The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-09-12

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were In PnreaioFy roasting. stcwlng.
tortured. but hoping for heaven They /,
looked ut one another IN consternatiof,
They had hearts and syrnrathies and
felt that as II had desoIyed upon them
to smash Purgatory. II must also d Is
volye upon them TO re locate all those
thousands OF millions whom they had
on their hands They felt the weight
Of the responsibility. Could they de-!
mand of God that they should be nut
into henvena Surely not! Surely only
the sanity few are Git for heaven,
They. as well rs all, recognized that
fact. Then. with blank CONSERVATION.
they determined TINT they must crowd
the entire mass Into a hell of eternal
torture and shut the gates upon them
forever md write upon the gates.
"Who enters here abandcns hone"
Brother Calvin 20 the Rescue.
Taking from practically all human.
ity all future hope made tho Reformers
for the time heartslck 1t would be
awful to do TINT for one person. but
to thus "do' all humanity seemed ter.
rlble. And then toibe Obliged to label
that gospel Good Tldlngsr, must GER
tainlyi have been a trying experience
for the Reformers. &. IVA
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 Ind
predestinatcd 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. It
seemed horrible to charge all these
things against the God Of NIL Justice.
Wisdom, Love and Power. BUTT was
the only solution which occurred to
them. John Calyln'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 nfter-
ward objected, but admitted that only.
the saintly went to heaven and every
body else went to eternal torment
His protest was that. instead of this
being by Divine Generalization and In
tention, 1t was. on the contrary. be-
cause Of Divine unwisdom and incom-
potency.
"Good Tidinss of Great Joy.n. K
Surely no sane person can any longer
defend any of the above Gospels MS
the true one. of which st. Paul was
not ashamed! Surely ST. Paul never
preached amy of those Gospels, nor did
any Of the Apostles-no does the Bible
support such theories, except by the
turning and twisting of language, mis-:
TRANSACTIONS of the original and misln.
terpretations OF some parables. 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, 1t shall die" Adam. eiperfect.
| was placed on trial for life. eternal or
death eternal. &c sinned and the SEN
tence against him was. Cursed Is the
earth for thy sake; tiorns and thistlcs
shall 1t bring forth unto thee. n7the
sweat of thy face shalt thou. eat bread
: until thou return unto the ground from
whence thou vast taken Genesis Ill.
17,10). st. Paul declares the same:
"By one mans disobe'licncc sin enter
! ed into the world and thus death
passed upon NIL men. because all are
sinners" (Romnns V, 12l.
Looking about US We find this true.
Everybody. who Is not dead Is dying.
AS the Bible says, we are living un-
der n 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!
BE 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 MI people; for unto you Is
born this day in the City of5Dayid n
Savior Qlfe-glver) which is Christ the
Lord" duke II, 10Y.
1. All. now We hive the Truth! The
penalty Of sin Is death. And the good
tldlngs" is that God has provided for
our recovery from sin and death. The
Savior gave his life for the cancelln-
ton 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 .condemna.
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 ,Resurrectionp-the Re-
.deemer and his work.
/ Still More Good Tidinss.
Il The good tidlngs for the race in gen.
! eral is that the Ttedeemer In Gods due