AGE 2. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLE FONTE, PA. JUNE 17, 1909. PASTOR RUSSELL Who Weekly Preaches to the Largest Congrega- tion on Earth. Newspapers Carry His “People’s Pulpit” Sermons to Some Five Million Persons. a SIAN he of TH ont, mu Ing contr appet | Reac] ¥ i’ tor Millions Husasell that | Bible figura colored spectacies. Then came the conviction of how the various creeds contradicted each other on ‘very Important points, Sermons “that It first had all along in the tively occurred to heen light of sectarian usi Ie ie studying the reads, my grandfather's and | sald to myself, ‘You should have | to the word of God, for | “Sanctify them through | gone directly Jesus prayed thy truth. Thy word Is truth’ It was there that my real Seripture studies began, and they are not yet ended and, | trust, will not be until my dying breath, for 1 find the Bible more and more a rich mine of precious truths bearing vitally not enly upon the life to come, but also upon the present life, teaching one how to live his best as well as how to prepare for death and for the eternal life promised in the Beriptures to whomsoever will accept It upon divine terms.” ‘We put the matter very mildly when we state that Pastor Russell preaches | weekly to the largest congregation on earth. newspapers reach not less than five miillous weekly, His Scripture studies reach other millions, Pastor Russell Is a magazine contrib utor, besides the editor of the Wateh Tower and widely known as a public speaker, both In Europe and America. Pastor Russell began to come promi nently before the public in 1877 in with Bible lectures livered In various cities of New Eng land and particularly in the vicinity of Boston, although he had been | or several y« I lectures usual Une ve connection de this These six or seven was del i BOTies ered church Lynn, church at Bey as the where | are n are n mand Pastor Hussell Is well known abroad Britain He audiences at Belfast, London, Dublin, Manchester, , as well as on the con last he spoke In Glas were turned away, un idmittance to the largest seating 4.5400 po J has ldressed i Liverpool, ete tinent,. When gow fully able to gain auditorium Great arge an Tours Planned. eX Ped t8 to r leave for He appoint odon, Liverpool, Edinburgh and two In Norway, three In Ger will again Ta berna« e Pastor Russell Europe 14 made aay O has for lo Glasgow, ments Manchester, two stops in Sweden, one in Denmark and many On is return he be heard at the Brookiyn but in than a month thereafter he will another westward tour Engagements have already been made for Washington; Pledmont, Ala: At lanta, Ga.; Memphis, Tenn.; New Or leans; Hl Tex.; San Antonio Tex.; los Angeles, Cal.; San Fran cisco; Portland, Ore.: Seattle, Wash Spokane, Wash; Butte, Mont; Den ver; St. Joseph, Mo.; Aberdeen 8. D ete This Fastor Russell's fourth ‘trig he Is as the Atlanti paper " Pastor Ru his ONS start on Miston, ast. where ded we b end of his est he in hi E al never he Ive year 1908 tray is fifty Ne fing Transitory nd even city of God there n God there it In Cod MEL the re ont In there tends to death for God there uture is the w future It t he » riflces ¢ hu herefore t In that he Ww Therefore It Is rief. Oh deep Is the plow ing of en rt mke! Oh, deep Is the plow. ing of grief! But oftentis not suffice for the agriculture of God Upon a night of earthquake he bullds a thousand years of pleasant hablita tions for man, Upon the sorrow of an Infant he ralses oftentimes from human Inteliects glorious vintages that could not else have been. Less than these fierce plowshares would not have stirred the stubborn soll, needed for earth, our planet—for earth itself as the dwelling place of man but the other Is needed yet oftener for God's mightiest Instrument-yes, Is needed for the mysterious children of the earth! De Quineey. in mn present, rks by that he earthqun works b nes less would “Booteh 1 She Is Spoke.” MeTartan-This'll pe ta pest whusky her's tasted for evermore. Wee Me Turk-An' so wull her neither. The Parman—An' neither wull her too. IMustrated Bits, His sermons published In the | Additionally | The one Is | very constitution; years of experience In slavery to sin | O 4 e) Sermon by CHARLES T. RUSSELL, Pastor Brooklyn | abe mac le. Dh ee a TO rrilzes ny part of