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Page Six DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OKEOOK, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1013. Pastor THE PHILOSOPHY OF THEJJELUGE A Scathing Arraignment of the Higher Critics. THEIR COURSE DISHONEST, Pastor Russell Dsfends Biblical Ao count of tha Deluge, Whioh li Philosophically Attested by History and Geology Jeiui and the Apoetlee and Science Support the Genesis Record Higher Critics Held Respon sible For Approaching Anarchy, Faithful Bible Students Needed to Point Men Back to God. Brooklyn. Febru ary 2. After nn nb s e n e of several months, Pastor Itus. sell a k"I n address ed the Brooklyn Congregation, no generally known as "The Bible Stu dents." Needless to sny, the Tabernacle wis not large enough. The largest uudltorlum of the Academy of Music was crowded. The Pastor's text was, "As It was In the days of Noah, so also shall It be In the days of the Bon of Muu."-I,uke 17:20. The address opened with a scathing arraignment of the Higher Critics. Our richly endowed colleges, he de clared, ore undermining faltb In the Bible, which means faith in a personal God, and are substituting a scant rec ognition of the laws of nature, devoid of sympathy or mercy. Practically every minister graduated during the last twelve years has been an agnoBtlc and a believer In human evolution. Disbelief In the Bible account of man's creation in God's Image, means dis belief also In a fall from that Imnge, disbelief In the need of redemption and reconciliation, and disbelief In the necessity for the Restitution to be ac complished by Messiah's Kingdom. Acts 3:10-21. "I do not question the sincerity of the Higher Critics. Experiences of my own along the same lino forty years ago give ino great sympathy for them," said Pastor HuhhcII. lie insist ed, however, that It Is not honorable for IhoHo who have abandoned the creeds to pose before the public ns sup porters of tho creeds, and to draw sal aries and receive honorary titles for undermining I he faith of the people, while posing as the representatives of Christ and tho Bible. lie declared such a course dishonest and dishonorable The Deluge Corroborated by History. "I would that I might lure back to tho Word of God sotno of the noble minds now arrayed against it! I know their dllllculty. In their minds they associate the unreasonable theories of our creeds with tho Bible, believing it to be the foundation for tho gross dark ness and superstition which once blind ed us all. Would that I could show them, as 1 now see It, tho fallacy of this position-show them that the Bible Is In most violent conflict with the er rors of the past, and that It tenches from Genesis to Revelation a Divine Plan so wonderful that all may bo sure that only a God of Wisdom and Love could have devised It, nnd only thoso moved by Ills Holy Spirit could have written It." "But," iiuoth tho Pastor, "the Blblo truly says that wo may see the deep things of God only by the Illumination of the Holy Spirit, and that Illumina tion Is promised only to the sanctllled. The fearful thought Impresses us that by no means all of the professed minis ters of Christ are sanctllled and In a condition of heart to bo guided Into a knowledge of the Truth." The speaker held that the Higher Critics approac h every Blblo topic from the standpoint of unbelief, nnd declar ed that If I hey would reverse their po sition anil seek for corroboration of the Bible story, their success would ha better. These crlllis, exploring the ruins of Babylon, found baked clay tablets rudely plcliirlnu the Ark, nnd niiylnii a few words about a general deluge, instead of saying that (his I'onllrins the lllble thought, they re verse the proposition, nnd sny that the Israelites, In captivity In Babylon, doubtless drew their story of the Del uge from the Babylonian legends. How silly to stippoae that the beauti ful, Interesting ami connecled narra tive of Genesis could ever have been drawn from a few poor, miserable, fragmentary words which tho Baby lonians have recorded on the subjectl The Genesis account gives the geneal ogy of Noah In ii most reniarkablo manner--the exact day and year nnd month of bis life In which tho Deluge occurred, the number of days of rain, how long the Hood prevailed, etc., etc. Before the finding of the Babylonian tablets, the Higher ('titles held that tho entire story of the Deluge was a myth, nnil that Jesus and the Apostles had (been deceived when they quoted Moses In respect to It. Geology Confirms the Mosalo Dsluge. P.'istor IliiNsell promised that next Runrinjr he would tako up the moral rensons lending up to and Justifying the destruction of tho human family with the Deluge, as the matter Is let forth In the Scriptures. He might not orally address the lame persons, but through hli lermom, printed weekly In a i I Liu QjSlQg. kU5SFLjj Russell's BuhdreSs orn'o'wspapo'rs, those desiring might