Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-07-25

Germany, the United States and Canada
are really infidels, unbelievers. These to-
day are STYLED Higher Critics, but
Higher Critics are really infidels-some of
them even profess atheism, denying
personal God, recognizing only nature as
God
How did the Word of the Lord come
to be thus lost?
We answer that history shows long
period called the Dark Ages in which the
Word of the Lord was set aside in favor
of church councils and DEGREES Then
came the period of the Reformation. The
Bible was translated by the Catholics in
TO the English and styled the Douay Yer
sion. 1t was translated by the Protest
ants into English and styled the King
James Version, and once more the Word
of God began to exercise a Transforming
influence upon humanity
But alas the errors, the darkness, the
superstition of the Dark Ages already IN
the human mind gave to the Word OF God
peculiar distortions and made 1t appear
through the colored glasses of sectarian-
ism TO mean things wholly irrational and
inconceivable.
With the progress of education thinking
was resumed along the lines of religion
as well as science. The thinkers, how
ever, remembered the Bible only as they
had seen it through their colored
glasses, and in proportion as they
discarded the superstitions of the
darker past they discarded the Bible
as part of those superstiuons.
and supposedly their basis. AS result
school men, college professors, Doctors
of Divinity, etc, have charged up against
the Word of God various doctrines which
il does not teach-amongst others Purga-
tory and eternal torment for all except
the "very elect
Finding the Word of God.
Now. in due time, the Word of God Is
being found The dust of the Dark Ages
is being brushed aside The Book Is De
ing investigated in the light OF its own
teachings 1t is shining with wonderful
brilliancy upon the path OF the lust. we
are seeing fulfilled before us Gods prom
Use that the path of the just Will SHINE
more and more unto the perfect day
Its bright shining at the present time
betokens that the New Day, the New
Era of Messiah's Kingdom is nigh, even
AT the door (Matthew XIV, 80; IL Peter
i, 49,
How glad we are that, as Bible STU
dents we are obtaining from the DIVINE
Word meat in due season. when not
only nourishes us, but makes as strong III
the Lord to know and TO do His Will ana
10 be assstful to all with whom we are
i'm contact Let us not forget that II we
belong to the Lord we are OF the royai
priesthood" and that now is the tihe,
in the dawning of the great antl-tSplcai
Jubilee when all the priests are 10 Do"
upon the silver trumpets, making Known
To the world the riches of GODS grace
about to be revealed in Messlahs hlhs-
dom for which still we pray, THY King
dom come; Thy will be done on earth as
IT is done in heaven"
No place shall he in that new eaIth
Tor all that blights this UNIVERSE
M evil faint the second blrth-
There shall be no more cnfse,.
W hroken- hearted cease your moan,
tn dav Of promise dawns for YOU
Eor He who sits upon the throne
Saws. II make all things new
Wa mourn the dead. but they shali Wdhe
The lost. but they shall be restored,
| az we'll our human hearts mleht pie"h
/ without that sacred word .,iat
min, eves look up, sad hearts teyoieSS'
seeing Gods bow of promise thr
A. sound of that prophetic voice
| II will make all things new