The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-31

t(PASIQR RUSSEMll s5). A report of his
address foilows:--
Never before have ! seen so cosmo-
swarms Of Chinese, Malays, Hindoos,
Javanese, Siamese, Singhalese, Bur
mese, Afghans, Madrassi. Tamiis and
many other nationalities are here inter
spersed by representatives Of practi-
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 az well.
My heart goes out in sympathy for
them. My head inquiries respecting
Gods provision for the 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 God" (Hebrews xi,
@; and his question, How shall they
believe in Him of whom they have not
heard?" Rom8ns X, ~ 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, 14. Properly
enough we ask, What kind of an end is
coming, and what will it mean to the
twelve millions who know not God and
to the thousands Of millions of their
ancestors who died similarly ignorant
of Him?
mn. OF course, familiar with the
diverse theories of the various demon
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 demon
nations and their differing presenta-
tons. On account of their piety 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
apply 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 it reasonable, just, etc ?
Secondly, VIII it stand the acid test
of the Word Of God? If not, it must
be rejected. even though its baser
metal be covered with plating of the
gold Of Truth,
Tried and Found Wanting.
Tt 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 Bi-
BILE be the Divine Message, as st. Paul
says, ut 10 worthy of all acceptation.
Il Timothy iv, 81 II not worthy Of all
acceptation, it is not worthy of &C
ceptapce at all. and all Christian hopes
built upon the Bible would CORE
epondingly fall. The lesson Of this is
the solidarity of the Truth--the Bible,
What does it say about the heather
We ask this question OF the various
creeds of Christendom and hearken
to their reply.
A considerable class of very good
people by their creeds tell us that If
God had foreOrdained the heather tC
salvation He would have seen to II
that the Gospel would he preached to
them; and that their not hearing the
Gospel signifies that God passed then
by" as "non-elect;" that the "elect
are TO be found only amongst those
who have been favored of God and
who accept that favor and are sane
tilted by the Truth" and made meet
for the inheritance of the saints il
light" (COlossians /, 12D
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 1.-The elect" must be
brought to a knowledge of water hap
tism-cOmplete immersion-and mus
obey this teaching; otherwise they are
not the truly elect" Thus these
agree with the former that the poor
heather masses are completely passed
by, have DO hope for the future, thai
they are lOst-and by lost they mean
HERALD WANT A