The Penn's Grove record., 1920-10-08
erickson INSTRUCTS MANY
Religious Systems, Methods and Be-
liefs Given Clear ExpOsitiOns

Eli NJ. Erickson who began sermon
lectures in the Baptist Church, Penns
Grove, on the goth ult., has had
crowded audiences every night. So
many could not get into the Church
the meetings were taken to the Taber-
nacle on East Harmony Street on
Tuesday evening and audiences of 500
and 600 have been present.
Last Sunday evening he gave a most
enlightening address On the jewish
Passover, the Roman Catholic Mass
and the Protestant Lords Supper, in
part as follows:
The Passover Feast
The feast of the Passover consists of
unleaven bread, bitter herbs, wine and
the paschal lamb instituted to COM
mcmorate the deliverance of the
Israelites from the Egyptians after
430 years of bondage, and the sparing
of their first born when the destroying
angel smote the first born of the
Egyptians. The deliverance from
Egypt was the the starting point of
the Hebrew nation. The lsraelites
became a free people owing allegiance
to no one but Jehovah, which is the
name of the spiritual God of the Jews.
Jehovah stands in relation to mar as
the only almighty, true personal, holy
Being, a Spirit and 'the Father of
Spirits" Numbers 1922. John 4:24.
The Passover was celebrated in the
months of March and April and it was
the time of the Passover that Jesus of
Nazareth called the Christ held his
asst supper with his apostles before
his crucifixion. The mass in the Ro-
man Catholic Church is a celebration
of the last supper wherein the priest
performs the
Miracle of Reconsideration
This doctrine was made at the Coun-
Gil of Trent, Italy, in 1863, and reads
as follows:
81 profess, likewise, hat in the Mass
there is offered to God a true, proper,
and propitiatory sacrifice for the liv-
ing and the dead. And that, in the
most holy sacrament of the Eucharist,
there is truly, really, and substantially,
the body and blood, together with the
soul of the divinity of our Lord Jesus
Christ: and that there is made a con
version of the whole substance of the
bread into the body, and of the whole
substance of the wiz. into the blood;
which conversion the Catholic Church
calls Transubstantiation. l also con
fess, that under either kind, Christ is
received whole and entire, and a true
sacrament"
The above quotation is taken from
st. Vincent's Manual for Sisters of
Charity published with the approba-
ton of Cardinal Gibbons.
To believe that a man by incanta-
lions can change a wafer and wine in
20 flesh and blood, shows the super
stition of 400 years ago which contin-
Ees to be believed by millions of per-
sons classed as intelligent to-day. The
doctrine that one becomes godly from
the effect that he has eaten and
swallowed his god is materialistic can
nibalism. The adoption of this be-
lief and method may have been justi-
fed 400 years ago to catch the litter
ate and superstitious, but to think
that millions now continue to believe
in it in this G of education and rea-
son is beyond the comprehension of
intelligent men. Yet it is the doctrine
of the Roman Catholic faith.
The Protestant's Lord Supper
MI. Erickson mex described the
Lords Supper. He said the bread
and wine are taken as emblems of the
spirit of a departed friend. That good
spirit in Jesus Christ was Jehovah,
the God of the Jews. His crucifixion
by the shedding of his blood was a
Precipitation for the sins of all. To the
Jew there is no more need of sacri-
flee of lamb less than a year old.
There is no more need of human sac
rifces as a Precipitation of the wrath
of God for sin. The significance of
all in the Protestant Churches, taking
bread and wine in commemoration of
the Last Supper of Jesus the Christ,
we are reminded as by the Passover
of the grievous bondage of sin from
which the crucifXion of Christ redeems
us. The bread and wine is taken by
faith in a spiritual sense and not a
material sense as in the Catholic Mass.
1t may be better understood by some
stating that those who eat, drink, and
become merry and sometimes hilar-
ious in a worldly n by paying trib-
ute to bacchus, the pagan god of wine
and revelry. So the Christian pays
tribute to his God, Jehovah, the Father
of Spirits, manifested in the life of
Christ, at the commemoration of the
Lords Supper, in a spiritual sense.
Never was the Passover, Mass and
Lords Supper more clearly explained
t,or hv Mr.. Erickson.
On Wednesday night he spoke of the
superstitious belief in Purgatory and
the worship of the Virgin Mary in
image and relics. He showed on a
screen about so illustrations of diff
ferent images and paintings of Mary
used for alteration and worship by the
superstitious.
On Thursday night he showed illus
trations of the great leaders in the
Reformation who taught salvation by
spiritual faith in moral law and the
Gospel, by the elimination of pagan
superstitions.
He will hold a meeting in the Taber-
nacle this Friday night. Topic, en-
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