Watchtower: Which is the True Gospel? - 1900

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of life, an d witness the good confession-the good tiding sof great joy which s hall be to all people.''

All who will dedare the true Gospel will lleed to be wellshod with the preparation of the gospel of peace (gentleness ,patience, meekness) for strange tu say, they wi ll find bitteropposition from professed servants of th e Lo rd who ha vebe e n blinded and prejudiced by Satan's misrep resentation sof the Gospel , -by which he seeks to drive from the Lordall who have a remnant of rea


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4 W d s tlie True Gospel

or a near relative to "the fool who hath said in his heart thereis no God," or a coward, preyed upon by fears, instigated bySatan to hinder honest investigatio n of the divine messageof love and mercy.

Even a hasty glance into the intelligent faces of thislarge audience assures me that you all have giv en somethought to our theme ;- though experience a ss ures me t hatcomparativ ely few of y ou have ever rea ched conclu sions ~ mthis .sub je ct fully sati sfactory to yourselves. Hence your faithand love and zeal toward God and your zeal for the Go spelare less strong than you could desire. Let us hope that aswe reason together on this great subject to-day, we may byGod's grace see more clearly than ever before which is thetrue Gospel..'....the one of which the Apostle was not asham ed,and of which, th erefore, none of us need feel ashamed , t h eGospel, therefore, which should more and more; move andenergize us as the power of God, unto salv a tion.

No one' of intelligence will J ispute the meaning o theword "G o spe l": it signifies " good tidings," good news.a go od message . N evertheless, in some unaccountable manner ,by common c onsent, "a real Gospel se rmon" is al mos t unive rsally und erstood to signify bad tidings-tiding s of eternalmisery to the great ma ss of our race-to all except the httl eflock of G od 's faithful people . As a consequ ence, the tir eac herof a "Go spel serm on" is expected to ,figuratively s h a ~ e thecongrega t ion over an aby ss of everlasting torture, m aking asstrong an effort as po ssible to intimidate them ther eb_y to athorough reformation of life , in hope of thus esc aping anawful eternity.

True. this that we might term "the


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and Popes, go to Purgatory for refin emen t, purification fromsin and to be prepared for heaven. It claims that some willspend only a sho rt t ime in Purgatory, assisted out of it bythe merit of prayers, masses, etc ., on their behalf by theirfr i ends after death. But their expectation is tha t ultimat elyPurgatory will be no more, its thousands of milli ons beingprepared for a better and happier condition. But accordingto all the great theologians oi Papacy, and according to allth e Papal bulls, all Protestants, all rejectors of Pa p ac y's teaching s will suffer endless torment. This is th e Roman CatholicGospel fairly prese n ted, as we understand it. t does notseems to us to be very good news- not very good tidings, evento th ose who get the very best it has to offer, and it certainlywould be very bad tidings to all out of harmony with Papacy.

Let us next look at the great Prote st ant doctrine represented in the word Calvinism - t he doctrine of the electionof the Church and the reprobation of all others.

THE GOSPEL PRESENTED BY CALVI NI SM.

Calvinism claims that faith in Christ is essent ial to salvation and it ;ldmits th at faith comes by hearing an d hearing by th e Word of God. Calvinism requires more than amere knowledge of Christ and belief in him as a good andexemplary man, who died a martyr to his too ex treme convictions . I t requires faith in Christ's death as a sacrifice forman's sin, and at least some mani festation towards righteousness of life befor e any could be recognized as being of theelect Church . Consequently, according to Calvinism , the electChurch coul d not include the heathen of the present timeand all th e way back through the past, who have never heardof the o nly name given under heaven or amongst men wherebywe must be sa ved. Stretched to its very broadest, Calvinismcould not include more than one in twenty of earth 's f if tyth ousan d millions that are estimated to have lived from Adam'sday until the presen t tim e. n other words , according to t hebr oades t possible estimate of this view , more than fortyseven thousand millions of humanity were in the languageof the Westminster Confession of Faith, passed by a s nonelect in the divine plan.

