The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-06-24

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nent religious peo-
3H pie were conspiGu-
-. g Gus in the large
E95@S16Rf g5sELIJ audience. Profound
impressions were
undoubtedly made. Speaking from the
text, "Holy. holy. holy Lord God AZ:
mighty, the whole earth shall be hlled
with Thy glory CRevelation ", 3, the
speaker said: Z
Shakespeare tells Of some damned
b. faint praiseg. we grasp his state
ment as Implying that q faint praise
Is more injurious than, silence. But as
We look to ourselves and the reminder
Of the treputed four hundred millions
Of Chrlstendom and their united 'trtb::
ute Of praise to the Almighty Creator
we are,forced to admit that with many
He is given Faint praise" while the
vast majority positively blaspheme the
Holy Name by most atroci6us misrep-
reservations Of the Divine character.
which they claim to be His own reve'
lation Of a Economical plot for the
eternal torture. in one way or another,
Of the thousands of millions brought
into existence by Els power and with
out their own consent.
There may be said to be three DIFF
ferent theories prevalent In Christen-
dom on the subject. They all have
Jealous, earnest, honest advocates.
Each contradicts the others. Each
claims to love God and TO seek to serve
ana honor Him. Evidently, two at
least Of the three are WRONG. it's our
conviction that all three are in error,
We believe that all three Of them hayst
fragments Of the truth around which vi
have cryistallized dlstorbng, SANDER
GUS GUS blasphemous errors. The uphold
ers Of these. theories are SO blinded apal
bewildered that they fail to discern
that ffhelrl praise and worship, toward
the Creator are defiIeds and converted
Iinto. slaIaef. ann calumfies!and bias
iphemtes by their tationstof false
klO0Q.OSSEtt n 30 JNeis L''ftii 49, r.
tn9 slaTkree General Views ofas g
kttA1lthree Of these yieRg dsatats that
the Almighty, with Pull p6 Wer Il hays y
done Otherwise, so created hIH1as1iitty
thai q, child once born into the %9rlIId1
SaiI / meyer die-he must five sSmeYlhere
untceasingiy@either in pain pr itn, pleas
IRE. BY, what authority any make
these declarations we have never as
certained.
Surely 1t is a gross SANDER upon Q
God Of infinite Justice. Wisdom. Love
and Power to claim TINT he ever en-.
trusted to poor. fallen, human par
ents the power to bring into existence
sin-blighted and sin-dlsposed human
creatures such us we see our race &c
he and then made the happiness Of
their eternity dependent upon a super
human resistance OF the evils Of theft
environment and Of their depraved
| constitutions! This blasphemy against
the Holy Name is common to nearly
every creed of Christendom. b
Our Catholic friends tell,us that by
Divine arrangement terrible purga
toriaB experiences await practically
every member of our faceFinthe hope
that, II rightly exercised thereby, aftel
centuries of torturesan eternity of Bills:
wilrbs gained. SHOT this also a bias
pbe1is against the Holy INameH WHIT
can deny ii? who wodld not shuddel
to haye such an awful crime Of feyi
design charged against himself O
against his earthly parents? Who tha
is begotten Of the Holy Spirit is no
panied even to think Of such charge
being made against bis Heayenl!
Father, "the God Of all grace"l surei!
such theory is blasphemous' nor
rible.
But we have grown so accustomed
to this blasphemy that It falls to pricl
the majority to the heart as 1t should
With all Of our development Of human
sympathy and care for the sick anf
even for our wounded enemies on thu
battlefield, and with our precautions
Of modern times against criminal neg
lIgenco which might lend to the de
structlon of human life by conaagra
tion-wlth all OF our FIRE apparatus
md benevolent laws for the protec
ton Of the very humblest Of our race
we have calmly and without protes
charged against our great Creator, ant
Endorsed It Us our belief, either pub
licly or facility that He would lool
upon holocaust Of millions With n
fire brigade for their relief. Is no
this blasphemy Of the Holy Names
i, Worse and Worse nredestlnated.
Is It any wonder that in early lif
our childish hearts were filled witt
fear rather than with love toward gu
Creator and toward HIS Revelation
the Bible? Is It any wonder TINT
required all kinds Of lighting witt
our common sense TO believe, as "
were taught we should, that God 10y
ingty predestinated that oil the tamt
lies Of earth should suffer eternail'
except a saintlys handful because "a
NJ tcontIpgsd on Pace SLY.