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DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OMGON, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1018. Pastor Russell's Sermon MAN'S WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS Pastor Russell Makes Address es at Panama and Colon. THE MARVELS OF THE CANAL Comment! on the Advance of Human Intelligence Steam, Electricity and Machinery 8laves of the New Order. Future Glorie Anticipated Man, the King of Earth, to Be Reinstated Hie Recovery From Sin and Death Guar anteed at Calvary The Next Ten Centuries Will Be Marveloua. 1'annmn Colon, Februury 23. Pas tor Russell mani fested a keen in terost In the greut Panama Canal work, which Is speeding to com pletion. He took for bis text Psalm 8:4, "WIIAT 13 MAN?" Ho re hearsed human en gineering feats of tho past the Tow er of Babel: tho great city of Babylon; the Great Pyramid of Egypt, full of scientific accuracy and symbols of llenvenly things. Solomon's Temple and Herod's, tho Cothcdral of St " Peter's at Itome, and other great cathe drals, euch wonderful In Its way, were referred to us examples of man's skill In the past. All, he declared, glorify man's Intellectual power, Intelligence and acumen, no less than do some of the legal statutes of tho pust tho Mo saic Law, tho Laws of Lycurgus, etc. All of these achievements of tho past refute the thought that our forefathers were monkeys or only a step or two in advance of that condition. However, In our day practically within the pout half century human Intelligence . jms to havo bounded for ward in a most rcmnrknble manner. The telegraph, tho telephone, the wire less, steam power, electric power and light have given tnlcntit n wider scope thnn ever before was known, and have forwarded tho nrt of printing, which, In turn, has stimulated tho education of tho masses. Intelligence has In creased demnnd. utilized Inventions, and is making the world fnbulously rich. Millions everywhere are on tho alert to associate themselves with tho new things and with the llnanclal pros perity which they are bringing. The Canal Mlustartes All This. Our modern cities with their multi plied conveniences, pnltitlnl structures, and office buildings moro thnn forty stories up Into tho clouds, aro fresh re minders of our text, "What is Man!" Our tunnels, or subways, under cities, and nil the conveniences they stand for arc well cnlculnted to amiizo us. As we look nbmit us and reallzo Hint theso things have come suddenly within fif ty yenrs, we repent "What is Mnnl" How wonderful tho Intelligence which has been able to grapple with tho af fairs of nature, Its minerals, its laws, etc.. and to master them! Is not man a great king In nil the earth? Nowhere Is this power of man to deal with earthly conditions more strikingly manifest than hero on this Canal Zone. AVe have here an Illustration of mountain-moving faith. Six tons of Trojan powder exploded at ono Instant, crum bling an entlro hill, Is certainly n won derful record. Theso great steam shovels moving with so great rapidity these enormous masses of loosened earth nro marvelous. If only n few yeiirs ngo some one had told us that n man, by moving n lever, could lift six Ions of enrth, transport It an eighth of n mllo and load It upon cars, nil In three minutes or less, wo would havo thought him Insane. Who would have believed a short time ngo, that an eighty foot gate- weighing six hundred tons would have bei n pniellonblc or possible! History tells us that tho desirability of this canal was recorded by Cnlvno In ir!0. He hud ambition. If hn had had our modern appliances nnd the woa,ltb of cur day to back them, no doubt ho bud the Intelligence necessary for the work, lint tho tlnio was not ripe. Forty years ago our (Jovernnient realized the desirability of UiIh work, but dared not undertake It. Thirty yenrs ngo tho work wns started by n ourngooiis Frenchman, but abandoned becauno of the tremendous dlflleultlos encountered. Ten yenrs ago the Unit ed Slates Government, undertook the work, which Is now nenrlng successful completion. Telle of Meitlah'i Day. Tho ndvnuce of human Intelligence In the power to overcome the obstacles of nature Is shown thus. What was impossible In the hands of skilful men thirty years ago Is possible at the hands of similar men today, because, In the interim, human Intelligence In respect to tho use of