And what does this mean passed by or non-elect?t means, according to Calvinism, that God, who knew the

end from the beginning, befo re creating this world and mankind upon it, determined that he would pass by and notelect those forty-seven thousand millions of his creatures tolife and happiness. bu t would pr ede stinate them to an eternityof torture, and tha t carrying out this diabolical plan, he prepared a great place large enough to hold forty-seven t housandmillions, and fuel sufficient to produce the necessary combus-

tion there to all eternity-did all this with a full appreciation of all the awful facts and circumstances of the case

Moreover , we r emember the statement of Calvinismwhich many of us learned in our youth, to the effect thatGod 's favor toward the elect is not because of any worthinesson their part , nor because of any works which they had done,but of bis own sovereign grace he sav es them from allthe horrible conditions which be has pr edestinated shall beupon the others . Now if th e salvation of the elect is notbecause of their works or worthmess, but because of God'ssovereign grace only, the simplest mind can see th a t God mi$'htwithout any violation of principle have ex t ended that sovereigngr ace to other s- - to all, since it was not because of worthinessnor because of works , but merely of uis own volition that anyare saved,-accordin_g- to Calvinism.

The celebrated Jonathan Ed wards, when preaching uponth i s subject in New England years ago, after picturing th eawful torment ef the non-elect was asked the que stion, Wouldnot the thought of the aI)gUish of the lost mar the bliss ofGod ' s people in glory? His answer in substance was, No;you will be so cha nged that such matters will not affect you; youwi ll look over th e battlements of heaven and see in tormentyour neighbors and friends, yea, your own parents and child ren, brothers and sisters, and turn ing round will pra ise Godthe louder because his ju stice is made manifest.

Now, my dear friends, I do not charge any who arehere present with having so false a view of the divine charact er and plan as this . Indeed, I am glad to note that ourCalvinis tic friends in general are repudiating this doctrine ,reali zing tha t the re is in it a serious lack, not only as respects divine love, but also as re spects divine ju s tice. I wasglad some years ago to not o that some of our Presb,Yterianfriends were so moved by higher and nobler conceptions ofth e Almighty that they wished to rid themselves of any partin so blasphem ous a statement respecting his charac ter andhis plan. I wa s sorry, however, that when the matter ofthe re vision of t he Pr esbyterian standards was tak en upit was found that only a minority was in favor of revision,and I was still more sorry to note that that minority of intelligent, god ly people was willing to continue to confessto such a horrible mis-statement of the ir true views-willing, shall I say, to continlle to blaspheme that holy namebecause a majority of their brethren were unwillmg thatsuch blasphemous misrepre sentat ions should be discont inued.

I am glad to believe tha t if th is matter were bro ughtto the intelligent attention of Presbyterians in gen era l alarge majority woul d be found willing, nay , anxious, to undothe wrong and to make such reparation as would b e withinth eir power, by war of honoring the great Jeh ovah and attesting their appreciation of his love and his justice, ~ well


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as o ~ ~ i s w_isd?m a n ~of his p o w ~ r .This is just the point:C a l v m i s ~in its anxiety to e s t ~ b h s ~_the wisdom and powerof God, h 1 ~foreknowledge and his ab1hty to carry out his planhas _co nce1v eq o ~ a ,Plan wb_ich is far from the correct one'.lackmg both in iushce and m love.

. It _may b.e argued that Love is a grace and that its exercise is not incumbent upon Jehovah; that all that could bea s ~ c : dor expected of h_im would be simple Justice, and somemight be ready to claim that for God to eternally tormentthe_sc forty-sevc-:1 t ho u s ~ n dmilli_ons "pass ed by"- would be instn


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from heathendom. Indeed, according to some good reckonings, the percentage of Christians every year is decreasing,the births of heathen lands so far outnumbering the birthsof Christ ian lands-eve n counting all the children born inChristendom as Christians.

