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PAGE SIX,
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Pastor Russell's Sermon
PERILS AMONGST
FALSEJRETHREN
St. Paul's Experiences Dupli
cate the Master's,
HIS FAITHFULNESSTO CHRIST
Jesus' Footitep Followers Wounded In
the House of Their Friends The
Philosophy of the Matter How to Re
1 ceive Such Experiencee Why They
! Are Permitted The Results They
8erve Speoial Perils Today.
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Ottawa, Ont,
March SO.-Pastor
Russell, wlio since
his last yM has
many friends bore,
arrived again this
morning. As usu-
r -.. , f- j al, the largest au-
' - , 1 dltorluin was en
t i waged for him.
no spune twice
today. We report
one of his ad
drosses, from St.
Paul's words.
"Perils among false brethren." (2 Cor-
luthluns 11:20.) lie said:
St Paul was remarkable In many re
elects, but chiefly for Ills loving devo
tion to the Master and Ills Caus His
faithfulness brought also many trying
experiences, Iu our context ho enum
erated some of these. Ho served the
Cause of Christ to such an extent that
many thought htm unwise, and count
ed him a fool. This service brought
him stripes, whippings, us a disturber
of the peace not thnt he did disturb
the peace, but that those who opposed
his touching raised a tumult and
blamed him for it, in order to bring
bim into disrepute, hiuder his service
and forward their own Interests. This
at times brought him to prison, too,
und even closo to denth's door.
Nevertheless, he rejoiced in all such
privileges. He declared that five times
ho received whippings, stripes; once ho
was stoned, and threo times bo was
shipwrecked. But none of these things
moved him from faithfulness to his
Master, whoso servants lie had perse
cuted before his eyes were opened.
Then ho recounts various perils ex
perienced from waters, from robbers,
from tho Jews, from the heathen in
the city, in the wilderness, on the sea.
He winds up the list of perils In the
words of the text, "Perils amongst
false brethren."
One question which will arise in
mauy minds Is, "Were these sufferings
stripes, perils, etc. deserved?" If
asked, the answer would Biirely bo
that they were not deserved; for St.
Paul was a noble, character and bore
the Message of God's grace In Christ
"good tidings of groat Joy which shall
be unto all people." The next ques
tion with some would bo, "If his suf
ferings were not punishments, what
wore they?"
We reply that they woro the same as
woro the Master's evidences of his
loyalty to Hod and of the dnrlcucss of
the world, which led them to oppose
him. The declaration, "Whosoever
will live godly will sulTer persecution,"
was fully exemplified In his own ex
periences and In tho Muster's. The
mount of suffering us a reward for
well-doing ninrked the measure of loy
alty and zeal, and the measure of
hatred and malice aroused by the Ad-
Tersary. The answer to the question
as to why Jesus suffered Is the answer
to all such questions In respect to St.
l'aul and all other footstep followers.
Darkness Hates the Light.
The Master declared thnt lit) stood
for the principles of light, righteous
ness, Truth; while Satan stands for
the reverse darkness, superstition,
blindness. And so it Is with the fol
lowers of Jesus. They must all bo
children of the light, must walk lu the
light, must be uncompromising In their
attitude toward sin and all thnt li
wrong. Therefore the world will hate
them and say all manner of evil
against them falsely. Yea, men will
feel that they do (5od service when
they slay the righteous, whether llt
crnlly, as In Jesus' case and St. Pnul's,
or by "shouting out arrows, oven bit
ter words," as is the moro popular
method of the present time.
Hut some one will say, "Ah, times
have changed! Today our bishops and
jtopos and preachers are all reverenced.
IS'o one thinks of persecuting them.
Ituther, all men speak well of thorn.
Any one not spoken well of today must
be in some way unworthy." How
stninge Hint we should forget, nnrt ar
gue along these lines! Were there not
lhictors of Divinity lu Jesus' day?
Were there not priests nnd chief
lulcsts and l.i'vltes then? And were
there ii"t Pharisee who made long
prayers in the Temple? And were
they not highly spoken of and revcr
enred'.' I til they not make broad their
phylacteries? l'ld any one think of
inidii'-lnir themt No!
tut Hie ,1ti.ifir wns there, and III
disciples; nnd they were not of the
popular rlergy. Ity their own record
they were styled "the lilt It and on
Hcourlng of the earth"; and. us the
Master sold, whoever persecuted them
thought I hat they did Cod service.
How apt we all are to think of our
own day as being different from other
periods! So It was In Jesus' day. As
He told soino of them, "Yo garnish the
nepulchcr of those whom your fnth
r slew, jot y do their works." So
todny many extol the Iord and the
Apostles, nnd denounce their persecu
tors, while they similarly persecute.
The climax of St. Paul's perils, the
severest of them all, was from false
brethren. How strange that seems!
One would think that however much
tho heathen or the Jews might have
persecuted him, at least all professed
followers of Jesus would have thanked
God for his example and ministry, and
have esteemed him. But this was not
so; and as we look back to the Master
before him, wo see the same to bo
true. As Ho declared, "A man's foes
shall be they of his own household."
