Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-04-20

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toh0se names are
soritten IN heouen" (Hebrews xii, 23).
AS last Sunday the question was,
"What is the True Gospel" and we
found that true Gospel more or less
scattered in all the various creeds. and
none of them the pure and unadulter-
ated Gospel, so tonight we should be
prepared to find that the one true Church
of Christ for the past eighteen centu-
ries has been scattered here and there
amongst various denominations, and
that not one Of these denominations is
the true Church. Not one of them can
claim to contain all the wheat and
none Of the tares.
"That They All May Be One"
remind you again of the simplicity
of this Gospel which recognizes the
broad outlines Of the Divine Plan and
allows each individual to see as many
of the finer lines of the same as his
spiritual development will permit. On
that broad basis Of Christian union the
early Christians were one and repro.
bated any division. st. Paul rebuked
those who said, am of Paul; am of
Apollos: am Of Peter AS only Christ
died for all of us, he alone must be
recognized as our Savior AS He is the
Head of the Church and the only
Head. He only must be recognized. As
all We are brethren, so the class distinc-
ton as between clergy and laity must
be abrogated that we all may be one
Church with one faith, one Lord and one
baptism and one God and Father over all.
Babylon tho Great, the Mother Of
Harlots"
How the divided Church with clash
ing creeds appears to the Almighty, He
tells us. calling us Babylon-which sig
n1fies confusion. And who can deny
the appropriateness Of the name? In
times past Catholics have applied this
name to the Protestant sects, and the
Protestants in turn have applied it to
the Church of Rome But when we
come to examine the Scriptures on the
subject they seem to include all-the
Church of Rome being represented as
the Mother Church and the various
Protestant Churches as her Daughters.
The charge Of harlotry which the Lord
makes against Mother and Daughters
must be acknowledged. although with
some this harlotry has been more open
and pronounced than with others.
Spiritual harlotry represents the con-
dition in which the espoused of the
Lord becomes affiliated with and joined
to the world. The Church of Rome be-
came affiliated with or united to the
civil government of Rome and when the
Roman Empire went to pieces she en-.
tered into covenant relationship with
various divisions of the civil govern
ment, and some Of these paramours
she still has, while others have left
her. France is gone. Portugal also. and
Italy. Spain is moody; Austria Hun
gary is her chief reliance at the pres
ent time She is we'll treated in Amer
lea, but not joined to the American
Government. She is we'll entertained
and given every liberty in Germany
and by many in Great Britain, but
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The Greek Church is united to the
Russian Government; the Church of
England to the British Government
The Lutheran Church is Joined to sew
eral European governments. Others Of
our Protestant Churches. having no op-
portunity for affiliaton with earthly
governments, have become united to
worldly systems, worldly organizations
of their own, in which, as rule,
wealth, mammon, sits at the head of
the table, Like mother, like daugh-
tiers" is an old saying.
Union Of tho One True Church.
In word. our Lords prayer will be
realized by the 'overcomers." They
will be one with Himself and with
the Father, zone Lord, one Faith, one
Baptism, one God. the Father" But
as for the nominal systems their fu
ture will be destruction as systems,
though many Of Gods dear people in
them, failing to overcome. will be
saved so as by fire" in great time
of trouble with which this age will
terminate and the new age Of the
Kingdom be ushered in q Cor. iii, 49,.
You have my plea, Christian Breth-
rem. for the fulfillment of the Masters
prayer in the union of 'the Church
tohich is the Body of Christ" "the
Church Of the First-born. whose names
are written in heaven" This union
will not necessitate any reorganiza-
ton as new sect or new Church. It
is the true Church, the only one which
God has ever recognized. Babylon
without it would not be in any sense
of the word recognized. and. as soon
as the "overcomers'' shall have escaped
from Babylon, Babylon will come in re-
membrance before God that He may
give her the cup of the wine of His
wrath, and suddenly in one hour her
fall will occur Revelation xvi. 1917. To
the true Church the Lord all along In
timated that their oneness is as mem
bers of Christ, and not in earthly or
CARNATIONS.