sleam nnd electricity and the application of mechanical prlncl plrs. has made rapid progress. This canal, therefore, not only honors Colo nel (locthals, whose genius has had so much to do with the wonderful accom plishment, but it honors mankind In general; for hero wo mid nt work ma chinery invented nnd manufactured In all parts of (he world. Tho Scotch miction dredge nnd the Kronen bidder dredges eo-lnbor with American mil rhinery in drilling, boring, blasting, ellpglng. accomplishing. , Our Brat lesson from what we see is that present achievements out-rank those of the past, not so much In skill as in opportunity. Ancient masonry, found south of us here, lllio that In the Grent Pyramid of Egypt, tells of a skill with which we cannot yet com pete. In that greut stones were so truly squared and so accurately laid as to make it dllUcult to Hnd the crevices be tween them. We must credit our grent progress to God. His time has como for lifting tho veil of ignorance nnd superstition. JIo hns been gradually favoring the Increase of knowledge nlong every line. We today are merely taking ad vantage of this moro extended knowl edge, carried into all the homes and jfllees by means of Bteam printing presses, railroads, steamships, postal service, etc. Instead, therefore, of try ing to belittle our ancestors, let us confess that wo have drawn nnd are still drawing from them deep inspira tion nlong various lines tho Bible, Shakespeare, nnd other writings. Let us accredit our progress, not to Evolution, but to the more reasonable proposition that God's time has come to give us tho blessings promised in tho Scriptures the blessings which are heralding Messiah's Kingdom' of "peace on earth, good will toward men." Wo have waited for It prayed for It and sung about It for centuries. And now that we are beginning to en joy Its blessings, now that the dawn ing of the New Day Is visible on every hand, let us mnke no mistake. While lenrninh from encb other, let us not forget to be taught of God, rending in the signs of the times the fulfilment of the predictions of forty centuries. What Will Man Become? Our text asks, "Whnt is mnn that Thou nrt mindful of him?" Intimating whnt we all acknowledge that mnn Is poor, wenk, Imperfect, fnllcn, unwor thy of his Creator's fnvor and bless ing, no is not deserving of eternal torment, but deserving of the Divine sentence, "Dying, thou sluilt die," be cause of degradation through the fall. Yet God Is mindful of man. God hns ninde provision for mnn's re covery from sin nnd denth. The foun dation for the recovery wns laid by the Sin-Atonement Sacrifice at Calvary. Tho blessings of that Atonement have been extended thus far only to a smnll number. They have been limited to such ns would tnke up their cross and follow In tho Snvlor's footsteps. As the Scriptures declure, theso nro fow, a "little flock" not many grent, wise, rich or noble. But tho selection of tho Elect to be nssoclntes with Messiah in Mis glori ous Kingdom is only the beginning of God's fnvor toward mankind. The Elect will soon bo completed. The saintly followers of Jesus from every nation nnd denomination will soon be come His Urldo nnd Jolnt-helre tn the Kingdom. Then that Kingdom will be established by Divine Power In au thority uud dominion, not to crush mankind, but for human uplift out of sin nnd degradation, Ignorance and superstition, back to the full Image and likeness of God. If mankind In the fallen condition, nnd Imbued with sin nnd selfishness, enn be Influenced by knowledge and ambition to accomplish tho wonders of our day, what will not bo possible to tlm restored mnn, ns gradually ho re nttnlns tho Image nnd likeness of his Creator! Tho eyes of our understand ing open widely ns wo consider tho great length mid breadth of human pos sibilities, under thoso favorable con ditions which God declares will obtain during the thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom, for which we pray, "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will bo done on earth, as It Is In Heaven." "Little Lower Than the Angels." Our context declares tlint man wns made "n little lower than the nngels"; that Is to say, man ns nn earthly, or animal being. In on a lower plane than nngels. who arc spirit beings. Yet there Is ono respect la which man is treated from a standpoint superior to that of nngels. Of man God said, fin Our likeness