PAGE TKN. nU,Y CAPITAL .IQfnVATi, SAoKM, OHEGON, SATUIIDAY, JULV 30, 1010. Ooo COO PEOPLE S PULPIT... Sermon by CHARLES T. RUSSELL, Pastor Brooklyn Tabernacle Ooo ALL IN ADAM Even so ALL IN CHRIST , ' Text i "Since by man came death, by man also comes the resurrection ol the dead ; (or as all in Adam die, even so all in Christ shall be made alive. But every man in his cwn order; Christ the fimlruiti; afterwards they that are Christ's during his presence" (I Corinthians xv, 21, 23, R. V.). ooO" ........ ... .....,.. , July 24. Onco wo considered moat un kind, unjust, tho Mblo declaration that our Creator condemned till of Adam's rnce with lilm on account of Adam's 'Original Sin." But now, In tho light of tboclSqror unfolding of Ood's Word, we are privileged to see differently. Now wo perceive, not only that God did no Jftjufctlce to Adam's children, but, con trruTfvlse, that In this very particular, rdiU-ttlem n kindness that It was In tho interost of huuinnlty In general. We are aware that this statement ap pears piirndotlcul to those who have not yet gotten tho proper focus upon tho Dlviuo Plan. The key which un logks the dllllculty Is tho proper nppre- clatlqn of the pcnulty Imposed upon Adam and his rnce. Tho erroneous, unscrlptural view of this penalty which came down to us from the "dark ages" teaches that God damned father Adam, mother Eve. and cv6ry child born to them to an eternity of torture at tho hands of devils. It Is this unscrlptural and Irrational view of the wage of Original Sin which caused all our difficulty. Indeed, It Is eofo to say that no other false doc trine held by God's people ever drove hway from God, from the Bible and from tho fellowship of tho Church so many Intelligent minds, Thousands of bright, honest minds, after seeing this teaching of tho Christian creeds formu lated in tho dark ages, have quietly withdrawn from them in heart, If not outwardly, sayltig to themselves, Evl de'ntly my reasoning faculties are of a different kind from those of many oth erri prominent In the Church: Without disputing tho point, I simply concludo that I must think for myself and (bat, In so doing, 1 nm forced out of syui' pathy with the majority of felIow Christians ou this basic doctrine. Where Lies the Difficulty? Tho difficulty is that while tho ma jority of Christian people heartily re pudiate these misrepresentations of God and bis Word, nevertheless tho subject is not clear to them and they fear that to repudiate this doctrine would bo to repudiate the ISlble and to become open Infidels. And Just hero is tbolr mistake. The majority of them are nbi Ulble students. Even amoifgst min isters of tho Gospel comparatively fow hn'vo any degrco of knowledge of God's Word. They know what they think about tho Ulble; what they bcllevo thnt It-teaches; what they hove been told that it tenches; what tho catechisms say It teaches; but they have never mado critical Investigations of the Dlblo themselves to ascertain its teachings. It is n part of our endeavor to arouse Christian peoplo overywhero to search ami 8tuuy ttie scriptures nnd to assist them with Ulble study helps, Dlblo hoys. etc. And. thaflk God, there aro thousands In Spiritual Israel who are liqt bowing their knees to Bnnl, but Who are nn.lous to know, to rightly understand, the Word of God. Classes in Ulble study are springing up nil ovor tho world. These have recently mloptod the name of "Intoruatlotinl Ulble Students Asnuclntlr-n." God Is li)(MHlug t liem. not only uith tho opou Ihi of their own eye tnoi'o and more widely, but also In uriug thorn to bring other "out; of darkiies Into bis mar vellous light" (1 Peter 11, i. The ScWptureti speak of t "famine, ilflt for bread nor for witter, but for ItsJnritig of, the Word of the Lord." Thin famine In upon us now. Not only are "hi latino people hungry ami thlw ty for the brenrt of life and the water of life, lmr mauy of tho worldly are feeling a louglng for something better than tin- uuskt which they have. We lip not know that all Cbiiivu member, turr ail of auy one Church