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August 26, 1909.
rah and other cities were destroyed for
THE NEW RELIGION.
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Come in!!!
the supernatural and the na- in him, if we ask anything in his name,
Eliot
GET THE GENUINE
5c Everywhere
at about ten o’clock at night God for sources, and to draw on him for our
hourly
year
daily
of sin, and that my subsequent life constant needs, but, oh, how few of us
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wonderful transformation.
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such
needs
in
Christian education, where Christ is
taught and not tabooed.
JNO. H. McLEAN.
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• you see an
Arrow think
of Coca-Cola.
of all quotations of Scripture.
f. c. McMillan, l. e.
Hillsboro, Texas.
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THE LODGE AND THE CHURCH.
A great deal is being said by some
of the brethren about the lodge or
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TEXAS CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE
or as a penitent seeker of religion, of a universe with his infinite re-
Elks and the Eagles, the Woodmen
and the Masons are all alike to him,
for he really knows very little about
any of them. The members of a lodge
are bound by a common tie, and when
one of their members pass away they
One case authorizes us to pray, not only for A great aeai IS peing sara Dy some feel that mercy and grace enjoin upon
of conscious salvation, one life beau- positive good, but for deliverance from of the brethren about the lodge or them to remember the dead. Very
tified and adorned by the Spirit and evil—from how much evil it is not cir- fraternal order working in opposition frequently the minister conducts the
power of God, is worth infinitely more cumscribed or limited. Then we take to the Church and its interests. It is burial rites for the lodge.. And then
than all the deistic and atheistic spec- it to be.granted from all evil of every claimed by these men that the Church many of the lodges provide aid for
ulations of Dr. Eliot and his sympa- description. Then are cyclones, tor- is not given due recognition by the their needy members, and widows and
thizers. It is unfortunate that one of nadoes, tempests, storms, drouths, lodges. If this be true, then the lodge orphans of deceased members. Is this
Dr. Eliot’s position should have etc., evils? Then may we pray to be is certainly a menace to the welfare wrong? We think not. Nor is it the
thrown the weight of his influence delivered from them, with confidence, and peace of the Church. May we ask work of the Church as such.
against the true and tried principles if we will, and if we will not, then we in what way the lodge has sought to I have known a number of cases
of Christianity and attempt to uproot must take the consequences. Hethat displace the Church? Have any of where if this had been left to the
the very foundation of our social and soweth to the wind shall reap the the lodges proposed to save men’s Church the widow and orphans would
civil order. His attack is a call to whirlwind. souls? For this certainty is the only have been homeless, but through the
Christendom to stand by . the faith We have an object lesson in eighth work of the Church. lodge a home was provided and chil-
once delivered to the saints. It is chapter of Matthew, of Christ hearing Whatever else the Church may do dren were schooled. No preacher
also a strong plea for Church schools, the prayers of his disciples, of their in the way of benevolence, etc., is who is a lodge fighter should belong
their united or combined prayers to be only secondary—only a means to ac- to our Conference Brotherhood, for its
saved from a cyclone or tempest, and complish an end that men may be aims are identical with the lodge. I
it was done, and it was a bad one then, reached with the gospel. Of course believe the Church is the best insti-
overflowing the vessel. And if so in the Church is humanitarian and goes tution on earth to-day, and forever,
one case, why may it not be done in to the relief of the widow and orphan, It has the greatest mission—the sal-
other cases? Why not, but lack of but has the Church the exclusive right nation of men’s souls. If the preacher
faith? in this labor of love? will cultivate the friendship of the
from that do so! Also in that brief prayer he
knife,
tural.
is no
; day in
and year
bread or
said of himself: “While attending the whatsoever we ask in his name, we
Aldersgate meeting, May 24, 1738, know that we have the petition we de-
about a quarter before nine, while a sired of him.
layman was reading Luther s preface Therefore I say unto you, what
to Romans, and describing the change things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
which God works in the human heart believe that ye receive them and ye
through faith in Christ, I felt my shal have them. Ask and it shall be
heart strangely warmed. . Are we to given; seek, ye shall find; knock, it
disbelieve John Wesleys rich religious shall be opened.
