The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-09-10

hAOW duy IueoIy VI SuppoSeu ueceSSlly
to move us therefrom.
However. we behold two great Chris
tan communions holding q different
view-the High Church Of England and
the Church of Rome. Both hold the
doctrine introduced into the Church
about the Fourth Century-the doctrine
of the Mass This doctrine holds that
the death of Christ cancels original
sin for believers and brings them into
fellowship with God through faith In
the redeeming blood OF Christ But 1t
philosophers that sins committed after
coming into the family Of God need
cancellation also. and that nothing ex
cept the blood Of Christ, the death of
Christ. can take away sin; and that the
merit of His death at Calvary having
been used to cancel our past sins. a
fresh sacrifice of Christ is necessary
for the more recent sins.
Sacrifice of the Mass.
Proceeding with the philosophy they
ask. How can we get fresh sacrifice
of Christ and apply 1t and thus be kept
cleansed in the sight of God? They
answer that the bread and the wine of
the communion service. after being
blessed, are the actual flesh and blood
of Jesus. and may be used afresh in
sacrifice for sins.
Applying this philosophy these Chris
tian brethren perform common, or
Low. Mass for general sins, in cOngre-
gational way. and High Mass for spe-
cial sins Their Church services &C
cordingly are not so much studies or
expositions nf the Bible, but more par
ticularly participation in the cleans
ings supposed to accrue to all who at
tend Mass.
Those who fail to attend Mass at
least once in year are supposed to be
horribly defled with the accumulated
sins. The congregation assembled.
praise and prayer are chanted and
then the officiating priest approaches
what they call the altar of sacrifice,
! On 1t are the bread and wine, which
being blessed. are instantly turned int
| the actual flesh and actual blood Of
Christ. The officiating priests and as
sociates and the congregation are all
on their knees to worship the Host-to
give reverence to the freshly created
Christ on the altar. The officiating
priest then rises and breaks the bread
of flesh. Thus the sacrifice of the Mass
for the sins Of the people present is ae
complished. No wonder the people are
anxious to be present, to be cleansed
afresh of their sins!
Not only Is the sacrifice of the Mass
lhus made for the living, but Christ is
similarly sacrificed for the dead sup
posed to be suffering in Purgatory
Where Lies the Mistaken
With our convenient Bibles Catholic
and PROTESTANT we have much advan
tage over our brethren of the Fourth
Century who invented the doctrine Of
the Mass. We now see that 1t is uD
scriptural and that the bishops, onc'
supposed to be successors of the
Twelve Apostles. erred-iH Other
words. they were not inspired-they
were not successors of The Twelve
Whatever things these bishops bound
on earth were not bound In heaven
they made mistakes, as we all have
and doubtless just as honestly as we.
Bible students see clearly that thu
one sacrifice of Christ Is sufficient To-
the sins of the whole worId-past, pres
ent and to come Gods provision il
Christ for the forgiveness of sins Il
applicable only to Adams Tor original
sin. and to such weaknesses as hav'
come to his children from that origina
sin by heredity God does not propos,
In any manner to forgive sins wilfull.
committed They receive stripes o
punishments In proportion to their vii
fulness
Whatever proportion of sin is direct
~ or indirectly the result of Adam
disobedience and human imperfectio
is coyerable through the merit of tn
one sacrifice of Christ. which GOVERN
Is to be obtained by the transgressor'
approaching the Throne of the HEAVIER
ly Grace that he may obtain mere
and find grace to help in time of neet
When we came to God desiring to b
accepted as disciples Of Jesus an
jOint-sacriicers In His cross-bearinG
self denial and death to the worlC
and jcint-heirs also with Him In Hi
Heavenly Kingdom, we found Hir
prepared and willing to be our AdvO
cate with the Father. Through tn
imputation of the merit of His sacritc
we were healed and accepted Of tn
Father and begotten Of the Holy Spirit
Now, as children of God, New Crea
lures in Christ. we still need our AID
vocate. because we as New Creatures
have not yet received our new bodies
and will not receive them until thu
resurrection; and because our earthl!
bodies are imperfect through the fal
we are liable from time to time to b.
overtaken in a fault Our need. then
is not to attend Low Mass, or Higl
Mass, but to 20 directly to the Lore
In the name and merit of our Advo
cate. Thus the Apostle enJoins III
saying. IF any man Qn the Church
sin, we have an Advocate with thu
Father, Jesus Christ the Righteous.
q John ii, L. The thought that sir
in every instance requires Atonemen
is quite Scriptural, and the though
that without the shedding of blood
there is no remission of sins 10 Scrip
tural (Hebrews TX, 22) But the
thought that Christ needs to die more
than once Is antagonistic to the Scrip
lures, as we have already seen.
The fact is that good and great PEG
pie have made serious errors In theol
ogy along nearly every line. The er
rors accumulated for nearly fifteen
centuries, and we must not wonder al
our slowness in getting fully rid OF
them. For the past four centuries
practically the people of God of all
denominations have been coming back
to the light of Gods Word Both
Catholic and Protestant translations
| of the Bible are assisting us. We are
growing In grace as well as In knowl
edge Whatever we shall say of the
world, we must believe that Gods
consecrated people In every denomina.
ton are more Christlike, more God
like, than were their forefathers who
surrounded by the errors Of the past
| fanatically and devilishly tortured one
another in the uame Of religion-in the
name of the Bible which they did not
understand
"The Abomination of DesoIation."
| Nearly nineteen centuries ago ouI
Redeemer mentioned the Accumulation
OF Desolation spoken Of by the Prophei
Daniel. The Master declared that wheT
this Abomination should be seen those
noting it should understand and 6et
with haste. For long centuries 1t war
supposed that the Great Teacher re
ferred to events which eliminated IL
A. d. 20. in the destruction of Jerusa