Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-08-16

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Corinthians BIB.
The Pastor declared that his tex.
was one of many Scriptures which APP
ply to our day. The reference is not
to a twenty-four-hour day, but to a
period of time in the end of this Cos
pei Age, during which things will be
different from what they had been
before. The context shows that the
text deals only with Christians; for
these alone build upon Christ. One
class builds with the truths of Gods
Word; the other, with the wood, hay
and stubble of tradition and creeds
of the Dark Ages. The light of
knowledge is consuming the false
faith structures of the majority of
protested Christians. In discardinS
the errors of the past many have also
discarded true faith in God and His
Word. Those whose faith structures
are unframed are only those who
understand Gods Word.
The Scriptures show that God has
divided the history Of the world un
der its sin and death experiences ir-
to six great Days of thousand years
each, to be followed by Sabbath
Day. God has given fallen man this
Work Week in which to demonstrate
what the race can do toward their
own uplife, to prove whether they
can manage themselves. Mankind
have tried in vain to overcome the
weaknesses and infirmities of the
Tace-mental, moral and physical.
Gradually the whole world is being
convinced that unless the Almighty
shall assist them, they are hopeless.
We have reached the end of mans
Work Week. Now is the Day of reck-
ching. We are living in the Day Of
the Lord, in which occur special
trials, blessings and enlightenment.
AS the fire of trouble spreads, the
light of Truth spreads also. The
whole world is being involved. This
is exactly what The Bible has predict
ed for this Day of the Lord.
"The Fire OF That Day"
The Scriptures represent God as a
consuming Fire and as Light. Tie
; brews 1929; i John 1:5.) Both
figures of sreech apply to Him. The
sun is hall of fire and source &C
light. God is a consuming fire to ev-
cry form of iniquity, of injustice.
Therefore all systems founded upon
selishness and inequity must 20
down in this great Day of the Lord.
when He has risen to shake terribly
the earth, to shake down all unrigh-
,teousDess. Isaiah 2:12l22.
In this present time of trouble
and distress of nations, there is a
blessing for 1.-The children OF The
: light" while the consuming fire is
destroying everything wrong. This
fire is burning up false faith md
false doctrines, together with all that
is built Herewith. Much that is
taught and accepted as Truth is Mt
terly subversive of all true faith and
doctrine. The fire of God in this
DAY of Christ will destroy all this
false teaching and the words thereof.
The great universities of Europe
and America today are hot-beds Of
,infidelity, although the majority Of
them were originally established for
the Christian education of our youth.
Today there are few Christian co..
leges. Young people sent to these
ms itutions of learning soon lose
faith in the Bible as the Word If
God. The fires of knowledge almost
ulllc lucll lditn III bou iHCoS
young people need our help for
many of them wish to believe, if only
they knew what is right, what Is
Itrue.
When we tell them about the fall
of Adam, the Redemption in Christ,
the selection of the Church during
this Gospel Age, and the blessing OF
all mankind during the next Age,
when the willing and obedient shall,
through the Messianic Kingdom, be
helped out of sin and death into life
and peace, we give them something
that is soul-satisfying. The Eyolu-
ton theory, on the other hand, IS
poor comfort to a hungry, sorrowing
heart.
The Scriptures indicate that cv-
erything except the Truth and struc-
lures built thereupon will be con-
sumed in this Day, begun more tha2
forty years ago. Not only the &C.
clesiastical heavens" but the social
! EARTH" with all it's elements, politi-
! cal, financial, etc.-will be burned.
The fire will last even down into the
Millennial Age; for our God is ire
concilably opposed to all injustice,
J impurity and unrighteousness. AT
ter His work has been accomplished
ours will be a clean world.
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