Christian Chronicle (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 11, 1949 Page: 2 of 4
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May 11. 1149
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THE CHRISTIAN CHRONICLE
The Fall And Restoration
Numbar 50
Volume VI
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was Possible for Abraham, or Noah, or
their generations. It was necessary for one to
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, or on. The Japanese
sleep on their straw floors in a
kind of sleeping bag arrange-
ment. We found one family of
right with only two such beds.
Please send all the blankets that
you can, and other bedding ma-
teamfc This would be appreciated
very much. •
The grace of our Lord Jesus
Christ he with- you. We love you
for the sacrifices that you are
making. Keep up the good work.
JOSEPH L. CANNON
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A building enlargement p—
grrih is in progress at the Arca-
dia Park church in Dallas, re-
ports J. L. Hines, minister.
REUEL LEMMONS
« Cleburne, Texas
In thp beginning, when things were all new,
God gathered some dust and made, a man. God
placed man in the garden of Eden and sheltered
him there. He filled that garden with every con-
ceivable blessing that man might desire. Adam
walked and talked with God in the cool of the
evening as a man might walk and talk with his '
friend. He broke no bread. He offered no prayer.
He needed no priest. There was nothing too good
for Jehovah to do for Adam while Adam did
good for God. v
But after awhile there crept into the Garden
of Eden that old Serpent, the Devil. Through ".
his subtlety he beguiled Eve. She was tempted,
and she tempted-Adam, And together they ate
of the forbidden fruit. The wrath of God drove
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office, and they called him an Arch-bishop. Then
the Arch-bishops convened and they, climbing,
grappling, and clawing for power, selected men
to rule over them, and they called these men
• titles commensurate with their office; they call-
ed them Cardinal bishops. Then the Cardinal
bishops all came together and they said, “Let us
. select one from among us to have the pre-emi-
nence over us all—to be the head of the church.
Let’s make him the greatest among us. Let’s
crown him Lord God over us. They selected one
and gave him a title commensurate with his of-
fice. They called him “Papa” Bishop. We get
our word Pope e--- •/ ■
serpent) beguiled Eve, so the Bride of Christ
Continued from Page One,
ers.
The Vacation Bible School—
pre-school through grade school
—will be under the direction of
H, P. Cooper, 985 Palm Ave.,
Fresno, Calif.
Each evening, after the
“Church Bowl” services, there
will be a , gathering around the
Campfire in Camp 12. This will
be a fun program; good clean
fun for the enjoyment of all.
Scenery
Yosemite National Park, Cali-
fornia, is truly one of the most
beautiful spots in the world. It
would be impossible, with lim-
ited space, to describe adequate-
. Iv its beauty and the-host of
things to see. Some of them are:
Bridle veil Falls, Yoaunite Falls.
El Capitan, Half Dome; great
waterfalls and mighty rocks.
Then there is Mirror Lake with
jts astonishingly clear reflections.
From Glacier Point you can look
down more than 3,000 feet onto
the Valley floor. „
each night the beautiful Fire
Fall can be seen by those in the
X alley. Wild life can be seen
upon every hand. Those who-de-
sire can even find good fishing.
In this setting, each year,
brethren from many Stateq have
come to combine vacation time
with study of Gods Word, and
the many spiritual exercises that
go with such a meeting. So for
a grand vacation that benefits
spiritually as well as physically,
corns to Yosemite National Park,
Calif., June 19th through July 3,
1949. All questions relative to
the meeting should be addressed
to 315 E. Central Avenue, Ma-
dera, Calif.
of God. The need is still greht.
We arc but scratching the sur-
face- Be assured that your cloth-
r* +»rmg put to proper use.
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Bedding Greatly Needed
I would like to mention a few
items that are especially need-
ed. There is a need for more
hien’s coats, all kinds, of chil-
dren axlothing, Mud variou
of socks. We have foun-
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Your Clothing At Work
By Joseph L. Cannon
As soon'as your .xiothing ar-J sleep in,
rives in Japan if is put to use.1
The boxes are opened and the
clothing is sorted into various
types and sizes. btlndles are
made up from liilw-df-Yhe poor
of this area.
The churches of Hitachi and
Taga are handling much of the
distribution work. The brethren,
young and old, search for the
needy. Hundreds in the bombed
' areas are living in tin can shacks,
and hovels. Their clothing is rag-
ged and dirty. I have never seen
such dirty rags called clothing
in all my life. To these places
our brethren go taking with them
comfort and cheer. ’Groups go
together and sing to the poor.
Tracts and the clothing are dis-
tributed. In this way the breth-
ren find out their needs. Some
need hospital car^ some need
comfort. Such a work is full of
blessings and a glory to Christ.