continue with him the study of the subject Today he wished to deal with the facts of nature and briefly to show that they fully confirm tho words of Jesus, the Apostles and Moses re specting the Deluge. Tho great stumbling-block heretofore has been tho supposition that the story of the Delugo implies a flat earth, and that such a Hood of waters rising high er than the mountains should bo recog nized as an Impossibility, since we know that the earth is a sphere. Thus does shallow thinking, called "wisdom of this world," set in defiance the Wis dom of God and Ills Word to Us own confusion. As the study of astronomy lias pro grossed, the Valllan theory respecting creation has come forward. It shows that the earth when in a molten condi tion must have thrown oft various min erals in gaseous form. These, cooling, would become more or less separated from each other, according to density, and must have constituted great rings and bnnds about the earth, similar to thoso which wo perceive encircling Saturn and Jupiter. As the earth cooled, these rings would obtilln sepa rate motions of their own, because of their distance; yet always they would tend to gravitate toward the earth. Tho circumambient air, or firmament, would keep these from Immediate pre cipitation. Gradually they would spread out as a great canopy, gravitating more and more toward the poles, because of tho greater centrifugal force at the equator. Finally, the accumulation at the poles would become so great as to overcome the resistance of the atmos phere, and cause precipitations, which would flow toward tho equator. Tho theory Is that many such deluges had been precipitated upon the earth before man was created, nnd that from these came many of the mineral depos its of earth. Only one such ring re mained when man was created. In deed, this was not a ring, but bad come to the state In which It acted ns a can opy. As the last of these rings, it con sisted of pure water. As a canopy It refracted the sun's rnys much as would the roof of a hot-house, so that the temperature of earth was uniform the same at the poles as nt the equator. Divine Wisdom foreknew tho condition of things which would prevail nt the time of tho Deluge, and hence delayed tho breaking of this grent envelope of waters until that time. Frozen In the Solid Ice. Not long ago, in Siberia, a mammoth was found with grass between Its teeth, frozen solid In a great basin of ice, which was so clear that the nnl mnl could be seen long before the lee melted enough for It to be conveniently exhumed. Kilnilnrly, a deer wns found In tho polar regions, with undigested grass in Its stomach, proving clearly (hat the catastrophe which overtook It and froze it solidly in tho Ico wns a sudden one Just such ns did occur, according to tho Valllan theory. The breaking of the watery cnvelopo made the change at the poles sudden, and sent a great Hood of waters over tho earth toward tho equator. Thus camo tho great Glacial Period, nnd some of tho great glaciers, or icebergs, carried over North America, cut grent gullies, valleys, crevices, ennyons. tie- ologlsts hnvo traced the course of some of these nnd charted them, Equatorial Heat Was intense, As the cold at tho poles was extreme -to form the great lee-caps covering tho earth and only gradually melting away so the heat at tho equator must hnvo been proportionately extreme, The Intense heat at the equator, warm ing the ocean, set up ocean currents, Thesu for the past four thousand years have been gradually modifying the arc tic regions advancing the temperate zone further anil further towtird the pules, nnd more nnd more reducing the ice-enps, bringing them townrd the equator as great Icebergs to bo melted and sent back warm. The Ark Divinely Protected, We nafurally Inquire, Where wns the Ark while such a torrent of water poured over the earth from the poles? How was it that the Ark wns kept safe mnl conipiirutlvely quiet in such a lime of stress' The answer of faith would lie that God, who directed Noah and his family to build the Ark, exer cising ills Power would undoubtedly protect It. And now i onics forward Prof, Georgo Frederick Wright, the geologist, who lolls the world that the region around iliiiut Ml. Ararat, where the Ark rested, was apparently at one time the iiene of a great eddy. While the wa ters raged elsewhere, God specially held that part quiet, Just as wo have often sivn n quiet eddy or bay along 'lile of a swiftly rushing stream. I'rof. Wright's deductions respecting the quietness of this little corner of the earth are drawn largely from the fact thai he tiials there a wonderfully deep ioll, which seems to Indicate that It was a settling basin for Intensely mild ly waters In the long ago. Pastor Russell then drew a lesson from the Deluge In the line of his text, lie deduced that, the Savior's words do not refer to the ii'iIkhivm of the ante 1 1 1 n I n mm. mnl that Ho did not cmnpitro it