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Newspaper Page TextD1I1T CAPITAL JODHNAL, SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. I'AliE SIGHT. Pastor Russell's Sermon SAUL OF TARSUS AND WHATlfiE SAW "As One Born Prematurely" He Beheld Hie Glorified Jesus. SERMON ON RESURRECTION. f ' V Cl?ASTOIe.U5SElO Another Proof That Jesus It No Longer Man, but God The Indispsnsa bleneti of Hit Sacrifice and Also of Hit Resurrection Clearly 8hown by Paator Russell In Louisiana' Capital City. Now Orleans, La., April 21. 1' u e t o r Kusscll gavo two address es here today. We report ono of tlifiii, wlilcli whs from tlio text: "Last of nil Ho was seen of ijib also, an ono born before (lie time." (I Corin thians xv, 8.) He said: Halut I'uul was discussing the resurrection of the dead. Ho realized that on that groat fnet rested tno weight of the Gospel Mes sage. It was easy enough to prove that Jous had died, luit to an Incredu lous world It was dllllcult to prove that He had risen from tlio dead; and whoever could not believe Hint great fact could not believe the other great facts which aland or fall with It. For liiHlance, Ibe. ApoHtle presented that Jesus had left the heavenly glory and had become n Man for the pur pose of meeting the demands of Iho Divine Law against Adam and his race, Involved by him. He could show the reasonableness of this logic. He has proven that as the whlo world was condemned to doalli through Fa ther Adam's disobedience It was ab solutely necessary for an undiluted llfo to be sacrlllced in order to meet the penalty and lo secure the reloaso of the condemned race. God Would Not Leavt His Son In ' Death. The Apostle had declared that Jesus had been faithful In Ills mlulstry In fully laying dowu Ills life and that the entire matter was pleasing and accept able to the Heavenly Father. If so, surely God would not leave His Son In dentil, but would raise Him from the dead. This fact the Apostle had re peatedly enunciated, showing that our Lord entered Into Ills glory and re ward and ascended lip where He was before to perfection on the 'spirit plane. Hut all these claims fell lightly upon some of his hearers, who claimed Unit It wus much more easy lo believe that Jesus never died at all, but merely transmuted, than to believe that He dle,d for our tdiwnnd ruse again for our Justlllcatlou; heme the Apostle's frequent reference lo I'luM's resurrec tion and his Insistence upon It as ab solutely necessary to Christian faith, for not only would the Heavenly Fa ther's favor toward the Lord Jesus thus be kImiwii, but the bulk of all the holy prophecies would remain wilful tilled unless Jesus arose from the dead. In other words, a dead ltedeeiner would be of no advantage; mailers would bo Ju.it as unfavorable for tlio sinners as though Jesus had never come at all. Additionally, If the resur rectlon of Jesus was a questionable matter, how could those who disputed llint great, fact acknowledge the resur rectlon of the Church and of the world? Bulnt I'm li 1 emphasizes this, also tie daring that "there shall bo a resurrec Hon of the dead, both of the Just and of the mi list, as a result of the re deniptlvo work of Jesus - Ills dying for mail's sins, and His resurrection to glory to carry out tho blessings secur ed by His death. 'Last of All Ht Wat Seen by Ma." Prosecuting his argument, the Apos tle marshalled the whole chain of wit nesses except the women who Hist saw the Lord on the morning of Ills resur rection. He says, "lie was seen of Cephas (l'eter); then by the remainder of tho twelve; then of above live hun dred brethren at once; later, Ho was Hccti of James; then of till the Apos tles," w hen He ascended. Then conies the text: "Last of all lie was seeu of mo also." There Is something pathetic In this reference to Ills own gUuipse of Jesus. It called up the period of his own bigoted persecution of the Church. It reminded him of his own responsibil ity In connection with the death of Bnlnt Stephen, nod of the blind hatred which led hlni to persecute Inoffensive f fellow-creatures, simply because they believed that Jesus died and rose again, the very thing which He was now try lug lo testify to all having tho hearing ear. Ills memory went tank to the mad ness which he had manifested Id pur tiling Christiana even to Damascus, haling them to prison. Again ho saw the great, blinding light from heaven, above the brightness of the noonday mm, tils fall to Hie earth, Mid beard the volet) speaking to lilui, saying, "Saul, Saul, why persecutes! thou Me?" (Aeti Is, 10; xxvl, 12-10). Again be remem bered his atrinulshinent at learning Hint those whom he had persecuted were not renegade and deceived Jew, but filguly esteemed and acknowledged by this Great One, n glimpse of whom fell ed 111 in to the earth. Ah, that wilt ironderful sight! If Messiah wai so treat, so glorious, so powerful, he could believe In Him, he could reverence Illni. The objection which all Jews had to Jesus, and what they considered abso lute proof that Ho was not the Mes siah, was His apparent weakness, uw apparent Inability to accomplish the things foretold by tho Prophets. They said, It Is ifoollsh to think of a nine without an army and without wealth claiming to bo a king. It Is still moro foolish for Him to claim that Ho is tho Messianic King, who Is to be above all kings, and bcforo whom every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. They said, therefore, that Jesus must either be