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medford mail tribune, medford, ok-egon, Sunday, lvroh 20, 1910.
THIS SERMON IS A REGULAR WEEKLY FEATURE !g (Jfp. p)'J
n, 1 1 iqod COO"' - ' Q .lute our text. Joshua iiercelved that ( '
PEOPLE'S! PULPIT...
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pattor Brooklyn
Tubcmacle.
mQOO
O-
WtaWnRton, D. a, March Ik-Pastor
Xsssoll or the Brooklyn Tubcrna.
tltf. New York, breached here twice
today to eplemlld nudtettres; One of
his discourses was entitled, "The Over
throw of Satan's Umpire." We rerort
the other one from the text abore
quoted. Pastor Uussell salds-
X Christians In the Uuht of this
wonderful Twentieth Century we stand
at the parting of the ways aud must
dtslde for right or for wroug, for
truth or for falsehood, la respect to
our religious convictions. Without
questioning the sincerity of our fore
fathers, we all object to their theology
It Is In vain that ministers and
Bible class teachers longer deuy the
tacts of the case. Nor will intelligent
and honest people agree that it is
right that through their creeds they
should profess ono thing, and in their
lives a ml general conversation they
should ignore or absolutely deny the
teachings of those creeds. Yet this is
the position of practically all the think
lag people of Christendom. Their con
sciences will not stand tor this ranch
longer. If they refrala from telling
the Troth and taking their stand for
H, they will uot only eear their con
"sciences (I Timolhy ir, 2) and corre
oaUlBgly separate themselves from
God's" favor, but additionally their
coarse will sooner or tater bring upon
the in the disapproval and contempt of
all besest people. For although the
Masses are not yet aroused on the sul
Ject. they are rabidly getting awake.
Do you wish me to Illustrate what
X mean? Do you wish me to show lu
what respect all denominations are
ashamed of their creeds and anxious
.to hide the fact that they ever pro
fessed them or were anxious to give
them some new Interpretation more
consistent with the broader thought
and saore generous sentiment common
to civilised man in this Twentieth
Century? I will do it
Our Methodist friends are ashamed
f that feature of their creed which de
clares that the Almighty is now doing
everything that Divine Wisdom and
Power can accomplish oa behalf of
our poor race to bring all to a full
knowledge of Christ and to opportu
nity of faith and obedience. They real
ize that there is a weakness In this
argument. And when they protest
that God must work through means,
and beace that the responsibility lies
at the door of Christian believers to
carry the Uos'wl to the heathen, they
realize that this Is an illogical argu
ment too. For why should our Great
Creator send to eternal torment mil
lions of his creatures, because of an
Insufficiency of real on the part of
come of their more enlightened fellow-creatures?
Acknowledging the
Inconsistency of such a theory our
good Methodist brethren tell as that
.they hope that God bas'some other
way of saving the Ignorant of heathen
lands 'and, perhaps, of civilized lands.
We appreciate the lorlng heart
which prompts this answer and we
agree that it is true that God has
another way for these. But when we
attempt to point out what that other
way is, some of these dear friends in
quire, Is It Methodism? Did John
.Wesley preach It? Our answer la. No,
Brother Wesley did not preach it and
4Jd not know of it Not because it Is
sew, but because it is so very old and
was lost sight of during the "dark
ages" for fifteen ceuturles before
Brother Wesley was born. Qe was
feeling after It. yearning for it, bun
gerlag and thirsting for it. but the
"due time" for it to be made known
to God's people bad not yet come in
Brother Wesley's day. He preached
the eternal torture of all mankind, ex
cept the sanctified believers In Jesus
the Savior. But In his preaching of
the love of God he was used of the
Almighty to wondrously prepare the
hearts of Christendom for the broader
message of 'he Bible now due to be
seen and understood. Wesley's Gos
pel of the love of God has mellowed
the heart of Christendom, which once
was frigid under the cold teachings
of Foreordlnatlon, Predestination, etc .
of the Westminster Confession of
Faith once the basis of nearly all
Protestant Communions,
If we and our Methodist brethren
could maintain the same degree of
spiritual warmth that Wesley and their
forefathers enjoyed wo might do with
out further instruction. But we can
not do this! None can stand still:
Christians today are losing their holi
ness, their Kaiictlflcation their zeal for
God is giving placo to zeal for a sect.
