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PASTOK RUSSELL
CORRECTS ERRORS
The Jewish Paradise Not the
Christian's Heaven.
THE BIBLE INTERPRETED.
Impresaion That the Old Teetament
Scripturet Ara Obtoleta la Errone
ous Will tha New Interpretation
Dissolve Our Theological' Clouda and
Rafreah Us In a Clearer Light? A
Masterly Exposition.
St. Louts, Mo.,
Juno 11. Pastor
Russell preached
here twice today
to great audl
dences. Both ad
dresses were out
of the ordinary
nnd well calcu
lated to make the
earers sit up and take notice. We
report one of these discourses from
a text we never before heard treated
and did uot even know was In the IU-
uio iacis ii, oil . r or uuviu is uui
ascended Into the heavens."
The Old Testament Scriptures we ac-
tit H
mi
r cept as of equal authority with the
l iuv x csiuiiit-UL, emu l uniui nutsi-ii,
hnon I1GO T.iulla nnil tha A nnolloa an an.
-1 cepted them, nnd Indued based all of
' their teachings upon them. The falBe
Impression which has gone abroad
: amongst Christian people, that the Old
Testament Scriptures are obsolete,
that their predictions have al! been
; fulfilled, is very erroneous. This has
"""if reatly hindered Bible study, and has
paved the way to grievous errors. It
should be remembered that the Old
; ' Testament represents the only Divine
revelation mnde to man during the
! '' 4158 years from the creation to the
; time when Jesus at Ills baptism was
I' proclaimed "the Lamb of God which
; ; .taketh away the sin of the world."
' "' V In all the Old Testament, from Gen
Wis to Malachl, not a single suggestion
lis offered of a change of nature from
, human to spiritual, nor of any other
heaven than that which God had orig
1 lually provided fo man the Garden
of Eden. The hopes inspired in Israel
by the Divine promises pointed them
forward to the time when God's bless
ing would obliterate the curse of sin
and death and uplift mankind from
j present degradation, back to the orlg
i Inal perfection. The Seed of the wo
! man, it was promised, should ulti
;,imately "crush the Serpent's head," de-
stroying the evil that is in the world,
! and establishing a reign of rlghteous
i ness instead of the reign of sin nnd
j death. Messiah, as Krauianucl, would
j bring these great blessings to Israel;
j; and, through Israel, they would be
)j spread amongst all nations by Divine
power. Paradise, lost through dlsobe
' ( dlence, will be restored through Mes-
slab.
Instead of expecting a change of na
! S ture from human to spiritual, the
i j teachings of the Old Testament led
: ; he Israelites to expect that God
! ould make no change from His orig
in J Inal purpose, lie made not the earth
' 'j to be destroyed by fire nor to be per
. petually under the cloud of sin and
: death (Eceleslnstes 1, 3). He formed
it to bo Inhabited by a human race, in
. I Ills own image nnd likeness, Adam In
j his original purity being a sample.
David'a Soul In Hell.
As the Old Testament tells nothing
about a henvenly condition, likewise it
tells nothing about a hull of fire or
torment Such devilish theories were
. ' Jliuvetitod by the heathen, from whom
""l tunny Christians have since absorbed
Viore or less of the false doctrines.
rflhe Law and the Prophets do refer to
y .'pU some sixty-six times, but the AeU
. ' iilcb they teach is the grave, the
, tomb, the state of death. Prom first
' '' to hint all 'mankind, both good and
bad, go to hell, sheol, the tomb. Abrn
' ham, Isaac and Jacob nnd all the
Prophets died without giving the
slightest Intimation of Purgatorial
suffering for anybody, or a hell of
eternal torture.
' The writers of the New Testament
were also Jews, and it might here be
noted that nowhere did they describe
ho Hell nnd Purgatory which we
'Protestants and Catholics conjured tip
. during the Dark Ages. The New Tes
tament, written In (5 reek, is in full ac
cord With the Old Testament, written
In Hebrew the sheol of the latter Is
jthe hades of the former. Unfortunately
ur translators have. In the English
Bible, mixed things up In n terrible
j fashion, giving us hell and pit and
grave as R.vnonymous Interpretations
;,of thenl and hades. "Orthodoxy" made
hell fiery nnd thus our eyes of nnder
!, standing have been darkened through
' the machinations of our great Ad
i Jersary, "llu Prince of darkness."
: But all this demoniacal misrepresen
tation of the Divine character and
Plan is soon to be scattered. The
1 . morning is at hand; the Prince of light,
the Savior. Messiah and Ills glorious
' Church, will soon shine forth as the
Sun In (he Kingdom of the Father,
while Satan will be bound for that
thousand years that he may deceive
the people no more. "Then all the
blind eyes shall be opened and nil the
deaf ears shall be unstopped;" and "the
... knowledge of the glory of the Lord
' shall fill th whole pnrth:" nnd "to
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i Cathorna St, Elmlra, N. Y., aays:
tongue confess,, to tb Rtory Jf God.
"Slept With Hla fathere."
