River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-11-26
be glorified with Their Rtdeemer in His
Messianic Kingdom.
Let Each Examine Himself.

speeding the love of the Truth it be
hooves each one to examine himself to
determine whether be loves and serves
a creed of the Dark Ages or a denomi-
nation and creed of modern times, or
whether his love and devotion are sim
ply to the Truth presented to US in the
Divine Word. We may deceive others.
and we may even to some extent de
ceive ourselves: for. as the Prophet
declares. the heart is exceedingly de
ceitful But we cannot deceive God
If in the Lords Providence the
Truth comes TO us, and we get some
glimpse of its beauty in contrast with
the hopeleSSness of error. test is
upon US If we reject the Truth be-
cause of its unpopularity, and hold to
the abominable error because it is pop
ular. we are thereby tested. On the
other hand, if we receive the Truth
and rejoice in it, but because of its
unpopularity we hide the light under
bushel, concealing it in order thus to
shield ourselves from the opposition OF
darkness, we may be sure that our &C
ton will be displeasing to the Lord.
who seeketh not such TO be His Elect
He puts His Word on a parity with
Himself. saying, 'I1e that is ashamed
of Me and My Word. of him will l be
ashamed when | come in the. glory of
My Kingdom"
This is what st. Paul refers to when
he speaks of those who received not
the Truth in the love of it. Whoever
receives the Truth in the love of it will
to the best of his ability and judgment
show it to others at whatever the cost
may be. Thus he will be proving him
self to be a child of the Light, child
of God; and he will be saved. But
whoever seeks to save his life-to save
earthly interests by hiding the light
or failing to acknowledge it publicly
will surely find his course injurious to
himself.
Like the Hypocrites of Old.
We have already pointed out that
the Scriptures liken the influences at
work in our day undermining faith
consuming it, destroying it, to pes
thence which is in the very air and
which lays hold upon all whose sys
TENS are in condition to be inoculated
with the poison. | must elaborate this
point; for the evil influences by which
we are surrounded are SO subtle, SO de-
ceptive so all-pervading, that the ma
jority do not recognize them. Let us
look the matter squarely in the face
1t is necessary for the Lords true peo-
pie to know the facts. AS for others,
they are SO stupidity asleep, so thor
oughly intoxicated with the wine OF
Babylon (Revelat ton 1922, that we
| have no hope of arousing them.
Ever since this evil day began-forty
years ago-this pestilence has been go
ing forth. Today every college, every
| theological seminary throughout the
entire civilized world. is teaching what
| is commonly known as Higher Crit
| icism-although the proper name for
! it would be Higher Infdelity-inideli-
| ty amongst the high ones of all Chris
| tendon. These Higher Critics are do
| ing exactly the same work that Thorn
| as Paine and Robert lngersoll did
only that they are carrying On their
| work on a higher plane appealing not
| to the gross, to the vile, but to the
Rrefined. the intelligent. the truth-seek
| ing.
| AS result, their influence is thou
sandfold more injurious Those to
whom Paine and Ingersoll appealed
were very rarely Christians at all;
hence they destroyed very little faith
they merely made the unbelief more
rank and foul But these Higher Crit
| ic infidels of this evil day are making
use of all the vast machinery of Chris
tendon in all denominations, especial
| ~ through the theological seminaries,
to undermine and overthrow the faith
of all who have named the name of
| Christ-great and small, rich and poor,
cultured and ignorant. 1t is being done
| matically-craftily, deceitfully, In
| a manner that the masses Of people
wucid scarcely credit.
1t is safe to say that fully four out
of every five who are graduated from
theological seminaries, Of all denomi-
nations, are Higher Critic inidels, who
have been instructed that their main
business is to promote morality
amongst the people. especially to build
up Churchianity, particularly their
own denomination. and gradually
stealthily, craftily, to wean the people
from the faith of the Bible to their
| Higher Criticism dogma. And they
are succeeding most wonderfully.
| "pestilence'' is the only fguratiVe ex-
preston which really fits this PERM
| cious influence.
"Out of thine own mouth will /
Judge thee" saith the Lord; and in
harmony with this statement we find
| that in the Lords Providence these
Higher Critics are more and more tell
ing on themselves. But the nominal
| Christian is quite obtuse; and many OF
| the true Christians, as the Apostle ex-
! plains, are merely '1babes in Christ,
unable to use the strong meat OF the
i Word -HohrnxuS S.1O-71