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Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pftilor Brooklyn
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July 'J I, Oucu wo coiiHldorcd inottt un
kind, uiiJiim, (lio llllilu ilecln ration Unit
our Creator cuiitluiiiiii'd nil of Aduin'H
race with hint on iiccount of Aduin'H
"OrlKlmil Klu." lint now, In tliu Unlit of
thoulimrur uiifolilliiK of (lod'n Wortl, wo
nrii privileged to mo differently. Now
wo perceive, nut only Unit (Jod did no
IiiJuhIIco to Aduin'H children, but, con
trariwise, 1 1 in t In tlilH very purtlciilar,
ho illil thorn it ItlniliicHN-tlmt It wan In
thu IntcicHt of huniiinlty In general.
Wo lire nwnro Hint IIiIh ntiitoinuiit up
in'tirn pnriidoxlciil to Uioho who hnvo
not jut Kotton thu proper foctiH upon
tho Dlvluo I'lan. Tho key which uu
Ick'Uh tla dlillcnlty Ih tho proXT appro
elation of (ho I'ciuiltv Impoitcd upon
Adam and liU ruco.
Tho crroniMiiiM, uimcrlpturiil view of
thlH penalty which euiiio down to tin
from tho "dark iikcn" U'ucIich that Ood
(Intiitittl fathi'i' Adam, mother Kvi mid
every child horn to t hem to mi eternity
of torturo at tint IimiiiIh of devil. It Ih
thin uiiKcrlptural and Irratloual vlow
of tho wiiko of Original Hln which
canned alt our dllllculty, indeed, It Ih
Kiifo to nay that no other fulHO doc
trine held hy (Jod'H pcoplo ever drove
away from Ood, from tho Illlilo mid
from tlni fellowHhlp of tho Church no
many Intelligent iiiIiuIm. TliouxniidNof
brlulit. lioiiet uiIihIh, after Keulng thU
teaching of the C'lirlMliiii creedH forum
lated hi the iliirl; iikch, have imlutly
wtttidrawn from them In heart, If not
outwardly. miylng to tlieiijHelveH, IJvl
dently my rcnmuiltig facultlcH are of a
different kind from I hone of many oth
erw prominent In (ho Church: Without
deputing tho iHilut, I Nliuply conclude
that 1 iiniHt think for myiielf and that,
lu ho dolnir. 1 am forced out of Hyui
puthy with tho tuiijorlty of fellow
CtirUtlaiiM on thin IjiinIc doctrlno.
Whure LUi tht Difficulty?
Tho dllllculty Ih that while the ma
jority of ChrlHtlan pcoplo heartily re
pudiate Michc iiilrcprcncntatloiiH of
God and lilt Word, nevertheless tho
subject Ih not clear to them and they
fear that to repudiate thin doctrine
would ho to repudiate tho Illhlo and to
become open InlldelH. And Just hore Ik
their mbitnke. The majority of them nro
not lllblo BtudeiiU. Kven ninuiiKHt min
iature of the (Itwpel comparatively few
have any degreu of knowledge of God's
Wonl. They know what they think
,'." ntout the lllhle: what they believe that
it tenchen: what they have been told
that It teachenj what the catechUmH nay
it teacheHi hut they have never made
critical luVfHtlKHtloiM of the Wide
thoiiiMclvei to aHcurtaln ItM tcnchlng.
It 1m a pnrt of our endeavor to nrouHo
Christian people everywhere to nearch
nnd Htudy the Scriptures nud to nsHlut
them with Itlble Niudy helps, Hlblo
keyi. etc, And. thank Cod. there are
UiouHiuidH In Spiritual iHrnel who nro
not bowing their knecn to llaal, but
who are anxious to know, to rightly
uudemtaud, the Word of Hod. ClnwteH
In lllblo Htudy are HprlnutiiK up nil
over tho world. These have recently
adopted tho nnine of "International
Itlhlo StudcntH Association." God Is
blessing them, not only with the open
ItiK of their own cyen more nud more
wjdely. but also In union them to bring
otherH "out of darkuesH Into IiIh mar
velotiH light" (I Peter II. 0).
The Scriptures speak of a "fnmlue.
not for bread nor for water, but for
henriiiK of the Wortl of tho I.ord."
