Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-12-28


clares Is Of Divine arrangement. The
many topics Of interest and profit to
humanity all have their time and place.
But the preaching Of the Gospel has
an exclusive right Of way In the Church
Of Christ II some claim that the peO-
pie will no longer attend Divine sery.
fee to hear Gospel preaching, we reply
that there are three reasons for this.
% The Church lost the real Gospel
during the Dark Ages, and few Chris
tlan people have yet recovered II. The
word Gospel rs all agree, signifies
good tidinO8, a message Ot jOV; but the
message handed down to humanity
from the Dark Ages has been the re-
verse Of thls-bad tidings Of great mis-
cry for nearly all Of our race. IL 1t
any wonder that the great majority
are dlsgusted with the horrible mis-
representations of the creeds? Man
kind have trials and difficulties enough
in the present life, and need encourage.
ment to hope for better things IN the
life to come,
(2D Responding to the growing sentl-
ment of intelligence, the minister's Of
the various denominations Of Christen
dom have ceased to preach bad tidlngs
Of great misery for all but "the very
elect" Nearly all ministers, gradu-
atcd within the last twenty years, lost
all their faith In the Bible ns the In
splrcd Word Of God, In the theological
seminaries, where they were taught
unbelief, under the name Of Higher
Criticism; where they also were taught
TO consider 1t honorable to stultfy
their manhood by accepting ordination
and salary for serving denomination
whose published creed they dlsown
and desplse. In the same seminarles
they acquired the thought that II Is
right and honorable to receive title,
honor and SALARY from n church, osten-
slbly as Christian minister and Bible
exponent, and then to use the Oppor.
tunity to undermine the faith Of the
church and to destroy confidence In
the Bible as the inspired Word Of God
Under these conditions what shall
these ministers prench Instead Of the
Gospel OF Christ, which they no longer
believer ls It any wonder that they
preach those things that they ought
not TO preach, and leave unpreached
those things that they ought to preachI
Not many Of their hearers care foI
scientific disQuisitlons; not many OF
them care TO hear commonplace essays
ON good morals So how can such min
listers avoid foolish preaching?
% Not content with undermining
the rulth Of the people who trust aud
honor aud obey them, these ministers
mix their higher critical views nnd
evolutionary views with diluted moral
fly, aud serve this ms instead Of the
Gospel Of Christ lie who thinks that
such message win convert mind
from sin 70 righteousness, from unbc.
lief to faith In God dcceiycs himself
lie who thinks that such messages viii
have a sancufylngpowcr in thehcarts OF
Gods people equally deIudes himself
No Gospel Without Redemption.
The essence Of the Gospel OF Christ
Is that lie died for sinners, the Just for
the unjust, that lie might bring man.
kind back 10 God But the false gos.
pes deny that man ever fell from the
likeness Of God, and equally deny
therefore That he needed q Redecmer
and that he has n Rcdcemer Such
spurious gospels, which lenve out the
very core and essence OF the Divine
Message, are false, by whatever honor
able channel they may have come. We
may be- sure that they nre of the Ad.
Versary himself; Tor they make void
the Word Of God, the death OF Jesus
and His resurrection, and His coming
again to give to mankind the glorious
blessings aud privileges bought with
His precious blood
The True Gospel, the good tldlngs
OF great JOY, which shall be unto all
people" contains not a single word re-
specting an eternity Of torture at the
hands OF hre proof demons. IL contains
not a single word which would dis
credit the Wisdom, Justice ana Love
OF the Father above, whose tender mer
cies are over all His works and whose
salvatlon-is yet to be extended TO the
ends Of the earth.
The True Gospel, acknowledging that
humanity has come justly under a pen
atty or curse OF death, sets before the
groanlng creation a glorious hope. II
proclalms. ms Jesus did that the time
Is coming when the curse shall be re-