River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-10-29


lures which seem to imply that there
may be literal assassination and de-
struction of Gods faithful people In
the end of this Age, as well as a figura-
tive one. But the Lords grace will be
sufficient for them; and the more they
shall suffer for His sake, for the
Truths sake, the greater will be their
glory and station in the Kingdom.
Who shall be punished for these
crimes against the Saints of God? We
answer, Babylon: and Babylon signi-
fes what is today known as 1.-The Chris
tan world"-a very anomalous term;
for the world has no Identification with
Christianity nor Christianity with the
world The so-called 'tChristendoms of
our day corresponds exactly to the
Jewry of Jesus day. Then Scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites, We're band
ed together with the Sadducees End
the Herodians, the worldly and intdel
politicians Their object was one,
namely, the perpetuation Of their own
institution, regardless of Gods ar
rangement So here, the civilized
world, misnaming itself .sChrist's King
DOM" is intent upon the preservation
of the great Babylon which 1t has con-
structed, and willing to do anything to
avoid its foretold destruction.
Hypocrisy the Greatest of All Sins.
Taking into account the prosecutions
endured by Gods saints throughout
this Gospel Age, there must be a
heavy account on the book Of Justice
to be settled. Sanity Catholics, saint
" Presbyterians, sanity Baptists,
sanity Methodists, sanity people in
and out Of all denominations have suf-
fered; and jesus words still stand
true - namely, that whosover would
give to the least Of His followers even
a cup of cold water would not fail of
reward, and that injury to even the
least of these would be punished.
Are we asked what are the special
sins of our day? We reply that here,
dis in Jesus day. hypocrisy is the
greatest Of all sins. There were thefts,
murders, adulteries, and injustices of
various kinds in Jesus day; yet while
denouncing all these In spirit, He prac-
tically ignored them all in His denun-
Citations OF the hypocrisy of the re
ligious rulers of His time. We be-
lieve that His Judgment of so-called
''Christendom" today is the same.
There was a time when the world
ignorantly thought that the kings Of
earth were ruling as part Of Christ's
Kingdom. There was a time when
men really believed that their ever
lasting destiny was in the hands Of
the clergy, Protestant and Catholic,
and that unless they had the good of
fees of these in baptism, marriage,
funerals, &c, they would be eternally
tormented; but that day has passed-a
more enlightened day has come.
Our BibAe b better understood; the
clergy are no~longer deceived. They
know that the word Sheol of the Old
Testament and the word Hades of the
New Testament represent the state or
condition of death, into which the
whole world goes-good and bad. They
know that these words could not rep
resent torture or fire in any sense Of
| the word. They see Gods character
more clearly; they perceive that the
| kingdoms of this world are merely po-
litical institutions permitted for a
time, waiting for the glorious epoch of
Messiahs Kingdom to bring in the
New Order of things,
But Notwithstanding this knowledge,
the Divine character is still blasphem-
ed. The kings of the earth, told dur
| ing the clark ages" that they were the
sword of the Lord and servants of the
Church, have not been undeceived.
Hence the Gear of Russia, the Head Of
| the Greek Church, believes he is work
| ing out Divine destiny; the British
under King George are equally con-
yinced that they are working out
| great destiny as Gods Kingdom. The
German Kaiser is similarly deceived
into thinking that he is the sword of
the Almighty, as indicated In his report
| ed proclamation to his army In Poland.
These false doctrines Of the .dark
ages" are bearing q terrible fruitage in
| the present war. Similarly the teach
| ings of eternal torment, miSrepresent-
| ing. and disappearing Gods character,
are bearing an evil fruitage. Millions
of people are being turned away from
faith in a God of Love and from faith
| in the Bible as His Message by the
most monstrous blasphemies of the
| dark ages I charge the responsible
| ty of all this against the sects and
| creeds of ChriStendOm
A great fraud, a great hypocrisy, you
say? answer, Yes; the most astound-
| ing the world has ever known. Two
hundred thousand professed ministers
of God and Christ are standing before
| the world today telling the legends Of
| the Dark Ages ard seeking to hinder
the people from coming to knowledge
| Of the Truth meanwhile receiving the
peoples money and reverence. Does
not such hypocrisy, such basphemy
against God, such deception Of the peo-
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