The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-08-15

with the words; How blind we have
all been-stupidly blind-in respect tc
our Heavenly Fathers words! We
have believed human traditions. which
we ought not to have believed. and left
unbelieved the Bible teachings. which
we ought to have believed. until the
Church as whole has become thor
oughly puzzled in respect to every
thing religious. ! am not judging any
particular person or sect The matter is
so general as not to need specification.
All have sinned. all are out of the
way of Truth. lost In the fog of super.
stition and error. guided thither, as
st. Paul foretold, by doctrines of de-
mons" Il Timothy ALL There is no
time for faultfinding. The duty of the
hour is to get right-to get back into
harmony with God, and to obtain the
true light on His Word that will re-
store Christian faith. love, devotion
Blaming nobody except the Arch-De-
ceiver. Satan. we find. as the Master
predicted. that the whole world has
been made drunk by the false doc
trines which Satan gradually introduc-
ed during the Dark Ages-''The inhab-
itants of the earth have been made
drunk with the wine of her fOrnica-
tion." Revelation 17:2l Some were
crazy drunk. to the extent of persecut-
ing others: some were stupidity drunk.
Like drunken people. we mixed up
and confused the good and the bad.
In hraofh toId Of hn Low <1f
God-His mercy. gentleness, patience
and how all of His children must be-
come copies of His Divine character.
Then in another breath we painted this
God of Love as sitting down. before
creating humanity. and deliberately.
with fore-knowedge. arranging that
thousands of millions should be born
In sin, misshapen in iniquity: and that
after few short years. full of trou-
BILE. all of them with only rare excep-
tons. should be turned over to fire.
proof demons. to be tortured through
all eternity.
When a soberer thought would sug-
gest that the fire would destroy them.
that the torture could not last more
than few hours. then drunken
thought inspired by the Devil came
that God delighted In the torture of
His creatures. and that all those thou
sands of millions would have life in
iected into them by the Almighty Him.
self. the great Fountain of Life. so as
to prevent them from ever ceasing to
be. ceasing to suffer-so as to perpetu-
ate a great chamber of horrors such
as no human mind could imagine.
Dante pictured the Inferno most hor,
ribly. that eternal torture chamber.
over whose gates were the words.
who enters here abandons hope"
Satan's Great Success.
The Master styled Satan the father
of lies. His FIRST great lie misled our
first parents and murdered them. by
Word, I'm the day that thou eatest
thereof. thou shalt surely die" Gen
esis 2:17.l Satan cohtradicted the AL
mighty. saying. ''Ye shall not surely
die"-cannot die, We are immortal. your
life is perpetual one.
Satan has since impressed this false
hood upon the whole world. and has
largely succeeded In deceiving all.
When in fulflment of Gods Word
people die. Satan has brought in the
deceptive theory that they really have
become more alive than ever With
the theory that nobody can die came
the other theory-that when they seem
to die they merely go somewhere else
to live.
Thus. contrary to the Scriptures. the
whole world has come to believe that
at the moment of death the sanity go
to Heaven and ali the remainder. more
alive than ever. go either to Hell or
Purga tory. The plain. common-sense
statement of the Bible that all-both
good and bad, old and young-go to
Sheol.. Hades. to the tomb. is ignored.
The Bible teaching that the redemp-
tive. work of Jesus assured all res.
direction from the dead. is made null
and void by Satans declaration that
nobody is dead.
Immortality In Christ.
The Bible does indeed hold out for
the Church the hope of immortality
butsit Is only d hope. not already a
possession. Man WIS not created un-
qualiiiedly immortal The life given