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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1913)
BAttT CAPITAL SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, APOTJBT 28, 1913. FAOU TOVJL Pastor Russell's Sermon r-T'Tji I W n ADC BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND him was only a tentative one. If be would use It In harmony with big Cre ator's commands, he ml,'bt enjoy It forever, us Indicated In the words, "Be fruitful uul multiply uud fill the earth" with your posterity, and sub due the eurtb us ye have need of It. 4g your posterity hit-reuses, extend the bounds of Eden, until It will Include These Words Apply to Pastor rsSr. .u, Russell and Others, H8 Says. DECEIVING AND DECEIVED. I -HI ft'ASIQggl)5SaL) Ministers Hsvs Oscsivad h Psoplo Respecting the Bible Tsschings But They Were Themsslvss Dee'sived, Hsno Not Wilfully Guilty Tha Duty of ths Hour to Undcosive ths Pub lie and to Rsmovs ths Slander From God's Word and Character Courags i Necessary Othsrwise Many Will . Fall Into ths Ditch of Unbelief The Educated Are There Already, IOndon, August 10. Vaster Itus soll addressed the London Tnber nnclc congregation twice t'idny. We report one of bis discourses from the text, "If the blind lend the blind, both shall full Into the ditch.'' -Matthew 10:14. 1'he Pastor open ed his discourse with tbo words: How blind we have all been stupidly blind In respect to our Heavenly Father's words! We have believed human traditions, which we ought not to hnve believed, and left unbelleved the Bible teachings, which we ought to have believed, until the Cburcb as a whole huB become thor oughly puzzled In respect to every thing religious. I am not Judging any particular person or sect. The matter lg no general as not to need specification. All have sinned, all are out of the way of Truth, lost In the fog of super tltlon and error, guided thither, aa Bt. Paul foretold, by "doctrines of de mons." (1 Timothy 4:1.) There Is no time for faultfinding. The duty of the hour Is to get right to get back Into harmony with God, and to obtain the true light on His Word that will re store Christian fnlth. love, devotion. Illuming nobody except the Arch-De-relver, Katun, we find, as the Muster predicted, that the whole world has been made drunk by the false doc trines which Satan gradually Introduc ed during the Pnrk Ages "The Inhab itants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornica tion." (Heveliitlon 17:2.) Some were crazy drunk, to the extent of persecut ing others; some were stupidly drunk. I.Ike drunken people, we mixed up and confused the good and the bad. In one brcatb we told of the love of (Jod Ills mercy, gentleness, patience and how nil of His children must be come copies of His Divine churacter. Then In another breath we painted this God of Love as sitting down, before creating humanity, and deliberately, with fore-knowledge, arranging that thousands of millions should be horn In sin, misshapen In Iniquity: and that after a few short yours, full of trou ble, all of them with only mre excep tions, should lie turned over to fire proof demons, fo be tortured through all eternity. When a soberer thought would sug gest Unit the lire would destroy thetn, that the torture could not last more ttlian a few hours, then a drunken thought Inspired by the Devil came that Clod delighted In the torture of Ills creatures, and that all those thou sands of millions would hnve life In jected Into thetn by the Almighty Him self, the groat Fountain of Life, so ss to prevent tVm from ever ceasing to lie, ceasing to suffer so aa to perpetu ate n grent chunilier of horrors such as no human mind could Imagine. Dilute pictured the Inferno most hor ribly, that eternal torture chamber, over whose gntes were the words. "Who enters hero abandon hone." Satan's Great 8uccis. The Master styled Bntnn the father of Mi. Ills flrst greut lie misled our first purenls nud murdered them, by lending Mother Eve to disbelieve God'a Word. "In the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die." (Oen esls 2:17.1 Satan contradicted the Al mighty, saying. "Ye shall not surely die" cannot die, ye nrc Immortal, your life Is a perpetual one. Satan has since Impressed this false hood upon the whole world, and has largely succeeded In deceiving all. When In fulfilment of Cod's Word (eople die. Katun has brought In the deceptive theory that they really have become mure alive than ever. With the theory that nobody can die came the other theory-thut when they seem to die they merely go somewhere else to live. 'mils, contrary to the Scriptures, the whole world has come to believe that at the moment of death the saintly go to lleiivenjind all the remainder, more alive than ever, go either to Hell or Purgatory. The plain, common-sense statement of the Bible that nil both good and lad, old and young-go to Rhcnl. Uailes. to the tomb, Is Ignored. The nilile teaching, that the redeiii the work of Jesus assured all a rs-m-eotlon from the dead. Is made null nud void by Satan's declaration tlint tiolHsly Is dead. Immortality It Christ, The Bible does Indeed hold out for the Cbuivh the hope of Immortality; ( in the wonderful display In the heav but It l only a hope, not already a ens every night, Is more wonderfully possession, Man was not created un- shown by reason of the permission qtiallfledly Immortal. The life siren of sin. Even the Wisdom and Power a conditional one. is Indicated by the threat that disobedience would bring death-the cessation of life. Thus, when the slu had been committed, God declared, "Accursed Is the ground for thy sake. