The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-04-21


States.
My sermons are handled by a Syndi-
cate, and am advised that now tney
appear In nearly five hundred news
papers. aggregating 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 appreciating how our
Heavenly Father could be a good Fa-
ther. 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
you the whole armour of God. that
ye 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 time of great trial and testing
Of faith to Christendom.
Thinking minds are rejecting the
doctrine of eternal torment aud gener-
ally at the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying hat II Is the in
spIred Word of God. These dear
friends are stumbling into inhdelity
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' speetacles.
we Inherited the Word of God aud
wrested 1t to our own injury and to
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 he will use
1t, passage after passage will open for
him and the whole Word of God be-
comes new and glorious revelation
Of Justice. Wisdom. Love and Power
Divine. Jonah was I'm the fish's belly
he was buried alive. II Is this that
Is referred to In our text The words
heil-6eIIv signify 0rdre-bellv or belly
srdre. 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 hell belly,
or beliy-grdre. on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up. II
you have a reference Bible note that
In the margin there Is reference to
the words Of our text, saying. He
brew, the grave" All! says one. The
translators merely made mistake
and translated 1t hell when they should
have translated II grave. Yes. | an
swer and they made the same mis-
take In every case In which they used
the same word sheOl throughout the
Old Testament. As II Is. sheOi Is trans
lated 0rdUe more times than 1t Is trans
lated hell In our Common Version; but
II should be translated grave every. time.
There we have the Key to the Bible.
The hell OF the Bible the penalty for
sin, is death, the grave. the tomb. IL
is not an everlasting hell. for special
Scriptures declare that sheOI (helb shall
be destroyed. II will ransom them
from the power of the Craze (sheob:
will redeem them from death; o death,
/ will be thy plaques: o grave (sheol.
hell l will be thy destruction" Hosea
Kill. 14. st. Paul quotes this prophecy
In conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection. 20 death, where
is thy sting? o grave hadesl where is
thy victory" Il Corinthians xv. 55).
We see, dear friends. what our dear
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re-
lease us from the penalty for sin. He
did not go to eternal torment for our
sins. He did go into sheoi, into hddes,
into the grave. Christ died for our
sins, according to the Scriptures" Il
Corinthians Nv. 81. Thus God has pro-
vided for the resurrection OF the dead
ALI mankind, both OF the just and OF
the unjust" The Just are the Church.
the saints. The unjust include all 9TH
ers. The blood Of Jesus will avail for
the release of every member of the
race from the great penalty OF death.
Now 1t operates under a special call
to the sanity few who are invited to
become joint-heirs with the Redeemer
In his great Kingdom which shortly is
to bless all the families Of the earth
not only those then living. but also all
who have gone down to the tomb. The
general resurrection will not be an In
stantaneous one. as In the case of the
saints. 1t will be gradual one in
two senses.
a. All will not come forth at once,
but. as the Apostle declares. Every
man In his own order" company or
band Il Corinthians Nv. 23).
(2) II will be gradual In the sense
that the awakening from the tomb will
be but the beginning OF the resurrec-
ton OF the world. During the thou