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PEOPLES
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

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April 10.-Pastor Russell. accompa-
MED by DR.. Jones, who will serve him as
stenographer. and by a representative
of this Journal, sailed from New York
April 9th for Jerusalem-yia Paris,
BerEe. Naples. Alexandria, Cairo and
the Pyramids, Jaffa. TO Jerusalem and
vicinity. His return will be via Rome,
Vienna. Warsaw, Berlin, Elberfeld and
London. Meetings have been arrang.
ed for enroute. His longest stay Will
ty appointments in the principal cities
await him. He will be speaking prac-
tically every day. His Sunday dis
courses will be specially reported in
these columns. Special interest will
center in the discourseS at Jerusalem
and Rome. The many readers of his
sermons will follow the Pastor in his
journey with great interest. He is
scheduled TO he back in Brooklyn June
9th. when his topic will be "Jerusa-
lem" In anticipation of a large audi
ence on that occasion BrOoklyn'S lar
gest Auditorium. the Academy of Mu-
sic. has been secured His sermons
now reach six million families weekly,
and assuredly many OF these wish him
God-speed
On the Atlantic April Tenth.
l have chosen for my text Il sea
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believe. is rapidly nearing fulfillment.
All Bible students recognize the fact
that many of the Psalms are Mes
sianic; that is to say. they apply to
the time of the Inauguration of Mes
slabs Millennial Kingdom. Some of
them detail the peace and joy and
blessings which will then prevail
amongst men, when the great levelinS
processes of that time will raise all
the worthy poor and degraded and
will humble all the proud, establishing
Society under such new conditions that
the new order of things is symbolical
ly styled in the Scriptures "a new
heavens and new earth, wherein
dwelleth Righteousness" QI Peter iii.
49,. Others of the Psalms describe in
highly figurative terms the work of
the Millennial Age For instance. we
read:
''Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, o
most Mighty. with thy glory and thy
majesty. And in thy majesty ride pros
perously. because of truth and meek
ness and righteousness; and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart
of the Kings enemies; whereby the
people fall under thee" psalm xiv,
go. Here the great Redeemer Is pic
tured as the glorious conquering King
of the Milennial Age, and his victory
over every opposing influence is EN-
phasized-"Unto him every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess isaiah
xiv. 80. His right hand that will
teach terrible things is the symbol of
the Divine power which will be eXer-
ciSed at the inauguration of the King
dom. The sharp arrows which will
pierce the enemies to the heart and
cause them symbolically TO fall before
him slain represent his messages of
Truth and Grace which then will con
quer as they do not now. except in the
hearts of the few. n sample of those
now slain after this manner by the
Word of Truth is furnished us in the
account of st. Peters sermon on the
Day of Pentecost. He preached the
Truth plainly, thrusting in the Sword
of the Spirit" up TO the hilt. He told
his hearers how they and their rulers
had crucified the Prince of Life. They
were ''cut to the heart" and it was
the greatest blessing that could have
possibly come to them (Acts ii, 23).
Similarly during the Millennium, the
arrows of Truth will smite down all
opposition; and mankind, cut to the
heart with proper appreciation of their
own sinfulnesS and Gods mercy, will
fall before the great King, accepting
mercy upon his gracious terms-full
surrender
The Day of Trouble Pictured.
The Psalm of which our text is a
part is one of the Messianic Psalms.
Prophetically and symbolically it tells
about the trouble incident to the passing
away of the present order of sin and
selfShneSS and the Inauguration of the
new order of Righteousness and love
under the great Mediatorial Kingdom
of Christ Whether the events which
the Scriptures predict shall come in
our day or not. we hold that they will
come and be in full compartment with
these prophetic pictures. They were
surely written for our instruction QI
Timothy iii, 1G). And as Bible stu
dents we do well to take h. ed to ev
cry item of the Divine revelation that
thus we may keep ourselves in touch
with the Infinite One and in sympathy
with all the features of his great and
wonderful Program. Let us note the
particulars of the Psalm in detail
The Refuge of His Saints.
God is our refuge and strength, a
very present help in trouble" psalm
Xvi u. How beautiful, How COM
forting, How strengthening. Those
who have entered into covenant rela-
tionship with God through Christ,
through faith and conservation. and
who are abiding in his love, may feel
serene in any troube-in every trouble
mot merely in the final trouble, with
which sin and sorrow will be brought
to an end Not merely when Satan