The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-07-06


asylum; for could not lift my
thoughts from my danger Of eternal
torture. To escape insanity ! plunged
into society, gave and attended social
functions, and made my life one busy
whirl, in which had no time to think
Of God or Satan or the Bible. Oh, how
changed everything Is now, Pastor
Russell! My heart always yearned fol
God, and now l know Him. read
His Book, and see its great Divine
Plan Of the Ages. showing gracious
blessing for the Elect on the Heavenly
plane and a grand Restitution for the
non-elect to perfection on the earthly
plane. ever thank God for the Stud
les In the Scriptures
Have we not driven away from God
and from the Bible some Of the very
best minds Of the world, plunging them
into business, pleasure, society, novel
reading, theater-going or intoxication-
anything to stop themselves from
] thinking about the terrible possibilities
Of the future related to them by you
and me who have been deluded by
these doctrines of devils?
Aspsaking Lies In Hypocrisy"
Bt Paul describes Satan's work con-
cisely In the statement which forms
our text If the true light Of God
shines into any heart, it begins trans
formation work at once; hence Satan's
anxiety to keep people from thinking
OF God as a reasonable and adorable
Creator and from studying His gra-
cious Plan for human redemption. We
see how the eyes of all have been
much holden-the world seeing nothing
at all, and Christians seeing little
enough Of the goodness Of God. Thus
et. Paul prayed for Christians that the
eyes of their understanding opening,
they might be able to comprehend the
lengths and breadths, the heights and
depths, and to know the Love Of God,
which passes all human understanding.
-Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:14-1e.
This Love of God was completely OBJ
secured by the dense darkness Of the
medieval period, when the doctrines OF
demons got full hold upon the minds
Of the people, because the Bible was
feprobated and out of use for twelve
hundred years, while the people were
misguided into thinking that so-called
Apostolic bishops had the same au-
thority as the original Twelve Apostles
whom Jesus ordained. The creeds
made by these bishops took the place
OF the Word of God until the beginning
Of the Sixteenth Century; and since
then, it has been battle for the Bible
to get into the hands Of the people and
for the latter to realize their privilege
OF Bible study. Protestant bishops, In
front Of St. Paul's Cathedral, London,
set the example of burning the New
Testament, because those who would
study it would thereby be ignoring
these false apostles, who styled them
selves Apostolic Bishops, and of whom
Jesus said. They are not Apostles, but
liars Revelation 81
Finally the people, feeling after the
True God and His true Message, and
wondering why the bishops kept 1t
from them, made such stir about the
matter that both Protestant and Cath
ole bishops gave them the Bible In
English, but with dire threats that II
In reading they got anything different
from the creeds that the bishops had
made. they would roast to all eternity
Ever since, the Bible has been obliged
to fight for every inch Of ground It has
gained-fghting against bishops and
clergy who, II they could not keep it
from the people. did their best to make
1t support the doctrines OF demons
clergy themselves being deceived also,
and verify thinking that they were do
ing God service.
Difference In the Past Fifty Years.
During the past fifty years general
education has come Satan realized
that he must adopt new course. As
St Paul forstold, he affected to be an
angel Of light. leader into new light
q Corinthians 11:19-16.) He got hold
Of the colleges and seminaries, and
now sees to 1t that practically every
body Of college education has his re-
ligious faith entirely destroyed, so far
as Divine Revelation b concerned.
Surely not five out of every hundred
ministers and others graduated make
any pretense Of believing In the In
SEPARATION Of the Bible, when they are
speaking privately and confidentially!
They are too intelligent to believe In
etsrnal torture, and experience re-
vuision Of feeling against the Bible.
which the doctrines Of demons haya
led them to believe teaches these Sa-
tanic defusions.
As result, we have thousands Of
ministers drawing salaries tota Tlins,
mnAons OF dollars annually, who out
waxaly pose as Gods servants. minis
tiers Of His religion revealed IN ths
Bible, but who In reality are hyno
critics. Privately they win confess thai
they do not believe that man was era
ated In Gods image and fell from 4
Neither do. they believe that Jesus re-
deemed man from the fall; for they
say, There was no fall. Neither dc
they believe in coming Time Of Res
ututfon. which the Bible declares Ia
the great hope for the world. (Acts
S19-2S.) They are hypocrites pure and
simple. As the Apostle Paul declares
they speak lies In hypocrisy. having
their consciences scared with a hot
iron-"-1 Timothy Al. 2.
There are exceptions to this general
rule. They are found amongst the hess
educated ministers, whom their edu-
Gated brethren style '.mossbacks. -
There are others whose consciences ara
not entirely scared, and who are I'm
great distress, wishing to be honest
but fearing the cost. They say nttle
about the future, occasionally work IN
a little Truth, and are generally very
unhappy. l have hope for many Of
these yet, that they will get right with
God and take their stand for truth and
righteousness, casting all their cares
and fears upon the LORD fears re-
specting their living and provision for
their families, respecting their good
names, which VIII be cast out as evil,
as mine has been, II they Will firmly
stand The time Of decision Is here
whoever is not for God and for the
truth Is against the same
fne great leaders of Ecclesiasticism
seem to h"ve no conscience. If ap-
preached by their confding fiocks. they
dodge the questions with deceptive
phrases, fearing not God, neither re-
garding man, but merely looking for
gain, each from his own quarter-his
denOmination.-lsai 56:11.
1t is the duty of all who see the
Truth clearly to act positively. q Cor
inthians 6:17, 49, Whoever lends
financial aid or moral support to the
great systems which are opposing the
true teachings of Gods Word, and as
sisting In the perpetuation of Satan's
lie, Is a partaker of the evil deeds and