The Detroit times., 1910-07-30
ALL IN ADAM-ALL IN CHRIST.

note that without the twistings OF the
ology, we should have no difficulty In
understanding the Divine sentence. as
ficuity. The sentence upon Father
Adam for disobedience was. Dying
thou shalt die Dust thou art, and
Is the ground for thy sake" "Thorns
and thistles shall IL bring forth unto
thee until thou return unto the ground
from which thon vast taken Genesis
Thus we see that the penalty for sin
upon Adam and his race was that they
shoqd return to the dust As S Ws read
tfon" psalm &c. 81: And this penalty
is sufficiently awful when we think OF
what II means to die. TO lose mental;
gradually 20 into the tomb-into the
Bible hell tsheol. throughout the Old
TestamenD. And this sheol. the grave,
go. good and bad. rich and poor. holy
and unholy, was the only hell known
amongst any OF the people OF God for
r rep by. the teachings Of the
Old Testament. Then came the New
Testament times and the teachings or
Jesus and the Apostles to the same me
Greek word hades, representing the
tomb. the death state. takes the place
Of the Old Testament shsol IN every every
ament into the New Testament.
1t was nearly three hundred years
after Jesus and the Apostles. after the
the doctrine OF Purgatory was In
vented. And for this reason neither
the word Purgatory nor the Purgatory
But Bibles were few, and the people
could not have read them even X they
possessed them.-hence- fnrllong
were S, accepted without Bible proofs.
and the doctrine of Purgatory spread
all over Christendom. All OF our fore
fssneTs f n ,s n
the mere handful OF saints. instead OF
dying when they seemed to die. went
to heaven and that the great mass of
seemed to die. went In some mysteri-
Gus manner TO mysterious place
called Purgatory. of which nobody
taught The teaching is that practic-
airy AFT of humanity 20 to PurgHtory1
there to be roasted and otherwise tor
release from the torture. when fitted
for heaven. Upon this doctrine I'm turn
sprung the doctrine OF saying masses
tor the deau VINO n,s were oe ii not
fear OF Purgatory drew the people very
close TO the priests as the supposed
counseIlors Of the Air and the
close to the people, They. were ali
honestly intentioned. but all deceived
by the great deceiver-Satan-
A had Matter Made Worse.
BY and by q priest.~a Catholic theo-
logfan. and TEACHER In one OF their col
leKes. by name Martin Luther. acci-
Testament in the Latin language. Be
ing an educated man he was able TO
read II, for there was not one copy In
n Ssr ;ss q, az not
finding Pursatory IN the New Testa-
ment He tried to interest the Pope
IN s srsnSsS fsed and 5nsseef
and others protested: hence came the
name Protestantsi
These Protestants were undoubtedly
as sincere before their protest az they
were afterward; hence their protest
was against the very doctrines which
once they had proclaimed as the Truth
that ne'r a dead person il u not dead But
more alive than before he died. and
that some Of these at death went TO
heaysn While the great majority os sse w sSs
teaching OF the Bible that "ths wages
of sin Ia death"-=that AL go into death.
good and bad, and that this death
Bible. >. Instead Of getting this true
light upon Gods Word. they went
from DARKNESS into greater darkness
size the thought that all these noble
men, Catholics and Protestants. I'm
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
-FfetfsI Christian syBte8sr and thaf.Ete
some extent. has neutralized the effect
Starting from their misunderstand-
ing of Bible teachings respecting the
wages OF SIM Brother Luther and his
noble companions battied bravely for
many truths, but made one great blum
der. When they concluded that Purg-
atory was contrary to the Scriptures
and threw II away, not seeing tho
Bible hell. the tomb. they adopted An
other hell and thereby went from bad
10 worse on this subject. They said.
The heather and the masses of the
civilized are surely not enthusiastically
they do not follow In the footsteps OF
Jesus-surely. therefore, they cannot
be OF his spiritual flock. Concluding
that these could not be taken to
heaven, they said, We must take them
out of Purgatory anyway, wherever we
put them. because we have found out