The Cairo bulletin., 1912-01-08

Testament and comments thereon.
Alas | said, for | cannot accept the
Old Testament Scriptures. But the
more | studied the matter the more
convinced l was that il Jesus and the
Apostles were at all what they claim
ed to be the Old Testament must be as
true as the New--as st. Peter declared,
Holy men of old spoke and wrote as
they were moved by the Holy Spirit"
Then | began a more critical study of
the Old Testament, and to my joy. as
| sought. | found. as | knocked the door
of Truth opened for me. ! found the
Bible teaching very different from
what had supposed it to be, very con
trary to that of all the creeds. The
latter, indeed, each and all. contain
truths taken from the Bible, but truths
incrusted with various human creduli,
ties and misconceptions the Bible mes
sage as a whole divided amongst many
creeds and made to contradict itself.
The Bible He'll Is the Key.
To my surprise found the presen-
tations of the Bible not only more log
ical than anything else in the world,
but absolutely the only logical presen-
tation Oh earth. AS interpreted by it
self, and not by the creeds and theo-
rics Of the Dark Ages, the Bible tells
one beautiful, reasonable. harmonious
story. from Genesis to Revelation. It
tells nothing of fiery hell manned by
tire-proof demons. and supplied with
fuel for All eternity, to which Adam
and his race were sentenced ON ac-
count Of sin. On theeontrary, it teaches
that tile wages Of sin is death
1t tells that 1.-The soul that sinneth. it
shall de- and tells that Adam sinned
ara came under this death penalty and
tAat all of his race by the laws Of
hefedty arc subject to frailty, weak
ness, mental moral and physical-and
thai these Eave triumphed in a reign
of sin AMI death for now six thousand
Years II tells that this death il the
death ito whIch Adam and all of his
ra,r - xtcoi the hcH Of the Bible for
ttI atluAlud, good and bad. II tells that
there IL no pain or suffering there, no
Knowledge no work Of any Kind.
II tells Tint ,,t, both good and bad.
siecD awaiting lie resurrection Of the
dead, Il tpaS that mans death would
have hpel au extinction as complete as
that ~ The htGje beast bad GOO in His
Wisdom and Love not arranged for
human redemption and Il resurrection
81 the Gnud. h1lh az the just and I'M
JUST. II teas that the Divine arrange
meat Whereby God could be Just and
not repudiate tIc rulerShip Of His own
Court and yet recover iaan from the
hra. n sent ence. was arranged for. The
arrangement was that Jesus. "by the
grace of God. should taste death for
every man." that AS by a man came
death. by Il Man also should come the
resurrection of the dead; for rs all in
Adam die even so al in Christ shall be
made awe, every man in his own or.
DER" Hebrews ii, 8; l Cor. Ky, 81, -.
FfF5t inc IISCl DTNur'
With God n thousand years are rs
che day" UI Peter ill., 81 He has
therefore arranged that six of these
great days shall constitute mans peri
cd Of battling with sin and death and
that the seventh of these great days
shall be the Day Of Messiah, the Sab.
bath or Rest Day TO the world. IN
which Messiah, as the Divine Repre-.
sentative. shall lift up all the willing
and obedtent opening their blind eyes
uustopping their deaf ears and causing
all to know the Lord, from the least to
the greatest.
As u result, some will refuse and die
the Second Death utter destruction
40 more than century Of trial is to
ho granted, because we read. The sin
uer q hundred years old shall be cut
off "A child century Old in sin shall
be accursed-to the Second Death
isaiah lxy, 20) But all who will ac'
cett Divine favor may then be brought
to full. human perfection, similar to
that which Adam enjoyed at the be.
ginning, plus the knowledge Of good
and evil, which he lacked,
OF these willing and obedlent ones
It is written. every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess, to the glory
Of God" Many Of you Chinese, doubt
less, will then be bowling before the
great King of kings and Lord of lords
whom then you will know completely
for the knowledge of the Lord shall
fill the whole earth as the waters cover
the great deep" And your forefathers
whom you reverence, win be there,
too; their eyes shall be opened and
their ears unstopped, as 1t Is written,
"Al the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped. y
What n great reunion time that will
he for the Chinese hundreds Of mil
lions, Yes, and stil more! As the
Scriptures declare, all the families Of
the earth shall be blessed similarly
with Il knowledge Of God and with a
full opportunity for restitution to all
that was lost in Adamto all that was
redeemed at Calvary Acts ill, 1921
30 YOU say to me, This news is too
good to be true? Do you say. No mis-
sionnry ever told us of such gracious