The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-01-29

diauunu 1I WAGER IS necessary. although
il does recommend liltlc. This creed
or theory declares Gods love for the
heather. but says that lie mGde faith
I'm Jesus sacrilicinl death condition
Of salvation and that ,hc responsible
ity for the heathen's not knowing. uud
consequently their going 90 eternal tor
ment rests with Christians tucm
selves. They say That cod did lliR
part in providing the Savior and that
the carrying of this EuowlyG%t Is whol-
ly dependent upon christians. One
would think that with this view few
Christians would be able to sleep q
single night after once asserting to
such a responsiblIity aud realizing how
little they have done OF have been able
10 do TO meet the responsibility.
Some dear people holding the views
| last mentioned have started Men
and Religion Forward Movement -
They propose TO use about two mil-
lion dollars IN starting the movement
and thereby to collect FUND OF thirty
million dollars C3ix million pounds.
Dear people,! How | love them for
their zeal, even though It be as the
Apostle said. not according TO knowl-
edgcr'-Romans X, ..
If they could stand In Singaporc's
streets and Journey with ~ little The
eyes of their Understandable would be
opened. They would begin 20 figure
out that the sum they expect TO spend
in converting the world would be III
tie over half penny per soul. They
must indeed think the he0thcRs cheap
when they reflect that the estimates ON
the work OF the Rev. Billy Sunday n
year after his meetings show a cost
OF about six hundred dollars per soul,
with doubts entertained respecting
the saintship Of even these. The Unit
cd States Government statistics and
the British Government statistics show
that century ago the numbers OF
heathcn were six hundred millions
and that today the number Is double
that, namely, twelve hundred millions,
a Better Hope Found.
Whichever Of the forcaoinG views
might seem TO MS less Objectionable
than the others, surely none of them
could satisfy our heads OF oar hearts.
Surely the good men OF tho past who
wrote these crecds ia the light OF the
tallow candle, il writing them today
in the light Of The are lamp, would
amend them considerably, or else leave
them uuwrit,cn and merely say, We
know not the fate of the hcathen
Some, repudnting the oreeds Of tho
past as no longer tepablc, fault the
Bible with being the basis Tor those
creeds aud throw it away with The
creeds. These are becOming Aguos
ties, Higher Critics. Evolutionlsts
Spritsts, etc. Aud because Of their
worldly wlsdom and social STANDING
these Higher Critics are RAPIDLY under
mining all faith in the Bible as an IN,
spired Message from God TO Ills peo
pie. They are adrift, some sailing IN
one direction and some IN another
they have lost their Chart of the Ago.
aud the great Compass Of Divine Truth
In the depths OF the sen Of human wig
dom, which, IrOm the Divine stand
point, Is declared to be foolishness
Let us not take their course.
Let us, on the contrary, declare thai
the difficulty with the creeds of tn,
past has been that they divided up The
Word of God amongst them. and tha'
each creed has certain amount OI
gold as well as a large accumulation oI
dross 1t would be too serious an un
dertaking for fniteS TO put all th'
creeds into crucible and separate tn,
gold from the drOss Besides, all tn,
sectArlan preiudices of our natures
would contend against us in such {
procedure. Let us take the easier tn,
simpler method, to which all Christian
people should be willing TO accedo
namely: TO wholly cast aside on
creeds and go back to the Word o
God-to the Bible-to the utterance
OF Jesus ana His Apostles and Proph
cts. Thus doing many viii find 4
their surprise that, while the creed
have gathered precious Jewels o
Truth from the Bible, they have clvei
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