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Pastor Russell's Sermon
PASTOR RUSSEtf
OH MARS HILL
Frsacfiss tQ tli3 Athenians and
Ccrlnthlans.
THE MESSAGE OF ST. PAUL
- Raaffirme th ApestU's Argument
Ood Offered Forgivanats to All Who
' Would Btllav In Jua Mankind
Hal Mad 8rl0ut Mittaktt Ra.pact
Ing th Divina Purpot Reward For
Thoa n Harmeny With God.
Corinth, Greece,
March lO.-Tbe I.
Ii. S. A. Missions
Investigation Coin
mlttee 1 hen.
Pnstor Russell, It
Chairman, deliver
ed nn address In
our largest Audi
torium. Rev. Bos
Unynnnes served
an Interpreter. Ms
text vsm "God
bath appointed a
, Day In tlie wbleb
ne will Jude tho world." (Act xvll.
81.) lie mid:
I'nrouto to your city, I visited Atta
int). Aa 1 stood upon Mara Hill and
nmdo a abort address, my mind revert
ed to t lie account of Balnt I'nul'a
preaching there, and I have cboHen
anma of IUi wordH on Hint occasion ni
my text An tit. Paul mudo no Impres
sion there It U quite luiprobnblo Hint 1
made any. Indeed, the city todny
mlKht well bo described In the Inn-r-ukko
of eighteen centuries ago, as
wholly given up to Idolntry.
True, It In not todny ftiHhlonnhle In
civilized roniiiitinllte to worHblp Inl
aws; and yet lu muilher sense it Is
allll fnohlonnlile. There Is still a grent
worship of mini throughout the civil
ized world, hut In a illfferent form
from thnt of old. No Innp'r do wo bow
before wooden hnngcs. but before in
wnrd Iniiit'cN -tlia IniaAcs of our minds,
our nionl ill aspirations w Ml aomo,
wenlih mid fume; with others, ense
and pleftHiire. and wllh mill others, the
creed Idol of our forefathers, mlsern
blu misrepresentations of the true God.
Tli Day of Judumant.
Hnl nt I'm ill on Mars 1 1 1 1 1 preached
Jemm and Iho resuirectlmi Jesus an
Iho Iledeemer from Hie death sentence,
niiilJug pnHxildn the remirrectlmt of the
(lend by Hilkfylnu iho ileiiiiinil of Di
vine Law iiunliiHt Hie sinner tho resur
rection tin Hie men in or agency through
which Ihu blessing of the Hiivlor's
dentli will reach Adiini and all the
fiinillles of the eiulll. Aa we follow
Sulut Paul's thought we will sorely be
bleiised by bin view of the Gospel.
Addressing tlio Goul Ilea, the Apos
tle explain Hint for a long time Uod
bail "winked" lit rolytheltmi and Image
Worship, "but now," he any a, "Uod
oiiiiiiundctli all men everywhere to re
jieut." Let us note the inclining of
these word, How did God "wink" at
aln and Idolntry T And does lie atlll
"wink" at 11? And why did Ho change
and when did Ilu begin to command all
uieii to repent T
The answer U Hint for four thousand
year Idolatry prevailed and God
"winked" at or took no notice of It.
ne did not "wink" at the Idolater' dy
ing In their lgnoraiu'e and any to the
devils, "Take these poor creature who
Unmv nn b!(r! liwtrt them to all
elernltyl" Nothing of the kind. Our
forefather merely Imagined thnt and
I V false reasoning convinced them
selves, and twisted some text of
Scripture, which they did not. properly
understand In aupport of this theory;
and then tbey linndcd It down to Ua to
our perpleilty and to tho tenting of
our faith lu God.
God "winked" at Idolntry and ln
for four thousand yenr In the sense
of not noticing It, milking no comment
nn It. anndlng no reproof, leaving the
heathen In their Ignorance, The only
except lou to this wan God' dealings
with the little uatlon of Isriiel. To the
Jews lie gave a Law Covenant, which
offered eternal life on Ihu condition of
their thorough obedience to the Ilvlue
law. the measure of a ptrfn't man't
vUilltt, which they were unable to coin
ply with; mid hence they died tho same
ns did the heathen. All went to the
Itlble hell-to Hie tomb to aaeul, lo
lr. the shite or condition of death
au uiieiniaelon slate, a "sleep."
