Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, July 15, 1911, Second Section, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextBALEM. OREGON', SATURDAY, JULY IS, 1911 DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, f AGB TWO. FATE Of THE RICH MAN ANDLAZARUS Words of tfis Sayior Explained and Mads Clear, STUMBLING STONE REMOVED, Partcr Ruaaall Oitagraaa With tha Or dinary Intarpratatlon of Jaaur Word , Irrational Ht Offara Naval i tubttiluta Which Navarthalaaa Fita Wall to tha Narrativa Ordar Out of Confuaien la tha Vardict of Many Wlnnipag Haarara. t Winnipeg. Cana da. July Otn. I'aa tor Kuwiell deliver ed two addresses bere today which will never be forgot ten, even by tboae who did not commit themselves fully a mdortilng Ma every utterance. We re port one of bli din couraea from the text, "And In bell be lifted up bla eye, being In torments, and aeetli Abraham afar off and Lazarus In bla boaom" (Luke zvl, Mi. Addressing the public under the auspice of the In ternational Illljle Btudenta Associa tion, tbe speaker said: I am not choosing my topic for this occasion according to my own prefer encea, nor do 1 wish to do so. Realiz ing that a great cloud of superstition nd erroneoua Interpretation of God's Word acts us an eiirth-born cloud to bldn the heavenly Father from our eye of faith. 1 nm continually address ing myself to the removal of this bar rier, to the Intent that the llgbt of the knowledge of the glory of God us It shine In the face of Jesus Christ our Lord may shine Into the heart of fall of (Sod's dear people tnoro cfful gently than heretofore; to the Intent that, with the clouds removed, our ye may behold the King In Ills beauty, and our henita be drawn to Him as to n Father, a to a Uod of love, a to an Almighty Savior. Time and again a I have delivered n address setting forth tho Divine Flan of the Age from the lllble stand point, I have been approached after wtird by Cbrlstlun brethren who said, "What you wiy. I'astor Russell, I cheering, I Godlike, Is Just what our heart are hungering for and crying for, but but I cannot accept it be cause of the Lord' Word respecting the 'ltlrh Mini and UiinrvH.' and HI description of tbelr fates." What I say to tlieso privately never reaches the ear of other who have the ame query and the same obstacle to meet, hence I take tills as my topic on this occasion, not only for the bene fit of thl audience, but for the bene fit of the larger audiences to whom I peak weekly through tho column of the pros of thl land and Great Britain and Australia-numbering mil lion. All need to have this stumbling tone removed from their pathway, and by Qd's grace we will remove It He will remove It. using our stammering Up for the purpose. Llt.ral ar Parabolio-Whlchf It I not siillU'lcnt that I declare that In the Scripture under consideration the great Teacher was giving a parable, It Is not sufficient that I quote, "With out a parable spake He not unto the peopto," 8ome dear, earnest children of God would object saying, "It reads, there was a certain ltlch Man, etc." 1 must, therefore, prove that it Is a parable and not a literal statement by showing that considering It as a lit eral statement. It would be untrue and absurd. After thus proving It to be a parable I will discuss It a such. tf It be a statement of literal facts then all the fart must he taken lit erally. Tills would mean that because a certain man was rich and fared bountifully every day and was clothed In purple and tine linen he would go to an. eternity of torment, without a sin gle charge being made against him along the lines of murder, or Injustice or blasphemy, for In the account noth ing of the kind apis-ars. Furthermore, nothing Is snld of the poor man as be ing n godly man, a saint, but merely that he wa poor, full of sore, which thn dogs licked; and that ho ate the offnl from "The nirh Man's" table. If those lie the ground and condi tion upon which any of us have had hope for eternal bliss, surely a com liaratlvely small number could claim It. Did we ever have such cjpert enetT If nut. what ground have we. according to this teaching for a hope of reaching Abraham's ImvunT And, additionally. If the statement Is a lit eral one, Abraham and his bosom must be considered lllernl also, and If only two or three who were hoetrars like Ijaarns were liefore tt, what hope would we have fur room In Abraham' bosom T Hut encurh of this! We see tarly that the statement Is parabolic ar.d we iniiNf loos f(r sn -h an Interpre tation s will fit all condition And bere It Is1 Viawtd at a Psrsbla. Viewing the matter as parable, our difficulties all dUnm-enr it soon a we ret the key. .The great Teacher In thl parable was criticising (tie lead ers of the Jewish nation anl fore telling their fine. He Himself was an outcast o were His disciples and so tate all been since who bare become ilt routed at II4 River, U'sitbo mm a uuii) ia Hood River, Or, July H Ed Low. 1L JO, mi electrocuted la-t night at tha Dee mill. H was working In the capacity of an oiler when In some tauter ba cam la contact with ' 1 1 - a "Tg ) i ..4 ffASIO.KjeUiSfLij His follower. "As He was so are we In tbla world." 