The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-13

However. suddenly remembe red
dat much * Tie New Testament IS
composed ct passag from me 0lId 2
Testament and comments thereon
Alas! 1 SAX, Tor cannot accept the
Old Testament Scriptures But the
more / studied the matter the more
convinced was that e Jesus and the
Apostles were at nil what they claim,
ed to be the Old Testament must be as
true as the New-as 81. Peter declared,
S'HoIy men Of old spoke and wrote as
they were moved by the BOY s1iE slS !,
Then ! began q more cru % g
the Old Testament, and 70 my .te!ss 4 q
l sought, | found, as kileekeu the do9r
Of Truth opened for me. ! ioand Inc me
Bible teaching very dlterent from 'll
what ! had supposed L IL betfery CON con
trary to that Of all t1e creeds Ine
latter, indeed, each ana all contain
truths taken from the Bible, put truths V
ihcrusted with various illliiisn ms, crea "
ties aud Observation-Disclosures BiDle mes mes
sage us a whole divided amongst many
creeds aud made to contradict Itself. (
The Bible Hell IL the Key.
To my surprise found the presen-
tatlons Of the Bible not only more log
zeal than anything else II the world.
but absolutely the only logical presen-
tation on earth. AS interpreted by it
self. anu not By tile cFeeds and tbeo-
ries OF the Dark Ages, the Bible tells
one beautiful, reasonable, harmonious
story. from Genesis torReyelation. 1t
tellss SMOOTHING OF fiery heilgmanned by
! fSre.pgoof demons, and saRplled with
fuel for all eternity, to which Adam
and his. race were septenccd on'Sa e?s
count of sin. Onthe contrary, It teaches
that .'the wages OF sin.is death!
81 1T teils;that .ithe sonttilat 7sinneth. II
shall die:,4and tells tllatsAdatn sin1ed
and came ttndef this de athS penalt Y and
that all OF his race hy Tie lays OF
sheredity are subject to 1tailty. weak
ncss, mental, moral and SphSsicaIt-and
that these have triumDhed In agreign
Of sin ana death for now slx thousand
years. 1t tells that this death is the
death into which Adam and all of his
race go-sheol, the he'll of the Bible, for
all mankind. good and bad, 1t tells that
there is no pain or suffering there, no
knowledge, no work Of any kind.
1t tells that ali, both good and bad
sleep. awaiting the resurrection OF the
dead. 1t tells that mans death would
have been an extinction rs complete as
that of the brute beast had God In His
Wisdom aud Love not arranged for
human redemption and n resurrection
Of tile jrad. both of the Just and UNI
Just. IT tells TINT the Divine arrange
ment whereby God could be Just anu
not repudEite the rulershlp 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 MANI that "as by; man came
death, BY Qe Niap,aIso should come the
resuftea tl6nN ofEfhe dead; for asAll in
Adam die even 50 all illsf' hrist shall be
tmade alive. eyegy manAh bis oSyn or
DER ebreWs' IT, 81; n Cor ". q, y.
~ WRIST +Es EIeetaRride.
With Cod "a thousand years are as
one day." on Peter III, 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 obedlent. opening their blind eyes,
unstopping their deaf ears and causing
NIL to know the Lord. from the least to
the greatest
AS a result, some will refuse and die
the Second Death"-utter destruction.
No more than a century Of trial is to
be granted, because we read. THE sin
ner hundred years old shall be cut
ORA child century old in sin shall
be accursed-to the Second Death
isaiah lSx. 2O) But all who Will &c
cent 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