PAGE SIX DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, 1ALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1913. Pastor Russell's Sermon MORS OF DEATH BED REPENTANCE Sins of a lifetime Cannot Be Solfen Rid of by a Prayer. A MISUNDERSTOOD TEXT. It Has Enoouraged Sinnera to Con tinue In Sin It la Folly to Think That the Murdered 8!nner Qoee to . Etarna) Torment, While tha Murder c. Because of a Death-Bed Prayer, la Called to Heavenly Qlory A Mla placed Comma Led to the Error In Conjunction With Other Errora. Brooklyn. TJ. Y.. J nnlior 1 Van. tor Russell deliv ered an address liere today, taking (or Ills text Jesus' words to the dy ing thief, "Verily I say unto thee this ilur. thou : aj A- i j shnlt be with Me In Paradise. (Luke 23:13.) He LlM'6!L?M5Effl)- declared that few of the Master's words linl been so misunderstood lis has this text, und that few had pro duced so terrible a f rultiige of sin. Absurdity of the Proposition. The Influence of the text, the Pastor declared, Is greatly Increased by the cnscripturnl thought that the dying sinner passes Into everlasting torture. Those under the spell of that false doc trine ennnot be reproved for wishing to eaeajio fmm Its terrifying Influence. As the drowning man grasps at a trim, so those whose hopes for their dead nre being held up by this error, Krnsp nt the nnrratlvo of the thief, and twpe that their departed experienced a momentary repentance said "Jesus, forgive me" nnd Ntrnluhtwny wns car ried tr 1'nrndlse. The absurdity of tho proprmltlon Is crowded out by the niln Kllng of the hope with their love for the ilerpnsed. Well do I remember conducting a funnrii nervlee which was Interrupted by the walls of the widow. The hus band had been shot by an assassin's bullet In a distant mining region. Tie bail died not being u member of a church, nnd by no means a saint. The poor widow's walls, I afterward lenrn m1, were caused by the thought that, not having had a moment's warning, the murdered man had failed to say, V,od forgive me," nnd thus to gain Famdlse. Who I'nn blame the poor woman for the absurdity of her reasoning? Had he not been taught so to think by all the grrnt creeds of Christendom? Had not her husband and herself been tak ing thnt very vhnnce of having a mo ment for repentance before expiring? It la a slinino that this wrong thought ban been so long allowed to keep pon tile bnck from making their peace with Jnd In rnrller life. Repentance Always Proper, of Course. Ijtt me not bo misunderstood. I would not discourage a death bed re Iimtnnce, or any other. 1 would, how ewer, have nil to recognize that there are flxiil rules of Divine Justice which forbid us to think that there Is n hell full tit nufortunales who died sudden ly, with no opportunity for repentance; that there is a Heaven full of lucky murderers, thieves and vagabonds, Mho were canted to glory without liny rwvl fhnngo of heart, or character, but merely as a reward for momentary tirajrr. "Whatsoever a man soweth, that ulinll he also reap." Whoever ow ft life of sin and self-indulgence will lint reap glory, honor and Immor tality, but n more depraved disposition Ihnn that with which he was born. J The Dyino Thief'e Prayer. "The supposition that the dying thief asked to go to Heaven wllh Jesus as II reword for n few kindly winds Is II mistake. The supposition that Jesus miiibcd that he would go to Heaven that Hiune day Is also a mistake. Jesus did nut go to Heaven that day. In ktomi, He went to the lllble hell -IlniVs, Kheol, the tomb, lie remained xlrnil, St. Peter tells us, until the third tiny, uhen Coil raised II I in from the lead JLy Divine Power. It was after Ilia resurrection on the third day that He appeared to Mary and said, "1 buve not yet iiseondcd to My Father mnl your rather, to My Coil and your rflml." - .lolin 2l:IT. The Itlble tells that Paradise win lent through Adam's sin, six thousand yeorn ago; (hut It Is to be restored as n reniiU of Jesus' death; anil the time it Ms restoration will be during the thousand years of Messiah's Kingdom. Mm there was no Paradise when Je mns died, Ho could not have meant that tit thief would be there with Him that. day. The claim made by Jesus wrm Unit lit was to bo a King. The fhiVwe. had heard Pilate's