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, until thou return to the ground; for dust thou art, and unto dust abalt thou return." Genesis 8:17, 10. The whole world knew that It wns dying; and not even a suggestion of a reversal of the curse was made up to the time of Abraham. Then, for the flrst time. God declared it His purpose to blesB all the families of the earth, which Implied the rolling away of the curse. This blessing, the rolling away of the curse, was to come through Abraham's Seed. "In thee and In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." St Paul declares that this Seed is The Christ Jesus the Head, and the Church His Body. Ga latlans 3:111. 2!). But the Apostle explains that even this statement to Abraham wag more or less Indistinct: It did not bring the matter clearly forward and give posi tive assurance of everlasting life. 8t Paul declares that this was accom plished through Jesus, more than 4.000 years after the fall. He declnres that Christ brought life and Immortality to light through the Gospi-1-2 Tim. 1:10. Now we muy see that this promise of immortality, deathlossness, death-proof existence, Is a very much grander one than we ever supposed. Immortality Is a quality of life which thus fur is possessed only by Jehovah God and by His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Noth ing in the Scriptures Indicates tbnt even the angels possess death-proof bodies. On the contrary, the Bible teaches that Satan,' one of the very highest angels. Is to be destroyed. This shows us that this Immortal, death-proof quality is not possessed by the angels. Their everlasting life de pends upon the Divine covenant that, so long as they 'nre In harmony with God. He Is pleased to perpetuate their lives In a most Joyful condition. The Bible assures us that only the elect Church will ever attain the Im mortal quality peculiar ta the Father and to the Son. This promise of "glory. lucor. I. -.mortality," is made merely to t!:e saintly Church, and is to be i ;f:''ned In the First Ilesurrectlon by those found worthy. "On such the Second Death bath no power." Hev eliitlon 20.0. But our Lord Jesus not merely brought to light liumorti.lily as GoJ's gift to the Church. The Gospel of Jesus brings to light u hope tif everlasting life to the non-elect world to so many of them ns. under the light of the knowledge of the glory of God during the coming Millennial Age, will fully respond and be of those who will bow the knee and confess with the tongue the greut King, und be uplifted to nullum perfection by the arrangements of His Kingdom. For these God has the same everlasting life that He bus already given to the angelic hosts. This everlasting life of the future is usually styled immortality; for It will be n deathless life-a lire free from the Imperfections of the dying condition. But the Immortality of the Bible, which is for the Church alone, Isjgeparute and distlie t, and clt'owhere described as "the Divine nature." 2 Peter 1:4. As We Now Sober Up. This Bible presentation of the matter that God's proposition Is life or death we are beginning to see la most reasonable, most logical. Furthermore, Ills proposition Is that when His Plan will have been completed, none shall have life at nil who will not buve It In perfection. He desires not to have mental, moral and physical cripples and degenerates In His Kingdom. He will give all the fullest opportunity for recovery through the Redeemer nud the Messianic Kingdom. All who will not be obedient to the Divine arrange ment will be everlastingly destroyed, ns thorns and thistles nre destroyed, nud as uncontrollable wild beasts are destroyed. Tlils'ls the Divine Word on the subjei 1.-2 Peter 2:12; Isaiah 33:12. Thus eventually God will have a clean universe In which His Will shall be done on earth even ns now It Is doue In Iletiven. F.vontunlly every knee will biv, and no one need auy longer say. "Know thou the Lord"; for all shnll know Him. and love Him, too. Then the darkness. Ignorance, super stition, which bus blinded us will be past. Then our greut Creator will be seen to be our very best Friend, the Father of Mercies, the Gml of all Grace. Perhaps. Indeed, we shall love righteousness and appreciate our God all the more because of the previous dander of the Adversary, which for it.lliai years have misrepresented lli'.n. I'nclonbtedly the Divine Wisdom. Iutlce. Lore and Power will be more dourly seen by both angels and men 1s the result of the Divine permis sion of the reign of Sin and Death. Without this permission of sin we .vould never realize the absolute Jus ;loe of tloil In allowing our race to go lowii Into death and In rescuing us In o wonderful a manner by the send lug of Ills Son to die for us, paying the llcdcmptlon prhv of Adam's penal uy. "Dying, thou shalt die," We novel would have seen so clearly the height if Divine Wisdom, nor the depths of Divine l ove Kveu the Powcfof flod, manifested of God shown forth In the human or ganism will lie added to by reason of the permission of sin. How so, Is it asked? We