The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-02

mOrO Sluuleu Ine matter the more
convinced | was that if 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 n more critical study Of
the Old Testament, and to my joy. us
j 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 misconccptions-the Bible mes
sage as whole divided amongst many
creedS and made to contradict itself.
The Bible He'll Is the Key.
To my surprise l 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 on earth. AS interpreted by it.
SELF and not by the creeds and thco-
| ries of the Dark Ages. the Bible tells
one beautiful, reasonable, harmonious
story. from Genesis to Revelation. 1t
tells nothing of fiery hell manned by
fire-proof demons, and supplied with
fuel for all eternity, to which Adam
and his race were sentenced on ac-
count of sin. On the contrary, 1t teaches
| that "the wages of sin is DEATH"
1t tells that "the soul that sinneth, 1t
shall die" and tells that Adam sinned
and came under this death penalty and
that all of his race by the laws Of
heredlty are subject to frailty, weak
ness, mental. moral and physical-and
that these have triumphed in n reign
of sin and death for now six thousand
years. 1t tells that this death is the
death into which Adam and all Of his
race go-shcol, the he'll of the Bible, for
nll mankind. good and bad. 1t tells that
there is no pain or suffering there, no
knowledge. no WORK of any kind.
| 1t tells that all, both good and bad,
sleep. awaiting the resurrection of the
i dead. 1t tells that mans death would
| have been an extinction rs complete as
that of the brute beast had God In His
Wisdom and Love not arranged for
human redemption and resurrection
Of the dead, both of the Just and un-
Just. II tells that the Divine arrange
ment whereby God could be just and
not repudiate the rulership of His own
Court and yet recover man from the
death sentence. was arranged for. The
arrangement was that Jesus. "by the
grace of God. should taste death for
every man." that "as by man came
death. by Man also should come the
resurrection of the dead; for as all in
Adam die even so all in Christ shall be
made alive. every man in his own or
der."-IIebrews II. 8; Cor. XIV, 81, 22.
First the Elect Bride.
With God "a thousand years are as
one day" QI Peter ill., S. He has
therefore arranged that six of these
great days shall constitute mans peri
cd of batting 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 obedicnt, opening their blind eyes,
unstopping their deaf ears and causing
all to know the Lord from the least to
the greatest.
AS result, some will refuse and die
the Second Death"-utter destruction.
No more than century OF trial Is TO
be granted, because we read THE sin
ner q hundred years old shall be cut
off''--a child century old in sin shall
be accursed-tO the Second Death.
| isaiah lxv. 20.l But all who will ac-
cept Divine favor may then he brought
to full. human perfection. similar TO
that which Adam enjoyed ut the be-
ginning, plus the knowledge of good
and evil, which he lacked.
OF these willing and Obedient 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, will be there,
too; their eyes shall be opened and
their ears unstopped, as 1t is written,
"All the blind eyes shall be opened and
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped."
What a great reunion time that will
be for the Chinese hundreds of mil
lions! Yes, and still more! AS the
Scriptures declare, all the families of
the earth shall be blessed similarly
with a knowledge Of God and with q
full opportunity for restitution to all
that was lost In Adam-to all that was
redeemed nt Calvary.-Acts iii, 1921.
Do you say to me, THIS news Is too
good to be true? Do you say No mis-.
slonary ever told us of such gracious
God and such mighty Savior! Had
we heard such gracious Message II
would have attracted our hearts long
ago, for our gods are non-sympathetic
they are great, powerful and vicious.
But we thought as we heard the mis-
slonarles message that the Christian
God must be even more ferocious than
ours, for the awful burning he'll of
| uyhfoh vva hova haopd th,o,,.h Hhpia.