Is any Christian, in view of these facts, prepared to claimthat our God has been doing all that he could do for the conversion of the world? f so , that Christian may as well writeupon his hopes at once the word "Ichabod." f we saw thatthe Calvinistic view magnifies the wisdom and power of Godat the expense of his justice and love, we find on the otherhand that the Arminian view magnifies the love of God at

the expense of his wisdom and powo r. The true Gospelmust show divine Wisdom and Power in full accord withdivine Justice and Love: of any other we must needs beashamed.

DISTINCTIONS WITHOUT PRACTICAL DIFFERENCE.

But, my dear friends, we may as well now as at anytime con cede that there is comparatively little difference inthe outcome of these two popular Protestant Gospels-thediff erence is merely a theoretical one respecting how th e results are to be reached. The results themselves are the samein both cases-the etern al doom and torment of over fortyseven thou sand millions of human creatures. For our Arminian friends no less than Calvinists agree that there is nosalvation as ide from faith in Christ, the only name given;and they admit also that of those who believe in Christ onlythe sanct.ined are of the real Church ; and their Gospel isalso that only the real Church is to be saved and that allother s are to be eternally and most horribly tormented;some c:laim in literal £lames, others say by the torments andgnawings of conscience and remor se which they proceed tosay will be worse than th e literal flames,-and we respond,if worse , so much worse for the argument.

All will surely agree as respects these two theories orGospels held out to the wo rld by Protestant Christendomth at it would make no difference to the forty-seven thou sandmillions, whether they got into that awful state of hopelesswoe by divine predestination and lack of love and justice ,or by divine incap acity and lack of foreknow ledge and properarrangements. We believe th at no true Christian will beready after examining the su bj ect thus fa r to say t hat hefully appr oves either of these theories, and that he is notashamed of both of them .

CONSIDER NOW THE TRUE GOSPEL,

Let us now 1;1roceed to examine what is the tr u e Gosl el,presented to us m the Word of God- the Gospel of whichthe Apostle was not ashamed.

The wo rd "gospel.'' itself s h o ~ dbe ~ h eclue-should ~ v ethe intelligent Christian from bei lg tDlsled by the varioustheories of bad tidings of great nusery for nearly all people,miscalled "gospel." He t h i n ~ i n git good news that one out .ofa thousand of the human family 1s to be saved and the ret;na:1n-ing to be eternally tormented, is ither ?O.t a Christian

at all, or he is decidedly undevelopedin

.qmstian. character,in mercy, in love, in justice. In ur op1mon he l ~ at moston ly a " babe in Chris t who has need first of the milk of theWord and subsequently of th e st r?ng meat" thereof, that hemay grow up into Christ in all thmgs, and be able to ~ o m -prehend with all saints the lengths. and bre adths and heightsand depths of the love of God which passeth all understand-ing.-Epb. 3 :18 19. h ·

When occasionally we come across 6 ~ eone w. o givesev idence of being a Christian, and. who still entertam s suc}ihorribly blasphemous vie'Ys r e s p e ~ gthe H,eavenly Fatherscharacter, we feel like quotmg to lum th e Lords words throughthe Prophet, My ways arc not as your ways nor my thoughtsas your thoughts, for as the heavens are higner than the ~ a r t hso arc my ways higher than your ways and my plans h1g_herthan your plans." (Isa . SS :8, ~ ) And part of our obi ectin this discourse , de


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thous .and out of the families of the earth be blessed, and theremainder be doomed to an indescribably horrible eterni ty,but that the whol.e. Gospel is a Gospel of bles sing, applicable to all the families of the earth-through Christ, the trueseed of Abraham.