had civiliza Liberty » ven it had he barons ruled and 1] Enorant., re Liberty and equeity were almost unrecog Rg masses, comparatively joleed to submit, and manhood nized As LJ nerged from a stalwart youth, its Influence and ex ample shook Europe and threatened te overthrow it with Revolution France And mnsels prevalled, iberty Its cradle as 0 complished in finally better cf tocracy reall that numbered, unless made to the II yielded with sult that no longer despotie, mentary; have A Ye voice In their own govern The blessings of iit ropeans probably ferent ns a ry go. and how gradually the change has come The most tions of Europe cently granted and en yet It Is un Nowhere Is the recognize aris red its days were concessions were berties of the people It good grace, with the monarchies of the re Europe are but limited, parlia people te and the ment writy eam that few today recognize how were the e to Eun of them very 4ir cent so slowly condit} about advanced only quite the Hmitat) of manho land All the % have suffrage to pe en der standard this of rms J AY) fa of r tur | ! Mysterious Wavs y In t but the at rt intitype Me and Hebrew nation. | the hand of Moses of Moses, “Christ Hght Lat broug tn through ige. Of our Lord It is the true lig tan that cometh Our assertion is weit ten, “lle Huht eth every into the world." therefore, Ia that whatever blessing there Is In the Hght which shines from Liberty's torch is the light of the Gospel Notice the Innguage of our text, “The liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free” Of course man. originally made In the Divine Hkeness, must have had the love of liberty In his but thousands of ht whi h and death have considerably crushed out the proper conception of liberty | It Is to these sinners | godlike liberty, or perverts from the Divine likeness that the Lord Jesus offers the true lib erty. Note the effect that this Gospel message bad upon the early Church. It made them a “peculiar people” It broke from them the shackles of sy persiition whieh firmly held thelr fel. low men. It gave them higher, broad O00 000 PEOPLE'S PULPIT... Liberty! Liberty?! Libertyll] Text, “Stand fast, ther fore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made free, and be no led with the yoke of al "(Gal v, 1). Pastor Russell's Discourse i apema C [ofa] To Tr— EE \ entar again hans the nanx Ign of slavery be restrained ties, In order that they preciate thelr political School of Christ and power bel by right merely to “The sanctified In fully Christ But others, their rela ds mnce at I Superstit whereby the people would of their religions liber might not liberties ap The its enlightening vi tv hy consecrated, Jesus." ghbors and irtook of the spl frier arge liberty of conse in rit of the spirit of t} ms, It may uid be anarchy kings and emperors y have Christ to the nding and re straining Nevertheless nothing 1} foresee S| pting e result Is spirit un condi} easily Hence princes were the ministers of ir ald In the people as occurred that God did not and that overrule eventually for the advantage the blessing ¢ f such as are truly Lifting the Veil, Evolutionists tell that and attendant blessings of our day are because of Evolution; but they do not explain why or how Evolution should so suddenly 1ift the vell of Ig norance and superstition the race; why It bring to thre he Is not ahle to his us the liberty from should so suddenly ose of the at stroke of ; wur the Gospel e of the Jex and resurrection of ] ] nt triarchal the proper Age be Age, at Jesus g of the dawning of the time, kan the And now the Millennial Age and the close Gospel Age--~comlt \ctly on all the event wish death CWise ted and rightly nderstood show that our great Create rking all cord ing to the counsel of his own will and that the rid's present experiences are wholly of Divine prear: Looking from this standpoint, tice that in Diy was hidden from the world until God's due time for its discovery It was opened for settlement at a tine when religious persecution was rife In Eun things a gement we no ne providence America to think for himself no liberty to wor of his own conscience. It was under Divine providence, doubtless, that the Pligrim fathers reached these shores and cast thelr Influence with that of others In bringing forth the child of