MODAT, JUNE IS. 1913.
FLATTSMOUTH SCrll-TVrrSET JOtTRNAE.
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"TIiou Shalt Surely Die"-"Ye
Shall Not Surely Die.'
sSatan's Monumental Lie Foisted Upon
the Church Christian Standards
Lowered Foundation-Falsehood For
All Unscriptural Teachings Refuge
of Lies to Be Swept Away The Name
of God Blasphemed Daily Medieval
Darkness Passing Responsibility of
the Ministry Day of Their Visitation.
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PASTOR. gUSSELp
I u dianapolis,
IihL, Juue
Pastor liussell Is
here 'onlay. We
n-iort Ills address?
on th text. -The
pod of tUis world
hath Minded the
minds of them
Ifcat t-elieve not.
lest the liht of
the trlriias Gos
pel. Christ
should shine unto
them." 2Cr. 4 A.I
The Fustor ppoke as follows:
lunng the Dtcrk Ages coctriues of
demons were fois;id ujmjii the Church
by Satan's hosts of fallen impels. Mil
lions were driven into the Churi-h, but
driven away from God ami from the
Ilible. The theory wa that all not
members of the Chureh would surely
po to eternal torture, but tlat by Join
intr the Church they woi'd have a
chance of Heaven, even though tin
path led throujrh Punitory. Under
these unseriptunil teaehinps. Christian
ity has enrolled its hundreds of mil
li ns, very few of whom know any
thins a1xut the real Christianity of the
Ilible true diseijileship f J-sus Christ.
We see them in Europe tolay c-f nil
creeds d"in;r their best to destroy
euch other ro Fend each other to lur
patory or to eternal torture. Alxut live
jier eent. are estimated to le Moham
medans, Jews and infidels, and the re
maining ninety-Cve per cent. Chris
tians. Whtit a farce: Wh.it a livpo
critk-al dweptioti ! The fart is that
probably less than one ler tent, of
all those millions would make any
claim to lm followers of Christ or of
Beeklnff to cultivate Ills Spirit oi
meekness, pentleuess, patience, lou;r
BuQ'erh!?:, broUjerly kindness, love. Tht
preat majority manifest the reverse
spirit of anger, malice, hatred, envy,
strife works of the flesh and of thf
leviL Col. 3.S; GaL :1'J 23; I John :!:S.
How few anywhere profess to be
disciples or followers of Jesus and His
teachings: Christian standards have
leen so lowered that today a Christian
is not one who has surrendered his
whole bc?v; to God and His servi- e.
iind who has devoted himself to fol
lowing the Master s example, but mere
ly one who refrains irorii profanity mid
such pross sins as murder and im
morality. This chanre has come about
as a revulsion apainst the thought that
everybody except a mere handful i4
Baints is en route to eternal torture.
Kind-hearted people could not think
of their friends and relatives as Buffer
ing thus. They had the thought ol
eternal torture firmly fixed and let it
remain, but moved d jwn low the stand
ard of worthiness for everlasting life.
Demonology and the First Lie.
Lucifer, the cherub, through ambition
became Satan, God's opponent, lie
deceived our hist parents into sin by
his preat falsehood, "Ye shall not Bure- j
ly die." (Genesis 3:4.) Siucu then he
has supported that lie ierso!ially and
through his demon hosts of fallen an
pels. These are not far off stoking fires
in Hell and Purgatory, but right with
humanity, perpetuating the original
lie and convincing the. world that Satan
told the truth when he said. "Ye shall
not surely die"; and thatGodlied when
ile said, "Thou shalt surely die." The
doctrines of demons have bo far suc
ceeded that now practically everybody
believes that lie, and the claim is'madt
that the dead are more aliVe after
death than before.
On this original foundation-false
hood Satan has built up various the
ories. all of which tend to delude hu
manity and to drive them nv ay froic
God and from the promises of the Bi
Lie. He tells them that the dead ai
alive somewhere, and that t death tht
pood and the bad immediately entei
their rewards and punishments with
out resurrection. The errors; are sc
skilfully framed as to tea h that Ileav
en can be entered only thiou.,.j a num
ber of passage wars; such as baptisa
in Infancy, confirmation, holy water
holy candles and holy burial, prayers
Eucharist and masses. Sataa enlist
on his side all who are interested it
these various Heavenward hHrs. Thes
have leen revererieod ; money bas beer
paid to them freely; they hare madt
the success already suggested, and
ilaini four hundred million Ckristians
I5ut bow few of these really know tb
true God or really love Him!
"Gather My Saints to Mc."