Jaaua the Rdmr. .
God waa in uo hast to send tb Re
deemer: 412S years elated before
Jemis waa born, and thirty yenr more
before He began III ministry. Itail
It Ik- ii true, a soma aver, that mil
Hons, for all those ranturtea wor blind
ly stumbling Into etemiil torture for
lack of Ilvlnt rvltlou. w may be
ni a Hint our gracious God would not
have left them without It Who can
think or a Just and loving t)oa as
rfifno at the going of tulllloua of Ills
tretiturett to eternal torture? Hut alnce
they men ly "Ml asleep" In death. lie
mild very well "wink" at the matter
In view of III future plaua, which we
will consider shortly.
The fuel la that no real offer from
?e'th oniid possibly lie made until the
Iteileieptl iii price bnd been provided
for tlie original (In under which they
were condemned to death. This at the
A"tle' ariimnent. via., that "now God
roiiiniuiii'etb all men everywhere tore-
pent." The no Impllee that He did
not command men prenlmiNtT to re
. pent: and Hi tuuio why lie iV.il not
do so IsTmanlfest, for all the repentlBf
they could do and all the righteous
Uvlns possible to them would P"t have
saved thorn they would have died any
way. Hence there could have been no
message sent to them, for if the mes
senger had come and had said. "Re
pent, and llvo contrary to your fallen'
tastes and appetites," the people might
properly enough have said. "Why, for
what reason should we practice self
denial, self restraint? Would It bring
us any blessing of everlasting life or
harmony with God?" The truthful an
awer would have been, "No, because
yon are already under a death sen
tence and alienated from God aa sin
ner." Hence. God merely overlooked or
"winked" at the Ignorance and super
stition of the period from Adam to tbe
close of the 4101 years. Hut as soon
as Jesus bad died, "tbe Just for the un
just," to make reconciliation for lu
lqulty Immediately the message went
forth-rGod offered forgiveness snd
reconciliation to those who would be
lieve in Jesus and would accept the
Divine terms. Such have their sins
forgiven. Such may come back to fel
lowship with God. And, In tbe next
Age, such may eventually attain full
human perfection by restitution proc
esses, up, up to all that was lost In
Adam and redeemed at Calvary.
Qod's Appointed Day,
Let ua note carefully what tbe Apos
tle says respecting God's appointed
Dny for tho Judging of the world. He
says thnt tbe command to repent now
goes forth to all men everywhere, "be
cause God hath appointed a future
Day, In which He will Judgo the world."
The Apostle does not refer to that Day
as already begun, but as merely ap
pointed or arranged for In advAnce. He
means thnt In arranging that "Jesus,
by tho grace of God, should taste death
for every man," God wns arranging
that every man might have a Judgment
or a trial, to determine whether or not
he will bo worthy of this blessing
which Jesus' death provides him an
opportunity to secure. The Dny wns
future In Saint Taul's time, and it la
atlll future, because God has other
work which Ho proposes shall be ac
complished drat, beforo thti world's Day
of Judgment or trial ahnll begin.
Tho world's trial Day or period of
Judgment, or testing ns to worthiness
or uiiworthlneHg for everlasting llfo,
will bo ono of tho thousand-yonr days
mentioned by Kiiltit I'eter, who said.
A dny with tho Lord la as a thou-
amid years." Tho snme period Is call
ed elsewhere the "Day of Christ," tho
Day or period of Messiah's glorious
reign. Ily tho righteous ruling of Ills
Kingdom, by the suppression of Sntnn
and alu and (he scattering of dark
ness, ignorance and superstition, by
the shining forth of the Sun of Right
eousness with tieallng In lis beams.
that glorious Dny will bring blessing
to tho world In general opportunity
for each Individual to como Into Judg
ment or trial, tho result of which will
bo either tho reward of life everlast
ing or tho punishment of death ever-lnstlng-"overltistlng
destruction from
the presenco of tho Lord and from tho
glory of Ills powor."