experience and discount his wonder- What an array of Scriptures author-
ul work (more wonderful and far- izin us to pray for anything and
reaching than that of Dr. Eliot), be- everlthing if done subiectimr our
cause, forsooth, Dr. Eliot does not be- everything, 11 oone iuDect1n8 pur
,. u L • 11 i wills to nis wisdom, but I fear that is
lie,ye in such things—the supernatur-.wh trouble ten
al? There is nothing more real and 1 -n ’ „ .
assuring than the attestations of our want to keep our wills uppermost.
own consciousness. Unimportant and The brief formula of prayer that yield her increase, and God, even our the Churches morally and financially,
inconsequential as I may be Dr. Eliot Christ himself laid down for our daily God, shall bless us and all the ends of They love the Church Manv of the
and no one else can shake me in the use, if we will analyze it closely, I the earth shall fear him, and it is lodges furnish our voung men places
belief that on the 5th day of April, surmise, covers all our needs, in which true. I purposely left off quotation for intellectual culture and morj
1854, while a student at McKenzie Col- he authorizes us to claim as our Fa- marks, etc., as they are tedious, giving training- but the lodge fighter makes
lege and bowed at the altar of pray- ther the God of heaven and earth and the substance, if not the exact words no distinctions; they"are all bid The
some, thirst - quenching beverage.
Holy Spirit; and we would not gainsay And this is the confidence we have
the statement so far as he is concern- in him, that if we ask anything accord-
ed, but he must not speak for others, ing to his will he heareth us. •
John Wesley, for instance, when he And if we know that he heareth us
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Christ’s sake blessed me, even me, and daily and
made me to rejoice in conscious sal- and day
vatioh from the guilt and dominion out, for
a, . , .. the wickedness and unbelief of their
What is true of religion is not new, people, and only Lot, another right-
and what is new is not true. God eous man, and his family, were saved
is the same yesterday, to-day and for- from the overthrow, and that God him-
ever—and human nature is the same, self rained the fire and brimstone that
c . . . ,, .1 . , destroyed them? And that the little
Such being the case, there is no foun- city of Zoar was also spared on ac-
dation for that “New religion, ’ that count of the prayer or intercession of
“fluent” religion, that “changes with Lot, that he, as a righteous man,
the centuries,” as advocated by Dr. might enter therein? Also, is it not
Eliot as clearly taught that the heathen na-
tions round about the Israelites were
But for the prestige of his name as also destroyed for their wickedness
a prominent citizen and educator, the and worthlessness as that of any of
recent deistic, not to say atheistic, ut- the foregoing visitations ?
terances of Dr. Eliot could do no harm, Does not this idea run prominently
as they have been long since explod- through both the Old and the New
ed; but with the unthinking andspecu Testament Scriptures? Who can gain-
lative, his words may have weight, and say it without being heterodox?
the more, the more the pi y. The Scriptures undeniably teach
Dr. Eliot has said nothing new. In- that the incorrigibly wicked shall sud-
stead of going forward he has gone denly be destroyed, and that without
backward and revived effete heresies remedy, and do we not see indubitable
similar to those of the reign of athe- evidence of it continually?
ism in France which resulted in blood- XT , . „ . .. ,. ,
shed and shame and which sophistries Now, having sufficiently discussed
have been exposed by such great ^^P^se of my subject, I return to
thinkers as Bishop Butler in his irref- my text at the head of this article,
utable reasoning found in his "Analo- Can or may these great calamities be
gy” between natural and revealed re- averted or stayed by prayor, faith, ref-
lib-ion ' ormation and consecration? For one,
‘“in one sentence Dr. Eliot would 1 answer I believe it, had we the
seem to recognize God, and in another practical as well as the theoretical
would relegate him to the mummies faith to appropriate the Bible teach-
in denying him any part in human af- ings on the subject. Please consider
fairs—to use his own illustration, well this array of Scriptures:
“Trusting to the surgeon’s knife.” He that believeth on me, the works
This is practical atheism despite his that I do he shall do also, and greater
espousal of deism. Christianity would works than these shall he do.
use both prayer and the surgeon’s And this is the confidence we have
operation of the and it shall be done unto you.
