The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-15
ii is very truthful, at the same time ex

Report will commend themselves to
unprecedented intelligent minds. Prob.
ably Brother Ellis difficulty is fear
that the hollowness of missionary
claims is coming to the light.
"Not Understanding the Scriptures"
Sympathy for the heather and doc
trlnal errors respecting the everlasting
future led Christianity astray in its
missionary work In full harmony
with other nonsense received from the
Dark Ages, we believed God intent
upon hurlin;- all the heather to ever
lasting torture, unless they should hear
about the Savior in the present life
and should accept Him and become
saints. FrenZied by this misconception
Of the Divine Character and Plan, god.
ly people FASTENED to give their lives
and their money for the rescue of the
heather from the fate which they err.
roneOuSly supposed an all-wiSe, all
just, ALLOWING and all-powerful God
had foreOrdained for the Nom Elect.
Now our former) darkness is depart
ing. AS we began to see the utter
hopelesSnesS of our claim that we
could ever convert the world. we also
see that we had misunderstood our
Heavenly Fathers Plan in respect to
the heathen We began to see that
only the first part of the Divine Pro-
gram has yet been put into operation;
viz. the gathering of the Elect from all
nations to constitute the Bride of
Christ. to be Joint-heir with Him in
the Abrahamic promise, "Al the fami-
lies of the earth shall be blessed in thy
Seed" Now we see that the sanity
few from every nation and from ev-
cry denomination of ChriStendom will
constitute the True Church, the True
Bride of Christ, the Queen of Glory,
the Seed of Abraham.-Galatians iii, %.
"Ths Gospel of the Kingdom"
Our hallucina tons respecting eternal
torment, which the Bible. rightly trans
lated and properly understood, does
not teach-as every scholar in the
world will agree-has been the foun-
datiOn of all our errors. Alas, that SO
many ministers and learned men should
have cast away their Bible without
ascertaining that it is in direct con-
flict with all our creeds! Missionary Ia
Dor has appealed to the most devout
of Gods people, the most sympathetic.
Even though they have misunderstood,
we may be sure that God has granted
a heart blessing to all lovers and sup
porterS of missions. This is no reason,
however, why we should continue to be
blind to the true situation. We must
no longer delude ourselves with the
thought that it is possible to convert
the people even in our home lands, I'M
til Gods time, under Messiah's King
dom; for "Unto Him every knee shall
bow."-ROm xiv, II; Phil. ii, 10.
Thinll~not that the Bible has no mes,
sage for heather lands! Think not
that l am opposed to the heather or to
good works done for them! / am op.
posed merely to our Misrepresentation
of God and the Bible amongst the hea.
then, even as in the past we misrepre-
scented both at home. | am deeply in
tereSted in the work which the Bible
declares should be done amongst the
heathen-a work, however, which the
missionaries have not been doing.
1.-THE Gospel of the Kingdom" was to
be preached to all nations before the
end Of this Age would cOme,-not for
their conversion, but for ritness tic
them-fOr the purpose of gathering Out
Gods Elect to be Messiahs Joint-heirs
in His work of universal blessing.
The Gospel of the Kingdom means
the good news respecting the King
dom. The |. B. S. A. has missionary
workers in India, China and Japan, in
forming such of the peoples there az
have the intelligence to comprehend
the Message. Many of them are re-
joicing in the good news that Messiah's
Kingdom is about to be established;
and that their friends, instead of be-
ing in either purgatory or eternal tor.
ture, are merely asleep in death, await
ing the blessing which Jesus promised,
saying, "All that are in the graves
shall hear the voice of the Son of Man
judgment, trial testing, to prove who
will accept the gift of eternal life and
who will reject it and suffer the pen
alty-Second Death.-Romans vi, %;
II ThesSalonians j. g.
To certain extent wherever the BIZ
bic has gone. this Gospel of the King
dom has gone. If the missionaries had
only read the Bible to the people and
had not attempted to teach the creeds
of the Dark Ages, many more in hea-
then lands today would know about
Messiah's Kingdom and appreciate the
import of the prayer, Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth, even
as it is done in Heaven" But the mis-
sionaries apparently for the last few
years have been telling those who
would hear them at all, very little of
anything religious Their activities are
chiefly with the children; and as our
Report shows, the children get scarce
ly any religious information, and many
Of the UNCONVENTIONAL schools are be-
ing turned into civil or state schools, |
with the understanding that there shall
be no religion taught with the money |
appropriated by the governments to the |
teachers for secular instruction.
Missionary Effort PostmiIIenniaI.
The admitted failure of missions as |
respects religion and as shown by the |
fact that there are twice as many
heather today as there were a century |
ago means the fall of the PostmilleD- |