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The Independent STRAIN OF BUSINESS PLAYING THE SAME JESUS IS GOD'S GIFT PASTOR RUSSELL HOW, WHEN AND WHY
IS CHALLENGED A SECOND ADVENT
Published Every Thursday
T. E BRYANT, Editor
By EDNA KOPP
B/ ENCCH KYLE.
TO ALL HUMANITY
Admitted through the mails u eocond
•obscnption, per year $1.00
Strirt'y in advance and stopped
when time expiree.
"Believe me," Mid Mna Pearlle rat The man wu going to get mar-
tershall m abe deftly readjusted the ried He had sown his wild oats,
| net over her perfectly coiffed goldea and now be mean' to settle down.
bead. "I have some sympathy tbesa Well off. good looking, a first rate
I days for the poor, overworked bust- sportsman, a favorite with men and
neaa man' By observing things dally women alike, the Fat> a spinning busily
In this office and occasionally taking had amlled upon him at birth and had
side glances about through the build-
Display Advertising per inch. lOe
Lecals per line &«
Church and lodes announoeeaeau will
be run free of charfe except when they
art advortle*m nt* of aom« money mah-
tar affair. In which cim regular odver-
fine rates will be applied Ixxlf• reeo-
ladona end carda of thanka will be run
at a charge of 28 cont« each-
political announcement* SB each Caau
Ut accompany order
City Officials
Mayor—A. Levick.
Police Judge—C. H. Deekeet
Treasurer—Don Owens.
Clerk-T. E. Bryant.
Marshal and St. Com — R.
Jones
Councilmen—E. W. Brooks.
Salvation's of God's love, Not A Complele Answer to the Query, Denver Divines on Right Track,
ot Justice or Necessity. "Who Ordained Him?" says Pastor Russell
woven only gold threads in the woof
of hla life.
It was because he felt It Incum-
bent upon him to play the game that
he decided to tell the woman he waa
going to marry of a certain newly
closed episode In his life. The con-
sideration that perhaps It would be
as well for her to hear the tale from
him first-hand. Instead of embroidered
with lies on a foundation of (ruth, as
she might hear it from some one else,
Ing, it has been gradually borne la
upon me that something should be
done to relieve the frightful atraln un-
der which the buslneaa man suffers
"In winter It lan't so bad All he
has to do then la to get down to hla
desk at 8 o clock, dictate a couple of
hundred letters, cloae several deals
with wealthy old aklnfllnta, who nail
down every dollar they own and dare
him to get It away from them, put off
alx fierce men who want to collect may have counted for something, too.
several thousand dollars' worth of But the reaaon he gave himself as
bills and generally wrestle with the he knotted his tie carefully before the
office force But these warm days, mirror on the fa'eful morning of
] It is different. Honestly, sometimes confession was that he "must play
my heart aches for Mr. Pye and Mr. 'he game."
Dlggins! It's a wonder to me that
their families are willing to go away "I hardly know how to tell 70U,
for weeks at a time and leave poor dear." he begun awkwardly, standing
father to slave alone in hia misery. 'all and perfectly groomed on the
"I know what the women do before hearthrug that afternoon. "It's so dif-
they go away, went on Miss Fatter flcult to speak to women—pure wom-
shall "They have all the heavy fur en. like you—about, certain things, but
niture put Into rosebud cretonne slips 'he fact of the matter Is, I've been
and the shades pulled down so the an awful rotter, Evelyn, and I feel it's
rooms are always dim and cool Mr up to me to own 1L You're not mar-
Pye sleeps till 9 o'clock or so. because' rylng a saint, you know."
M. Ilenkel, A. M. Harry, Boyd the house is so still, and then he The fair-haired woman In the big
Young and H. Hodge. 1 doesn't have to wait for any one to get armchair looked up at him sweetly
Regular Council meeting! let out of the bathroom. He splashes and out of Innocent bl„ eyes: "Dear, I do
and 3rd Wednesdays of each' "haves at his leisure and makes all know," she said gc-itly.
