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DAUT CAPITAL JOTOJJAl, 8A1EM, O&EQOK, MONDAY, APOUST 11. 1913.
HIS LAST LOVE BEST
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Pastor Russell's Sermon
INFANTS SAVED
i FROMTORTURE
Thirty Thousand Daily Saved
1 From Damnation.
LET THE GOOD WORK 60 OH.
Patter RusmII Say PrnbyUrians L.ad
In Thaologieal Prograaa Will Not
Othar Danemlnatlona Co-oparatef
What Can Ba Don Far tha Non
' Elect and Non-Regenerate Infanta of
the PaetT Paetor Ruaeell Not Able
to Agree, Although 8ympathetio Hi
View of It ae Outlined In the Bible.
London, August
8.-A Bible Stu
dents Convention
bit been In prog
res bere several
dnys In the Lon
don Tabernacle.
Lancaster Uate,
W. I'astor Mus
sel) delivered two
addresses toduy.
We report one of
them, from the
text, "Else were
your children un
holy, but now are they holy." 1 Co
rinthians 7:14.
The Pastor declared that his text
which differentiated between holy and
not boly Infants, was probably the ba
sis for much of the confusion which
has prevailed In all denominations on
the subject of Infant salvation and In
fant damnation. Before discussing his
text, be wished to call the attention
of his hearers to the fact that about
two mouths ago the Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly In the United States
bad taken a very advanced theological
step on this subject According to
telegraphic dispatches, It has altered
the Presbyterlnn Confession of Faith
so as to save the non-elect Infants as
well us the elect ones.
The thouKht that God bad arranged a
(Flan by which some Infants would go
Ito Heaven at death, and other Infants
would go to eternal torture, bus for
centuries greatly troubled the minds
of all Christian people Catholic and
Protestant. Some said that the elect
Infants would he saved and tlio non
elect Infants would be tortured. Oth
ers had It that uuy Infant by 'baptism
would be brought Into the Church and
lie saved, while Infunts not thus bap
tized or sprinkled would go to eternal
torture. Others hud It thut none could
be saved without regeneration, and
these were perplexed to know how In
fants could be said to be regenerated.
Therefore how could they hope that
mny Infunts would be saved? The
hearts and the heads of all good people
thnve suffered terribly for many centu
ries because of these confused Ideas.
It Is gratifying, the Pnstor declared,
to see that with the Presbyterians, at
least love and sympathy have triumph
ed; and that far as they are con
corned, thirty thousand Infants daily
go to Heaven, Instead of going to Hell.
Certainly this Is a missionary project
of no menn proportions! At this rate
they no doubt believe that Heaven will
soon begin to have reasonable propor
tions, as compared with Hell. We re
gret that the brethren did not take any
measures looking toward the relief of
the non-elect Infants of tlio past who
now must number thousands of mil
lions. It Is worthy of consideration,
anil we trust will have their intention
And since the matter Is so oimlly ad
justed, why would It not be the proper
thing for nil Christian denominations
to follow the lend and example of the
Presbyterians? Wo fear that not many
of the other denominations will Join
the Presbyterians In their generous
work of helping the Infants. They
might reason that If all infants dying
In Infancy are saved, it might he the
sufest thing that lAireuts could do for
their children to Insure their eternal
solvation by killing them in Infancy.
Then buby Incubators and various de
vices medicines, foods, etc. Intended
for the preservation of Infants' lives
might come to bo considered detriment
al to the eternal Interests of the chil
dren! Hut how foolish nil such theories
win! How beautiful by contrast is
the simple teaching of the lllhlo, that
the salvutlou for nil old and young,
of heuthen lands as well as of Chris
tian lands is through the resurrection
power of Messiah's Kingdom-through
its enlightening and uplifting, or res
wrroctlng Influences! Why should we
longer trouble with the errors of tha
lark Ages wheu Cod's Message, the
Bible, is now opening up for ills peo
ple, shining as an electric lamp. In con
trast with the talUiw cuudle darkness
of the creeds?
Unable to Agree,
Taster Russell declared that he felt
great sympsthy for the move made by
the Presbyterian brethren, but, never
theless, ha was unable to agree with
their conclusions, believing that the
P.llile teaches otherwise. Ho realised
that tha Presbyterian view of Election
made It dIOlcult for them to deal with
the non-elect both adult and Infants.
