The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-04-07

T. Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle
preached here twice today to splendid
audiences. One of his discourses was
entitled. THE Overthrow of Satans
Empire" The other, which we report
was on the necessity for the Millen-
mum from ;he text above quoted
| Pastor Russell said
Respecting two matters there can
be no question:
% That the early Church thorough
ly believed in a Millennial Kingdom,
hoped for it. prayed for it-"Thy
! Kingdom come; thy will be done on
earth as it is done in heaven"
(2) 1t Is equally certain that today
the doctrine of the Millennium is Ia
booed as out of date"-out of har.
mOny with the views of the Higher
| Critics and EvoutioniSts. who are
! filing practically all the chairs in our
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 denominationsf Have they tax
! en- step in advance or are they de
| parting from the path-from the teach
/ in%s Of the inspired Word of God?
| That they have left the Word Of Cod
| that they make light of it, that they
! profess far more wisdom and ability
| than the writer's Of the Bible and a
higher intellectual inspiration than
they. is indispulable The question
| for us is, Will Christians in consider
| able numbers follow these leaders
away from God, away from all 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 viz
tue of their large amount of self
esteem?
The present day concept of the
Church of Christ is that God planted
| it amongst men as leaven in a batch
of dough with the intent that it should
| propagate itself until the entire mass
would be eavened. But the Bible
! apostolic concept of the Church's mes
! sage is the very reverse of thiS-that
| it is planted in the world. not with
| view to converting the world. but on
/ the contrary to keep itself separate
/ from the world and to draw to itself
"As many as the Lord your God Shall
| call" Of the pure in heart-to sacrifice
| earthly interests for Divine interests
unto death. and later, by the First
/ Resurrection. to enter into the heaven
! ly glory of the Redcemcr as his
Bride" his Wife" his "JOint-Heu'
in the hmgdonl glory amt the Kingdom
pork And the work Of that Kingdom
is set forth to be the blessing Of all
! the families of the earth"
The two views are 50 radically oppo-
! site 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 Scrip
| tural view entertained by the early
! Church contemplated the Church In
suffering and in "A temporary or taber
nacle condition in the present life and
! promised a share with Christ in hls
! reign In power and great glory. as
Gods Kingdom during the Millennium
! The safe. the proper. the right course
! is TO go back and take up afresh the
doctrine of the Milenuium-the doc
| trine that the faithful of the Church
now being tried and tested will consti-
tute the glorious Kingdom of Gods
! Of fhafr oh
earthly to spirit conditions in the
First Resurrection" Il Corinthians
XIV, 42-44.
The Laymen's Movement.
God bless the Christian EndeGvor
and Epworth League and Students
Missionary League and the Laymen's
| Movement. all intent on "Storming the
world for Jesus" We bear them wit
ness that they have a zeal for God
which we greatly admire and would
encourage, But their zeal is not ac-
cording to knowledge" and is there
fore considerably misdirected. To any
one of logical mind. who will reason
from statistics, the thought of convert
ing the world by singing a few rous-
Ing hymns or holding a few enthusi-
astic meetings for the collection Of
money! money!! money,u would be
childish We do not despise childish
ness. We have all had our share But
we all should say with the Apostle.
when | was child, | spake as a
child and understood as a child: but
when | became man | put away
childish things" q Corinthians xiii. IL.
christian people have been fooling
themselves long enough Yes. it is
as absolutely irrational to think OF
converting the world. as 1t Is unscrip-
tural to believe that God ever gave US
that impossible commission. The Unit
ed States census reports show thai
there are twice as many heather to.
day as there were a century ago. The
word heather carries to many very
wrong impression. Many uoble-heart,
ed Christians have gone as mission
aries to the heather wholly unpre-
pared for what they met-intelligent
reasoning ability. etc They found that
the heather were full of questions.
logical questions. too. which they as
Christians had never thought of. and
which they were wholly unprepared to