In the r.ible, however, God sots fortt
the True Church of the First-boras
whose names are written in neaven
Jesus is the nead over these; and thoj
all are brethren, and not diviJed int
clergy and laity. They are called saints
(Psalm 50:5.) God could indeed lm
force in gat baring His Elect Church
but He will not do so. He will nun
pather merely those who have the hear
Ing ear and the responsive henrt. Ol
these Ile says. "They shall be Mine ir,
that D.ty when I make up My Jewels."
Then a New Epoch will, open; and
under the Headship of Jesus these jew
els will constitute the Messianic King
dom. Then the blessing of the world
will begin. The first step in that
blessing will be the binding of Satan,
that he may deceive the people no
more. Next will come the sweeping
away of the ignorance and supersti
tion which have been his web for en
tangling humanity. Thus all the blind
ed eyes vf 1 be opened, and all the
deaf ears unstopped all will see; all
will hear; all will know of the Love of
God, which passes all human under
standing. (Isaiah Co :Z ; Koman3 S:3S,
39.) Then the knowledge of the glory
of God will fill the earth; and as a re
sult every knee shall bow and "very
tongue confess, to the glory of T7od.
lsa. 11 :P; Hab. 2:14; Phil. 2:10. 11.
The outcome will be that all wilful
sinners will lie destroyed in the Second
Death, while all others will le ushered
Into the perfection of life, in a world
wide Eden. Then there shall lie no
more sighing, no more crying, no more
dying; for all the former things shall
have passed away. "And He that sat
upon the Throne said. Heboid, I make
all things new." Eevelation 21:4, S.
Blaspheming the Holy Name.
Is it not strange that we over be
lieved the monstrous falsehoods taught
us by these doctrines of demons that
the dead are more alive than ever; that
nearly all of them are suffering un
tenable tortures, while the remaining
small remnant look over the battle
ments of Heaven and rejoice in the
misery of the unfortunates? Assured
ly no human brain ever concocted such
a Satanic theory! We challenge the
ability of any man to sit down and
delilierately concoct anything worse
than what has lieeu described to us as
the Plan of the great Heavenly Crea
tor, the Pather of mercies, from whom
cometh down every good and every
iH'rtect pift, ail whose very name ie
Love. We have never found man o
woman so fiendish as our God ha
been descrilied to us.
Herein we see the Satanic cunnins:
of our preat Adversary: I!y establish
Ing groat religious institutions he has
satisfied n certain mental craving
bound to assert itself in humanity. Ye
by these false doctrines, which bias
phmie the IHvine character and tin
Ilible by misrepresenting them, he ha
driven far away from God nearly all
even of those who have professit
church nieiMl-rliip "They profess
that they know Jod; but in works they
deny Him." Titus 1:KL
- Some may be disposed to say. Satan
would never tea h aliout eternal tfr
mcnt; for It would le contrary Vo his
Interests and would keep people away
from him. We reply that after eight
eon centuries this theory Is proven tc
Ik? wrong, and Satan is proven to have
Iwu wise in his method. Mankind d
not wish to serve Satan and sin. Nat
urally they would lie, as the Apostle
declares, feeling after G'kI and desir
ous of finding Hiiu; for every man lias
inherently some degree of reverence for
a. supreme Creator. Let me give an
illustration of how Satan's lie operates:
A Christian lady who has beuome
Uilde student, and who now dearly
loves God and the P.iblo, told me her
experience thus: "I was a Presbyte
rian, trusted that I was one of the
Elect, and felt serene, but not without
sympathy for the non-clout, who were
to Ik tortured eternally. Then came
the thought. Are you sure that yon are
one of the Elect? In distress I went
to iny pastor. In substance he said.
'You are all right; you are one of the
Elect. Io not bother your head about
such questious.'
T.ut still I was troubled. Finally 1
feared that I would laud in an insane
asylum; for I could not lift my
thoughts from my danger of eternal
torture. To escape Insanity I plunged
Into. society, gave and attended social
functions, and m.ide my life one busy
whirl, in which I had no time to think
of God or Satan or the F.ible. Oh, how
changed everything is now. Pastor
Russell! My heart always yearned for
God, and now I know Him. 1 read
His F.iw, and see its great Divine
Plan of the Ag. showing a gracious
blessing for the Elect on the Heavenly
plane and a grand Restitution for the
non-elect to perfection on the earthly
plane. I ever thank God for the "Stud
ies in the Scriptures. "
Have we riot driven away from God
and from the F.ible some of the Tery
best minds of the world, plunging them
into business, pleasure, society, novel
reading, theater-going or intoxication
anything to stop themselves from
thinking about the terrible possibilities
of the future related to them by you
and me who have been deluded by
these doctrines of devils?