Thin famine Ih upon uh now. Not only
are Christian people hniiKry and thirs
ty for tho bread of life nnd the water
of life, but many of tho worldly are
feeling a lonlnu for something better
than the IiiihUh which they have. We
do not know that nil Church moiubcni,
nor all of any one Church member
uh I P. nro thus hungering mid thirsting
for Truth. Hut we do know that every
where In all the various Churched of
nil dcunmluatluuH there Ih a hungry
eliiHH which cannot be mitlslled to dls
honcHily misrepresent Itself uh lu har
mony with the creedH. Those bewil
dered sheep lire, or late yearn, lliidlug
tho green pastures and Ht 111 watera of
Dlvluo Truth nnd Krace near to them
In the Word of (iod-hldilen under
the rubbish of Ignorance and superstl
tlon, nilHtrausliitlou and mlNlntorpretn
tlou. Hut uh for the musses of all denom denem denom
inateons: AIiih, they are fulling 1U
uubellefl The pniular form or Inlldel
Ity known uh Higher Criticism Iiiih al
ready swallowed up more than one
iiulf or the ministry and or the most
intelligent part or the laity. The only
hope for una of these la lu leaving the
chair and IiiihUh of medieval iiiIhIii
terprelailous ir (lod'n Word nnd In
fludlii; Its line iiieanlnjr. In which Ih
refreshment. Htrciicth and new life.
"Tho Wane of 8ln la Doath."
However we read our lllblen In the
luiHt wo read Into them from the creeds
of a darker time the lulnelilevous error
that when the Illhlo declared a death
penally for hIii It really menus the re
verso of this- r -eternal life lu eter
nal torture. Who had the right to
twlht the Inspired woiiIh lu mu'Ii a (lev
IIIhIi fiiHlilouV Who had the right to
add to the Word of Cod and m make
void It true teaching lu t I.Ik mauuerV
Hen' the wordn or the Apostle, "The
w.igCH or hIii Is deiith: but the girt or
Cod Ih eternal life through Jesus
ALL IN ADAM
liven no
ALL IN CHRIST
Trit i "Since by man ctno dealli, by mn
ltd comrt (lie reiunrclion of llisdcd for
ti all in Adam die, rven w all in Cluiit
iliall Im iitaclo alir, Uul every man in liii
wn ofdrrt Qiriil llie fitillriiilij afleiwardi
lliey tliat aio Uniil'i duiina liii pretence" (I
Cotinlliiantxv, 21,23, K. V.).
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ChrlHt our Lord" (ItoinaiiM vl, iKJ).
What Htatemeut could bo more sim
ple? Tho wicked will not bo granted
life at all, olllcr lu pleasure or In pain.
They are under uontouc'i of death-do-
Istriictlou. Ctcrnnl life Ih a gift. And
It will bo given only to Uioho to whom
It will bo ii hlcHHlng to thoKO who will
accept It through Jchuh Christ our
Lord.
Let uh turn to QciichIh and note tho
MlntomentH made to our Hint parent
respecting hIii and Its penalty. Let iw
note thai, without the (whitings of
theology, we should have no dlllleiiliy
In uiiilerstaiidlng the Divine Hcnteuce.
an our Unit parcntH evidently hud no
dllllculty. The sentence upon Father
Adam for disobedience wan, "Dying
thou Hhalt die"; "Dust thou art, and
unto dust shall thou return"; "Cursed
Ih the ground ror thy uake"; "Thorns
and thistles shall It bring forth unto
thee until thou return unto tho ground
from which thou wast taken" (OoiichIm
III. -'. . 1(1-10, '-Ml.
Thus we see Hint the penalty for sin
upon Adam and his race was that they
Hhould return to the dust. Ah wo read
again. "Thou turnest limn to destruc
tion" (PhiiIiii xc. .'I). And thin penalty
Ih Hiitllcleiitly awful when we think of
what It mentis to die, to loic mental,
moral and physical perfection and
gradually go Into the tomb-lnto the
lllblo hell (nhcol. throughout the Old
TeHtament). And this hcut, tho pruir.
the tomb, to which (he Itlble sayn nil
go, good and bad. rich and poor, holy
and unholy, wiim the only bell known
amongst any of the people or (Sod ror
the more than four thousand years,
reprenentcd by the teaching of the
Old Testament. Then came tho New
TeHtament times nnd the teaching of
Jchuh and the ApoitleH to the name
effect. In the New Testnmcnt the
(reek word irir.i. representing the
tomb, tho death slnte. takes the plnce
of tho Old TeHtament inrol In every
passage translated from the Old Ten
lament Into the New Testament.
