f.iQH EIGHT
"flJES U THE OOTEHT
CHANGE THE ODOR THEREOF
Spurious Additions to the Word
of God Condemned. -
CWelnnd.O., K(ff.
L'O.-Tne Wine Mnn
declared Ihnt a fly
In the proclon olnt
inont would cmtfte It
to mink. We apply
I Ills suggestion to
I lie Word of tiod,
the precious olnt
meut which Uod
him supplied. Cer
tain Hint (false
IumxIhi crept lulo It
, ft-
x
w k
d u r 1 11 k the Dark
Age, which are now ciiusIuk a loath
ing aud repudiation on the pnrt of
many of the beat and wisest people lu
the world. All will admit tlmt it Is
aluul to tamper with the Word of God
to either add to or tuke from It or to
wrast or twist or pervert Its meaning.
Whs is It, then, that ministers of the
Qoopel, who know that certain -passage
of the Scriptures are not to be
found la the older manuscripts, full to
bow to the people the truth on this
object? And If these ministers are
not fally Informed, whose fault Is tlmt?
Woald It not be preferable that they
should absent themselves from some
f the fairs and festivals and social
functions, la order to Inform thoin
eireeT '
; Ob what pretext are the clergy
a specially privileged class, except
far tie purpose of (riving their flocks
reliable Information along religions
lines? And what Is their commission
from the Lord, except that they "should
feed the flock of Uod, which he pur
chased with the blood of his own denr
BooT" If the flock have been feeding
pon certain Scripture supposed to be
genuine, and If they have been made
ick thereby, and If their shepherds
Mt know that these Scriptures are not
part of tbe Divinely inspired Word,
why should not God's people he In
formed of the facts and be stopped
from eating polsonoua elements Intro
duced by the Adversary?
Peisen In Our Bibles,
The more others are sllont, the mure
M must apeak. We cannot see God's
beep spiritually sick without warning
then respecting their HplrUuul food.
Not only have we received niiiuy mis
interpretations of the pnrubles aud
symbols of the Bible, but luto our
Bibles themselvea certain false state
ments hare been liijorted long cen
turies ago- All wull-lufornied minis
ters of the (loepel know that our New
Testament was not tiunsluted from
the writings of the Apostles, hut from
copies thereof. These, copied over and
ver again, uo mutter how curefully,
were liable to errors. Aud In ndditlun,
as we Blight expect. ot-caHiounlly, a
bold transcriber would add a few
words to make the record conform
tbe better to bis conception of what
It ought to be. This went on for cen
turies before the art of printing came
lato uae.
Tbe New Testament was translated
from the Greek luto the Latin language,
aud was known us the Vulgate. From
that Latin translation sprung our va
rious EugllHh translations tlio Douny
or Catholic edition, published In I1X1O
A. D., and the Klug Juine Bible, or
Common Vesslon, published In 1011 A.
l. Tbe latter was merely a revised
translation, to assist In which re
vision other previous truiisliitlons were
Used, aud we are assured that the text
was diligently compared with the
Creek text, (tut until lately there
were uo ancient Greek manuscripts
with which to compare it. The Greek
manuscripts with which It was eoui
pared numbered only eight, none of
which dated earlier than the Tenth
Century. Today, however, wo have
throe very old Greek manuscripts of
tbe New Testament, namely, the Alex
aadiian W8., the Vatican MS. and tbe
Hinsltic MS. Of tbeso. the Vaticun
MS. was tbe first to roine to the at
tention of modern scholarship. It Is
In the Vatican Library, appearing on
Its catalogue aa far buck as H75 A. P..
wblcb manuscript scholarship accred
its wltb having beeu written In tlio
fourth century. Next came the Alex
andrian MM, which is supiHisi'd to
' bare been written about the middle of
the fifth century. It la now on ex
hibition In tbe British Museum. Final
ly, we have the Sliialtie MS., which is
m poaseMlon of the Itusslan Govern
ment It was found by Conslantine
Tlwbcndorf In Mt. Sliml Convent,
from wblcb It takes Its name. It Is
accredited wltb date of about 3M)
A. IX Of these three oldest MSS. of
tbe New Testament kuowu In the
world, the Vatican and K'nalilc are
tbe older.