let him have dominion over the earth." So man was to have tho earth ns his little universe But nn dominion, ho far us we know, has ever been given to the nngels. Man's ruling power wns neutralized by tho sentence of death which came upon III m. As tho dying process continued, man's power to rule his dominion waned. Whereas originally ho was able by mere exercise of his mind to control the beasts, he has since been obliged to cope with the beast by brute forco nnd superior cunning. Finally by Invention, lire arms, etc., he has gained tho mastery in the world by force. Doubtless tho lessons of experience In nil these six great Pays (six thou sand years since the falli will ulti mately Inure to man's benefit. Ills ex ercise of his Ingenuity In battling with thorns, thistles, beasts, etc.. has served to iiilcken, to energize, to glvo him force of character. Hut nliis! this force ol character Is not In any way advan tageous; for In many respects It Is contrary to the highest standards con trary to the Image of his Creator. During the great Day just beginning (the seventh of the great Thousand Year Days-tltc Sabhatlu man will have weighty lessons to learn. The selfish and animal propensities of his nature have become so strong nnd the higher moral faculties have become so dwarfed that II large proportion of hu man effort will necessarily be along the lines of self control and the devel opment of the godlike mind. The ad vantages of this godllkeness will not only be clearly set before man in the Millennium, but he will be assisted In forming such character, because the Inws of Messiah's Kingdom will thor oughly estop sin nnd every form of selfishness which will attempt to do Injury to another. Every evil purpose will b nipped in the bud. Every evil deed will be promptly puulshed in Its inclplency, without being allowed to progress to the Injury of others. Soon the great lessons of the glorious rule of Messiah will be recognized and appreciated; and ns development will be ninde fn the reattnlnment of the Divine like ness, all of its beauties will be appre ciated and everywhere seen. Judging Quiok and Dead. All those experiences 6f humanity under Messiah's Kingdom are in Scrip tural lnngunge declared to be Judg ments; that is, testings, provlngs. That great Day of Messiah, a thousand years long, is Scrlpturally styled the Day 0 Judgment. The Church will not be on Judgment or trlnl, then; but the world. Tho Church, walking by faith, and not by sight, Is having ber trial now. The faithful of the Church now on trial, if found worthy, will bo giv en the reward of glory, honor, immor tality, nnd will be mndo the judges of the world. . "Know ye not that the saints shall Judge the world?" 1 Cor inthinns 0:2. St Pnul referred to that Thousand Year Day, nnd described it ns the fu ture Dny of Judgment, snylug, "God hnth nppolntcd a Dny in the which He will judge the world In righteousness by that Mnn whom He hnth ordained." (Acts 17:31.) The Christ will have the Judgment of the world In His hnnds. The Christ has Jesus as its Head and the Church ns Its Body, ns St Paul bns declared. Ephesinns 1:22, 23. The Judgment of the world will not be in respect to whether or not they hnve been sinners; for thnt God hns alrcndy determined. As tho Scriptures declare, all men are sinners. That com ing Judgment will not be to see which of these sinners Is renlly worthy of llfo nnd which worthy of death';' for that nlso wns determined by the Lord long ago, when Ho passed the sentence of death upon all, without exception. Bo cnuse nil were sinners It wns neces snry thnt nil should bo redeemed, In order thnt they might hnve thnt com ing Judgment Tho very object of the redemption wns to settle forever (He brews 10:12) the death sentence pro nounced ngnlnst Adam nud Inherited by nil of bis race. All were redeemed, nnd all nre to be set free from thnt Adnmlc condemna tion. The moment they nre set free from the condemnation of the pnst, they will be put on trial, or Judgment, for themselves. From thnt moment their responsibility will begin, the re sult of which will be either everlnst ing life or everlustlng denth Second Death. And tho rewards of thnt trlnl will be In respect to their course after they aro freed from the Adnmlc sen tence. It will not Include anything done by them prior to their being set free. He Who Sins, Suffers. Only the Church nt the present