All through the Scriptures natural
tlccp la used as a figure for death, as
the present time of the reign of alu te
represented as a night time, and the
coming reign of Messiah Is propheti
cally described as the mumlug of a
New Day. a ' New Kpoi-b. "Weeping
may endure for a night, but Joy Com
eth in the morning,' wrote David. The
night has lasted for six thousand
years: the New Day Is the seventh-
thousand, the Sabbath of the great
week. It will be the awakening time,
as the six thousand years of the reign
of sin and sorrow are the time in
which our race has been going down
Into death Into the deep sleep from
which none will come forth except by
the call of Messiah.
The penalty of death upon our race
would have blotted us out of existence
like the brute beasts had not God's
mercy from the beginning made pro
vision for a Hedeeuier and for Ills
Church and Jolut-helr; and for the
Messianic Kingdom; and for the resur
rection, the awakening of all mankind,
through this Kingdom. It wns in view
of that hope of a resurrection of the
dead that believers spoke of their
deceased friends as falling asleep.
This expression is used frequently In
the New Testament. St Stephen fell
asleep in death; St. Paul, having in
mind the great work of Christ on be
half of the world and the eventual
awakening of all, declared that be
lievers need not sorrow as others over
the death of their friends and neigh
bors, but might realize that all "sleep
In Jesus," and that eventually God,
through Him, will bring to pass the
generul awakening of the dead, all of
whom are yet to be brought to a
knowledge of the truth that they may
bo saved from sin nnd deuth nnd ob
tain Restitution (Acts Hi, 19-23).
Tastor Russell quoted the Scripture,
"Abraham slept with his fathers,"
and declared that Abraham's fathers
were heathen men. He called atten
tion to the fact that good nnd bad,
kings und princes and others, are, in
the Scriptures, declared to have fallen
asleep. So It was with David. These
all slept In the Bible hell In the tomb.
They nro nil unconscious; as the Scrip
tures declare, "The dead know not
anything; their sons come to honor
and they know It not; they come to
dishonor and they perceive it not of
them"; "There Is neither wisdom nor
knowledge nor device in sheol hell,
the grave, whither thou goest"
whither all go (Job xlv, 21; Eccieslas
tes (x, 10).
"Thou Wilt Not Leave My Soul In
Sheol."
The Prophet David declared his faith
In a resurrection of the dead when he
wrote, "Thou wilt not leave My Soul
In hell (sieo. the grave), nor suffer
Thine noly One to see corruption"
(Psalm xvl, 101. St. Peter (Acts 11,
25-31) cnlls our attention to tho fact
that the Trophet David did see corrup
tion, and hence that this statement
was not In rcgnrd to himself but Jesus
that the soul of Jesus was not left
In sheol (Greek, hade); nnd, additional
ly, the tlesh of Jesus was not allowed
to corrupt.
St. Peter was pointing out the ful
filment of this prophecy of the resur
rection of Jesus from the dead on the
third day, when he made use of our
text, "David is not ascended into the
heavens; his sepulchre is with
us unto this day." St Peter's argu
ment is that David was In his sep
ulchre and was still dead, but that
his words were a prophetic reference
to Jesus' resurrection.
Many Christian people repeat every
Sunday what Is styled the Apostles'
Creed, which declares the crucifixion
and death of Jesus and Ills descent
Into hell Into hades and that "God
raised Him from the dead on the third
day." All Intelligent Christians under
stand that the hell to which Jesus went
was not Turgatory nor a place of eter
nal suffering, but the grave, sheol, the
tomb, the state of death. This is
proved to be the Apostle's thought by
the words, "God raised Hint from the
dead, for It wns not possible that He
should be holdeu" of death.
David Will Not Go to Heaven.
King David will not go to heaven,
said Pastor Russell, and he will not
desire to go to heaven, for the same
reason that a flsh has no desire to
perch upon the limb of n tree nor a
bird to make Its homo under the water.
As these animals have natures distinct
and are ndapted to the conditions which
Clod has provided, so the nature of
man, even when brought to human per
fection, will enjoy nnd appreciate more
the earthly blessings which God has
provided for him than he would enjoy
the heavenly blesslugs which God has
provided for the Elect "little flock"
"the Church of the Flrst-Borns" (He
brews xil, 23).
The reason for this is plain when we
remember the Apostle's words. He
declares, "The natural man recelveth
not tho things of the Spirit of God,
neither can be know appreciate them,
for they are spiritually discerned" (I
Corinthians II, 14). Only those who
have been begotten of the Holy Spirit
are enabled to understand the deep
things, the spiritual things of the Di
vine promise, and to rejoice therein, as
Cie Apostle explains (I Corlnthlnns il.
10).
And even when thus spirit-begotten
mil with their affections set on things
ibove, the Lord's consecrated "little
tlock" experience dllllculty In keeping
their affections on the Heavenly things
and off of the earthly things, because
the latter appeal to them continually
through all of their earthly senses.
l'hey nro therefore exhorted to "look
not at the things lhat are seen, but at
the things that are unseen," which "eye
hnth nm ..... heard, neither
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have entered Into the heart of man U.
great things which God has tn reserva
tion for those that love Ulm" love
Him more than they love houses or
lands, parents or children, or self.