. the mess he chooses by throwing He moved uncomfortably. "Hut It's
' clothes around, because the woman J"st what you don't know," he told her.
j who comes in daily to take care of his that I'm worrying about. I'm not
bedroom and lath doesn't dare scold thinking of cards :tnd racing, and
I him for it as Mrs. Pye would do. Then things like that. It's about women I
he saunters out, looking like a freauly want to speak to you Especially one
pressed millionaire, and has a poor woman." He paused and bit his lip
breakfast when he gets downtown at nervously.
some hotel—one of those melons on "Ah!" said the woman softly, look-
Ice, French omelet and Turkish cof lag down.
fee breakfasts where you tip the wait "She was a nice little thing," went
er $1 for a $1.60 feed Then gets to 0,1 the man. "Not quite a lady, you
the office about 11 o'clock wearing a know, but very pretty, and all that."
pale and troubled look. Her father drank. She ran
'"Oood morning!' says Mr. Pye gen away from home. Hadn't a friend In
erally. He gazes at us gently, as If be world when I picked her up. Only
were due to die In five minutes or so lhe streets In front of her. A good
and wanted to leave a good Impression woman like you, Evelyn, can't realize
'Good morning! I hope everybody ii what the horror of that means. . . .
feeling well—I'm all In myself Thii 1 took "at for her."
having no home and trailing all over "Ah!" said the woman softly.
town for breakfast takes it out of a 1,ved wlth her more or less for
man; taken it out! Yet I won't com ,hn,e years," went on tbe man. gather-
plain. because I don't want to deny lnB courage from her passiveness.
my family. What! The thermome she waB very grateful for all I had
ter at 76? This heat Is grilling!' (lone for her; she was really quite a
"Then he fades away Into his prl nlce fhin* But, of course, that's
vate office and sits down where two over and done with now. I set-
.electric fanB beat upon his fevered ,led u*' flna,'y wl,h her today. I shall
. . . ia . brow Five mlnufea later, when I tlm- never 8Pe her a«aln- There was no
and preaching fervioe every Jnd J ldlj, approach W|th three ]otterB jn my reason for you ever to know, Evelyn,
handa, he removes his feet from the' on'y that I felt It wouldn't be quite
deBk, shakes his newspaper and l'la>' ng the game not to tell you."
frowns. Miss Fattershall. he says to "What has become of the girl?"
mo In a languid voice, 'I suppose these ask('d ,he woman, still softly.and still
are absolutely neccssary, so that you 'ook'"g away.
aren't disturbing me uselessly. Oh, man shrugged his shoulders,
well, give them here!' 81111 ,he flat- 1 presume," he said
"He looks ihem over and writes'yes' carplcBMy. ^'The rent is paid till De-
or 'no' on the backs and tells me to cenjher.' v
[pASfoi?. RUSSELL!
month.
CHURCH AND LODGE
DIRECTORY
The Methodist has services on
first and third Sunday mornings
and second and fourth Sunday
nights. Sunday school every Sun-
day— C. S. dark, Pastor.
The Baptist has services on the
first and third Sundays, morning
and night. Sunday school every
Sunday.—<J. E. Rector. Pastor.
The Catholic has services every
third Sunday morning at 10:30.—
Father Van. P^etor.
The Nazareoe has Sunday
School every Sunday at 2 p. m
and 4th Sundays at 3 and 7:30 p.
m.
RlpHEY. Pastor.
Misunderatandmg of What Const it u tee
tha Divina Penalty For Sin Haa Mia-
led Ua In Respect to Every Feature
•f God'a Program For Our Recovery
From tha Penalty.
Rochester, N T..
Nov IM - Castor
Russell -it Brook-
lyn 1m here. We re-
port one of hi* ad
dresses from the
text. -Thanks lie
unto G«k| for His
unspeakable Gift"
-II Corinthians
U. 15
The Pastor said
that In order to
appreciate the
Scriptures on all
subjects, we must handle the Word of
God honestly. We must recognise that
our I/ord Jesus Is one person and the
Father another person. Tbe oueness
between the Father and the Son Is that
declared by our Master Himself, say-
ing that He and the Father nre one
In tbe same sense that He desires a'i
of His disciples to be one- in mind. In
purpose, in will, in effort (John xvil.