When our Lord Jesus was born into the world, the heave nly Father sent a message e s p e c t i n ~hi m , and the angels whobore that message declared that 1t was a Gospe l message.Let u s hearken to what the angels said about the eternaltorment of the vast majority of our race . They said to thes h e p h e ~ d s ,B ~ h o l dwe bring you good tidings [g ospe l] ofg r e a ~Joy. ~ v ~ 1 c hshall be unto all people. (Luke 2:10.)Let 1t be d1stmctly .note d that the Gospel of the angels , likethe Gospel commumcated to Abraham, contains no referenceto the damnation and eternal misery of any of the Lord'screatures, and that consequently our friends of the SalvationArmy and others, who in ignorance preach damnation andcall it the Gospel, are doing so in utter violation of the meaning of th e .word and of all the uses of that word throughou.t th e S ~ n p t u r e s ..H.owever well they may mean , they arc inthis certam ly c o~ t h n ga wrong. a griev1ous wrong. and welong to see the liiht o f the knowledge of th e ~ o o d u e s sofGod shine into their hearts and relieve them of th is blindnes swhich comes not from God nor from his Word but fromthe prince of darkness.-2 Cor. 4 :4. '

It will require all of the Millennial age (w h ich is to followthis Gospe l age in which we live) to bless al l the familiesof t.he earth with the joyful knowledge of divine grace inChrist. Just so surely as the forty -seve n thou sand millionswent down into death without hearing of the Saviour , without coming t o a clear knowledge of the truth, without thegood tiding s of great joy reaching their ears,-just so s u r ~ l ymust they all com e forth from the gra ve that this very Gospel m essage of good tidings may be declared to them, andthat they may be tested thereby and either be accepted toeternal life or de s troyed as unworthy of life, in the SecondDeath. We sa v just so surely , fo r three reasons:

I ) The announcement of the Gospe l to Abraham says,In thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

and all of these forty-seven thousand millions belong to thisvery class speci fied, the families of the ear th-and they havenot vet been blessed with this knowledge of the only namewherein i s the blessing.

(2) Th e same is true of the messag e by the angels, -the good tidi ngs of great joy is for all people, an d theseforty -seven t hous and millions of humanity are sure ly thegre at bulk of all people.

(3) We are su r e that this testimony must be given tothem in the future becau se the Scriptural declarati on is that

Christ died for the ungodly; be tasted death for everv

man, and as a consequence every man must have an opportunity granted him for benefitting by that death, and of availing himself of the privilege of eternal life which was sec uredby our Lord's ransom sacrifice.

DID CHRIST DIE FOR THE CHURCH ONLY?

But some one would perhaps say, Christ died only for thesins of the Church and not for the sins of the world, and conseque ntl y the sins of the world cannot be forgiven them.We answer, No; the $criptural declaratioh most positively

is that Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death forev ery man , to be testified in due time. And, additiona lly,the Apost le says , He is a propitiation [satisfaction] for our[the Church's] sins, and not for ours only, but also for thesins o f the whol e world. (1 John 2:2.)

What could be plainer than this? the price for thesins of the whole world has been paid to Justice, we may restwell assured that Ju stice will furnish opportunity throµgh theRedeemer whereby all th e se whose sins were atone d for maycome to a knowledge of Christ and to an opportunity of ac·cepting divine grace through him.

Bu t some one will say, Why should God adopt a planwhich w ould necessitate a resurrection of t he dead, and a postresu'rrection trial for eternal life except for all the elect Churchof this Gospe l age?

We answer, - ( I ) I t is not for us to inquire why the Lordadopt s certain plans which differ from those which our poorfinite minds might arrange for him; rather it is fo r us toacknowledge that our wisdom is insufficient on such a subj ectand that we shou ld come humbly t the Lord to hear fr omhis Word whatever he may be pleased to inform us respecting his purp oses . (2) As a matter of fa ct only thos e whoapproach the q u e ~ t i o nfrom this standpoint need e x pect tosee the tr u th or to comprehend wi th all sain ts the lengthsan< breadths and heights and deptlis of the lov e of God.''Eph. 3:18 ; I Cor, 2:12 .