time are on Judgment, or trlnl, for everlnst lug llfo or everlasting denth, because only the consecrated nre set free by the Itedeomer. As It Is written. "We were children of wrnth even ns oth ers." (Ephesinns 2:3.) Nor will tho world be on trial, or Judgment, for everlasting llfo until they shall have been brought to a very clear knowl edge of God, of Ills arrangements for them, nnd of their opportunities. However, there Is another Inw op erating, which nffects every member of Adam's race. Whoever sins a llt tlo suffers proportionately. Whoever sins much suiters proportionately. But such punishments for sin are not unto eternal dentil. They are merely transi tory and on account of misdeeds, and have no bearing whatever on tho orlgl mil sin unto death and tho redemption from It. Tho limn or the woman who transgresses a law of nature suffers. If he transgresses a moral law, he Buffer also. Ho who steals or who murders or slanders another, and seem ingly meets with no retribution In the present life, nevertheless does not es cape not even If his conscience be comes spared and ho can forget bis misdeeds. It Is n law of our nature that the very finest of our powers are the most easily Injured. Thus ho who Injures his conscience damages that which Is most dlllleult to repair. Those who have seared their consciences will, dur ing the thousand years, havo (he most dllllculty iu regaining tho image and likeness of God. without which they can never hnve everlasting llfo St. Paul, after assuring us that "As nil lu Adam die, so nil In Christ shall be made nllvr." adds. "Every man In his own order," or class. (1 Corinthi ans 1,1:22. 2:i.i This suggests that God has the world Identified by classes, ns well ns Individually. The Church clans will bo llrst-tho Chief Resurrection, (devolution 20:11.) None will he in It except those accounted worthy to share In the Messianic Throne nnd Kingdom. Later on will couio the resurrection of tho worthy ones of ancient times Abraham, Isaac, Jaroh and nil the Prophets. Their resurrection will be to human perfection, ns examples of what nil men can attain, If they will be obedient to Messiah's righteous re quirements. Then will come the world, "every man In Ills own order." All will be wakened. Each will have nn oppor tunity of coming to n knowledge of the Truth. Each will have opportu nity, by obedience, to arise out of deg radation, thus demonstrating his wor thiness or unwortlilness to participate In complete Kestltiitlon nud uverlnstliig life. Thus each Individual of Adam's race will take his place, either nt the right hand of the Majesty of the Kingdom or at the left either nt the plnce of fnvor or of disfavor. He will be thus deciding for himself, according to the Divine stnndards, whether he will hnve everlasting llfo, or the penalty of op position to God-"everlnstlng destruc-tlou"-th Second Death. QUIT MAGNATE TO ! .PLAY WITH THE B0IS ' UNITED MlfHS LEAKED WIM!, New York, Feb. 28. Flat refusal to leave a plellan day car on the Penn sylvania railway to lunch in the pri vate car of Prosidont Samuel Rea of that system was tha jolt Prcsldont Elect Wilson handed out today to the head of that' great railroad corpora tion. After visiting his dentist in Phila delphia today, Wilson took the Penn sylvania train for New York, where he will attond the theatre tonight. Learn ing that Wilton was on board in the day coach. President Rea sent him an invitation to take luncheon In his pri vate car. Wilson declined and re mained in the day coach playing with Frank and Clara Greenwood, two chil dren of North Beth, Pa. The two youngsters ruffled the hair of the president-elect, disarranged his tie, pulled off his glasses, romped with him and wound up their frolic by planting on hla face two large wet kisses. Wilson grinned happily and entered heartily into the fun. j YOUNG NEW YORK BLOODS FACE SERIOUS CHARGE UN1TKD PRESS IJE8KD WIM. New York, Feb. 28. Accused of making a business of debauching young girls and thrusting them Into j obscure dens of vice, a coterie of rich young Brooklyn men are up before I the Kings county grand Jury today, .The police believe the mysterious dls- appearance of at least a dozen girls I can bo traced to these young men. j The operations of the clique were revealed by Martha Kholer, a 17-year-I old school girl from a prominent family. 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