21. 23.i Our Lord Jesus Is God'a un-
speakable Gift
The Scriptures declare that tbe Re-
deemer took the nature of men In or-
der to redeem sinners; but that In Him
there was no sin. Only a sinless one
could give to God a Ransom for Adam,
and thus redeem from destruction, not
only Adam, but all his posterity, In-
volved in sin and death through him.
The sjieaker then showed that God
Bet before our I<ord a great Joy, the
Influence of which led Jesus to endure
cheerfully the hitter experiences of His
earthly life This joy Is intimated to
R R.
I. 0. O
night.
meets every Tuesdav
0. 0. Neidigh, N. Q.
R. O CLARK. Secy.
Rehekahs meet every Wednes-
day night
MRS .JOE HENKEL, N. G
J. O. CALES. Secy.
A F. & A. M. meets first and
third Saturday nights.
JONATHAN.WHILES, W. M
W. R. DODSON, Secy
Easter Star meets second aud
fourth Thursday nights.
MRS. J. L. THOMPSON. W. M.
MRS .1 WHILES. Secy.
M. W. A meets first and third
Thursday nights.
A. M HARRY, V. C.
W H. INCiRAHAM. Clerk
Royal Neighbors meet every sec-
end and fourth Saturday after-
noons.
MRS. W. K WEBSTER, Oracle.
MRS. JESSIE INGRAHAM. Sec
His voice became persua-
tiflc my own judgment and answer 8've nt down 80 that his face
tht m myself. was very near t'"" coils of hair wound
"Then another overworked man 8Inoothly ">""d her h^ad. "Don't let's
calls him on the phone and wants him aboul h,'r any more" he l,r«p<1
to play golf tomorrow. Mr. Pyefrowns "n'Bhpd and done with. Now,
and says hu Is badly rushed with busi- don 1 frown, but Just kiss me, aud «ay
neBB, but If It Is a possible thing he'll you forcive m'' "
try and join him. 'But 1tV. always' "Y()U'r*' a v,,r>' naughty boy. Jack,"
business llrat, iny bov!' he reminds Baid the woman reprovingly, but si*
his frier.d, ^lm ^er 8,n°oth white arms
"After that he drags himself over to | ™u^d.hi" he.!CDe,t be8,de her
the club for lunch. This Is another
flossy repast, nil ruffled up with pars-
es YEARS'
(XPcniCNCi
' on the floor. "Then If you promise
never, never to do It again, I'll for-
lcy and everything Iced and with fat g,*e you " "hp 8aid Prpttl,y-
cigars alter It He beat, it buck to He caURht h< r- ,luahed an(l 8n> 'n/-
the oiace about two o'clock and tells f° hlm "<>rr'>ly. My saint!" |>
the head elerk not to bother him abo t breathed upon her mouth."
such n trifle as a $15,000 order—what
on qjirth is lie hired for but to attend
to such inBlgnitlcant Items?
"At this point another slave enters,
attired In a gray suit lhat Is so per-
fent you don't believe It is real and tra0e8 of tPara ul>on her white- co,d
waring on his head a panama hat ch^kB: hpr closed eyeUda were swot
•hat set him back about $50. Pye, old len
man.' savs he, 'what's the use of work-'
Ing : .'iirflelf to death in this sort of
weather? You owe It to yourself to
gel a little rest and recreation. You'll'
be having heat prostration or some-
thing like that If you don't take care
of yourself. Come, let's go to the ball
game!'
"Mr. I'ye considers. 'I hate to go
In a daintily furnished room of a lit-
tle flat in Queen's Club Gardens a
woman lay dead upon the bed with an
empty phial in her hand. There were
Her lover had failed her. There
was nothing between her but the
streets.
So she, too, had "played the game."
God will decide who played it best
aud leave n lot of work standing,
Jawn,' says he. 'Things atop on a dead
center whenever I'm not here, you
Handy Life Inaurance Policy.
A curious featlval takes place an-
nually in the village of Isobe, In the
southern province of Japan. The festi-
val Is called the Omlta. and attracts
large crowds from neighboring dis-
tricts. The young men. stripping off
know. Oh, well. I hate to disappoint the\T clothing, take their positions In
* rice field, where they struggle vlo-
you, since you've come 'way up here
for mc.' So he reluctantly grabs his
panama and they float out to take the
touring car.