The light of the Millennial morning
which for a century has been gradual
ly breaking upon the world, stimulat
ing thpught in every direction, makes
It necessary for our Methodist breth
ren, as well as for us all. to awaken
to the wonderful privileges of our day
for Bible study; to usccrtnln the real
teachings of God's Word, which. In the
lark past we all seemingly maunder
stood and misrepresented. Already the
naost intelligent one-fourth of Moth
odisra not only rejects Brother Wch
ley's theory, hut nliis. repudiates the
Hl'hlo also! It nwcpiR Instead of Sal
ration that most dangerous form of
infidelity known ub Higher Criticism
and thnt most unSfrJptunil proposl-
Choose Tc This Day
'Between Truth
and Error.
"Choose You Thu Day Whom
YcW&Scrve... li Jehovah Be God,
Serve Him" (Joshua xmv, 15).
ooO
j tlon of butnati Evolution, which denlet
. the fall of our race and makes void
.Christ's redemptive work and the glorl-
ous result thereof uutuan restitution
(Acta IU. 10-23).
Bury ths Dtad Past.
God forbid that we should bury any
of the doctrines of Christ and tils
twelve apostles! On the contrary let
us strive to resurrect these from the
rubbish of human traditions whicn
eighteen centuries have piled upon
them. Let us Instead bury our man
made creeds, of which we are all
ashamed. Our Presbyterian friends
some years ago set a noble example to
all Christendom In the burial of tbelr
Confcsslon of Faith and their substttu
tlon Instead of a much simpler and
much more rational statement.
But, No, I must correct myself here.
This Is what they should have done
but did not do. Instead of burying the
old creed, not only from sight, but also
from odor, they have merely covered
the corpse which is admitted to be
dead and placed the briefer and better
Confession atop the winding-sheet.
They assuredly declare that it la not
a ruMitute but merely a representative
statement. Flence every time we read
the re-statement, we must bold our
noses to avoid contamination from the
odors of the carcass beneath. Not
all must do this, for, as the Apos
tle suggests. All have not their senses
exercised to discern. But all intelli
gent Presbyterians are bring rapidly
driven not only away from Calvinism,
hut, alas, away from the Bible also,
because of their erroneous supposition
that the teaching of Calvin and the
teachings of the Bible are one and tbe
same.
These bright minds are not merely
lost to the Christian forces. Thpy be-
cotne active agents in the promulga
tion of anti-Biblical teachings. They
are engaged In pulling down the Bible
and substituting for its teachings Dar
win's Evolution theory. These sincere
men are to be found in tbe faculties of
all of the Colleges, in the highest pul
pits throughout tbe land and In the
most prominent positions In business
and social life. Their loss of faith In
the Bible has not made them murder-
era or thieves. Their noble inheritance
from tbe past preserves to them an up
rightness of character which tbe loss
of a fear of hell-torment has not under
mined, While they are no longer
Christians from tbe Bible standpoint
no longer believers In Jesus as .a Re
deemerthey are stUI believers in
Jesus as a great Teacher and a noble
Leader of men. They fall to discern
tbe fact that if he posed as tbe Sou
of God and tbe Redeemer of men, and
was not such. Instead of being a noble
example, his Ufo and teachings were
most stupendous frauds and decep
tions. Baptists and Dltclple Awakening.
When we say that this awakening
is also reaching our Baptist uud our
Disciple brethren, let it not be under
stood to mean that all of these nave
been asleep until now. Perhaps it
would have been better for them it
some who have gotten awake during
the past thirty years bad slumbered
longer. Those long awake have prin
cipally gone off into Darwinism and
Higher Criticism. Baptist and Disci
ple schools and Colleges and Theolog
ical Seminaries, like those of other de
nominations, are manned with the
brightest minds of tho denominations,
and all with ouc accord teaching High
er Criticism, infidelity aud Darwinian
Evolution. With one accord all are
engaged In overthrowing tho Christian
Faith of the rising generation. Tbey
are doing this Intelligently, wisely,
cunningly, but uot with evil motive.
