Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-02-08

I1lnooos, 1aVanese. SiaInese, S~inghalese.
burmese. Afghans. Madrassi, Tamils and
many other nationalities are here inter-
spersed by representatives of practically
every nation IN the world. Henceforth
New York city must In my mind take sec
nnd place as respects cosmopolitan popu-
lation. The sight OF these commincled
peoples. only q few of whom know OF.
worship. or IN any wise acknowledge tho
only True God, and Jesus Christ whom
He hath sent" stirs my heart. and INV
mead as we'll. My head inquiries respect
ing Gods provision for the three-fourths
OF humanity who have never heard OF
Him and the salvation which He has pro-
vided In Christ.
we recognize the clear statements OF the
apostle that Without faith it is impossi-
BILE TO please God" (Heb. ri, g.: and "Hov
shall they believe in Him OF whom thew
nave not heard?' (Rom. x, 1A) 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 Gomez
(Mat. xiv. lN. Properly enough we ask.
what kind OF an end is coming. and what
Will 1t mean to the 1900, 00O. 600 who know
not God and to the thousands OF millions
OF their ancestors similarly ignorant OF
Him?
Tried and Found Wanting.
A considerable class OF very good people
by their creeds tell us that II God had
foreordained the heather to salvation He
would have seen to 1t that the gospel
would be preached to them; and that their
not nearing 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
VINO accept that favor and are "sancti-
fed by the Truth and made meet for
the inheritance OF the saints in light."-
Col. 1, IL.
Another class OF people by their creeds.
which no longer truly represent them. tell
US that they believe as above. only that
they ado another condition, namely. that
the elect" In order to be OF the elect"
must be brought to q knowledge of water
baptism-complete immersion, and must
obey this teaching.
Another theory held denies that there y
any election" In respect to the matter.
and denies that any particular amount Of
water Is necessary, although It does rec-
ommend q little. This theory declares
Gods love for the heather, but says that,
He made faith in Jesus sacrifcial death
"a condition of salvation and that the re-
sponsibility for the heathen's not knowinR
and consequently their going to eternal
torment. rests with Christians themselves,
They say that God did His part in provid-
ing 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 a single night after once asserting
to such a responsibility and realizing how,
little they have done or have been able to
do to meet the responsibility. 4
Some dear people. holding the views last
mentioned, have started a "Men and Re-
llSlon Forward Movement" They pro-
pose to use about 81, 600 in starting the
movement and thereby to collect a fund
or $50 ,oO.Oo0 (f6.0o0 900. Dear people! How,
II tnHto tha~~ P~n Hl-i. .t
be as the Apostle said-'not according to;
knowledge" Rom. x. o.
III they could stand in Singapore's,
streets and journey with us a little tho,
eyes of their understanding would be
opened. They would begin to figure out
that the sum they expect to spend in con-
verting the world is little over half q PEN
ny per soul They must indeed think tho
heather cheap when they reflect that tho
on the work OF the Rev. Billy
Sunday a year after his meetings show .
cost Of about $500 per soul, with doubts
entertained respecting the saintship OF
even these. The United States government,
statistics show that q century g tho
heathens numbered 6oO.00 900 and that to-,
day the number Is double that, namely.
.20O.OOO,OOO .
A Better Hope Found.
Some, repudiating the creeds of the past
as no longer tenable. fault the bible with
being the basis of those creeds and throw
1t away with the creeds. These are be-
coming Agnostics. Higher Critics. Evolu-
t%ionists, Spfritists, etc. And because of,
their worldly wisdom and social standing
these Higher Critics are rapidly under.
mining all faith in the Bible as an in
spired Message from God to His people.
They are adrlft, some sailing in one direc-
ton and some i'm another-they have lost
their Chart of the Ages and the great
Compass of Divine Truth IN the depths OF
the sea OF human wisdom, which from
the Divine standpoint. is declared to bA
foolishness. Let us not take their course.
Let us, on the contrary, declare that the
difficulty with the creeds of the past has
been that they divided up the Word OF
God amongs them. and that each creed
has q certain amount Of gold as well az .
large accumulation of dross. 1t would be
too serious an undertaking for finites to
put all the creeds into a crucible and sep
arate the gold from the dross. Let us
take the easier. the simpler method. To
which all Christian people should be will
Ing to accede, namely; to wholly cast
aside our creeds and go back to the WORD
of God-to the Bible-to the u~tterances Of
Jesus and His Apostles and Prophetn.
Thus doing. many will find to their sur
prise that. while the crecds have gathered
precious jewels of Truth from the Bible.
they have given these false settings by
which they misrepresent the Truth which
they profess to illuminate.
st. Paul's declaration is that the Word
of God is sufficient that the man Of God
may be fully furnished. I'll Tim. III. ID,
His further suggestion Is that we rights
ly divide the Word of Truth and that ''lf
is able to make us wise unto salvation
Let US follow this course and allow God'a
Word to be its own Misrepresentation ono
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