The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-11-10

" ernacle. New York,
preached here to-
s. day. Royal Albert
Hill held d vast au-
dlence Of deeply I'm
y terested he arers.;
The Speaker chose
~ sfhis text from Reye-i
y lattonixx, lis
PASTOR RUSSELL. II saw great
~ an, White Throne. and
him that sat on it from whose face!
the earth and the heaven hed away
and there was found no place for
them" He said:
Sin made moral towards Of our race.
From early infancy fear and apprehen-
sion, especially in respect to things fu-
9ture, have been impressed upon US;
We realize our imperfecdon. and that
our God is perfect, and that perfection!
Is the only standard whichhe could
approve, and that some kind OF pun
fshment for sin must be expected. The
! Adversary, taking advantage of our
forS athers, misrepresented the Al.
mighty and has used our fears to
ALLEVIATE US from him and TO ;wrestfand
distort his message to us in the Bible,
St Paul assures us. that this Is satan,s
general procedure; that, he puts light
for darkness and darkness for light.
Thus It comes that our text, which is
really one Of the most beautiful and
comforting In tile whole Bible when
rightly understood. has to many be-
come a lash;in the hands! Of, their fears.
is needless to say that our text is
one Of the symbolisms Of n Book filed
with'symbols. Gods people, guided by
his holy Spirit, in due time will APP
preciato these symbols. For many OF
them the due time Is already here.
The Throne is Messiah's. 1t represents
his Mediatorial Dominion Of earth for
a thousand years. Its Wilderness sym.
bolizes the purity, the Justice. OF his
Kingdom Of righteousness under the
whole heavens. The heavens and
earth which ylll fee away from the
presence Of the great Emmanuel will
not be the, heavens Of Gods Throne.
nor the earth. which he has given to
the children of men. The heavens and
earth which, will Zee away, and for
which no place will be found, are, of
course, the symbolical ones. In Bible
symbology the earth represents estab-
lished civilizations: the sea represents
the restless. dissatisfied masses Of hi.
manity. The mountains symbolic hui
man governments. kingdoms, which
constitute the backbone Of present
spiritual Influences - Ecclesiasticism,
Churchlanity. Thus interpreted our
text declares that wlkt, Messiah shall
assume controller the wofld; when he
shall sit upon his Throne; when he
shall exercise rulership amongst men.
the result will be that the social sys-
TEN of today, as we'll as the present
day ecclesiasticism. will fee away, will
pass out Of existence-no place will be
found for them.
Satan Now tho Prince.
Some man may be inclined to ask,
Has not Christ been the great Ruler
Of the world for these past nineteen
centuries? And whatever may be said
of the four thousand years before the
coming Of Christ may 1t not be claim
cd that be has been reigning ever since
his ascension to the right hand OF the
Father? We answer that If this be
true; If the Rcdeemer Of men has been
relgning as the King Of earth for
these nineteen centuries, there should
be something in the Bible to so teach.
ButIwe find nothing. On the contrary.
we llearken to the Masters own words
telling US that Satan is the Prince OF
this age John xiv. 30). We hearken
to him again, telling US. my Kingdom
is not of this world tage," John xviii
30). Again he says. 81 will come again
and receive you unto MYSELF John
xiv. 81. Again he tells US that he went
Into n far country to receive the title
to his Kingdom, then to return to take
possession Of it Matthew xxi. 90; XIV
14l. and that ut his second coming lie
will be the great King OF glory. BE
tells us the same thing in Matthew
XIV. 81. when the Son of Man shall
come in his glory, and all tie holy an
gels with him, then shall he sit upon
the throne Of his glory"
| On the other hand, as we scan the
pages OF history during the past eight
cen centuries. we are convinced that
Messiah has not been the King Of the
world. 10 think Of him MS such, with
the omnipotcnt power which we &c
credit to him, would be to charge hin
With responsibility for bloody and
arocious prosecutions and wars ant
famines and pestilences. Surely nc
right.minded person, after mature con
sideration. can nationally accept thu
theory that the glorious Messiah's
reign of Righteousness for the blessing
of the whole earth. the uplifting Of
the whole race. the enlightenment Of
every creature. and the bringing Of al
possible into accord with God-none o.
us could think that that reign of the
great Mediator between God and mer
Is In the past. We must agree witt