The Master was n Jew. The Jews
were His brethren according to the
flesh; nnd It was they that hated Him
without a cnuso they thnt persecuted
Illm-they that said, "He hnth a devil
and Is mad" they that "took up stones
to stone Him" they thnt finally cruci
fied Him. "He enme unto His own,
nnd Ills own received Him not," except
a few saintly, elect ones.
St. Paul also had persecution from
the Jews, who repeatedly sought his
life. He lived nfter the establishment
of the Church. Ho had also Christian
brethren, begotten of the Holy Spirit
nnd fellow-members of the Body of
Christ Jesus had none such. "Of the
people thero were none with Hlin."
The Holy Spirit was not given until
Tontecost; hence Jctsys could not re
ceive ChrMinn persecution. The near
est approximation' was tho case of
Judas. But if St. Paul enjoyed the
sweetness of Christian fellowship In
his study, labors and tolls, he also
knew tlie bitterness of opposition and
persecutions from fulse brethren tho
cllmnx of his perils. Wo may lie sure
that such experiences were more diffi
cult for him to bear than any others,
because they came closer home. They
came from brethren of tho closest im
aginable relationship fellow-members
of tho Body of Christ.
The Godly Suffer Persecution.
As we glance down through this Gos
pel Age, from St. Paul's day to the
present, wo find thnt nil followers of
Jesus have hnd experiences such as Ho
foretold for .thorn persecutions. We
find that these persecutions have come
from every quarter, but none, appar
ently1 moro severe, more cruel, more
perilous, than- those which have come
from Christian brethren. It Is scarcely
necessary for us to refer to history to
demonstrate this fact. Disputes be
tween Christians have been very bit
ter. Thousand have lost their lives at
each other's hands. The word heretic
Iwcnme moro obnoxious than nny other
term in the dictionary.
Neither Catholic nor Protestant can
deny tho terrible story of tho pages
of history. All true men aro ashamed
of tho record. All are ready to say,
"Wo would not so have done." Monu
ments stand In various pails of the
world, marking plnces where sectarian
strife has manifested Itself in ntrocious,
barbarous acts. Our Catholic friends
blush nt the story of the Huguenots.
Our Church of England friends blush
at tho story of the Covenanters nnd
other non-conformists. Our Prcsby-
terliin friends, In turn, blush for atro
cious acts, Injustice, etc., done In the
name of Calvinism.
Wo might almost say that each de
nomination In its turn has been a sub
ject of persecution from ono nnd an
other. Baptists were publicly whip
ped sometimes driven from their
homes to exile. So were the Puritans,
who afterwards became persecutors
themselves. Tho Methodists also suf
fered from sectarian spite nnd Jeal
ousy, lgnorunco and superstition. In
deed, who will dispute that Christen
dom has omul tat to be ashamed of
her own record, no mntter what her
standpoint may be?
Thank God for the advancement
mndo along the line of human sym
pathy! No longer can civilized peo
ple tnko pleasure In public executions,
tortures, burning at tho stake, as In
former times. Whatever competition
may remain between Christian broth'
rcii, the peril Is not that of open per
secution; for general sentiment has ad
vanced beyond the point where pbysl
enl torture could lie tolerated.
Wo have come to the tlmo when
Cnlvlnlsts erect n monument to Serve
tus, expressing dissent from their great
lender's mlstnke In cunning a Christian
brother to he burned. We have come
to the place where the "perils amongst
false brethren" are of a different kind
Now whatever Jealousies or rivalries
there may be, either at home or In the
mission fields, are recognized ns Im
proper nnd suppressed, so fnr ns breth
ren connected with popular and lulluen
Hal bodies of Christians aro concerned,
Hut Is It iiot true today that the
Truth Is unpopular? Has this not al
ways been the fact? Is It not true thnt
In proportion ns the denominations
have iMH-ome popular they have escap
ed persecution? But woe be to those
who, ns were Jesus nnd the Apostles
ure unpopular! If they Indeed escape
the cross, the guillotine, the rack and
the fagot, they are amenable to other
means of torture. Something can bo
trumped up against their personality
Insinuations can be given by word nnd
look, and shrug of shoulder. More
damage can be accomplished In this
way than lu outward nllack.
K II speaking, evll-surinlslng, slnu
Icrs, ambiguous suggestions, etc.-nll,
as torture -run be applied to the fol
low-el's of Jesus today. And all who
loduv take such a course aro sharers
with the malefactors, even though they
do not Indulge In (iijWiul torture. Who
can dispute that sometimes mental tor-
lure Is equally severe? In our day
there nre other and more refined ways
of persecuting, torturing, open to false
brethren, than linprlsomiuuit or cruci
fixion or burning.
And what shall we any of the false
brethren who do such things? And
how shall we assure onrsolv s thnt we
shall not be of them? Undoubtedly
the Mnster Is still of the 'same mind
as St. John expressed when he de
clared, "Whosoever hatoth his brother
Is a murderer, and ye know that no
murderer hath eternal life abiding In
him." tl John 3:15.) Murderers may
indeed receive severe stripes, and
eventunlly learn better under Mes
siah's Kingdom; but no one of a mur
derous condition of heart, seeking to
do evil to a brother, could possibly be
of suitable churncter to Ihj a joint-heir
with ills Mnster In the Kingdom.
