The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-09

earth, to hear the groaning of the pris-
oners, to loose them that are appoint
ed to death" psalm 1O2:18-20) He
spoke In part as follows
The Bible declares the only God of
love, Of sympathy, of compassion The
heathen gods are all .vengeful, tyranni-
cal, merciess, captious. And the pic
ture Of God in our creeds, formulated
in the Dark Ages. misrepresents Him
even more than do the heather idols.
AL the false gods are repulsive Only
OF the God of the Bible can 1t be truly
said, my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God" To rid ourselves
of the misconceptions of the Almighty
furnished by our creeds and to appre-
ciate the God OF the Bible should be
the endeavor Of all intelligent people.
Mark the sympathy of God for His
FALLEN creatures, as expressed In our
text. Note how it contradicts our theo-
rfes respecting the Divine predestlna-
ton of more than nine-tenths of our
race 10 eternal torture. The Lord was
mindful Of His Creatures. He did not
abandon them because of the disobedi-
ence In Eden. He looked down from
the heights of His holy Sanctuary.
From Heaven He beheld the earth and
Its teeming millions plunged into sin
by the Adversary and suffering the pen
atty for sin-"Dying. thou shalt die"
human Indebtedness In Gods Sight.
~ hohald tho NH fr1,,, a.
emily viewpoint must be terrible sight
enough to make angels weep-sigh-
ing, crying, dying, everywhere Some
are demented to the extent of prefer
ring darkness TO light, wallowing In the
mire Of sin and feeding upon the ap-
Piles Of Sodom; some of them SO de-
PRAYED that they love the wrong and
hate the right; others so weak that
they cannot do the things that they
would; many of them in jails, peniten-
haries, ETC.; other hundreds of thou
sands In hospitals; and still other hun
dreds Of thousands in insane asylums;
and thousands of millions gone down
70 the tomb, with few in compare
tive health, rushing headlong seeking
nor happiness, or fighting and cheating
TO amass fortune. which, dying, they
must leave. Verify, as God looks
down, the Earth must appear to Him
like vast hospital, a cemetery, a
mad-house
Not with curiosity did the Almighty
look upon US, but with sympathy
with loving intention Indeed, from
the very beginning He foreknew mans
Maynard course and its penalty Of sin
and death, and from that beginning
He planned the great rescue which
now He is to begin. The rescue is not
from fiery hell of everlasting torture,
but from the terrible condition of sin
and death In which we find ourselves.
Freeing ath-Appointed Prisoners.
The entire race of Adam, shackled
with sin and under sentence of death,
have for six thousand years been
marching to the great prison-house of
the tomb. An ever-increasing number,
they are now entering the prison-house
~ the rate of ninety thousand every
ewenty -four hours. Notwithstanding
the efforts they make to be happy, the
Apostle was undoubtedly correct in
his declaration-''the whole creation
Eroans and travails In pain together"
God has heard the grooming OF these
prisoners, has sympathized with them
and has provided redemption As
one mans sin brought the curse upon
himself and, by laws of heredity, upon
all OF his children, so Divine Wisdom !
has arranged that a Savior, and |
Great One, should give Himself a Ran
com for Adam and his race. This al |
ready has been accomplished, in that |
Christ died, the Just for the unjust" |
10 bring back to harmony with God |
the condemned Adam and his race
But this is not sufficient. 1t is only |
tho beginning. The thousands OF mil