question, "Art Thou a King, then?" They had board Jmiis' reply, that to this end wits Tie Iwrn. Hut He added, "My King xlom Is n. or this Age." Tbe Iblof "-might the thought that the irrnnd, kingly character beside him skom robably the Messiah, the King f lriii'). ilow to explain the elr trtorjManifS of that dark hour he knew not, but he defended Jesus. Tfttej wUfe measure of hope he said, rji nrtien Thou eouiest Into Thy fflndoin, renieililMir me." In other I win, I believe that you nr a King, eo4 that somehow you will yet have a Kingdom. I have aufflclent faith to ask you to grant a poor thief a bless ing when you reach that Kingdom. Misplacement of Comma by Transla tors. Jesus' reply should be carefully stud led. In substance It was, Poor thief, I appreciate your words; and when My Kingdom shall be established, I will remember your kindness and will re ward It. Notwithstanding this dark day with Its unfavorable Betting, I am really a King, and these experiences are necessary for Me, that I may enter Into My Kingdom. Thus Jesus said, Be it as you have asked I will re member you when I come Into posses sion of My Kingdom. "Verily I say unto you this day, thou shalt be with Me In Paradise." The difficulty has been with the wrong thought of the translators, and the misplacement of the comma. Punctuation Is a modern convenience In nil languages. There Is none In the original Scriptures. The translators put the comma where they thought It should be, but evidently they made a great mistake. It would be thoroughly Inconsistent to say that Jesus went to Paradise, when He had not yet ascend ed to tho Father, and when the prom ised Paradise Is to be established in tho earth after the Second Coming of Christ, as a result of His Millennial Reign. Revelntlon 21:4-5. Placing the comma where we have dono leaves the passage thoroughly In accord with nil the lllble. That pas sage, properly understood, leaves not a shadow of Scriptural support to the thought that a prayer n moment before death would change the everlasting destiny of anybody. Both Thieves In Bible Hell. Let us get back to the lllble. Let us get rid of the foolishness of the creeds. I.et us remember that n dead man Is dead, as the lllble declares. "Ills sons come to honor, and ho knoweth It not; they come to dishonor, but ho per- celveth It not of them." "There Is nei ther device nor knowledge nor wisdom In Shcol Hades, tho tomb, whither thou goost" whither all go. P.ut nothing In tho lllble suggests that man dies In the sumo sense as the brute. Thorn Ih no hope for a future llfo for the brute, but Cod's Word stands pledged for a future life for Im munity. "There shall be a resurrection of the dend, both of the just and of the unjust." "All that are In their graves slinll bear the voice of the Son of Man and coma forth." The lllble tells Unit unless Christ had redeinied the life of mankind by tho sacrlllce of Ills own life, there would havo been no resurrection of the dead. Hut from the foundation of tho world God purposed a resurrection; and that Jesus should eventually bo the 1 ,ti i) il of Cod, to take away the slu of tho world. "As by a man (Adam came death, by a man Jcsus comes the resurrection of the dead; for as rill In Adam die, even so all In Christ snail be made alive" "every man In his own order."-! Corinthians l.v:M-2:i. Jesus Himself, we rend, was the first to rise from the dead - to be fully re leased from the power of death. Laz arus, Jnlrns' daughter, etc., were not resurrected In full, but merely awak ened temporarily. They fell asleep In death again, mid will have In their own due time the IMvlnelv appointed opportunity for a resurrection. According to the lllble, the? Church will lie the iioxt In order, and will havo a resurrection to spirit nature, similar to that of Jesus; hence tho Apostle's desire to share In Christ's resurrection by having n share In Ills saorlhVlal death. "For If we be dead wllh Him, we shall nlso live with Hlni."