Il found the Scriptures declaring thut
O'Kl la selecting, or electing, the
Church from amongst tbo world. He
mneeded that those not elected would
he properly termed non-elect But he
fouud nothing In the Bible to Indicate,
that non-election to Joint heirship lit
Messiah' Kingdom would mean pre
destination to an eternity of torture.
The Pastor realised, too, that tlx
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Presbyterian friends most feel consid
erable embarrassment in trying to ad
Just themselves to their changed creed.
For if there are no non-elect Infants,
then all infant are elect; and if elect
when Infants, bow could their predes
tination change with advancing years?
His sympathetic advice to Presbyte
rian brethren is, that the entire creed
be recast; or, better still, that it and
all other creeds be abandoned, and the
Bible as a whole be accepted. Then,
be argned, all Bible student could
come together without prejudice for
mutual assistance and untrammeled
growth In grace along Bible line.
While tbe Pastor mentioned Presby
terians, his thought included all Chris
tians. For surely many other than
Presbyterians have been consigning
ad It and infant to tbe number of at
least 00,000 every day, or 82,000,000
every year, to eternal torture, if not
because non-elect then because on
regenerate, or nnbaptlzed. Surely all
Intelligent people are out of accord
with such a proposition. Surely all
must agree that some great mistake
has been made during the Dark Ages,
and that under the Influence of that
mistake, as expressed In our creeds,
our God has been slandered. Surely
today every thinking person will con
cede that a human being planning
such atrocities would be a thousand
times more devilish than any one
known in history. And surely our
great God, our Creator, could not be
worse than the worst and most de
praved of all Ills creatures.
On the contrary, God must of neces
sity be the very personification of all
tbe graces Justice, Wisdom, Love and
Power. Evidently the God who fore
knew and determined to send these
32.000.000 human beings per year to an
eternity of torture would not only not
be a God at all, but would be tbe most
terrible devil that the human mind
could concelvel
Bible Students are realizing that a
great mistake has occurred, and that
the Bible teaches nothing of tbo kind
we bad supposed. More and more, as
the eyes of their understanding open
to proper Interpretations of God's
Word, they are appreciating the Di
Tine character, and the Bible as never
before.
The Pastor declared that a week
from now be will consider some of the
Master's dark sayings, and show how
they have been misinterpreted nnd
misapplied. Today be must content
himself with the subject in hand. He
must discuss God's relationship to the
heathen and to Infants.
He Still Sees Difficulties.
As we understand It, said the Pas
tor, our Presbyterian friends have
changed the statement of tbe creed,
which formerly read, "Elect Infants
dying In Infancy are saved" taking
out the word "elect," nnd letting It
rend, "Infunts dlng In Infnncy are
saved." But Is this truo? Do our
PreHbyterlun frlendB believe this?
Cotne, let us reason together. Are
not the children us well as the more
matured members of Adam's, family
born In sin and misshapen In iniquity?
Are not all of tfiose by nature "chil
dren of wrath"? Did not every mem
ber of Adutn's family come under bis
sentence and participate In the pen
alty, or curse, of his sin "Dying, thou
shalt die"? Is not this the reason
that Infants die at all? Will not all
coneodo that had there been no sin
there would have been no death In the
human family? Docs not St Paul dis
tinctly state this, saying. "By one
man's disobedience sin entered the
world, and death as the result of sin,
and thus death ptiHsed upon all men
because all uro sinners"? Romans
5:12; Psalm M:5
All Condemned Need Redemption.
Surely all Christian people, Presby
terians especially, will agree with me
that the sentence of death, passed upon
Father Adam and Inherited by his
race, mint needs be settled, cancelled,
before any of his posterity, old or
young, could bo released from the pen
ulty. True, we all agree that the death
of the Lord Jesus Christ Is the redemption-price
and that He provided It more
(ban eighteen centuries ago. But do
we not also agree that Jesus' death, of
Itself, saves nobody; thut His merit be
comes applicable merely to us of the
Church at such time as we believe In
It and accept It appropriating It to our
selves? Is not this the proclamation of the
Gospel Age Relieve! Relieve! Do we
not remember the Bible declaration
thut we uro Justlllcd by ciiiA. not by
being tnf tints f And do we not all
agree that faith cannot be exercised
except by n more or less developed
mind? Hence nil should agree that
the Scriptural proposition Is, that all
Infants shared In Adam's sentence
of death, and have provision also in
tbe redemptive work of Jesus. Nev
ertheless, they can bo saved only by
wuilng to n knowledge of God nnd of
Jesus, and by then exorcising faith
and obedience to tbo extent of ability.
