Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-08-07

just themselves to their changed creed For if there are no non elect infants. then all infants are elect: and if elect when infants. how could their predes- tination change with advancing years His sympathetic advice to PreSbyte- rian brethren is, that the entire creed be recast; or, better still, that it and all other creedS be aba ndoned. and the Bible as a whole be accepted. Then. be argued. all Bible students could come together without prejudice for mutual assistance and untrammeled growth in grace along Bible lines
 While the Pastor mentioned Presby terians, his thought included all Chris tians. For surely many others than Presbyterians have been consigning adults and infants to the number of at least 90.OOO every day. or 32.O0O.OOO every year. to eternal torture. if not because non-elect. then because un- reeenerate. or unbaptized. Surely all intelligent people are out of accord with such proposition. Surely all must agree that some great mistake has been made during the Dark Ages and that under the influence of thai mistake as expressed in our creeds. our God has been slandered Surely today every thinking person will con cede that human being planning such atrocities would be Il thousand times more deviish than any one i'm, great God. our Creator. could not be worse than the worst and most de prayed of all His creatures.
 On the contrary. God must of neces sity be the very perSonitication of all the graces-JuStice Wisdom. Love and Power. Evidently the God who fore knew and determined to send these 32. GOO. .O0O human beings per year to an eternity of torture would not only moi be a God al all. but would be the most terrible devil that the human mind could conceive.
 Bible Students are realizing that a great mistake has occurred. and that the Bible teaches nothing of the kind we had supposed More and more. as the eyes of their understanding open to proper interpretations of Gods Word. they are appreciating the Di vine character. and the, Bible as never 1 before.
 The Pastor declared that week from now he will consider some of the Masters dark sayings. and show how they have been misinterpreted and misapplied. Today he must content himself with the subject in hand He must discuss Gods relationship to the heathen and to infants.
 He Still Sees Difficulties.
 As we understand it. said the Pas tor, our Presbyterian friends have changed the statement of the creed which formerly read. Elect infants dying in infancy are saved" taking out the word "e!ect." and letting Il read. Infants dying in infancy art saved" But is this true: Do oul Presbyterian friends believe this!
 Come. let us reason together. Art not the children as well as the more 'matured members of Adams family born in sin and misshapen in iniquity Are not all of these by nature ''chil dren of wrath"t Did not every mem Der of Adams family come under hi sentence and participate in the pen atty. or curse. of his sin-"Dying. thol shalt die! Is not this the reasOl i,,f fli al .l concede that had there been no sil there would have been no death in th' human family? Does not St Paul dis tinctly state this. saying. By on' mans diSobedience sin entered. thu world. and death as the result of sin and thus death passed upon all mel because all are sinners? = Roman 5:12: Psalm 51 :5
 All Condemned Need Redemption.
 Surely all Christian people, Presby terians especially. will agree with m' that the sentence of death. passed upoI Father Adam and inherited by hi race, must needs be settled. cancelled before any of his posterity. old O young. could be released from the pen alty. True, we all agree that the deatl of the Lord Jesus Christ is the redemn tion-price and that He provided it nor than eighteen centuries ago. But d. we not also agree that Jesus death, o Itself. saves nobody; that His merit be comes applicable merely to us of th Church at such time as We believe Il it and accept it. appropriating it to our selves!
 Is not this the proclamation of tn Gospel Age Believe. Believe. Do w not remember the Bible declaration that we are justified by faith. not b. being intdRts? And do we not al agree that faith cannot be exercises except by more or less develope, mind? Hence all should agree tha the Scriptural proposition is. that al infants shared in Adams sentenc of death. and have provision also l. the redemptive work of Jesus Ney ertheless. they can be saved only b coming to a knowledge of God and o Jesus. and by then exercising fait and obedience to the extent of ability We believe this to be an nndebatabl proposition
 If this be so then our Presbyteria