beside Himself, eruzy, or clso He was seeking to deceive tbo people ind temporarily create a little commo tion of popularity. To them it. seemed that when lie was crucified a demonstration had been given that He was not tne aiessiuu. Was not the Messiah lo live rower, and was IIo not lo reign successfully as King of kings and Lord of lords? Was It not, therefore, proven that any man whom tin; .lews or rue noimum could crucify, could put to death, must have been an Imposter? They consid ered the matter proven to a demonstra tion. The persecution of the followers of Jesus was merely with a view to stamping out a new religion, which, It was feared, would do harm to Israel in that It would call In question the hopes of Israel respecting a coming King and His Kingdom. Thus Saul of Tarsus hud felt himself fully Justified In per secuting nil of that way of thinking- for "the good of tho cause," as so many persecutors havo said. s A New View of Mattere. The honesty of Raul of Tarsus led him to be Just as honest after he got his eyes of understanding open as he had previously been with them closed. It took him a little while to get the proper focus, then he saw and could explain to others the necessity for the death of Jesus and how it was typllled In the sacrifices of the Law and how the Divinely arranged Tlnn had made this great sjicrlllco In order thereby to more fully show forth tho Divine Jus tice, Wisdom, Love and Power. Now he saw, not only the need for Jesus to come In tho flesh nnd to give Himself n ransom price for all, but he saw equally the necessity for Ills resurrection, not In Hie flesh, but In tho spirit, that IIo might bo a fully quali fied Ituler and Ravlor not only to save His people from the Ilomans, tho As syrians, and from nil other human ene mies, hut also to savo them from Sa tan, from sin, from sickness, from sor row, from death. Ah, now he saw how great Messiah must bo In order to meet the necesslth8 of tho ease! Tho matter changed Immediately In his mind; instead of a tinman Savior and Messiah and an earthly King, God had prepared a Heavenly One, partak er of the divine nature, glorious, "far above angels, principalities and powers and every mime that Is named." Now he saw that tho sufferings of Jesus had a two-fold value. First, thoy were nec essary for man's relenso from the death sentence and, secondly, they wero necessary as a demonstration of the loyally of Jesus. Now bo saw that God, In preparing to bring many sons to glory, determined first to prove the loyalty of Illni whom IIo had Invited to become the Caplaln of our Halvn Hon and that this was done by the ar- raniremeut which necessitated Jesus' death. The climax of tho argument was reached when ho found that God not onlv had raised up Jesus from the dead, but that, additionally IIo had be stowed upon Mini the glory, honor and Immortality of tho divine nature, of which Saul had n demonstration or proof In tho blinding Hash of light which felled lilm to tho earth, and In tho voice which said to him alone, "1 am Jesus, whom thou persocutest." Crown Him Lord of All. I llko to think Hint, as I wm once blinded to many of tho precious truths of Ood's Word, so It Is with mauy oth ors whose eyes of understanding have not yet opened. I like to think of Saint Paul's experiences, his sincerity, even to hatred and persecution, and theu his loyalty, even to stripes and Im prisonment and death. I like to think of li tut as exemplifying possibly large class of the opposers of the Truth. 1 like to hope that all they will need to bring them into lino with God's ar rangements and to make them loyal servants of righteousness will be the great light which will shine forth re splondently very soon, when the due time shall come for Messiah to take to Himself Ills great power and reign when Ills elect Ilrlde shall luivo been completed and glorllled with lliin. I llko to remember the words of the Lord through the Prophet respecting that glorious F.poeh: "Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf bo unstopped; then shall tho lame mail lenp as an hart and the tongue of the dumb slug" In that day. Where would Snnl of Tarsus have ended his career If tho great Redeemer had not Interposed for his help? And how poorly you nud I would have fared and how little of the Light Dl vine would wo have seen If Divine providence bad not helped us In vari ous ways? And so with the world. It js beyond our power to give Hie hear lug ear or the teeing eye. This It the work of the Great Physician, and lilt day for healing and blessing and up lifting the world wo pereelvo to be ulgh, even at the doort. Ah, yes! Now wo can tee that the little opening of the eyes nnd unstop ping of tho ear and healing of the lame accomplished at our Lord's first advent merely foreshadowed lilt com lug glory and much greater work. Now we'ean tee a reason why to many of IS file mighty works were done on the Babbath days-because thoy were all prophetic, as the Sabbath daye tbem elTes were propheclos of the great Thousand Year Sabbath of Messlah't glorious reign, during which all of hu manity who will may enter into His rest rest from tin and from Satan and from everything that would hinder them from a full return to the Heaven ly Father's love and favor. Now we see that the great work of that thousand-year Sabbath will be the healing of tho morally lame and the giving of sight and hearing to the minds now blinded and deaf under the evil Influenced of the great