We believe this to be nn uudnbutuhle
proposition.
If this be so then our Presbyterian
brethren overstate the matter when
they declare that all Infants dying In
Infancy are saved. They might very
proiHM'ly sny. All Infants dying In in
fancy, und everybody else, coino under
the provision of Divine grace In Christ,
and must all be brought to a knowl
edge of the Truth, that they may be
saved; nnd then when thus brought to
(now the Lord and the terms of salva
tion, the results will depend upon
themselves. If they accept, they mny
have the everlasting life provided; if
they reject, they will experience tho
Second Death.
What 8ay the Soripturee?
We have already Intimated the teach.
Ing of the Rlble. All mankind came
under the Divine curse, or sentence of
death not eternal torment "In do
time Christ died for the ungodly"-for
very one of them for all those who
lived before His crucifixion, and for all
born since for white and black, old
and young of every nation. Because
of this general redemption, coextensive
with the curse, or sentence of death,
there la to be a recovery from tbe
curse of death. All mankind are thus
to be made amenable to a release from
the death penalty to have the oppor
tunity of a resurrection out of sin and
death conditions back to perfect life
conditions. Only those who wilfully
and intelligently reject this grace of
God will die the 8econd Death be
blotted out as though tbey bad never
been perish like natural brute beasts.
-2 Peter 2:12.
From this standpoint we see that no
body la saved yet All both infant
and adults, heathen and Christians
go to Sheol. Hades, tbe tomb, the state
of death. All are said to sleep in
Sheol, Hades, tbe tomb, until the glori
ous Morning of the New Dispensation.
Messiah's Kingdom of glory. Then tbe
Church will constitute the First Res
urrection class, to Heavenly glories and
honors and Divine nature. Following
this, the Church with her Lord will
reign as kings and priests, for the
blessing of the entire bumua family,
of all nges, nationalities and colors.
in other words, according to the Bi
ble none buve gone to Heaven. As
Jesus said, "No mun bath ascended
into Heaven." iJohn 3:13.) Hence
there are no infants in Heaven. All
Infants who have died bave gone to
the Bible bell, tbe tomb, and "know
not anything." They merely await the
time when the Kingdom shall be In
power, and tbe awakening processes
shall begin to operate; end tbey shall
come forth from deutb each in his
own band, or company. 1 Corinthians
10:23; John 5:28. 29.
Hope For AH Children.
There Is another theological theory,
which has no Scriptural foundation,
but which claims thut every Infant Is
Immortal, and that the present life,
long or short favorable or unfavora
ble, constitutes the only opportunity
ever to be enjoyed for reforming char
acter and becoming fit for a happy
eternity. Hence, according to this un
scriptural theory, the children of unbe
lieversconceived and born in sin and
depravity us are all mankind, more or
less are unprepared for an eternity of
bliss, nnd consequently must spend
that eternity In pain and horror.
But let us rid tbe mind of this false
theory, nnd go by Scripture alone. As
the Word of God declares, "God only
hath Immortality." Therefore no In
fants are Immortal. When God said
"The soul that slunetb It shall die,"
Ho meant It When He declured, "All
the wicked will I destroy." He meant
It The penalty upon Adam and his
race Is death; and therefore children
and all others die because of Adam's,
sin. The worst that can befall the
children of unbelievers would be death.
What then, Is the Scriptural hope
for the children of unbelievers? It Is
exactly the same as for the children of
saints; namely, that Christ Jesus our
"Lord tnsted death for every man when
no tasted death for Adam; for all are
under Adam's sentence of condemna
tion to deuth. One man's sin brought
the death penalty upon all; therefore
the one mnn's Ransom was the Ran
som for all. The children of unbeliev
ers were redeemed In the most abso
lute Bcnse from the entire condemna
tion of deuth. Indeed, none but sin
ners were redeemed. "Christ died for
the ungodly." All are ungodly; all are
sinners. Hence, all die; and all need
to be redeemed, else they would have
no hope of a resurrection.
