The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-08-09
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL.
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

July o4.-Oc1OIOu, IN. 4.-1Oudy dI
this place Pastor Russell of Brooklyn
Tabernacle addressed the Information
al Bible Students Association-about
1000. He said:-
The great Messiah, "King of Glory"
has long been waited for by the civil
lied nations. For thirty-fve centuries
the Jews have waited for him as the
great Prophet foreshadowed by Moses
and foretold by him (Acts lii, 22); and
as the Great King foreshadowed by
their Kings David and Solomon; and
as their glorious Priest typifed by
Aaron, but specially In the formers
majesty as king and priest foreshown
by Melchisedek-a priest upon his
Throne psalm cx, A..
Free masons have waited twenty-five
hundred years for the same glorious
parsonage, as Hiram Abiff, the great
Master Mason whose death, glorifca-
ton and future appearing are contin
ually set before them by the letters
upon their keystones. He died a vio-
lent death, they claim, because of his
loyalty to the Divine secrets typed In
Solomon's Temple. He must reappear.
they claim, In order that the great
antitypical Temple may be completed
and its grand service for Israel and for
all peoples may be accomplished. They
claim that his presence Is to be ex-
pected speedily.
Christians of every shade. in proper
ton as they are conversant with the
Bible (Old Testament and New be-
lieve, also, in great Temple builder
who died because of his faithfulness
to the Divine plans, re the spiritual
Temple, the elect Church q Peter II.
4. 81. Him they expect to come Sec
ond time ''in power and great glory"
to complete the Temple which is his
Body, and In and through that spirit
ual and glorious Temple to bless Is
rael and all the families of the earth.
His second presence In glory and pow
er, but invisible to men. is believed to
be imminent.
The Mohammedans, also worship
ping the God of Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob and David and Solomon, are
also expecting a great Heavenly Mes
senger to bless them and all peoples
by the establishment Of heavenly
Kingdom. They have awaited his com
ing for centuries. They believe his
Kingdom to be near at hand.
Who Is This King Of 0lory7
The same glorious parsonage will full
ill all these desires-these hopes. Is
1t not time that all of these peoples.
fearing God and hoping In his prom
ises, should come together In one hope.
in one expectation? 1t must be so, for
do we not read prophetically, 1.-THE de-
sire of all nations shall conner
We are well aware that great bar
riers lie between these multitudes; but
we hold that they are chiefly barriers
of superstition and ignorance. In the
past they have pulled apart. and have
slandered and prosecuted one another.
If now they will alphabetically draw
near to each other, surely they will
find much to appreciate in each 9th
ers hopes and aims.
The Basic of Sympathy.
The fact that the Jews and Moham-
medans, Catholics and Protestants and
Free Masons, all base their faith on
the Old Testament of the Holy Scrip
lures, Is ground for the better under
standing pleaded for.
All Christians must accept the au
thority of the Hebrew Scriptures be-
cause the founder of Christianity,
Jesus, and his special mouthpieces, the
Apostles, taught nothing contrary to
the Law and the Prophets. Indeed.
they quoted from the Old Testament
In proof of every doctrine advanced.
They claimed that they neither de-
stroyed nor ignored the Old Testament.
but merely noted its fulfillment.
The error In the past has been the
general disposition to appeal to super
stition and prejudice and bigotry. rath
err than to facts and Scripture. We
must reverse the lever In order to at
tain the good results-in order to see
eye to eye.
What All Can Agree To.
All agree that the world needs the
Divine blessing All agree that we
have been laboring under mistake in
supposing that education and civiliza-
ton are alone necessary to secure hui
man happiness. We perceive that the
greater the civilization the greater Is
the unrest; and the broader the edu-
cation the greater are the suggestions
and opportunities for taking selfish adj
vantage Of others.
All are agreed that only the later In
ventions, telephones. ETC.. and our
make 1t possible to live In civilized
lands and that. despite all these, muir
ders are a hundred fold what they
were fifty years ago. In those days
murder would be detailed and discuss
ed for year. Now we give little heed
to several reported in each days news
papers. Thousands are executed. other
thousands are imprisoned for life and
we pay little heed-so gradually have
we become accustomed to these hor-
rors Of our civilization and education.
We oppose these with Church and
mission influences. with Sunday
schools, Y. M. G. AS, with courts, Ju-
venile and Superior, and yet they in
crease. We penalize the carrying of
weapons and bombs and wisely pro-
hibit inf1ammatory speeches; and the
better informed know that Christen-
dom is like a powder-magazine which
some unlucky friction between the
classes may any day explode.
All Hopes Really One.
Admitting that all mankind are I'm
perfect, born In sin and shapen in
iniquity," we nevertheless cannot as
sent to the doctrine of Total Deprav-
ity-that there is nothing good In any
man; or in all men. Each one who
prays forgive US our trespasses as we
forgive others" should concede that
others, as well as himself, would pre-
fer righteousness to sin, II the envi-
ronment were different-if his appetite
were not so perverse. If bis will power
were not so inadequate. So. then,
whether Jew, Mohammedan, Catholic.
Free Mason or Protestant, do we not
all really desire the one thing? And
do we not admit, after centuries Of
endeavor along different lines. that
God alone can send US the aid which
the whole world so greatly needs? We
dol
Let us now formulate this desire
Of all nations" from those Holy Scrip
| lures which we all acknowledge. Lei
us see that it is exactly what we al
have been looking and praying fol
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