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DAILY CAPITAL Pastor Russell's Sermon JOCimi, SALE, PRECOX. SATtHPATt JAM ART , 1912. HER FRIEND'S GOOD ADVICE -at Uu f'ASTOR gU$FLLj GOD'S INFINITE VISDOMAND LOVE Ths Creator's Noblest Gilts to Humanity, HE THAT SEEKETH FINDETH. Pittor RuimII, In Hii Addrws at th Missionary Impaction CemtnitU Wfleom at 8hinghii, Express 8ympathy For tha Chinaaa Hold Out tha Hopa of -tha Gopl For Tham Tha Naw Taatamant Haa a Maaaaga af Salvation For All Paopla. Shanghai, China, Jan. 7th. - China's cessnnt woriter have bad niy ay m patby from child hood. The philoso phies of childhood are often as correct as those of mature years sometimes more so. Well I re member as a child Inquiring what would be the fate of the heathen, and the answer that I got. namely, thnt only through faith In Jesus, the Ucdocmcr, Is thero any salvation. Then I queried. What la the penally of their Ignorance of the Only Name given under heaven or amongst men whereby we must be saved? The answer was the usual one of all of our "Orthodox creeds:" that .tbey would spend eternity In a hell of unutterable anguish. How my heart went out sympathetically toward every missionary movement on behalf of the heathen! Then rnmu mature thinking and 1 snld. Like others 1 am Imperfect In every way; my sympathy and love, therefore, cannot be as grent as that of our Creator. How Is It possible that God. with all the force of the Universe at Ills ciiiiiiiinnil, could look calmly on and see the operation of Ills own laws carrying thoiiKuuilH of millions to eter nal misery and yet refrain from giving those creatures the necessary Informa tion? 1 said, there Is something wrong with the Itlblo and with our creeds which we have built upon It. I threw all away and Ih-kiiu to reason-but, thank Oodl not along Irrev erent Hues. I reasoned that lie who made tho Unlverso also mude man; that whatever noble qualities I could Had In humanity were the work of the Creator. I said, Man's noblest qualities are Justice aud love, and hence th Creator must possess these unllmltedly. I bowed In worship before Ood, luhnlta In Wisdom, Justice, Lovo and Tow er. Ha That Saakath Findath. I said. Oh, great, Almighty God, al though unknowu to mo, 1 worship Thee! I adore Thee! My whole being cries out for the pleasure of more lull- mate acquaintance with Thee, that 1 might know Thy will regarding ma aud Thy purposes respecting human ity. I said. Assuredly, ns Hod Is All Wise, lie must have an All-Wise pur pose, of which I need liot bo ashamed! Ho surely as Ho Is Just and loving, all of His plans and purposes must accord with these qualities; and having made man capable of appreciating these qualities, Ho will surely be willing to bestow the Information which 1 deslrs Information as to how I can best please and serve Illm aud ua to what His purposes aud Intentions are re specting mankind. My prayers convinced mo the mora that there must be a Divine Itovela thin somewhere In the world. I thought that I had searched tho Illble fullli fully uml proved It unreasonable ami contrary to every conception I could have of a lilvlue Creator and Ills pur poses: hence my eyes turned toward this ICasiern laud and jour sacred luniks. I studied them for a time, only to tlnd them fat less satisfactory to my intellect than the lilble I had al ready cast aside. I returned to the nililo. I asked my self. Might you have been prejudiced when you examined It before? Al though I thought not, I made a fresh Investigation, because 1 felt there must be a lievelatlon from the true Cm) somewhere, and because the llilile thus far g'e the best testimony. It, In . i . . i ... . . " i-vo. i, no oi a uoii r i .ove. as no other religions books do, yet Its teach ings respiting t,0 future of the non elect staggered me. for 1 was sure Unit Ihey were not tlodlike, but the reverse. Proving h Bib! Rcatonabl. Msrei ardln-r the Old Testament Scriptures entirely I began with the New. I said. Was not Jesus a most wonderful Character? Is it not true that "never man spake like this Man?" IMIi heart and head answered. Yes! Ills tea. lungs are the noblest found on earth! His example fully comports with Ills P;uhlugs! I asked, Can I