to the idct'fifni'M at the time of Ills Second Advent, though doubtless a cor respondency, might have been deduct lile. The Master's words Imply rather that, ns the people of Noah's day were quite tiiiiiiNscoNH of the coming )clH;e, so will nil mankind be totally uncon scions of the great catastrophe which will come upon the world In tho end of this Age, preparing tho way of Mes siah's Kingdom, The clear teaching of our text Is that the Day of the Son of Man, the tlmo of Ills puiDiMfn, or presence, will precede tho time of trouble coming upon the world. Bt. Matthew's account of this same discourse Is slightly different tnd emphasises the point we are miking. Sermon It ffec3alH,rniu8"Blittirir"be" Iff "f be presence paroutta of the Bon of Man." In other words, the Scriptures clearly teach that the Second Coming of Jesus will be Invisible to the world, and visible, even to Ills people, only by the eyetf faith. During Ills parousia a sifting, or test ing, of Ills consecrated Church will proceed, and will result In the gather ing of all the Elect Into the Heavenly Kingdom by the change of the First Resurrection. This will be the full end of the Gospel Age, and the full begin ning of the New Age. It Is to this time Jesus referred, saying, "Watch ye, therefore and pray always, that ye may bo accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man." As soon as the Church shall all have passed beyond the veil Into the condi tion of Heavenly glory the Kingdom condition the great time of trouble will fully envelop the enrth "a time of trouble, such ns never wns since there wns a nntlon." Dnn. 12:1; Matt. 24:21. It will be that time of trouble which will be Messiah's revelation of Him self to the world. In it, they will seek iho covering, or protection, of the great rocks of society (secret orders) and of the grent mountains of earth (earthly governments.) (Hevolntlon 0:11-10.) But none of these will be able to deliver them from the fiery trouble (distress) of that Day, which will consume every institution out of accord with right eousness, truth, justice. "He shall be reveukd In flaming fire, taking vengeance" The vengeance will not be so much against deluded nnd ensnared human ity, as against evil principles and the unjust arrangements of the present time. When we say unjust arrange ments, we do not wish to be under stood that the world is necessarily more unjust than in the past; but rath er that, with our Increased light and knowledge, moro Is expected of the present generation than of their fore fathers. From all accounts, we Infer that the time of trouble will be sharp and short, "else would no flesh be saved." Mes siah's spiritual Kingdom, Invisible to men, will come to the rescue. It will hnvo its earthly representatives, and order will soon come out of chaos. Hu manity, humbled by the fall of present institutions, will be rendy to accept Messiah's Kingdom. We rend, there fore, that It will be "the desire of all nations." It is for us, my beloved bearers, to continue to abide In Christ, to seek nis will In every matter, to wait pa tiently for Ills appointed time for our deliverance, and according to our cove nant, lay down our lives In the serv ice of tho brethren. We remind yon of St. Paul's words, "The Day of the I-ord so cometh ns a thief in the night When they the worldly shall say, Peace nnd safety, then sudden destruc tion cometh upon them, ns travail upon a woman with child; nnd they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not In darkness, that that Day should over take you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, nnd the children of the Day." 1 Thessalonlnns 5:1-5. The light now shining Is and should bo very helpful to us. If we realize Hint we are living In the "days of the Sou of Man" that the inspection of the Church Is now In progress, and that soon tho Elect will be complete this faith will mnlto us the more leal ous to make our calling and election sure. Therefore, "Let us watch and pray. And labor till the work is done." Gradually mankind will come to nn derstand. Gradually their eyes of nn derstanillng will open, and they will see that It Is tho "wrath of the Lamb" that causes the "time of trouble such as never was since there wob a na' Hon." They will lenrn the Intended lesson. Some, In rending Jesus' words, "As It was in Hie days of Noah," have Infer red a time of dreadful wickedness In tho end of this Age, corresponding to the wickedness of Noah's day. There may or there may not be a parallel in this respect. Wo merely call attention to the fact that the Master did not so sny. He said that ns In Noah's day humanity were eating, drinking, marry ing anil building, without realizing that a great change In dispensation was Impending, so It will be with man kind In the days of the Son of Man. In the time of Christ's Second Pres ence, men will know It not, but will proceed about the ordinary nlTalrs of llfe-catlng, drinking, planting, build ing and Ainmo nuf, until the great nnd sudden catastrophe of anarchy Is upon l hem. As literal water swept away lit eral tilings existing before the Flood, so symbolic tiro-trouble, destruction will sweep away the Institutions of todny, and prepare the way for the new In stitutions, which the Scriptures de scribe as the new heavens and tho new enrlh. (lsiilah(l(l::!'