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

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The Pastor epoke - follows: e
During the DARK Ages doctrines Of
demons were foisted upon the Church
BY Setan's hestz az fallen angels. NIL
Mons were driven into the Church, but
driven away from God and from the
Bible Tho theory was that all not
members Of the Church would surely
so to eternal torture, but that by join
Ing the Church they would have a
chance Of, Heaven. even though the
path led through Purgatnry. Under
these unscriptural teachinss, Christian-
ity has enrolled lbs hundreds Of mil
hons, very. few Of whom know any
thing about the real Christianity Of the
Bible-trus d1scipleship Of Jesus Christ.
We see them In Europe today-of ali
crseds- doing their best 10 destroy
each other-to send each other 10 Pur-
gatory or to eternal torture. About 6ye
per cent are estimated to be Moham-
medans. Jews and inndsls, and the re-
naming .ninety-nve per cent. Chris
tians. What farcel What q hypo-
critical decept1onl The fact ID that
probably less than one par cent. of
all those millions would make any
claim to be followers Of Christ or Of
seeking to cultivate His Spirit Of
meekness, gentleness. patience, long
suffering, bsotherly kindness love The
great majority manifest the reverse
spirit of anger, malice. hatred, envy,
strife-works Of the fesh and Of the
Devil-Col. 3:S; Gal. 0:10-2a; John 3:s.
How few anywhere profess TO be
disciples or followers Of Jesus and His
teachings! Christian standards have
been so lowered that today Christian
Is not one who has surrendered his
whole being to God and His service,
and who has deyoted himself to fol
lowing the Masters example, but mere
ly one who refrains from profanity and
such gross sins as murder and i'm
morality. This change has come about
as revulsion against the thought that
everybody except mere handful of
saints Is en- route to eternal torture
Kind-hearted people could not think
Of their friends and relatives as suffer
ing thus. They had the thought Of
eternal torture firmly fixed and let It
remain, but moved down low the stand
ard of worthiness for everlasting life.
DsmonoIosy and the First LIE.
Lucffer, the cherub. through ambition
became Satan, Gods opponent He
deceived our first parents into sin by
his great falsehood. "Ye shall not sure
II die" Genesis 8.A) Since then he
has supported that lie personally and
through his demon hosts OF fallen an
gels These are not far on stocking fires
IN Hell and Purgatory, but right with
humanity, perpetuating the original
lie and convincing the world that Satan
told the truth when he said, "Ye shall
not surely die; and that God lied when
He said, Thou shalt surely die" The
doctrines Of demons have 90 far sue
ceeded that now practically everybody
believes that lie. and the claim Is made
that the dead are more alive after
death than before
On this original foundation-fsfse-
hood Satan has built up various the
Dries, all Of which tend to dslude hu-
manity and to drive them away from
God and from the promises Of the BIZ
BILE he tells them that the dead ara
alive somewhere. and that at death the
good and the bad Immediately enter
their rewards and punishments With
out resurrection. The errors are 30
skilfuliy framed as to teach that Heav-
en- can be entered only through a num-
Der of passage ways; such as baptism
tn infancy, confirmation, holy water,
holy candles and holy burial, prayers,
Eucharist and masses Satan enlists
on his side all who are interested In
these various Heavenward helps. These
have been reyerenced; money has been
paid to them freely; they have made
the success already suggested, and
claim four hundred million Christians.
But how few of these really know the
true God or really love Himl
1Gather My Saints to Me-"
In the Bible, however, God sets forth
the True Church Of the First horns,
whose names are written In Heaven.
Jesus is the Head over these; and they
all are brethren. and not divided into
slergy and laity. They are called saints.
psalm 50:5.) God could indeed use
force In gathering His Elect Church,
but He will not do 30. He will now
gather merely those who have the hear
ing ear and the responsive heart. OF
these He says, ''They shall be Mine In
that Day when l make up My jewels"
Then New Epoch will open; and
under the Headship Of Jesus these Jew
els viii constitute the Messianic King
dom Then the blessing Of the world
will begin. The first step In that
blessing will be the binding Of Satan,
that he may deceive the people no
more. Next viii come the sweeping
away of the ignorance and supersti
ton which have been his web for en-
tRngling humanity. Thus all the blind
ed eyes will be opened. and all the
deaf ears unstopped-an WITH see; all
will hear; all viii know Of the Love of
God. which passes all human under
standing. Isaiah 851t Romans s:ss,
49, Then the knowledge Of the glory
Of God will Ill the eartht and as re-
suit every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess, to the gf3ry Of God
Isa- 119; Hah. 2:14, Phtk 2i10, IL.
The outcome win be that all wiiful
sinners win be destroyed In the Second
Death, while all others win be ushered
into the perfection Of life In a world
wide Eden. Then there shall be no
more signing. no more crying, no more
dying: for all the former things shall
have passed away. And He that sat
upon the Throne said, Behold, / make
ali things new."-Rsvslatton Ala, 8.
5Iasphsmins the Holy Name.
Ii 1t not strange that we ever be-
neved the monstrous falsehoods taught
Ne by these doctrines Of demons- that
the dead are more afive than ever; that
nearly ali OF them are suffering I'M
tellabls fortunes, while the remaining
small remnant look over the battle
msnts Of Heaven and rejoice In the
misery Of the unfortunatesf Assured
ly no human brain ever coococted such
. Satanic theory We challenge the
ability OF any man b SIT down and
Deliberately conooet anything worse
than what has been described to Us as
the Plan Of the grea1 Heavenly Crsa-
tps, the Father Of msrciea. from whom
comsh down every good and every
perfect gift, and whose very name Is
Love We have nsver found man or
woman % nsndfsh a. our God has
hssn dssss1bed 10 n
Hsssln We SO tbs gatap3c cumming
of our great Advsssary, ~ establish