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AltO HE 8HAI.L SEItD HIB ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRrIMPE1 AND 1HEr SHAll. (lA1HER TOGETHER ... ~ ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDB, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER. MAT. 24:81. SO WILL IBEE/c nUT MY SHEEt>. AltO WILL DELIVER THEil (JUT OF ALL PLACES WHEf(E THEr ~ BEEN SnATTERED 'I (HE OLOUDY AND DARi' DAY. EZEll. 34:12. JER.8218t1. VOLUl\fE NO. XXVI. MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA., U. S. A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. NUl\ffiER 6. A CHANGED HYMN. SENT IN BY IDENTA OUTLA...'<D. "He hath put a new song in my mouth." Paa. 40: 3. ' 'The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders." Deut. 33: 12. . , , Jesus, lover of my soul," Rins me in his bosom stay; And though billows round me roll, 1 am safely hid away; Por he holds me in his arms, Quite beyond the tempest's reach, And he whispers to my heart Words unknown to human speech. • 'Other refuge have I none," He my habitation is; Here no evil can befall, 1 am kept in perfect peace; I am covered all day long, With the shadow of his wings; Dwell in safety through the night, Waking, this is what I hear: , 'Thou, 0 Christ, art all I want," Rest my helpless soul in thee; Thou wilt never leave alone, N or forget to comfort me. Thou hast saved my soul from death, 'l'hou hast scattered doubts and fears; And the sunshine of his face Sweetly drieth all my tears. "Thou of life the fountain art," Thou dost wash me white as snow, I'm content to dwell apart From all else, thy love to know. Blessed Sun of righteousness, I so love to look on thee That my eyes are growing blind '1'0 the things once dear to me. ---0- ABHOR EVIL. THE Scripture command to the Christian i" to "abhor that which is' evil." Rom. 12: 9. '1'0 the extent you love God, to t.hat pxtel1t. you hate evil. "Ye that love the . f.Jonl, hate evil." Psa. 97: 10. If you are losing hatred for evil, you are losing love for God. If you are gaining love for God, yonI' abhorrence of evil is increasing. One good way t.o keep an abhorrence in our souls against sin is to give strict heed to the Scripture injunction, " Abstain from all appearance of eviL" God has made our moral nature of quite delicate texture and it is yery capable of being impaired or improvpd. If we are accustomed to viewing every day some wicked acts, our moral feelings are inclined to become less excited. / To illustrate: if, when your soul is full of the love of God, you are thrown int.o the company of vicious men and hear their vile speech, your moral feelings are aroused to awful abhorrence. But if you are thrown into such company day after day, the tendency is for you to become less indilPlant and your soul to lose much of its horror at the sight of such wickedness, because of the mOl'bid influence such crime exerts over the moral feelings. "Evil communications corrupt good morals." If a Christian's daily occupation threw him into the company of the vicious, it would be advisable for him to change his occupation if possible. Of course, so long as we are in this world, we shall come more or less in contact with t.he wicked and shall be compelled to behold more or less of sin and crime, and nod can keep us pure, but the general effect of iniquity is to cause love to wax cold. I have known those who when first saved felt an awfnlabhorrence in their souls when thrown into the company of those who were smoking cigars. They would rather stand outside of the railway station and endure some cold rather than be in the company of those who were smoking, because they hated such evil. But after repeatedly being thrown into such company; they lost this abhorrence and could sit. in the station or ride in the smokillg(' a1; with considerable comfort. Let us be eareful lest we lose abhorrence of evil. I WOllld rather stand in· the other cal' than to have a seat in the smoker. It is better. to shun such company as much as possible, but what you can not avoid, then trust God to keep, but see that sin loses none of its horror. " Abstain. from all appearance of evil." Keep away from sinful things. as much as you consistently can. Shun the ways of evil men as niuch as possible. Keep out of the way oI'temptation, as much as you can without being uncivil. When you are unavoidably thrown into the company of the worldly and wicked, see that you do not participate in the least of their worldliness, and see that sin loses none of its horror. Keep away from all wieked places. Do not go to town on the day of the street carnival or the parade; do your shopping the day before or the day after. Close your eyes and ears as much as possible to the evils of this world but keep them open to see and hear the things of God. A man who has :fine literary taste will not read a badly written book, for fear of dulling his taste. Do not t.ake any part in conversation that is not pure. Do not