The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-05
Sermon by
CHARLES T
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle

brooklyn, n. Y. October 2.-Pastor
Russell of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
addressed a large and very attentive
audience today at the Academy of Mu
sic from the above text. He said:-
Ours is a day in which, more than
ever before. the statement of our text
is disputed-disbelie ved-by Jews, Gen
tiles and Christians. The great Chris
tan author, st. Paul. agrees exactly
with the words of Moses in our text
saying. without the shedding of
blood there is no remission of sins"
Hebrews il, 90. The orthodox Jew
and the orthodox Christian. therefore,
are in substantial agreement as to the
foundation of things and the unortho-
dox are in agreement of opposition.
The latter agree that there is no neces-
sity for Sin Atonement-that the later
thought of all the wise men of the
earth. the greatest ministers and rab-
bis, Is that there is no such thing as
Original Sin: hence could be no such
thing as necessity for cancelling it-of
to Justice on behalf of it. Two things
have contributed to these unorthodox
unscriptural views
a. The agnostic Jew not only dis
putes the Bible as an authority on the
subject, but, in addition, admits to
himself that if the shedding of blood
If the sacrifices commanded by the
Levitical code for Sin Atonement be
admitted to be right and necessary, it
would involve the thought that the
Jewish people have had no Sin Atone
ment in any sense of the word for
more than eighteen centuries, because
Sin Atonement must be made accord
ing to certain specified conditions or
else it could not be made at ALL The
loss Of the Ark of the Covenant con-
tanning the Law. and covered by the
mercy-seat, was one of these disasters
The destruction of Jerusalem. the City
of the great King. was another, and,
above all, the Law required that the
sacrifices should be killed and the
presentations specifically made to God,
r lineage as a son of Aaron.
e. Since the destruction of Jerusalem
A. D. 20. the Jewish nation has been
scattered and devastated by their foes
some of these. alas, claiming to be
Christians and dishonoring the name
of Jesus. AS a result all official rec
Ords and gencalogcs of the Jewish
,oI
Undoubtedly there are numerous de
scendants from Aaron living today; but
since they cannot prove their descent,
they are absolutely forbidden to at
tempt to make a Sin AtOnement on the
Atonement Day. Viewing the matter
from this standpoint the unorthodoX
Jew feels all the more inclined to re-
pudiate the necessity for any Sin
Atonement. Alas, indeed. many of
them seem not only to have lost con
fdence in the Mosaic arrangement. but
to have lost faith entirely in a personal
God. We hope and believe that many
of these are sincere and Will be blessed
and assisted back to faith shortly and
to a better understanding of the holy
Scriptures and Of Gods dealings with
their nation
Jewish Atonement a Farce.
In view of what we have said, all
must see that it would be impossible
for the Jews properly to observe the
Atonement Day having no priest nor
other facility necessary to the require
ments of the Law Nevertheless. an out
ward show of ceremony is kept up. On
the proper Atonement Day of their year
the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month
the Jew figuratively acknowledges that
the merit of the previous sacrifice has
expired. He fasts He prays. accord
ing to the original program. But he
has no priest. No bullock is slain tor
the sins of the tribe of Levi No goat
is slain for the sins of The other tribes
And no blood is taken into the Most
Holy to make an Atonement. Not
only have they no priest to o;liciate
but they have no mercy-seat Some
of them wiring The neck of a rooster
swinging it over the head three times
But this was not the sacrifice of the
Day of Atonement and could not take
dts place.
We should not be misunderstood as
holding up the Jew to ridicule Quite
to the contrary, we SympaihiZe With
him. We appreciate his reverence for
the Divine Law and his desire for fel
iowship with God in the cleansing OF
his sins. We would. however. suggest
to them that nothing is to be gained
by deceiving themselves and each 9th
er into the SuppositiOn that their
Atonement Day brings them any relief
or harmoniZeS them in any sense of
the word with the Almighty, What
they do is mere farce. The sooner
this be acknowledged the sooner will
their honesty in the matter bring them
into the proper condition of heart to
recognize that the sins of more than
eighteen centuries rest upon them un-
cancelled and that this is the explana
ton of the caamities that have be
fallen them.
When ISraelitpS come properly to IN
derStand the situation. they will SEQ
that all their hopes center in Mes
slabs Kingdom Messiah is not only
the great King typitied by David ana
Solomon. but he is also the great
Priest typitied by Aaron and mere par
icularly BY Melchsedec. who was II
MP nATID ROSSER