reply that God's great Wisdom and Power will be manifested in the resurrection of the dead. The Church's resurrection from human na ture to the Divine nature, from weak ness to power, dishonor to glory, from an animal body to a spiritual body, will be a stuisjudous expression of Di vine Power. And the fact that the mental powers memory, character will be carried over lg beyond our com prehension. Then comes the resurrection of the world. We are not to think of the resurrection of the bodies that have fallen Into dust, as the. Bible mentions nothing of the kind,, and resurrection involves no such absurdities. But what the Bible does propose for the world, as well as for the Church, is the resurrection of the gouL of the being, of the Intelligence. The Apostle ex plains that God will give to each a body as it pleases Him. The bodies provided for the Church will be of the spirit kind. "The bodies provided for the world will be of the flesh kind. Wonderful as this In. it is not all; for the human bodies that are to be restored thus by Divine Power will be the exact coun terpart of the preseut bodies, repre senting the same memory, mind, will. Thus each will know himself, and will know the others with whom be was acquainted in the present life. How wonderful. 'bow stupendous, bow un believable, except ns we are able by fulth to grasp the fact of our own lit tleness and the Divine greatness! True, us tjic Apostle tells us, not all men have this faith not all men are able to believe what the Bible so clear ly sets forth. They stagger at the grent proposition. But their stagger ing and unbelief will not chnnge the fneta. God's Wisdom and Power will continue to operate, notwithstanding our imbecilities. Those who cannot exercise fnltb cannot belong to the Church class, culled during the present time; for with this class faith is a par amount requirement Foolish Incredulity Wits Faith. How strange It seems that nearly everybody can be credulous of non sense, while only a few comparatively, can have faith in the true realities of the Divine promises! For Instance, how few seem able to believe In the Power of God us respects a resurrec tion of the dead. On the contrary, how muny can be, credulous enough to be lieve that the dead nre not dead even when they sec thein to be dead, and their senses demonstrate that fact! Under the delusion of Satan, man kind have come to Imagine hells and purgatories, and to believe in them, although they do not have even a sus plclon or a thought as to where these places nre! What lietter proof could we have that the world for tl.ooo years has been under the malevolent Influ ence of "the Prince of the Power of the Air, who worketh In the hearts of the children of disobedience"? What bet ter proof could we have that the world has been under the Influence of mis leading spirits and "doctrines of dem ons"? thoroughly believing Sntan's fnlse statement. "Ye shall not surely die" ye are Immortal and thoroughly rejecting God's statement, "Thou shalt surely die." Immortality Is a gift of Ood, and not an Inherent quality. "The soul that slnncth It shall die"; "The wages of sin Is death" not eter nal torment Patianco and Sympathy Necsssary. If a number of drunken men hnve been In each other's company, and a few of them begin sobering up. It would behoove them to bo very sym pathetic with their companions still In a befuddled condition. This Is our at titude. Some of us arc niore or less awake. Some of us have learned what real Bible study means. Some of ns are getting the eyes of our understand ing open and are swing some of the lengths and breadths and heights and depths of the Ixive of God. which sur passes nil human understanding, nnd which we did not' before see. (Ephe slans 3:10.) The graces of sympathy nnd patience tire called for under such conditions. Those that have the Truth, that see the Truth, should not only be models of salntilness. holiness, hut also models of kindness, gentleness nnd pa tience In dealing with the brethren. God Is merely biding Ills time, let ting Ills will nnd Word nnd churacter be misunderstood by some nnd mis represented by others, letting men have an experience with doing their own wills nnd trying their own plans and theories, that thus the lesson of sin nnd Its tendencies and results mny bo clenrly seen nnd appreciated both by nnpels nnd by men. Then the I,ord will arise, nnd through His Anointed Son will display His Power and make known Ills will. He will lay righteous ness to the line and Justice to the plum met, and will sweep away every refuge of lies. Ills will shall then be done on eunh. even as It Is, done In Heaven.. Thus we see the fallacy of the clr-cle-rcusouliig of those who would Judge the Lord merely by their own werk it"ssc. :'e not by Ills Word. How grand Is the vlewj presented In the Scriptures! Mo'V wonderful the Divine Clinracter, as presented In the Divine Plan of human salvation! All men nre to be rescued from the Adumle death penalty. All nre to have a full opiKiitunlty of knowing about the Snvlor-the Ufe -giver and of no ccptlng llhi. Then whoever wllllngl rejects the grace of God. nnd prefers sin to righteousness, will he esteemed a wicked sinner, unworthy of everlie-t lug life. Such, the Bible says, will die the Second Death. From tills there will be no redemption; for "Christ dletli no more." Hence from It ther" will be no resurrection. But the horri ble, doctrine of eternal torment Is not Biblical. It Is a pnrt of the "doctrines of deinons."