The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-02-02

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address follows
Never before have seen so cOsmo.
politan a city as Singapore The
swarms OF Chinese, Malays, Hindoos,
Javanese, Siamese, Singhalese. Bur
mese, Afghans, Madrassi, Tamils and
many other nationalities are here inter
spersed by representatives of practi-
cally every nation in the world. Hence
forth New York City must in my mind
take second place as respects cosmo,
politan population. The sight Of these
commingled peoples, 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.
My heart goes out In sympathy for
them. My head inquiries respecting
Gods provision for the three-fourths OF
humanity who have never heard OF
Him and the salvation which He has
provided in Christ. sig ~. s Z.l
We recognize the clear statement OF
the Apostle that without faith it is
Impossible TO please God" Hebrews xi,
g.; and his question, Glow shall they
believe in Him Of whom they have not
heard?' (Romans x. 14) and also the
commission: This Gospel Of the King
dom shall be preached IN all the world
for q witness; and then, shall the end
come" (Sfatthew xiv, s14. Properly
enough we ask, What kind Of an end is
coming, and what will it mean to the
twelve millions who know not God and
TO the thousands Of millions Of their
ancestors who died similarly ignorant
of Him? ~
am, Of course, familiar with the
diverse theories Of the various demon
inatioils Of Christians. voiced by their
creeds. 1 defer to these to. the extent
OF saying that many noble men are
today and have In time past been as
ISOLATED with these Christian demon
nations and their differing presenta-
tians. On account Of their piety and
learning these men deserve respectful
attention, but we cannot admit that
they were inspired nor that their con-
ciusions are infallible. 1t is our priv
ilege, nay. it is our duty, to try their
suggestions as we would test gold
coin. First, we would ring 1t. II the
apply the acid test and thus demon
strate it. Similarly. no human creed
should be accepted as infallibly cor
rect without the application of tests
Does it have the right ring? Does its
teaching comport with the Divine
character? Is it reasonable, just. etc;
Secondly, Will it stand the acid test
of the Word Of Coda, If not, it Elust
be rejected, even though its basei
metal be covered with plating Of the
gold Of Truth. .~
Tried and Found Wanting.
It will not do for us to say what We
guess or What Is our opinion or what is
somebody's elses gasss, while ut The
same time we acknowledge the Bible
to be the Divine Message. II the 81
BILE be the Divine Message. as st. Paul
says, 1T is worthy OF all aceeptation.'
q Timcthv r. o. II not worthy of eli
aceeptGtioH It is not worthy Of ac
ceptance at all, and oil Christian hopes
built upon the Bible would CORE
spondingly fall. The lesson OF this Is
the solidarity of the Truth-the Bible
What does it say about the heathen'
We ask this question Of the various
creeds of Christendom and hearker
TO their reply. .s.
A considerable, class Of very good
people by their creeds tell US that il
God had foreordained the heather Il
salvation lie would have seen to il
that the Gospel. would be preached t.
them; and that their not hearing the
Gospel signifies that God passed then
by as .'non-eIect;" that the select
are TO be found only amongst those
who have been favored OF God an6
who accept that favor and are ':sahc
titled by the Truth" aud :.made meet
for the Inheritance OF the saints il
light (Celossiansi, 1o.) -
Another class OF people by theil
creeds, which 40 longer truly repre-
sent theln, tell us that they believe al
above. only that they add another con
dition.; namely, that "the eiest' tn on
der to te OF !.'the; elect" must bs
brought TO a knowledge of water hap
tism-complete immersion-and mus
obey this teaching; otherwise they ar,
not the truly t.elect." Thus thest
agree with the former that the poor
heather masses are completely passed
By, have no hope for the future, tina
they are Iost-and by lost they meaI
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