, „ . „ l . promptly cuts It into pieces, which he
Later on he has another mea at a ,, . : , , , ' , _
distributes among his less fortunate
lently with one another for possession
of a decorated bamboo pole. The man
who succeeds In pulling the pole down
Tnaor Marks
OgSiONS
CoevmoHTt Ac.
A' 41 e • (krtrli «m| iii>*crli>tl n mm
our opinion fr*# whether an
'•tbljr pfittiitftblft <Vfitniuiiti**
lentUJ HANDBOOK oul'afcuu
•wiy ' yenrv for ••runnff mihiiia.
1 hftiirh Mwi.n A < o.
n- -1 ' > " utcharf«. lo (h«
Scitatific iJmcrican,
A i m<l ■ 'ifly Hit ■ r i<xi larveet nlr-
I
root garden or a summer garden with ...
n,u.li, and lhe cluck f r him competitor.. r.Ul.ll', , portion
Jawn ,s somewhere around $10. The
touring car drops him at his own door „ .. .
in the moonlight and leaves him to un- v?!!.?!"!!'! fr°m
disturbed slumber that he may rest
up for another wearing day.
"Oh," ended Miss Fattershall, "I
could just cry over the say that poor
man is driven with work! I could!"—
Chicago Dally News.
for
himself. It Is believed that If any one
meets with a atorm out at sea he can
watery
grave by simply throwing a portion of
this pole Into the sea. With a handy
life insurance policy of this kind to be
obtained at the price of a little effort,
It can be understood that the struggle
for the pole Is a distinctly strenuous
one-Wide World.
N H. Co,
■ -*rSt, washington, i),
enta of Deaf Children
* icnt children living in Ok-
lahoma nr.! entitled to nn educii
It back becauae it had stopped
"You aeem to have had an accl*
dent with it," said the jeweler.
"A small one, sure enough, sir.
About two months ago I was feeding
non, without charge. Ill the State tbe pig and It fell Into the trough
School for the Deaf, located at J "But you should have brought it b
| fore."
"Sure, your honor, I brought 11 as
Kt once to A. A. St. wart, Supt .jsoon as I could. We only killed the
bulphur, Okla. ' Pig yusterday."—London Telegraph.
o u . o" Doctor- T<x>
Paddy Dolan bought a watch from A doctor who had a CUitom of cuU|.
the local jeweler wUh a guarantee to vaUng the „wn and walk ,n front of
keep It In order for 12 montha h|> homp every gprln||! enRaKed 0 Hrlen
^ 'lx mont.hV,f)er.,,add? UK,k to do the job He went sway for three
days and when he returned found
O'nrlen waiting for his money. The
doctor was not sattafled with hla work
and Bald;
"0'HrIen, the whdle walk la covered
Tha Whole 8ubject Clarified For the N# World-Burnm® — Satan to
Public Benefit — Clergy and Laity
Unscriptural Terms.
Albany, N. Y.. |
Nov. 17. — As al- j
ways, Pastor Rus-
sell got the crowds
todsy. We report
his discourse on
Ministerial Ordl
nation and Titles.
Very evidently It
is a reply to an at-
tack recently made
upon htm by a Mr.
W. T. Ellis, field
editor of Tht Con-
tinent. and alias,
the "Religion* Rambler." Ellis claims
that Pastor Russell's ordlnaUon as Pas-
tor is frandulent. The address shows
that Pastor Russell fully understands
the situation. He fully justified bispo
ait ion before his vast audience and
showed up the "Rambler" editor in
the unenviable lisbt of either lieing
JaSIOC
asroe kusse
Bound—Sin, 8>ckneaa and Death to
Be Conquered—Man to Be Delivered.
The Power Veeted In Meaaiah—Mis
Kingdom Naar^-How It Will Appear.
Denver, Dec. 1.—
This city is stlrre*!
