Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-11-15
Il Is very truthful, Mt the same time ex.

It is very truthful, ut the same time ex.
tremely kindly and sympathetic.
Surely our Committees method and
Report will commend themselves to
unprejudiced Intelligent minds. Prob
ably Brother Ellis difficulty is fear
that the hollowness of missionary
claims is coming to the light.
"Not Understa nding the Scriptures"
Sympathy for the heather and doc
trinal errors respecting the everlasting
future led Christianity astray In its
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. Frenzied by this misconception
of the Divine Character and Plan, god
Iy 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-wise, all.
Just, ALLOWING and all-powerful God
had foreordained for the Non-Elect.
Now our former) darkness is depart
Ing. AS we began to see the utter
hopelesSness 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 Abrahamic 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-
ery denomination of Christendom will
constitute the True Church, the True
Bride of Christ. the Queen Of Glory,
the Seed of Abraham.-Galatians ill, 20.
"This Gospel of tho Kingdom
Our hallucinations respecting eternal
torment, which the Bible, rightly trans
lated and properly understood, does
not teach-as every scholar In the
world will agree-has been the foun-
dation of all our errors. Alas, that so
many ministers and learned men should
have cast away their Bible without
ascertainlng that it Is In direct con-
flict with all our creeds! Missionary Ia
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
a heart blessing to all lovers and sup
porters Of missions This is no reason.
however why we should continue to be
blind to the true situation. We must
no longer delude ourselves with the
thought that it Is possible to convert
the people even in our home lands, un-
til Gods time, under Messiah's King
dom: for "Unto Him every knee shall
ow."-Rom. xiv, IL; Phil. H. TO-
Think not that the Bible has no mes
sage for heather lands Think not
that am opposed to the heather or to
good works done for them! l am op-
posed merely to our misrepresentation
of God and the Bible amongst the hea-
then, even as in the past we misrepre-
sented both at home. | am deeply in-
terested in the work which the Bible
declares should be done amongst the
heathen-a work, however, which the
missionaries 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 witness to
them-for the purpose of gathering out
Gods Elect to be Messiah's Joint-heirs
In His work Of universal blessing
The Gospel of the Kingdom means
the good news respecting the King
dom. The l. B. S. A. has missionary
workers in India, China and Japan, in
forming such of the peoples there as
have the intelligence to comprehend
the Message. Many of them are re-
joicing in the good news that Messiah's
Kingdom Is about to be established; !;
and that their friends, instead of be-
ing In either purgatory or eternal tor.
ture, are merely asleep IN death, await
ing the blessing which Jesus promised
saying, "All that are in the graves
shall hear the voice of the Son of Man
and come forth" to a resurrection of
judgment trial, testing, to prove who
will accept the gift of eternal life and
who will reject 1t and suffer the pen
alty-Second Death.-Romans vi, %:
III Thessalonians /, 8.
To certain extent, wherever the Bi-
BILE has gone, this Gospel of the King
dom has gone. If the missionaries had
only read the Bible to the people and
had not attempted to teach the creeds
of the Dark Ages, many more in hea
then lands today would know about
Messiah's Kingdom and appreciate the
import of the prayer, "Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth, even
as 1t is done in Heaven" But the mis-
SiOnarieS apparently for the last few