The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-03-19


or later. Moreover. we gave nroofs
OF the untruthfulness of this addition
IS IL true that whoever believes the
dospel OF Christ may handle sernents
with impunity and may drink deadly
poison without harm? Surely not. It
IS nothing short of sin for those who
KNOW better to acknowledge these
verses and to use them to bolster up
theofles OF Divine Healing. 1t is as
ihuch crime to add to the Word Of
God as to take away from it.
Today invite attention to some 9th.
er dead flies. some other additions to
COOS Word. which have had much to
DO with twisting the theology once de-
iivered to the saints. Take. for in
stance, the closing words of the Lord.
Prayer
Thine Is the Kingdom and Power and
Glory
These words, If uttered bv our Lord
should be found in the old Greek MSS.
But they are not found therein.
They are. therefore. to be rejected
MS additions made by people centuries
after Matthews Gospel was written.
these words were introduced when the
iaith OF the Church respecting the
Kingdom of Messiah was changed or
changing from what it was originally.
All through the New Testament the
second coming of Christ in power and
glory to establish His Kingdom and to
glorify the Church. His Bride, is set
for the end of this Gospel Age. But
as the time grew long a change of SEN
timent came into the Church. 1t be-
came popular and rich It's bishops
were respected. Finally the theory
prevailed that God did not intend to
delay the establishment of the King
dom until the second coming of Christ,
but did intend to establish it in the
hands OF the Church during this Age
and to use the Church for the con-
quering OF the world and the fulfilling
of all the promises OF the past.
Iii line with this the most prominent
bishop OF the time was recognized as
Divinely appointed to represent Christ
in the world and to reign over the ma
the Messianic reign, etc. This was the
Bishop of Rome. who subsequently
was styled the Pope aud who claimed
and was accorded the honorable title.
"Tice-Geieat Of the Son OF God" 1t is
said that the equivalent of this title
Is worn to this day by the Pope on his
tiara, or three-crowned hat--Ficarias
Del Fill.
"Thy Kingdom Come on Earth"
The Lords prayer was already in the
Scriptures, and was known to many.
1t could not be eliminated. But some
jealous person, fully believing that
Gods Kingdom had come, felt justified
In amending the PRAYER to correspond
TO what lie supposed were the facts.
Hence the prayer which begins, ''Thy
Kingdom come. is made to end by
saying. "rhy Kingdom has come In its
glory and power.
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 1t is still
future. 1t cannot be set up until this
Gospel Age ends end the elect saint
ly few of every nation, Jew and Cen
tile. shall be changed from earthly to
heavenly nature by the First Resurrec-
ton, which will qualify them TO he
kings and priests unto God and unto
Christ and to reig, with Him thou
sand years Revelation Xxx. O..
1t is well that all Bible students
should mark this fly and extract 1T
from the Precious Ointment and notice
how much sweeter and fresher the
Lords prayer is 10 them forever.
"oh, What Whopper!"
Who cannot sympafhize with the
great infidel. Thomas Paine, who when
reading the last verse OF ST. johns
Gospel, exclaimed, "Oh, what whop-
PERI 1t reads. and there are also
many other things which Jesus did the
which. if they should be written every
one. l suppose that even the world IL
self could not contain the books thar
should be written" John xxi, 2o).
Surely anyone OF reasoning NINA
should see the absurdity OF such a
statement Surely all Christian MINIS
ters should have informed the Lord
sheep under their care respecting WHAT
Is and what is not the Word OF Goa
the Bible. as it was recognized by the
Apostolic Church and written down
In the original Greek MSS, Why any
christian minister should assaii me
because endeavor to do for the peoi
ple what he has neglected 10 40
cannot understand. | must leave 1t 10
the Lord to Judge between us.
recent Higher Criticism and accept
the Word of God in full. reject noth-
inr because of my own or other men
surmises. hut merely 60 by the faefs.
n the oldest Greek MSS. do not con-
tain certain passages of Scripture. how
could they Get into later MSS. except
(. . s,n,pjol-s -Slitt"sS9
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