rely upon the evidence? My mind re plied. Yes. If just such men today told you their observations you would believe them Implicitly. These men coufessed that tbey were Ignorant uud unlearned men. telling of their own weaknesses In R way thBt ilu,)08,0 would not do. Their Message abounds In "good tidings of great Joy for all people." and not merely for their own nationality. My heart began to taka courage. I began to feel that I had found footing for my faith tnd that the Dlbla Indeed differed considerably from tha varlou aud conflicting crtada which flatroed It as their support tnd Authority. However, I suddenly remembered that much of the Xew Testament is composed of passages from the Old Testament and comments thereon. Alas! I said, for I cannot accept the Old Testament Scriptures. But the more I studied tho matter the more convinced I was that if Jesus and the Apostles were at all what they claim ed to be the Old Testament must be as true as the New-as St Peter declared, "Jioly men of old spoke and wrote as tbey were moved by the Holy Spirit." Then I began a more critical study of the Old Testament, and to my Joy, as I sought, I found, as I knocked the door of Truth opened for me. I found the Blblo teaching very different from what I had supposed It to be, very con trary to that of all the creeds. The latter. Indeed, each and all, contain ttulhs taken from the Bible, but truths lucrustcd with various human creduli ties and misconceptions the Bible mes sage as a whole divided amongst many creeds and made to contradict Itself. Tha Bible Hall la tha Kay. To my surprise I found the presen tations of the Blblo not only more log ical than anything else In the world, but absolutely the only logical presen tation on earth. As Interpreted by It self, and not by the creeds and theo ries of the Dark Ages, the Bible tells one beautiful, reasonable, harmonious story, from Genesis to Revelation. It tells nothing of a flery hell manned by fire-proof demons, aud supplied with fuel for all eternity, to which Adam and his race were sentenced on ac count of sin. On the contrary, It teaches that "the wages of slu la death." It tells that "the soul that slnneth, It shall die;" and tells that Adam sinned and came under this death penalty and that all of his race by the laws of heredity are subject to frailty, weak ness, mental, moral and physical and that theso huvo triumphed In a reign of sin and death for now six thousand years. It tells that this death Is the death Into which Adam aud all of bis race go theol, the fteff of the Bible, for all mankind, good and bad. It tells that there Is no pain or suffering there, uo knowledge, no work of any kind. It tells that all, both good and bad, atop, awaiting the resurrection of the dead. It tells that inuu's death would have been an extinction as complete us that of the brute beast had God In Ills Wisdom and I.ovo not arranged for human redemption and a resurrection of the dead, both of tho Just aud un just. It tells that the Divine arrange ment whereby God could be Just aud not repudiate the rulershlp of Ills own Court nnd yet recover man from tho death sentence, wus arranged for. The arrangement was that Jesus, "by the grace of God, should taste death for every man;" that "as by a man came death, by a Man also should come the resurrection of the dead; for as all in Adam die even ao all in Christ shall be made alive, every man lu bis own orders-Hebrews II, 0; I Cor. iv, 21, 22. First tha Elsct Bride. With God "a thousand years are as one day." (II I'eter III. 8.) He hns therefore arranged that six of these great days shall constitute man's perl od of battling with sin and death and that the seventh of these great days shall be the Day of Messiah, the Sab bath or ltest Day to the world, lu which Messiah, as the Divine ltepre senlative, shall lift up all the willing and obedient, opening their blind eyes, unstopping their denf ears and causing all to know the Lord, from the least to tho greatest. As a result, some will refuse nnd die the "Second Death" utter destruction. No more than a century of trial Is to be granted, because we read. "The sin tier a hundred years old .shall be cut off' a child a century old In sin