Liberty. In God's providence various religious sentiments were at that time #0 evenly balanced that all of the col onles gladly arranged for religious freedom, which really meant a higher standard, a more Christilke standard than bad been known In the world since the days of the apostles. It Is this spirit of Liberty in which there has mingled a considerable measure of | 0 | the 1 | lasting life and joy and blessing. rope, when a man had no liberty even | of that happy time, we remember, tha " | Bt. Peter assures us, saying, “Time ship bis God according to the dictates | ght of ti world, that ie cross, the light of the has brought the bless. ing and enlightening effect upon this land and upon the world; and with it, In God's prov mens of that idence, tal enlight ent Hberty and has coe a partly of avarice Harvest Be? } | gran us born What Will the yvhetie future prop the an Will Not God Interpose? we answer, God will Interfere but not in the time and manner, nor for the purpose generally expected. The same Creator who through the past has supervised. ar terly has Liberty mechanical lennial Age-—t} posed the declares nigh, ever it becanse any oth taught gree for the M] m of Christ In that time of thle, a the Seriptures. the rich he proud, great the t nd have sore distress poor Yen there Yen great d who lat. caused the development preparation gen and the area: ents for the Ie purposes tter than In can be prepared er be ordin . to he ghty, shall weep piety Likewise the the Wy shall rd of God 4 be no peacH be gent 1 f Ry ape that and Hkewi lesson but the troud be no Berl; ply trouble the rf h receive a fn different to thelr mut e will way fures In lesson ual advantage The Silver Lining d. the Serintur fo, humble il be King of k ny nat ready A fess let us go Lord, t« $1 the law, from Jeru ] glories and b ings of t} day the prophecies of « with testimony But ing then to be brought to mank! der the reign of Messiah's Kit will be the knowledge of the glory the Lord. All men preciate the Divine principles of Love, Wisdom men might, ter and Rs shall come t character and tighteon Just and Power-~that a» after experiencing the! sweet, the evil and tl good, know how thereafter to choose the good, In harmony with the Divine Law, and, by obedience, come to ever It » ANORS the of refreshing shall come from the pres ence of the Lord; and he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preach. ed unto you; whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken | by the mouth of all his holy praghiets since the world began” The Apostl additionally informs us that oath will not accept the righteous regula tions of that government shall perish the Becond Death; “And #£ shall W. H. MUSSER, Zreneral Insurance Agent Notary Pablic ang Peasion Attorney. BELLEFONTE PA. Centre County Banking Co., Corner High ana Bpring Streels, Beezer’s S Meat Market Dr Sol | ML. Nissley, Ff etevinaary 8 . Veteri Ary Jurgeon, Patents, Trade Marks, Labels, . Get WINDSOR HOTEL ¥ PHILADELPHIA J.D. SEIBERT LINE OF RUBBER TIRES Ge -Carts. cars for sale John Scbring, Jr, BELLEFONTS Jno. F.Gray & Sen Successors to GRANT HM IVER Insurance This agency represents the largest Fire Insure ance Companies pared to Bb the world write large lines at re A Le Life and Accident Insurance, and Surety Bonds. or address gs a! “Crider” Stone Bld, Bellefonte H ARR ty FENLON k K Foster Burnside LIFE ACCIDENT AND TORNADO INSURANCE, BONDS of every description We are pre Any time, Call on FIRE Terie Count a a eh BEILI. 543 ly FA INTE CENTRAL RAILROAD as BART WARD Yuex a Hunters y more Briarly Waddle Krumrine FNiate College Ntrubile Bloomsdort 280 _ Five Grove AM I'm Trains from Montandon, Lewisburg Hamsport, Lock Haven ard Tyrone, connset with train No. 5 for State College, Trains from State College connact with Feana Rall oad at Bellefonte for points east and west, FH. TmoMas, Sapt i. K. RHOADS At hus yard, opposite the P. R. R. Passenger station, sells only the best qualities ANTHRACITE AND BITUMINOUS COALS see A180 All kinAS Of come ‘Wood, Grain, Hay, Straw and Superior Screenings for lime , Builders ero Duiidem’ and plas. Commercial, No, Terernons Carts Central, No, 1381 moa | pm —— ¥ s3snuEnssaes® Sail nla OS eal bP EE EEE TEE - FN Irn wi
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