It wan nearly three hundred years
after Jesus and the Apostles, nfler the
writing of the New TeHtament. before
the doctrine of Purgntory was Invent
ed. And for this reason neither the
word Purgatory nor the Purgatory
thought Is oxprHed in the Scripture.
Hut Widen were few. nnd the people
could not have read them even If they
had possessed them; hence for long
centuries the teachings of the clergy
were accepted without Itlble proofs,
and the doctrine of Purgatory spread
all over Christendom. All of our fore
fathers believed lu It. It became the
teaching of Christians everywhere that
the mere handful of saints, Instead of
dying when they seemed to die, went
to heaven and that the great mass of
humanity. Iiisiend or dying when they
seemed to die, went In Home mysteri
ous milliner to a uiyHterloun place
culled Purgatory, of which nobody
knew anything except what they were
tnught. The teaching Ih (hat practi
cally all of huuinnlty go to Purgatory
(here to be roasted and otherwise tor
tured ror conturlcH-ultltuntely to gain
release rrom the torture, when lilted
ror heaven. Upon UiIh doctrine In turn
sprung the doctrine or saying 'innssoH
ror the dead." who were believed not
to be dead but Intensely alive. The
rear or Purgatory drew the people very
cloHe to tho prleslH as the supposed
counsellors or the Almighty and the
uiiihh money drew the priests very
clove to the people. They were all
honestly Inteiitloned. but all deceived
by the great deceiver-Satan.
A Did Matter Mndo Worse.
Ity nud by it priest, it Catholic theo
logian nnd teacher In one or their col
Iorch. by name Martin Luther, acci
dentally ran across a copy of the New
Testament lu the Latin language, lie
lug an educated inan he wiih able to
read it; for there wan not one copy lu
the Gorman language anywhere. Lu
ther tells us of Ills perplexity In not
lludlng Purgatory lu the New Testa
ment. He tried to Interest the Pope
In Itlble Htudy, hut failed, ami Instead
wiih branded u heretic. He protested,
and others protested ; hence camo the
name ProtestautN!
These Protestants were undoubtedly
as Hlncere before their protest ns they
were nftorwnrd; hence their protest
wiih against the very doctrines whhh
once they had proclaimed as the
Truth. Their minds were full of the
thought that n dead person Is not dead
fttit more nllve than before he died,
ami that some of these tit death went
to henven while the great majority
went to Purgatory. They did not see
the teaching of the Itlble, that "the
wages or hIii Is death" -that all go Into
dentil, good mid bad, nud Hint this
death state Is the slirul and hmlex of
the Itlble. Instead or getting this true
light upon Coirs Word, they went
from darkness Into greater darkness
on this point. Here we wish to otiiphn
slxc the thought that till thes.e noble
men, Catholics nud Protesliiuls, In
their day, like all true people today,
held a measure of Truth In combina
tion with errors, It Is the measuio of
Truth possessed and enjoyed that lias
given any power and force to our vh
rlous Christian systems, and Unit, to
lomo extent, ban ueutriill.ed thu erfe'i
of our errorn,
Hlnrttiig from their misunderstand
lug of lllble teaching respecting the
wages or hIii. Iiruthci' Luther ami his
noble companions battled bravely for
many truths, but made one greut Mum
der. When they concluded that Pur
gatory wan contrary to tho Scriptures
and threw It away, not Hoeing the
lllble hell, tho tomb, they adopted an
other hell and thereby went from bad
to worse on thin subject. They nnld
The heathen and the miiHseH of the
ilvlllr.ed nro surely not wtlnlH-Htiroly
(hey do not follow In (lie footHtejm of
JoMiH-Hurcly, therefore, they cnnnol
be of lilrc spiritual flock. Concluding
that these could not bo taken to heav
en, they mild. We must tnko them out
of Purgatory anyway, wherover we put
them, beciiuso we have found out thai
(hero Ih no hucIi plnco ih Purgntory.