Having gotten awake to tbe Inconsist
encies of their creeds these scholarly
men, concluding that the creeds truth
fully represented the Bible, abandoned
faith In tbe Scriptures to tbe same de
gree that they have abandoned faith
In tho creeds which their intellects
have repudiated. Now they are seek
ing to gradually help Christian people
of all denomtuatiohs to what they con
sider the higher plane of Truth. What
they have- almost anything In fact
Is better than tbe "creeds" tbey have
repudiated. Tbey are working bartl
and succeeding well in introducing
their faith-destroying theory into the
minds of the rising generation through
the scbool books. From these they
not only iiavo eliminated everything
sympathetic with Bible faith, but In
the stead have introduced the sub
versive doctrine of Evolution,
As for the rank uuu tile of Baptists
and Disciples, probably three-fourths
! of them still bold vaguely and ludetl
! nltely to the Bible and their Coufes
jslons of Faith though both of tbese
'denominations In their luuocency of
I mind think that they have no creeds
Unit they take the Bible only. As
these dear friends awaken to tho In
! consistencies of their Confession uud
I teachings they are In great danger of
i following their leaders Into a repudia
tion of everything pertaining to the
past Into Higher Criticism-Infidelity
and Darwinism,
"Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will
Serve."
Joshua's words to tho Israelites, aft
er they bad come Info Canaan, consti
tute our text. Joshua perceived that
the Israelites were In n trying position
and that It was their duty to decide
promptly and thoroughly which course
they would take. So we may see to
day that Christians of all denomina
tions are In a trying position and thnt
a prompt decision to stand by God niul
the Bible Is the tiewsary thing for
those who would ho delivered from the
darkness of the past and avoid rullliiu
luto the Adversary's kiyih deception u
the prm-m-lnto which their leader?
are guUlltiQ them Unless they heed
steedlly, the blind leading the bllin
will fall Into tlm ditch of Harwlnlsitt
and the niltv of Higher Criticism
There are not ninny way tt escape
this threatening calamity: There I"
only one way the IWtile way Mini:
Baptist and Disciple uiluWters are In
coming awake to the Inconsistencies w.
their positions and drifting wlthoir
foreknowledge of where their cout
will end. For Instance. I have befor
me the words of the Rev Dr Mac Don
aid of my own city. Brooklyn, on Feb
ruary 27th. This gentletnuu speak ul
the Baptist Confession of Faith w
"these swaddling clothes of an anctmf
doymatUm.'' And respecting the Bap
tlst doctrine which recognizes only lin
mersed persons as members of the
Church of Christ and heirs of salva
tlon. be says, "Uencelorth it can be r
garded to te a dri at the atle$ o
Sodom and Uotnorrah, and as cttrthri
buritd." The gentleman rejoiced th-i
receutly a Baptist minister bad bi-i
ordained to" the Sixth Avenue HaptN.
Church of Brooklyn who atllruii'd in
advance that he would Invite all t
commuulon und Church mcmbershl
who loved the Lord Jesus. He urged
that -associate members" should !
received luto Baptist communions
"without imposing baptism uxn
them."
This courageous brother falls to set'
wherein the course he advocate i
Illogical. What he ueeds to see W un
real teaching of the Bible ou tbe sin.
ject of Baptism that It is baptism Int.
Christ's death, and thus Into the re"
Church of Chrlst-not tbe Rapt I'
Church, nor any other human orgaui..i
tlon. but the Church of God-"lh-Church
of the firstborns, whose uauie
are written In heaven " That roll tun
talus tbe names of all the saiiiut
faithful, cousecrated believers In th.
Redeemer of all denominations ami
outside of all denominations. j
I
Sanctify Them Through Thy Troth,
it Is nor sutUclent that we net rid i!
tbe errors uud superstitious of the
past. We must supplant those with
the Truth, that "We may be able tr
withstand In this evil day" (Ephcslati
vl. 13) It nlone will constitute thJ
armor of God Chrlstlnn people boh
much precious Truth, but hold It i:
so Illogical and confused a mautii
that it fall to give them the ueedit.
strength. God permitted us to ruin
to this very hour aud has permlttt-t
the present tests for the purpose of
developing the characters of the "Ik
raelltes Indeed, in whom Is no guile.
and for tbe purpose of gathering mi.
from them all the tares, all the ehail
and all not at heart copies or bis ilea:
Son. Let me now briefly suramnrm
the errors of our creeds and briefly in
dicate tbe Bible remedy.