"One of the Least of These."
In every time, nnd now, the spirit
of persecution naturally would strike
most prominently certain lending fig
ures; nevertheless, even as Jesus'
words Implied, all lovers of righteous
ness are to have more or less share lu
such experiences of opposition. St.
Paul mentions this, saying, "Ye en
dured a grent fight of afflictions; part
ly, whilst ye were made a gazing
stock and partly whilst ye be
came companions of them that were
so used." (Hebrews 10:32, 33.) Jesus
gives us the same thought In His
declaration that whosoever shall of
fend one of the least of these, His
disciples, It were better for him that
a millstone were hnnged nhout his neck
and he were drowned in the depths of
the Bea. Matthew 18:0.
This, of course, Is very highly figura
tive lnngunge, and yet it must have a
special meaning. It must mean thnt
the Lord has a special care over all of
Ills consecrated saints; nnd thnt no
mntter how poor, how weak, how Ig
norant, they mny be, the very lenst of
His followers nre supervised, nnd in
Jury to the lenst Is punishable. Of
course, there would still bo an awak
ening from tho dead for the one who
was drowned In the sea; and so there
are possibilities of help nnd recovery
for those who would stumble the
Lord's "little ones." Nevertheless, the
Intimation Is that of drastic punish
ment. This would not mean anything
like we once supposed eternal tor
mentbut some Just recompense of re-
wurd for every evil deed.
From this standpoint we mny rcndlly
assume that considerable satisfaction
of Justice Is necessary; for surely a
considerable number of the Lord's
"little ones" have suffered persecution.
And as wo have seen, not nil of this
persecution lies nt the door of the
world. Much of it lies nt the doo of
tho professed Church of Christ "false
brethren."
Speaking of some such, Jesus once
declared thnt they would have grent
disappointment when the tlmo of re
wards would come. He says, "Many
shall sny unto Me in thnt Pay, Lord,
Lord, hnve we not prophesied in Thy
name, and uone many wonuerrui
works? And I will deelnre, I do not
recognize you." They will not be
worthy of tho Lord's recognition ns
amongst His Elect Church, Ills Brldo
class. We shall be glad If they will be
found worthy of somo blessing under
Ills Kingdom. But there will be great
disappointment to them. They missed
tho greater point of the Gospel .ore.
Love For the Brethren.
The Lord's will concerning all ni
followers is that they should love one
another hs He loved them. St John
expressed this sentiment, saying that
ns Jesus loved the Church nnd Inld
down His life for the Church, so also
His followers should lay down their
lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:10.)
If this is the hire standard that the
Lord has set for His people, how sorely
some will booh lie disappointed In re
spect to Ills will If tncy hnve Ignored
this requirement. If, Instead of loving
the brethren and laying down their lives
for them, they say all mnnncr of evil
ngnlnst them, etc., what then? Then
they ure false brethren. Then they nre
tho peril of the true brethren, ns men
tioned In our text.
Oh, how much the true followers of
Jesus need to Impress upon themselves
this grent lesson thnt love does no
III to his neighbor, thnt love in sympa
thetic, suffereth long nnd is kind,
vnunteth not Itself, is not puffed up,
seoketh not merely its own Interest
and welfare, but see.keth the Interest
and welfnre of othersl
The supreme test of our loynlty to
Ocxl Is our love for Him. And this,
love Is manifested by our desire to do
those things acceptable to Him. There
is little that we really can do for the
Almighty. Ho Is so great nnd we nre
so small! But If we have Ills spirit
of Love, then wo shall love nil thoao
wlio love Him. And our conduct to
wnrd them will demonstrate tho rcnl
sentiment of our hearts. Thus seen,
wo are dully making our rewnrd In the
lord's sight, dally showing Him to
what degree we are worthy or un
worthy of Ills great reward.
Those mentioned In our text ns false
brethren were perilous to the true
brethren, but did not get Into this po
sition Immediately, It was n growth,
n development. Tho wrong spirit gmd
unity supplanted the right. It Is well
that Christians note this Insidious
canker which gnaws at the root of
brotherly love, tends to poison the
spirit and to bring forth the evil fruit
age mentioned. Apparently, In some
cases, the spirit of pride, the spirit of
sectarianism, the spirit of ambition,
are the lending features of the wrong
course, which, If permitted to go to
the heart, will develop n bad fruitage,
such as we are discussing. It will pro
duce false brethren, persecuting breth
ren, blind to the real spirit of their
Master, heady, high-minded.
let us then, beloved, be more nnd
more on guard against the encroach
ments of the Adversary upon us ns
New Creatures) Lot ns lie more and
more zealous for the Spirit of our Mns
ter and show forth the praises of Him
who has called us out of darkness Into
His marvelous light! In no way can
we better show forth these praises than
by exemplifying In our dally conduct
the lessons we have learned of Hlmt
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