The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1912-12-23


preaching and the
Church the Gospel has the right Of
way If some claim that people no
longer attend Divine service. there are
three reasons why they will not.
o. During the Dark Ages the Church
lost the Gospel. and few Christians
have recovered it. Gospel signifies
good tidiHgS. message Of jOy; but the
message handed down from the Dark
Ages has been bad tidings of great
misery for nearly all mankind. No
wonder the majority reject this hOrri-
BILE presentation of the creeds. Man
kind have trials enough in the present
life. and need encouragement to hope
for better things hereafter.
(2) Responding to the growth of in
telhgence. ministers have ceased to
preach eternal misery for all but the
very elect Nearly all ministers lost
in the theological seminaries their
faith in the Bible as the inspired Word
of God. and accepted the findings OF
unbelief-Higher Criticism. So they
preach those things which they ought
n, to preach. and leave unpreached
those things which they ought to
preach. How can such ministers avoid
foolish preaching?"
81 Having undermined faith in the
Bible. these ministers mix their higher
critical. evolutionary views with di-
luted morality. and serve this instead
of the Gospel. Whoever thinks such
preaching will convert from sin and
unbeIief TO faith in God is deceived.
The Gospel of Christ is glad tidings
Jesus died to bring mankind into har-
mony with God. Nothing is said about
an eternity of torture at the hands of
fire-prOOf demonstrating TO discredit
the Wisdom. Justice. Love and Power
of God. 1t acknowledges that man
kind are under a just penaIty-death.
but sets before them a glorious hope
of q coming time when the curse of
death will be removed. According to
the Scriptures, a New Day is dawn
ing a glorious prospect for all desiring
to come into harmony with God. but
stripes upon wiIfui sinners.
The True Gospel includes the Mes
| sage that during this Age God is Sc
| lecting a Church, to be joint-heirs with
! our Lord ln the honorable work of
| blessing all the families of the earth.
/ The number who attain this position is
| a Little Flock. to whom it Is the
! Fathers good pleasure to give the King
| dom.
/ Is Gospel Preaching Logical?
| Pastor Russell said that st. Paul re
fers to preaching the Gospel as fool
| ishneSS. not in his own estimation.
| but in that OF the worldIy-wise. That
man Of Jesus ability should go
about with a few disciples. performing
some miracles and inviting chiefly the
! poor to follow Him. seems foolish to
! the world. They ask. Why did He not
make friends with Scribes. Pharisee$
/ and Doctors Of the Law. whose influence
with the people would have counted?
/ In reply. he asked. If our Lord had
/ done thus. who would have crucified
| Him? How would Gods Plan have
/ been carried out? 1t is Well for the
! world that Jesus did not follow the
| suggestions Of worldly wisdom Truly.
| the Wisdom Of God is foolishness with
| the world, even as worldly wisdom is
foolishuess with God.
From the worlds standpoint. il seems
foolish for God to invite any to serve
Him-for an au-powerful God 10 en-
| treat where He could compel obedi-
! ence. Earthly kings enforce their
commands; in fact, every one executes
will d