Adversary "the god of this world I who bath blinded the minds of them that believe not." II Corinthians lv, 4. One Born Before the Time. Many have remarked at the peculiar ity of Saint Punl's statement that he saw the Lord as one prematurely born, But, If at first tho statement was dark and puzzling, now It is luminous and enlightening. Ills thought Is this: the time for giving ocular demonstration of the Lord's resurrection had gone by; the licit manifestation of Him Is to he to His saints, and after that to the world. Thus wo read: "We shall be like Him, for we shall see Win as ne Is" made like Hlin by our resurrection bange from the human conditions to the spirit conditions. Strictly speaking, then, the expert encesof Saul of Tarsus wero out of the ordinary. No one else than he alone, not even tho salutly, were to see tho Lord beforo their resurrection change, in the end of this Ago. hen there fore he saw Jesus, he saw Illni before the time more than eighteen centuries beforo tho time. Moreover, ho saw Him as one from beore the lime as one resurrected before tho time. We are to have In mind the Scriptural use of this word torn that tho Church must all be begotten of the Holy Spirit In order to experience the resurrection birth. Thus, concerning our Redeemer's res urrection, we read: "He was the First born from the dead;" and again, "He was the First born of many brethren." So the hope of all of God's people Is that the begetting of tho Holy Spirit in the present time will be followed by the resurrection birth, which Saint Paul describes In this siime chapter, saying, "It is sown In weakness, It Is raised in power; It Is sown an animal body, it Is raised n spirit body." With these things beforo our mental eye we seo tho meaning of the Apos tle In the words, "no was seeu of me, also, as of ono born before tho time." He was not thus seen by the othor Apostles. They saw Him merely as He appeared-sometlmes In one form of body and with appropriate cloth ing, at other times In another form and with diverse clothing. IIo appear ed and disappeared, but they .did not see Mm, the New Creature, they Baw meroly the various forms In which He appeared. Hut Sulnt Paul suw the Lord more nearly ns all the saluls shall seo Him when they shall be born from the dead by the glorious resurrection changes. Churoh't Glory to Bt Greater Than That of the Angels. Ono great difference between tho ef fect of what Saul suw and what the entire glorious Church will see In the resurrection Is, that Saul's eyesight was lujured by the sight; besides, he saw nothing very distinctly merely a blinding light, which tho voice ex plained to bo the appearance or mani festation of Jesus. Far more precious will be the experiences of the Church. Before beholding Htm who Is declined to be "tho express Image of the l a ther's person," "whom no man hath seen nor can see, dwelling In light which no man can approach unto" be fore this, we shall have been changed, glorllled. This will enable us to see Him as He Is, for the glory of the Church will be llko to the glory of her Lord, and superior to the glory of the angels. While heavenly glory does not con sist exclusively of brightness, never theless the Scriptures everywhere seem to associate brlght-shlnlng with the heavenly ones, and would Imply that the higher tho station and rank the brighter will be tho sheen, the glory. Thus tho glory of the Heavenly Father Is represented as being so great that few could endure It; nnd angels and seraphim are represented as veiling their faces before the Divine glory, which to greatly transcends their own.' It should not, therefore, surprise us that tho Scriptures everywhere repre sent that our Lord Jesus and the Church, "linule purtakers of the divine uature" (II Peter 1, 4i. will hive n great honor and brightness, fur above that of angels and all others except thatof the IlcnvcnJ.v Father. As the Lord Jesus was able to veil the glories of His person and to appear as a man after Ills resurrection, so undoubtedly ne could do as respects the world, during tho thousand years of His Mes sianic Itelgn. And, similarly, it would be possible for the Church to appear as men with the glory veiled. It might appear at first as though this was what was sig nified through the Mosaic type wheu Motet, representing Messiah In glory, came down from the mountain, his ftce radiant, but veiled for tho sake of the people. Our thought, however, Is that Jesus and the Church will nev er thus appear In the flesh as angVIs have done In tho past, but Hint on the contrary tho Ancient Worthies, per fected on tho humnn plane, will be their agents and representatives In all communications with mankind. Thus, "the Law shall go forth from Mount Zton (the Spiritual Kingdom) and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem" (the earthly Kingdom), to every nation, people, kindred nnd tongue, that all may be blest tf they will, and attaia trerlwUng life. I 'i!0:! B"""'i "r ....Nhj.MBWEi; is; yibuki :,-;co ;- r.. ' U U 'ii I I .. ..... . mm i'. ALCOHOL 3 PER CENP. AVcgclablePrepaniilonrorAs slmilaliiigihcFocdandRcdula ting utt' Stomachs aiulBowclsui Promolcs Di&sliotiJChr eifi ncss and RestjContalns nciilw Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. Not Narcotic, SmptotMMMWWm flmyJiiir Sua" jtixSrtim Jh-Mlt&Jtf AiueSmt fyfirrmmt- , lliinrknwtSeJa hirmSrrii- ViutofHu tbmt. Anerlicl Remedy forConsltot Hon . 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