The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-09-14

on their hands. They felt the weigh,
Of the responsibility. Could they de
mand Of God that they should be put
into heaven? Surely not! Surely only
the sanity few are fit for heaven!
They, as we'll as all. recognized that
fact Then. with blank CONSERVATION
they determined that they must crowd
the entire mass into hell Of eternal
torture and shut the gates upon them
forever and write upon the gates,
"Who enters here abandons hope"
| Brother Calvin to the Rescue.
| Taking from practically all human
ity all future hope made the Reformers
for the time heartsick. 1t would be
awful to do that for one person, but
| to thus do" all humanity seemed ter
rible And then to be obliged to label
that gospel Good Tidings" must GER
tainly have been a trying experience
for the Reformers.
But Brother John Calvin helped
them amazingly and took from them
their burden. He told them that they
should not worry, because It was all
Gods fault and not theirs. God had
predestinated them to that awful fu-
ture long before he created man. Now
they should merely try to think of
themselves as the "elect" and try to
forget everybody else. OF course, 1t
seemed horrible to charge all these
thilgs against the God Of all Justice,
Wisdom, Love and Power. But 1t was
the only solution which occurred to
them. John Calvin's theories were
afterwards embodied in the West
minister Confession Of Faith" And
that confession Of faith became the
foundation Of nearly all Protestant
creeds. Brother John Wesley after
ward objected, but admitted that only
the sanity went to heaven and every
body else went to eternal torment.
His protest was that, instead OF this
being by Divine REORGANIZATION and in
tention, 1t was, on the contrary, be-
cause Of Divine unwisdom and ircom
potency.
"Good Tidings Of Great JOY"
defend any Of the above Gospels as
the true one, of which st. Paul was
not ashamed. Surely st. Paul never
preached any Of those Gospels, nor did
any Of the Apostles-nor does the Bible
support such theories, except by the
turning and twisting Of language, mis-
translations Of the original and misin-
terpreta lions Of some parallels. The
plain statements of the Scriptures are
all directly to the opposite.
The Bible teaches that "the wages
Of sin is DEATH" not Purgatory nor
eternal torment. THE soul that sin
meth, it shall die" Adam, the perfect,
was placed ON trial for life eternal or
death eternal. He sinned and the SEN
tence against him was, Cursed Is the
earth for thy sake; thorns and thistles
shall it bring forth unto thee. In the
sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread
until thou return unto the ground from
whence thou vast taken" Genesis Ill,
1910. st. Paul declares the same:
by one mans disobedience sin enter
ed into the world; and thus death
passed upon all men, because all are
sinners" (Romans V, 12).
Looking about US we find this true.
Everybody who Is not dead Is dying,
AS the Bible says, we are living IN
der reign of Sin and Death. Nothing
that man can do can either eradicate
sin or lift us out Of our dead and dy-
ing condition. God alone can help us!
He proposes to help us and the mes
sage respecting that help is, in the
Scriptures, called the Gospel. Its an
nouncement by the angels on the night
of Jesus birth is full, complete, sat
isfactory, viz: Behold, we bring you
good tidings Of great joy which shall
be unto all people; for unto you is
born this day in the City of David n
Savior Qife-giver which Is Christ the
Lord duke ii, 10.
All, now we have the Truth! The
penalty Of sin is death. And the good
tidings" is that God has provided for
our recovery from sin and death The
| Savior gave his life for the cancclla-
tion of our sin, for the satisfaction of
Justice, that in due time Adam and all
his condemned and imperfect race
might be released from the coudcmna-
| ton and be lifted out of the sin and
death conditions which now prevail.
! That uplifting is Scripturally called
the resurrection Of the dead. Hence
the preaching Of the early Church was,
Jesus and the Resurrection"-th Re
deemer and his work.
Still More Good Tidinss.
The good tidings for the race in gen
eral is that the Redeemer in Gods due
time iciU become King of kings and
Lord of lords-the Messiah of glory
Gods glorious Representative For
a thousand years the regeneratinc
work for Adams race will progress
(Matthew xix, Is; Acts iii, 1929
Gods Chosen People, Israel, will be
the earthly agents Of the heavenly and
invisible King Of glory. BY the close
been transformed into the Paradise OF
God. "He will make the place of his
feet glorious" And mankind will al
be perfect again, in Gods image
There will be no more sin, no more
sickness, no more dying, because al
passed away and he who sits upor
the Throne will have renewed III
things Revelation XXI, 81. All who
after coming to Il full knowledge OF
the Truth of Gods love and gracious