Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-02-01

G15a5!::5z.s9=: Him." (Acts (, "a.
lEa2!G& 4g22lA 35.) A brief re-
s 8 port Of his excel
lent address follows:-
Never before have seen 20 cosmo-
pohtan city az Singapore. The
swarms OF Chinese, Malays, Hindoos.
Jayanese, siamese. Singhaleses Bur
mese. Afghans. Madrassi, Tamils and
many other nationalittes are here In
terspersed BY representatives 81 prac-
ucally every nation in the world.
The sight Of these commingled peo-
pies, only q. few Of whom know. of,
worship, or in. any wise acknowledge
"the Only True God, and Jesus Christ
whom BE, hath sent" stirs my. heart,
and my head as well.
We recognize the clear. statements
OF the Apostle that without, faith it
10 impossible to please God Hebrews
Il. 81: and How shall, they believe in
Him Of whom they have not heard"
Romans <, 14 and also the commits
sion: This Gospel Of the Kingdom
shall be preached in all the world for
. witness"
Tried and Found Wanting.
A considerable class Of very good
people by their creeds tell rs that If
God had foreordained the heather to
salvation He would have seen to 1t
that the Gospel was preached to
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 those who
have been favored Of God and who ac-
cept that favor and are "sanctified."
Another class Of people by their
creeds. which no longer truly repre-
sent them, tell us that they believe as
above. only that they add another con-
dition, namely. that 1.-The elect" in Or
der to DE Of THE elect must be
brought to knowledge Of water bap-
t1sm-complete immersion-acd must
obey this teaching.
Another theory held denies that
there Is election and denies that
any quantity Of water is necessary.
although it does recommend little.
This theory declares Gods love for the
heather. but says that He made faith
in Jesus sacrifcial death condition
Of salvation and that the responsibility
for the heathen's not knowing. and
consequently their going to eternal
torment. rests with Christians them
selves. They say that God did His
part In providing the Savior, and that
the carrying Of this knowledge is
wholly dependent upon Christians.
One would think that with this view
few Christians would be able to sleep
single night.
Some dear people. holding the views
last mentioned. have started a MEN
and Religion Forward Movement .
They propose to use about two million
dollars In starting the movement and
thereby to collect fund Of thirty mil
lion dollars (six million pounds,
Dear people! How l love them fol
their zeal. even though it be as the
Apostle said. mot according to knowl
edge" tRomans (. ~ II they could
stand in Singapore's streets and jour
ney with us little the eyes Of theil
understanding would be opened. They
would begin to figure out that the sun
they expect to spend in converting thu
world would be little over half pen
/ ny per soul! The United States Gov
eminent statistics show that a cen
tury ago the numbers Of heather wer,
six hundred millions and that today
the number is double.
/ A Better Hope Found.
Some, repudiating the creeds Of tn,
past as no longer tenable. fault tn,
Bible with being the basis for thos,
| creeds and abandon 1t with the creeds
i Let US. on the contrary, declare tina
the difficulty with the creeds Of til,
past has been that they divided up tn
Word of God amongst them. and tina
each creed has a certain amount o
gold as well as large accumulation
Of dross. It would be too serious al
undertaking for fnites to put all tn
creeds into a crucible and separate th
q gold from the dross. Let us take tn
easier. the simpler method to which
All Christian people should be willin,
to accede, namely: to wholly cast asid
our creeds and 60 back to the Wor'
Of. God to the Bible to the utterance
Il of Jesus. the Apostles and Prophets.
st. Pauls declaration is that tn
Word Of God is sufficient that the maj
ol God may be fully furnished. q
Timothy if, III His further sugyel
ton . that we rightly divide th
Word Of Truth. and that 1T = abl