shall bo necursed-to the Second Death (Isaiah lv. 20.) Hut all who will ac cept Divine favor may then be brought to full, human perfection, similar to that which Adaui enjoyed at the 1 ginning, plus the knowledge of good anil evil, which he Incked. Of these willing and obedient ones It Is written. "Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, to the glory or i, on. Many of ou Chinese, doubt less, will then be bowing beforo tho great King of kings and Lord of lords, whom then you will know eonmloteiv for "the knowledge of the i.wj shn" fill the whole earth as the waters cover the great deep." And your forefathers, whom you reverence, will be there, too; their eyes shall be opened am' their ears unstopped, ns it Is written "All the blind eyes ;-ti:ill bo opened and ail the ileaf ears shall be unstonned What a great re union time that will ne tor t!,. Chines,, hundreds of mil II, V 1 ... ii-B. nun mi:i more: As tlio Ncrmturcs declai. all the families i i lie e.-u-ui stum t ,u-so,l similarly Willi a knowle.l-,. of Cod aud with ,. full opportunity for riv'.-ni,. to all uiiii was tost in .Vlani-to all that was reileeuiiHt iu Calvarv.- Acts HI io.oi Do you say to me. This news Is too goon to no true? Do you say. No mis unary ever tohl s of such a gracious v.iui aim suili a mlglitv Savior! II U.i It. ......I. - . , ... .-,, ginoiiws .MessacK it would have attracted our hearts long "go. ior our g.tis urn lion-syiiip'itheti. -they are great, powerful and vicious I)., i, .i mu we iiiougiit ns we heard the mis siounr.es message that the Christian viod must be even more ferocious than ours, for the awful, burnlnc hell which we have heard through Chris- Hlltltl la t.itl.l.. . . . . - myoiiu anytuing we hl'tl I ll.llld It. 1.1 ... .... 1. 1 .. . "" '' "earn or before or conjectured for ourselves! Satan tha God of Thii World k lu.l .1 , . . . u..r u(-ur menus, know this very well aud tho Bible explains the whole matter. It tells us that we have been believing "doctrines of de mons" (I. Timothy Iv. i,. These vicious doctrine In the past, WDcu more liter ally believed than today, d some lia ble Christian people Into most atro cious conduct. We are all awaking from this saa blindness, thank God! We are emerg ing slowly from the darkness of the past we are In tne very uawuiuB the morning of Messiah's Kingdom. which Is to bless the world, ine ris ing of the Sun of Ulghteousnesa Is to brl.ig the New Day of emancipation from ignorance, superstition and death. The more awake we become the more clearly do we see the beauty or uoas Word and the ridiculous Inconsistency of things we) once believed. Rr Paul einlalns to us why Satan strives to put darkness for light and Ught for darkness. He explains wny Satan represents himself as an angel of light and endeavors to besmirch the Divine character and to make uoa me very personification of wickedness and injustice! It is a part of his general endeavor to thwart the Divine Plan, to mislead those who are seeking to know God. Ueoken to tho Apostle's words: "The god of this world hath blinded the mlnda of them that believe not, lest the glorious light of God's good ness, as It shines lu the face of Jesus Christ our Lord, should shine Into their hearts.' (II. Corinthians, iv, 4.) In proportion as humanity miscon ceives God's character and His Word, In that same proportion th;y will shun the Bible and Its God, and thus get away from the faith and hope revealed In the Bible. As I have told you, l haa my own bitter experiences along this line. How I thauk God for tho "eye salve" and for the glorious vision of the Divine character and Flan which now stands out so distinctly before the eyes of my understanding! Good Tidings of Great Joy. The Gospel of the Bible, the Message of the great God, Infinite In Justice, Wisdom, Love aud Tower, Is a Mes sage of grace, of mercy, as has em anated from uo other quarter such as no other religious book lu the world presents. Aud what else should we ex pect than thnt the great Supreme Be ing would be a Fountain of grace, of blessing to Ills dependent creatures. it should not surprise us, then, to find the lilble clearly teaching that the God of all Grace has In store for humanity great