Assuredly uothlng should be consid
ered as part of the original Scriptures
that la not (uuud tu any of these three
oldest MSS. Why should we not toll
this to tbe people? Why should we
not Inform tuvui that some of the
most voufusiug text of the HIMo are
but fouud lu these old hmuu.Hcrlpts?
la tt not a sin to preach doctrine as
from Ood which hsr no part lu these
early MSS.? This Is our thought,
atom time to time It will be our pleas
ure, aa well aa our duty, to teach the
common people what the clergy al
ready know oo this subject. More
over, the Bible 8tuleiits Association
f Uyk)yn baa arranged for the lin
(MMtalion of copies of (lie New Testa
ment bound in cloth showing the vari
ation btwwn the readings of these
old Orwcfc MSrt. aud our Common Ver
sion. The usual price of thee Is f 1.00;
bet, importing tlixio la lurge quanti
wji.l mj:lt is cjmcauo .
tjlEMJ KTWrMI L'XPOhlTlON
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Comidor Now Our Text.
"do v Into all the world nnd preach
th Ronpfll to vory crroture. He tht be
lle vet h and la Implized, ahnll be avert;
but he thnt belksvcth not, shall b
damned. "-Murk xvl. 15. 18.
One of the most important of these
Interpolations or poisonous additions
engrafted tijinti the Word of God Is in
the slxteeir.li chapter of Murk, all of
which, from the ninth' verse to the end
of the chapter, is spurious fraudulent.
It Is additional to anything tlmt St.
Mark wrote, as evidenced by the fact
that these verses ure not found lu any
of the three oldent Greek MSS.
Of course some of the items of
thoMO Verne are fouud lu other Gos
pels. It would never do to add a lie
without a certain amount of covering
of Truth to sugnrcoat itt But notice
our text nnd what a wrong thought It
gives inconsistent with the remainder
of the Scriptures. Its Intimation Is
tlmt tho preaching of the Gospel to
every crenturs will result ellher'lii Ills
believing It and being baptized, nnd
thus being saved, or iu his disbelieving
and being damned. And tills word
damned curries with It. in the light of
other misunderstandings, Ore, nnd
biasings, roasting and torture, shriek
ing aud woes Indescribable. This is
all wrong contrary to tho authentic
Scriptures.
Tbe authentic Scriptures Inform us
that this Gospel Age W one In which
God Is gathering' from the -world a
aittle flock" of footstep followers,
saintly nnd elect, to constitute the
Urlcle of Christ his jolnt-helra In his
coining Kingdom. They show thnt not
all are expected to hear this message
at the present time not many wise,
great, lenrned or rich, but chiefly the
poor. 'They fissure us that to have the
hearing ear Is a special rnvor, saying.
"IHcased are your ears Tor they hear,
and your eyes for they see." St. Tuul
tells ns t!:nt the world In general Is
blind iii:d di.-.f to (lie incurs e now sent
forth; (Komitiis xl, 1), and tho experi
ences of eighteen i-cnturles corrobornte
tills. St. Peter tells us (Act xv, 13) that
God's work In the present tlmo Is not
the conversion of the world (which cer
tainly Is not being nt cotnpllf lied) but
that he Is now taking out of the world
a people for his name (to bear the
name of Christ. 'ns his Urldei. The au
thentic Scriptures every where teach
us that the Hvr. blind. Uenf world,
which lias never .vet beard fully and
clearly of "Mut uu'y uanr! given under
heaven or r.n.ougst me:i whereby we
may be saved." Is not on this account
condemned or damned. They telL us
that the whole world was hrn con
demned, because children of Adam and
sharers In bis condemnation, but that
God has provided In the sacrifice of
Jesus a redemption for Adam and all
bis rare. They tell us that, as a result.