.';2Peter3:13.) The new heavens will be the new ecclesias tical powers the Church, the Elect In glory with Christ. The new earth will be the reorganized social arrangement, wholly dlffewnt from tho present. hoever expects that the Kingdom will bring an Instantaneous Paradise is inhibition. Whoever expects that God's will shall be dono on enrth ns com pletely ns In Heaven tho moment Mes siah's Kingdom Is set up, Is mistaken. By Divine nppolntment, that Kingdom to last for a thousand years. During that time It will bo burning out con- siiuilng-lgnorance, superstition, selfish ness, sin-root nnd branch. All who respond to Its blessed Influ ences will thereby bo uplifted out of sin and death conditions to human per fection. On the contrary, all who with fullest opportunity shall be resistors of righteousness and lovers of Iniquity will be destroyed with Batan In ths Second Death "punished with ver lasting destruction from ths presence of the Lord." v , j ; i fw. -i .(' J H l, ' i.V' The First Linn Trailed and Killed In Africa by Paul Itnncy's Pack of American Hunting T5gs. To lie Shown the (iriind Three Sights, Commend ng .Hominy, February 10. WILL REFUSE 10 PAY Sign nn Agr cut In Resist Payment of License I'nlcss Money Is Spent on Linn Cnunly Rmiils. (Albany Evening Herald.) The automobile owners of Linn county have decided that they do not care to pay euco license money Into the state fund for general purposes and that they will not pay the license for the year 1913 unless the money collected In Linn county Is expended In road work in Linn county. The agreement heading Is as follows: This agreement made and enteral Into by the undersigned automobile owners of Linn county, Oregon, shall be In full force during the year 1913, to-wlt: We and each of us hereby agree not to pay our automobile license for the year 1913, and In case suit Is institut ed against any ono'of the undersigned by the secretary of the a'ato or any other legal collector, we do hereby I agree to stand our proportional share nf expense to tost the legal right of tho state to collect said license. We and each of us agree to pay said li cense provided said license shall re main In I. Inn county and Is used for the purpose of Improving the public highway of said Linn county. This agreement to be In full force and effect after being Blgned by a ma jority of the autotinobllo owners of said Linn county." A special committee from the Al bany Commercial club went to Salem several days ago to confer with the legislative committee on auto legisla tion in regard to the same points but evidently that was not sudlclent for he promoters of this agreement. It Is stated by some of the more enthu siastic ones that the license law is un constitutional anyway and that the state will not an'ompt to collect, but of course this remains to bo seen and It would seem that as the auto men are generally willing to pay a license fee provided the money is used for build lug better roads, the proper way would ho to draft a model law nnd Insist upon Its passage. RAILROADS FEAR ONLY Make Interesting Show lug as to Vast Army nf Men Kinplovcd In Their Service. In certain districts of England, half a century ago, the challenge was apt to he, "Who Is 'e. Bill?" "A stranger Tom." '"Have arf a brick at Mm." In our day the railroad Is the stran ger, nnd a unite common attltndo Is to shy verbal bricks on all sorts of occa sions, as if i; was the business of the railroad, ns n corporation, to prey upon the public. It will tend to correct pub lic opinion to recall certain facts: 1: The railroad serves the public. We boast a good deal of tho great west, but what miiile tho west so great? Not Its territory nor Its re sources, but the railroad trains which serve It, make I, accessible, nnd relnto It proll ably to the markets of tho world. The pioneers of the middle west who leilntratcd the lonely land before the railroad, burned their crops for fuel for want of markets, What has made that whole vast region rich? Tho rnll- oad, bringing people, creating towiiB and cities anil developing resources. How much was land worth In Cali fornia before the rallrkwd came? A friend of the writer bought 27,000 acres close to 1m Angeles for 75 cents per aero, and sold It when the railroad had made Southern California popu lous, for from $100 to $200 per acre. Tho value of land and the business prosperity of a community Is Inextri cably hound up with lis transporta tion facilities. II: Tho public is a part owner of the railroad. In 1909 tho number of stockholders wtts estimated