blessings "times of restitution of all things spoken by the mouth of all the holy Prophets since the world began." (Acts 111, 11) 21). Another Message should not surprise us; It is the. message that was sung by the angels on the night of Jesus' birth. Heboid, we bring you good tidings of great Joy, which shull be unto all peo ple" the thousands of millions of the Chinese Included! It is a Joy to me to be permitted to tell this glorious Message to such as have the ear to hear It. It Is a further Joy to me that In the Di vine arrangement the time Is coming when "all the deaf ears shall be un stopped" and when the clear knowl edge of God's goodness shall fill the earth as the waters cover tho deep. God first told this Message of His benevolent designs toward humanity about thirty-six hundred years ago. when He declnred to His friend Abra ham, I Intend to bless all the families of the earth, and this ahall be done through your posterity "In thee nnd In thy Seed shall the families of the earth bo blessed." The natural seed of Abraham was first developed and Instructed, nnd consequently uplifted, under n Law Covenant. This arrange ment prepared the natural seed of Abraham more than others of the world's peoples to receive Jesus; hence, when He presented Himself, nnd when afterward His message was proclaimed by Ills twelve Apostles, approximately sixteen thousand Jews became Ills footstep followers, were begotten of tho Holy Spirit at Pentecost and after. and thus became members of the Splr ltual Seed of Abraham. Tho Number In tha First Resurrection. Hut tills number was short of the Divine lntontlim-"a hundred and forty-four thousand." (ltevelation xlv.) Hence, in due time, the Mes sage of grace and the privilege of be coming members of the Spiritual Seed of Abraham was extended to one ua tlon after another-to the Jew tirst but also to ns many ns the Lord our Cod hns called, of every nation, people, kindred ami tongue. This "elect" num ber of spirit-begotten followers of Je sus will very soon be completely chang ed by the glorious l-'irst Itesurrec- tiou, when this mortal and corruptible shall put on Immortality. AH those found faithful will be made partakers or mo divine nature, far above angels principalities and powers associates Willi the liedeeni.T. (Kphesians 1, 21.) Then the Seed of Abraham will be completed and qualitied for Its great ivoik of blessing the race. Si. Paul declares, "Know ye not that tho aliits shall judge the "world?" (i. Coriiuliians vl, 2.) The Judging will be lu the nature of u trial or testing to de termine how many (lr humanity can be helped up to human perfection and har mony with Cod and everlasting life, and how many umvortliy will he de stroyed In the Second Death. Cod, who has elected these kings, priests and Judges, 1ms npi.inted a Dav In wlilcli they shall ml,., bless, Instruct, judge riaiikind In general. It will he the thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom, for "a day with the Lord Is as a thou sand years."-i J. I. iyter m, 7, s.) It affords me great pleasure to have the opportunity of delivering this Mes sage of the Kriu.e of Oo(, lu Ulii tUe Chinese Parts. May the Lord ,,sa ,t, uat only to (he Chinese, but to all who nave hearing ears aud hearts appre ciative of the Divine character. May It assist some in making their "calling and election Bre" ,0 membership lu m "little flock" ,0wh0la thoKlnom U soon to be give.,. May It favorably influence others that they mav walk nobly, reasonably, and be the better The Results Hade This Newbur Lady Glad She Followed Suggestion. Newburg, Ala. "For more than a j year," writes Myrtle Cothrum, of this nlace. "I suffered with terrible pains In my back and head. I had a sallow complexion, and my face was covered with pimples'. Our family doctor only gave me temporary relief. A friend of mine advised me to try Cardul, so I began taking it, at once, and with the beat results, for I was cured after taklcg two bottles. My mother and my aunt have also used Cardul and were greatly benefited. I ahall always praise Cardul to lick and suffering women." Cardul la a purely vegetable, per fectly harmless, tonic remedy for wo men, and will benefit young and old. Ita