Thnt great thousnndyenii Dny Is
still future; and, meantime, the Apos
tle's words respecting mankind are
still true: "Tho whole creation gronn
eth and travnlleth In pnln together"
"waiting for tho manifestation of the
sons of God." (Rinnans vlll, 2', 10.)
If the nineteen centuries' delay In the
Introduction of this great Dny seem
long, let us not forget that It Is less
than half aa long aa tbe period which
preceded tho period prior to the com
ing of Jesus and nis dying, "the Just
for the unjust." Nor Is tho entire pe
riod long from the Dlvlno standpoint
for as the Prophet declares: "A thou
sand years lu God's sight are but as
yesterday," or evsn niiwler, "n a
watch In the night" The six grent
Dnya of a thousand yenr each, In
which aln and death have relgnod, are
to be followed by a grent Sabbath of
rest from evIKa thousand years of
refreshment, relnvlgoriitlon, upbuild
ing, restltntlon.-Acta III. 1112,1.
"The Mystery of God."
The purpose of the nineteen centU'
rh- between the time when Jesus died
a man's Itedeemer nud the time when
Ha will take Ills Throne as the Re
storer of Adam and his race la spoken
of a a Mystery, because the great
work of grace herein accouip'islied Is
measurably hidden from the world,
The Jew do not undertand It; they
expected that Messiah's Kingdom mid
their owu nntli, , nl exaltation would
have come long ago. They cannot tell
now why they hav been for eighteen
centuries outcast from the Divine fa
vor. It la a mysteiy to them.
The Scripture tell us who may
know or tiiulerstaiid this Mystery and
when It will be tlulslied. They say,
"The secret of the Ird is with the in
that fear Ulin. and He will show them
His Covenant" They tell us that In
the days of the voice of the Seventh
Augel, when he shall begin to sound,
tbe mystery of God shall bs finished,"
which II hutb kept secret from the
foundation of the world. Saint Tsui
refers to tbl mystery, saying that It
was "bidden from past Age and Dis
pensations." snd that It "I now re
vvaled to tb saints." He explain
what It Is. namely, that w should be
felluw-blr and of the sam Body
with our Redeemer- Kpheslans III, 0.
This clearly means that the entire
Church class, sometime called "the
Ilody of Christ, which Is tb Church."
snd sometimes styled "tbe Rrlda, tbe
Lamb'a WIT." la to be sharer with Hi
Itedeemer In Hi sufferings of the pres
ent life and lu tbe glories of th fu
ture. The nearly iiluctceu centuries
of this Age. therefor, according to the
Scripture, have been for the purpoae,
uot of giving the world Its trial for
vorlnsHng llf or dtmth, but for th
t' J in, letting, tb lctlug or s!ctUig
of the Church, and ber perfecting with
ber Lord as sharers in "HI resurrec
tion." "the First Resurrection." fblllp
plans ill, iu; Eeteiatloa x:, 8.
We have In the past made two seri
ous mistakes respecting tbe Divine pur
poses. One was that we assumed with
out Scriptural authority that the whole
world la now on trial for eternal life,
falling to see that it Is merely tbe elect
Church, the consecrated cjass. The
other mistake Is thut we reasoned us
though the Church were port of the
world and, therefore, that the trial of '
the Church meant tbe trial of the
world. But hearken to tbe Scripture
respecting the Church: "T are not of
the world, even as I am not of tbe
world;" "I have chosen yem out of the
world;" and again, "Let iour light so
shine before men that they, seeing your
good works, mny glorify your Father
which is. In heaven" "In the day of
ilr tIar(on."-I Tetcr II. 12.
Two Different Rewarde.
We should notice also the wide dif
ference between the rewurd promised
the Church and that proffered tho
world. In both cages the reward will
be everlasting life. In both cases this
will mean full harmony with God. be
cause "All the wicked will God de
stroy." And again we read that "Who
soever bath the Son bath life, and
whosoever both not the Son shall not
see life." So, then, the attainment of
everlasting life, either by tbe Church
class or by the world, will mean com
ing into full harmony with the heaven
ly Father and with tbe Lord Jesus, by
tbe merit of Christ's sacrifice. It will
mean a full turning away from sin
and a full devotion to God and to right
eousness.