im-niber-ftltlp. tire thus hungering and tblrtttiug for Trnili. Hut wo do know that every wtteiv In all the various Churches of nil denominations there Is a hungry ctow which cauiuit he satisfied to dls houeatly misrepresent Itself as In har mony with the creeds. Those bewil dered sheep uro, of lute yearn, bulling tho green pastures hud still waters of Dlvlno Truth and grnco ueur to thorn In the Word of God hidden under the rubbish of Ignorance nnd supersti tion, mistranslation nnd misinterpreta tion. Dut as for the masses of all denom inations: Alas, they aro falling into unbelief! Tho popular form of Infidel ity known ntt Higher' Criticism has al ready swallowed, P nioro than ono tialf of tho ministry nnd of tho most Intelligent part of the laity, Tho only li'opo for any of theno Is lu leaving tho efratT 'and husks of medieval misin terpretations of God's Word nnd In lading its true meaning, in which Is refreshment, strength nnd new life. .. "The Wanes of Bin Is Pesth." jJJowever we rend our lilbloa In tho post Wo road Into them from tho creeds ofn dttrkor time the mischievous error thnt when the Ulble declares a draft pcyinlty for tdn It really moaua the ro vorao of this fe eternal life In eter nal torture. Who had the right to twist the Inspired words In sueli'n dev ilish fashion? Who had the right to tuftl to tho Word of God and to make vtfld Us true teaching In thin manner? HNr the words of tho Apostlo. "Tho wagoa of sin I death; but the gift of God Is eternal life turonuh Jesus Christ our Lord" (Romans rl. 23) What statement could bo more sim ple? Tho wicked will not bo granted Hfo at all, either In pleasuro or In pain They aro under sontonco of death-do structlon. Btornnl life Is a gift. And It will bo given only to those to whom It will bo a blessing to those who will accept it inrougii Jesus Christ our Lord. Let us turn to Genesis nnd note tho statement made to our first parents respecting sin and Its penalty. Let us note thnt, without the twlstlngs of theology, wo should hnvo no difficulty In understanding tho Dlvlno sentence, ns our first parents evidently had no difficulty; Tho sentence upon Father Adam for dlsobedlcnco was. "Dying thou shall die"; "Dust thou art. and unto dust shnlt thou return"; "Cursed Is tho ground for thy Bake"; "Thorns and thistles shrill It bring forth unto theo until thou return unto the ground from which thou wast taken" i Genesis ill. 2, 3, 10-10. 24. Thus we see thnt tho penalty for sin upon Adam nnd his race was that they should return to the dust. As we rend again, "Thou turnest man to destine tlon" (Psalm xc, 3). And this penalty Is sufficiently nwful when wo think of what It means to die, to lose mental. moral nnd physical perfection and gradually go into tho tomb Into tho Dlblo hell (shcol, throughout tho Old Testnmcnt). And this shcol, tho (rare. the tomb, to which the Bible says all go, good and bnd. rich nnd poor, holy nnd unholy, was tho only hell known nmongst nny of the people of God for tho more than four thousand years, represented by tho tonchlugs of tho Old Testnmcnt. Then came tho Now Testament times nnd the teachings of Jesus nnd tho Apostles to the samo effect, in tho New Testament tho Greek word hade, representing the tomb, the death state, takes tho place of tho Old Testament ftcoI In every passage translated from tho Old Tes tamcnt Into tho New Testnmcnt.- It was nearly thrco hundred years after Jesus and tho Apostles, after tho writing of tho New Testament, beforo tho doctrine of Purgntory was invent ed. And for this reason neither tho word) Purgatory nor the Purgntory thought is expressed In tho Scriptures, But Hlbles were fow, nnd tho people could not hnve read them even If they bnd possessed them; hence for long centuries the teachings of the clergy were ncccpted without Ulble proofs, and the doctrine of Purgatory spread all over Christendom. All of our fore fathers believed In It. It beenme tho teaching of Christians everywhere thnt the tuero handful of Wilms, Instead of dying when they seemed to die, went to heaven and that