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which claimed it as their support a

N-uiSh SfoilbCAs ~ as tuSH .SuppOit -
Authority.
However, I suddenly remembered
that much Of the New Testament I.
composed OF passages from the Olt
Testament and comments thereon
Alas! said. for I cannot accept the
Old Testament Scriptures. But ths
more studied the matter the more
convinced was that IL Jesus and the
Apostles were at all what they claim
ed To be the Old Testament must be n,
true as the Sew-as st. Peter declared
Holy mon OF old spoke and wrote as
they were moved by the Efoly Spirit"
Then / began Il more critical study on
the Old Testament. and TO my joy rs
sought. found, as Knocked the door
OF Truth opened for me. 4 found the
Bible teaching very different from
what had supposed it TO be, very con.
trary to that of all the creeds. The
latter. indeed, each and all. gcontaiu
truths, taken from the Bible, but truths
incrusted with various human creduli'
ties and misconceptions--the Bible mes
sage as whole divided amongst many
cree6s and made to contradict itself,
The Bible He'll Is the Key.
To my surprise / found the presen.
tations of the, Bible not only more log
ical than anything else in the world.
but absolutely the only logical presen-
tation on. EARTH AS interpreted by it
self. and not by the creeds and theo-
ries of the, Dark Ages, the Bible tells
one beautiful, reasonable. harmonious
story. from Genesis to Revelation. 1t
tells nothing of fiery hell manned by
fire-proof demons. and supplied with
fuel for all eternity. to which Adam
and his race were sentenced on ac-
count Of sin. On the contrary, it teaches
that 1.-THE wages Of sin is DEATH" y
1t tells that 1.-THE soul that sinneth,- it
shall de-" and tells that Adam sinned
and came under this death penalty and
that all of his race by the laws Of
heredity are subject to frailty. weak
ness, mental. moral and physical-and
that these have triumphed in reign
of sin and death for now six thousand
years. 1t tells that this death is the
death into which Adam and all of his
race go-sheol. the hell Of the Bible, for
all mankind. good and bad. 1t tells that
there is no pain or suffering there. no
knowledge. no work of any kind. d.
1t tells that. all. both good and bad,
sleep. awaiting the resurrection of the
dead. 1t tells that mans death would
have been an extinction as complete as
that of, the brute beast had God in His
Wisdom and Love not arranged for
human redemption and resurrection
Of the dead. both Of the just and sun.
just IT tells that the Divine arrange,
ment whereby God could be just and
not repudiate the rulership of His own
Court. and set recover man from the
death sentence. was arranged for. The
arrangement was that Jesus, "by the
grace Of God. should taste. death for
every man.. that ."as by q man .camo
death. by Man also should come the
resurrection OF the dead; for as all in
Adam die even so all i'll Christ shall be
made alive. every man in his own Or
der."-Hebrews H. 8; i Cor. XIV, q, %.
80 First the Elect Bride. > a.
With God "a thousand years are as
one. day" ', Gil Peter iii, 81 He has
therefore arranged that six of these
great days shall constitute mans peri
Cd of battling with sin and death and
that the seventh Of these great days
shall be the. Day of Messiah. the Sab
bath or Rest Day to the world. in
which Messiah, as the Divine Repre-
sentative, shall lift, up all the willing
and obcdient. opening their blind eyes.
rmstopping their deaf, ears and causing
all to know. the Lord. from the least TO
the greatest. .
AS a result. some viii refuse and die
the Second Death"-utter destruction.
No more than century of trial is to
be granted. because we read .HThe sim
ner hundred years old shall be cut
off''.-a child century old in sin shall
be accursed-to the Second Death.
isaiah lxv. CO., But all who Will 'ac-
cept Divine favor may then be brought
to full human perfection. similar to
that which Adam enjoyed att the be-
ginning. plus the knowledge Of good
and evil. which he lacked.
OF these willing and obedient ones
it is written. Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess, to the glory
of God" Many Of you Chinese. doubt
less. will then be bowling before the
great King of kings and Lord Of lords,
whom then you will know completely;
for 1.-The knowledge Of the Lord shall
FIJI the whole earth as the waters cover
the great deep" And your forefathers,
whom you reverence. will be there,
too: their eyes shall be opened and
their. ears unstopped. as it. is written,
.tAll the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped."
What great reunion time that will
be for the. Chinese hundreds Of mil
lions! Yes. and still more! As, the
Scriptures declare, all the families Of
the earth shall be blessed similarly
with knowledge Of God and with
full opportunity for restitution to all
that was lost in Adam-to all that was
redeemed at Calvary.-Acts iii. 1921.
Do you say to me. This news is too
good to be true? Do you say. No mis-
sionary ever told us OF, such gracious
God and such q mighty Savior! Had
we heard such a gracious Message it
would have attracted our hearts long
ago, for our gods are non