'The Rich Man" of tbe parable rep resented tbe Jewish nation. Tbe fine linen be wore represented the typical Justllkatlou granted to thut nation un der tbe Law Covenant made with Is rael at Mt. Slnal. "The Rich Man's" purple raiment pictured tbe royalty which belonged to Israel as God' typ ical kingdom In tbe world. Thus we read. "Solomon ant upon tbe throne of the klnndom of the Lord. In tbe room (or steadi of bis father David." Jesus recognized this kingdom dignity as dtill belonging to that nation when He aald. "Tbe Kingdom shall be taken from you and shall be given to a na tion bringing forth tbe frulU thereof (Matthew xxL 43). The Rich Man' bountiful table represented the glorious promises of God which were tbelr primarily, and granted to no other people until after they bad rejected Jesus and crucified Him. St Paul refers to this table in this way and quotes David the Prophet saying. "Let their table become a trap and a anare and a recompense to them." Tbl was because they dJd not rightly appreciate their glorious promise and live up to tbe cond tons which they required. Tbe death of The Hlcb Man represented the cut ting off of national Israel from all those special privileges and advan tage every way which bad been theirs for centuries. "The Rich Man" (the Jewish nation) began to sicken from the time of the crucifixion from the time that Jesus said. "Your bouse is left unto you desolate; henceforth ye shall see Me no more until thnt day when ye shall say. IS leased Is He that cometh In the name of the Lord." The enlntly few were gathered out of Judaism Into relationship with Christ nt Pentecost, and "The Rich Man," tbe nation, continued to be sick and finally died In the year A. D. 70, when Titus, tbe Roman general, cap tured Jerusalem, the entire land of Palestine being laid waste The Jewish nation has been a dead nation since the year A. D. 70. It Is In AuJc. In the tomb. Rut tlilH Implies Its resurrection In duo time, for the figure of the tomb. hadet, does not rep resent n perpetual condition, butn tem porary one. from which Messiah will grant a release, and huile. In every sense of tho word, will be destroyed. Divas In Torment. But the parable declares thnt Dives was In torment! How could thl be. seeing that the word hadet signifies the death state, the unconscious con dition? We answer that the Jewish people hove a double aspect. In tbe parable and out of It. Nationally, they are dead or asleep, but as n people they are very much alive no other people more so. It is n a people that they have been suffering the torture of persecution during the past eighteen centuries, while a a nation they have been dead, burled. In amies, and are awaiting a resurrection, of which the present Zionism I an advance token. Soon Israel's persecution will end, when Messiah' glorious Kingdom shall take It power: and then will come their national resurrection, for they are to be actively and specially Identi fied with the Messianic Kingdom shortly, as its earthly nnd visible rep resentatives. A the two tribes of Judith and Hen Jamln were represented In "The Rich Man" In a very special sense, (he oth er ten tribes, scattered amongst tho surrounding nation, would, nt a like proportion, ropresent his live brethren. God' denllngs with the Jews will be the same wherever they are no pref erence will be shown "They hnve Moe and the Prophet, let them hear them." Thl could not be applicable to any except these two tribe nnd the other ten tribe of Israel, for they alone had Mose nnd the Prophets. Th Rioh Man Tormented In Hadaa. All scholars will concede that the Greek word hadr nnd the Hebrew word anrol, rendered hell In our com mon version, really signify the death state, the tomb. Various Scriptures tell us of the silence of aacol and hadet and that there Is neither wisdom nor knowledge nor device there; that the dead know not anything. Bcholnrs, therefore, have beeu perplexed greatly at the statement of this parable that The Rich Man lifted up his eyes in hade, being in torments. The difficulty dissolves as soon as we have the proper iuterpretntlou to the parable and see that the Jewish people died as a natlou and were burled a a nation, but did not all die Individually. The people of Israel, out cast from their own land among all the nation of earth, are very much alive, socially and personally, having aultered for all these centuries. Only very recently we have had an exhibition of how this Rich Man (Is raeli, dead as a nation, but alive as a people, has appealed to Father Abra ham to have Ijijiihis cool Ills tongue with a drop of water. Of course, the thought would not be that a spirit linger would take n drop of llternl wa ter to cool a literal tongue. A drop of water on the tip of a linger would not afford much relief anyway. The Interpretation iiuist be looked for along the Uuoh of the parable. The fultlllment ciime when the Jews of this country in a general petition request ed the President of the Vnltcd States to co-overnt with other "Christian na tlou" and Intercede on behalf of their people In Russia that they might havi more liberty nnd loss persecu tion, that tbelr torments might be cooled. Flndina tha Laiarua Claia. If we have found The Rich Man. let us now seek for oor t.ataru. Ho represented d fearing and God aeeklng class outside the pale of of flclul Judalsm-not ell the Gentiles, but switches or power wires. The mill was not running at the time and the lines were carrying only 550 volt. o , A Traitor Gets Back. trMrrso rtaea lusss wiu.) New York, July H John 1U aalO. "1 have uut found ao great faith, no. not In Israel!" Tbe Jews were In the habit of speak ing of the Gentiles as "dogs." The great Teacher Himself used this ex pression (Mark vll. 25-30i. Lazarus had no fine linen garment granted to him because be was outside tbe pare of Israel, for whom alone tbe typical sacrifices were offered. Lazarus had no purple robe for the same reason because the