Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-02-10


lent address follows
Never before have 1 seen so cosmo-
politan city as Singapore The
swarms of Chinese. Malays. Hindoos.
Javanese. Siamese. Singhalese. Bur-
mese. Afghans. Madrassi. Tamils and
many other nationalities are here in
terspersed by representatives of prac-
tically every nation in the world
The sight of these commingled peo-
pies. only few of whom know of.
worship. or in any wise acknowledge
the Only True God. and Jesus Christ
whom He hath sent" stirs my heart.
and my head as WELL
We recognize the clear statements
of the Apostle that without faith it
is impossible to please God Hebrews
XII. 81: and How shall they believe in
Him of whom they have not heard?"
(Romans K. IA and also the commits
sion: This Gospel of the Kingdom
shall be preached in all the world for
a Witness
Tried and Found Wanting.
A considerable class of very good
people by their creeds tell US that If
God had foreordained the heather to
salvation He would have seen to 1t
that the Gospel was preached to
them: and that their not hearing the
Gospel signifies that God passed them
by as 'non-elect:" that the elect are
to be found only amongst those who
have been favored of God and who ac-
| cept that favor and are ''sanctifed."
Another class of people by their
creeds. which no longer truly repre-
sent them. tell US that they believe as
above. only that they add another con-
o41x- hot oil tn, mr.
der to be of the elect must be
brought to a knowledge of water bap-
| tism-complete immersion-and must
obey this teaching.
Another theory held denies that
there is election" and denies that
any quantity of water Isl necessary.
although it does recommend a little.
| This theory declares Gods love for the
heather. but says that He made faith
in Jesus sacrificial death a condition
| of salvation and that the responsibility
for the heathen's not knowing. and
consequently their going to eternal
torment. rests with Christians them
selves. They say that God did His
part in providing the Savior, and that
the carrying of this knowledge is
wholly dependent upon Christians
One would think that with this view
few Christians would be able to sleeI
a single night
Some dear people. holding the views
last mentioned. have started a "MeI
and Religion Forward Movement.
They propose to use about two million
| dollars in starting the movement AND
thereby to collect a fund of thirty mil
lion dollars (six million pounds,
Dear people. How l love them TO
: their zeal. even though it be as tn,
Apostle said. not according to knowl
edge" tRomans X. p If they coult
stand in Singapore's streets and jour
ney with US a little the eyes of thei
understanding would be opened The.
would begin to figure out that the sun
they expect to spend in converting tn
world would be little over half a pen
ny per soul, The United States Gov
eminent statistics show that a cen
y fury ago the numbers of heather wer
: six hundred millions and that toda
!, the number is double.
e A Better Hope Found.
e Some. repudiating the creeds OF tn
n past as no longer tenab BILE. fault tn
!, Bible with being the basis for thos
: creeds and abandon 1t with the creedI
Let us. on the contrary. declare tina
u the difficulty with the creeds of th
o past has been that they divided up tn
n Word of God amongst them and tha
e each creed has a certain amount Q
= gold as we'll as large accumulate
OF dross. It would be too serious a
undertaking for fnitcs to put all tn
g creeds into a crucible and separate tn
- gold from the dross> Let MS take tn
easier. the simpler method to whic
all Christian people should be wfllin
to accede. namely: to wholly cast asid
~ our creeds and go back to the Wor
p of God-to the Bfble-to the utterancs
s. OF Jesus. the Apostles and Prophets
ID St Paurs declaration is that ii
d Word OF God is sufficient that the ma
a of God may be fully furnished
N Timothy iii. II, His further sugge
m ton is that we rightly divide tt
Word of Truth" and that 1T is alb
a to make us wise unto salvation" l.,
IA us follow this course and allow God
or Word to be its own interpreter-allo
one passage to throw light upon anotl
err: and thus let us reject none of II
Divine testimony. but. bringing II
whole together. find therein the Wi
ID dom of God the Justice of God IL
90 Love of God the Power of God uni
S salvation. to every one that believeth