Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-03-02
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
T abernacle.

Cumberland, Nd, Feb. 27.-PastoT
Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle, New
York, preached twice here today i'll
our largest auditorium He Is well
known here and had fine audiences
We report his discourse from Tho
| above text as follows
Today this prophecy is fulfilled il
our midst Notwithstanding the fact
that during the past century Bible
have been printed and circulated
among the people by the million. anC
Notwithstanding the fact that educa
ton has become general so that rich
and poor, old ano' young. have the
| ability to read Gods Word, neverthe
less we are in the midst of the very
famine specified by the Prophet. Il
seems almost incredible that we should
be furnishing now with Bibles in our
homes, when our sanity forefathers
did not famish, though education was
limited The secret lies in the fact
that increasing intelligence on every
hand has awakened our reasoning fac
ulties along religious lines, and the
result is the gnawing of hunger in our
hearts. Our hearts and our flesh CRY
| out for a living and true Coda
God greater than ourselves-mor just.
more powerful. more loving. Feeling
our own impotency, we more than
ever feel our need Of the Friend above
all others with love that sticketh
closer than brothers.
Consequently we cannot find the
rest and refreshment and comfort
from the Scriptures which our fore
fathers derived. Consequently the
young men and the purest of heart i'll
the world are repealed by the religion
of the past as represented in the
creeds of all denominations. They
are hungry for the Truth. They are
thirsty for the refreshment which they
need. Intellectually many are look
ing, wandering, from sea to sea de,
string the bread of life and the water
Of life. Scanning the creeds of all de-
nominations they find them practically
alike as respects theories of eternal
reprObatiOn and damnatiOn for all eX-
cept the elect, the saints. They are
, , faint for lack of spiritual food and
drink. They even look to the heather
and examine the Theosophy of India
the Buddhism of Japan and the Confu-
:ianism of China, seeking FOR some sat
styling portion of Truth. These are il
some respects like the prodigal son-fa1
from home. They perceive the swim
iSh content with the husks of bust
ness, money. pleasure and politics. bu1
] their spiritual longings cannot be sat
iSfied with the husks which the swine
eat. They are thought peculiar be-
\ cause of their interest in spiritua
D things. They are misunderstood by
2 their best earthly friends. They mus
:, learn that in their wanderirgs alonE
e the highways of science and world
religion they will never get satisfac
ton. There is a famine in every de
!, nomination, in every part of the world
- No one thinks of looking to the Bible
for refreshment and strength. Tbs
Higher Critics of all denomination!
n have branded it unreliable The, Pro
n fessors in all the great Colleges arr
. reprobating the Bible and openl!
laugh at the thought Of finding Their,
d either bread for the hungry or wate
t for the thirsty.
, This is the very picture given in ou
context. They shall wander from Sc,
II to sea- from the North even to thu
n East; they shall run to and fro to seel
y the Word of the Lord and shall no
J find it. In that day shall the fair vir
gins and the young men faint TO
. thirst amos viii, II. 49,.
# The Bread of Life and Water of Life
e These hungry hearts must learn tina
. there is only the one satisfying portion
under the Sun-the living and true
n God. and Jesus Christ whom he ha
: sent to be the Bread of Life for tn,
- world, and the message of grace from
% his lips to be the Water Of Life 1t il
ours to call the attention of this Truth
hungry class TO the Great Teacher VII,
~ ~ declared, My flesh is food indeed ant
20 my blood is drink indeed; except Y,
ID eat the flesh of the Son of Man, ant
v drink his blood, ye have no life il
you John vi, 90, 81. But scarceI,
II will the intelligent of our day hearkel
,e to these words, so prejudiced are thei
~ minds by the fallacies which beclout
It their understanding. They see not
;. neither do they understand the good
* ness of God.
- Why is this? Why are these Bibles
In millions of homes, Catholic ant
Protestant, neglected? Because thu
~ people know not that the bread of Lift
- and the water Of life which they seel
9. are hidden therein. Why is this? W.
e. answer that conditions were very
h much the same in Israel at the time
I'd of our Lords First Advent. The ex
PLANTATION he then gave is applicable
now. He said I've do make void tht
IN Law of God through your traditions
&c sthe traditions of the ancients'' (Marl
p ,-I; Ia thf