God bas been pleased, however , to reveal to us some ofhis reasons for arranging his plan as we see it. He assu resus of his full wisdom and power to manage every feature ofhi s own work accord ing to h is own good pleasure, assuring usthat he knows the end from the beginning, and that the endwill fully justify every step he has taken. His Word. n o lessthan observa tion , shows us that during all these six thousandyears the world bas been getting a lesso n respecting the exceedi11g sinfulne ss of sin and it s wages of sorrow and death .His Word assures us also that during the ne xt age, the Millennium, t he wh ole w o rld will be br ou ght to a knowledge ofthe way of r i ~ t o u s ns s and love and pea ce, and will seethe d ivine law n practical operation, and witness i ts beneficent


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results in ~ I those who will then come into harmony with thegrea t Mediator.

Thus m_ankind learns .t he les so n of evil and its conseq uc n ~ efirst m the present Jsfe and the lesson of righteousn essand . ts blessed result5 under div ine providence, in the MilJ en n u ~; and when ~ u sfully equipped w ith kn owledge onboth sides of t he questi on and instru c ted by the Royal Priest·h ood . (the. comp leted and glorified elect Gospel Church),mankind will be ready f ~ r the tests, that will be applied bythe Lord Jesus, nnder which the obedient and faithful will begrante.d .full p c r f e ~ t i o nand eternal life, and the disobedient and1ncorng1ble will be destr oyed from amongst the people. Acts 3:2J .

IF YE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE .ABRAHAM'S

SEED, AND HEIRS.

. An o ther matter, really the key to the whole questionwhich we are disc ussing , is revealed in God' s Word vizth a t in the divine purpo se th e promised Seed of A b r ~ h a m ; ;that shoul d pe:form the grea:t work of blessing all the familiesof the earth , 1s to be one , in the sense of one kind but notin th e se ns e of one person-tha t is to sa¥_ that t h ~see d ofAbraham consists of Jesus Christ the Head and of theChurch which is his body. Not the no mi nal ' or professingchurch, but the true Church, " whose names are written inheaven," anq who walk in the footsteps of their Lord, andare found faithful unto death, and shall be granted wi t h theirLord the crow n of life.

. This . Gospel age ir;itervening between the time of the greats 1~ offenng and the time when the blessing of earth's billi onswill con?me nce, God has set _apart for the work of selectingor elcctmg the b odr of Christ the Church the Br ide the

"litt e~ o c k. t ~ e

' roya l priesthood," the joint hei rs 'withChrist m hi s kingdom . These. like their Head. arc calledwith . a "high calling;'' a. "heavenly calling " , and the sa lvati onprovid ed for them 1s higher than that which God purp osesfor the world in general. He is selecting this "little Rock"and tr y ing th em and proving them, fitting them and polishi ngthem for the heavenly Kingdom, and it is to th ese , as theApostle Peter declares, God has given "exceeding great andprecious promises [far beyond any promises given to anyother of his creatures] that by these [pr omises] we m i ~ tbecome partakers of the divine natur e," and joint-heirs withhis Son. This is de nom inated a "heavenly calling" in contras t with the earthly salvation intended for whosoever will,

in due time."This tru e view of th e ca lling and election of the Church

is another fea ture of the Gospel. If it is splendid . good newsto know that ultimately all families of the earth are to be

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bles sed with opportuni tie s for salvation through the Chr ist itis still an addi tio na l featu re to tl•e good w to kno w tna tGod has invi ted us to become members of th e Christ company,"membe rs in particul a r of the body of Chri st. No wo nd erthe Apostle calls this ' 'ou r high calling," our " hea ven ly call·ing : it is to the attainment of this gr eat prize that the Apostleexh orts all the faith ful to lay aside every weight and ev er ybe sc tmcn t and to run wit h patien ce the race set before us inthe Gospel, looking unto Jesus, the author, nntil he shall havebecome the finisher of our faith.