Tbe difference will be as to nature.
The reward for the world will be
earthly nature, human nature, with
everlnating life In an earthly Paradise
or Eden world-wldo. Mankind never
lost a spiritual or ben-'enly condition'
through Adam's disobedience, nor in
any other manner. He never had such
a condition or nature, or a right to It.
that be could lose It He was made
man, "a little lower than the angels."
His crown of glory and honor wns an
earthly crown. His dominion was over
the bl'ds of tbe nlr. over cattle and
over the flail of the sen. This which be
lof Jesus paid tho redemption price
for nt Cnlvury; and these things lost
nro the very things which Jesus nnd
His elect Rride will reslort to mankind
during tho thousand years of the Mes
sianic Kingdom. Thus we rend: "The
Son of man cnino to seek nnd to save
tnil which tcu losf."
Psrtakere of tha Divina Nature.
Tho reward of the Church, eternal
life, perfection und harmony with God,
will bo on the spirit plane wholly
different from the hiiniiin. Man lu
perfection will again be a llttlo lower
than the angels; but the Church, us
tho Ilody of Christ, will share with
ber Lord lu His exaltation, "fnr above
angels, principalities nnd powers and
every mime that Is named" tho divine
nature. This reward comes to the
Church under n special coveunnt of
sacrlllce, which the llllilo specifies.
This Church class, like her Lord,
must sftcrliloe the earthly nature,
earthly Interests, hopes and alma, aud
must be begotten of the Father to a
heavenly, spiritual nature. In order to
be a sharer In the First Resurrection;
and alio must enter Into her reward be
fore the Messianic Kingdom can be es
tablished for the blessing of mankind
In general the saving of the world
from sin aud from death.
Thus the Apostle wrote that the
groaning creation "waits for the mani
festation of the sons of God." (Romans
vlll, 10.) "Now are we the sons of
God, but It doth not yet appear what
we ahnll be (bow glorious, bow greuti,
but we know that wh'eu He shall ap
pear we shall be like Him." Our res
urrection change will make us like the
Savior; as It written, "We bIiiiII all
be changed, In, a moment, In a twin
kling," been u so "flesh and blood can
not nlieiit tho Kingdom of heaven."
"Commandeth All to Rpant."
Como buck ngnln to Saint Paul's
words. Hu does uot sny that God
commiisaVd the Church to anrrllce, for
If Biicrllloo were a rommusd It would
cense to bo a sacrlllce. Nowhere lire
God's people commanded to present
their bodies living sncrlllces, nor to
walk lu the footsteps of Jesus, nor to
take up the cross nud follow Ulin. To
the saintly these sncrltlclng features
are set forth u n piii ileint-as an op
portunity. If they do the thlugs Hie
Divine arrangement Is that through
the Imputation of Christ's merit their
sacrltlco will be holy and acceptable
unto God, nud they will IV granted m
share with the llcdfcmcr In Ills tilth
exnltntlon-the reward of sncrlhVe. of
self denial, of loving, voluntary serv
ice to God. tbe truth and (he brethren.
Rut to the world lu general the Lord
Issues a command, vtt., I!ent; turn
from your sins; coin back to Me: seek
My face; seek to kuow aud do My will
Tbe basis of this command Is the Di
vine declaration that Uod' grnce baa
provided redemption In the blood of
jeans, n. rciieiiiHMoj throusb Wirt
blood, and that by nnd by the wool
world will J on trial tor lif or death
everlasting. In great Day of trial,
whh Uod has ordained and over
I which Christ and th Church will u
perils, aa Judges.
Whoever come to a knowledge of
this great Dlvlu arrangement through
Christ baa an Incentive to 1U right
eously, aoberly and godly lo this pres
ent time. Whoever hears and heed
this command la laying up for himself
a good treasure of character and prep
aration for his life or death trial lu the
great Judgment Day of th Mcfdanlc
Kingdom. Whoever tguores this knowl
edge and "sow to th flesh" will find
hliiKelf reaping to the Uwh further
weakueMS. further degradation nnd se
verer itrlpe or punishment lu that
I ml UiouMiid )r Judgment Day.
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