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BAD PREACHING

Editor News
Please permit me to correct some
bad doctrine I have heard preached
from the following text: Honor the
Lord with thy substance. and with the
first fruits of all thine increase. -
Prov. $40, although the preacher fail
ed to tell us where this text was to be
found
In his Or liminary remarks he defn-
ed money thus; Money is ones
COMMITTED SELF" and he then remark
ed "If anyone wants to criticiss my
definition of money, let him critieiSe
it," and so do go, as follows:
If "money is ones COMMITTED sell"
as be said, then one or the other of
the two following correct deductions
is true:
That God has to transform.
metamorphose, or transmute the mon
ey Of his people into themselves, and
commute it from hell into heaven in
stead of them, and let them all 60 to
hell, but take all their money to heav-
en- as their "commuted selves"
Q, Or else they have to bride God
with their money to SO commute their
hell sentence as toilet them go to heav-
en- by money communication, one or the
other, sure. No denying of this, if
be defined money rightly. This would
be buying God off from sending us to
hell, with our money, and with that
money buying our way into heaven
with sordid money. for such sordid
transaction would not only make our
money sordid, but would also make
God sordid, too.
His two assigned reasons why we
should honor God with our substance.
and the first fruits Of all our increase
was:
I. That they are all Gods, and he
boosted, "This is the best reason /
can give" to witch / reply, that this
preacher aud Christ greatly differ, for
Christ said, "And another came, say
ing, Lord, behold, here Thy pound,
which l have kept laid up in nap
kim" Luke 1920, from which we
learn there is no such thing as honor
ing God by giving Him only what is
His own, for He that had one pound.
it was taken from him, and given to
him who had ten pounds - Verse "a.
9, His second reason given why we
should honor God with, as his text
said, "Thy substance, and with the
first fruits of all thine increase was
worse tnan the first reason, for he
said: sit is not yours, s." after God in
the text plainly said it is "thy sub
stance" and chime increase. and
so he gave the lie to God, for GOD
said it was thine, and the preacher
said it "was not "
Again, am sure we simply cannot
honor God by giving Him something
which is not ours, If 30 We can equal
" honor God by giving Him some
money or other property, which we
have stolen from somebody else, and
that would make God thief, too, in
that He received from US stolen prop
erty and thus let us honor Him with
property which was not ours, because
we stole it. Truly, "tbo legs of the
lame are not equal" Prov. e6:7.
This preacher also thrice declared
"Socisty is Gods hand to bring His
blessings to US, to which false state
ment l reply as follows:
I. know that this statement is al
so false because Society, is not once
named, mentioned or even limited at
in all the Bible, neither in the He
brew, Greek, nor the English language
or Languages, and if "Society." was
the "important hand of God to bring
us His blessings" we know God
would have so named and specified it
as such, plainly, too, somewhere IN
His Bible. The fact that God did not
so designate it, is positive proof that
this statement Of this preacher Is also
false
9. The word "Society" comes to
us, from neither tbs Hebrew nor the
Greek languages. in the former OF
which the Old Testament was writ"
ten, and the New Testament In the
latter, but from the Latin, "Socie-
tss," which means "a copfederacy, -
and God had. Isaiah S;ft-1e, written
hundreds Of years before the Latin's
originated "Sooety- Confederacy, -
thus: "For the Lord spake thus to
me with strong hand, aud instruct
ed me that should not walk IN the
way of this people, saying, "Say ye
not, "A Confederacy, to all them to
whom this people shall say, A Con-
tederacy' mel Their fear we their fear,
nor be afrsil' and so just absol-
utely know that God would not, or
does not make a Latin Society Con
federacy His hand to carry its bless
ings to His people,
8. "Society" originated among the
Latins many years after the Bible was
written and closed, and it is of Sa-
tan, and is rotten from center to cir
conference, and the Society bon tons
ara the yely ones who are now prac-