Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-11-26


Lamb shall come, for bis wife will
have made herself ready Osev. XIX, y.
Then the worlds salvation will bc
due to begin. The Times OF Restitu-
tIon will be the thousand years Of Mes
siahs spiritual reign rs King Of kings
and Lord Of lords. Feshly Israel, we
are assured, will then be restored to
Divine favor aud become the special
and active agents Of the MessianIc
Kingdom in the distribution OF the III
vine favors to all the families of the
earth In the end all the incorrigIbly
wicked, who love iniquity rather than
righteousness, win be destroyed
Thus, as the Apostle declares, the
sacrifice of Jesus constitutes salts.
| faction for our sins 0he Church's slns)
and not for ours only. but also for the
sins Of the whole world q John ii, p.
Nonssnsical, Spurious Context.
Let us briefly notice another absurd
ity in the addition to Gods Word found
I'm the last twelve verses Of st. Marks
Gospel, fraudulently added aud not
found In any of the Oldest Greek MSS.
Notice the statement, "These signs
shall follow them that believe: In NIX
name shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues. They
shall take up serpents; and II they
drink any deadly thing. It shall not
hurt them. They shall lay hands on the
sick and they shall recover" ,(verses
II. lsl. The majority Of Christian min
isters and their congregations seem not
to be troubled by the fact that they do
not have these evidences OF their rela-
tionship to the Lord, aud they do not
attempt to heal the sick, to speak with
| tongues, and would not dare to drink
any poisonous thing But there are
certain conscientious people, the very
cream of all the Churches. who are
greatly perplexed by these words be-
cause they know that they are not true
| IN their experience. With them, there
| fore. II is a matter of feeling doubtful
about their own salvation, or ques-
ton as to the reliability of the Bible
as whole. They need to have the re-
lief which we now seek to give them,
They need TO know that these are not
inspired words, but poisonous and in
furious additions made during the Dark
| Ages. They may. consequently, look
elsewhere In the Scriptures and find
the proper assurances of their relation
ship with God being demonstrated by
the fruits of the holy Spirit in their
lives and in their hearts-"mcekness
gentleness, patience. long-suffering,
brotherly kindness. love"
Miracles In the Early Church.
This spurious passage of our text is
used by nmny ministers who know, or
ought TO know, Of Its falsity. But they
have certain theory In their minds
to the effect that the miracles and un-
| known tongues OF the early Church
were lost by reason of unfalthfulness
to God. and that Christians today
should seek for their recovery. Not
having any Scriptures to support their
claim they use this Interpolation and
allow their hearers and readers to be-
fieve II TO be the inspired message. To
what length have people gone In sup
port Of human theory The FIRST prin-
clple of preaching should be to preach
the Truth. the Whole Truth and moth
ing but the Truth, Every theory which
requires bolsterlng up by spurious pas
sages should be abandoned, and ioil be
abandoned by those who are honest
| truth-seekers, "Bereans"
our Lord performed miracles. so
did his Apostles And so did those Of
the early Church upon whom the
Apostles laid their hands. But no
others have this gift Consequently.
when the Apostles were dead and
when all those upon whom they had
laid hands OF blessing were dead, these
miracles IN the Church were at an
end. we all see the proprlety Of this.
Miracles were appropriate at the be-
ginning for the establishment OF the
Church and, for a time. were necessary
for their encouragement. In their
early meetings they. had no source of
information aside from the Apostles.
whom they rarely saw or heard. They
had no Bibes-no copies of the Gospel
nor of the Eplstles. They needed the
very arrangement which God provid-
ed-tongues and interpretations OF
tongues. etc, TO draw them together and
TO instruct them until, In due time, the
canon OF Scripture would be completed
that, through II, the man of God might
be thoroughly furnished unto every
good word and work QI Tim. III, 10. III.
BY the time the Apostles died the
Church had become established. had
regular meetings, pastors and teach
ers. the Gospels aud Eplstles, and
some of them had begun to develop
the fruits of the Spirit. Thus the early
Church naturally outgrew the tongues
and miracles aud entered a larger
sphere. just as a child loses It's swad-
ding clothes In favor OF more suitable
attire. For Gods people today 10 de-
sire 20 go back to speaking with
tongues, etc, such as was praetised.
and very probably. In the early
Church. would be like an adult person
desiring to be dressed and treated as
babe II Is our understanding that
the speaking with unknown tongues
Ia religious meetings. which 10 grad
ually spreading over the world, is
deception being practised upon earnest
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