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2004-06-12 23:31 | User Profile
DEAD MEN'S BONES By: Gerald L.K. Smith
He wrote this in 1962! Just think how much worse things have gotten! He was saw what was coming!
[QUOTE]DEAD MEN'S BONES By: Gerald L.K. Smith
(from THE CROSS & THE FLAG magazine, July, 1962):
"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." Matthew 23:27
If Jesus were to return to earth, I wonder where He would spend next Sunday.
I wonder how much at home He would be in the luxurious and architecturally extravagant temples which have been erected on this earth. If He dared to say, "No man cometh unto the father, but by me," or if as He came down out of the airplane or off the train, or even if He descended from the sky He dared to say, "I am the door of the sheepfold. He that climbeth up any other way is a thief and a robber" - I wonder who would believe?
Unless He was given the silent treatment by the press, radio and television, these words would be flashed on the AP wires and the UPI wires and over the ether wave facilities. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League, financed by the B'nai B'rith, would immediately meet and issue a bulletin branding Him as a bigot, a hatemonger and a leader of the lunatic fringe.
The American Jewish Committee would identify Him as an anti-Semite offensive to the Jews and would urge the newspapers to give Him the silent treatment in order that His "bigoted" expressions might not be given enough circulation to influence the population.
Of course, as the Scripture says: "No one knoweth the day or the hour that the Son of Man cometh," so we cannot speculate as to when or how our Lord will return with any degree of accuracy. Students of Bible prophecy offer a wide variety of explanations and prophetic interpretations, but the main problem as far as I am concerned is to obey His admonition when He said, "Occupy until I come," and to prepare myself by faith in His deity, repentance of my sins and obedience to His commandments as laid down in the New Testament Scripture.
I am not a cynic, neither am I a complainer. I try to be a warm-hearted, understanding Christian citizen, but I must confess that occasionally I am overwhelmed with the impression that the name and message and personality of our Lord Jesus Christ is being buried behind whited sepulchres and obscured by the vanities and the skepticisms and the materialisms of this generation.
THE CHURCH is not a building and it is not a religious bureaucracy. It is the invisible spiritual body of Jesus Christ. In one place in the Scripture, it is referred to as the "Bride of Christ." This invisible body consists of the combined believers in our Divine Saviour.
The Gospel is so simple that "a man though a fool may not err therein." It can almost be reduced to a single sentence. Jesus Christ is the Son of God and if we confess His name and repent of our sins and obey Him in Christian Baptism, we become a constituent part of the body of Christ. Guilt is removed by forgiveness. Uncertainty is replaced by abundance, and death is overcome by resurrection and immortality.
The background for this truth is the Bible. The Old Testament is Christ concealed in prophecy. The New Testament is Christ revealed in the inspired account.
What more is there? Why should this beautiful, simple, saving message be decorated with brass, plated with gold and obscured with bureaucracies?
When Moses turned his back on the children of Israel who were looking forward to their Messiah (and we must not confuse the Israel of the Old Testament with the modern apostate Jew who hates the name of Christ) - when Moses turned his back, the children of Israel proceeded to build a golden calf. They were not satisfied to be led through the wilderness by the hand of God whose heavens declared His glory and whose firmament showed forth His handiwork. They wanted something which would satisfy the vanity of the flesh and the materialistic lust of the eye.
Below I summarize some of the manifestations of vanity which obscure the face of Jesus in this jaded hour when more people are attending church than at any time in history and when the rate of perversion, crime, corruption, treason, adultery, fornication, drunkenness and kindred sins beset us as never before.
It is a rugged thought to have to admit that filled luxurious church buildings do not seem to accomplish the purposes of Christ.
We see an increasing amount of gaudy, offensive, vain, abortive church architecture.
The men who call themselves preachers who were ordained to preach the simple Gospel of Christ are too often merely back slappers, money-raisers and community grinners who operate a sort of ecclesiastical Chamber of Commerce, and whose success is usually measured by the amount of money they can raise.
Theological seminaries by the score - in fact, by the hundreds - which were bought with the blood, sweat and tears of believing saints have been turned into temples of doubt, and are turning out ordained ministers who do not believe the Bible and deny the divinity of Christ.
The materialistic doctrine of Karl Marx, commonly referred to as Socialism or Communism, now preoccupies a great segment of the American clergy. The great student of Red infiltration, Dr. J. B. Matthews, himself an ordained Methodist clergyman, must be taken seriously when he reveals that literally thousands of clergymen have lent their names and their good offices to the promotion of the Marxist doctrine.
Clergymen who consider themselves too sophisticated to accept the Virgin Birth or the resurrection of our Lord or the inspiration of Holy Scripture, or the saving power of the Gospel, give much time to the promotion of mongrelization and the degeneration of racial self-respect.
Appeasement of evil seems to be the status symbol of the 'popular clergyman.' Recently Ilistened to a television "panel of clergymen who had surrendered the simplicities of Christian faith for the doctrines of materialistic psychotherapy. Two of the clergymen on the panel brazenly and openly justified premarital sex relations between young men and young women. Most public figures are afraid to confess that homosexuality and lesbianism have infiltrated church leadership, youth camps, YMCAs and YWCAs. This in itself is serious enough, but among the leaders who are not so afflicted, there is a sort of 'broadminded' toleration of these Sodom and Gomorrah codes.