In God's due tlmo, Christ, n the truo
Light, the Hun of Righteousness, siinll
enlighten every man thnt comet h Into
the world. They explain thnt God Is
now calling out n special chins while
the darkness Is upon the earth and the
gros darkness upon the heathen, nntr
that the Sun of Righteousness, which Is
to eiiliirhten the vhole world, will not
arise until the elect Church shall first
have been gathered out. They tell us
that. In tho New Dispensation yet to
dawn, all the families of tlieenrth will
be blessed through The Chrlst-Jcsus,
the Head, and the Church his Hody or
Hrlde. They tell us that then "nil the
blind eyes shall be opened and nil the
deaf ear shall be unstopped" (Isaiah
xxxv, 5). They tell us that then the
Sun of Righteousness shall arise with
healing lu his beams, flooding the wholo
earth with the light of the knowledge
of the glory of GimI. They assure us tlmt
that will lie (ho eriod of Messiah's
reign, fur which we pray, "Thy King
dom come; thy will be done on earth
as In heaven." They tell us (hut the
object of that reign will bo that the
world In general may have a trial to
determine whether, wllh the light and
knowledge nnd experience then grant
ed, they will choose God and righteous
ness and the reward of eternal life, or
will choose sin and Its penalty, the
Second Ilea III,
Unbeliever Damntd Already.
Our word ifumntvl, from uilsusage and
the bad theology of the Dark Ages,
baa a sulphurous odor, whereas It
plalu, simple moaning Is the same aa
tbe word coniI 'min. Adum was damned
or condemned tkKJo years ago becuuse
of bis disobedience. And all his chil
dren, by heredity, share Ills weak
ncsHo and thus share his condemna
tion. Hut Adam I not vomltmmed or
dimmed to etorunl torture nor to I'ur
gatoay. Tbe Kittle distinctly say In
o tunny words that bis sentence, his
condemnation, his damnation, Is to
dca. "lu the dny that thou cutest
thereof, dying thou shalt die" (Genesis
II, 17, margin). After his dlsobcdluuce,
God said. "Unlit Is tbe esrtli for thy
sake. Thorns and thlstlea shall it
bring forth unto thee. In the sweat
of thy face aliult thou eat bread until
thou return unto the ground from
which thou wast taken; for dust thou
art aud unto dust shall thou return"
(Gencsli 111. 17 ID).
Thl general sentence ' has rested
upou all of AdiMu'ii race from that day
until now. As St. 1'uul declares, Ity
ue man's dltolM-rtlcuce lu entered
luto the world aud death (not eternal
torment nor Purgatory! as a result of
sin and Ihus death mot eternal tor
ment nor Purgatory) pusKod upon all
uiou. because all are sinners iltouians
, l'-'l. Jesus came to redeem two
classes the Chmvh and the world
the Church class tu le his "Hi Me" and
to share his heavenly, spiritual King
dom wltb him; the world to be blest.ed
and restored to huiuiiu perfection and
to au earthly Kileii, world-wide God'a
footstool made glorious. The Church
l ml household of faith, willlug to walk
In the fiHitsteMi of the Master tu lb
lurk, have Icon culled during tbe past
learly nineteen centuries. Soon the
here laiw yesterday afternoon.
All the present officer of the as
sociation were renominated, Includ
ing V. K. Kavanaugh, president.
Tha convention slda-steDued action on
1 tha rival clalnia of New Orb tins and
San Francisco for tha Panama expo
worthy ones, the "little nock." will en
er Int.) the Joy of their Lord, at his
Second Coming. The marriage of the
Lamb shall come, for bis Wife will
bave made herself ready (Rev. xlx, 7).
Then the world' salvation will bo
due to begin. The Time of Restitu
tion will be the thousand years of Mes
siah' spiritual reign a King of kings
and Ixrd of lords. Fleshly Israel, we
are assured," will then be restored to
Divine favor and become the special
and active agents of the Messianic
Kingdom In the dlslriliutlon of the Di
vine favors to nil the families of the
earth. In the end all the Incorrigibly
wicked, who love Iniquity rather than
righteousness, will be destroyed.
Thus, as the Apostle declares, the
sacHllco of Jesus constitutes a satis
faction for our sins (the Church'a alus)
aud not for ours only, but also for the
sins of the whole world (I John II, 2).
Nonsensiosl, 8purlous Contest.
Let us briefly notice another absurd
ity In the addition to God'a Word found
in (ho Inst twelve verses of St. Mark's
Gospel, fraudulently added and not
found In any of the oldest Greek MSS.
