The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-08-08

Catholic friends. Ii we could not ac-
cept theirs because it was unloving,
unmercifui, unjust and ungodly, surely
we cannot accept any longer our own.
Brother WesIey's Gospel Of Love.
The blessings Of the Reformation
were considerably overshadowed and
handicapped by the great Calvinistic
error of an ah-powerful God, desti-
tute OF love, vindictive and devilish
to degree never Appropriated by
any human degenerate. Centuries
later that good man, John Wesley, ap-
peared. His soul cried out against
the injustice and lovelessness Of Cal
vinism: and his claim that God Is IoUe
has permeated Christendom to such an
extent that even those denominations
which profess the Westminster Con-
| fession of Faith and Calvinistic theo-
ries do not really believe It We must
love Brother Wesley for his largeness
of heart even though we must con-
fess that he had less logical head
than had Brother Calvin.
Brother Wesley and the majority of
his followers failed to see the incon-
sistency of his claim that God is love,
and yet that nine hundred and ninety
nine out of every thousand are to be
eternally to-mented-because the mass
Of them had never heard Of 'the only
name whereby we must be saved" and
because others who had heard did not
| live contrary to their tendencies; did
not live sanity lives!
Pastor Russell declared that Wesley
and Calvin put exactly the same saint
mainder into eternal torment. Hence
1t was a mere question between these
two men as to tchv this was so, and
not as 10 the fact. Calvin said. 1T is
Gods will and He foreordained it
thus" Wesley said. mo. God is love,
and love would never do thus. 1t was
| the result of Divine lack of wisdom in
their creation, and lack Of power to
help after their creation. Hence the
fate Of the masses"
Brethren, We Do Not So Believed
Pastor Russell said, There is a great
mistake None Of these theories salts
| fy your heads and hearts, nor mine.
The difficulty is that we have been try
ing to accept the errors Of the Dark
Ages instead OF going clear back and
making our theology afresh from the
words Of Jesus. the Apostles and
prophets. Let us do this now and find
| the beauty of the Divine Plan in the
Bible. and glorious Divine character
such as we know it should have-far
beyond human wisdom. justice, love
and power So the Lo,d says: LAS the
heavens are higher than the earth, 80
are MY ways higher than your ways
and My plans higher than your plans"
Where Are the Dead?
The Bible confirms the ablest find
lngs Of science when it tells us that
the dead are dead and not alive at all,
anywhere. The Scriptures declare,
The dead know not anything" their
sons come to honor and they know it
not; they come to dishonor but they
perceive 1t not of them" Again the
Bible says, "There is neither wisdom
nor device nor knowledge in the grave
Isheol. the Bible hell whittier thou
goest'' (Ecclesiastes TX, 10).
Where. my dear friends, is the key
TO the whole problem? The Bible hell
Is the grave. sheol. hades. the death
cate. The salvation which God has
provided is the salvation from sin and
from death. The hope set before US in
the Gospel is-the resurrection of the
dead. If nobody is dead there can be
no resurrection Of the dead 1t is not
the body which dies that God has
promised shall be resurrecied. but the
soul. 1t was not Adams body merely
that was punished with death, but 1t
was his soul. which involved the body
and every power Adam POSSESSED All
Of his children have shared with him
in his fall, In his death.
Gods provision for the salvation of
mankind Is that "As by Rlan came
death mot eternal tormentl. by a man
1.-THE man Christ Jesusl comes also the
resurrection of the dead For as all
in Adam die. SO all in Christ shall be
made alive" q Corinthians XIV. 22).
The Redemption Price Given.
Not only do the Scriptures clearly
set forth that the wages of sin is
death and that thus death passed upon
the entire human race [Romans v, 121,
but they also set forth that the re-
demption price which Jesus gave was
death--"He poured out His soul unto
DEATH" He made His soul an Offering
for sin Qsaiah ILL. 10. 12).
As u result. Sin due time" there will
come resurrection of the dead, both
Of the just and Of the unjust. BY the |
Just is meant those justified and |
brought into harmony with God |
through faith Ia Christ BY the unjust |
is meant all others Thus the Church |
will share In the First Resurrection
with Christ; these are the Elect Of the |
Scriptures. Their resurrection and |
complete change of nature has already |
negun in them through the beget tiItg |
of the Holy Spirit.
They will be like the angels and like
Christ who is the express image Of
the Fathers person. Like God and the
angels they. as spirit beings. will he
invisible to mankind. These with
their Lord and Head will sci up the
Kingdom OF God-the Messianic King
dom. They will live and reign with |
Christ thousand years." These are
the sanity, ones. a class recognized by
Catholics and Protestants. by Luther
Calvin and Wesley. All are agreed re-
speeding such class The entire point
of discrimination is respecting the
masses of our race for whom Christ L
died and for all of whom the various
creeds provide torments UNRELIABLE. un.
thinkable.
The Non-Elec to Be Blessed.
Brothers Luther, Calvin and others.
when they smashed purgatory as un-
scriptural, should have slid, 1--WE do II
not know where those poor creatures
are whom we so long supposed were
In purgatory." They should not have
felt 1t incumbent upon them to enlarge
hell and to put the thousands Of mil
lions out Of purgatory into It, But, as
matter Of fact. they ali are In hell:
the difference is that 1t is the hell of
the Bible-the grave. the unconscious
state of death. and not a place Of suf
fering and torture.
Do not the Scriptures repeatedly tell
you that the dead fan dslceps st
Paul writes Of those who fell asleep
In Christ; aud again. Of those who
sleep In Jesus and again that all
would sleep except those saints who