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may say there he heareth us.
as the super- if ys abide in me, and my words
knows of”—for abide in you, ye may ask what ye will
Whenever you’re bodily fagged orbrain
weary or just want a delicious, whole-
Hot? Come in and get a glass of Coca-
Cola—it is cooling and refreshing.
Tired? Come in and get a glass of Coca-
Cola—it relieves fatigue.
Thirsty? Come in and get a glass of Coca-
Cola—it quenches the thirst.
natural, as
instance, the
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CYCLONES, TORNADOES, TEM-
PESTS, HAILSTORMS, ETC.
Do, or do not, the Scriptures of di- Now. dear readers, should I be so why may not men, regardless of lodge men as he should all other good
vine truth teach that these great ca- fortunate as to have them outside the Church lines, band themselves things he will find a door open,
lamities may be averted or held in wastebasket, can you not concur with together for their social enjoyment through which is he will enter he can
abeyance by prayer, faith, reforma- me that we have Scripture authority and financial welfare? It is even minister to men’s souls.
tion and consecration of the people to to pray for anything under the heav- claimed, as I heard recently by some 1 use the lodge, not to abuse and
God? This writer, for one, believe: ens of a positive good, and the deliv- good brethren, that the lodge enters fight it, but for the more noble and
they teach it unmistakably. By direct erance from all evils, if it be from the the sacred precincts of the dead and glorious purpose of getting its mem-
precept, example and inference, I fur- pit of hell itself? Our fathers had there sets aside the Church with its bers to join me at the Church in wor-
thermore believe that these great that sort of faith and practice. And ministry of love, or only tolerate the ship to Almighty God.
evils are sent upon us as scourges for they arranged departments in our preacher while he conducts a short When a few weeks ago I heard a
our sinfulness and forgetfulness of standard hymn books with special funeral service and then stands aside Campbellite preacher berating the
God and of our duties and obligations hymns to suit each department, to while the lodge performs. lodge I thought him narrow and ignor_
to him, though I heard the great Bap- zneet and pray the Lord of the harvest Now, I submit that in a ministry of ant, but when I heard E Methodist
tist preacher, Rev. G. W. Truett, of to restrain the scorching lays of the eighteen years I have never been lim- preachers doing the same thing I was
Dallas, say in a sermon preached here sun and send refreshing rams and ited as to time, or caused to feel em- surprised. Brethren, surely the spirit
not long since (an excellent sermon save the harvest; to bless and protect harassed in any manner by a lodge. I and mind of the times of the Inauisi-
otherwise) that the doctrine of God our great Nation from evils; to bless, have always been shown the greatest tion are not rising against the lodge
scourging the people here for their protect and return our voyagers on the courtesy by those who were at the c r IINKg
sinfulness and unfaithfulness was as high sets from the tempest and yawn- head of the lodge when [ was called - E LINDSEY.
cruel as it was false, and was as false ins ocean, etc. upon to conduct a funeral service. It
as it was cruel, and reiterated it in The fact of the business is that al- seems to me that these brethren are : •%*
the same discourse, most every line of our sacred hymns trying to prejudice the minds of our subscribers who desire thB Advocate discon-
Does not the Bible emphatically breathes a prayer or an aspiration of young men against the lodges, which tinued must notify us at expiration either by
teach that the old world was destroyed thanksgiving to God for positive good I think is wrong. The lodge has a letter or postal card, otherwise they will be
on account of the wickedness of the or deliverance from evil. God says field and is doing a vast amount of responsible for continuance and debt incurred
people, and only one righteous man through his servant, King David, in good where the Church can not enter thereby: We adopted the plan of continuance at
and his family spared, who walked the sixty-seventh Psalm, Let the And beside all this the men who are ! resuestand-for the accommodation of our
with God? Moreover, do they not also people praise thee. Let all the people running the lodges’are the best men subseribers and they in turn must protect us
plainly teach that Sodom and Gomor- pralse thee. Then shanl the earth in oup Churches, men tWhob’support
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