The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-02
CHRISTADELPHTANS.
The Queer Sect that Is Gaining
Foothold in Jersey City.

A religious sect known as the Christa-
places of worship in this city-one in
Grove street and the other at Odd Eel
lows Hall, Bergen and Fairmount av-
enues. l attended service at the latter
place Sunday morning. That ecclesia is
about twenty-five strong. There were
about eighteen members present.
The Chrlstadelphians have no paid
ministers. The brothers lecture and talk.
The sisters are allowed the use of their
tong CUES only in song. This is because st.
Paul. in one Of his epistles to the Cor
inthians, expressly enjoins -. Let your
women keep silence in churches for it is
not permitted unto them to speak, but
they are commanded to be under obe-
dience, as also saith the law. And if
they will learn anything, let them ask
their husbands at home for it is shame
for women to speak in the church"
THEIR FAITH.
From a pamphlet entitled "a Decla-
ration of the First Principles OF the
Deity, etc., gather that one of the
principal beliefs of the Cnristadelphians
is that the Kingdom of God preached
about by Christ and the Apostles is to be
cStdD1loACo tso 1)ANlAC POllblCll QOudlu
on earth, with the object of upsetting and
superseding all existing governments,
and bringing the world into subsection
to God" This kingdom, which is sup
posed to be the millennium, is to last
thousand years, during which Christ and
His saints will rule the mortal nations of
the earth; sin and death continuing
among mankind in milder degree than
at present. The Kingdom is supposed to
have "a connection with Gods past deal
ings with the nation of the Jewsn 1t is
supposed to have been the Kingdom of
Israel, divinely constituted under the
hand of Moses, over 1900 years ago in
Palestine, and which was overturned and
scattered to the winds on account of in
iquity. Its reestablishment will involve
the gathering of the Jews from their
present dispersion among the nations of
the earth, and the city of Jerusalem, ly-
ing between the Mediterranean and the
Dead Seas, will become the Queen City,
the residence of Christ, the headquarters
and tie metropolis of the Kingdom of
God, whose dominion will stretch TO the
utmost bounds of the globe.
At the return of Christ from Heaven to
establish his kingdom on earth he will
first summon before him for Judgment
the whole of his protesting household.
Those who are dead he will cause to come
forth from the dust. Faithful and un-
faithful will be mustered together before
his Judgment seat for the purpose of hav-
ing it declared who is worthy of immor-
tality. Those not found worthy will be
reconsigned to corruption often punish
ment. The Christodelphians believein no
hell, and the heaven will be on earth and
not in the starry regions. A body in the
death state is simply body deprived of
life. Hence a necessity for resurrection.
Those who never heard the Gospel
will never see the light OF resurrec-
tion. At the end of two thousand years
of Christ's reign on earth an extensive
revolt will take place among the nations,
which will be suppressed by a summary
outburst of Judgment. Christ will sur
render his position of supremacy, and
become subject to Deity. and God will
manifest himself Then will occur a
resurrection and Judgment of those who
shall have died during the thousand
years, and a judging of those who are
alive at the end of that period; resulting
in the immortalization of the approved
and the consignment of the rejected to
destruction. None will then remain but
generation of righteous, redeemed, inn
mortal persons who shall inhabit the
earth forever.
Yesterdays SERVICE.
This is the apparent explanation of the
Christadelphians of the two resurrections