In the Messianic Kingdom, the Res
urrection Age. children of believers
will have a little advantage over the
children of unbeliever, In that they
will have less depraved organisms
when awakened. But under the gra'nd
resurrection processes then at work,
such disadvantages will soon be over
come. All who are willing nnd obedi
ent shall be brought to n full knowl
edge of tbo Truth and full opportuni
ties for complete Restitution, bnck to
nil that wns lost In Adam, for him
self and his posterity. In thnt day
It will no more be said, "The fathers
have eaten a sour grape, and the chil
dren's teeth arc sot on edge." "Every
one shall die for his own Iniquity."
"The soul that xlnneth It shall tlio."
Jeremiah 31:21). 30; Ezeklel 18:2-4.
How reasonable are the way of
God! How plainly are they stated In
the Word! Those who have the eye
und the ear of fuith. who are hearken
ing to the Word of the living God
rather than to the dead creeds of tbe
Dark Ages have a Joy nnd peace of
mind which Is a source of strength,
unknown to others.
According to tho Divine arrange
ment parents are responsible in re
spect to their children. The conscien
tious pnrent hns n wonderful oppor
tunity to train his children In the nur
ture and admonition of the Lord. Tbe
Christian parent should earnestly seek
for the wisdom from above, that he
may be able to rightly discharge his
duties under nil circumstances, even
the most trying.
Notice Our Text Again,
The Apostle clearly distinguishes be
tween the children of believers nnd the
children of unbelievers. Ills argument
Is that the children of unbelievers are
without any relationship to ttod, aid
without nny supervision from I'A.U;
while the children of believers, because
of purentnt relationship, are subjects of
Divine supervision and care. For these
na for their parents all things work to
gether for good for their welfare.
This Divine supervision on account of
their parents will, of course, terminate
when the individual child come to
year of discretion and responsibility.
Then they must enter Into personal re
lationship with God. or, like tbe re
mainder of the world, be outalde of
any relationship with ntm. nntil the
Day of Christ I thousand jeers long.
COOL AS HEIGHT BE
President's Envoy to Mexico Once At
tacked General Manager of St
Paul Newspaper.
EESENTED BEING JIBED AS
' ' ROTTNDHEAD 1 ' BY DISPATCH
Hurried From Capitol When He Quit
Governorship and Slugged Black
Vigorously.
Former Minnesotans of Salem recall
that John Lind, President Wilson's en
voy to Mexico, did not always show
that coolness with which he is credited
by the press generally at this time.
When Lind was governor he was bit
terly assailed by the St. Paul Dispatch
and what especially got his goat was
the fact that in cartoons the Dispatch
depicted him as a gentleman posessiug
an absolutely round head Lind consid
ered this a slam at his nationality, the
evident intent of the newspaper being
to deride him as a "roundhead," a
term often used to start a fight.
Bushes From Capitol.
When Li nil's successor relieved him
from the duties of office at the state
capitol in St. Paul, Lind hurried at
once down to the Dispntch office and
slugged General Manager Black. He
explained that he did not want to do
it when he was governor, but as a pri
vate eiti7.cn he felt at liberty to resent
the style of criticism resorted to bv tEe
Dispatch. Black was sitting down
when Lind attacked him, and failed
to defend himself. Lind left the office
after the trouble, and the Dispatch got
some satisfaction thnt evening in de
nouncing him for "resorting to the tac
tics of a low thug" in settling his
grievances.
The fact that Lind held off until he
was out of office before attacking
Black, leads to the belief that in case
he feels like going to the mat with
Huerta, the Mexican dictator, he will
wnit until after he is relieved of .re
sponsibility as representative of the
T'nited States.
FOR BILL CAUCUS
Return From Vacatio nto Participate
in Discussion of Currency Measure
of President '
UNITED TI1ESS LEASED WUIE.
Washington, Aug. 11, The house
Democratic currency caucus began to
day. The program is for the adopt
ion of the Glass bill, as approved by
the house committee on banking and
currency. Scores of Democrats have
returned from their vacations to take
part in the caucus.
Efforts to open the caucus to the
public and members of the press par
ticipated the first dispute today. The
Democratic leaders opposed this plan.
Just Right
Shoes
The new styles in English
lasts are neat and com
fortable. Combined with
the excellent quality of
our shoes, makes them es
pecially desirable.
PRICES $4.00 to $5.00
BLACK AND TAN
OXFORDS
Have been reduced to
$3.15 value $4 and $4.50
Salem
Woolen Mills
Store
OF ALL, SAYS GOODWIN
Comedian Declares He Is Settled for
Life Now, Although He Would
Bow to Old Wives.
ok mm rasa iass wis.
