The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-04-03

we can all agree That The words tlccf
nnd sicciiou, lfededip0;m end foft.
ordoiNm are Scrin;Wn ternls aud
that truth must nndAlie and per
wade them But Il viii give none of
US any rain to rcpudnte entirely fhe
peculiar definitions attached TO these
words by Brother Calvin Surely we
are all prepared to deny that a God
OF Justice. Wisdom. Love and Power
foreordained and predestlnated from
before the foundation ~ the world
that everybody but the elect" should
20 To eternal torment! " we canndt
All agree as to what these terms mean.
we can unite IN denying the atroclous
doctrines Of the past which have 80
greatly disbonOred our Creator and
ourselves and which have driven SO
many honest minds away from God
and from His Book
Baptists ard Disciples. Pastor Rus.
sell declared. have something further
to surrender. Surely they mag keep
water immersion. Surely they may
claim that. more fully than spriuk
ling. it represents the underlying
thought expressed IN the symbol. The
unreasonable and unscrlptural thing
which they must renounce in favor
" union Is that water immersion Is a
sM Of membership IN me ChUch o.
Christ They must admit that Cor
nelius, at least. was accepted Of the
Lord and begotten of the Spirit before
his baptism In water tActs X. Az.
The Pastor could not think that the
Baptist aud Disciple brethren would
have much difficulty IN rejecting
water immersion as test Of Chris
tlan fellowship, IL once they saw the
matter In It's true light. thus. The
Disciples, in holding that immersion
In water Is fOr me remission NJ sins.
are claiming. in fact, that al not thus
immersed are lost doomed 10 eternal
torment. according 10 their theory
Baptlsts should see the absurdlty Of
claiming that only the water immersed
are nerlbers ~ the Church Of Christ.
for thus, according to their theory.
they doom 90 eternal torture as un-
saved an of their Christian brethren
who have not been immersed Surely
BaptiSts and Disciples. therefore. may
be- expected To promptly and heartily
repudiate these test features Of their
theories.
The Methodist creed was next ex
amined II was commended for the
prominence It gives 10 the Love OF
God aud His forbearnnce with the mis-.
representations OF those who honestly
seek to be His children. The speaker
asked the Methodist brethren 10 fore
90 .he wUi iSh!ping Uf their Church ard
TO give the more homage to the Lord
lie admitted the mastcrfulness Of their
organization. but reminded them that
their EpiScopacy Is not modelled otter
anything shown IN the New Testament
IL does not even pretend TO be an nu-
thOrity along the lines Of Apostolic
Succession. They must admit that the
establishment Of It's Rshoprc was. at
least. semi-fraudulent IA supposed
emergency. born OF the error that an
Episcopal ordination was necessary to
an authority TO preach.
Hell and Pursatory Must Go.
Uniteily we must all acknowledge
that we. grossly misunderstood the
teaching Of our Bible when we believ-
ed and taught that our Almighty Gre.
ator prepared Il great hell, manned
with lire.proof demons. with the fore
knowledge that all of our race would
go thither except as certain few
would he specially rescued 10y the
Savior, after His coming. when He was
not sent for over four thousand years
after the fall Io0kine bnck Ia the
Ozark Ages" we behold with horror
the terrible effects ~ this Sphemous
doctrine upon good men nf that time.
who thought they were copying the
Divine spirit and methods when they |
burned one another at The stake
A. we have termed HAT purgatory |
Is not taught In the Bible. SO also we
have learned that this hell 0f our fore
fathers IL unscriptural- that the Bible
hell is the grave. the tomb. the state
OF death. this lust penalty for sin Is
what tie Bible everywhere teaches
We now know thnt the Hebrew word
shcoI Of the O!d Testament aud the
Greek word h0deS ur the New resta-
ment refer "a the giafc. the state Of
death. the tomb; and that they are So
translated more times than they are
rendered hen We now know that Ia
old English literature the word hen
was so used ns signlfying pit, "A GOV
cred place, n grave. The Pastor an
nounced that free pamphlets. discuss
ing the word heH aud the parable OF
The Rich Man aud Lazarus. eic.,
would be distributed by the ushers.
Tho Divine elan Of the Ages.
With our hearts and heads agreed to
discard those features Of our creeds
not found In the Bible aud, as far as
possible. 20 harmoniZe what we do