We can plainly see, then, that with
out this begetting of the Holy Spirit,
which belongs, of course, to the serv
ants and handmaidens of God during
this Gospel Age, none are able to ap
preciate the things unseen. And
hence the world of mankind In gen
eral, brought back to perfection and
all the tray back, appreciating human
perfection will be willing not to sac
rifice their earthly nature to obtain a
heavenly, but will enjoy the earthly,
under perfect conditions, in a Para
dise restored (Isaiah xxxv, Ezekiel
xxxvil).
David Waa a Prophet.
On a previous occasion we saw the
teaching of the Scriptures to be that
the first to be blessed by Messiah's
Kingdom will be the Ancient Worthies
Enoch, Abraham, Moses, David, and
the Prophets and that these will be
made Trinces in the earth. As one of
these Princes, the Prophet David will
have a very glorious station. Ills long
career, his "ups and downs," said the
Pastor, show us the lights and shad
ows of the Trophet's character more
particularly, perhaps, than in the case
of any other Bible character. And
they show us a noble character, de
spite David's human weaknesses and
the frailties of his flesh, augmented
In power by his kingly office and the
misconceptions of kingly prerogatives
which prevailed in his day.
The beautiful traits of the character
of David, on account of which he was
declared to be, not a "new crenture,"
not a "son of God," not an "heir of
God and Jolnt-helr with Messiah," but
"a man after God's own heart" these
traits were his loyal obedience and his
repentance of everything which In any
degree was displeasing to God and In
terrupted the fellowship Divine.
God's Spirit-begotten children may
not, therefore, take the Trophet David
or any of the Ancients ns their pat
tern. Only Spirit-begotten ones can
serve as examples to the Church.
They should walk in the footsteps of
Jesus, and mny even take the Apos
tles and other faithful brethren for
examples. The Apostle, however, sug
gests that tho Church may look back
with profit upon the Worthies of the
post, to note their degree of faith In
God and their obedience to thnt faith.
St. Paul, however, explicitly reminds
us that God has provided some better
thing for us-the Church that tho An
cient Worthies, without us members
of The Messiah, cannot be made per
fect (Hebrews xi, 38-40).
Joint-Heirahip With Christ the Better
Thing Reserved For Christians.
The "better thing" reserved "for us"
who are called of God daring this Gos
pel Age is the Joint-heirship with
Christ, Jehovah's only-begotten Son
and heir of nil things, the partaking
with Him in nil Ills subsequent work
for the blessing of God's Intelligent cre
ation. Therefore it Is, ns tho Apostle
states, that the reward of the Ancient
Worthies tarries until first the over
coming Gospel Church is exalted to
the throne with Christ In tho dawn of
tho New Dispensation, now so close at
hand.
As soon ns the spiritual phase of the
Kingdom is established In power the
setting up of the human phase will be
gin. In humble recognition, therefore,
of the Divine purpose and order In the
superior exaltation of the Gospel
Church, we repeat the Apostle's state
ment that "they (those noble, loyal,
righteous, faithful Ancient Worthies)
without us shall not be made perfect."
But as to whether ire shall be num
bered among the "us" depends upon
our successful running of tho race set
before us. Surely, no less faithfulness
and nobility of character can be ex
pected of us than of those who ran for
the earthly prize. And since all the
blessings of God's Plan-the exalta
tion of the Ancient Worthies, the lib
eration of the whole world from the
bondage of sin and death and the final
Judgment of angels await the mani
festation of the spiritual sons of God,
the Gospel Church, therefore the Apos
tle (chapter 12), in forceful metaphor,
points us back to those Ancient
Worthies as a stimulus for faith and
zeal, saying:
Therefore also we, being compassed
about with so great a cloud of martyrs
lUreek marturon who so nobly wit
nessed for God and righteousness, let
us emulate them nnd lay aside every
weight and the sin which doth so ensi-
ly beset us, nnd let us run with pa
tience tho higher, heavenly race thnt
Is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the
Author nnd Finisher of our faith, who,
for the Joy that was set before Him. en
dured the cross, despising the-shame,
and is set down nt the right hand of
tho throne of God."
Jesus, our Ransomer, is also our
Forerunner nnd Pattern in this race.
He ran successfully, and, In conse
quence, is even now nt the right bund
of the throne of God. whither we also
may go to Him.
Jesus' way to the crown was the way
of the shameful cross, and ne said,
If any man love me, let him take up
his cross dally and follow me; the
servant Is not above his Lord, etc.
Persecution nnd shame and grief nnd
loss are our portion In this present
world, but exaltation and glory will
follow In due time, if wo faint not.
Therefore we are urged to consider His
example and teaching lest we be weary
and faint In our minds under the triuls
of faith, patience and endurance of this
evil day.
"A little while; now Ho has come,
The hour draws on apace
The blessed hour, the Klorlnus morn,
When we shall see His face.
How light our trials then will deem!
How short our pllprlm way!
The life of earth a flmil dream,
Dispelled hy dawning day."
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