"Speaking Lies In Hypocrisy.
St Paul describes Satan's work con
cisely in the st iU-ment which forms
our text. If the true light of God
shines into any heart. It begins a trans
formation work at once; hence Satan's
anxiety to keep ieople from thinking
of God as a reasonable and adorable
Creator and from studying His gra
cious Plan for human redemption- We
see how the eyes of all have been
much liolden the world seeing nothing
at all, and Christians seeing little
enough of the goodness of God. Thus
St. Taul prayed for Christians that the
eyes of their understanding opening,
they might be able to comprehend the
lengths and breadths, the heights and
depths, and to know the Love of God.
which passes all human understanding.
-Ephesians 1:15-23; 3:14-10.
This Love of God was completely ob
scured by the dense darkness of the
medieval period, when the doctrines of
demons pot full hold upon the minds
of the people. lcause the Bible was
reprobated and out of use for twelve
hundred years, whUe the people were
misguided into thinking that so-called
Apostolic bishops had the same au
thority as the original Twelve Apostles
whom, Jesus ordained. The creeds
made by these bishop3 took the place
of the Word of God until the beginning
of the Sixteenth Century; and since
then, it has teen a battle for the Bible
to get into the hands of the people and
for the latter to realize their privilege
of Eible study. Protestant bishops, in
front of St. Paul's Cathedral, London,
set the example of burning the New
Testament, because those who would
study it would thereby be ignoring
these false apostles, who styled them
selves AiKistolic Bishop, and of whom
Jesus said. "They are not AposfK'S. but
liars." Revelation 2:2.
Finally the people, feeling after the
True Gtnl and His true Message, and
wondering why the bishops kept it
from them, made such a stir about the
matter that both Protestant and Cath
olic bishops pave them the Bible in
English, but with dire threats that if
in reading they pot anything different
from the creeds that the bishops had
made, they would roast to all eternity.
Ever since, the Bible has been obliged
to fight fur every inch of ground it has
gained fighting against bishops and
clergy who, if they could not keep it
from the people, did their liest to make
it supiort the doctrines of demons the
clergy themselves being deceived also,
and verily thinking that they were do
ing God service.
Difference In the Past Fifty Years,
During the past fifty years general
education has come. Satan realized
that he must adopt a new course. As
St. Paul feieiuld. he affected to be an
angel of light, a leader into new light.
C2 Corinthians 11:13 lo.) He got hold
of the colleges and seminaries, and
now sees to it that practically every
body of college education has his re
ligious faith entirely destroyed, so far
as a Divine Revelation is concerned.
Surely not live out of every hundred
miuistTs and others graduated make
any pretense of believing in the in
spiration if the Bible, when they are
speaking privately and confidentially:
They are tn intelligent to believe in
eternal torture, and extierience a re
vulsion of feeling against the Bible.
which the doctrines of demons have
led them to believe teaches these Sa
tanic delusions.
As a result, we have thousands ol
ministers drawing salaries totalling
millions of dollars annually, who out
varwiy pose as imas servants, minis
tors or JIis religion revealed in tht
Lilile, but who in reality are hypo
tTit. Privately they will confess that
they do not believe that man was cre
ated in God's image and fill from P.
Neither do they believe that Jesus re
deemed man from the fall; for they
say, There was no fall. Neither do
they llieve in a coming Time f Re
titutioti, which the Bible declares i
the great hope for tho world. (Acts
o:Hl-2:;.) They are hypocrites pure and
simple. As the Apostle. Paul declares,
they "speak lies in hypocrisy, having
their consciences "seared with a hot
iron." 1 Timothy 4:1, 2.
There are exceptions to this general
rule. They are found amongst the les
educated ministers, whom their edu
cated brethren style "mossbacks.'
There are others whose consciences arc
not entirely sarei, ana who are m
great distress, wishing to be, honest,
but Jiearing the cost. They say little
about the future, occasionally work in
a little Truth, and are generally very
unhappy. I have Jioik; for many of
these yet. that they will pet right with
God and take their stand for truth, and
righteousness, casting all their cares
and fears upon the Iord fears re
specting their living and provision for
their families, respecting their good
names, which will be cast out as evil,
as mine has been, if they will firmly
stand. The time of decision is here.
Whoever is not for God and for the
Truth is against the same.
