Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-11-15

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lRASI0R RUsstlD) Gospei Of the
S---------------- Kingdom shall be
preached in all the world for wit
hess unto All nations; and then shall the
End come Matt xiv, 10 He said
A year ago the International Bible
/ Students Association sent q Commit
! ta Of Sesensto investigate missionary
prospects In foreign lands especially
in South India, where II IL making spe
cial effort | was one af that Com
mittee. otherwise composed Of four
successful business men, one doctor.
aud General Han OF the L. S, A. The
Committee made its report to one of
the largest Christian gatherings ever
held In New York City In the Hip
podrome on March 3ist Its Report,
published in pamphlet form, reached
q wide circulation amongst Christian
people. am authorized 10 offer free,
until the sunnly Is exhausted, one copy
each to all Interested IN Foreign Mis-
slons. Send postcards addressed 70
~. II. $, A., brooklyn, n. y re
questing 2 copy Of the Missionary Re
port The Committee in preparing this
Report. laid barr tile facts as gently
and kindly as p9ssjbe
Iheir ftepQrf. which many Christian
people gratefully Acknowledged. has
irritated a few persons. These evil
IDENTITY feared that we have discredited
their fairy tales respecting the immedi-
ate conversion Of the world by human
instrumentality and more millions Of
money We symputhize with these en-.
! thusiasts, who seem 70 shut their eyes
10 facts, while hoping against hope to
maintain exploded theories. One OF
/ these. Mr.. w, r. Ellis. alias the RE
! ligious Rambler" attacks our Report.
Falsely he declares that We IuurueSed
on the same vessel from san Francis
co to Shanghai, giving the impression
that we had not visited Japan at all;
that we merely raced through the
country. did not visit NIL the mission
stations. nor talk With all the mission
aries.
our Report tells the facts. The Com
mittee Of Seven scattered, and spent
slx days In Japan, or a total OF forty
two days Of Investigation. Our TWEEN
ty-three days spent IN India would be
the equivalent OF nearly six months
I Investigation by one person. We Wis
tied and Intercepted the people. saw
their conditions, attended meetings.
etc
AS for myself. this critic charges in
one breath that I did not preach the
sermons which appeared In the news
papers of the world, and In the next
breath that | spent all of my time IN
preaching, and therefore had not time
for investigation. a discerning public
can read between the lines Of such
criticism what the Bible symbollcally
describes as "gnashing Of teeth" our
Committee took the only proper course
/ for ascertaining the facts Every mis-
sionary and every other person visit
/ ing foreign lands within five years, win
coucede that our Report Is very truth
ful, kind and sympathetic.
/ Postmillennial Theories Versus Pre-
rnilenniai.
( Foreign Mission work taught by tho
/ Scriptures generally IS wholly differ.
'ent from that which has been attempt
ed during the past century, under the
/ PostmilIennial theory that the Church
I is to conquer the world for Christ and
7 to bring about u thousand years reign
Of righteousness, after which Christ's
Second Advent will come, and those
/ blessed conditions obliterated by the
burning up Of the world This theory,
set forth ~ nearly all of our ereeds,
v supplemented by the theory that all
Aging IN ignorance Of Christ aud out
side Of salntship. gre passing TO an
eternity Of torture.
This freuzied view, misnamed Cos
pei has been presented 10 the heather
with little appreciable effect, just as
I'm civilized lands Tie whole theory
Is wrong What the whole world needs
Is the True Bible Message. stripped Of
all the ignorance Of the Dark Ages,
The Bible teaches the Premillennial
Coming Of Christina the Second
Coming Of Jesus must take place be-
fore His Kingdom is established in
power and great glory and Satan
bound The dead viii come forth, The
rising sun Of righteousness viii cause
the knowledge Of God to fin the earth,
dissolving the mists Of bigotry aud
egperstition and helping humanity back
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ahoksf In&akird 20 be the Spiritual
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