The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-11

.T--VT IN ed his discourse
with the words: How blind we have
all becn-stnpidly blind-in respect to
our Heavenly Fathers words. We
have believed human traditions. which
we ought not to have believed. md left
unbelicved the Bible teachings. which
we ought to have believed, until the
Church rs IL whole has become thor
onShly puzzled in respect to every.
thing religious. am not Judging any
particular person or sect. The matter Is
~ general rs not to need specification.
All have sinncd. all are out of the
way of Truth. lost IN the fog OF super.
stition and error. guided thither. as
st. Paul foretold. by doctrines Of de.
mons" Il Timothy 4:l) There Is no
time for faultlinding. The duty Of the
hour Is to get right--to get back into
harmony with God. and to obtain the
true light on His Word that will re.
store Christian faith. love. devotion.
thinning nobody except the Arch-D
ceiver. Satan. we find. rs the Muster
predicted, that the whole world has
been made drunk by the false doc.
trines which Satan gradually introduc.
ed during the Dark .Ases-"The Inbab.
itunts OF the earth have been made
drunk with the wine Of her fornica.
ton Revelation 1I:2.l Some were
crazy drunk. to the extent Of persecut.
ing others; some were stupidity drunk.
Like drunken people. we mixed up
and confused the good and the bad
In one breath we told Of the love OF
God-.uiS 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 rs sitting down. before
creating humanity, and deliberately.
with fore-knowledge. arranging that
thousands of millions should be born
IN sin. misshapcn In lniqulty; and that
after II few short years. full OF trou.
BILE. all Of them with only rare excep-
lions. should lie turned over TO fire
proof demons. to he tortured through
all eternity.
When soberer thought would sug.
gest that the fire would destroy them.
that the torture could not last more
than n 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.
innfAI int. tl.,1, la. fI,, AlttNt,,I,t,.
self. the great Fountain Of Life, so as
to prevent them from ever ccasing to
he. ceasing to sufrer-so MS to perpetu-
ute great chamber OF horrors such
nS no human mind could imagine
Dante pictured the Inferno most hor-
ffbly. that eternal torture chamber.
over whose gates were the words.
WHO enters here abandonS hope"
Satan's Great Success.
The Muster styled Satan the father
Of Hes. His first great lie misied our
first parents and murdered them. by
leading Mother Eve to dsbelieve Gods
Word. "In the day that thou eatest
thereof. thou shalt surely die" Gen
esiS 2:lT.) Satan cOntradicted the Al
mighty. saying. "Ye shall not surely
dic"-cnnnot die, ye are immortal. your
life is II perpetual one.
Satan has since impressed this false.
hood upon the whole world. and has
largely succeeded In dcccivfng aii.
When in fulfilment OF Gods Word
people die. Satan 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 seem
to die they merely 60 somewhere else
to live.
Thus. contrary to the Scriptures. the
whole world has come to believe that
mt the moment OF death the sanity 20
to Heaven and all the remainder. more
alive than ever. go either to He'll ar
Purgatory. The plain. common.scnse
statement Of the Bible that all-bOth
good ana bad. old and y8nng-g0 to
Sheol. Hadcs. to the tomb. is ignored.
The Bible teaching. that the redemp-
tive work OF Jesus assured all r,s.
direction from the dead. is made null
and void by Sntan's declaration that
nobody Is dead.
Immortality In Christ.
The Esble does indeed hold ont for
the Church the hope OF Immortality:
but 1t Is only II hope. not already a
possession. Man was not created I'M
qualihedly immortal. The life given