Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-02-13

| the perVersiOns OF the Truth, the dis
honoring OF our Maker, the instilliDE
of misconceptions into the minds OF
the people, Is an awful cost to pay,
even II the results should be hundred
dmes as great as promised. Well did
Jesus say. "Ye compass sea and land
10 make one proselyte and when he is
/ gained. you make him twO-fold more a
child OF destruction than yourselves"
Matthew kill 49, The conversions
achieved by Misrepresentation OF God
instiI a poison into the heart difficult
to eradicate, imperyious to the Truth.
II grieves me TO be obliged cOnscien.
tiously thus to characterize a move
ment which has, at least, an outward
! appearance Of godllness. 1t will at
tract to me the venom Of those whose
hypocrlsies criticize. 1t is not the
money that they will collect that
J grleVes me, for those who give II hon
I estly, thinking thus to serve the Lord,
will surely be blessed by him. It Is
the hypocrisy OF the thing, the misrep-
resentatiOn Of their own belief and un-
belief and the SANDER against the holy
nane Of the Creator and the further
bamboOsllng and throwing Of dust into
the eyes Of the common people-thls
aWakens, and should awaken, right
e0uS Indignation And the more 9th
ers do not speak. the more l must
speak in denuHclatoh and in warning
to the people to search the Scriptures
and become undeceiVed.
Hsarksn New 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 a stencil to our nostrils and men
ace to our spiritual health. They pic
ture to MS 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, Calvlnistic and Arminl-
en-, have gone down to eternal torture.
From this standpoint 1t is that DR..
Chapman and Mr.. Alexander are the
heroes Of the hour, saving a few more
whom God would have otherwise neg
lected, or, as some might say, saving
them In spite of Divine foreordinatlon
to the contrary.
But what say the Scriptures? Does
the Bible substantlate such theories? .?
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-
ures-humanity. He was mindful In
the very beginning when he created
man and foreknew his fall. Away
back there he foretod that "the Seed
OF the woman should ultimately brulse
the Serpent's head" Away back there
he indicated his Divine purpose, in
due time, to redeem man from destruc-
tiOn mot from eternal torment, for
none were sentenced to torment.
The skins which covered the naked
ness of our first parents cost the lives
Of animals, and thus God typlcally
prophesled "better sacrifices for the
perfect covering Of mans sin and
shame. In Gods dealings with the ma
ton Of Israel, he gave numerous types
foreshadowlng the later blessings, fol-
lowing "the better sacrifices" of the
antltyplcal Atonement Day-blessing
all the families Of the earth.
God was mindful of mans interests
all that time Qor over forty-two cen
turles), even though, during that long
period, nothing was actually accom-
pllshed the salvation was purposed,
was planned, was assured, but must
be waited for until Gods due time
Reconciliation by "5stter Sacrifices"
When Jesus appeared the world was
still In sln--even the one little nation
Of Israel was still under Divine con
demnatiOn because Of sin because
their typical sacrifices we've insufficient
and merely foreshadOws of "the better
sacrifices" which God was mindful
later to bring to pass,
Those better sacrifices" are not yet
completed though nearly so, we bN.
lleve. They consist Of "the Man Christ
Jesus who gave himself a Ransom
for all" and also of the faithful few
whom he has accepted as his disciples
and who me walking In his steps,
presenting their bodies living sacri,
fees, holy and acceptable to God"
through their lledeemer Rom, xii, N,
God Is stlll mindful Of humanity,
He has not forgotten his responsibii.
ties as 4 Creator, The theory that
God shirks his responsibility and al.
lows the ninety thousand who die
daily 70 dro3 into eternal torment be
cause Of cNrclessness or indifference
on our part Is not true--is not Scrip,
tura.
God ulHrms 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 II" tIsalah ly. III
Hence we should understand that God
sent no message 60 convert the world
during the first forty-oue hundred and