kingdom of blessing, for the time, belonged exclusively to tbe seed of Abraham. The dogs (other Gentiles) licked his sores. In tbe sense of considering the Lazarus class up right and godly and in some sense showing sympathy for them. His eat ing of the crumbs that fell from the children's table signifies that Jesus did. on a few occasions, ullow some special blessings of healing, which were for the Jews. :o go to this worthy class of Gentiles For Instance, the daughter of Jalrns. raised from death, wns a crumb from the children's table to one noble-minded Gentile who feared God and who had built a synagogue for the Jews. Tbe healing of the centurion's servant wns another crumb from "Tbe Rich Mnn's" table to one of tbe Lazarus class. Ilenllng the daughter of the Syro-Phenlclnn woman was another crumb from 'The Rich Mnn's table" to a member of the Lazarus class. In an swer to her request Jesus answered. "It Is not proper to take the children's bread and give It to dogs"-Gentlles Accepting the suggestion the woman replied. "Yea. Lord, yet the dotrs eat of the crumbs which fall from tbe chil dren's table." Her faith In God mark pd her as one of the Lazarus class, outside "Thp T.lch Man's" household. She wns a companion of dogs (Gentllesi. and for tbe time could merely hnve a crumb from "The Rich Man's table." As the death of "The Rich Man" represented a change In his affairs, so the denth of the Lazarus class Indi cated a change In the affairs of this outcast class. Rut. Instead of being burled, these were carried by the an gels to Abraham's bosom not to heav en, not to purgatory, not to some In termediate state. As Abraham In the parable represents God. the receiving of the faithful of the Lazarus class Into the bosom of Abraham figurative ly represents the acceptance of this class ns the true children of Abraham true children of God. As 'Jesus went outside the "the tamp" bearing tbe reproach of His tuition, before He died, so dil nil of Ills followers who belonged to that nation. They were all recognized as outcasts with the (ientlleS; these the Lord received ns Ills children by the begetting of the Holy Spirit. And m, St. Paul tells us that we who were by nature Gentiles were not of the stoc li of Israel. Rut. "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abra ham's Seed ichlldreti), nnd heirs ac cording to the promise" Joint-heirs with Christ, members of the great Messiah iGnlatliiiis 111. 'Jlli. Here, dear friends, we have n con slstent Iuterpretntlou of tins parable, nnd It relieves our minds greutiy. It assists also In Illustrating to us the special relationship of the Jews under the Law Covenant nnd how this spe cial relationship was lost by reason of their unbelief and how their unbelief alienated them from tho Divine favor of this Gospel Age and constituted a deep and wide gulf between them and the spiritual Isrnel class represented In Lnzarus In Abraham's nosom. We thank God tbnt tlio promise of the Scriptures Is that with the eud of this Gospel Age this gulf of unbelief and consequent separation from Di vine fnvor will be done away nnd Is rael will be delivered from tbe tor ments of these centuries and expe rience a iiatlomil resuscitation or res urrectlon under tbe glorious privileges, favors and advantages of tbe New Covenant Hopt For the Many Nations. Since God's fuvors ure thus marked out for the heaveuly and the earthly Seeds of Abraham the eurthly through the heavenly-It follows that the bless ing of the other nations will come about through their affiliation with these. In other words, we may under stand that the Divine Government es tabllshed In Israel In the hands of the Ancient Worthies will be the center of Divine favor, nnd the people of other nationalities must come to this center for their supplies of truth nnd grace Thus the Prophet represents the mat ter, saying. "Many nations shall go and say. Come and let us go up to tbe mountain iKIngdomt or the Lord, and to the bouse of the God of .Ineo!,; unit lie will tench us of Ills ways, and we will walk In His paths; for the Ijjw shall go forth from Mount Zlon ithe spiritual Kingdom, and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem (the center of the earthly Klngdomi" (Mlcnh v, 2i As thus all nations, peoples, kindreds and tongues shall be brought gradunlly to an appreciation of the Divine Plan, they shall all he blessed with Restitu tion privileges and opportunities and with an enlightenment from the rays of the Sun of Righteousness, which then through the appointed channels will ln flooding all the earth. Tim--"ill the original Covenant have it amplified fulfilment: first. ln The i nnst, me spiritual Israel; secondly.! under the N w Covenant with lnt j after the flesh; an.l through these bless ' nil the families of the earth, so thnt all the willing and obedient may grad ually attain to the standards of the chl'dren of God and he possessed of the "liberties of the sns ,,f God"-free dom from sin. s.imw, poln and denth As the Old Law Covenant was vtth Is rael only, so the New iLaw, Cmmant will u with Israel onW. (,ter na tions w( share It by becoming IsraH lies. "Proselytes of the gate." r.ot un der (he Old but under the New rove. nant (Kzeklel xrl. rto. 0,1, -n. ,,.. t .., n rnr III npsr let him h.... Hammond, special American ambas-it sador to the coronation, arrived here It ji.a KeiTfinry saiu thnt Ham mond would not be th next ambas sador to Germany. Try a Journal want 9. ". ",t f M.:-" - riQC - 1 ALCOjrOL, 3 PER CtN'f AYe?tab? 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