laugh at the foolish remarks of others. Do not give too much thought to the evils that are being done; do not talk too much to others about the sins and crimes in . the land, only to picture their horrors. It is a shame to speak of some things that are being committed. If we are not watchful, many of these things will dull the sensibilities of the moral being. You had better not read about the murdel'S, the suicides, the bank robberies, the elopements, and t.he adulteries, and broken hearts, as reeorded in the newspapers. At first. they will fill you with horror, but before you are aware, you will be taking more int.erest in such reading than you do in reading the Bible. Beloved, abhor and avoid all thoughts and reading and conversation and company, as much as possible, that would introduce a morbid influence to your moral being. A.void everything that would rob you of a lively sense of the divine presence. Keep JTour soul full of the love of God, of deep gratitude and thankfulness, of tender compassion, of reverenee and devotion to God, and you will "abhor that which is evil." If you begin to find some enjoyment in worldly society, in foolish talking, or unholy meditations, you may know you are departing from the love of God. ---0- HELL. ARTICLE XI. c. Eo O. PSA. 37: 1, 2, 10, 35, 36, AND OBAD. 16. "FR:ST not thyself because of evil doers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green' herb. . . . For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree. Yet he passed away, and, 10, he was not : Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found." "For as ye have drunk upon my holy mountain, so shall all the heathen aTI.nk continually, yea, they shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though t.hey had not been." .' These texts are regarded as deci~ive in proving that the wicked will be blotted Ollt· of tlxi~w!i~~, 'l'hey: are quoted over and over again, and in such a positive manner that the simple and uninformed are led to believe that they clearl:y teach the opposite of everlasting punishment. False teachers find little comfort in the teachings of Christ in the New Testament, and therefore resort to prophetical and poetical sayings of the Old Testament. Their proof texts are largely drawn from this source. These they wrest from their true meaning and applieation, and thus build up their theories. That the aforementioned texts prove the annihilation of the wicked beyond the great day of judgment, is false, and as baseless as the shadow of a dream. The texts have no reference to the state of man beyond the resurrection. Materialists can not prove . that they apply there. There is not a single hint at such a thing. Let us briefly consider each one. In the first we are commanded not to fret because of evil-doers, nor be envious at them; for the Psalmist assures us that they will soon be cut down like grass. Does he refer to their state beyond the resurrection at the last day , No; he is speaking of natural death. "For he knoweth our fr8.llle; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he fIourisheth .. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place t.hereof shall know it no more." Psa. 103: 14-16. "Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. . He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down : he fIeeth also as a shadow, and continueth not," Job 14: 1, 2. l\fan that is born of a woman "is dust," he is "of few days," his days are "like grass"; namely, soon cut down. This speaks of the shortn~ss of life. Evil-doers and workers of iniquity may prosper, but their prosperity lasts but. a few short years. They are soon cut down by death and go hence. Does that oyerthrow the doctrine of eternal punishment? It has no bearing on the subject.. "Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be." "I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay-tree," says the Psalmist, "yet he passed away, and, 10, he· was not." And the prophet adds that he is "as though he had not been." David says, after the wicked man had passed away. he sought him, "but he could not be found." When he diligently considered his place, it was not. What weight. have these poetical sayings of the Psalmist against the everlasting torment of the wicked in hell? )Jone whatever, They have no reference to the subject.. David was speaking of the folly of wickedness. He testifies how he had seen wicked men make a great. display in the earth and spread themselves like a green bay-tree, but they soon passed away, and were not. Death eut them down in the midst of their great honor and prosperity, and they were no more seen upon the earth. They soon passed out of people's memory, and were as though they had not been. Their place in earth's circles and societies, in the hearts and minds of the people, coUld not be found. ' We all have seen the same thing-men who for a time swept to the height of worldly honor, and drank to the fun of worldly applause; who