Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-04-23

My sermons are handled by a Syndi-
cate, and | am advised that now they
appear in nearly FIVE hundred news
papers, aggregating a circulation Of
six million copies, or, according to
newspaper count, thirty million read
ers. All Of these dear people of every
denomination who do any thinking at
all, am sure have had similar diff
culties to those which | experienced
difficulties in appreciating how our
Heavenly Father could be a good Fa-
ther, a good God. loving Creator
and yet provide for his human crea-
lures such terrible destinies as all the
creeds of the dark ages" set forth.
There is not a thinking Christian in
the world who does not need the cor
rect understanding of the Bible in
order to be able to stand in the evil
day that Is upon us. All need to give
heed to st. Pauls words, Take unto
you the whole armour of God. that
We may be able to Withstand in the
evil day, and, having done all, to
stand" (Ephesians vi 49,. Our day
is a blessed one in respect to it's won
derful opportunities and privileges.
but it is an evil one in the sense of
being a time of great trial and testing
Of faith to Christendom.
Thinking minds are rejecting the
doctrine of eternal torment and gener-
ally at the same time rejecting the
Bible and denying that it is the in
spired Word of God. These dear
friends are stumbling into infidelity
and think that Higher Criticism and
Darwin's Evolution theory are new
light What they need is to see that
the true light is in the Bible and that,
wearing our grandfathers' spectacles
we inherited the Word of God al
wrested it to our own injury and to
the loss of our peace of mind and fel-
lowship with the Father and with the
Son and with the holy Spirit.
The Key to the Scriptures.
Whoever gets the proper understand
ing of our text has in his possession
the Key to the Bible If he will use
it, passage after passage will open for
comes a new and glorious revelation
of Justice, Wisdom, Love and Power
Divine. Jonah was in the fish's belly
he was buried alive. 1t is this that
is referred to in our text. The words
heIl-belly signify 0rdUe-belly or belly
grave. The context shows all this
telling us additionally that sea-weeds
ohA ho
head and that God heard his prayer
and delivered him from the helI-bellU
or GellU-grGUe. on the third day by
causing the fish to vomit him up. If
you have a reference Bible note that
In the margin there is a reference to
the words of our text, saying. He
brew, the grave" Ah! says one, The
translators merely made a mistake
and translated it hell when they should
have translated 1t grave. Yes, l an
swer. and they made the same mis-
take in every case in which they used
the same word SheOl throughout the
Old Testament. AS 1t is. SheOt is trans
lated 0rGue more times than it is trans
lated hell in our Common Version; but
it should be translated grave every time
There we have the Key to the Bible
The he'll of the Bible. the penalty for
sin, is death, the grave the tomb. 1t
is not an everlasting hell, for special
Scriptures declare that sheOl (teEb shall
be destroyed. Il will ransom them
from the power of the grave (SheOD;
will redeem them from death; o death.
win be thy plaques; o grave (sheoi,
he'll | will be thy destruction" Hosea
xiii, IA. st. Paul quotes this prophecy
in conjunction with his great discourse
on the resurrection. 30 DEATH where
is thy sting? o Craze hddesl where is
thy victory" q Corinthians XIV. 55l
We see, dear friends. what our dear
Redeemer suffered on our behalf to re-
lease us from the penalty for sin. lie
did not 80 to eternal torment for our
sins He did go into sheOi, into hadeS
into the grave. Christ died for our
sins. according to the Scriptures" Il
Corinthians XIV. g. Thus God has pro-
vided for the resurrection of the dead
all mankind, both of the Just and OF
the unjust" The INST are the Church.
the saints. The unjust include all 9TH
ers. The blood of Jesus will avail for
the release of every member of the
race from the great penalty Of death.
Now it operates under a special call
to the sanity few who are invited to
become joint-heirs with the Redeemer
In his great Kingdom which shortly is
to bless all the families of the earth
not only those then living. but also all
who have gone down to the tomb. The
general resurrection will not be an In
Simultaneous one. as in the case of the
saints. 1t will be a gradual one in
two senses.
a. All will not come forth at once,
but. as the Apostle declares. Every
man in his own order" company or
band Il Corinthians XIV. 23I.
(2l 1t will be gradual In the sense
that the awakening from the tomb will
be but the beginning of the resurrec-
tion of the world During the thou
sand years OF Chi reign all who
will give heed to his instructions and
assistance may rise gradually-up. up.
up-and by the close Of the Millennium
they VIII reach the full perfection aud
Image Of God lost by Father Adam
through disObedience. The unwilling
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