The preat leaders of Ecclesiasticism
seem to have no conscience. If ap
proached ly their confiding flocks, they
dodge the questions with deceptive
phrases, fearing not God, neither re
garding man, but merely looking for
gain, each from his own quarter his
denomination. Isaiah 50:11.
It Is the duty of all who see the
Truth clearly to act positively. (2 Cor
inthians (J:17, IS.) Whoever lend
financial aid or moral support to the
preat systems which are opposing the
true teachings of God's Word, and as
sistlng in the perpetuation of Satan's
lie. is a partaker of the evil deeds and
will share in the woes soon to come.
Blasphemy the Greatest Crime.
Recently a young business man told
me of his experience. He inquired of
his pastor, "Is there a Hell of eternal
torture for all except the saintly?
The cheerful answer was. "Yes, cer
tainly." The young man had been
reading and thinking, and told the
pastor his conclusions. As he left the
study, the pastor put his hand on the
young man's shoulder, saying, "George.
.1 do not believe in eternal torture,
either. But, you know, we must preach
it; otherwise, what would become ol
the world? They would go from bad
to worse.
What does that yonng man think ol
his pastor now 7 a liar, a hypocrite, a
blasphemer of God all to hold hh
place in the religious firmament justl
fylng himself by saying. Let ns do evl
that pood may come: let us blaspheme
God's name, that we may lead the
people, and drive them away from Got!
and the Bible! We know of no worse
crime that humanity could commit
than that of blaspheming God's holy
name. In the Jewish Law this sir
was placed ahead of all 6lns relating
to fellowmcn. That minister is mere
ly a sample of about nine-tenths of the
entire clergy, so far as we are able tc
know from their creed professions and
their private denials of these. St
TauTs words surely appeal to even
true Christian when he declares thai
the Love of God and of "Christ not
eor constrains us.
ENJOYABLE SO- .
CIAL AFFAIR AT
VENNERUE
Linen Shower in Honor of Miss Fern
Long, Formerty of Cass County,
and Bride-Elect.
Thursday afternoon one of the
most enjoyable social affairs of the
season occurred, when Miss De Ella
Venner and Mrs. C. C. Barnard
entertained several friends of the
bride-elect, Miss Fern Long, of Lin
coln, but formerly of Plattsmouth.
Shortly after the arrival of the
guests paper and pencils were dis
tributed and each was requested to
get busy at "Planting the Bride's
Garden."' This seemed a little vexing
at first, but all were eager to accom
plish the task, and Miss Pheme Rich
ardson was most fortunate and re
ceived the prize, a handsome linen
centerpiece. The "booby" prize, a
stick of candy, was given to Mrs.
Will Wetenkamp. Following this the
hostesses passed sealed envelopes in
which were found puzzles to be work
ed as quickly as possible. Mrs. Carl
Cole received a lovely bouquet of
sweet peas for being the most speedy
and Mrs. Harriett Pitman received a
bouquet of red clover blossoms as the
booby prize. Each guest was then
requested to write a description of
the groom-to-be. This aroused great
merriment when the descriptions
were read aloud, as but few of them
knew the fortunate young man per
sonally. During the afternoon all en
joyed the instrumental music by Miss
De Ella Venner, the solos by Miss
Fheme Richardson and Miss Fern
Long, and a recitation by little Lois
Cole. The bride was requested to
stand in the center of the room and
informed of the coming "shower,"
when at the same time a large um
brella was being held above her, and
she was showered with many beauti
ful pieces of linen. The refresh
ments, consisting of raspberry sher
bet, cakes and pineapple lemonade
were relished by the guests. At the
parting hour the guests vowed the
afternoon well spent and all express
ed their regret of having to lose one,
a friend and schoolmate, who will
soon depart for Vero, Florida, to be
come the bride of Mr. Thurman Wil
son, and at which place she will re
side in the future.
The invited guests were: Misses
Beunita Porter, Robin, Pheme and
Florence Richardson, Rachel and Jen
nie Livingston, Anna and Mildred
Snyder, Elsie Gapen, Muriel Henton,
Mary Wetenkamp, Fern and Stella
Long, Opal Cole, Mabel and Lillian
Adams, Martha Barker, Mesdames
Wayne Propst, Ella Land, Harriett
Pitman, Will Wetenkamp, E. V. Cole
and little Lois, Carl Cole, Samuel
Eccles of Rosell, New Mexico, Silas
Long of Vero, Florida, C. L. Wiles,
Lee Cole and S. W. Cole and W. H.
Venner.
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Said application will be heard be
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day of July, 1915, at 2 o'clock p. m.
Dated this 24th day of June, 1915.
Signed:
ISADORE HENRY SITZMAN.
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