Seventeen pastor*
of all denomina-
tions have been
discussing Tbe Sec-
ond Advent for a
month. Now cornea
Pastor Russell tell-
ing us all that
•The Earth abkl-
eth forever"—that
It will never be de-
stroyed by literal
Are According to
blin the great event of Christ's Conk-
ing will bring blessings such as we
all desire. He seems to have the Bibl*-
and logic on his side too!
Pastor Russell declared that false
„ . . concepts of the Second Coming of
^ Christ had done great injury The
view set forth in all ortbodoi creeds
is that Christ will come again in tbe
flesh. Tbe resurrection will take place
within twenty four hours. Tbe saintly
will rise In the all*to meet the Lord
Then fire will tome down from bear
en, and consume the whole earth Pre-
millenniallsts claim that Christ wUI
reign in fleshly glory a thousand years
to bless the living. The majority of
Christians disown this as ridiculous
nonsense be<:iuse thy believe little of
creed or BiMe A minority perceive
attempting to deceive the public. His
test was. "Not of men. neither by man.
but by Jesus Christ, and God the Fa-
ther, who raised Him from tho dead"
(Gal. 1. 1). He said:—
The time has coma f#r telling the
people what the Bible teaches respect-
ing ordination to teach and preach.
The doctrine of A|M>stollc Succession
started in tbe secoud century A. I).
The bishops claimed that they had the
same authority that Jesus gave to tbe
twelve Apostles. I/pou tiffs claim they
ordaimd the inferior clergy.
This principle is wholly unscriptursl. ,tB ^consistency with the Bible
According to the Bible, the Church of What Bibla Studenta Now See.
Christ, is not composed of two parts. The "fire of that day" is symbolical,
clergy and laity. Jesus declared, 'Ail already kindling in society, the ele-
have lieen: (1) Ills pleasure In doing ye are brethren; One Is your Master, ments of which. Capital and Labor,
be blessed, including the dead who wii'.
then be awakened
Christ." St. Paul shows that In the are getting hotter Soon tbey will
early Church tin- ministers were the melt, the symlsillcal "earth" will be
servants of the flock. They were of consumer! with tbe "heavens" also, the
the people, chosen by theiu by the ecclesiastical powers Their passing
stretching forth of llie hand. sway will uglier in u "new earth." or
Many of the reformers coveted the social order, find "new heavens." tiie
titles accorded the Catholic clergy. Church In glory.
They did not are to tell the onngre The Second Coming of Christ is as
gation I hat its word was supreme, and IOciated with blessings. Messiah will
that its ministers were merely its m-rv- abolish fbe curse and bring In wonder
ants. Others, realizing that these ti fl,| blessings The Dav of Christ will
ties were u ,scriptural, declined to „se lie ,.ist Dav."-th„ great Seventh
them, preferring to lie called pastor. Thousand-year Day. All humanity will
My Bil l" Student associates, knowing ^ the .lenrt who wi;
! my objection to the title "Reverend."
address nie as Pastor. I am the elected
Pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle Chriat Comes to Reign.
congregation, and also of the London t'lfl redemption was necessary
Tabernucle congregation, and I fail to for nian's «'">''" • ■"> Messiah's King-
see ground for criticism in this respect. do,D is n-cessary to accomplish restitu-
nor do I attack Christian brethren who tlon- Thfe (k'lay of more ,ban °igtitpe"
accept other aud unscrlptural titles centuries is Scripturally explained: (1)
M , _ . e « . God designed Six '.neat One Tbou-
Must Pastors Be Ordained? , , . — ,
sand lear liavs to 'eacb mankind the
Ordination is necessary to the office exceeding sinfulness of sin. He pur-
of pastor I lie question is. \V hat consti- posed that >ii the Seventh Day the
tutes an ordination to preach amongst blessing of Messiah should ~ome. (2
the people of God? An importnnt work bas ,wen d0D<1
This question has received various glnce calvary. An Elect rburcb has
answers. The Roman. Anglican and been gathered out of al! natlons-
6.) He thought not by robliery to lie Greek < hurches. claiming Apostolic saints matJ^ |)orfe<.t through suffering,
eciiial with God. On the contrary, our Succession, declare that authorization „ Little Flock, the "Church of the
Lord willingly accepted the Divine pro- to preach must come through their Flrst-horus." These are to become the
jiosal that He should be bumbled to the apostie-blshops. and have not allowed Brjdp 0f Christ at Ills Secoud Advent,
human plane for time, in order to . Protestant ministers to enter their pul- The Speond Coming of lesus la to
pits until the Episcopalians, about a c)aim in, Bride ,la8ll> and t0 exalt
year ago granted this concession. Of thpm As r..ffar<ls the world. He comes
course, if their proposition were cor- llind Snfan> t0 „verthrow tIld
rect. am just as much nnordalned as t0 ,ipUrt MiPU humanlty. 8L Pet„
her Protestant ministers -and no ♦ aK..a .
