The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1910-07-28

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Christ our Lord" (Romans vi. z
What statement could be more stu
pie? The wicked will not be granite,
$ HE at all. either In pleasure or I'm pain
( They are under sentence OF death-de
p struction- Eternal life Is a gift. An.
, IL will be given only to those to whom
1t VIII be biessing-to those who vii
accept IL through Jesus Christ on
Lord
Let Us turn TO Genesis and note III.
statements made TO our first parent,
respecting sin and It's penalty. Let u,
note that. without the twistings o.
theology. we should have no difficult,
In understanding the Divine sentence
rs our first parents evidently had u.
difficulty. The sentence upon Father
Adam for dis0bedience was. "DyinC
thou shalt die; Dust thou art. and
unto dust shalt thou return; Cursed
Is the ground for thy sake; "Thorn>
| and thistles shall 1t bring forth unto
thee until thou return unto the ground
from which thou vast taken" (Genesi~
Iii. 2, 3, 1919, 24).
| Thus we see that the penalty for sin
upon Adam and his race was that they
| should return TO the dust AS we read
| again. Thou turnest man TO destruc
| ton" psalm xc. 81 And this penalty
Is sufficiently awful when we think of
what 1t means to die. TO lose mental
moral and physical perfection and
gradually go into the tcmb-into the
Bible he'll (sheOI, throughout the Old
Testament and this sheOl the 1rdre
the tomb TO which the Bible says all
go, good and bad. rich and poor. holy
and unholy. was the only hell known
amongst any of the people of God for
the more than four thousand years.
represented by the teachings of the
Old Testament. Then came the New
Testament times and the teachings of
Jesus and the Apostles to the same
Greek word hades. representing the
tomb. the death state. takes the place
of the Old Testament sheol In every
passage translated from the Old Tes-
lament into the New Testament.
1t was nearly three hundred years
after Jesus and the Apostles. after the
writing Of the New Testament, before
the doctrine of Purgatory was invent
ed And for this reason neither the
word Purgatory nor the Purgatory
thought is expressed in the Scriptures. I
But Bibles were few, and the people
could not have read them even If they /
had possessed them; hence for long
centuries the teachings of the clergy
were accepted without Bible proofs. .
and the doctrine of Purgatory spread .
all over Christendom. All Of our fore
fathers believed In it. 1t became the
teaching of Christians everywhere that
the mere handful of saints, instead of
dying when they seemed to die, went
to heaven and that the great mass o:
humanity, instead of dying when they
seemed to die. went in some mysteri-
Gus manner TO a mysterious place
called Purgatory. Of which nobody
knew anything except what they were
taught. The teaching is that practi-
cally all of humanity go to Purgatory
tured for centuries-ultimate to gain
release from the torture, when fitted
for heaven. Upon this doctrine in turn
sprung the doctrine of saying masses
Tor the dead" who were believed not
to be dead but intensely alive. The
Tear OF Purgatory drew the people very
close to the priests as the supposed
counsellors of the Almighty and the
mass money drew the priests very
close to the people. They were all
honestly intentioned, but all deceived
oy the great deceiver-Satan.
A Bad Matter Made Worse.
By and by priest, a Catholic theo-
ogian and teacher in one of their col
eyes, by name Martin Luther, acct
lentally ran across copy of the New
testament in the Latin language. Be
ng an educated man be was able to
cad 1t; for there was not one COPY in
ne German language anywhere. Lu- .
her tells US Of his perplexity in not
lndlng Pursatory in the New Tesla ,
nenI He tried to interest the Pope
Bible study, but failed, and instead
vas branded a hereto. He protested.
nd others protested: hence came the |
lame Protestants. I
These Professionals were undoubtedly s
IS sincere before their protest as they {
we're afterwards; hence their protest
vas against the very doctrines which |
nee they had proclaimed as the c
ruth. Their minds were full of the I
hought that dead person is not dead |
ut more alive than before he died
nd that some of these at death went I
heaven while the great majority
vent to Purgatory They did not see [
he teaching of the Bible, that 1.-The e
RACES OF sin is death"-that all go into
cath, good and bad, and that this ;
cath state is the sheol and hades of {
ne Bible Instead of getting this true '
ght upon Gods Word. they went :
rom darkness into greater darkness
this point. Here we wish to emph,- ' :
lie the thought that all these noble :.
len. Catholics and Protestants. in :
1elr day. like all true people today.
cid measure 0f TrJ1th in oor,h;n.