The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-02-04

The speaker approached his subject
reverently, declaring that all mankind
recognize two great facts: ~ that all
are sinners, imperfect, willingly or IN
willingly; and ~ that all realize the
propriety of a just penalty for sins in
proportion to their wilfulness, knowl
edge being prime factor. All this can
be admitted by even those who deny
that we have in the Bible an inspired
message telling US the origin of sin. its
penalty and the conditions governing
the Divine judgment of sinners.
He would not indulge in speculations,
but he would stand by the Word of
God. If we have Message from the
Creator on the subject Of sin and its
punishment, none should either take
from nor add to that testimony. He
believed, however. that our forefathers
had added to the Word of God without
realizing it.
Many hold that in bygone days Chris
tian people, in their anxiety to brighten
their fellow-men into church member.
ship, SO exaggerated Gods Word that
they foiled their very purpose of help
ing the ungodly. Many upright people.
nauseated at the distorted misrepre-
sensations of Divine Justice, have
thrown away the Bible as well as the
creeds and are hearkening to Higher
Criticism, Evolution, New Thought,
Spiritism, etc. Hence the usual small
congregations at the churches-and
minority of these thinking men and
women. Many are church attendants,
not because of belief in UNCONVENTIONAL
creeds, but because they desire to ex-
ercise moral influence upon the "low
er classes" These they burden with
horrible doctrines of Divine injustice
which they themselves have long since
discarded If not outwardly.
The Baptist underworld"
Our Baptist friends, in bringing for
ward a new translation of the Bible,
have sought to reconcile matters by
the use of the term underworld" in
stead of hell. as the translation of the
Hebrew word Sheol and Of the cor
responding Greek word Hades. This
ia step in the right direction, but too
conservative. All educated people
know that Sheol and Hades signify the
tomb, the death state Sheol is translat-
ed Craze and pit in our Common Yer
sion Bible more frequently than it is
translated he'll. Why should Christian
ministers spend years In colleges and
seminaries to learn these things, and
then fear to tell the people the factsi
Do they realize that the misunderstood
ing of this subject of hell is emptying
their churches and stumbling thinking
people into Higher Criticism-Infid
etc, leading on to atheism and anarchy
What the Bible Does Teach.
The Bible declares that all transgres-
sion of the Divine Law Is sin, and that
all sin Is punishable with the same
penalty-death. Thus Adams disobe-
dience in eating the forbidden fruit
death, which by the laws of heredity
he has transmitted to all mankind. All
our sin and sickness, sorrow and death,
therefore, come as the penalty OF
Adams sin. st. Paul specifically says
that by one mans disobedience sin
entered into the world and death as the
result of sin: thus death has passed
upon all men. because all are sinners
{Romans 5:12 49, Although men may
multiply the transgressions, they can
not increase the penalty, because the
Divine Law has only one penalty foi
sin-the death penalty-extinctio
But Divine Mercy has arranged foI
mans redemption by providing that
Jesus should pay the penalty foi
Adams sin. This He did when He of
fered Himself and died. the Just fol
the unjust" The life of Jesus, as s
corresponding price for the forfeited
life OF Adam, guaranteed the cancella
ton of Adams sin; and this means al
opportunity for Adam to return to the
Fathers house as a son, in due time
under the assistance of Messiah's King
dom. Or. neglecting these privileges
when they shall come to him, Adam
would be counted as refusing the grace
Of Sod and would die the Second
Death. from which there will be no re
aemption and no resurrection.
But before Adam can refuse Gods
grace, be must be made intelligeatiIl
asoGre Of it, He could not know of III
during the nine hundred thirty years o
Bis dying under the curse. because i