Ingredients are mild herbs, bar ing a gentle, tonic effect, on the wo manly constitution. Cardul has helped a million women back to health and strength. Have you tried it! If not, please do. It may be just what you need. N. B WriH to: Udlti' Advlwnr Dpt-. Chtlti ikioci Mlkine Co..Chmnoof. tat Mwial jfulrwliotn. nl 64-pit book. ' Home IriAiwnt lor WeoMa." mm In plia wripper, oa m-uetC Foley's Honey and Tar Compound "Cures In Every Case." Mr. Jas. McCaffery, manager of the Schlitz hotel, Omaha, Neb., recom mends Foley's Honey and Tar Com pound, because it cures in every case. "I have used it myself and I have recommended It to many others who have since told nie of its great cura live power in diseases of the throat and lungs." Foley's Honey and Tar Compound Is a reliable family medi cine. Give it to your children, and take it yourself when you feel a cold coming on. It checks and cures coughs, colds and croup and prevents bronchitis and pneumonia. Itefuse substitutes. Bed Cross Pharmacy (H. Jernian). o . I'KNOI.KTOX MAN KIM S 2;.- RATTLESNAKES The title of champion rattlesnake killer of Umatilla county undoubtedly goes to James Fix. a Coombs canyon rancher, who killed :!"." of the rep tiles in one day last week. The skins were taken to Fendleton and sold to Major Lee .Moorhouse. Fix also obtained 20 pounds of oil.; which has a market value of $!).."0 per pound. o Sheridan is to have a postal savings bank. IN MEMORY OF H. S. JORT. (Bv order of Salem Lodge No. 561, I. 0. G. T.) Our beloved brother H. S. Jory de parted for the "Better Land on Thursday morning the 4th of January, 1912, from his home 967 South Com mercial street, after an illness of five months. Our brpther joined the In dependent Order of Good Templars In 1S7S, was a Good Templar forty-four years. Five years more man nau ma n ..-..a .in active member until health and strength failed. At his request Senator Croisan mirouuceu an amendment to the Salem city char to, irivln nrohlbition to the fifth. sixth and seventh wards. We feel that his life or the strictest intocM-itv Bhnuld be an Insniration to all. Many times do we hear that the moral forces of our country are being muted and that the cause or moram i r,,,a tn ii forsaken. When we look over the field and consider the work done the advances made by the work of such tried and true workers as Hrother Jory, then can we see as in a vision as the grim reaper comes, as come he will to each and every one that 'tis well for humanity that he lived; and to the extent that niswora was endorsed by his fellowmen to that extent were the dire evils that so fiercely assail the home, the church and the school be overthrown, and we know 'tis a better world in that his life was spent with us. Hrother Jory carried the petition and secured the necessary number of names to organize Salem lodge I. 0. G. T., and became a charter member and remained in it while he lived, holding the highest offices in the gift of the lodge. He was also a member of the grand lodge and was elected and served as grand treasurer In 1S!0 and 1S91. Salem lodge desires to give public expression of this appreciation of bis Christian life from which a good In fluence will go on forever. We also desire to extend our sincere sympathy to his family and friends. We will respectfully drape our charter in mourning, and spread a copy of this nipmnrial nn nut' niltllltps U'fl aonpilil a gem of poetry written by V. S. Gordon : T. II. S. .Tory: This is the message that comes to me, On the wings of fan h or the infinite sea, ICl-pah fl-nm tho lina n-o 1 I.I In tlo anil . ...... ..V. .... ....... Now limpid with life and the Glory ot uou, Ringing and singing they cross the wave Heaven Is true, be brave, be brave. o ; If your children are subject to at tacks of croup, watch for the first symptom, hoarseness. Give Chamber lain's Cough Remedy as soon as the child becomes hoarse and the attack may be warded off. For sale by all dealers. o Journal Want. Ads Bring Results ,A. . W The Ideal Reading Lamp L Opticians agree that the light from a good oil lamp is easier on the eyes than any other artificial light The Rayo Lamp is the best oil lamp made. 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