The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-01-04

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C. A. He had large audiences and
keencst attention. His text was from
Joshua xiv. 10. Choose We this dag
whom We will serve He said:
In our day the human will. although
still ambitious and avaricious, has
taken higher plane for its exercise
than in the days Of Alexander the
Great and Napoleon. 1T is rather en-
ployed in the conquering of mountains
and valleys in the casting up of high
ways and piercing of tunnels; in the
erection of bridges and the master
| traverse the land and the sea with al
most incredible speed.
Tho VIII. Greatest Achievement.
But. said the Pastor. the most Won
| derful achievement of the will is seen
! in self-control. The Scriptures say tru
| ~. Greater is he that ruieth his OWE
will than he that captures city"
! proverbs xvi. 32) The most wonder
full illustrations OF the will thus exer-
cised he believes are to be found in
4 the case of Jesus and His footstep fol-
lowers BY the exercise of His will
Jesus surrendered His glorious coudi.
| ton for the human estate and then de-
4 livered up Himself as the Man Christ
Jesus. to the doing of the Divine will,
& even unto death. that thus by the
grace of God He might taste death for
/ every man Hebrews ii, 81 The
motive behind that strong will was not
selfshness. but love.
Compliments the Japanese.
When note the gentleness and
kindness and courtesy of Japanese life
der little that the ordinary Christian
message has not appealed more to
your hearts and displaced Shinto wor-
ship, for which ! understand you have
: two hundred thousand figures, temples.
, Sympatheticaily putting myself in the
place Of the Japanese. fancy you say
Ing. Shall we exchange our simple.
esthetic gentleness anu Kindness of
spirit for the rudeness and sometimes
swagger of the soldiers and sailors.
and the domineering readiness of the
upper classes who come to us?
sympathetic ly. again l hear you
say. The missionaries who have ex-
pounded Christianity to us for years
have told US that our parents ana an
cestors whom we reverently worship
l are despised by your Christian God,
, i Of tow
ture because they did not know Jesus
and become His followers. They tell
us, additionally that we also are bound
for that plsi.e of eternal horror and
torture unless we repudiate the religion
of our birth which has made us SO
happy and contented. Can you Won
der that we resent such teaching; that
, we merely tolerate it to avoid war;
that we prefer Buddhism and Shinto
ism. and that our Shinto temples in
crease the more rapidly because Of an
a tagonism to Christianity?
/ Heather Ancestry Not Roasting.
= Alas. my dear hearers. Christianity
4 with very precious truths at its foun
t dation, seriously lost its way long
8 centuries ago and wandered far from
. the inspired teachings OF the Bible
g This is the explanation of the numer
n Gus sects and parties of Christendon
g and the different doctrines. none OF
e which am here to defend-either IRON
n the standpoint of reason or the Bible.
e The Bible does not teach, as once
! YOU supposed. that eternal torment /:
) the penalty for our first parents dis
n obedience in the eating of the forbid
t den fruit On the contrary, it teaches
!. that 1.-THE wages of sin is death" ant
a that this death wage has been the e1
y perience Of our entire race for now 81!
Q thousand years. 1t teaches that IL
Gods due time this curse or sentence
n Of death will be lifted and that sor
k row and signing shall fee away.
J. 1t teaches that the whole earth shall
8 become Paradise Observation-Disclosures
e and that those who, when fully in
g formed. shall prefer sin, will be ut
y terly. completely and eyerlastingly de
n stroyed. in the Second Death"
g So then. my friends, if from Shin
y toism you have learned tosb be estheti
E in your tastes, kind and gentle in you
t manner and loyal-these lessons learn
!. ed will be to you a great advantage i
t that future time of blessing unde
: Messiah's Kingdom. On the othe
v hand. whoever has cultivated cor
0 trary spirit will be correspondiIlgiy dc
d PRAYED and will correspondingly hay
/ the more and severer lessons to learr
r Take heart then today from the as
Q surance of the good time coming. an
c that every grace OF character that ha
1 been acquired by you. either throug
8 Shintoism or otherwise is not lost. bu
= should he mnintnire'l