The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-03-18

!: anC nc .ni.c C .iigner Criticism.
There are not many ways to escape
this threatening calamity! There is
only one way-the Bible way. Many
Baptist and Disciple ministers are be-
! coming awake to the inconsistencies of
| their positions and drifting without
foreknowledge of where their course
will end. For instance, ] have before
ME the words Of the Rev. DR.. Mac Don
aid of my own city, Brooklyn, on Feb
ruary 9th. This gentleman speaks of
! the Baptist Confession Of Faith as
"these swaddling clothes of an ancient
dogmatism" And respecting the Bap-
| fist doctrine which recognizes only i'm
mersed persons as members of the
| Church of Christ and heirs of saliva
ton. he says, "Henceforth it can be re-
| gordcd to be as dead as the cities Of
S0dom and GOmorrah, and as aoOrthiiy
buried" The gentleman rejoiced that
! recently a Baptist minister had been
ordained to the Sixth Avenue Baptist
| Church of Brooklyn who affirmed in
\ ludt lie WOuIu INV llc "
| communion and Church membership
who loved the Lord Jesus. He urged
| that associate members" should be
| received into Baptist communions
| without imposing baptism upon
| them
| This coura geous brother fails to see
! wherein the course he advocates is
| illogical. What he needs to see is the
real teaching of the Bible on the sub
iect of Baptism-that it is baptism into
Christs death, and thus into the real
Church Of Christ-not the Baptist
Church, nor any other human organiZa-
| ton, but the Church of God-"The
Church of the firstborns, whose names
are written in heaven" That roll con-
tains the names of all the sanity,
faithful, consecrated believers in the
Redeemer-of all denominations and
outside of all denominations.
"Sanetify Them Through Thy Truth"
| 1t is not sufficient that we get rid Of
| the errors and SuperStitiOnS of the
past. We must supplant those with
the Truth, that I'VE may be able to
withstand in this evil day" Ephesians
vi. 49,. 1t alone will constitute the
armor Of God. Christian people hold
much precious Truth. but hold it in
so illogical and confused a manner
that it fails to give them the needed
strength. God permitted us to come
70 oil
the present tests for the purpose Of
developing the characters of the is
raelites indeed, in whom is no guile"
and for the purpose of gathering out
from them all the tares, all the chaff,
and all not at heart copies of his dear
Son. Let me now briefly summarize
the errors of our creeds and briefly in
dictate the Bible remedy.
None of our Creeds were too strict
in defining the saintliness of the
Church class, invited to become the
Bride of Christ and his Joint-heirs in
many respects they were too loose
they We're not nearly up to the stand
ard of the Masters word, IF any man
will be my disciple, let him take up
his cross and follow me-" ''Strait is
the gate and narrow the way which
leadeth unto life: and few there be
that find it, Nlatthew vii, 14. Jesus
taught that his followers must drink
of his cup of suffering and be baptized
into his dedth--and not merely into wa
ter Our too-low standards have adj
mitted to membership in all denomina-
tions millions who are far below the
Masters standards.
Our error and deception was the sup
position that all who are not sanity.
all who would not become the Bride Of
Christ, all who are not baptized into his
death, all who do not drink of his cup
of ignOminy will be eterndlly tortured.
This great mistake common to all
fed form of Purgatory shared also Is
CATHOLICS must be displaced by the
Bible teaching that as soon as the
elect Church shall be completed and
glorified the antitypical Year of Jubi-
lee will begin: that then fer the thou
sand years of the reign of Christ and
the Church as the spiritu Seed of
Abraham. the non-eiect, OF all the fam
lilies of the earth will be blest by the
elect Galatians iii, 16. %; Acts iii.
1929 Let us, dear brethren, choose
this day to stand by the Word of God,
to reject all human traditions contrary
to it and to hold fast the things that
If occasionally a thoughtless friend
asks, Why do you believe in a Millen-
mum? answer that it is one of the
oldest doctrines of ChriStendom and,
above all, the Bible doctrine Answer
that he who does not believe in the
Millennium and the resurrection then
of the world of mankind-"All that
are in their graves''-must account for
the dead in some other way-must
claim that they have been experience
ing pain or pleasure for thousands Of
years. or must claim that they are ex-
tinct as the brute beast and will have
no resurrection or must believe in uni
versal salvation regardless of knowl-
edge of Christ or obedience to him.
On next Lords Day, we will dis uss
the Millennium and show its absolute
necessity, not only from a Bible stand
point but also from a scientific stand.
point. CHOOSE We this day"-to stand
for the Bible and reason and to op-