Notice tho statement, "These signs
shall follow thoiu that believe: In mj
niitno shall they cast out devils; they
shall speak with new tongues. They
shall take up serpents; and If they
drink any deadly thing. It shall not
hurt them. They shall luy bands on tbe
sick nnd they shall recover" (verse
17. 18). The majority of Christian min
isters and their congregations seem not
to be troubled by the fact that they do
not have those evidence of their rela
tionship to the Lord, slid they do not
attempt to lienl the sick, -to speak with
tongues, und would not dure to drink
any poisonous thing. But there are
certain conscientious people, the very
cream of all the Churches, who nre
greatly perplexed by these words be
cause they know that they are not true
In their experience. With them, there
fore. It Is a mutter of feeling doubtful
about their own salvation, or a ques
tion a to the reliability of tho Bible
as n whole. They need to linve the re
lief which we now seek to give them,
They nend to know that these are not
Inspired words, but poisonous nnd In
jurious additions made during the Dark
Ages. They may, consequently, look
elsewhero In the1-Scripture and find
the proper assurances of their relation
ship with God being demonstrated by l
the fruits of the holy Spirit In their
lives nnd In their hearts "meekness,
gentleness, patience, long suffering,
brotherly kindness, love."
Miraolts In th Early Church.
This spurious passage of our text Is
used by many ministers who know, or
ought to know, of Its falsity. Hut they
have a certain theory in their minds
to the effect that the miracles and un
known tongues of tlio early Church
were lost by reason of tin faithfulness
to God. and thnt Christians today
should seek for their recovery. Not
having any Scriptures to support; their
claim they use this Interpolation and
allow tlielr hearers and renders to be--Heve
It to be the Inspired message. To
what length hnvo people gone lu sup
port of human theory! The first prin
ciple of preaching should be to preach
the Truth, the whoio Truth aud noth
ing but the Truth. Every theory wMIcb
requires bolstering up by spurious pas
sages should be abandoned, and will be
abandoned by those who nre honest
truth-seekers, "Koreans."
Our Lord performed miracles. So
did his Apostles. And so did those of
the early Church upon whom the
Apostles laid their hands. Hut uo
others have this gift. Consequently,
when the Apostles were dead aud
when nil those upon whom they had
laid hands of blessing were dend, these
miracles In Hie Church were at au
end. We nil see the propriety of this.
Miracles were appropriate ntthe be
ginning for the establishment of the
Church and, for a time, were necessary
for their eucourngement. In tbelr
enrly meetings they, had no source of
Information aside from the- Apostles,
whom they rarely saw or heard. They
had no Bibles no copies of the Gospel
nor of the Kplstles. They needed the
very arrangement which Ood provid
edtongues nud Interpretations of
tongues, etc., to draw them together and
to instruct them until, In due tlmo, the
canon of Scripture would be completed
that, through it, the man of God might
be thoroughly furnished unto every
good word and work (II Tim. til, 10. 17).
By tho tlmo the Apostles died the
Church bad become established, had
regular meetings, pastors and teach
ers, tb Gospels aud Lplstles, and
some of them had begun to develop
tha fruits of the Spirit. Thus the enrly
Church naturally outgrew the tongues
and miracles and entered a larger
sphere. Just as a child loses its swad
dling clothes In favor of more aultnbia
attire. Kor Cod' people t'slay to de
sire to go buck to Rjieaktng with
tongues, etc., such a was practised,
and very profitably, In the early
Church, would be like an adult person
desiring to be dressed and treated a
a bats). It is our understanding that
the sinking with unknown tongue
lu religious meetings, which I grad
ually spreading over the world. Is a
deception being practised upou earnest
ihlldrcii of God, who are deceived by
the fallen angels the uVuios of tha
Bible. They are thus enslaved to er
ror aud have their attention drawn
away from the Truth. To what ex
tent the ministers of Christ of today
are responsible for the delusion of
these poor people is not ours to .de
termine. Hud the spurlousues of tbe
lust verses, of St. Murk's Gospel beeu
duly pointed out from every pulpit, aa
simhi a the old MSS. were known,
some, at least, might have been pred
from this snare ouie who, under mis
understanding, have been hindered
from proiier expectation lu res poet to
God's Word nnd led Improperly to ex
poet the Muvr of tongue aud mlra
rlcs suggvsted In this spurious passage.
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