Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-10-06


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, 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 a sufiiciency Of nonsense and
doctrines Of devils" to render them un-
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, 1t 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
peOple!" This Gospel OF Joy and
blessing, Of Divine Love and Mercy TO-
ward our race, said the Pastor, is com
pletely hidden from the world. Even
matured Christians discern but little
Of It. because the creeds Of human ira
dition have so misrepresented God and
His purposes as to make of them bad
tidlngs-not good tldings.
Hath Blinded Their Minds.
st. Paul. as we'll as the other Apos.
ties, foretod the falling away Of the
Church from the faith once delivered
70 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 a
thousand ways, through mediums,
planchettes, visions and dreams. ETC.,
these fallen. seducing spirits have In
truded their demon doctrines upon the
Church OF Christ. And the whole pur-
port Of their evil work seems to be to
deceive mankind in respect to Gods
real purposes toward them, and His
real character,
How wonderfully successful Satan
and his fallen angels. the demons,
have been' While persuading men
that they we're far OF, stoking 6res for
humanltys future torture, they have
really been hobnobblng with ecclesias-
tics and assisting in mlsinterpretation
OF the Blble-especially It's parallels
and symbolic statements. To such an
extent is this true that the glory OF
God manifested In Jesus for human
salvation Is completely confused and
unlntengIbe to the world
UnbeIievers can reason, aud 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 appetltes and
sentence us TO eternal torment, and
then send Jesus TO be the Savior OF
merely such as become saints, bellev-
ers In certain doctrines which they
themselves call mysterlous7 lntelll.
gent heather similarly ask, Why should
tod make such a plan MS the mission
aries relateY Why should He condemn
ua all to eternal torment and then
make provision for only the few who
hear OF Jesus, and believe the mystic
ries and monstrous Inconsistencies Of
some OF the creedsI
DO not the facts today. after eight
cen centuries OF creed blinded Chris
tianlty. corrOhorate the Apostles state
ment that the god Of this world su
tau, hath blinded the minds OF then
that believe notT Otherwise surely
the glorious Gospel Of Christ now be
coming more and more clear to Bib,
students, would long ago have shon'
into many hearts, carrying Joy anC
peace through reconciliation with God
The statement Of our text IF ou
Gospel be hid. II IL hid to them tha
are lost" does not mean that they arr
lost because they cannot see the Cos
pei The Bible distinctly tells MS tina
all OF Adams race are lost through dis
obedience. The Apostle evldentl!
means that the masses OF the los
world cannot see the Gospel light /
is hidden from them. Only the com
Raratiyely few see Il, and they only q