The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-10-07

lieve not, lest the light Of the glorious
Gospel of Christ, who is the image Of
God, should shine unto them."-2 Cor
inthians 4:3. A. 4,
do not charge our forefathers with
evil intent in the making of the creeds-
! cheerfully admit that every creed
contains an element of Divine Truth.
My contention is that Satan. the great
Adversary of God. substituted the
creeds for the Bible; and into the
creeds through human weakness, he
injected sufficiency of nonsense and
doctrines of devils" to render them I'M
healthful for the saints, and absolutely
poisonous to others, said Pastor Rus
sell.
Taking up his text, he declared that
its truthfulness Is manifest on every
hand. The word Gospel signifies the
good Message. it is the Message of the
angels at the birth of Jesus: Behold.
we bring you 1.-THE Gospel good tidings
Of great joy, which shall be unto all
peopler' This Gospel of JOY and
blessing, of Divine Love and Mercy to-
ward our race. said the Pastor, Is COM
pIeteIy hidden from the world. Even,
matured Christians discern but littlel
of it, because the creeds Of human ira
dition have so misrepresented God and|
His purposes as to make of them bad
tidings-not good tidings.
Hath Blinded Their Minds.
ties, foretold the falling away of thel
Church from the faith once delivered
to the saints; and he particularly
pointed out that this would be the re
suit Of giving heed to "seducing spirits
and doctrines of demons'-the fallen|
angels. q Timothy Al; Jude g. In al
thousand ways. through mediumsI
planchettes. visions and dreams, etc.
these fallen. seducing spirits have in /
truded their demon doctrines upon theI
Church of Christ And the whole pur
port Of their evil work seems to be t, ]
deceive mankind In respect to Gods
real purposes toward them. and Hi |
real character.
How wonderfully successful SataI
and his fallen angels. the demons
have beenl While persuading mel
that they were far off, stocking fires foil
humanity's future torture. they hav,k
really been hobnobbing with ecelesias
ties and assisting in misinterpretatiol
of the Bible-especiall its parable |
and symbolic statements. To such al
extent. is this true that the glory o
God manifested in Jesus for humaIl
salvation is completely confused and
unintelligible to the world.
Unbelievers can reason. and do rea-
son. Those who reside in civilized
lands, instructed along the lines of the
creeds. inquire. Why did God make us
sinners, with depraved appetites and
sentence us to eternal torment. and
then send Jesus to be the Savior of
merely such as become saints. believ-
ers in certain doctrines which they
themselves call mysterious2 Intelli-
gent heather similarly ask. Why should
God make such plan as the mission
aries relate? Why should He condemn
us all to eternal torment and then
make provision for only the few who
hear Of Jesus. and believe the mystic
ries and monstlous Inconsistencies of
some of the creeds?
Do not the facts today. after eight
cen centuries of creed blinded Chris
tianity. eorrobOrate the APOSTLES state-
ment that the god of this world Sa-
tan, hath blinded the minds of them
that believe not?" Otherwise surely
the glorious Gospel Of Christ. now be-
coming more and more clear to Bible
students. would long ago have shone,,
into many hearts. carrying joy and
peace through reconciliation with God
The statement of our text IF our
liosnel be hid II is hid to them that