-l Timothy 4:1. Today and Tomorrow The Trail of Meel 2-reel Bison cea.ture United -at Gettysburg Imp Drama. Taken on the famous batlefield. Elks at Convention Would beDetective Gem Comedy Miss Ina Owen In Popular Songs GLOBE The House of Refine ment. Always the Pipe Organ 10c 10c IVA I I lw J-L-l' 11 " ; 1 T -"J fct) I ; ' .1' i flkf' --' - .-,.:.'"! -,;-. V rf .:, -Hfvj.n. tJ.iejJ-ilufi-c.i..i..,i .. M1 IS HEAVY AT CLOSE County Clork Gehlhar toctay is a busy man. So are his clerks very busy men and women. The reason therefor is that there is a big rush at the last moment to secure the necessary franchise to take part in the next special election in !?lem which takes place September 10, The clerk 's office is being besieged to day by both men and women voters. The registration book9 will close at 5 o'clock this evening and those who are not registered on the 1912-1913 books who fail to put in an appearance at the closing hour tonight cannot vote September 10. By the way applicants for registra tion are flocking to the court house to day the connjy clerk believes that the thousand new registration mark made since June 3, will be boosted considera bly before, the books close. IS WOUNDED IN Hi A cutting scrapo took place in Mt. Angel last Saturday night, which, for a time, promised to be fatal to Alike Freising, of that city. According to the story told to Deputy Sheriff Need ham this morning by a farmer who re sides near Mt. Angel, a man by the name of William Tarrel attacked Freising with a knife, and succeeded in inflicting a painful wound in the former's forearm bofore the quarrel could be settled. Frantic efforts to advise Sheriff Esch of the trouble were mndo, follow ing the cutting, but up to the present time no arrests have been made, for the reason no one Bccnis willing to swear jat a complaint against Varrcl, and the sheriff, therefore, has no au thority to take the man in charge. Just what the row started over cannot be ascertained by tho -sheriff, notwith standing that several excited Mt An gel citizens have been calling him up over the phone and attempting to ex plain tho trouble. We are told that one good tern de seifves another, hut when one good turn actually begets another perpetual motion will be an established fact. Al so tho millennium. Ananias may have been the champ ion liar at one time, but later his riv als began to .write tombstone inscriptions. 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Situated where the ocean, mountain and forest come together, where a cane rt. 1 . to the ocean over a mile, wi h Boulevards Water System Postoffice Streets Electric Lights General Stores Sidewalks Telephones Daily Mail Auto service to and from Newport, surf bathing, excellent beach, protected from N04 west winds, boarding houses and a 62-room modern hotel, all to be found at the Caps, 1 ' General agents t . . , , Local Agenti- KNAPP & MACKEY Agenl " GroUnd E. HOFER Ri . w"i 213 Board of Trade Bldg Portland, Ore. AGATE BEACH 211 Masonic Temple, Salem, Ore. Hojv the Guerrillas Destroyed Railroads In Fighting Huerta v f A 1 d 1 I S(f II 1 s II I ' ' '' m ili.ni l-.ii,y , Photos by American Press Assoclatloa LIFE Is Just one revolution after another down In Meilco. Hardly does a president get the mall carriers accustomed to his change of address when trouble breaks out In bla back yard and he wonders how soon he must abdicate or be shot. President Uuerta began to experience trou ble before the slain Uadcro wns burled, and as time went on the troubles In creased. Bands of guerrillas, rebels, revolutionists or whatever you choose to call them, appeared lu many sections. They attacked towns und then to pre vent pursuit destroyed railroads. Vot months traffic through the northern see Hon of Mexico has been uncertuln. nd such scenes as that shown in the pietura were common. Included In te cut la a recent plcjure of President Uueru. RIKGLINGS' SHOW GREAT s FROM EVERT STAMPS: , " i Singling Bros', cireu. huin,.! gone, leaving behind it a pleuiat c ory for all who saw It. It , .'. in that it gave more than it proc. but those who saw it will at this, for it could not hi.. The trapezo work was the list 1 i seen anywhere for then) could It i better. The tumbling, espwUllj of the team om throe girli m :h lation in that line and the :tmtj . who help up sixteen men ind 1 1 ; dead weight that in all mijkeiij pounds, did it so easily tint hup! ently might hold up a tain ill h lonesome. The tight wire work wumii ' but was outclassed hy the iImV performer who, without 1 to.' swung and cavorted on thtavf wire and did stunt! that would k' the average nifin to do on a bin:; '; The riding was good, and pltt; ! spite of the fact that this at j main feature of , all circnees ii m 1 obsolete. f j The clowns did Homo clever ll nnd kept the big crowd liugliif r. it had time to tako IU era if ',' main features, which wail kill ilj to do, for there was lomothiiirdii:: '; tho time that kept one-buiy ni'i i anil then one miiwd half ei no? what wns going on, The grand spwtaonlar oprsiif k something new in the eimu li : : was by far the greatest foitm;.' great show. 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