Nono of our Creed were too strl
in defining the salutlluess of tit
Church class, luvlted to become tl.
Bride of Christ and his Jolnt-belrs h
his Kingdom. On the contrary, i.
many respects they were too ltnn-
they were not nearly up to the stand
ard of the Master's word, "If any iiiui.
will be my disciple, let him take i,
his cross und follow me." "Strait i
the gate and narrow the way wlu
leadetb unto life; aud few there .
that flod It" (Matthew vll. Hi. Jesu-
taugbt that hl. followers must'driM
of hla can of KUtfrrlrnj and te fctt.fi."'
Mo hi death nm not merely Into wr.
ter. Our too-low staudards have n '
mltted to membership In all detmmiit
tloim millions who are far lielow tl:
Master's standards.
Our error nnd deception was the sup
position that all who ure not saintly
all who would not become the Bride u.
Christ, all who are not baptized Into hi"
death, all who do not drink of bis nip
of Ignominy will be eternally torturnt
This great mlstnke common to nh
Protestunts (and in tbe roucu modi-
fled form of Purgatory shared also t,
Catholics) must be displaced by tin-
Bible teaching that as soon as the
elect Church shall be completed uud
glorified the autltyplcal Year t .lulu
lee will begin; llmi then for (In III""
snud years of the reign of Christ and
the Church ns tbe spiritual Semi
Abraham, the non-elect, or all the fan.
Hies of the earth will be blest by Hi
elect (Gulatiaus III, 111. '.II; Acts ill.
10-2.D. Let us. dear brethren, ehoos.-
this day to stand by the Word of God
to reject all human traditions contnirv
to It uud to hold fast the things thai
are true. just, loving, good.
if occasionally u thmmhtlesH frlmi.
asks. Why do you believe In a Miller
nlum? answer that It Is one of th
oldest doctrines of Christendom and
above all, the Blblo doctrine. Answer
thut he who does not believe In tlo
Millennium and the resurrection tin t
of the world of mankind-"All tlitf
aro In their Kraves"-must account foi
tlte dead In Home other way-mils'
claim that tbey hare been experleii
Ing pain or pleasure for thouHumls '
years, or must claim that they are e.
tlnct as the brute beast and will haw
no resurrection or muni believe lu u. I
versul salvation regardless of a kuou:
edge of Christ or obedience to lilt
On next Lord's Duy, wo will dim u
the Millennium and show Its almoin'
necessity, not only from a Rlble stain'
point but also from a scientific stai '
point. "Choose yo this day"-to sun
for the Ill'ile aud reason and to op
pose the ( ceds of tho dark ages una
their unreason!
I IT
St. Louis Man Says That When Ho
Took Wlfo No. 2 He Didn't Know
What Was Happening.
. ST.' LOUIS, Mo., March 1!.
Psychologists are much interested in
flirt ennn nf OlmvInJ It. llrimiinnml a
member of n wealthy St. Louis fam
ily, who asserted under oath that ho
had no remembrance of his second
nmrriago recontly.
Drumtnond toK'ificd in court .hero
yestordny thnt his "suh-cotiBcious
self" was in control nnd thnt his
rcnl 6olf was unnwaro of his faffs
when ho married .Miss Charlotte J.
Bent, n minis,tor's daughter, on Jan
uary 25. At that time- ho had been
divorced from his firnt wlfo jn( four
woekS
Drumiuond'H pcouliar case wan
brought out in court yesterday when
ho wuh testifying against his first (
wife, whom hu licensed of contmupl ,
of ootirt in refusing to penult him '
lt visit thoir three children. .
Death ot E. C. Dah.
K. C. Diihl, nged :t years, died ntj
tho tosidoiu'o of An nut Wylund in (
Korlh Mrdford, Saturday, of dnus.
Young Dnhl eumo hero several
montliK ago fur tlu benofit of his
health, but he came too Into.
His rciimmn wilt ho iui to St a
pies, .Minn., for interment, under in
structions from hiti brother, dolin,
C. Dnhl, of thnt place.
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