The Nevada County picayune., 1922-01-19

l DEUltSS DIl NC l1tiSt tAlthu th1 P'a'>a ples of Christ here on this earth and | if we are good, sound believers then we will be active in work for our Mas l ter. This includes all active campaign of propagating the gospel and sending out home and foreign missionaries and l looking after all the needs in the home and foreign field The orphans are to 1 be fed and clothed and they are being provided for by the live churches now. l the sick must be looked after when in need and not able 10 hire skilled nurses and children must be taught the way active and wide-awake, with a heart for the sorrows and woes of the world. Then we must fight the world. the flesh, and the devil, and must not be conformed to this world. The church must go out into the world to help save the lost, but the world must not get into the church. But as the church has made such wonderful progress in so- ciety and been so successful in busi ness by practicing the honest tenets of the Bible, there is a move on the part of the world to just come bodily into the church. and some of our members. and even some whole denominations are inclined to take the world into the church. But this is dangerous prac. tce as we are told that they that love the world shall die, and so the church loving the world will soon be q dead church The place of the boat is in the water but let the water get into the boat and as per a common illus
 tration, "cachoug' the boat will go to church is in the world but let the world get into the church and ca
 ehoug it will go to hell"
 What then, must the church do to be saved? She must hold on 10 the great system of doctrines taught ill the Bible the infallible rule of faith and practice. and not be carried away from her moorings by the teachings of few living writers who are coyertly attack ing the citadel of the faith and wish to turn our whole system into fables. great deal of this modern cant is but T rehearsal of the cbulltions of Hume, Voltairc. Tom Paine and mtidels of by-gonc age. who were met by the champions of christianity and knocked out completely from the field of combat and their hereSies killed and then buried by the victors on the field of battle The Lord is never without his champion and his leaders always driNo the devils champions from the field and wipe up the earth with him. AthanasiuS overcame and routed AriuS. Augustine routed Pelagius.. Luther, TetZcl: John Calvin. Francis the First, the king and so on along the line. To day many tremble at the supposed new ideas of AIr Wells and are alarmed less tElt AIN LII lH' 'bAtiitihi IN ''N
 Stroyed. but God has his man ready for him and now that great orator and statesman. N, Pryan, has been em- ployed by q newspaper syndicate ta write on the Sunday school lesson, anu it was thought that he, too, would giv" an uncertain sound and follow with the other leaders in rejecting the truth of the Bible and the deity of Christ but Mr. Bryan has never faltered nor given an uncertain sound when called to battle for God and the right, and so the enemy again iS being diSeomlited. and the christian champion now as ever is not only holding his own ground but putting to flight the army of the aliens"
 In n few weeks the census of the churches for 1921 will he published, nation as to results, yet l venture the prediction that this census will do what it has always done, and will show that the churches making the greatest advancement and getting the largest gains in membership will be those that stand for the solid doctrines we usually call evangelical or ortho- dox." and that those which make no gains at all or just barely enough to
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