The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-02-08

tndl we SDOulu De Wiling 10 JOIN III
traducing our Creator. in order to OBJ
tain this result? We answer, No. a
Thousand times. No! In our judgment
the perversions of the Truth, the dis
honoring OF our Maker. the ins.illinG
of misconceptions into the minds of
the people. is an awful cost to pay,
even if the results should be hundred
times rs great as promised. Well Gid
Jesus say, "Ye compass sea and land
to make one proselyte and when he Is
gained. you make him two-fold more
Ichild of destruction than yourselves
I(Matthew xiii. 10. The conversions
achieved by Misrepresentation of God
! lnstil poison into the heart difficult
TO eradicate. impervious to the Truth.
| 1t grieves me to be obliged conscien
ltously thus to characterize move
meut which has. at least, an outward
appearance of godincss. 1t will at
| tract to me the venom of those whose
hypocriscs criticize. 1t is not the
money that they viii collect that
grieves me. for those who give ii hon
estly. thinking tMs to serve the Lord,
will surely be blessed by him. 1t is
| the hypocrisy of the thing, the misrep-
resentati0n Of their own belief and I'M
belief and the Islander against the holy
name of the Creator and the further
bamboozling and throwing of dust into
the eyes Of the common people-this
awakens. and should awaken, right
eous Indignation. And the more 9th
ers do not speak. the more I must
speak in denunciation and in warning
to the people to search the Scriptures
and become undeceived,
Hearken Now to Our Text.
The teachings of all of the creeds
of the Dark Ages" which have come
down to us, although they contain
many good things, are so befogged
with misrepresentation Of God as to
be q stencil TO our nostrils and a men
ace to our spiritual health. They pic
ture to us a God either reckless and
careless of the future interests of his
human creatures. or else as powerless
to aid any but the few. They picture
to us millions going down to torture
during the four thousand years be
fore Jesus came into the world to seek
and to save that which was lost. They
picture to us that since his coming
only a handful, comparatively, of the
human family have become his dis
ciples, footstep followers, Meet for
the inheritance Of the saints in light"
All the others, according to our Prot
estant creeds, Calvinistic and Armini
an, have gone down to eternal torture.
From this standpoint It is that DR..
Chapman and Mr.. Alexander are the
heroes of the hour. saving few more
whom God would have otherwise neg
lected, or, as some might say, saving
them in spite Of Divine REORGANIZATION
to the contrary.
But what say the Scriptures? Does
the Bible substantiate such the0rfes7
Nay, nay! In harmony with our text,
the entire Bible reveals to us a God
as infinite in his Wisdom and Power
as in his Justice and Love. Our text
tells us that he Is mindful Of his crea-
tures-humanity. He was mindful In
the very beginning when he created
man and foreknew his fall. Away
back there he foretold that 1.-The Seed
Of the woman should ultimately bruise
the Serpent's head" Away back there
he indicated his Divine purpose, il
due time, to redeem man from deStruc-
ton not from eternal torment, for
none were sentenced to tormenD.
The skins which covered the naked
ness of our first parents cost the lives
Of animals, and thus God typically
prophesied better sacrifices" for the
perfect covering of mans sin and
shame. In Gods dealings with the ma
ton of Israel he gave numerous types
foreshadowing the later blessings, fol
lowing 1.-THE better sacrifices" Of the
antitypical Atonement Day-blessing
all the families of the earth.
God was mindful Of mans interests
all that time (for over forty-two cen
turies), even though. during that long
period, nothing was actually accom-
plished. The salvation was purpOsed,
was planned, was assured, but must
be waited for until Gods due time.
Reconciliation by Better Sacrifices"
When Jesus appeared the world was
still in sin--even the one little nation
of Israel was still under Divine con
demnation because of sin-because
their typical sacrifices We're insufficien'
and merely foreshadows of 1.-The better
sacrifices" which God was mindful
later to bring to pass.
Those "better sacrifices" are not yet
completed, though nearly so, we be-
lieve. They consist of 1.-The Man Christ
Jesus who gave himself Ransom
for ALL" and also of the faithful few
whom he has accepted as his disciples
and who are walking in his steps.
presenting their bodies living sacri
fees, holy and acceptable to God,
through their Redeemer Rom. xii, L.
God is still mindful of humanity,
He has not forgotten his responsible
ties us a Creator The theory that
God shirks his responsibility and al
lows the ninety thousand who die
daily to drop into eternal torment be
cause of carelessness or Indifference
on our part is not true-is not Scrip
| tural
God aflirms his own responsibility
for every feature of his Plan. He de-
clares. MY Word that is gone forth
out Of my mouth shall not return unto
me void; it shall prosper in the thing
whereto sent it, isaiah ", III.
Hence we should understand that God