-2 Timothy 2:11. Next after the Church will come the resurrection of (he Ancient Worthies, of whom John the ltnpllst was the last. Their resurrection was referred to by St. Paul In Hebrews 11, where ho declares thnt "find has reserved some better thing for us tin Churchl, that they without us should not be made perfect." Each In Hia Own Order. St. Paul declares that In the resur rection every man will come forth In his own order, or band, or company. When the due time shall come for the awakening of the generation which criicHlcd Jesus, quite probably both the thieves will come forth from death at or about the same time, ltoth thieve will receive the blessing purchased for them by the ltedeenicr's death- to bo brought to a knowledge of the Truth, to be helped up nut of Ignorance, su perstition, blindness by rewards, stripes, punishments If they will, to liilitiiiu perfection, lost In Adam, re deemed by Jesus. Hut there will be a difference be tween the conditions of the two thieves, ltoth will bo In Paradise; for the whole eaiili Is to be a Paradise. The hardened thief may have had a less favorable birth, or a less favor able environment In life. Only the Lord, the great .Indue, Is able to know bow miii b cviiso should be made for him and how much penally should nt t in ti to him. The penitent thief will be much more favorably condilioued, not merely be cause he spoke some kindly words to the Master In Ills hour of tribulation, but especially because those words In dicate that his heart was In II more Just and tender londltlon. Addition ally we are to remember that the Lord has especially promised that every good deed done to Himself, or any of Ills followers, shall receive a special reward. Auy su.ii sympathy or kind ness would Imply a condition of heart not far from the Kingdom; hence the promise of H apodal blessing for Much good doede bespeaks IMvIm recogni tion of principle nnd character, "There' a WMeneee In Qod'a Meroy, Like tha Widenea of tha Sea." It seems dlthVult to many to think of God's having a provision for the majority of our race In the future. Somehow tho Impression baa gone abroad that everlasting destinies are fixed at death. The only text ever quoted In support of this thought Is a statement that "where a tree falleth there shall It He." (Eccleslastes 11.3.) Sure enough, the fallen tree cannot ralso Itself. And sure enough man, fallen Into death, Is equally powerless. There he would be forever were It not for the Divine arrangement for his awakening by the Lord Jesus Christ. Many of us have been too free to be lieve that the penalty for sin may be entirely escaped by a simple word of prayer, nnd yet reversely have believed that there could be no forgiveness of sins after death. The only explana tion of this persistent thought In the minds of the masses Is that they were taught that destinies were fixed at death by the taking of the dying one over to a fiery Hell, or to a blazing Purgatory, or to a blissful Heaven. After all, In confusion did we not once say that everybody, for a time at least, would be brought out of Heaven, Purgatory and Hell to attend a Judg ment scene quite contrary to reason and the Itlble a Judgment to deter mine whether any mistake had been made In regard to who had Heaven, who had Hell and who had Purgatory? Ilow foolish we have been how Btu pld, how Inconsistent, how nnscrlp tural! "Every Knee Shall Bow." Now we see that the dead are sim ply Bleeping until the Morning, when nil the sleepers will be awakened by Him who died for nil. Now we see that no changes take place In the moral status of the dead, nor In the Divine standards. Ho who forgave us our sins when wo confessed them nnd for sook them Is "tho sumo yesterday, to day and forever," nnd will be Just as ready to forglvo the world of man kind, when In due time Ho shall send them light nnd they shnll believe nnd repent. Surely thero Is no more reason why n sinner could not be forgiven In the future than thnt a sinner could not bo forgiven In the present. When sinners nre forgiven now, It does not mean thnt they obtain full release from some proper penalty for their sins sickness, Borrow, pain. Nor will the forgiveness of sins In the future Age mean that no stripes will be put upon the trans gressors. Jesus distinctly tells us re specting thnt future Age thnt then those who have sinned against knowl edge, light, will be punished with many stripes, while those who have sinned with less light will be punished with fewer ntiipcs.