Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-03-18

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indeed more 50, If we may judge by
the fact that the Catholic Bible omits
the spurious words, while the Protes-
tant Bible quotes them.
We here remark that according to
Protestant theory Messiah's Kingdom
Is represented in the civilized nations
of the world. especially Of Europe.
These all claim to reign by the grace
of Cod" IN which case, Of course, wars
and battles between them are conflicts
between the various parts Of Messiah's
Kingdom. And present military prep
arations on land and sea portend a
most sanguinary conflict between these
"kingdoms Of this world" which think
themselves and are called by Christen-
dom Kingdoms of Cod
How glad we are to see the Truth on
this subject; that the Kingdom OF
Gods dear Son has not yet been set
up, in any sense Of the word-that 1t Is
still future. 1t cannot be set up until
this Gospel Age ends and the "elect"
sanity few of every nation-Jew and
Gentie-shall be changed from earthly
to heavenly nature by the First Resur-
rection, which will qualify them to be
"kings and priests unto God and unto
Christ and to reign with Him a thou
sand years Revelation Xxx, g..
1t Is well that all Bible students
should mark this Fly" and extract 1t
from the Precious Ointment, and mo-
tice how much sweeter and fresher
the Lords prayer is to them forever.
"oh, What a Whoppsrp
Thomas Paine was an enemy to the
Bible and to the Christian religion, but
largely so, we believe, on account of
his poor understanding of IT, And
/ his misund lrstanding Of the Bible was
largely due to the false doctrines
handed down from the Dark Ages"
purporting TO be biblical Who can
not sympathze with the great infdel,
Thomas Paine. who, when reading the
last verse OF st. Johns Gospel, ex-
claimed, 30. what whOpper! 1t
reads, "And thore are also many 9th
er things which Jesus did, the which,
il they should be written every one,
suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that
should be written" John XXI, 25).
Surely any one Of reasoning mind
should see the absurdlty Of such a
statement. Surely all Christian min.
isters should have informed the Lords
sheep under their care respecting what
is and what is not the Word Of God
the Bible, rs 1t was recognized by the
Apostolic Church and written down in
the original Greek manuscripts. Why
any Christian minister should assail
me because | endeavOr to do for the
people what he has neglected to do
cannot understand. | must leave 1t to
the Lord to judge between us. am
informed that hundreds of ministers
went to the Editors Of the papers
which publish my sermons weekly and
endeavored to have them discontinue
their publication.
But the Editors perceive that theiI
readers are no longer under the bond
age Of the Dark Ages" but have be
! gun to think for themselves, and that
many of them are hungering and
thhstlng for the Truth respecting the
Blble-the Christians spiritual food
and drink. To the claim that many
read my sermons instead Of going to
| Church the answer Is, that Pastor Rus
sell is preaching to the non-church
going ten millions who are in the ma
| jority and that 1t behooves the minis
ters to provide for their people the
spiritual food for which they are fam
ishing If they would not lose them all
Another Big Fly,
To the credit OF such men as Luther
Calvin, Knox, Zwlngli, Wesley anC
others living prior to our day we mus
explain that they had no opportunit!
for knowing of the spurious passages
Of the Scriptures, They, therefore
have no responsibility such as de
wolves upon ministers Of our day WHIT
do, or should, know all about thes,
matters. We cannot on this occasion
make further investigation, take ou
more of these dead flies; but the Lore
willing at some future time | John V
Z, will have our attention. 1t Il
worthy of 1t. II has caused the Oint
ment to stink and has confused tn,
minds Of many Of Gods dear saints b!
the way in which the error in this cas-,
has been interviewer with the Truth.
My hearers should bear distinctly il
mind that what am here presenting
Is not ut all In line with the presenta
tions Of the Higher Critics. Thel
method Is to read through the Scrip
lures and Judge of them by their owl
keen intellectual powers, and thus t
discriminate between which wer
written by the Prophets credited, anC
which were additions Their Highe
Criticism claims n keener scent o.
mental discernment than ordinar!
mortals enjoy, by which they know
these things whether others can see l
SO or not,
resent Higher Criticism and accep
the Word Of God in full. reject moth
ing because Of my own or other meni
surmises, but merely go by the facts
II the Oldest Greek MSS, do not con
tain certain passages of Scripture, how
could they get into later MSS excep
as spurious additions?
Nor should be considered MS fault
! finding with our Common Version o.
the Dlble, While 1t is not without 1T
faults, 1t has SO many excellent quail
tins and beautiful trNnslations that