The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-22

sacrificing in the interest of Federation
w1I be chiefly demanded
1Doctrlnally Congregationalists and
Presbyterians are one; hence, we may con-
slder their sacrifices of doctrine in the in
seteStS OF Federation as the same. They
ooth accept the Westminster Confession
OF F'aith with its Calvinistic foundation
Ihat God. before the foundation of the
world, foreordained whatsoever comes to
pass; that he predestinated an elect, saint
iy few to heavenly glory, and equally fore
ordained that the remainder Of thousands
or millions of non-elect should be main
famed IN eternal life to all eternity, in
order that they might suffer excruciating
ending. as part of the supposed penalty
Of the Original SIM committed BY our
first parents in Eden.
Evidently. there will be few people in
these highly intelligent Christian bodies
ready to insist, as our forefathers did,
saat THIS element of faith is essential to
Brother John Calvin the great architect
Of this creed, that fellow-Christians re-
the stake. as Brother Calvin decided in
respect to Brother Servetus. No, thank
G NJ r,r we nave outgrown some of the
some Of our brethren during the dark
Few any longer believe that there are
infants in hell not a span long because
Tz19noeaiect: Even where the doctrine of
emert2 to ss s indy held few have the
nI nte infant was predestinated to ever
n last1l n5t,d torture: But Brother Calvin's
~
Confession is that there are no Innocent
ii IN the condemnation of Orig
i Ada, pm was to eternal torture and that
Guam children, born in sin and shapen
IN iniquity." were therefore not innocent,
6tn., gplty-born under the sentence Of
through membership in the Church Of
theoTy va aao sffi o We may say that this
not St Augustine first declare the danger
or infants to eternal torture and the neces-
sly or tnelr being brought into the Church
eternal tortnreS And is n oPfe the 10 foree pc
this teaching still manifest amongst both
by tasia fs and Catholics. as evidenced
o oapeizeo.so tnaf some. in extreme cases,
even ZEN pTIacfice baptism in utero7''
DocClnaliy MethodiSm is indirectlv on
posed 70 CalvinisIn in every sense Of the
word. Possibly Methodists will have less
to concede than Calvinists because, al.
Free Grace was combated on every hand,
Il Il Is now the tacit faith OF the vast ma
God had premeditated and irreyocably
foreordained the eternal torture of our
horrible one to stand n 80 i tSe W Metb hoo
dist doctrine of Divine Love for all and
Free Grace as respects salvation has ap-
telligence of mankind Nevertheless. we
cannot do otherwise than concede that it
lions which all Orthodoxy creeds consign
to eternal torture whether they shall
suffer eternal agonies as result of Di-
sufferings or to Divine inability to out
work for their benefit the supposed adj
Vantages OF Free Grace arranged for
them by Divine Love.
The More Excellent Way.
Our suggestion is that now, in the lap
ping time of this Gospel Age with the
oncoming Millennial Age. as the arc cleo
trio light casts the candle of the past
into the shadow. SO the clearer light now
shining from the pages of Gods Word
casts into the shadow all the doctrines
Of the dark ages. relieving us of the
horrible nightmare which once becloud-
ed our hearts and lives and made US fear
full of Our Creator as aIi-powerful, but
merclless sovereign. In this blessed light
now shining from Gods Book have we
not a basis for Christian union? Let US
see If we can find in Gods Word that
the doctrine of Election and the doctrine
of Free Grace are both true. botsf Bibli-
cal, but that enc belongs to the Church
in this Gospel Age and the other to man.
kind in general in the coming Millennial