Boston. Mass.. Aug. 1L "The pres
ent Mrs. Goodwin is the right one at
last," said Nat Goodwin, "love pi
rate," here today when, for the
'steenth time, he took the public into
his confidence on his marital ventures.
"I'm settled for life now," Nat
said. 'Mrs. Goodwin saved my life
twice. I love her most of them all.
'Of course." he added, with fine
Generosity, "if I happened to meet any
of my former wives I'd bow to them.
But so far as reviving old associations
go, I'm through with them all for
good.' '
TATI
Attorney-General Crawford goes to
Alarshfield Thursday to investigate the
matter of tho deporting of Dr. Bailey
K. Leach from that place a short time
ago. Mr. Crawford will go to Draio,
thence by auto to Allegheny, the head
of navigation on Coos river, thence by
boat to Marshfield. He makes this in
vestigation at the request of the gover
nor and what action will be taken in
the matter, if any, will depend upon the
attorney-general's report of his find
ings. Marshfield people, or at least
tho Marshfield paper, the Times, is
very bitter against Governor West, re
senting his intoreference in the matter.
Venezuelan Government Claims Behels
Will Be Defeated and Uprising
Will Soon Be Ended. .
DNITKB PBESS LEASED Willi.
f'nracas, Aug. 11 Fighting contin
ued today in tho state of Jachira be
tween government forces and rebel
troops. Although no definite word of
the progress of the battlo has been
received, government officinls are cer
tain that the revolution will bo of short
duration.
President Gomez' is lending (he gov
ernment forces, having arrived at Mar
acay lust Friday with a federal army.
Official dispatches received hero to
day say that Generals Corcegas and
Pustamcnto have captured General
Torres Catro, a relative of former
President Castro.
Three Classes of Medicines,
are tlio Animal, Vegetable and Mineral,
of which the Vegetablo Kingdom fur
nishes by far the most and the best.
Over 700 varieties of roots, plants and
herbs are nown by pharmacists to have
medicinal vnluo and probably tho "In
dian Medicine Man" knows of as many
more. It was in this most interesting
study, more than forty years ngo, that
Lydia E. Pinkhain of Lynn, Mass., dis
covered her now famous Vegetable
Compound for woman's ills, which has
proved of incalculable value to hun
dreds of thousands of American women,
Its wonderful success proves its merit,
TOO SOON FOB ALIMONY.
UNITED riUEBS LEASED WIBI.
Portliunl, Ore., Aug. 11. Seven
months' married life does not entitle a
woman to alimony, unless cxtrnonlin
jnry circumstances are shown, wns the
! ruling today of Judge Henry Mr (linn.
' He refused to grant Georgia Hichnrd
so nnn allowance lor support during
' the pendency of her suit for divorce,
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; Suffered Eczema 50 Years Now Well.
eeins a long timo to endure the aw
I ful burning, itching, smarting, skis-
diseaso known as "tetter" another
name for eczema. Seems good to realize,
lalso, that Dr. Hobson's Eczema Oint
Iment hns proven a porfect cure.
Mrs. D. L. Kenney writes writes: "1
cannot sufficiently express my thinks
jto you for your Dr. Hobson's Eczoma
Ointment. It has cured my totter,
! which has troubled me for ovor fifty
i years. All druggists, or by mail, 50c.
l'feiffcr Chemical Co., St. Louis, Mo.j
Philadelphia, Pa, J. C. Terry.
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j Ts it only in older people's imnginn
ation that tho world is becoming in
j snner year by venrf
SNAP
For this week only I will sell my
modern 5-rooin bungalow, built two
i years ago, 5 largo rooms, bath toilot,
stationary wash trays, electric light,
concrete foundation, woodshed, large
lot, near paved street, good loca
tion. Trice $1200, only tfOfl down,
balAnce on easy terms. Look at this
property and compare it with any j)2000
property in the city. See my sgents.
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shoes not being carried in the leading store, allhomt
it is very distasteful to Mr. Hanan, he is compelled in j
change his agency to keep the Hanan shoe alwavi h '
the first place in every city. You can go into a Ham
store, of which there is one in each city in the U. S,
and be sure you are getting the first quality of ever?-
thing. This recent change is a demonstration of Ikii
fact.
The Small Profit and Quick
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326 State Street Phone 616 j
Next to Ladd &1Bush Bank
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