The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-03-14

Chicago March ls-Gcorge sutton.
who has been i'm IN health. is round
! ing into shape to meet Willie Hoppe
for the worlds billiard championship
title. Sutton Is believed to he the
only man who has n chance to de-
feat the young championship holder.
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ceptable to Protestants as to Catholics;
indeed more 50. II we may Judge by
the fact that the Catholic. Bible omlts
the spurious words. while the Protes-
tant Bible quotes them.
We here remark that according TO
Protestant theory Messlah's Kingdom
Is represented In the civilized nations
of the world. especially of Europe.
These all claim TO reign "by the grace
of God" In which case. of course, wars
and battles between them are conflicts
between the various parts of Messiah's
Kingdom. And present military prep.
aratlons on land and sea portend a
most sanguinary conflict between these
Kingdoms OF this world" which think
themselves and are called by Chrlsten.
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 it is
still future. 1t cannot be set up until
this Gospel Age ends and the elect
sanity few of every nation-Jew and
Gentile-shnll be changed from earthly
10 heavenly nature by the First Resur-
rection. which will qualify them to be
kings and priests unto God aud unto
Christ and 10 reign with Him thou
sand years" Qevelation Xxx. 81.
1t is well that all Bible students
should mark this "hy" and extract it
from the Precious Ointment, and no.
tice how much sweeter and fresher
the Lords prayer is to them forever.
"oh, What a Whopperl"
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
largely due to the false doctrines
handed down from the Dark Ages"
purporting TO be biblical Who can
not sympathize with the great iEidel.
Thomas Paine. who. when reading the
last verse Of ST. Johns Gospel. ex.
claimed, 20. what II whopperw 1t
reads. "And there are also many 9th
er things which Jesus did the which.
If they should be written every one.
suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the hooks that
should be written" tJohn XXI, 25).
Surely any one of reasoning mind
should see the absurdity of such
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. MS II was recognized by the
Apostolic Church nnd written down In
the original Greek manuscripts. Why
any Christian minister should assail
me because | endeavOr 10 DO for the
people what he has neglected to do |
cannot understand. ! must leave II to
The Lord 10 judge between us am
Informed that hundreds OF ministers
went 10 the Editors of the papers
which publish my sermons weekly and
cndeayored TO have them discontinue
their publication
Bnt the Editors perceive that their
readers are no longer under the bond
age of the Dark Ages" but have be-
gun to think for themselves. and that
many Of them are hungering and
thirsting for the Truth respecting the
Blble-the Christians splrituf 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
ters to provide for their people the
spiritual food for which they are fam
lshlmg, II they would not lose them ALL
Another Big Fly.
To the credit Of such men as Luther,
Calvin. Knox. Zwingli, 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, g will have our attention. Ii ls
worthy OF H. II has caused the Olnt-
ment 10 stink and has confused tho
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 am here presenting
Is not at all IN line with the presenta-
tions OF the Higher Critics. Their
method Is 10 read through the Scrip
lures and Judge Of them by their own
Keen intellectual powers, and thus 70