The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-03-17

Gospel only uses the term Heaven" in the
sense of uncleanness; the process is a pro-
cess of disintegration. 1t is not process in
chemistry of preservation. Certainly the
Son of God was not an gnoramus in regard
to the process of leaven in its action. The
leaven of the Pharisees was a destructive
principle which absolutely ruined spiritual
ity and caused them to become bitter assas-
sins The Scripture says very plainly that
"Seducers shall wax worse and worse" that
there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets and shall show great signs and
wonders insomuch that if it were possible
they shall deceive the very elect. The fall
ing away from the truth into absolute
apostasy is predicted by the Apostle Paul as
we'll as other inspired writer's: But evil
men and seducers shall wax worse and
worse. receiving and being deceived" Be
ginning with the first verse OF the third
chapter of 2 Timothy we find the prophecy
concerning the apostasy of the church:
This know also that in the last days per-
ilous times shall come, covetous boosters,
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents.
unthankful, unholy, without natural affec-
ton truce breakers, false accusers, incon-
tinent. fierce, despisers of those that
good, traitors, heady high-minded, lovers
Of pleasures more than lovers of God; nav
ing a form of godliness but denying the
power thereof: from such turn away"
This prophecy is fulfilled in our DAYS
There are false teachers and apostate
preachers who substitute the form of Godli-
ness for the power thereof They build
dance halls in connection with their
churches and make trao-door into hell out
of the institution they call the church. Such
churches are religious garbage cans. Such
preachers are ecclesiastical buzzards con
stantly searching for those who are too rot
ten to repent and be converted and live
clean lives.
The Record
Look at the record made by those who
have deliberately rejected the revealed truth
of the Bible concerning the Deity of Jesus
Christ and redemption through His atom
ing and redeemng blood. Consider the
frightful apostasy of any number Of English
and German and American preachers whose
utterances have been infinitely worse than
those OF Thomas Paine, voltaire or Robert
Ingerson. Take the present status of the
church membership in America the ma
Laodicean period, "They are neither cold
nor hot" They have settled down into the
nauseating, lukewarm condition described in
the third chapter of Revelation.
Persecution purified the church. When
the church travelled through fire, or through
water, or through blood, her testimony
shook the world; when the church became
rich and said she had need of nothing, then
she lost her power and the Head of the
church, Jesus Christ, declares He will spue
the church out of His mouth He is not re-
ferring to those who are clean and pure in
heart, but He is referring to that tremen-
dous multitude of unregenerated, unspir-
itual, goddess people in the church who re-
fuse to be led into a knowledge Of the
truth
The majority of church members in this
city never try to lead a soul to Christ from
one years end to the other. They remind
me of a northern man who bought planta-
tion in Georgia One Of his friends visited
him and he said, II understand there are ma
tives down here whom you call crackers
Can you show me one of them, or tell me
their peculiarities?" The planter pointed to
an object in a distant field and said, do
you see that brown object? That may be
stump or it may be a cracker You stand
here and watch it for thirty minutes. If it
moves. it is a stump"
In Atlanta some time ago they had a pla-
que Of smallpox and they vaccinated all OF
the negro school children. The doctor came
to one little boy and asked him if he had
been vaccinated. He answered. Vas, sir.
Use been vaccinated and baptized BOTH but
it didn't take" And that is the trouble with
the goddess crowd in the church. They are
willing to run the gamut of forms and cere-
monies. They have form of goodness but
they deny the power thereof
Christ says in regard to the moral condi-
ton Of the world at His coming Matt "a:
37-39): But as the days of Noah were, so
shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
for as in the days that were before the
flood they were eating and drinking, marry
ing and giving in marriage until the day
that Noah entered into the ark, and knew
not until the flood came and took them all
away, so shall also the coming of the Son OF
man be"
Christ holds out absolutely no hope that
the Gospel which is preached for a witness
will be accepted by all men, but He defin-
itely teaches that multitudes will reject it
Matt 25:4D. "Then shall He say also IN