Arizona republican., 1917-09-21

u--- - -- ------- universal system adapted to the needs of man. Is the plan of salvation which was designed by the Father in the be- ginning, to be made available unto a world of mankind, or merely favored few?
 There is but one answer: if Chris tianity is potent unto salvation for q few, it must be made available unto all: whosoever will.
 If salvation through faith in Christ and obedience to the principles of His gospel was not known to the world till in the meridian of time, what became of the souls of all those who died before?
 No: it is an error incident to man. made doctrine to believe and teach that the gospel of salvation was not had in the world till Christ came in person. It was the heather king NebuchadnezZar nearly eight hundred years, B. C., who after having cast three men into the fiery furnace eX- claimed: To, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God" How did he know about the Son of God eight hundred years before that Son came to the earth Evidently, something of Christianity was known at that time even by a heather king And why not? Was not God able to reveal those things to his people? Is 1t not as reasonable that men could be saved by faith that looked forward to Christ, as that salvation may now be obtained through a faith that looks backward to the cross?
 Moses lived some fifteen hundred 1 years B. C. and yet we read that it was through faith that his parents hid him from the cruel Pharaoh and that by faith when Moses came to years of ~ understanding, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choos- ing to suffer affliction with the people of God, and "esteeming the reproach Of Christ greater riches than the treas ures of Egypt."-Heb. 11:26.
 Then there was Abraham, some two thousand years, B. C., and we read in : Gal. 3:S of justification through faith in his time, and that the Gospel was preached to Abraham. Yes the Gospel is the universal measuring line ~by which all nations are to be judged
 There is no system of law or prin- ciple which has been adulterated and
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 religion, but like the leaven hid in the three measures of meal the true sed
 of the pure gospel has been hidden
 among various forms, and in much
 slightly altered worldiness, but in the
 end, it will be pure Christianity which
 must leaven the whole lump
 The ten commandment law which
 was given to Moses was an inferior
 code and was added because of
 transgression." See Gal. 3:19. But as
 it is impossible to add something to
 nothing, we ask: What was the law of
 Moses added to?
 Does it dctract from the majesty
 and excellence of the everlasting Cos
 pei to maintain that the law of Moses
 which was given 2500 years after
 creation, was added to that same most glorious Gospel? Certainly not, for it shows the superiority of the gospel over all
 Verse 13 of Galatians 3. calls the
 added law curse in plain terms and
 we learn that the people were cursed
 with an inferior law or government
 because they were unworthy of
 better. The nations of this present ' time, having perverted the Gospel are , under similar curse for the same
 reason
 We boast of our Gospel liberty, and , then proceed to 1ocalize, diminish and
 reduce the Gospel as to it's application [ and scope, until it becomes a factor in our spiritual bondage rather than the , means of glorious liberty in the truth. The ten commandment law is referred to in Il. Cor 3:7, as the ministration or death written and graven in stones. ," ana the Eth verse shows that though
 the local law possessed some glory vet
 the gospel law rising above every io- , calism, is more glorious Verse II , says that the one written and grayen
 in stones (evidently the ten command , ment law is done away" and verse
 Is says it is abolished" Hebrews ' E1-13 emphasizes the same great truth f stating that the first covenant (the f covenant given to Moses as set forth , In FIX 34:2S waXeth old. and is read, , 10 vanish away to give place to thai , covenant which is unversal in it's ma
 ture, and through which eternal Tiff, , may be obtained. Let none fear tC I give their full allegiance and carefu
 obedience to the Gospel of the Lord
 Jesus Christ, for after all isms and , lesser laws have vanished, and afte,
 the evening of time with it's uncer. , talntles shall have expired to give room , Tor the birth of eternity, the eyerlast !, ing Gospel will still stand as a shel- tering rock, mighty in power to save; , when Christ, having been lifted up . shall have drawn all men unto him. ' Of course there will be some few who after having been drawn to God |. VIII depart by way of the unpardon- ' able sin into total depravity. of whom q the Word says there is no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to com Gospel for the salvation of the people
 or all nations, and let us not lose con . fldence in mankind nor condemn ca ci o other for faults which are now by tn course of time and experience, in tn, [ process of correction.
 :, God give us all charity for eacl U U other, and lift the horizon of our wis u ion above the sordd, and the tenn e porary failures, to the noble and tho Ie grand. and the successes which arr IL surely to be.