Afler CoiifornncoM, Merlously dlnltk
Ing to make out Ood'H character worse
than they rormerly mippoHed, they
said under their breatliH, We must
take them out or Purgutory nnd rpilck
ly put them Info n hell or eternal tor
ture nnd way ns little about tho mat
ter nn posHlble. They wero greatly
relieved when long-headed Brother
John Calvin explained to them nboiii
the mere linmUtil going to heaven mid
tho great masn going to eternal tor
ture. Ho explained that Ood had fore
ordained nnd predestinated these aw
Ml rcHUltH-that ho might show his
wisdom and bin power. Ah to n
"Ixvo dlvlno, nit lovo excelling-,"
Brother Culrln hcoiiih nover to hnve
thought of that. Brother Wesley and
otherH Hlnce, though Ichh logical nnd
theological, did Mtnud up for and de
clare the Ijivo of God, even though
rather absurdly they claimed that he
wan neither wio enough nor powerful
enough to do moru than rescue n mere
hnniirul of Adam's race from tho eter
nal torturo to which they thought Ood
damned them all becnuso of the diso
bedience In Eden.
"All In Adorn All In Chrlit."
in the light or our better Bibles and
Bible Study Helps nud minds freed
from the Ignorance and nuenititloiiH
of thu past we may understand the
Apostle's words and Hud lu them, not
only Justice and love, but harmony nud
beauty. Instead of all mankind going
to eternal torment for Adam's Hln, nil
go Into the Mblo hell, the grave, on
account of his sin nud all of the men
tal, moral nnd physical blemished of
our nice ore a part of this heredity.
There would have been no hopo of n
future lire, good or bad, hud uot God
lu his mercy provided tho'SavIor-the
"Life-Giver," uh tho Syrlac reuders the
word. In God's duo time ho set before
his Son the opportunity of becoming
man's Uedeemer. The Logos was made
tlesh (John 1, 11) nud obediently gave
himself In death "tUBtcd death for
every man." Ah by one tunn's dhobedl
nice the sentence of death passed upon
nil of the race, even so by the obedience
of the man Christ Jesus unto death
JuHtlllcndou (o life panned for nil of
thai race. Now wo see the wise rea
son for permitting the sentence to pass
through one man's dlsobedleuce to
all or his posterity. It was In or
der that one Hiicrlllco ror sin might
make possible the reconcIllaUon of the
entire race.
Now rend our text and drink In its
depths ami beauty and force. The
resurrection or mnuklnd from tho sin
and death and tomb condition to the
full perfection nud Image of God from
which tho race fell Is the salvation
which God haB provided for till. Who
ever will fall'to nttaln the full recov
ery, from sin nud death conditions will
have himself to limine becnuFO of re
jection of tho glorious arrangements
which God made lu nnd through Christ.
"Tho Fint Resurrection."
God divides the salvation of man
kind Into two pnrts-the Church to
spirit nature and the world to perfect
ed human nature. The tlrst he Is ac
complishing during this Gospel Age:
the second lie will accomplish through
Christ and the Church during Mes
slab's reign or a thousand years.
The Church, the "llttlo tlock" or
saints, called, tried, tested. In tho nnr
row way during this Age. are to con
stitute the "First Itesurrectlou" class
nud to become "the Bride or Christ."
"the Church or the Flrst-Borus."
These ore lo be associated with the
great Uedeemer In his future work
These shall be like him. changed from
earthly to heavenly nature and made
sharers or his glory, honor and tin
mortality. The Kingdom or Cod uu
der the whole heavens will be Inaugu-
nit fd nfter the glorification of Un
church anil then will begin the bless
ing, the salvation, the uplifting, the
resurrecting, of mankind In general -from
sin and death conditions uot to
spiritual conditions, hut to perfect
earthly coudltlous
All the willing and obidleut shall be
blessed by the grout l.lfe-Glver who
eighteen centuries ngo died, the .lust
for the unjust, and who, during the
period since, has been selis-tlng lb
Bride class. With his Bride he wll.
reign to bless thu world, to make the
whole earth beautiful. As It Is writ
ten, "I will niako the place of my reel
nlorlmiH," The whole earth will then
be us the Guidon or Eden nnd the re
stored race like our perfect first par
cuts, But as fur the Intelllgentl.i
wicked, we read, "All the wicked will
he destroy" (Psalm exlv, 'JOi. He wll!
uot preserve them In torture or other
wise. They will die the Second Death
But none will die the Second Death
for Adam's transgression. Christ died
for that transgression nud will release
Adam nud all his race therefrom, even
while he will hold them responsible for
every wilful trnnsgresslon and give
stripes or punishments therefor u
teach thuui to lou rlghtcnusuctM and
to hate Iniquity (Acts III. ID Itti.
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300 ACRES Alfalfa land, covered with irrigation
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