-I.iiko 12:47, -IS. Take for example the son of the wid ow of Naln, or others of those awak ened by our Lord. Wo know little re specting their relationship to (!od. This widow's son may have been a good man or a wicked niau; but the fact that he had been awakened from the sleep of death by the Muster would certainly work no Injury to him nfter ward In tho matter of forgiving sins for which he might repent. (bill's entire object In providing the Kingdom of Messiah and In restrain ing Satan and causing the knowledge of (bid's glory to till the earth Is to give mankind u better opportunity than is now generally enjoyed for re pentance unci reconciliation with Him. self. Now, only the favored few can see, can hear, can understand. Then, nil, from the least to the greatest, shall be brought to a knowledge of tho Lord mid Ills goodness, ami unto Him eventually "every knee shall bow nnd every tmiguo confess." Judgment For a Thouaand Yeara. Now we see by the light of the Itlble that good and bad, civilized and heath en, all go, at death, to the lllble hell to Slieol, Hades, the tomb. Now we see that all are walling for the glorious Morning, to be ushered In by tho Sec ond Coining of Jesus. Now wo Bee that only the few have yet bnd the light nnd blessing which determines their everlasting destiny; that the over comers of this (Jospel Age will I e as sociated with Jesus as spirit beings In the Kingdom, w hile the ovorcoinnrs of previous times will be associated with the same Kingdom as Its earthly representatives. In their cases only will the Divine judgment have lieen settled. The remainder of mankind, dying In more or less Ignorance of Cod and Ills terms of acceptance of sinners, are to have t heir Judgment, or trial, during the thousand yea in of Messiah's King dom. The willing nnd obedient shall be blessed and enter Into life eternal. The dlsoliedlent, vviimi sinner will die the Second Death. More Tolerable For Sodomitei. Jesus, In speaking of that coming Judgment Day of the world, declared that the Sodomites will be there, its well as the people to whom He preach ed. And significantly He stated that It would be more tolerable for Sodom and Comorriih In the Day of Judgment than for Chorar.ln, Itethsnldn and Ca pernaum; for If the Sodomites had been privileged to enjoy the preaching of Jesus they would have repented In sackcloth and ashes. I'roni tho Master's words wo thus perceive how serious might be our mlsjuilgnients of the hearts of men. The pisiplo of Hothsalda, Chorar.ln nnd Capernaum were regular attendants of the synagogues -decent people, hav. lug n form of godliness, but knowing little or nothing of Its power. They will have an opportunity also during the thousand-year Judgment Day of Messiah's Kingdom. If they will, they may then learn tho leeson necessary and eventually attain everlasting life. Rut because of their grantor privileges, the blessings they will enjoy In the fu ture will he correspondingly curtailed; and It will b mora tolerable for Bottom than for tbetu. IV'. '-VsV 1 '.- H K 'vt. r Mrs. Eate B. Vaughn in Domestic Sci ence Uniform. The Capital Journal Froe Cooking school, main auditorium of tho armory, doors open 1 p. m. Lecture 2:30 p. in. Mrs. Kate B. Vaughn, domestic science lecture-demonstrator.. Program for Monday Afternoon. Subjoct Scientific Housekeeping. The following menu will be preared. Lamb Chops Potato Nests, Peas. Baking Towdcr Biscuit. White Cake, Marslimallovv Pudding. Tuesday. Subject Food anil Its Functions. Demonstration Cecils, Tomato Sauce. Chrysanthemum Salad, Boiled Dressing, Sodu and Buttermilk Biscuit, Golden Cake, (ioldeu Icing. Firoleds Cooker Day Wednesday. Subject Diet and Digestion. Demonstration Baked Chicken, Cabbage Bonno Feinme Dixie Biscuit. Devil's Food Cake, Mocha Icing, Angel Parfiiit, Thursday. Subject Economy, Attention to Left Overs. h - 7 KA "''r' ''l'"raa'.,wmwTajyM)a- -fj f Recipe Department I I By BETSY TTTTT'TlTTITITIIITTf TTTTTTT'T -M-4-Mr4-4- "Betsy Wade" would appreciate it if the ladies of Salem would send in tested recipes for this department. t Carniel Custard. 1 cup giniiulated sugar. 1 pint milk. 'u cup butter. 