more could God
ask of us? I'VE are rich and increased
in goods and have need of nothing
Revelation iii. 1910.
In reply we may suppose the Lord to
ask, Where did l give you instruction
respecting these things? Where in my
Word did you find the suggestion that
what desired you to do in the world
was to erect great church edifices.
piles of stone and iron and mortar,
polished woods and stained glass?
You are not rightly reading my Word.
However good in intention, you have
failed to rightly diUide the Word of
Truthp The Temple respecting which
gave instruction is the spiritual one,
the Temple of the holy Spirit-the Body
of Christ which is the Church. l
fear that you have forgotten the
true temple of God while rearing
SO many temples of earthly ma
terials. Concerning the true Temple
instructed you that "the temple
Of God is holy, which temple We are
Giving stones" being shaped and pol
ished ''for the habltation of God
through the Spirit" Show me what
you have accomplished in this way,
Show me TO what extent you have
rightly divided my Word, and prop
erly instructed mankind respecting my
glorious character and my great Di-
vine Plan Of the Ages! Show me
fruitage Of the glorious message!
How many in all the millions that
you report are New Creatures in
Christ Jesus" who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit" Let me
hear the message of my love and
it! What mean these sectarian di-
visions amongst you? Why are there
so many Church edifces and so few
sanity worshiperS? Who authorized
you to put these creedal fences be-
tween my people to divide the flock?
flock and one Shepherd? Why have
you so neglected the spiritual interests
Of my flock and their instruction in
righteousness? Why are you so unable
to rightly divide my Word?
Instead of coming together as one
of r ;x-i,, Oh n 1ne
are written in heaven you have divided
into hundreds of sects and partiesi In
stead Of taking my Word as a whole
and rightly dividing its teachings as
between the different ages and dispen
sations of my work, you have divided
my Word in n sectarian manner. One
sect has made one selection from my
Word and another sect has made an
other selection. Thus We array one
part of my Word against another part
of it. and hence get into confusion
and conflict. What have you to answer
for these things?
With shame of face we must all ac
knowledge that I'VE have done those
things which we ought not to have
done and have left undone those things
which we ought to have done, and
there is no help in u.s." The proper
thing for us to do, dear Christian
friends, is to get down upon our knees
before the Lord and in contrition Oh
heart to acknowledge that we have
wrought no deliverance in the eartl
isaiah XVI. 49,; that our sectariar
differences are our shame; that the il
norance that we have all been in re
speeding the Word of God is humil
iating. Now that our eyes are. oper
so that we can comprehend as never
before the harmony of Gods message
from Genesis to Revelation, it means
a rich feast and blessing to our souls
The Word of God becomes more pre-
cious TO us daily as we become able
to comprehend it, Our duty is to Fl,
to the assistance of our dear brethren
and sisters in Christ, of all denomina
tons, and to call upon them to jolr
with us in determined stand fol
righteousness, for Truth, for God an6
for his Word.
We must show them that ignorantly
we and they have dishonored our Goo
by misrepresentation of his character
and misrepresentation Of the rea
teachings of the Bible. We must point
them to the fact that the Bible does
not teach that all mankind except the
Elect saints will be consigned to NJ
eternity of torture at the hands Of fire
proof demons. We must show then
that the election of the Church during
this age-a sanity little flock-does no
mean injury to the non-elect. That
on the contrary, it is the Divine pur
pose that the elect saints with thcil
great Redeemer in glory shall consti
tute Gods Kingdom. That his King
dom when established will bind Satan
put down sin, Danish ignorance, errol
and superstition and uplift mankind by
restitution" by resurrection processes
up. up, up. 10 all that was lost il
Eden by disobedience and to all sc
cured for Adam and his race through
the great transaction at Calvary (Act'
Ill, 1920.
Brightly Dividing the Word of Truth
Alas, how many intelligent people
have turned aside from following
Christ and from hearing the voice OF
God through the Bible. Alas, how
many are looking to Iheosophy, Il
Spiritism. to Christian Science. n