were very popular in the people's minds, and had a place in their hearts and affections. Thus, like a green bay-tree, they spread themselves. But in a few years, death cut them off, and they passed away. They were no more. Soon the memory of them was almost forgotten. They lost their place in the affections of the people. They are 1161 thouJ?;h they ha.d not been. Take, for example, Napoleon or Alexander the Great. These are but two ,examples in thousands. Their place in worldly IlOnaI' is no more. This is precisely 'what the Psalmist and prophet teaches in the texts aforemen. tioned. To apply them to eternity beyond the judgment, as expressing the state of the ungodly, is ignorance and folly. It is 'wresting Scripture out. of its true meaning, and applying it elsewhere. Such are the absurd wrest.ings of Scripture to sustain false doctrine, resorted to by Russelites, Adventists and all No-soulists. May God awaken their sleeping souls, ere they awaken in hell, to :find their punishment just. what. the Bible declares-et.ernal damnation . Similar texts to the aforementioned refpr direct.ly to death and the grave. For example, Job 7: 9, 10: "As the cloud is conslllled and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no llJore. He shall ret.urn no more to his honse. neither shall his place know him any more. " To take this text and build a theory upon it, a man might say there will he no resurrection of the dead. But the writer has exclusive reference to this life and natural death: so wit.h "the texts at the head of this chapter. They have no bearing OIl the future state of t.he ungodly beyond the judgment-day. The wicked shall be burned up root and branch. Proof: "For, behold, the day cometh. that shall burn as an oven; and all the prond. yea. and all that do wickedly, shall he stubble: and the Jay that cometh shall .bnrn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall lea,e t.hem neither root nor branch. " ?lIaL 4:: 1. Before this text ean be made to prove the future annihilation of the wicked, two positions will have to be sustained. First, that. this text applies to the state of the nngodl~' beyond the judgment. Second, that it is not metaphorical language. Xeither of these positions can be sustained. This I shall clearly prove. 1. It does not apply to the state of the wicked in the eternal ,vorld. This great day that was to burn up the proud and those who do wickedly, was to be ushered il! by the coming of Elijah the prophet. ,. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of t.he Lord: and he shall turn the heart (If the fathers to the children, and the heart of the childr:en to their .fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse. " Vers~ 5, 6. 'When did this reach a fulfilment? "But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the di<Jobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord." Luke 1: 13-17. "For all the prophets and the law prophesied until J ohn. ~<\.nd if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come." Mat. n: 13, 14." And his disciples asked him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elias mn~t first come? ann ,Jesus answered aud
Object Description
Title | The Gospel Trumpet - 26:06 |
Published Date | 1906-02-08 |
Editor | Byrum E. E. |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 06 |
Publication Name Change Note | Gospel Trumpet 1881-June 3, 1962, Vital Christianity June 10, 1962-Sept. 1996, One Voice June/July 2004-Apr/May 2007 |
Subsequent Title | Replaced by Vital Christianity |
Publisher | Gospel Trumpet Company |
Subject | Newspapers -- West Virginia -- Moundsville ; Newspapers -- Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) |
Media Type | Full-Text Digital Object |
Original Physical Format | Printed Newspaper |
Language | English |
Collection | Anderson University Church of God Digital Library |
Repository | Anderson University and Church of God Archives |
Copyright | Copyright 2011, Anderson University. |
Formatted Title | Gospel Trumpet, The |
Description
Title | Page 1 |
Published Date | 1906-02-08 |
Publication Name Change Note | Gospel Trumpet 1881-June 3, 1962, Vital Christianity June 10, 1962-Sept. 1996, One Voice June/July 2004-Apr/May 2007 |
Subsequent Title | Replaced by Vital Christianity |
Collection | Anderson University Church of God Digital Library |
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AltO HE 8HAI.L SEItD HIB ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRrIMPE1 AND 1HEr SHAll. (lA1HER
TOGETHER ... ~ ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDB, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER. MAT. 24:81.
SO WILL IBEE/c nUT MY SHEEt>. AltO WILL DELIVER THEil (JUT OF ALL PLACES WHEf(E THEr ~
BEEN SnATTERED 'I (HE OLOUDY AND DARi' DAY. EZEll. 34:12. JER.8218t1.
VOLUl\fE NO. XXVI. MOUNDSVILLE, W. VA., U. S. A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1906. NUl\ffiER 6.
A CHANGED HYMN.
SENT IN BY IDENTA OUTLA...' |