the grent mass of humanity, Instead of dying when they seomed to die, went In some mysteri ous manner to a mysterious place called Purgatory, of which nobody new anything except whnt they woro taught. The teaching Is thnt practi cally nil of huuinnlty go to Purgatory there to be rousted and otherwise tor tured for ccuturlp-ultlw!!fly o tfalo eiense irom tue torture, wnen ntteu for heaven. Upon (his doctrine In turn sprung the doctrine of Saying "ninsKes for the dead," who wore believed, nm to be dead but Intensely alive. Trie fear of Purgatory drew' the people very close to the priests ifs the supported Counsel lorn of the Allblghly and the riwaa money drew tm priests very lose to the people. They were ull houestly Intent lotted, but all deceived by tho great deceiver -Satan. A Dad Matter Mad Worse. By aud by a priest, n Catholic theo logian and teacher in one of their cut logos, by name Munln Luther, neol. dentally ran across a copy of the New Testament lu the Lutln language. Be ing an educated man he wan able to read It; for there was not one copy In tho German language anywhere. Lu ther tolls us of his perplexity lu not rinding Purgntory lu tho Now Tostn ment. He tried to Interost the Popo lu Ulble study, but fulled, nnd Instead was branded a heretic. Ho protested, nnd others protested; hence camo tho name Protestants! Theso ProtoHtnntB wore undoubtedly as sincere before their protest uh they wero afterward; heuce their protest was against the very doctrines' Which onco they had proclaimed as tho Truth. Their minds were full of tho thought thnt a dead person Is not dead but more alive than before he died, and thnt some of these nt death went to heaven while the great " majority Vent to Purgntory. They did not see the teaching of. the Bible, that "the wages of win Is death" that nit go Into death, good and bad. nnd that this death state U the shcol nnd hades of the Bible. Instead of gettlug this true light upon God's Word, they wont from dnrhuesH -'luto gnontor dnrkneis en this point. Here, we wish to oinphn size the thought thnt all those noble men, Catholics ttnd Proteatnnts, In their duy, like ull true peoplo today, held n ineanuro of Truth lu comblnu tlon with errors. It Is tho measure of Truth possessed nnd enjoyed that has given any power and force to our vn rloufl ChrUtlan systems, nnd that, to I ome extent, baa neutralized the effect of our errors. Starting from their misunderstand Ing of Bible teachings respecting tho wages of sin. Brother Luther nnd his uoblo companions battled bravely for many truths, but made one great blun der. When they concluded that Pur gatory was contrary to tho Scriptures and threw It nwny, not seeing the Bible bclf. the tomb, they adopted an other hell and thereby went from bad to worse on this subject. They said The heathen nnd the mnsses of the tlvlllzcd aro surely not saints surely they do not follow In tho footsteps o Jesus surely, therefore, they cannot be of his spiritual (lock. Concluding thnt these could not be taken to henv en, they said. We must tnko them out of Purgatory anyway, wherever wo put them, because we haTo found out that there Is no such plnco ns Purgatory, After Conferences, seriously dlsllk Ing to make out God's character worse than they formerly supposed, they said under their breaths, Wo must take them out of Purgatory nnd quick ly put them into n hell of eternal tor ture nnd say ns little about the mat ter ns possible. They wero greatly relieved when long-headed Brother John Calvin explained to them nbout tho mere handful going to heaven and the grent mass going to eternal tor ture. He explained thnt God linn rore- ordnlned nnd predestinated these nw ful results thnt he might show bis wisdom nnd his power. As to a "Lovo divine, all love excelling," Brother Calvin seems never to hnve thought of that. Drothcr Wesley and others since, though less logical aud theological, did stnnd up for and de clare tho Lovo of God, even though rather absurdly they claimed that he was neither wise enough nor powerful enough to do more thnu