Thi s is the true Gospel, dear friends, the one we find setforth in the Scriptures , set forth by Paul himself, and ofwhich he was not ashamed . This Gospel shows the characterof our Creator in a m ost wonderful l ight , - his Wisd om ableto di sce rn the end fr om th e beginning; his Power, able to accomplish that which he please s; his Justice squar ing everyfeature of the plan fr om first to las t, a ccorai ng to th e mostab solu te features of righteousness; his Love, wh ose length sand breadths and heights and depths we have not yet beenable to exp lore; a love which sympath izes wit h his creature sin th e ir fallen estate; a love which provided a Savi o ur, and agr eat o ne; a l ove which prompted that Saviour to give hislife as our ran som price; a love which met all the requirements of divin e ju stice :for us; a lo ve wh ich still pursuesmankind, and in this Gospel age calls us to joint beir shipwi th bis Son in a n ature and Kingdom far abov e angels, principalitie s and powers, of which the Ap os tle says:

"Behold what manner o f love the Fath er h a th bestowedu ~ u ~ t hat we should be called the sons of God." Thisdivi ne love, still pur suing its original pla n for man's salvati on,will use the "elec t" _glorified house of sons, of which ChristJ esus is the H ead (Eph. I :22) in bles sing all families of theearth with full opportun ity of k nowledge and full assistance

up the hijrhway of holiness ( Is a. 3S :8) that so many as willmay at1am to r6stitution to all th a t was lost in Adam bycoming back in to harmony with Cud through the great Mediator.-Acts 3 :1g-23.

NON:K NERD BE ASHAMED OF THE TRUE GOSPEL.

Verily , dear friends, of this Gospel we are not ashamed," for it is the power of God unto salvation to every on e tl:latbelievetb ." It ha s in our hearts a tran sform ing and renewing power, a sanctifyin g power which no e rror could possiblyh ave, and which all the theories of eternal tormen t havenever equal ed and never will. Let us more and more showfor th the praises of our God, who hath called us out of darkne ss into bi s marvelous light," by renouncing all God-dishonoring cr eeds and theories, and instead hold forth the Word


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of life, and witness the goo d confession-the good tidingsof great joy whic h shall be to all people.''All who will declare the true Gospe l will ueed to be well

shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace (gent leness,patience, meekness) for strange t :> say, they will find bitteroppo sit ion from prof esse d servants of the Lord who ha vebeen blinded and prejudiced by Satan ' s misrepresentationsof the Gospel,-by which he seeks to drive from the Lordall who have a remnant of rea. >on in the ir religious thinking .All who have ea.rs to hear, and who do hear the true Gospel,will quickly distinguish it from the miserable counterfeitswhich for so long have passed current among God's people.Let all such remember that ability to bear is an evidence ofdivine fa vo r, and let them not be ashamed, but glorify Godon thi s behalf. Let such remember, also, that their accept-anc e of the truth as du e , in the face of unpopularity, is apart of their testing. The Lord puts his plan, his Word , ash is representative, say in g - H e that is ashamed of me andmy words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed, whenhe cometh in the glory of bis Father with bis holy angels .- M a r k 8:38.

FR S MPLE Co nES of this traCl: can be bud for your friends onapplication ; also further reading matter fo r yourself, showing the trueteaching of the Bible respecting the Chu rch of Christ and the object ofhe r eledion in this age, aud the terms or conditions upon which thosecalled to membership in i t mny muke their calling and clccnon sure ."

We also offer free a pamphlet showing the Bible teaching respell ·ing FUTUllE PUN ISHMENT, which examines every testim ony of God's'Vord on the subjed , and proves conclusively that man y honest sou ls aremisled by faulty translations and by misinterpretatio ns of some of ourLord s pa.rabies, and the symbols of Revelati on.

The objeCl of our Society is to spread a knowledge of the truth, be-lieving that thereby our Crea.tor and Redeemer will be more honered,and God's people greatly blessed and enabled to worship and serve theLord more f e r v ~ n t l y i nspiri t and in truth. Address u s -

WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY,BIBLE HOUSE, ALLEGHENY, PA., U . S . A.

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