The Cairo bulletin., 1912-01-29

Msl is accepted Of
sxazssss2sxA w Him" (Acts Y. 81
| llRASIOR, RUSSELLll 35) A report of his
address follows =
Never before have | seen so coSmo
poitan city as Singapore The
swarms Of Chinese. Malays, Hindoos,
Javanese, Siamese, Singhalesc, Bur
1nese, Afghans. Madrassi. Tamils and
many other nationalities are here inter.
spersed by representatives Of ppcti-
cally every nation in the world. Hence,
forth New York City must in my mind
take second place as respects cosmo-
politan population. The sight of these
commingled peoples, only a few Of
whom know of, worship. or in any
wise acknowledge 'the Only True God,
and Jesus Christ whom He hath sent"
stirs my heart. and my head as well.
My heart goes out in sympathy for
them My head inquiries respecting
Gods provision for tile three-fourths Of
humanity who have never heard of
Him and the salvation which He has
provided in Christ.
We recognize the clear statement Of
the Apostle that without faith 1t is
impossible to please Cod UIebrews Xi,
O.; and his question, How shall they
believe in Him of whom they have not
heard?" CRomans X, 14l and also the
commission: "This Gospel Of the King
dom shall be preached in all the world
for a witness; and then shall the end
come" (Matthew xiv, a. Properly
enough we ask, What kind of an end is
coming, and what will 1t mean to the
| twelve millions who know not God and
| to the thousands of millions of their
ancestors who died similarly ignorant
of Him?
/ am, of course, familiar with the
diverse theories of the various denorl-
nations OF Christians, voiced by their
creeds. l defer to these to the extent
Of saying that many noble men are
today and have In time past been as
ISOLATED with these Christian denom-
nations and their differing presenta-
tons. On account of their plety and
| learning these men deserve respectful
attention, but we cannot admit that
they were inspired nor that their con-
| illusions are infallible. 1t is our priv
| ilege, nay, 1t Is our duty, to try their
| suggestions as we would test gold
coin. First, we would ring it. If the
| ring were unsatisfactory, we would
| amply the acid test and thus demon
| strate it. Similarly, no human creed
| should be accepted as infallibly cor
rect without the application Of tests.
Does it have the right ring? Does its
| teaching comport with the Divine
character? Is 1t reasonable, just, etc?
Secondly, VIII it stand the acid test
| of the Word Of God? If not, 1t must
be rejected, even though Its baser
metal be covered with plating Of the
gold of Truth.
Tried and Found Wanting.
1t will not do for us to say what we
guess or what is our opinion or what Is
somebody's elSe'S guess, while at the
same time we acknowledge the Bible
to be the Divine Message. If the BIZ
BILE be the Divine Message, as st. Paul
saws, at Is worthy Of all acceptation."
Il Timothy ", o. If not worthy of all
acceptation, it Is not worthy Of ac-
ceptance at oil, and all Christian hopes
built upon the Bible would CORE
spondingly fall. The lesson Of this Is
the SOLIDARITY Of the Truth-the Bible
What does 1t say about the heather
We ask this question of the various
creeds Of Christendom and hearken
4 to their reply.
A considerable class Of very good
people by their creeds tell us that II
God had foreordained the heather &c
salvation He would have seen to II
that the Gospel would be preached tc
them; and that their not hearing the
Gospel signifies that God "passed them
by" as "non-elect;" that the ELECT
are to be found only amongst thost
who have been favored of God anc
who accept that favor and are sane
tilted by the Truth" and made meet
for the inheritance Of the saints IL
light" (Colosslans |, 12)
Another class Of people by theii
creeds, which no longer truly repre-
sent them, tell us that they believe as
above, only that they add another con
dition, namely, that "the elect" In or
der to be Of fhe elect,' must bt
brought to a knowledge Of water bap
tism--complete immersion--and mus
obey this teaching; otherwise they arr
not the truly ELECT" Thus these
agree with the former that the pool
heather masses are completely passet
by, have no hope for the future, tina
they are lost--and by lost they mear
,nroute ror an eternity or merry tortur
most horrible suffering. Al
| Another theory held by equally goo
Christian people denies that there !
| any election" in respect to the mat
| ter. and denies that any parucula
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