rescue u mere handful of Adam's race from the eter nal torture to which they thought God damned" them nil because of tho dlso hcdlcncc lu Eden. "All In Adam All In Christ." In tho light of our better Bibles nnd Bible Study Helps aud minds freed from the Ignorance nud superstitions of tho past wo may understand tho Apostle's words nud find in tSem, not only Justice nnd love, but hnrmony and beauty. Instead of till mankind going to eternal torment for Adam's slu, all go Into the Bible hell, tho grave, on account of bis slu nnd nil of the men- tnl, tuornl nnd physical blemishes of our rnce nre n part of this heredity. There would have been no hope of a future life, good or bud, hud not God in bis mercy provided tho Savior the "Life-Giver," ns tho Syrlac renders the word. In God's due time he set before his Son the opportunity of becoming man's Itedeemer. The Logos was made flesh (John 1, 14) and obediently gave himself In death "tasted death for every man." As by one man's disobedi ence tho sentence of death passed upon all of tho rncepven so by tho obedlciwe of the mnu Christ Jesus unto death Justification to life passed for all of that race. Now wo see the wise rea son for permitting tho sentenco to pass through one man's disobedience to nil of his posterity. It was lu or der that one sacrifice for sin might make possible tho reconciliation of the entire race. Now read our text nnd drink In its depths nnd beauty and force. The resurrection of mankind from the sin nud death dud tomb condition to the full perfection nnd Imnge of God from which the race fell Is the salvation which God has provided for nil. Who- over will full to attain the full recov ery from sin nnd death conditions will hnve himself to blame because of re jection of the glorious arrangements which God made In nud through Christ. "The First Resurrection." God divides the salvation of man kind Into two parts tjie Church to aplrlt nature and the world to perfect ed human nature. The first he Is tie- ColupllMhltig during this Gospul Age; the aeeoud he wit) accomplish through Christ aud the Church dn ring Mes siah's reign or n thousand years. The Church, the "llrile tlock" of saints, called, tried, tested, in the nar row way during this Age. are to con stitute the "Kirxf itoaurriM-tlnn" oIhbh ud to become "the Bride of Christ." "toe" Church of the Klrst-Horns." These are to be useoclnted with the grent Itedeemer lu his future work. These shall be like him, changed from oarthly to heavenly nature nnd made sharers of his glory, honor and Im- iliortnlltr. The Kingdom of God un der the whole hcnvciis will bo inaugu rated after the glorification of the Church nud then will begin tho bless ing, tho salvation, the uplifting, the resurrecting, of mankind in general from sin nud death conditions not to spiritual conditions, but to perfect enrthly conditions. All the willing nnd obedient shall be blessed by tho great LIfe-Glver who eighteen centuries ago died, the Just for tho unjust, aud who, during 'ttie period since, has lieen solecting tbe Brldo class. With his Bride he will reign to bless the world, to make the whole earth beautiful. As It Is writ ten. "I will make tho place of my feet jriorloun." The whole earth will then bo as the Garden of Kden and the re: stored race like our perfect first par ents. But ns for tbe Intelligent wicked, we rend, "All tho wicked wll he destroy" Psalm cxlv, 20). He wll not' presoYc thorn In torture or other wlso. They will dlo tho Second Donth But nono will die tho Second Death for Adam's transgression. Christ died for that transgression nud will relenso Adit in nnd all his race therofrom. even while ho will hold thorn responsible for every wilful transgression nnd give stripes or punishments therefor to tench them to love righteousness nnd to linte Inluulty (Acts ill. 10-MH. KIDNEY for backache, rheumatism, kidney or bladder trouble, and urinary irrcvumitlcs. Folcy'a Kidney Pills purify the blood, restore loat vitality a id ;jor. P.?fucc cuLstitutea. 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