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| ConttuCr NOW QuF oEts
GO ye into all the world. and preach
| the gospel 70 every creature He that be-
| lleveth and IS baptized. shall be saved;
/ but he that believeth not, shall be
j damned. Mark XVI. 10 10
One OF the most important of these
! interpretations or poisonous additions
engrafted upon the Word Of God Is In
the sixteenth chapter Of Mark, all Of
which, from the ninth verse to the end
of the chapter, is spurlous-fraudulent.
| It is additional TO anything that 81.
! Mark wrote. as evidenced by the fact
that these verses are not found In any
| Of the three oldest Greek MSS.
OF course some Of the Items OF
these verses are found In other Cos
| pels. IL would never do to add lie
without certain amount Of covering
OF Truth TO sugarcoat i'll But notice
| our text and what a wrong thought II
| Rives-inconsistent with the remainder
OF the Scriptures. It's intlmatlon Is
that the preaching Of the Gospel TO
every creature will result either In his
believing II aud being baptized. and
thus being saved. or IN his dlsbelleving
and being damned. And this word
damned carries with 1t. in the light OF
other MISUNDERSTANDING, fire. and
blazings. roasting and torture. shrek
ing and woes indescribable. This Is
all wrong-contrary to the authentic
Scriptures
The authentic Scriptures inform us
! that this Gospel Age is one in which
God Is gathering from the world
'aittle flock" of footstep followers,
sanity and elect. to constitute the
Bride OF Christ-hls joint-helrs in his
coming Kingdom. They show that not
all are expected to hear this message
at the present time-not many wise,
| great, learned or rich. but chiefly the
poor. They assure us that to have the
| hearing ear IS n special favor, saying.
BLESSED are your ears for they hear,
and your eyes for they see" st. Paul
tells us that the world In general Is
blind nrd deaf to the message now sent
forth Romaas xl. y, and the expert
ences Of eighteen centuries. corroborate
this st. Peter tells us (Acts XIV, 13) that
Gods work In the present time Is not
! the conversion OF the world (which GER
talnly Is not being nccomplished) but
that he Is now taking out Of the world
people for his name 90 bear the
name Of Christ. MS his Brldel The au-
thentic Scriptures everywhere teach
us that the poor. blind. deaf world,
which has never yet heard fully and
clearly Of ",he only name given under
heaven or amongst men whereby we
may be saved" Is not on this account
condemned or damned. They tell us
that the whole world was bern con-
demned. because children OF Adam and
sharers IN his condemnation, but that
God has provided In the sacrifice of
Jesus redemption for Adam and all
his race They tell US that, as result.
In Gods due time, Christ, as the true
Light. the Sun OF Righteousness, shall
enllghten every man that cometh Into
the world. They explain that God Is
now calling out special class while
the darkness Is upon the earth and the
gross darkness upon the heather, and
that the Sun of Righteousness, which Is
20 enllghtcn the whole world, VIII not
arise until the elect Church shall first
have been gathered out They tell us
that. In the New Dlspensatlon yet TO
dawn, all the families OF the earth Will
be blessed through The Chrlst-Jesus,
the Head, and the Church his Body or
Bride. They tell us that then "all the
blind eyes shall be opened and all the
deaf ears shall be unstopped' isaiah
xxxy, 81. They tell us that then the
| Sun OF righteousness shall arise with
healing In his beams. flooding the whole
earth with the light Of the knowledge
OF the glory OF Go,l They assure us that
that win be the period Of Messiah's
reign. for which we pray, THY King
dom come; thy VIII be done on earth
as In heaven" They tell us that the
object OF that reign viii be that the
world in general may have a trial to
determine whether. with the light and
knowledge and experience then grant
ed. they Will choose God and righteous
ness and the reward OF eternal life, or
viii choose sin ana Its penalty. the
Second Death,
Unbelisvers Damned Already.
Our word damned from misusage and
the bad theology of the Dark Ages,
has sulphurous odor. whereas lts
plain. simple meaning Is the same as
the word condemn, Adam WINS damned
or condemned 0OO0 years ago because
OF HIS dsobedience, And all his chill
dren. by heredity. share his weak
nesses and thus share his condemna-
ton. But Adam Is not condemned or
damned TO eternal torture nor to Pur-
gatow. The Bible distinctly says In
no many words that his sentence, his
condemnation, his damnatlon. is 10
death. "ln the day that thou eatest
thereof, dying thou shalt die" Genesis
II. ~, marginl. After his dlsobedience,
God said, UNFIT Is the earth for thy
sake. Thorns and thlstles shall II
bring forth unto thee. In the sweat
OF thy face shalt thou eat bread until
thou return unto the ground from
which thou vast taken; for dust thou
art aud unto dust shalt thou return"
| Genesis III. iT-l0l.
This general sentence has rested
upon all OF AdamN race from that day
ontll NON. A. ~ paul ta.laros Nv