The Evangelist is an obscure breed. A few professionals who have been able to turn the practice of their art into luxury-producing incomes, practice a carnival-like professionalism which bears little resemblance to the simple practices of Philip, Timothy, the Apostle Peter or St. Paul. In fact, I doubt if Martin Luther, John Wesley, St. Francis, D. L. Moody, or even Billy Sunday could be invited to fill one of these gold-plated pulpits which symbolize the materialistic ecclesiastical bureaucracies of this generation.
Prayer meetings are taboo. Church dinners, gluttony, wisecracks, efficiency surveys and budget raisings have replaced the humble prayer circle where men and women of God meet to testify and pray and rededicate.
As a Protestant, my familiarities with the above summarized symptoms is more or less confined to the orbit of Protestantism, but I know Priests and I know important Catholic laymen who are as concerned about the materialistic vanities of their church as I am concerned about the dead men's bones which beset the whited sepulchres of my fellowships.
This statement is not intended to be more than a challenge to meditation and prayer and consecrated consideration. Christ knew what He was talking about, and He spoke immortal truth when He said: "Upon this rock (belief that Jesus Christ is the Son of God) I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
He was not talking about buildings, bureaucracies or budgets. He was talking about an invisible spiritual force - "the Bride of Christ."
I could imagine a day when unbalanced budgets, economic chaos and complete revulsion among the people could render impotent every visible symptom of organized sectarianism at the very moment when the spiritual substance growing out of Christ's eternal Gospel would become more powerful than at any time in history. The saving Gospel of Jesus Christ cannot be registered in a patent office, and God has not sold an exclusive franchise to any wholesaler or retailer. This simple message is the rightful possession of every human soul and no man on this earth has the authority to stand between man and his Christ-bought relationship with his Creator.
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2004-06-13 00:21 | User Profile
I'm still confused how Smith is seen as CI. I don't get the connection.
2004-06-13 00:28 | User Profile
I'm still confused how Smith is seen as Christian Identity. I don't get the connection, based on what I've read form him.
2004-06-13 00:45 | User Profile
All Old Right,
Yes, I am also confused about this topic, I have found no connection to Christian "Identity" and Gerald L.K. Smith other than articles by Leftist anti-"Racists." And they gave no quotes from Gerald L.K. Smith.
From what I have read of his works Gerald L.K. Smith was not an Christian "Identity" type. The SPLC and other anti-"Racists" are the ones putting out the story that Smith was an Christian "Identity" type. I have not seen any Quotes from Rev. Smith writtings that show Christian "Identity" doctrine. Smith was an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ. Disciples of Christ used to be a low Church Fundamental type of Church, but I think they are very Left wing now as are most of the old "mainline" Churches.
But I think these two articles may prove Gerald L.K. Smith was not a Christian "Identity" type.
WHO ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE? [url]http://www4.stormfront.org/posterity/ci/smith16.html[/url]
SEED OF ABRAHAM? [url]http://www4.stormfront.org/posterity/ci/smith11.html[/url]
Many of Christian "Identity" types seem to like his writtings.
I hope this post helps.
Also see this thread:
This is Christian Nationalism [url]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=9143[/url]
2004-06-13 01:43 | User Profile
That's what got me thinking, when TD put up the CN info. Thanks for posting GS. He seems to be on the money from what I've read thus far.
2005-04-08 17:16 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]All Old Right,
Yes, I am also confused about this topic, I have found no connection to Christian "Identity" and Gerald L.K. Smith other than articles by Leftist anti-"Racists." And they gave no quotes from Gerald L.K. Smith.
From what I have read of his works Gerald L.K. Smith was not an Christian "Identity" type. The SPLC and other anti-"Racists" are the ones putting out the story that Smith was an Christian "Identity" type. I have not seen any Quotes from Rev. Smith writtings that show Christian "Identity" doctrine. Smith was an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ. Disciples of Christ used to be a low Church Fundamental type of Church, but I think they are very Left wing now as are most of the old "mainline" Churches. We've had a little discussion on it since then. Lindstadt typically hinted at vague Smith connections initially, then backed off. I think these articles are rather clear cut, as you say
But I think these two articles may prove Gerald L.K. Smith was not a Christian "Identity" type.
WHO ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE? [url]http://www4.stormfront.org/posterity/ci/smith16.html[/url]
SEED OF ABRAHAM? [url]http://www4.stormfront.org/posterity/ci/smith11.html[/url]
Many of Christian "Identity" types seem to like his writtings.
I hope this post helps.
Also see this thread:
This is Christian Nationalism [url]http://forums.originaldissent.com/showthread.php?t=9143[/url][/QUOTE]Those pasages are pretty much completely against the thrust of CI, especially hardcore, dual-seedliner CI. I wonder what happened to those articles?
