Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-16
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What Is IT. How Get Rid of 1t?
The Life of Holiness.
By Martin Switzer.

is the result of dlSobeylng God. What
soever is not of faith is sin. Rom.
Ia, %. Blessed is the person who is
free from it. Sin ruins individuals.
Sin ruins families. Sin ruins nations.
We have a good example of its direful
effects in the brutal struggle in
Europe today.
1t was through Adams ~transgres-
sions that sin was ~entailed upon the
whole human race. When God created
Adam He put His own life into him,
and the retention of this life depend
ed entirely upon his obedience to God.
He was created holy for we read that
he was created in the image of God
and the image of God is righteous
ness and true holiness. Eph. a, "a.
God said to Adam the day thou eatest
the fruit of the tree in the midst of
garden thou shalt surely die. But
the Devil said thou shalt not surely |
die. So you see we have two kinds
of religion. Gods religion is a sin
less religion, the Devils religion a
SHINING religion. This may seem like
a contradiction of terms. The Devils
religion is a ~perversion of the truth.
a sort of half truth, a wrestling of
the scripture. If I try to make the
bible harmonic with my doctrine, my
life instead of making my life harmon
ize with the bible / have the Devils re-
ligion.
It is a fact and a sad one to that
many of so-called christians advo-
cate a shining religion. They tell us
it is impossible to live a sinless life.
If this statement be true, the Devil
was not far wrong according to the
belief of many people, when he did his
best to PERSUADE Jesus to succumb to
His wishes in the wilderness. If I am
wrong in this statement, I will gladly
~recant. My bible says plainly "Who-
soever is born of God sinneth not"
| I'M not responsible for this saying.
God said it. He also says "Let God be
true and every man a liar" A person
is a liar when he advocates a doctrine
that is not in harmony with the plain
teaching of the bible. This is the
DEVILS religion. Dare you deny this?
If l am mistaken in this statement I
certainly fail to understand my bible
and am laboring under a tremendous
error into which I have fallen.
The Devil hates holiness. He likes
nothing better than a SHINING religion.
A life of shining and repenting and
repenting and SHINING is one of the
most delusive damnable heresies that
was ever concocted by the ingenuity
of the Devil. 1t is a CREASED plank on
which he is sliding hundreds and thou
, sands of souls into hell annually The
person who can not see holiness in
every chapter of the bible should
have a special occulist or optician ex-
anime his eyes and he will find there is
something wrong with them.
Where my bible says once aye must
be born again" it says twenty times
"Be We holy. How necessary it is
that u ministers press holiness to
, the front; preach it pungently, de-
> finitely. Remember without holiness
' no man shall see the Lord" No one
but those who have clean hands and
. a pure heart shall ascend unto the hill
: of the Lord. The hill of the Lord
means heaven.
To get rid of our sins we must be
born again. This is the initial step to
salvation and salvation is freedom
from sin. Through Christ's death and
burial we receive the forgiveness of
sins and through His resurrection we
a are raised to a life of purity; a life of
holiness; the likeness of His resur-
~rection stamped in US. Do you want
proof? Turn to Rom. 6, 5. "For if we
have been planted together in the like
1ess of his death We shall be also in
the likeness of his resurrection" Now
We know what it means to be sancti-
lied wholly. We have crossed the Jor-
Ian, saw the walls of Jericho tumble
down, cleaned out the Canaanites, the
Amorites, the Amalekites and all the
rest of the ties and refreshing on
corn and wine for all it's riches are
freely mine.
No more on Jordans stormy banks
stand
And cast a wishful eye,
l have crossed and entered Canaan
Where my possessions lie.
Now brother this is holiness or
sanctifcation. Call it which you
choose. They are classed as syno-
nyms by the most profound theolo-
gians. How obtained? By faith
justification is a work God does for
us; specification is a work God does
lin US, and is subsequent to regenera-
ton. / can not explain it to you SO
YOU will get a clear conception of its
meaning no more than / can explain
justification. There are no external
manifestations or demonstrations to
prove a second work of grace. 1t can
be known only by an experience. II
s as broad as the universe, as high as
heaven and as deep as profundity. VIII
can comprehend t.
There is a way by which each person
possessing it, a distinguish the one
from the other. In justification we have
peace with God; in sanctifcation we
1nave the peace of God. In the former
we have faith in God; in the latter we
have faith in God. In the former ws
Hove God; in the latter we have the
love of God shed abroad in our hearts
by the Holy Ghost which is given In
to US.
In addition to the above let me ado
this: The former makes US citizens
in Gods kingdom; the latter makes us
soldiers. This is christian perfection
Better aim at perfection and miss it
than aim at imperfection and hit it
Brother, please study your bible care.
fully and if you find any thing like
fanaticism in these statements let me
know where they are and you will
oblige your friend.
MARTIN SWITZER.
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