Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-03-14

| lied to represent him. Hence this Spur1-
Gus addition TO the Word Of God Is as &C.
ceptable to Protestants as to Catholics;
indeed more so, 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
most sanguinary conflict between these
kingdoms of this world" which think
themselves and are called by Christen-
dom kingdoms Of God"
| 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 naJion-Jew and
Gentile-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 thou
sand years" Revelation Xxx, O..
1t is well that all Bible students
/ - ga a.
from the Precious Ointment, and nc.
| tice how much sweeter and fresher
| the Lords prayer is to them forever.
| "Oh, What WhopperI"
| 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 misunderstanding of the Bible was
i largely due to the false doctrines
handed down from the Dark Ages"
purporting to besbiblical. Who can
not sympathize with the great infdel,
Thomas Paine. who. when reading the
last verse of st. Johns Gospel, ex-
claimed, 20. what a whopperw 1t
reads. land there are also many 9TH
er things which Jesus did. the which,
| 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 absurdity Of such a
| statement Surely all Christian min
! listers should have informed the Lords
sheep under their care respecting what
is and what is not the Word of God,
the Bible. as it was recognized by the
| Apostolic Church and written down in
| the original Greek manuscripts. Why
I any Christian minister should assail
me because | endeavor to do for the
people what he has neglected to do
| cannot understand. | must leave it 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 their
readers are no longer under the bond
age of the Ozark Ages" but have be-
gun to think for themselves, and that
many of them are hungering and
thirsting for the Truth respecting the
Bible-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 it behooves the minis
tiers 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, Zwingl, Wesley and
others living prior to our day we must
explain that they had no opportunity
for knowing of the spurious passages
Of the Scriptures. They, therefore,
have no responsibility such as de-
wolves upon ministers of our day who
do, or should. know all about these
matters. We cannot on this occasion
make further investigation, take out
more Of these dead flies; but, the Lord
willing, at some future time / John v,
z, s will have our attention. 1t is
worthy Of it. 1t has caused the Oint-
ment to stink and has confused the
minds of many Of Gods dear saints by
the way in which the error in this case
has been interviewer with the Truth.
My hearers should bear distinctly in
mind that what / an here presenting
Is not at all in line with the presenta-
tons Of the Higher Critics. Their
method is to read through the Scrip
lures and judge Of them by their own
keen intellectual powers, and thus to
| discriminate between which were
| written by the Prophets credited. and
| which were additions. Their Higher
| Criticism claims a keener scent or
mental discernment than ordinary
/ mortals enjoy, by which they know
these things whether others can see 1t
so or not
resent Higher Criticism and accept
the Word of God in full. reject moth
ing because of my own or other mems
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. except
as spurious additions?
Nor should be considered as fault
| finding with our Common Version Of
the Bible. While it is not without its
faults, 1t has so many excellent quail
ties and beautiful translatfons thar I
prefer it to any other and generally
use ii. But must not, l cannot ap-
prove those portions Of 1t which all
orthodox scholars admit to De spuri-
GUS. We must not handle the Word Of
God deceitfully. If we do we must ex-
pect darkness instead Of light, con-
| fusion instead of harmony.
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