THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA, Thursday: August 12th, 1909, Qoo \ Sermon by le CHARLES T. RUSSELL, Pastor Brooklyn Tabernacle. Oe 000 Seattle, Wash., July ~Pastor Rus sell, of Brooklyn Tabernacle, addressed the Bible Students’ Convention twice today. We publish one of his ad dresses as follows: — The theology which came down to us from the dark ages was wonderful In its extremes, It pictured Divine wrath as unsatisfied with anything short of an eternity of torture for the sinner, and in the next breath assured us of a Divine mercy which would take the vilest sinners to an eternity of glory without character development, merely at their request. One would that neither of these doctrines command support amongst intelligent people, but they do; and only explanation of the matter is that by reason of the fall the balance of human judgment, on moral questions particulary. Is undone. It fair, however, to suppose that the Jority of intelligent people have 80 much as sideration. the various hour, they out reflection, taught would bring the ban of Divine sure that reach ther Bad Effects of Error. It is difficult to measure the bad re sults which have flown from the mis Interpret: of text (1) The Divine character and government hav thereby been traduced and measurably brought into contempt as ur cal, of wise aud gambled and volvers more con his ar self li few minutes portunity 2. suppose could reasoning the sadly given these subjects con them through childhood's Recely creeds have swallc rom wed them with. that to doubt doubters unde asure, and mercy should displ of Divine our iphilosoph- Instead vagalx gareasonable, arbitrary, Two 1 nds quarre and shot ead tagonis agonist rered ered fonshif throughout are told, star ’ ¥ without Is sonable conclu ve : of the brighter minds of { Protestantism unto infidelity, and led others back to the teachings of the Church of Rome which, t« } sistent, the cu after SA tion In it any wonder prepared, either or both of heaver I ing either inf are defending tally must views of have very baneful (2) Who can measure of thi ine upon Ing them Delieve thelr crime, few un repentance ' Can It theory wicked: know lands? doctrine ble burn Becondly eterna quite img suddenly as n¢ a petition for un if offered, wi swered, and of the blest The further reasoning Is, heaven is irable eek It rie he Hit elf sacrif and the The admit that portions of Hol very ur some been satisfacto be rol be heard and an em to the region | surely th ! } hiring uring that whi certainl it Is use less to narrow riences of all the sal: these saintly or a higher position in hea who are sas after a carelessness by a mon ary prayer In the dying hour; but the phiiosos ring is, that pleasures of sin son more than compet higher glory of t! ints, =in the sinners are to get the small cost of mine posed teaching of our text The True Before principles right and the wrong interpretation our Lord's words, let he really did say and really did and how it happened the true meaning was lost sight of and the erroneous one adopted generally. The Bible teaching that “the dead know not anything together with the doctrine that the res urrection of the dead Is the Divine pro vision, has long lost sight of Our Lord's own words that “No man hath ascended up to heaven” have been overlooked, and so Las his teaching re specting his Kingdom-~that the hless ing of the Church and of the workl awnits hs second coming, when he will establish his Kingdom under the whole heavens In power and great glory Losing sight of these truths has led rate and way Jesus ts asoning indeed en that re ed life of sin and ent the sate ee Ni to paradise al words—the sup Interpretation to ne proces | ng Involved discuss between what us notice mean been directly to the acceptance of the gen. | eral error respecting our text. EOPLE’S PULPIT... | forming Intuence, 000 Thieves In Paradise. “Verily | say unto thee to- day, thou shalt be with me in paradise” (Luke xxii, 43). 1 0 OC ee O Let us begin the Investigation by noting what the dying thief requested He bad heard his companion berating our Lord, saying, If thou be Messiah, save thyself and us. He had suflicient character to realize the ty of classifying our Lord with evil doers. He up, reproving his compan- lon; and then turned to Jesus, and, a reward, asked, “Lord, remember when thou comest into thy He did not ask to be heaven, nor that day, Lord, who was then should attain to his Kingdom As the thief's request was a reason able one, Lord's answer was no less reasonable, He sald, In the words of our text, Verlly (truly) | say thee to-day [this day of my agony and reject by Israel, and crucifi by the Roman soldiers; this day, when I seem to be an Imposter and not at all the Messiah; truly I tell you to-day] thou shalt be with In Paradise. 