the Father's will; (2) His privilege of
"bringing many sons to glory" the
Church; (3) nis plensnre and joy in be
ing by and by the world's Restorer, de-
livering them from the power of Satan,
sin and death. "Wherefore," St. Paul
says, "God hath highly exalted Him,"
far above "angels, principalities and
powers, and every name that is named."
An Opposite Course From Satan'a.
Pastor Russell then contrasted tbe
course pursued by Satan with that fol
lowed by our Lord Meditating arn
bitlous designs. Satan found an oppor-
tunity In Eilen He beheld in our first
parents n new order of beings, design-
ed to bring into existence n nice that
would fill the earth Satan essayed to
be ruler or prince over this hurnau ere.
atlon; and by so doing, he not only he
came a rebel against God, but brought
sin and death Into the world.
Our Lord Jesus pursued nn opposite
course, and demonstrated His loyalty
and obedience St Paul Intimates that
although the Logos was much higher
than was Lucifer, yet He was humble,
and "meditated not a usurpation," as
the Greek text declares (Phil. II.
carry out the Father's Plan
To tbe church, Jesus Is God's nn-
apeakalile Gift He Is Indeed a Gift
to the whole world, unspeakable In
value, but lie is more to the Church
all otbei
than to the world To Ills footstep more so.
followers. lie is the • aptaln of their
Salvation." their Rrldegr'iom, their
"Elder Brother," their great High
Priest Through Him they are priv-
ileged to tie the Royal Priesthood.
Through the merit of the sacrifice of
Christ, they am privileged to "present
their bodies living sacrifices, holy, ac-
ceptable unto iod "
The Pastor then said that Justice is
tbe foundation of Cod's Throne In
the |iast. endeavors to harmonize Jtis
tice with our great Creator'-' dealings
with humanity have Involved us in
difficulty We were assured by the
prominent crinsls that t od had know-
ingly brought rnnnklnd Into existence
rotestant minlsters-and no tells thnt RwtltuUon work< not a llteral
burning of the world, awaits the Sec-
Each denomination at its beginning 0nd Coming of Jesus: "Times of re-
was opposed by all others; yet each freshing shall come from the presence
taught that the clergy were separate 0f the I,ord."-Acts ill, 10-21.
from the laity. Only since the organ
. ., ,. Christ's Kingdom to Be So r tua .
lzation of the Evangelical Alliance n , , p
<184G> have the different sects of ;:reat m,stake wp hav« a" n> <^
Christendom acknowledged each oth- lr' not n"''''fns: Jpsus was bu-
tt's ordinations Each denomination man ,or„only thirty-three and a half
makes use or such ceremonies as it {™n "e was a KlorioU8 8>'irlt being
before He was made flesh; and He
deems proper If. therefore, the con-
gregation of Christian believers in
Brooklyn and London ordain or ap-
point me as their pastor. It is their
own choice what ceremonies. If any.
shall accompany that ordination. Who
can dispute this? No Protestant de
nomination, suruly; for their own or-
under such conditions that the great dinations are on this very hnsla.
majority would spend eternity In tor The subject of ordination seems to
ture. We iiercelved no Justice In anv
was resurrected to a spirit condition-
higher than His original one How
foolish we were to think of Jesus as a
man 'a little in ver than angels) in the
midst nt the Heavenly host. He is now
partaker of the Divine nature; His
Church Is to be miged" and made
"like Him." As His descent was from
a higher to a lower, so His ascent was
•Sulphur. For information, write
with gravel and dirt and In my estima-
tion It's a bad job."