2 tublespnoiifuls corn starch. I '.j t I'luspoon t'n In innpleine. Put milk in double boiler and thicken with the corn starch dissolved in a lit- tie water. Put sugar mid butter in a saucepan, Nt i r until sugar is melted, then gradually stir them together and add the nmpleine. Strain if necessary, do! and serve with innpleine whipped cream. Fried Parsnips. Scrub the parsnips and cook in kettle of water until tender. When cooled scrape off skin, cat into slices and season with salt and pepcr. Fry in n little butter, or hull' butter and halt' liutterine. Creamed Lima Beans. One pint uf fresh limn beans, water enough to rook without burning, one teuspoonfiil of sugar, one tablespoonfiil j Six small tomatoes, two tablespoon of flour, one tiiblespuonl'iil of butter, fills of butter, one half cupful of milk, one cupful of rich milk, salt and pepper mlt and pepper to taste, one teaspoon to tnste. 1 fnl of flour. Wush the beans nnd add sugar, then' cover with water and simmer until ten- ter, l uless thev lire very fresh and FOSTER AND BAKER h TEA TEA TEA ij We have just received nn import order of Japan nnd China new crop T; teas, purchased for us by representatives of the largest tea importers in this country, 4. BASKET FIRED, 8TIDER LEG, JAPAN. t PAN FIRED. NATURAL LEAF. JAPAN. X CONOON OR ENGLISH BREAKFAST J CEYLON, GUNPOWDER,, ETC. All first picking, new crop teas. Try them. CONCORD GRAPES, 25c Per Banket TEACHES, 85o Crate, 11.50 Pot Box SWEET POTATOES, 10 Pounds for 2.rc. X 339 North Commercial. Street Phone 259 X r4-4-4-4"444t J l;;':i' Here is what Marion Harland said in 1906 about 1 1 vm-ysr in1 i i1 InlS!!!!!!? "Many Vi".r ,'i!. "I: IP m 1 m i'l. 1 Cottolene makes biscuits that are tender when they are cold that is a We test of a good shortening. Try it yourself. Make the biscuits like this: Won't you followtheexample of famous cooks and make Cottolene THE fat for all your cooking ? Order a pail from your grocer; also send to us for the valuable FREE Cook Book, HOME HELPS. Demonstration Chicken a la King, Timbale Molds, Bread Cases, Cucumber Aspic, Beaten Biscuit. Mikado Cake. Friday. Subject Pastry, Flour and Fats. Demonstration Fish Puddiug. Potato Balls, Cream Sauce, Pastries Flake ami Plain Tastry, Chess Cakes. MASONIC MEETING ENDS. UNITED press leased WIHE. New York, Oct. 24. Ceremonies and administration of degrees in commem WADE. young count on 40 minutes. See that the water does not boil off entirely. When tender rub tho butter and flour smooth, adding the milk gradually. Pour this over the beans and stir so as to keep from burning. Season to taste with salt nnd peper nnd as soon as milk is thickened, take trom stove n nil serve. Eggloss Apple Cauce Cake. Cream two tablespoons butter with one cup of sugar and add 1 Vj enps un sweetened apple sauce, two level ten- spoons soda, two level teaspoons ciuna- l moil, one cup raisins, ono cup nuts and two cups flour. Corn Cake for Afternoon Tea. Into a piece of bread or biscuit dough the size of an orange, knead and roll one cupful of granulated yellow iiieul, a taldcspoonfnl of sugnr, and n little salt, lvoll very thin, and bake oa tin sheets until very well dene Cut ill strips. - Creolo Tomatoes. Scald and skin the tomatoes, cut into slices and cook in the butter until ten der, then sprinkle the flour over. Seas- 4 years aero. I discontinued the and substituted for it, as an experiment, paratively a new product. Since my first trial of it I can truly say that it has given complete satisfactioa I honestly believe it to be the very best thing of its kind ever offered to the American housekeeper." MARION HARLAND. . BAKING POWDER BISCUITS 2 cup flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 table spoons Cottolene, 3-4 cup milk. Sift flour, salt and baking powder together; rub in Cottolenemix lightly and quickly; mixture should not be dry; roll out on board, cut into small biscuits, bake ten to fifteen minutes in hot oven. To make biscuits richer, mix with cream. Whole wheat, graham or rye biscuit may be made in the same way. Edith L. Clift. prTiTiXFAlRRANKcQMPANYl CHICAGO oration of the centennial re-union of the organization of the Supremo Council Ancient nnd Accepted Scottish Kite for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, U. S. A., closed today. High degree Ma sons from many sections of tho country attended the celebration. The organi zation was effected August 15, 1813. UNITED STATES LEADS. UNITED