at 410,000; the ownership of railroad bonds was traced to over 1,000,000 persons. Many of these nro women, and the holdings of most are small an average, It Is thought, of about $15,000 at sny 4 per cent To this extent the financial in terests of many are directly bound up with the welfare of the railroads and their income, to somo extent, turns about fair treatment at the hands of legislators. Ill: The employes of the railroad are a part of tho general public. They number nearly or quite 1,700,000, and, as ninny of them have families, the aggregato who depend for support upon tho railroad Is very largo. For every dollar earned by the railroad, It was shown In 1909, 42 cents went directly to pay the wages of railroad employes. The proportion for nn Indi vidual road, as tho Southern Paclllc, and for this later date would bo con siderably higher. IV: Tho railroad Is thought to bo making money rapidly, but census re turns for 1910 show that tho farmers No Reason for Doubt We wint your confidence want you to feel you can depend on our honesty and sincerity. When we say Rexall Orderlies will rive you better results than any similar remedy, and promise your money back if they don't, you ought to believe us. tasio Just like candy. They art nay. They causo no inconvenience whatever. 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This in face of the fact that the business risk of building nnd oper atlng a railroad Is greater than it Is In any otlier business. Vast sums of money aro needed to make Improvements nnd extensions to facilitate transitortatlon and keep pace with the expansion of population and with procperlty as measured by crops and by "Big Business"; nnd these bet terments must be made If the rnllroada .serve the public with safety, with promptness and with economy. But who will loan the money If legislation Is to bo more nnd more restrictive? Will investors accept the risks Involv ed? 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They tend to tone and strengthen the delicate intestinal nerves and muscles, promptly ruliove constipa tion and help to overcome its causa and make its recurrence improbable. In theso things they differ from .old fashioned, harsh, disagreoable physio, which usually gives only temporary relief and often leaves tho bowels in worse condition than over. We particularly recommend Rojal! Orderlies (or delicate and aged per sons and for children. In vest pocket site tin hoses. 1 i tablets, 1 Oo ; DO tablets, Zoc; HO tablets, 6l)e. Usual dose ouo tablut. OREGON Painting lime As Bluing opens up we nil think about freshening up our holmes, barns nnd fences. PORTER Is the man to think of next. Ho Is In the PAINT BUSINESS, and makes a buHluoHs of selling good paint at right prices. 455 COURT ST. niilioad holds to the public welfare. Intelligence, justice, fairness will not throw bricks; a regard for tho Inter ests of tho country as a whole will not encourage the habit of criticism und abuse. Don't Writ It. When you hnvo a thing to write, Write It. When It's time to blto It off, Ulte It. Run your killing pencil through Sweet word-pictures that you drew. Editors smile on you Smite it! If you've not a thing to sny, Drop it. Words are wasted every day, Stop It. Though you'd like to prate and prate, . Guess you'd better hesitate. If you'r word will nothing state. Chop It. Notice. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for Marlon County. In re n. Gollob, assignment for bene fit of creditors. Notice Is hereby given that Bealeil bids will be received by the under signed up to 5 o'clock p. ni., February 0, 1913, for all of that certain stock of new and second-hand dry goods, cloth ing and miscellaneous merchandise, together with tho fixtures of trndo, all located In thnt certain store build ing numbered 320 North Commercial street, In tho city of Salem, Oregon, acting as assignee for tho benefit of creditors of B. Oollob. Each bid must he accompanied by a certified check for 10 per cent of tho amount bid, as a guaranty of good fnlth, subject to return If the said bids should be rejected, and Biibject to for feiture as liquidated damages if tho bid accompanying Bald check should be accepted and the bidder refuse to complcto tho purchase within five (5) days of the award. The undersigned hereby reserves tlie right to reject any and all bids and to waive Irregularities In any bid for the benefit of the creditors of said n. Gollob. Award will be mado to the highest responsible bidder, and the stock and fixtures conveyed by bill of sale, pursuant to tho order of Honor able Wm. Galloway, Judge of the above entitled court. This notice Is published for four (4) successive publications In the Dally Capital Journal and Oregon Dally Statesman, pursuant to the order of Wm. Galloway, judgo of the above entitled court, the first publication thereof being February 8, 1913. ROLLIN- K. 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