Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-06-06
BISHOP GAMBLERS MESSAGE

leaves nothing pertaining to saliva
| ton undisclosed. Additions and
| amendments attempted by men are
pieces of conceited impertinence and
| egotistica1 irreVerence.
st. Paul would not endure for a
moment any such things in his day,
and when the attempt was. made to
introduce into the Churches of Gala
tia some of the petty conceits and
vain doctrines of men who desired
to claim the name of being Chris
tians while subverring the \founda-
tions of Christianity, he famed forth
against such sin and folly with the
denunciation, Though we or an. an
gel from heaven, preach any other
! gospel unto you than that we have
ed" Galatians i: 81. This fiery con-
demnation of heresy was just, if
Pauls declaration concerning the
source of the gospel which he preach
ed is accepted Neither received
it of man, neither was 1 taught it,
Christ" Galatians i: 12).
Christianity is full. fixed. and fl
nal truth An archangel could not
amend it. and Gabriel would not pre-
sumo to try to improve it. Never
theless we see periodically breaking
out through the newspapers and
magazines pretentious preacherettes
telling us they have made some dis
coveries in religion never heard of
until they appeared among men.
Poor Jesus! what a pity that He
was not better able to make Him
self understood and that He had to
wait so long to find a true inter-
prefer of His teaching! Bah! The
common people have been under
standing the common salvation" all
down the line of the ages, and they
have nothing to learn from novel
| ty-mongering parsonettes.
Recently we have been told by
many strident voices Of the pseudo
reformers that the boys in France
were going to give us a new theology
and revolutionize the churches when
| they returned. Well, moro than
half of them are back, and we see
| no motion upon their part to repu-
date the faith of their fathers or
subvert the churches of their moth
ers. While in France most of them,
who paid attention to religion at all,
seemed to have been most impressed
| by the common salvation" present
ed by those professedly common men
and women Of the Salvation Army.
The hierophants Of advanced
thought" seem not to have followed
the soldier boys to the front, or to
have made very little impression
upon the doughboys and their off
GERS. A religion of concerts and
l vaudeville, may be quite diverting,
| but it hardly meets the awful wants
of men who are in jeopardy every
| hour.
1t is time now to proclaim afresh
for the benefit of the returned sol
diers and for the saving of all 9TH
ers "the common salvation" We
| have had enough of uncommon non
sense Let us return to what all
souls live upon, if they live at all.
This is not the age Of the world
in which we can reasonably expect
a new revelation! We might as well
expect to find a new Savior among
u.s. We can invent airplanes. dis
cover more deadly gases than ever
were known before, make automo-
| biles, amass unprecedented fortunes,
| set a whole world afire, tear down
| governments, adopt all sorts OF gov
ornamental novelties, proclaim every
| variety Of eccentric, economic and
| social theories, turn men into Wom-
en- and women into men; but for sal
| walton we shall not be able to de-
wise anything better than the com
mon salvation" which was revealed
by Jesus, preached by Paul, defend
| ed by Jude, accepted by the saints
of all ages. restored by such mighty
spirits as Luther, Knox and wesley,
and in which the innumerable com
pany of heaven exult. as they sing in
praise of the Lamb of God, Thou
art worthy to take the book and
open the seals thereof; for thou
vast slain and hast redeemed US to
God by thy blood out of every kin
bred, and tongue, and people, and
nation (Revelation v:9). This an
! cient and reliable redemption solves
all solvable mysteries in time and
eternity and unseals the book Of
life.
This common salvation" is not
the intricate theory of experts, but
the hope of the toi1ing, unlearned,
sin-stricken and sorrow-laden multi
tudes of the children of men who
| are called the common people,