The Nevada County picayune., 1922-03-30

all our pFoDlems. We need not 20 out to look for third party or for anv thing else but the philosophy of Jesu. because there, and there alone, is thu solution of our problems. There is m other name given under heaven anon, men whereby we must be saved. Now, this belief did not come to ma merely as theory. The fact is. AS look back over my experiences. think. ing how the great Father has dea,t with me. I am led to believe that in some things he led me by different way because my works did not come by faith, my faith came by works. did not believe that the things I am going to tell you were practical or that they could be accomplished under our present industrial system. I am going to try to lead you through the steps and stages that I passed in finding God in finding what the laws of God governing human relationships are.
 
 Indiana My father and mother were then and are now Seventh Day Ad- ventists. It will be necessary for you. to understand this story, to know sOme- thing about their philosophy, their the ology. if you can call it such, but be- l fore I go over that, I want it under. stood that I am tolerant, to say the least. toward all religions, and am especially tolerant toward those who have been cauhtg in the meshes of this particular doctrine, because my own father and mother are looking every morning for fresh signs of the second coming of Christ, that great catastro- phe known as the end of the world. 1 Their hearts are even sad because I am not still thinking along those lines.
 There is more than that. I do not believe any man ever knew of any person joining the Seventh Day Ad- yentiSts church for mercenary pur- poses I think you will understand that when we get farther along with this story. But these people believe first of all that the seventht day, Sat urday. k the Sabbath of the Lord God. They believe that the Sabbath was changed hy the Roman heirarihy. of the Roman Catholii church. They be- leYe the Roman Catholic church is 1 symbolized hy the beasts of Revelation and by changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday, the beasts esab- 1ished that as the mark of their power Consequently the observance of Sunday is the mark of the beast against which the great pronounce ment is made in Revelation II. They believe in addition to this, as indicated ny their name, that we are living in the very last hour of this worlds history, that the great prophecies have been l fulfilled. They, of course believe that the Jewish people, who rejected Christ. are lost There is some hope for indi- yiduals by getting on board the Third Angels message. They have, in fact, labeled what they believe to be the gospel to the people of this world, the Third Angels Message, which reads, in the fourteenth chapter of Revelation, the ninth and tenth verses: And the Third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice. If any man worship the beast and his image. and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is poured his indignation
 Believing these things as they do, and being jealous that their children should he brought mp in the faith, ! they do not believe it is right to let 1 their children go to public schools. know of little groups of them where they are really poor and destitute so far as this worlds goods is concerned but still they are raising money to maintain what they call church school. where they bring in teacher. where they have gospel readers, gospel spoilers. gospel arithmetics, and where such thing even as physical geOgra- phy would not be admitted for mo. ment because it teaches infidelity. Their theological SihOOl in my youth