The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-06-19


C1sM S1oda 2Li55pily audience Profound
impressions were
undoubtedly made. Speaking from the
text. Holy. holy. holy Lord God Al.
mighty, the whole earth shall be filled
with Thy glory" Qevelation iv. 81. the
speaker said:
Shakespeare tells OF some damned
by faint praise We grasp his state
ment as implying that faint praise
is more Injurious than silence. But as
we look to ourselves and thr remainder
of the reputed four hundred millions
of Christendom and their united trib-
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 baspheme the
Holy Name by most atrocious misrep-
RESERVATIONS of the Divine character,
which they claim TO be His own reve.
lation Of demoniaca plot for the
eternal torture. I'm one way or another.
Of the thousands of millions brought
into existence by His 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 cOntradlcts the others. Each
claims to love God and TO seek TO serve
and honor Him Evidently. two at
least of the three are wrong. II Is our
conviction that all three are in error.
We believe that all three of them have
fragments of the truth around which
have crystalllzed distortlng. slunder-
Gus. blasphemous errors. The uphold
ers Of these theories are so blinded and
bewldered that they fail to discern
that their praise and worship toward
the Creator are dehled and converted
into ISLANDERS and calumnies and bias.
phemies by their incrustations Of false
hood.
Three General Views.
All three OF these views declare that
the Almighty. with full power TO have
done otherwise. so created humanity
that n child once born into the world
can never dle-he must live somewhere
unceasingly-e In pain or in pleas
IRE. BY what authority any make
these declarations we have never us.
certained
Surely II Is n gross slander upon
God OF Infinite Justice. Wisdom. Love
and Power to claim that He ever en-
trusted to poor. fallen, human par
ents the power to bring into existence
sin-bighted and sin-dlsposed human
creatures such as we see our race 10
be. and then made the happiness OF
their eternity dependent upon Il super
human resistance OF the evils Of their
environment and Of their depraved
constitutions! This basphemy against
the Holy Name is common to nearly
every creed OF Christendom.
Our Catholic friends tell us that by
Divine arrangement terrible purga.
torlal %a. noes await practically
every mrnrno, Of our race, In the hope
that. II rightly exercised thereby. after
centuries of torture. an eternity OF bliss
will be gained Is not this also II bias
phemy against the Holy Name: WHO
can deny III Who would not shudder
10 have such an awful crime OF evil
design charged against himself or
against his earthly parents? Who that
is begOtten Of the Holy Spirit Is not
pnined even TO think Of such n charge
being made against his Heavenly
Father. "the God Of all grace? surely
such n theory Is blasphemous. hor'
rible.
But we have grown so accustomed
to this blasphemy that II fails to prick
the majority to the heart as II should.
= With all of our development of human
sympathy and care for the sick and
even for our wounded enemies on the
battlefield. and with our precautions
OF modern times against criminal neg
ligence which might lead 10 the de-
structiOn of human life by conhagra-
ton with all of our fire apparatus
and benevolent laws for the protec-
tion of the very humblest of our race,
we hnve calmly and without protest
charged against our great Crent0r. and
indorsed II AS our belief. either pub
licly or tacltly. that He would look
upon holocaust of millions with no
fire brigade for their relief. IL not
this basphemy of the Holy Name?
Worse and Worss-Predestinated.
Is il any wonder that In early life
our childish hearts were iilled with
fenr rather than with love toward Our
Creator nnd toward His Revelation
the BiJle; is II any wonder that II
reGdred all kinds of tghting with
Oifr rOmmOn sense Ia helieve. ns we
were taught we should. thnt God low
ngly predrsiiunied thni MI the FAINT
nes ~ earth should suffer eternally
sxceJt u seintly handful becnuse He
was pleased 10 have II So because he
for lYdainrd Hat u must he so. be-
rRn~r lie lnadg n great place called
heu hefofe liri niadr lhe ,nrih. aud
nude 4 large sirn:ah 10 hold The en-
tire humd' faInlls layause Ne cre-
eted bls pruyr Jenoay 10 lahiSl tor,