The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-06-27

H ~ H pie were consptcu-
.zs==s:===ssss== GUS In the large
255E14y audience. Profound
impressions were
undoubtedly made. Speaking from the
text, "Holy, holy, holy Lord God AL
mighty, the whole earth shall be filed
with Thy glory" Revelation tv, 81, the
speaker said:
Shakespeare tells of some damned
by faint praisep' We grasp his state
ment as implying that faint praise
is more injurious than silence. But as
we look to ourselves and the remainder
Of the reputed four hundred millions
Of Christendom and their united trib-
ute Of praise to the Almighty Creator
we are forced to admit that with many
He is given faint praise" while the
vast majority positively blaspheme the
Holy Name by most atrocious misrep-
RESERVATIONS of the Divine character,
which they claim to be His own reve
lation of a demoniacal plot for the
eternal torture, in one way or another.
Of the thousands of millions brought
I1lO G4l6LClCG ny LIS POW CA anu w I'LL
out their own consent.
There may be said to be three diff
ferent theories prevalent In Christen-
dom on the subject. They all have
jealous, earnest, honest advocates,
Each contradicts the others. Each
claims to love God and to seek to serve
and honor Him. Evidently, two at
least of the three are wrong. 1t is our
conviction that all three are in error.
We believe that all three Of them have
fragments of the truth around which
have crystallized distorting, SANDER
GUS, blasphemous errors. The uphold
ers Of these theories are SO blinded and
bewildered that they fail to discern
that their praise and worship toward
the Creator are defIed and converted
into ISLANDERS and calumnies and bias
phemies by their incrustations Of false
hood.
Three General Views.
All three Of these views declare that
the Almighty. with full power to have
done otherwise, so created humanity
that a child once born into the world
can never die-he must live somewhere
unceasingly-ei either in pain or in pleas
ure By what authority any make
these declarations we have never as
certained.
Surely it is a gross Islander upon a
God of infinite Justice. Wisdom. Love
and Power to claim that He ever en-
trusted to poor. fallen, human par
ents the power to bring into existence
sin-blighted and sin-dlsposed human
creatures such as we see our race to
be, and then made the happiness of
their eternity dependent upon a super
human resistance of the evils of their
environment and Of their depraved
constitutions This blasphemy against
every creed of Christendom.
Our Catholic friends tell us that by
Divine arrangement terrible purga
torial experiences await practically
every member of our race. in the hope
that. If rightly exercised thereby. after
centuries of torture. an eternity Of bliss
will be gained. Is not this also bias
phemy against the Holy Name? Who
can deny it? Who would not shudder
to have such an awful crime of evil
design charged against himself or
against his earthly parents? Who that
Is begotten of the Holy Spirit is not
panied even TO think of such a charge
being made against his Heavenly
Father. 1.-THE God of all grace"7 Surely
such a theory is blasphemous. hor
rible.
But we have grown SO accustomed
to this blasphemy that it fails to prick
the majority to the heart as 1t should
With all of our development of human
sympathy and care for the sick and
even for our wounded enemies on the
battlefield and with our precautions
| Of modern times against criminal neg
| ligence which might lead to the de-
struction of human life by confagra.
tion-with all of our fire apparatus
and benevolent laws for the protec-
| ton of the very humblest of our race,
we have calmly and without protest
| charged against our great Creator and
indorsed it as our belief, either pub
| ncly or tacitly, that He would look
upon holocaust of millions with no
FIRE brigade for their relief. Is not
this blasphemy of the Holy Name?
Worse and Worse-Predestinat
Is 1t any wonder that in early life
fear rather than with love toward our
Creator and toward His Revelation
the Bible? Is 1t any wonder that II
required all kinds Of fighting with
| our common sense to believe, as we
were taught we should. that God low
ingly predestinated that all the fami
| lies Of earth should suffer eternally
except a sanity handful-because He
was pleased to have 1t so! because He
foreordained that it must be SO! be-
cause He made a great place called
hell before He made the earth, and
made 1t large enough to hold the en-
tire human family because He Gre
ated fre-proof demons to inflict tor
| ture upon the poor unfortunates who
were born in sin, shapen In iniQuity.
| In sin conceived by their mothers, and
many Of them left without an oppor-
| tunity of hearing of the ''only name
whereby they must be saved"-and
| that He wisely and with devilish In
tention laid up fuel enough to last to
all eternity for the torture Of His
helpless creaturesl
And are not such evil thoughts and
presentations respecting our great
Creator blasphemy? If not, pray tell
me what tooald be blasphemy? Most
assuredly l can think of nothing that
could possibly enter the human mind
or pass the human lips more bias
| phemous than this doctrine And yet
those who bow down before this creed
number some of the ablest and most
intelligent, most enlightened and most
benevolent Of our depraved, fallen race
How is this? How comes it that we
have been so blinded as respects our
own conduct and misbelief7 The
Scriptures answer that Satan has de-
ceived us; he has put light for dark
ness and darkness for light
Still Another Blasphsmy.
A considerable portion of thinking
and Christian people VIII join with us
in saying, Ahl surely Brother Calvin
grisvously erred and grieyously mis-
represented the God of Love when be
taught the doctrine Of the predestina
ton of the wicked to eternal torture
All! say these Christian friends, oul