The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-18
TrinityChurch Pastor Thinks the
Denomination Serves a Pur-
pose in Emphasizing the Sec
ond Coming Of Christ
TOO LITTLE ATTENTION
TO THE RESURRECTION
A General Invitation to the Public
to Attend the Meeting Sun
day Night When Or. King viii
Speak on Methodism and the
Catholic Church


Catholic Church
Rev. DR.. George W. King of Trinity
Methodist Church preached last night
on the Adventists. While disagreelng
with the distinguishing doctrines OF
this denomination he said he thought
It was serving purpose in emphasize
ing the resurrection and second coming
of Christ and in directing attention to
the necessity of watching and being
prepared for this event. He deprecated
a tendency, which he said he had MOTTO
ed in the orthodox churches, to pay too
little attention to the resurrection and
even to dispute that there will be a
resurrection of the body
He also said he thought there was
more Scriptural ground for the Advent
ist doctrine of the humiliation of the
wicked than for the Universalistic
doctrine that all men will ultimately
be saved. He said he did not believe
that there was shadow OF ground
in the Bible for the doctrine of univers-
al salvation.
He began his discourse by giving no.
tice of his address next Sunday night
which will be on "Methodism and the
Catholic Church." He asked for a large
attendance and said he wished all Wor-
cester could be present because he had
some things to say which he thought
everybody ought to hear.
He explained that in emitting from
his series of UNCONVENTIONAL addresses
some of the smaller denominations
which are represented in Worcester he
had meant no discourtesy He said that
he had received letters asking him to
speak on these other denominations.
On the other hand he said, Some of my
dear friends think it would have been
better If I had not preached any of
these UNCONVENTIONAL sermons" The
last one of the series will be a week
from Sunday night on THE Methodist
Church."
DR. King announced his text for last
night as Watch therefore, for
you know not what hour your
Lord doth come" There are
six bodies of Adventists in
in many points and having total
membership of about 100000 But they
all agree on one controlling point-the
imminence of Christ's second coming.
81 am under the impressions" he said,
''that they all look for a little reign of
Christ for thousand years and think
that this is quite near. They believe
LnaI the WOflQ Is not 70 Nc COINSi leu
before the second advent, but that it
will grow steadily worse-s
Speaking of the different sects DR..
King said that the Advent Church in
this city was of the kind called the
Advent Christian Church. 1t holds to
the doctrine of the sleep of the dead
between death and the resurrection, and
to the final humiliation of the wicked
denying the immortality of the soul.
mi Is,ktA Il nF
there are none in this city, believe in
the immortality Of the soul and in the
everlasting punishment of the wicked
The Seventh Day Advents believe that
the Sabbath is on Saturday.
DR.. King read an account of the
origin of the Advent Church In Amer
lea from DR.. H. X. CAROLS Religious
Forces of the 18th Century"
After referring to the disappointment
of William Warren, the founder of the
denomination, because his predictions
that Christ would come in 1S43 and
when that year had passed. in 1874, DR..
King continued, Il think there is
disposition now in the denomination
not to fix a date for Christ's second
coming but to leave that indefinite as
Christ did, only they believe 1t is near.
while the Adventists are small
body. about the same in size as the
Unitarians, and a little larger than the
IJniversalsts, 1 am prepared to say to-
night that in some ways they stand for
something in the great universal
Church of Jesus Christ. I cannot
agree with them in the doctrine of the
humiliation of the wicked-it seems to
me to be based on figurative express
sions in the Bible"
But" he continued, II believe there
is more ground for the doctrine of an
Inhalation in the Bible than there is
for the doctrine of universal salvation,
1 do not believe that there is a shadow
of ground in the Bible for the belief
that all men will be saved.
1.-THE service which the Adventists
render to the Church of Christ is in
emphasizing the resurrection. There
has been a tendency to underestimate
the bodily resurrection even in the
Methodist Church" DR.. King mention
ed a book written by Bishop Foster of
the Methodist Church in which the po-
sition was taken that the resurrection
was only spiritual He went on to
sneak of Christ's injunction to watch
for his second coming" The New Tes-
lament" he said, teaches that we
ought to De looking for it all the time.
I would not be surprised If Christ came
tomorrow morning or tonight.