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

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tain this result? We answer, No, a
thousand times, Ne, In our Judgment
the perversions O. the Truth, the dis
honoring of our Maker, tie instilling
of misconceptions into the minds Of
the people, is an awful cost to pay,
even if the results should be hundred
times as great as promised Well did
Jesus say, "Ye compass sea and land
to make one proselyte and when he Is
gained, you make him two-fcld more
child of destruction than yourselves"
(Matthew xiii, 15). The conversions
achieved by misrepresentation of God
instil poison into the heart difficult
to eradicate, impervious to the Truth.
1t grieyes me to be obliged conscien
tiously thus TO characterize a move
ment which has, at least, an outward
appearance of godliness. 1t viii at
tract to me the venom of those whose
hypocrisies l criticize. 1t is not the
money that they will collect that
grieves me, for those who give it hon
estly, thinking thus TO serve the Lord,
will surely be blessed by him. 1t is
the hypocrisy of the thing, the misrep-
resentation of their own belief and I'M
belief and the SANDER against the holy
name of the Creator and the further
bambooz:ing and throwing of dust into
the eyes of the common people-this
awakens, and should awaken, right
eous indignation. And the more 9th
ers do not speak, the more l must
speak in denunciation and in warning
to the people to search the Scriptures
and become undeceived
Hearken Now to Our Text.
The teachings of all of the creeds
of the Ozark Ages which have come
down to us, although they contain
many good things, are so befogged
with Misrepresentation Of God as to
be a stencil to our nostrils and a men
ace to our spiritual health. They pic
ture to us a God either reckless and
careless of the future interests of his
human creatures, or else as powerless
to aid any but the few. They picture
to us millions going down to torture
during the four thousand years be-
and to save that which was lost. They
picture to us that since his coming
only handful, comparatively. of the
human family have become his dis
ciples, footstep followers, Meet for
the Inheritance of the saints in light"
All the others, according to our Prot
estant creeds, Calyipistic and Armini-
an, have gone down to eternal torture.
From this standpoint it is that Dr.
Chapman and Mr.. Alexander are the
heroes of the hour, saving a few more
whom God would have otherwise neg
lected or, as some might say, saving
them in spite of Divine Generalization
I to the contrary
But what say the Scriptures? Does
the Bible substantiate such theories?
Nay, nay! In harmony with our text,
| the entire Bible reveals to us a God
| as infinite ia his Wisdom and Power
| as in his Justice and Love. Our text
| tells us that he is mindful of his crea-
| tures-humanity. He was mindful in
| the very beginning when he created
man and foreknew his fall. Away
! back there he foretold that "the Seed
| of the woman should ultimately bruise
! the Serpents head" Away back there
he indicated his Divine purpose, in
due time, to redeem man from destruc-
| ton mot from eternal torment, for
none were sentenced to torment.
| The skins which covered the naked
ness of our first parents cost the lives
of animals, and thus God typically
prophesied ''better sacrifices" for the
| perfect covering of mans sin and
shame. In Gods dealings with the ma
ton of Israel he gave numerous types
foreshadowing the later blessings, fol-
lowing 1.-The better sacrifices of the
antitypical Atonement Day-blessing
all the families of the earth.
God was mindful of mans interests
all that time (for over forty-two cen
turies), even though, during that long
| period, nothing was actually accom-
| plished. The salvation was purposed,
was planned, was assured, but must
be waited for until Gods due time.
Reconciliation by Better Sacrifices"
When Jesus appeared the world was
still in sin-even the one little nation
! of Israel was still under Divine con-
| demnation because of sin--because
| their typical sacrifices were insufficient
and merely foreshadows of ~the better
sacrifices" which God was mindful
later to bring to pass.
| Those better sacrifices are not yet
completed, though nearly so, we be-
lieve. They consist of 1.-THE Man Christ
Jesus who gave himself a Ransom
| for ALL" and also of the faithful few
whom he has accepted as his disciples
| and who are walking in his steps,
presenting their bodies living sacri-
| fees, holy and acceptable to God"
through their Redeemer (Rom. xii, II.
God is still mindful of humanity.
He has not forgotten his responsible
ties as a Creator. The theory that
| God shirks his responsibility and al
| lows the ninety thousand who die
daily to drop into eternal torment be-
| cause Of carelessneSs or Indifference
on our part is not true-is not Scrip
| tural
God affirms his own responsibility
| for every feature of his Plan. He de-
clares, my Word that is gone forth
out of my mouth shall not return unto
me void; it shall prosper in the thing
whereto | sent it" isaiah ", III.
Hence we should understand that God
sent no message to convert the world
during the first forty-one hundred and
fifty years after Adams creation, be
| cause he did not will the world to be
converted them. He had no message
| for the world. His time had not come
ST. Paul refers to this. saying, The
times OF that ignorance God winked
at" took no notice of. But now.
since the death of Jesus, the Just for
the unjust, and the opening up of POS
sibilities for a future life through a
resurrection, God commands all men
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