2005-04-09 04:22 | User Profile
The American Passion Play's enormous "Christ of the Ozarks" statue endures as a tribute to Gerald L.K. Smith...
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CRUSADE In faraway Little Rock, however, Gazette writer Patrick J. Owens began a one-man crusade to expose Robertson and the Elna M. Smith Foundation. Turns out Robertson was a longtime follower of Gerald L. K. Smith and Elna was the wife of Smith, "the nation's best known anti-semite." Robertson was the editor of "The Cross and Flag," the monthly publication of Smith's political wing, the Christian Nationalist Crusade. He also served as Smith's running-mate in the 1956 presidential race. He replaced the party's first choice, John W. Bricker, who was already the Republican nominee for vice president. Owens generally charged that the Elna M. Smith Foundation was a front for the ultra right-wing Christian Nationalist Crusade.
I don't want to spend too much time on Smith's political views, but I need a couple of paragraphs to give a sense of why Owens' reaction against the project was so strong. In the 1930's Smith was a red-baiter, a Jew-hater and an orator. H. L. Mencken called him "the gustiest and goriest, the deadliest and damnedest orator ever heard on this or any other earth.... the champion boob-bumper of all epochs." Senator Strom Thurmond said of him, "We do not need the support of Gerald L. K. Smith and other rabble rousers who use race prejudice and class hatred to inflame the emotions of the people."
Before the U.S. entered WWII, he led the America First Movement which opposed the lend-lease program and espoused American neutrality in WWII. He was a former minister who preached at Huey Long's funeral and believed that Long was killed on orders of "the Roosevelt gang, supported by the New York Jew machine." In 1955 he testified before a senate subcommittee, opposing the liberalization of refugee laws on the grounds that more undesirables like Albert Einstein might get into the country. He led a movement called "Stop Ike the Kike" to remove Eisenhower from office. He believed the holocaust to be an invention of the Jew-controlled media.
Smith held two core views: 1) There's an international Jewish conspiracy bent on ruling the world. 2) The blacks are up to something, too.
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There was a sudden flurry of activity by organized political interest groups.
Jewish groups claimed that the Great Passion Play was an anti-semitic version of the New Testament, stressing the culpability and damnation of the whole Jewish people in the execution of Jesus while portraying Herod and Pilate innocents duped by a perfidious and hypocritical Sanhedrin. Therefore, they said, federal money should not be used to improve roads leading to it. There were also objections that federal funds should not be used to build a road for the exclusive benefit of a sectarian religious project.
Smith's lawyer, John Maberry, countered that this road project was "no more sectarian than to improve a street in front of a cathedral or Jewish synagogue or a Baptist church." Maberry asserted that Governor Rockefeller quietly had the project killed because his brother Nelson was running for governor of New York against Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. Under those circumstances Rockefeller could not afford to be percieved as supporting the projects of so infamous an anti-semite as Gerald L. K. Smith. Maberry also said that he believed orders came from the Nixon White House to scrap the project. Smith answered claims of anti-semitism by claiming the Great Passion Play to be a scrupulously accurate account of the last days of Jesus on earth as adapted from the New Testament, and that certain political action groups had managed to get the road project cancelled for no other reason than the name on the easement was Gerald L. K. Smith...
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2005-04-09 05:04 | User Profile
Jewish groups claimed that the Great Passion Play was an anti-semitic version of the New Testament, stressing the culpability and damnation of the whole Jewish people in the execution of Jesus while portraying Herod and Pilate innocents duped by a perfidious and hypocritical Sanhedrin.
The same smears were recycled against Mel Gibson's recent film...
2005-04-09 05:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Howard Campbell, Jr.][url]http://users.aristotle.net/~russjohn/sacpro.html[/url][/QUOTE]Thanks for digging this up Howard, A fascinating bit of commentary.
Go down it rather summarizes the support the people gave to Smith
[QUOTE]Then something unexpected happened. Nothing. After a series of four lengthy articles outlining Smith's political history and far-right views it became clear that the people of Eureka Springs just weren't going to get very worked up about Smith or his statue. He had been maintaining a summer home in Eureka Springs for some time (Penn Castle, a Victorian mansion he and his wife had renovated). Thus far he had left his politics at the door. He paid his bills on time. He hadn't made any trouble locally. The project went forward.[/QUOTE]People that always whine about Christians should take note of this rather gutsy defense of Smith by the people of Eureka Springs. While every politician in America shunned him, they stood by him for better or worse. As did a lot of other Christian people at the time, quietly, but rather principalied.
But Smith died, and the Christian Nationalist Crusade with him. Alas, today we see WN leaders like Linder clanging around the batholisk of WN which they don't understand, anymore than the chimpanzees in 2001 understood what they were faced with. People like him were standing for truth while today's generation of WN leaders were all cavorting and smoking dope at rock concerts, and complaining how the older generation hadn't done enough for them. Some things never change.
2005-04-11 04:08 | User Profile
Okiereddust,
Well, I am glad you liked the articles I put up. Smith was Right, History has proven him so. Many of the articles he wrote still ring true today 30 to 50 years after they were written. But thing are much worse now, sickeningly so.