The Work Result* in Baptism*
I would like to give a few ex-
amples of the good that is being
done. More than gratitude is
coming from this work. Souls are
being saved. Four were baptized
recently as a direct result of this
work. A blind man and his wife
came one day to express their
gratitude for clothing received.
The wife had been reading the
tracts to her blind husband, and
they wwre interested in Christ.
The next Sunday they came to
the church meeting and there
confessed Christ. Another* old
.man came with them to obey
Christ also. Your love in giving
them clothing brought them to
Christ. The blind man had lost
his sight as a result of drinking
too much sake (rice wine).
We have a brother 70 years
old who obeyed the gospel last
summer..He is very zealous, and
is preaching Christ from house
to house amongst his enighbors.
He has already led several to
Christ. The other day he located
a poor woman on the verge of
suicide. This woman had been
caught by the police selling goods
on the black-market. Everything
she had was confiscated, and she
was left with^no means to sup-
port her children, being a widow.
She had nothing to eat, and was
m a desperate condition. We
brought herrsome food, and are
noW trying to find some work
for her 30 that she can support
her family. She has received
clothing and is encouraged.
Your clothing is working. Ev-
ery week it is entering the homes
of the poor with a message of
hope. They are being taught that
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Frank L. Smith of Houston,
Tex. conducted a meeting April
17-28 with t|he church at Tenth
and Bell in Shawnee, Qkla. Six
may are Being taught that were baptized, on® restored, two
Christians love them and as a plac*^ membership. There was n
result they are receiving the love record of 495 In classes and
n * — - - —- average of 100 in morning ser-
vices for days of meeting. Davie
Banta is the minister. - - -
Sunday will close the
meeting at the church in
Burbank, Calif. Lleyd E^ El-
good for God. u
But after awhile there crept into the Garden
of Eden that old Serpent, the Devil. Through .
his subtlety he beguiled Eve. She was tempted,
and she tempted -Adamr and together they ate
from the garden, and a flaming Sword Was
d at the gate to forbid their ever return-
Mt Avay.
Mpygh thora* and thistle* Adam walked
Tim posterity after him. In the sweat of
their face, they ate their bread all the day*
of theiV lives, and their generation* after them.
Don’t tell mo that a man can’t fall away for
Adam did.
The smoke began to ascend from their sac-
rificial altars, and their priests began to plead
their cause before an outraged God. Every form
of wickedness flourished, and farther and far-
ther man wandered away from righteousness, in
this, the first great falling away that the world
had fever known.
Aftdr a few generations, there arose a man
more Godly than his fallows. He built an ark at
the direction of Jehovah and as he built he plead
with his fellowmen to save themselves from that
crooked generation. He tried to draw the people
back to God. He was the first great reformer
that we know anything about in world history.
He plead with the people to repent *lnd prom- >
ised them that if they didn’t, they would perish.
He did some good, but he coula not raise the
level of his race back to that hi"h and holy
place where Adam stood in the sunlight of God’s
love.
Centuries passed and time and time again God
raised up some prophet to call Israel back from
its sinful ways. These reformers worked almost
alone, hated even by their own people, whipped
and beaten, stoned and killed, and yet their clar-
ion voiced rang through the midnight of Israel’s
apostasy, begging and pleading that Israel come—
back to God.
Undoubtedly, these reformers did much good.'
They raised the moral tone of their nation, only
to see it sink within their own generation, back
into the debauchery and shame out of which
they had lifted it.
These reformations that swept the world from
Adam down to Jesus all were productive of spme
good, but they were not capable of closing the
•. From this point gap the transgression of Adam had caused. Like
5 beautiful Fire Adam they all sinned, like Adam they all fell
short of .the glory of God, There wasn’t a ohe
righteous, no, not one.
In the midnight of A despair; because God so
loved the world, he sent hid" only begotten Son
that people might through that Son, be forgiven
of their trespasses. Jesus was not a reformer.
He came into the world with a new mission. He
came into the world to restore to man the image
that was lost in Adam. As in Adam, all die, so'
in Christ shall all be made alive. What ^dam
lost by his transgression, we gain th rough*" Jesus
Christ. Jesus the Christ now allows me to stand,
by virtue of his blood on that same high and
perfect level where Adam stood when God made
Kim in the garden of Eden. Now we can walk
and talk with God in a soiritual Eden as a man
■might walk and talk with his friend.
On the first Pentecost after the' resurrec-
tion from the dead, the Holy Spirit descended
from the palacade* of glory to Jerusalem’*
hill*. The disciple* and apostle* were gathered
together in the city of Jerusalem. In the city
of David, on the hill* of Zion, the kingdom of ,
God wa* established. All nation* began to flow
into it. On that day there was cause for re-
joicing the world around because the people
wnte back on the level with God that Adam
had lost because of transgression.
