Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-03

RASL0R RUSSELD) eternaI"-Mat
thew 25:4G.
The speaker approached his subject
reverently, declaring that all mankind
recognize two great facts; QJ that all
are sinners, imperfect, willingly or un
willingly; and (2) that all realize the
proprety Of just penalty for sins in
proportion to their wilfulness, knowl
edge being a 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 specuations
but he would stand by the Word OF
God II we have Message from the
Creator on the subject Of sin and Its
punishment none should either take
from nor add to that testimony. lie
believed however, that our forefathers
had added to the Word Of God without
realizing It,
Many hold that in bygone days Chris.
tan people, In their anxiety to frighten
their fellow-men into church member
ship, so exaggerated Gods Word that
they folled Ehelr very purpose Of help.
ing the ungody. Many upright people,
nauseated at the distorted misrepre-
sentatlons Of Divine Justice, have
thrown away the Bible as well as the
creeds and are hearkening to Higher
Criticism, Evolution, New Thought,
Sprltsm, etc. Hence the usual small
congregations at the churches-and a
minority Of these thinking men and
women. Many are church attendants,
not because Of belief in UNCONVENTIONAL
creeds, but because they desire to eI-
ercise moral influence upon the "low-
er classes" These they burden with
horrible doctrines Of Divine injustice
which they themselves have long since
discarded-inwardly, II not outwardly.
Tho Baptist underworld"
Our Baptist friends, in bringing for
ward 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
is step in the right direction, but too
conservative. All educated people
know that Sheol and Hades signify the
tomb the death state. Sheol Is trunslat.
ed DrGrC and pit In our Common Yer.
sion Bible more frequently than It is
translated hcH why should Christian
ministers spend years In colleges and
semnarles to learn these things, and
then fear TO tell the people the facts
DO they realize that the misunderstood.
ing Of this subject Of he'll Is emptying
their churches and stumbling thinking
people into Higher .CritIcism.lnhdclity
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, ana that
all sin is punishable with the same
penulty-death Thus Adams dsobe.
dicncc in eating the forbidden fruit
brought upon him the sentence of
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
Admins sin, st. Paul specifically says
that by one mans dlsobcdlcnce sin
entered into the world and death as the
result Of SIM thus death has passed
upon all men, because all are sinners.
Womans 512 l0J Although men may
multiply the trunsgrcssions, they can.
not Increase the penalty because the
Divine Law has only one penalty for
sln-the death penalty y-extinction.
But Divine Mercy has arranged for
mans redemption by providing that
Jesus should pay the penalty for
Adams sin, This He did when He Of.
fered Himself and died, "thc Just for
the unjust The life OF Jesus, as q
corresponding price for the forfeited
life Of Adam, guaranteed the cancela.
tion Of Adams sin; and this means an
opportunity for Adam to return TO the
Fathers house us son, In due time.
under the assistance OF Messlahs King.
dom Or negecting these privileges
when they shall come to him, Adam
would be counted 0s refusing the grace
of God and would die the Second
Death. from which there win be no re-
demption and no resurrection
But before Adam can refuse Gods
grace, he must be made intelIigcntly
alodre Of II He could not know Of It
during the nine hundred thirty years OF
his dying under the curse, because II