Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1910-09-28

propagation or those errors Will an |
peal TO every popular superstition and |
passion against the truth which threat |
ems their destruction. But few will |
endure patiently the sound teaching In |
the matters concerned. The needed |
message for any day will be unwel
come, because Il will condemn sinful |
and degrading indulgences. and seeh |
10 divorce men from them. Just I'm |
:he measure that widespread errors |
are fatal. and their influence de- |
grading. will the message OF tho re- !
Sormer DO needed, and whilo men are
human the need of and desire for Il |
viii vary inversely. Pnurs admiration !
TO Timothy to preach the word" was
chiefly prompted by tho fact that IL
was distasteful to tho hearers of that
day. and the young preacher might
prefer TO speak smooth things. AS in |
the case of spoiled children. of dyspep.
tics, OF pleasure-seekers, OF mischief.
makers. OF wrong doors and wrong.
thinkers OF every sort, what they most
needed they least wanted. He who
has message worth while will need
to pray for courage that he may open
his mouth boldly and speak as he
ought to speak
Tho Real Message.
The pulpit message for all DAYS.
even unto the end of the world" Is
the gospel OF Christ, for Il is the
power of God unto salvation to every
one that belfeveth." ITO every ONE
personal message OF salvation to
every man that has lived or ever shall
live till "the end OF tho world" The
man STEPPED in and stupefied by sen.
sual Indulgence is prone to be oblivi |
GUS to his need OF salvation, and to |
resent any effective measures for nj. |
tanning II. but (and this fact will sug.
gest where the emphasis should be
put upon the pulpit message for to-
day. the man stepped in and spiritu
ally stupefled by intellectual indul.
6ence Is apt to be even more oblivious
to his need of the salvation offered I'm
the gospel. The carnal mind is not
only enmity against God, but against
man. While its servants are not SO
offensive and pitiable as the slaves of
carnal appetite. they work more SO.
cial ruin in our day. Philosophio
cynicism, intellectual pride and avarl.
cious cunning are robbing this gen.
Grafton of its best ideals, OF its faith
In God the father, and OF its "ip
alienable right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness"
Carey called the attention of the
camp OF Gods spiritual Israel to the
long-neglected marching orders of the
captain OF the worlds salvation. He
and few heroes of his kind gave Pro
tcstant Chrlstendom the pulpit Res.
sage for the last half of the nineteenth
century-the message OF foreign mis-
sfons. Are there not Indications AT
present that the heat OF controversy
and zeal OF advocacy have caused this
TO be magnified to the neglect of some
other things OF vital, perhaps equal,
importance? Has not the zeal of
some of It's bropagandists become so /
little according to knowledge that
they are ready TO make the observance
OF Chrlsts other explicit orders. and
even the question of his deity. sub
ordinate to the furtherIng OF missions?
Are there not those who in their zeal
TO go and teach all nations, are ready
to modify, and compromise upon, what
Christ commanded to be taught? The
special message for any day, in sci.
ence, in politics. In religion, is in dan
ger of becoming like the farmers
mettlesome horse whose natural gais
was running away"
Essential Teachings.
AS already minated, the pulpit
message for today"-the essential
teaching Of the Scriptures which needn
special emphasis and repetition, IA
that concerning the deity OF Jesus
Christ, his superhuman origin and di.
vine, superhuman, miraculous power.
In our day the carnal mind. self-cou.
scious intellectually. denies and de.
rides this teaching, I'm the name of
science II Is strange sort OF "scI.
ence" which bases n dogma not upon
What II knows, but upon what II does
not know. 1t makes in effect the alb.
surd declaration that there can be no
truth which cannot be discovered and
demonstrated by the human mind by
physical means. Whatever Il. by
search. with physical senses and an
planes, cannot find out, or verify. II
non-existent. 10 is strange that not a
few Of those who profess TO BIO min.
listers Of the gospel have taken a leaf.
many leaves. and even whole chap
ters. from this non-sclentlflc, agnostic
teaching.
Logically enough this agnostlc cult,
based upon denial OF all things
which so transcend human experience
as to depend upon revelation, flour.
fishes most In our great educational
centers. and hurtfully affects many
ministerial students who are subject.
ed 90 It's innuence-those having most
intellectual vanity being notorlouslv
most susceptible. While the chief
priests Of this modern" cult taIk
charmingly Of divinity" and "spiritu.