Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-04-14
THE NECESSITY FOR THE
MILLENNIUM.

"Times of refreshing shall come
from the presence of the Lord; and
he shall send Jesus Christ, which be-
fore was preached unto you; whom
the heavens must retain until the
times Of restitution of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth
OF all his holy prophets since the
world began."-Acts iii, 1921.
Brooklyn. N. Y, April S.-Pastol
C. T. Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle
preached here twice today to splen-
did audiences. One of his discourses
was entitled, 1.-THE Overthrow of Sa-
tans Empire . ',Phe other, which we
report, was on the necessity for the
Millennium from the text above
quoted. Pastor Russell said M
Respecting two matters there can
be no question:
Cd That the early Church thor
oughly believed in the Millennia
Kingdom, hoped for it prayed for it
'"Thy Kingdom come; thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven
(2) 1t is equally certain that today
the doctrine of the millennium is ia
booed as tout of date"-out of har-
mony with the views of the Higher
Critics and Evolutionists, who are
filling practically all the chairs in ou'
colleges and the majority of the pull
pits of Christendom.
What has led to this radical change
on the part of the religious wise men
of all denominations? Have they tax
en- a step in advance or are they de
parting from the path-from the
| teachings of the inspired Word o.
God? That they have left the Word
of God, that they make light of it
that they profess far more ability anC
wisdom than the writer's of the Bible
and a higher intellectual inspiration
than they, is indisputable. The ques
ton for us is, Will Christians in con
siderable numbers follow these lead
ers away from God, away from al.
Divine revelation? Will we put our
trust in literary princes who claim
the right to instruct the world, not
by Divine appointment or authority
but by virtue of their large amount
of self-esteem?
1 The present day concept of the
Church of Christ is that God planted
it amongst men as leaVen in batch
of dough with the intent that 1t
should propagate itself until the en-
tire mass would be leavened. But
the Bible apostolic concept of the
Church's message is the very reverse
of this-that it is planted in, the
world, not with the view of convert
ing the world, button the contrary to
keep itself seperate from the world
4 and to draw to itself GAS many as
the Lord your God shall call" of the
pure in heart-to sacrifice earthly in
terests for Divine interests, unto
death, and later, by the First Resur-
rection, to enter into the heavenly
glory of the Redeemer as his Bride, =
his wife," his "Joint-Heir'' in the
Kingdom glory and the Kingdom
work. And the work of that King
dom is set forth to be the blessing
of all the families of the earth"
The two views are so radically OPP
posite that none should confuse them
in their minds. If one is right, the
other is wrong. If one is Scriptural,
the other is unscriptural In the
above item DR.. Brown admits that
the Scriptural view entertained by
the early Church contemplated the
Church in suffering and in tempo
rary or tabernacle condition in the
present life and promised share
with Christ in his reign in power and
great glory, as Gods Kingdom dur
ing the Millennium. The safe, the
proper, the right course is to go back
and take up afresh the doctrine of the
Millennium-the doctrine that the