1 do not tell you you shall be me, nor have you even asked me to tell you. You have asked to remembered when 1 come into my Kingdom, when I sh taken control of the the whole heavens, when the speedy result will be that the world will become a Paradise, and you have asked assurance that you will there, will remember you as re dishones spoke ns me Kingdom in ur crucified, remembered but when « being our unto ion lon nevertheless, me when with be all have fully Kingdom under entire my be and quested Punctuation Not Inspired. It will be noticed that this d interpretation makes y mma from be We ren irk wir text was su 1 ae necessary and to your G 17. As a matter of fact also will be In Paradise. All mankind redeen by our Lord's sacrifice, wi nrivilege of the Millent As AIl that Tivos 8 i i of Man a will the other thief wer hal com ry and have been pared by iplines, tl lessons lishings, of this | {Il be the instar begotten after the ped weak ne a . but Character, eter: : fo ont ain } atter of character It 1s true ¢ » present time to inated with falr xcept them ’ ! . He Some TR ter | parents Some ould seem nany of our af we are ht of Divine ve fortun ns lation ate to be bet 1 others born of religious fort in being mmunities, and in and enlightenment belng then ore are inate Igious e« f liberty Bome are unt heathen | ete. But th» 8 Ing this pres his sovereign power In electing a spe cial cl of characters, and assures us that a majority of these are belong called from amongst the mixed peoples of Europe and Amevica, and that propo-tionately few are being gathered from other nationalities If all of the non-elect were consigned to eternal torment, or even to Purga- tory. a grave Injustice would be chargeable against the Almighty Elect. or. But this Is not the case. The Lord is no respecter of persons, but is taking out from the world of man. kind, from every nation, those with suitable characters, those upon whom his Truth snd Grace exercise a trans. The nonelect, not rtunate in of he ripture born in parentage shows that dur ent time God Is exercising 188 special ol the prison-house of sheol, hades, where there Is no wisdom, knowledge nor de- vice, ns the Scriptures declare (Eeclesl- ix. 10). Although unworthy of a share In the blessings now being dis. pensed, God's mercy pursue after these through Chetist, and In thelr Interest the Millennial Kingdom will be established. [Under tion Satan will be bound, fluence of evil will be trained, and influence be brought the Intent that all non-elect, and un gaivation, may gnvable condition and punishments Millennial Age. The result of the purifying influences of that tlme upon the willing and obedient will be full human perfection and the reward of everlasting life In Paradise tored vorid under the w | The to the unwilling who will resist grace and mer provisions will be eternal death—extinet the Second Death velation 14. 15) Character a Prerequisite. The Bible, fled com acter Is and durin velop reward the worl ment, the be the All | i uences ol ne great Kingdom of Messia ii ercised w [ " he ment of Shar those prope erly exercise reby will get ward of ¢ The ‘hat kind with the Divi ed the rew answer that astes love and Its dominn- every ine res will every gio « into captivity, to those at worthy of be brought through (Judgments present the present to A ards the rew ol ro wide, enven, result God's lon Gehen XX, in harmony with sancti eterns g this charn of i y, of Judg character will f tl Day be ex. develop the re. here, meet grant- We » standard, the Scrip- | and be veriasting? ¢ stand- “Thou with all vith all Win and As our He ) tual tand of character, will Not all at once, however “born In sin and sh in sin did thelr mot ~fire “prone to sin as the sparks ft upward.” gradation they will of d culti us- itely the Divine Law Love suprem odd and Love for the nelght During v {lllennium the Desses 8nd imperfection 0 apen fy Steeped In de re if centuries, not f sin ar juire vears : Nin vation of righted ness char weak f the race great Teacher, Christ ar Jesus the Head and the The more degraded tl will, the more un will be « Church his members dern verted the conscience and judgmen the n : } ascent of humanity from the hore pit of sl and deat! n witl 3 tance o the Redeemer. The less degraded the nore per great Mose shall con which nt Prophet ved from among the people” ts 11 28 Al the ref i ' the usand of Christ’ ign. Kin must be put down utward sin, but io ward sin I be oughts it every soul (obey) tI itr mde during year very nd intent eradicated, destruction Second Deat! If the t! doers In general they are either un or undermining what a helpful Inf would has upon the social and political and finan cial life o* the world! The effect would the very reverse of that which Is now made by the false inter pretation of our Lord's words to the thief, which we are seeking to correct If every pernicious word uttered were realized to be so much of an un dermining fluence, If every perni clous thought were similarly recog: carefulness would eart Sin must be of the in the the extent the wilful sinner evil that iracter and liars and would realize loves king «l haracter ev he nized, with what mankind come to guard thelr thoughts and thelr words, as well as thelr deeds. 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