The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-30
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL
aston Brooklyn
abernacle.

dents Association. He had an excel
lent hearing and large and intelligent
audiences. one address was entitled
"Thc Great Hereafter" The other we
now report. The speaker said
Our text has not yet been fulfilled,
but we believe the beginning of its
fulillmcnt to he near. 1t pictures Mes
siah's Kingdom, for which Christian
people have long been waiting and
praying, Thy Kingdom come; thy will
be done on earth as in heavcn"-thc
same Kingdom for which the Jews SO
long waited and are still waiting Our
text relates, not to the spiritual part of
Is called to share. but to the earthly
part Of the Kingdom, which belongs to
the natural seed of Abraham. \
great mistake has been made by many
of us in the past, in that we have not
discerned ana acknowledged the two
lsraes, spiritual and natural, and the
separate rewards and blessings appor-
toned to these by the Divine promises
of the Scriptures. Both are to be used
of God in fulfilling the promise made
to Abraham-in blessing all the fami-
lies Of the earth.
After the completion of Messiah, Head
and Members, on the plane of glory
the New Covenant will be inauguratcd
with Israel. as the Scriptures distinct
~ teach Jeremiah XXI. 31-3D. Our
text. therefore. waits for its accom-
plishment until the last member of the
elect Church of Christ shall have pass
ed beyond the vail.
Israel the Earthly Representative.
In the symbolic language of the
Scriptures a mountain is always sym
bOlical of a Kingdom. Hence the
mountain OF the Lords house means
the Kingdom of God and that royal
house or family recognized by him
For instance, we read that David sat
upon the throne of the Kingdom of
the Lord and that God made Gov
enant with him, "evcn the sure mer-
cies of David that none but his
Seed, his pOStCrity. would ever be roc
ognized as the Divinely appointed rep
ity and power. In other words. Mes
siah was to be the offspring of David
the great antitypical David Bclovcd),
who must reign from sea to sea and
from the river to the ends of the
earth"
The Messiah-King on the spirit plane,
the Son of God Cand like God invisible
20, al.
anttypical David and the antitypical
Solomon, the wise, the great the rich.
In the days of his flesh our Lord was
the Son Of David according to the
flesh, though begottcn of divine life
not tainted by any human imperfec-
ton. He was, therefore, holy, harm
less, undefilcd and separate from sin.
ners. His faithfulness to the will Of
the Father made him subject to all
of the experiences of suffering and
dCHth. as expressed in his own words.
The cup which my Father hath pour
ed for me. shall ! refuse to drink
it? His obedience unto death. even
the deqth of the cross. demonstrated
his loyalty to the last degree and he
received the high reward appropriated.
"IIim hath God also highly exalted
and given name that is above every
name. that at the name of Jesus every
knee should bow. both of things In
heaven and things in earth"
Excited to the right hand of Divine
favor he waits only for the Fathers
time to take to himself his great power
and reign Revelation ri, 10. Meantime,
in harmony with the Divine will. pur-
posed before the foundation of the
world, he acts as advocate for such as
have the hearing ear and the Obedi-
ent heart and will now respond TO the
special invitation of the Gospel Age.
That call is to leave the world, its
sins, its pleasures and its hopes, and
to walk by faith in the exceeding great
and precious promises Of God-thc
things which eye hath not seen nor
ear heard, neither hath entered into
the heart of man. These are the hcay
emily things promised them as the
Bride and ioint-heir with their Redeem
cr in his glorious Kingdom to come and
its blessed work of uplifting Israel
and the world.
In the Top of the Mountains.
We have before our minds the anti
typical house Of David, MesSiah's king.
ly household the royal priesthood hi
vincly prepared. AS Kingdom it will
be at the top, above all the kingdom"
of earth. Not only will this be true
of the spiritual Kingdom Invisible 10
men as the angels are invisible), hut
1t will include also an earthly Kingdom
composed Of "Israelites indeed" Al
their head as princes in all the cart
will stand the rCSurrCCtcd AnCicn
Worthless, perfected as men and sam
pies of what all mankind, by ohcdi
ence to the laws of the Kingdom, may
attain to, with eternal life These An
Client Worthless are enumerated in the
ScripturCS-Abrah Isaac, Jacob, the
prophets, etc, and described by 81
Paul in Hebrews ri, $50 To thos,
belong the earthly promises of the Oi6
Testament They never heard of the
heavenly or spiritual promises Thcl
loyalty will find its reward In the fact