Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-08-25

nll heen-stupidly blind-in respect to
our Heavenly Fathers words! We
have believed human traditions, which
we ought not to have believed. and left
unbelieved the Bible teachings, which
we ought TO have believed, until the
Church as a whole has become thor
Oughly puzzled in respect to every
thing religious. am not judging any
particular person or sect. The matter is
80 general as not to need specification.
All have sinned all are out of the
way Of Truth lost in the fog Of SUPER
stltiOn and error, guided thither, as
st Paul foretold, by doctrines Of de-
mons" Il Timothy 4:1) There is no
time for faulthnding. The duty Of the
hour is to get rlght-to get back into
harmony with God, and to obtain the
true light on His Word that will re-
store Christian faith, love, devotion.
Blaming nobody except the Arch De-
reiyer, Satan, we find, as the Master
predicted, that the whole world has
been made drunk by the false doc
trlnes which Satan gradually intrOduc-
cd during the Dark Ages-"The inhab-
itnnts Of the earth bave been made
drunk with the wine OF her fornica-
tlon.' (Reyelation 1923 Some we're
crazy drunk TO the extent of persecut-
ing others; some were stupldly drunk.
Like drunken people, we mixed up
and confused the good and the bad.
In one breath we told Of the love Of
God-Iis mercy. gentleness. patience
and how all of His children must be-
come copies OF His Divine character.
Then In another breath we painted this
God Of Love as sitting down, before
creating humanity and deliberately,
with fore-knowledge, arranging that
thousands Of millions should be born
In sin, misshapen in niquity; and that
after Il few short years, full OF trou-
BILE, all Of them with only rare excep-
tions should be turned over to fire.
proof demons, to be tortured through
all eternity,
When soberer thought would sug-
gest that the Gre would destroy them,
that the torture could not last more
than few hours. then drunken
thought inspired by the Devil came
that God delighted In the torture OF
His creatures, and that all those thou
sands Of millions would have life In
iected into them by the Almighty Him
self the great Fountain OF Life, so as
to prevent them from ever ceasing 10
be, ceasing To sufter-so ms to perpetu-
ate great chamber OF horrors such
as no human mind could imagine.
Dante pictured the Inferno most hor.
ribly, that eternal torture chamber.
over whose gates were the words.
"Who enters here ahandons hope"
satan's Great Success.
The Master styled Satan the father
Of lies, His first great lie misled our
first parents and murdered them, by
leading Mother Eve to disbelleve Gods
Word. "ln the day that thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely die" Gen.
esis 2;l7l Satan contradicted the Al.
mighty, saylng. "Ye shall not surely
die'-cannot die, We are immortal your
life is a perpetual one
Satan has since impressed this false.
hood upon the whole world, and has
largely succeeded In decelvlng all
When In fulnlmcnt OF Gods Word
people die. Sntan has brought in the
deceptive theory that they really have
become more alive than ever. with
the theory that nobody can die came
the other theory that when they seen
TO die they merely 90 somewhere elsC
to live.
Thus, contrary to the Scriptures, N,
whole world hns come 10 believe thai
at the moment Of death the sanity q,
to Heaven. ana nh the remainder, NOR,
alive than ever. 30 either to Hell ~
purgOtory The plain. common.sens,
statement OF the Bible that all-botl
good and had, old aud young-go (,
Sheol, Hadcs to the tomb, is ignored
The Bible teaching. that the redemp
dive work Of Jesus assured all ras
urrpctlon from the dead, Is made nul
ann void by satan's declaration tina
nobody Is dead,
Immortality In Christ
The Bible does indeed hold out 10
the Church the hope OF immortality
but It Is only hope not already
possession Man was not created IN
Qualihedly immortal The life givel