The Cairo bulletin., 1912-01-29

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heather, but says that He made faith
In Jesus sacrificial death condition
of salvation and that the responsible
ity for the heathen's not knowing, and
consequently their going to eternal tor
ment, rests with Christians them
selves. They say that God did His
part in providing the Savior and that
the carrying of this knowledge is Who'll.
ly dependent upon Christians. Cne
would think that with this view few
Christians would be able to sleep a
single night after once asserting to
such responsibility and realizing how
little they have done or have been able
to 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 (six million poundsl
Dear people. How love them for
their zeal, even though it be as the
Apostle said, mot according to knowl-
edge" X. ..
If they could stand In Singapores
streets and journey with Us a little the
eyes Of their understanding would le
opened. They would begin toshgure
out that the sum they expect to spend
in converting the world would be lit
tie over half penny per soul. They
must indeed think the heathens cheap
when they reflect that the estimates on
the work Of the Rev. Billy sunday a
year after his meetings show d cost
of about six hundred dollars per soul.
with doubts entertained respecting
the saintship of even these. The Unit
ed States Government statistics and
the British Government statistics show
that century ago the numbers Of
heather were six hundred millions
and that today the number is double
that, namely, twelve hundred millions
A Better Hopo Found.
Whichever of the foregoing views
might seem to us less Objectionable
than the others, surely none OF them
could satisfy our heads or our hearts.
Surely the good men Of the past who
wrote these creeds in HE light of the
tallow candle, II writing them today
in the light Of the arc lamp, would
amend them considerably, or else leave
them unwrltten and merely say, We
know not the fate Of the heather.
Some, repudiating the creeds Of the
past as no longer tenable, fault the
Bible with being the basis for those
creeds and throw it away with the
creeds. These are becoming Agnos-
tics, Higher Critics, Eyolutionists,
Spiritists, etc. And because Of their
worldly wisdom and social standing
these Higher Critics are rapidly Under
mining all faith in the Bible as an in.
spired Message from God to Hi; peo-
pie. They are adrift, some sailing In
one direction and some in another
they have lost their Chart of the Ages
and the great Compass or Divine Truth
in the depths of the sea Of human wis
dom, which, from the Divine stand
point, IS declared to be foolishness.
Let us not take their course.
Let us, on the contrary, declare that
the difficulty with the creeds Of the
past has been that they divided up the
Word of God amongst them, ana that
each creed has certain amount OF
gold as well as large accumulation of
dross. 1t would be too serious an I'M
dertaking for faiteS to put all the
creeds into crucible and separate the
gold from the dross. Besides, all the
sectarian prejudiees of our natures
would contend against US in such n
procedure Let us take the easier, The
simpler method, to which all Christian
people should be willing to accede.
namely: to wholly cast aside our
creeds and go back to the Word of
God--to the Bible--to the utterances
of Jesus and His Apostles and, Proph-
cts. Thus doing many will find TO
their surprise that, while the creeds
have gathered precious jewels OF
Truth from the Bible, they have given
these false settings by which they mis-
represent the Truth which they profess
to illuminate.
st. Pauls declaration is that the
Word Of God is sufficient that the man
of God may be fully furnished III
Timothy Ill, 10 His further sugges-
ton is that wes rightly divide the
Word Of Truth" and that ut is able to
make us wise unto salvation Let Us
follow this course and allow Gods
Word to be It's own interpreter ALLOW
one passage to throw light upon an
other; and thus let us reject none OF
the Divine testimony, but, bringing the
whole together, find therein the Wis
dom of God, the Justice Of God, the
Love of God, the Power of God unto
salvation, to every one that believeth-
to Jew and Gentle.
All Mankind to Be Blessed.
st. Peter, by birth Jew, understood
that the promise made to Abraham
that his posterity should bless the
world-meant that the Jewish nation
should have this honor. He did, In
deed, know that In oil the centuries
from Moses to Christ the Jew was not
accepted to the honorable position nor
given the privilege of blessing tho
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