The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-10-27

under the threat that to doubt the creed
meant to be damned, feared to think
for themselves. Satan helped not only
to make our creeds, but to manacle us
to them by direful threats. Well may we
praise God for the dawning light of the
New Day, which is bringing US bless
ings Of q spiritual kind. even as it Is
showering upon us temporal advan-
tages such as the world never before
knew. Freedom to think transcendS
all physical liberties. Truly "the lib
erty wherewith Christ makes free" Is
the great boon Of God to man. In pro-
portion as 1t has been received there is
joy; otherwise there is discomfort,
grooming, pain.
Gods curse, as set forth by the
creeds, consigns the whole world to
eternal torture, except as any should
be SO fortunate as to hear Of the Sa-
vior, and to respond and to be favorably
environed for saintship. In our IRA
tional dread we stopped not to ques.
ton the authority Of those who made
the creeds. 1t was asserted that they
were a condensed statement Of the BIZ
bic teachings, prepared by cry holy
and very learned men; and that it
would be dangerous for any to at
tempt to understand the Bible without
the aid Of the especially ordained
! apostolic bishops.
But that day has gone. Education
has become more general. Contradic-
ton amongst the apostolic bishops has
demonstrated that they are fallible-
that none Of them were inspired, as
were the twelve Apostles Of the
Lamb" whom Jesus appointed to be
the twelve foundations of the Church
of the New Jerusalem.
Back Now to the Bible.
Satan. perceiving the crumbling in
fuence Of creeds and the tendency to
return to the Bible. has invaded all
the institutions Of learning. He has
captured nearly all the professors.
Ginning to be an angel of light and
leader toward the Truth. he has been
poisoning their minds with Higher
Criticism and Evolution. By this mas
ter stroke he has accomplished In
these last thirty years ten thousand
times more than VoItaire and Ingersoll
ever hoped to accomplish.
Nevertheless. the Divine arrange
ment will not be frustrated, although
worldly wisdom has captured the
worldly-wise, as the Bible foretold.
Qsaiah 2e:14.) Liberty of mind has
brought to Bible students an opportu-
nifty and a willingness to study the
Scriptures without creed spectacles.
And they are being blessed. A light
is going forth to the ends Of the earth
"a truer light, from the Word of God.
The Curse of God.
Instead of Gods curse being eternal
torture, from which only a handful
would be rescued by the Savior, Bible
students now see that the Bible dis
tinctly tells that 1.-THE wages of sin is
death"-that capital punishment with
the Almighty is precisely what 1t Is
with the most intelligent Of His crea-
tures.-Rom. SIP; 6:23.
The record throughout the Bible is
the same as the statement with which
1t begins. There we are told that the
Almighty declared the curse in these
words, Because thou hast hardened
unto the voice of thy wife [been DISC
bedientl, accursed is the ground for
thy sake; " " y thorns and thistles
shall it bring forth to thee: " 70 " in
the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat
bread, until thou return to the ground
whence thou vast taken; for dust thou
art and unto dust shalt thou return"
This fully accords with the Divine Law
as elsewhere recorded in the Bible:
The soul that sinneth, it shall die"
!, The curse is a heavy me-. Under 1t
2 our race has been going down to the
prison-house Of death for six thousand
!; years, a grooming creation" as the
Apostle declares, Every century our
: chains Of sin have grown heavier, our
, mental, moral and physical powers
! have grown weaker. until now the av-
erage length Of human life is only
( thirty-gix years; whereas Father Adam
was able to- stand up under the curse
| for nine hundred and thirty years.
The dying has attacked us In various
ways. Our insane asylums tell US Of
Q some who have died mentally. Our
t prisons tell us Of others who have died