O'Brien looked at him In surprise
for a moment and replied:
'Hhure, doc, there's many a bad Job
of yours covered with gravel and dirt"
such arrangement. But while desist
Ing from criticising the Creator, we
could not Indorse such a course, nor
see it to be In harmony with the D1
vine regulations governing ourselves
If we are to love our enemies, should
more be expected of fallen human be
|igs than of our perfect Creator?
The Scriptures declare only the con-
secrated church see the "lengths, .
breadths, heights and depths of the
Love of God." which pnsscth under-
standing. Thla class alone is In any
sens*' prepared to give thanks to God
now for His unspeakable Gift Their
thanks go up, not only In words, hut
also In actions, which "speak louder <
than words " These thanks ascend av
sweet Incense to God
By and by. "All the blind eyes will
be opened and nil the deaf ear« will lie
Unstopped." Then the whole world nt
mankind. Including those awakened
from the sleep of death ilnrlng Me*
Blah's reign, will be In condition to rec
ognize OihI'« unspeakable tilft and ren-
der thanks. When wilful evil doers
shnll have Imp destroyed, then every
creature in Heaven, on earth and in
have fallen into confusion during the t0 a h,Rher' "far
above angels." Ills Is the exceeding glo
Dark Ages. St. Paul particularly em „„. ,
phasizes the fact that he did not re- „ .. no man hath seen nor can see"
ceive his commission as preacher aud ; T.W, no man 'an approach unto"
Apostle of Christ from his brother , , glorious Belug whose King
Apostles, but by Divine authorization ® ... al,"u, 10 '* established. He
and His Church will Is- as Invisible
This is the Scriptural principle underly-
ing Divine ordination to the ministry
of Christ.
No denomination claims that the or
dinatlon of Its ministers either made or
kept them perfect. All admit that
there have !>een sad failures amongst
their ordained ministers. Neither
would tlie.v laim thnt ordination has
given their ministers superior discern-
ment of DLine Truths. On the con-
trary. It has Injured the clergy by previous
making luanv of them domineering tlon lnsi
to men as are Satan and the fallea
angels The appearances of Jesus hi
the ties ti lifter jjjs resurrection were
materializations, to prove: (1) that
Jesus u no longer dead (2) that He
In -m e.| horn of the Spirit able
to go ; n.l ouie like the wind
Pi
and lordly. utinry to the spirit and v 1,1
teachings .<i • Inist and the Apostles;
aud the laltx \v 'cadlng thein to eon- hum I
elude Hint merely secular matters
•hotild engage their attention.
Ep.phania, Apokalupaia.
l' Kingdom will haveenrthly
repi. , tt„. faithful salntx of
rnlsisl to human perfev
Through these the in
tlv.
The True Ordination.
Flually the Pastor showed tbe true
ordination to be the iuipartation of the
Holy Spirit. Whoever receives this
has God's authority to he Ills am
In th* i
Tin •
-pies, i
eontini
life (wh
as In t'
Aft"i
N'' Kingdom will op
'• said. "Ye shall se«< A bra-
nob and all the prophets
'•-■'!• i th/
' of Jesus will eome first
nviKllile 'i'he world win
•" be ordinary affairs
I I- gather!ngtbe Cbnrrbk
)> of NihiIi
gnf tiering of the Chun*.
■ lu llll* Will* ♦ 11a f* trl'1 I • i •
bassador and mouthpie«'e. Such show i ;l" and an
the sea shnll Is> heard "lying "Praise, , the work of the Holy Spirit regenernt ' H> will shine forth.
glory, honor, dominion a ad might lie lug their minds and hearts, giving
unto lllni that slttelh on the Throne, them Insight Into the Scriptures, and
and to the Lamb, forever," through the enabling them to be Hod's mouth-
•nspeaknble Gift. piece* ministers of His Truth.
"In flaming fire." the trouble of that
Day. In which the present order will
be consumed lii anarchy tft^tlijj place
to Hip Kingdom l)t«|s>iisntlnti
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