The Nevada County picayune., 1922-01-19

vamped and brought out from among the dead and they have the scent of the old heretical corpse of error slain in emobat 1900 years ago by the stal- wart sons of orthodoxy and that they are not new at all. After all the vic tories of Christ and his church it is pitiable to hear people talk about new ideas replacing the glorious doctrines of the past and the call for us today to surrender these victorious doctrines of the person and work of Christ would be on par for someone to ad- vocate that the United States abandon her place of victory and join with Ger many and adopt the views of Germany in regard to state craft, As well have said to Gen. Washington, after the battle of Yorktown. that he should make concessions to Cornwallis and accept him as military leader. Christianity has whipped every foe that has lifted hand or head against it and now to talk of surrender or mak- ing concessions is too absurd to take one moment of thought.
 Some say that if makes no difference what you believe just so you are sin cere and honest in such belief but this is the yeriest sophism and must not be regarded one moment by church that expects to keep alive in this unfriendly world to grace. Ii does matter what you believe and who you believe, and there is just the difference between right belief in Christ and a wrong one aS between life and death. or heaven and hell. Many are calling for the good old times of the apostles and wanting the apostolic church restored among us now and we can measure the church then as now and the com parisOn will not he harmful against the evangelical Protestant church of this modern era. The church in the days of the apostles were witnessing. worShippng and working bodies, and they met for the worship an dadoration of God and the magnifying the name Of Christ. That is one thing the church stands for now and there can be no substitute for it and that is worship. The human soul needs a supreme be- ing to worship and if ii has not th" true God to worship. then il will adore the gods of their own make and in- vention And the worshipper k con formed to the image of the being wor- shipped and if one worships q beast he will become beastly and if the wor- shipped is an immoral man or woman as Jupiter or Venus. thtn the wor- shippers will become immoral and de graded as people never get above their gods
 When then. we worship a God that is absolutely holy and just we then become holy and just in our lives and full of mercy and love as we worship the God of love and mercy. You don't find the true object of worship among the trees or in the gardens nor in any human organization, but in the church founded by Christ alone.
 Then il was witnessing church and they had something to say. and so church today must be ready with de- l endahle witnesses and have a word to say in public as we'll as private for the glory of God. But some of our mem bers have no word for Christ and are dumb when called upon to testify for him. We saw what became of the dumb witnesses in an Arkansas court and how that they were cast into jail because they had no word for justice. I wonder if Christ should suddenly re turn to take things in his own hand as he will one day. if he would find dumb witnesses and have to inearcerate them?
 Then they were working churches, and demonstrated that they were real
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