The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-03-15

tha MessIanic reign mentioned in the
prophecy is being fulfilled. They ho,d
that Christ himself is the invisible
King but that the Pope is not author
lied to represent him. Hence this spur
Gus addition 10 the Word Of God is as &C
Ceptabe to proteStants as to Catholics
indeed mcre SO. if we may judge by
the fact that the Catholic Bible omitS
the spurious words. while the Protes
tant Bible quotes them.
We here remark that according &c
Protestant theory Messiah's Kingdom
Is represented in the civilized nations
of the world. especially of Europe
These all claim to reign "by the graz I
of God" in which case. Of course, war;
and battles between them are conflicts
between the various parts Of Messiah.
Kingdom. And present military PREF
arations on land and sea por,end u
most sanguinary conflict between these
Kingdoms of this world" viii II thin
themselves and are called by Christen
dom Kingdoms of God
How glad we are to see the Truth Oh
this subject: that the Kingdom OF
Gods dear Son has not yet been Sc
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-shall be changed from earthly
to heavenly nature by the First Resur
rection, which will qualify them to be
kings and priests unto God and unto
Christ and to reign with Him thou
sand years Revelation XXX, g..
1t is well that all Bible students
should mark this Fly" and extract ii
from the Precious Ointment, and no
tice how much sweeter and fresher
the Lords prayer is to them forever.
"Oh, What Whopper!"
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 sympathze with the great infidel.
Thomas Paine, who, when reading the
last verse of st. Johns Gospel, eX-
claimed, 80. what a whopperw 1t
reads, "And there are also many 9th
er things which Jesus did. the which.
if they should be written every one, l
suppose that even the world itself
could not contain the books that
should be written John xxi, 25).
Surely any one of reasoning mind
should see the absurdity Of such a
statement Surely all Christian min
listers should have informed the Lord
sheep under their care respecting what
is and what is not the Word OF God.
the Bible, as it was recognized by the
Apostolic Church and written down in
the original Greek manuscripts. Why
any Christian minister should assail
me because | endeavor to do for the
people what he has neglected to do |
cannot understand. | must leave ii to
the Lord to judge between us. am
informed that hundreds of ministers
went to the Editors of the papers
which publish my sermons weekly and
endeavored to have them discontinue
their publication.
But the Editors perceive that theiI
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
Bible-the Christians spiritual 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
tiers to provide for their people the
spiritual food for which they are fam
ishing, if 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 thes,
matters. We cannot on this occasion
make further investigation, take ou
more of these dead flies bu,. the Lore
willing, at some future time John Y
Z, 8 will have our Alteration. 1t i,
worthy of il. 1t has caused the Oint
ment to stink and has confused The
minds of many of Gods dear saints b,
the way in which the error in this cas-;
has been interviewer with the Truth.
Ny hearers should bear distinctly il
mind that what | am here presenting
is not at all in line with the presenta
tons of the Higher Critics. Thei
method is to read through the Scrip
lures and judge of them by their owl
keen intellectual powers, and thus tC
discriminate between which wer,
written by the Prophets credited, ant
which We're additions. Their Highe,
! Criticism claims a keener scent OF
mental discernment than ordinar!
mortals enjoy. by which they know
| these things whether others can see 4
I so or not.
l resent Higher Criticism and accep
the Word of God in full. reject moth
! ing because of my own or other men,
surmises, but merely go by the facts
| IF the Oldest Greek MSS. do not con
tain certain passages of Scripture, how
could they get into later MSS. eXcep
as spurious additions?
Nor should ! be considered as fault