Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-07-29

DItt Huliu u ilt AffNihAA'H ~ 49, -
dom. Justice. Love and Power.
The Bible freely tells US that many
features OF the Divine plan are now
hidden in mystery. but the last book
OF the Bible. which propheueally pic
lures the future assures Us that In
Gods due time ''The mystery shall be
finished. which He hath declared to
HIS servants the prophets" Revela'
tion Z. u. The same book assures Us
that IN Gods due time. when the mys-
tery Is cleared. "All nations shall come
and worship before Thee. for Thy
righteous acts have been made mani
fest Reyelation xy. A. We are now
living IN the time when the mystery"
Is ending and the righteous dealings
Of God from the Scripturai standpoint
may be clearly seen.
But these revelations are not meant
for the world in general now. bur
merely for "the elect" the "saneti6ed
In Christ Jesus" "To you 1t is given
20 know the mysteries;' to outsiders
these things are spoken IN parallels
and dark sayings (Matthew Kill, II, 49,.
But not until the elect shall be glori-
fed and the Messlanic Kingdom es-
tabllshed will the mystery" be made
fully known to the world and every
knee bow and every tongue confess.
Hence. only those Of a contrlte heart
may now see. now understand, the real
character Of God. His real purposes to
ward man. etc Thus our Lord de-
clares, "Thls Is life eterual that they
should know Thee. the only true God,
and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast
sent" John xvii. 81.
In darker day than ours the theory.
"to doubt Is TO be dnmned." held such
a power over many that they dared not
use their reason And thus certain
reverence for God was maintained In
many homes--n reverence, however,
which surely would not be as highly
appreciated by the Creator nor have
as deep an influence upon the creature
as would a faith moved by love and
an intelligent appreciation Of the Dl.
vine character. based upon an under.
standing Of the Divine Plan OF the
Ages.
An lnundation Of UnbeIief.
In our day the shackles Of ignorance
aud superstition are breaking Men,
women and children are beginning to
think for themselves They no longer
believe the fairy tales of other days;
the dreadful hobgobllns and night.
mares OF the Dark Ages respecting
purgatory and eternal torture are
doubted by all, and by the great mass
totally dlsbelleved What have they
now to attach them to the Almighty,
since they have never been taught the
love Of GOd-the lengths and breadths
aud heights and depths passing all hui
man Understandings This is the
worlds great need-to know God as
He really Is, Father, a Friend, a God
Of lovel And to thus know Him the
people need TO be taught how serious
ly they were mistaught In the past
along the lines Of hell and purgatory.
How could they ever truly love and
worship God Of injustice and Of hate
One inferior to themselves-0ne who
knew, foreOrdained and prepared fol-
their torture, before they were born
They must see that these things, taught
by the creeds Of the Dark Ages. are
wholly at variance with the Bible, else
they Will never come back to the Bl-
bic nor be able to SEQ Its teachings IN
their true light. They must be taught
that the sin and death, sorrow and
trouble all around us are the wage OF
penalty Of father Adams dlsobedlence.
They must learn that God proposes n
blessing and uplifting which will be
as world wide as Is the curse. They
must learn that the foundation for this
work was effected by the death OF
Jesus, tho Just for the unjust, They
must learn that God is now selecting
sanity class to be associates with
the Redoemer In the work OF uplifting
and blessing Adam and his race; and
that each will be held responsible and
receive stripes in proportion to his
knowledge and wllful dlsobedlence
and that the persistently rebelllous viii
be destroyed "llke natural brute
beasts" In the Second Death.
a Have Lost Ny God"
Not long since. IN conversation with
a young lady, she said with great con
cern, 81 fear that | have lost my
God" As child of religious parents
she had had helpful Influences in her
home, but in school she had come In
contact with the general spirit OF
skopticlsm, which, instead OF repudlat
ing the Rlble, as did lngcrson. Paine
and Voltaire, merely smiles nt any ref
erence 10 Divine revelation. faith
In God and a respect for His will
These teachers are as honest, we be
lieye, az were lngersoll, Paine ant
Voltalre; nor can we deny that they
have the same right TO their disbelief
that we claim for our belief. We can
however, say with all sincerity thai
II Is a great pity that the learned mer
OF Chrlstendom are nearly all iniidels
In the sense Of not believing In thC
Bible as a Divine revelation,
Many Of them even deny that there
is personal God and ascrlbe every
thing to-O great Nothing. which they
designate Nature-god Is It surprls
Ing. In view OF the fact that these
teachings are being promulgated IN
the universities and colleges aud theo
logical semlnarles. In the high schools
aud even TO some extent In the com