But as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
subtlety, so the New Testament church was be-
guiled from the simplicity that is Christ Jesus,
and it too, ate of the forbidden fruit. Men hwt-
ing after power and filled with their tywn irn-
nortance heaped to themselves perogatlves the
Bftile no where gtveg tfe Jhefn. Elders becariit
controllers of congregations and by and by out-
standing elders among New Testament churches
began to exercise guardianship over other flocks
than their own. These powers grew until one
official in the church'exercised Influence over
*»0 churches. To make a long story short, church
leaders assembled and selected from among bish-
ops, one to, exercise authority
opaThiy had to give Mm a
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. select one from amoi
nonce over us all—-to
Let’s make him the greatest among us. Let’s
crown him Lord God over us. They selected one
and gave him a title commensurate with his of-
fice. They called him “Papa” Bishop. We get
our word Rope from that same word. As the
serpent) beguiled Eve, so the Bride of Christ was
beguiled by that same serpent.
Just a* Adam began hi* trail of tear* from
Eden’* garden, *o. the church began it* trail
of tear* *oon after Peniecoat: and a* Adam
plunged hi* race into apo*ta*y, *o the church
plunged it* descendant* into apostasy. There'*
i* a perfect parallel between the fall of Adam
and the fall of the New Testament church.
Time yvill’not permit us to tell the awfully
hlack story of the millenium that followed that
falL a story of the blood thirsty deeds of mem,
cruel with the lust for power, and the heartless
greed for authority. Men combined the Holy and
, High principles of the religion of Jesus Christ
with the debauchery and base principles of Ro-
•<nan idolatry. They produced a cruel religion,
. that exercised its influence like a tyrant over
countless millions,, holding them as slaves in its
grip until they died, many in the screaqis of
their torture. The picture cannot be drawn too
black.
Wickedness grew and multiplied in the apos-
tate church until there arose a man who said,-
“This thing cannot be of God, it must be ‘of
Satan.” He struggled like a giant tied down
with, ropes until he burst his bonds and nailed
to the door of his church his protests against the .
sinfulness to which religion had sunken.
Martin Luther was one pf the world’s great-
est reformers. His denpnciatipn of the apostate
condition of the church echoed around the world
for five hundred years after Ke died. He sougKt
to reform tKe apostate church. He plead that the
church had wandered away from God. Men had
become so wicked in their minds and in their
hearts, and so m'ercernary in their religious I
tices that they even srtld the souls of men
giving them the rights to
*arfor with their penny. Did he do any good*
wrrtainly he did. He preached the same doctrine
that Noah had preached to the apostate world:
"Repent or perish,” But Luther, like Noah, was
just a reformer. It was not possible for Luther
to take himself by his own bootstraps and raiso
himself back to the level sinlessness in the
sight of God, • ■ , ■
Folio ring this reformer there came: Tyndall,
and John Knox, and John Calvin, and John Wes-
ley, and literally dozens of other men scattered
through Switzerland, and Germany, and the
Netherlands, and England and France, all of •
whom had borne the yoke of apostate religion,
in its hog pen of sin, until they could stand it
no longer. They cried against its evil practices.
Some of them paid with their lives\in the most
horrible manners possible for their apposition to
Catholicism. We owe to those refoitnc..
an eternal debt of gratitude becauseXifrii
not been for their work, you and I
this day have the privilege of worshippiqf
according to the dictates of our consciem
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to completely reform apostate religion any more
than it was possible for Abraham, or Noah, or
Elijah to completely correct the apostasy of
their generations. It was necessary for one to
arise to hold before the world the perfect pat-
tern. .
There arose, almost simultaneously, in Eng-‘
land, France, Germany and the United States,
the plea of “Let us go back to the pure source
spring of religion as it is revealed in the New
Testament.” Let us go back past Luther;-back
past Tyndall; back past all the corruption of
anostate religion. Let ua <*o al! the way back to
the New Testament. Let us lay aside all human
•practices; let us discard our human names. Let
us speak where the Bible speaks; let us be silent
fwh»rs?.the Bible is 8i*ent. Let us do Bible things *
in Bible ways. Let us call Bible things by Bible—
names. Let us have a thus saith the Lord for
every rule of faith and practice. ---------
Truise men swept the country with the rea-
sonableness of their plea. They were not trying
to reform something, they were trying to re-
store something. Noah was trying to reform a ••
corrupt generation, but could not restore it to
eV^i tbat Adarii enjoyed in the Gardeh of?**
Eden. There is a lot of difference in theaa/wey.
X.0 1 <»T"e ^formation was an attemp*W<q£[
hrtX tp refoTWlhe apostate condH15wWf‘*
witr x iiurvn* 1 ncrc ia Anovhf*r v^priw* it in * FAwtoTa*
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