PRESS LEASED WISE. Paris, Oct. 24. The United States has taken the lead over Fuance in the automobile trade between tho two coun tries, according to statistics officially given out today. Leading dealers fear that the lead is a permanent one. Dtir- ing tho first six months of this year France sent $147,809 worth of autos !on and cover a few minutes to thicken. iAiTd the milk and when of a creamy I consistency spread on nicely toasted slices of bread. Sprinkle with chopped i- parsley or decorate with a strip of green pepper when Kecordi Herald. serving. Chicago Swedish Cake. -Four eggs, one cup sugar, ono level teaspoon baking powder, large half cup potato flour; flavor with vanilla. Sepa rate the eggs, heat whites stiff, add half cup Bugar, beat whites stiff, add Beat yolks, ond add half a cup Bugar and beat three minutes with a good beater. Mix together and add the po tato flour. Bake in thin tins in a mod erate oven. Fill wi!i whipped erenin nnd chopped nuts. Racine Journal. Sweet Potatoes. Butter a baking dish well; cut sweet potatoes into slices or cubes and put them into the dish in layers, sprinkled slightly with brown sugar, and alter nated with layers of sliced apples. When the dish is full, put buttor, pepper and salt on top, add enough water to keep the contents from burning. Bake in a moderate oven. Cannelon of Beef. Mix one and ono hnlf pounds of beef from tho round, that has been put through the meat-chopper, one half cup ful of bread criims soaked in two table spoonfuls of milk, two tenspoonfuls of poultry seasoning, salt and popper to taste, nnd one egg slightly beaten. Make the mass into a roll, and bnke in a hut oven, in a dry pan. Baste with ono cupful of hot water into which you have put a piece of butter! Entire Wheat Fingers, Mix one half pint of boiling milk, n saltspoonl'ul of salt, one half cupful of clinppod blanched walnuts, one table spoonful of chopped mixed candied peels and a piece of butter hnlf the size of a hen 's egg. Stir in as much whole whent flour ns the milk will take up, and keep stirring till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. Put the mixture on a floured bread board and roll It out a pinrter of nn inch thick. Let it stand until cold, cat the dough Into fingers, I A SURPRISE I Is in store for you or anyone using x Gould's Surprise Stove Polish I 11 c,en tove so easily prevents rust, adds to the X t wrnB qualities, easily applied, does not injure the t material, nor tht hands, a child can apply it and it can be found at all grocfrs. j C. W. EPPLEY I I Distributor X ""'WHiMtuHtuimiHwimHmt use of lard in my kitchen Cottolene, then com to the United States and the United States shipped to Franco '$331,200 ' worth. During 11)12 France exported to the United States $375,738 worth of cars, importing in tho saino ships only $2Si5,200 worth. Thus for tho six months ending with June the United States led France by about $185,000, while the entire year of 1912 Franco led tho United States by about $90,000. TO PROBE CHARGES UNITED MESS LIMBED WIHB. Boston, Oct. 24. As a result of the charge of cruelty in the Worcester in sano asylum, Governor Foss said today 'ho would order an investigation of each 'hospital for the insane in tho state. Raises the Dough Better ALL GROCERS COFFEE Ticklo us with an order, we'll tickle you with the result. REASONER'S PHONE B83. roll them in crackor criims, fry in hot butter, sift powdered sugnr and cinna mon over them, and send them to the tahlo very hot. Marslimallow Gingerbread. Cream one half cupful of sugar with ono hnlf cupful of butter. Add ono half cupful of niolasscs and one half cupful of hot water in which there is ono toa- spoonftil of soda. Bent the mixture thoroughly, and add one beaten egg and one half teuspoonfiil of ginger. Con tinue stirring, and add ono nnd ono half eupfuls of flour. Bake in a shallow pan The gingerbrend should not bo over ono inch thick, Remove it from the pnn and cut it across the center. Put ono half back Into the pan nnd cover with miirslimallovvs. Return it to tho oven nnd leave it until the iiiarsliinnllows puff up and becomes soft. Remove and cover with the other half of the ginger bread. Press down. Serve wnrm. Youth 's Companion. p ip-'S""f;reii !TsMaaesajB"BBsj Sup!,