The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-20
it's soundness made. and acted on ac-
cordingly.
Some RusseIlisms.

A few of Prof Russell's views as
expressed through his paper on Min
istry of the Present Day." and many
of which were publicly objected to
by the older members follow:
| Let us have courage to tell the
world that heaven and hell are states,
not places"
"The position of minister in the
! society of Friends does not carry with
it, nor ought it be supposed to carry
with it, any such prerogatives of the
priests of the medieval times, when
the mere fact of mans ordination
conveyed certain spiritual powers;
acted as agent of God; held keys to
communion of God; granted absoiu-
tion from sins; dispensed means OF
grace; performed with the miracle of
creating out of bread and wine the
flesh and blood of Christ anew. The
| Quaker minister cannot close the way
of life to any soul, who knows and
wills to walk in it. He cannot open
! ing out the way already and always
open in Christ, and persuading men
i to walk in it. He has no sacrament
in his keeping that can either help
or hinder worship. He cannot marry
the loving, absolve the living, nor
save the dying.
Consequently the churches acknow
ledgment of his ministry conveys nc
powers not already possessed"
''The ministry for today, if it is tc
run the race set before it successful
ly, must strip it's working theology
of the curvivals of outgrown judaism
and Polydemonism and other non
christian forms of thought and faith
that divides the spiritual world be
tween God and Satan only second tc
hi min power, which makes angels
with in our spiritual calculations, is
not consistant with the belief of the
all powerful.
"It must strip it's religious Language
; of the idea that God is regularly abseu
from the world, visiting only occa
Let us have courage to tell th'
world that God Himself cannot, with
out reversing the character of th
world, make sinner happy, nor eX
clude a sinner from eternal bliss"
Neither rite nor creed, nor the alb
sence of them make a true religion"
ITO be successful, the message mus
be stated in modern day terms, instea'
of clothing the gospel in the cast of
grave clothes of long dead concep
tions."
The ministry of the future mus
learn to cast aside every burden o
dead ideas and cloth the gospel in tn
forms of modern thinking"
1T is not new salvation that i
needed, but new statement of tn
gospel of Gods saving grace
The successful minister of this ag
will drop the tone of dogmatic author
ity and assume the role of the spiritr
al demonstration"
. The minister must resolve to preacl
nothing that he himself has not put t
the test of experience" Here NJ;
Russell said all those things, with tn
> exception of those bible truths beyon
:, all possibility of experiencingD
Man no longer feels helpless befor
the natural and spiritual world
Woe betide the man today, who lil1
hireling prophet of old. repeat
. meaningless platitudes, or blesses in
, iquity because it is sanctioned by an
cient customs or buttressed by a tex
of scripture
Several of the foregoing argument
were not objected to in principle. bu
because they expressed ideas so foreig
!. to Quaker beliefs generally accorded
, Particularly was Prof Russel's uttel
ances about preaching in languag
couched in modern Technology Object
ed to. BY this plan Friends though
the old testament ideas would have t
be entirely abandoned.
: Will Establish Meeting.
VI Nebraska yearly meeting will be es
} tablished according to decision arri,