Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-02-07

psalm viii, A. The large audience
listened with intense interest, so that
pin-drop could have been heard.
The speaker said
For some weeks our city will be in
the throes of Revival of Religion
Hundreds of ministers have placed
themselves and their congregations
under the leadership of the Rev. DR..
Chapman and Mr.. Alexander, the ia
nous singer, for the purpose of reviv-
ing religion; for the purpose of rescu-
ing human souls from eternal torment,
as the proposition is generally under
stood. Business men have subscribed
large sums OF money for this noble
work of rescue, reasoning that if thou
sands of dollars are spent in freight
ing apparatus for the protection of hui
man life for few years, the services.
of Messrs. Chapman and Alexander
will be cheap if they carry away TWEEN
ty-five thousand dollars for a months
work, provided the results show
goodly number rescued from eternal
torment.
We sympathiZe with some of these
large-hearted and open-handed bust
ness men who give their money for
so laudable an object. Yet we can
not think that many, nay not even
majority, Of those who coraributed
this sum have done so conscientious
ly. We cannot think that one-half of
them believe in the teaching of eternal
N hat
than one-tenth of them believe that q
practical conversion is signified by
response to an invitation which i'm
plies a preference for heavenly bliss
rather than for eternal anguish. How
ever, it is for those who pay the mon
ey to exercise their own consciences in
this matter, and it is none of our bust
ness what they decide.
We sympathize also with the hun
dreds of Pastors of this city WAC have
| joined in this movement, Which they
hope will increase their congregations
and church revenues, but these Pas
tors know in reality that the Bible
| does not teach eternal torment, and
| they have discarded the Bible anyway
in favor of Higher Critical-Infdelity
Theirs is an unhappy and stultifed
| position.
We sympathize still more with the
poor people whose education along
| spiritual lines is almost wholly neg
| lected, and who live in constant fear
| of the God who loves them and in
| dreadful misunderstanding of the BIZ
| bic, which he has given them. Be
| tween the imperfectness of the trans
lation and the coloring of prejudice
| and the twist of misunderstanding of
some parallels and symbols they are
| helpless IN the presence of educated
men who teach inferentially what they
| do not themselves believe. Alas! poor
| common peQple!' that you should be
| betrayed by those in whom you re-
pose confidence and whom you unwit
tingly pay for keeping you in the dark
| by taking from you the key of knowl-
edge. Truly, my people perish for
lack of knowledge" Hosea iv, 81.
Sympathizes Still More With God.
But still more we sympathiZe with
| God whose name is dishonored, whose
Justice, Mercy, Wisdom, Love and
| Power are traduced, nay, vilitied. We
| say to ourself, How wonderful the
patience of God, which for centuries
| has endured blasphemous misrepre-
sensations of his good character and
Divine Plan of the Ages! Well does
| he tell us that as the heavens are
| higher than the earth, so his plans and
methods in respect to our salvation
are higher than ours-not lower. Well
| does he tell us that human fear to-
ward him is taught by the precepts Of
men, not according to his Word lisa
| iah xxx, 49,. We can see reasons
why the Lord has kept silence toward
| the heather, but we are perplexed that
| judgments have so long delayed to
come upon those who, knowing bet
| ter, still SANDER the great and holy
name and misrepresent the Divine pur
poses.
What would a chief shepherd do to
| an under-shepherd found misleading
the sheep. guiding them into poison
Gus pastures? We believe that he
would take the sheep from them, even
| though ne allowed them still TO shep-
herd the goats, And It is quite our
thought that such Il judgment impends
over Christendom and that all shep-
| herds. false to their trust. will be dis
missed ANONYMOUSLY, and that very
soon,
Some urge that we should do evil
in order TO obtain good results; that
we should misrepresent the Divine
character in. order to get people to join
| the Church Is 1t urged that some
may. as result of this evangelistic
movement. lead more orderly and