Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1909-10-30
"TOILER" DISPUTES PASTOR
RUSSELL'S LAST SERMON
Editor The Press.

Editor The Press.
| Dear Sir: lii your last issue, Pastor
Russell says: The only proper content
mcnt is that which combines with god
| lincss and which see from the stand
point of Gods word the divine power
able to correct the difficulties which as
sail US and all mankind. The godly be-
lever thus instructed is able to appro-
pirate to himself the divine promises of
providential care and thus be content
with conditions which are not satisfac-
tory"
May it not be possible that the Divine
promises Of providential care will be
with those who are discontented with
conditions which are not satisfactory /?
Was Christ content with the conditions
he found in His timer The people who
were content with conditions in Christ :
time had Him nailed to the cross be-
cause He agitated and taught the people
that better conditions were possible.
On October 18th, 1909, in Spain, Fran
cisco Ferrer, originator of the modern
school, wherein he taught the people
that better conditions are possible, was
! shot to death by those who are content
with conditions which are not satisfac-
7, tory.
/ Psalm II: 2: For, 10, the wicked bend
| their bow, they make ready the arrow
upon the string, that they may privily
shoot Nat the upright in heart.D They
have improved on this method as they
now use rifle and ball.
| Pastor Russell says: ''The Christian
Socialists, recognizing the principles Of
Divine justice, seek to apply these, for
getful of the fact that they have not the
Divine wisdom necessary to a proper APP
plication." Before me | have a copy of
the Holy Bible lit is small one and
may not have the same contents as Pas
tor Russell's) which says: Genesis !;
26: '.And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after our likeness: and let
| them have dominion over the fish of the
sea, the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon
the earth"
| To whom did Christ appeal to, to
better their conditions IN His time, was
! it not the people whom God made in His
own image and gave dominion?
Pastor Russell says: "The Bible de-
clares that what the world needs Is a
monarchy strong, centralized govern
ment in which the masses must not be
allowed to have voice at all, because
in their fallen condition they know not
what is for their highest good"
Can it be that just God, who has
made men in His own image, and has
given dominion, desires one man to gov
ern all the rest without their consent !.
Who is responsible Tor the masses in
their fallen conditionf For almost 1000
years the Christians have taught the peo-
pie the Bible, can it be possible they
have not interpreted it right, and God
has inspired others to teach the people
the truth?
Pastor Russell says: '.The Bible tells
us that the present institutions under
the power Of selfishness, driving the
wealthy in one direction and the masses
in the opposite direction, is about to
bring universal anarchy"
Seems the present institutions are driv
ing the teachers and preachers to take
sides with the wealthy, on one side, and
the poor. the masses, of whom the Bible