Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-19

Report will commend themselves t
unprejudced intelligent minds, Prof
ably Brother Ellis difficulty is fea
that the holIowness Of mlssionar.
claims is coming to the light
mot understanding tho Scriptures"
Sympathy for the heather and doc
trinal errors respecting the everlasting
future led Christianity astray in III
missionary work. In full harmony
with other nonsense received from the
! Dark Ages, we believed God Intent
upon hurling all the heather to ever
lasting torture, unless they should hear
about the Savior In the present life
and should accept Him and become
saints. Fren2Ied by this misconception
Of the Divine Character and Plan, god
ly people hastened TO give their lives
and their money for the rescue Of the
heather from the fate which they er-
roneously supposed an all-wlse, all.
just, all-lovlng and all.powerful God
had foreordained for the Non.Elect
Now our former darkness is depart
Ing. As we began TO see the utter
Ihopelessness Of our claim that we
could ever convert the world, we also
see that we had misunderstood our
Heavenly Fathers Plan in respect to
the heather. We began TO see that
only the first part Of the Divine Pro-
gram has yet been put into operation;
VIZ, the gathering OF the Elect from all
nations to constitute the Bride OF
Christ, to be Joint-heir with Him in
the Abrahamlc promise, "All the fami.
lies Of the earth shall be blessed in thy
Seed" Now we see that the sanity
few from every nation and from ev-
cry denomination Of Christendom will
constitute the True Church, the True
Bride Of Christ the Queen Of Glory,
the Seed Of Abraham.-G Galatians III, 80
"This Gospel Of the Kingdom.'
Our halIucinatlons respecting eternal
torment, which the Bible, rightly trans.
lated and properly understood, does
not teach-as every scholar in the
world win 0gree-has been the foun-
dation Of all our errors. Alns, that so
many ministers and learned men should
have cast away their Bible without
that It Is in direct con
nict with all our crccds Missionary la
Dor has appealed to the most devout
of Gods people, the most sympathetic.
Even though they have misunderstood,
we may be sure that God has granted
n heart blessing TO all lovers and sup.
portcrs Of missions. This is no reason,
however, why we should continue TO be
blind to the true situation. We must
no longer dclude ourselves with the
thought that 1t Is possible to convert
the people even In our home lands, un.
III Gods time, under Messiah's King
dom; for Unto Him every knee shall
bow."-Rom, xiv, II; Phil. II, 10.
Think not that the Bible has no mes
sage for heNthen lands! Think not
that | am opposed to the heather or to
good works done for thcml am op.
posed merely to our misrepresentation
Of God and the Bible amongst the hea-
then, even as In the past we mlsrGpre-
sented both at home am deeply I'm.
tcrested in the work which the Bible
declares should be done amongst the
heathen-a work, however, which the
have not been doing
"The Gospel Of the Kingdom" was to
be preached to all nations before the
end Of this Age would come,-not for
their conversion, but FOR Il iriiness to
thcm-for the purpose OF gathering ont
Gods Elect to be Messiahs Joint heirs
In His work Of universal blessing.
The Gospel Of the Kingdom means
the good news respecting the King
dom, The /. b. s, A. has missionary
workers In India, China nnG Japan, In. |
forming such Of the peoples there as
have the intelligence to comprehend !
the Message, Many of them are re
locIng In the good news that Mcssinhs !
Kingdom is about TO he establishes
and that their friends, instead OF be-
ing In either purgntory or eternal tor.
turc, are merely asleep In death, await |
Ing the blessing which Jesus promised |
saying IAN that are In the graves
shall hear the voice OF the Son Of Man |
and come forth to n resurrection OF |
trial, testing, to prove who |
will accept the gift Of eternal life aud |
who will reject 1t and suffer the pen
nifty Second Death Romans Vi, %; |
II ThessulonIons {, o.
10 a certain extent wherever the ri. |
Bile has gone, this Gospel of the King
iom has gone II the missionaries had |
}nly read the Bible TO the people aud |
had not attempted TO teach the creeds
If the Dark Ages, many more In hca.
then lands today would know about
NessIah's Kingdom and appreciate the
IMPORT Of the prayer "rhy Kingdom
'ome; Thy win be done ON earth, even
Is It is done In Heaven" But the mis-.
iiouarics apparently for the last few
years have been telling those who
would hear them at all, very little OF
nything religious, Their activities are
.hlchy with the children, and as our
report shows, the children get scarce.
y any religious information. aud many
II the UNCONVENTIONAL schools are he.
ng turned into ciyil or state schools,
With the understanding that there shall
e no religion taught with the money
10y the governments % the
aochcrs for secular instruction
Missionary Effort PostmllennaL
The admitted failure ot missions rs
aspects religion aud as shown by the
uct thut there are twice as many