Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-11-26

iii ~ HI fYiii. % respecting
III W&S% III the time when Je-
III sus and his Apos-
III a ties were oyertaken
III ~ by storm on the
" Mil Sea of Galilee The
So storm was 50 Vio-
7SASToR fUSSELLN lent that even the
S= experienced fisher
men were in terror and Weakened their
Master Jesus. The latter. weary with
travel and preaching. was sound asleep
in little cabin at the stern Of the vessel
They appealed TO him. Master, earest
thou not that we perish%' Then Jesus
arose and. AT his command. the storm
ceased and a great calm prevailed. Then
IL was that his fshermen-disciples ex-
claimed, what manner OF man is this. that
even the winds and waves obey him.
The speaker declared that although
more than eighteen centuries had passed,
the same question is going the rounds OF
most civilized peoples OF the world-"What
manner of man is this?" Some of the
best thinkers and noblest hearts of ali
nationalities. Jew and Gentle. agree that
Jesus of Nazareth was a most wonderful
man. 1t is stiil agreed. as in the days Of
his presence, that never man spake like
this mani Some indeed. called him a
deceiver. Others said that he was under
the control of evil spirits. Others. going
TO the opposite extreme declared that
this great Jew was jehovah himself who
for the time, was masquerading as a man.
Wonderful Words of Life"
A man should be judged by his own
words and not by the words of others.
whether friends or foes. AS we prompt
~ reject the testimony of his enemies as
contradictory TO the facts, so when the
friends of Jesus contradict his own words
in their endeavor 10 honor him. they
should not be followed. Their counsels
respecting what they do not know should
be as thoroughly rejected as those OF his
enemies. when they contradict his own
testimonies. Pastor Russell contends that
the greatest of all Jews told the truta
about himself as well as about other
matters IN his wonderful words of life"
lie declared. My Father is greater than
T. John xiv. 81. He declared that he
delighted to do his Fathers will and that
he had come into the world 10 do IL, even
at the cost OF self-sacrihce and every
self-denial even unto death QHebrews xii,
p. When he prayed TO the Father with
strong cryings and tears in Gethsemane
CIebrews V. y he was not shammng
He was not perpetrating fraud and de-
ceiving his disciples then and since.
Jesus declared that the Father sent hIn
and that he delighted TO come in obedi-
ence to Jshovahs will, to be his agent
and servant in the outworking OF a great
plan for human redemption. Those who
deny all of this. and who have awakened
so much confusion amongst Christians,
and have made the Gospel of Christ impos-
sible to the Jew, should give an account
Of themselves and explain by what au-
thority they contradicted the Great Teach
er-"The Father is greater than l." And
when they claim that the death OF Jesus
was merely a farce, and that he as Jeho-
yah merely stepped out OF the Body OF
Jesus and perpetrated a fraud and pre-
tended to be dead and aroused his disc-
pies so to think and so to teach. and pre-
tended later TO be raised from the dead
those who thus teach and who thus con-
fuse the minds OF all Christendom and
Jewry. should explain away, IL they can
the plain statement of the Apostle thai
God raised up Jesus from the dead by his
own power on the third day.
"God Manifest In Flesh"
Pastor Russell declared that Adam
was created in the image and likeness OF
God" and hence that God was manifested
in Adams flesh. Still more so was he
manifested in The man Christ Jesus"
Il Timothy ii, 81. The Scriptures declare
most positively that Jesus had previous
existence on the spirit plane and that he
voluntarily consented TO be made flesh
for the outworking of Jehovah's Plan.
He was not a sinner like others His
life was directly transferred at his birth
from the spirit to the human plane Thus
he was a partaker of human nature OIL
his mothers side only. and his life was
unimpaired - holy, harmless. separate
from sinners" Thus as "A perfect man he
was the corresponding price for Father
Adam at thirty years OF age. And he was
GOD manifest in the flesh" In the same
manner that Adam was before he snned.
But more than this. he obtained a spe-
cial blessing which Adam never knew.
AT the time Of his conservation to death
at his baptism he received the amounting
OF the holy Spirit and begetting again to
the spirit plane as the Amounted One-the
Amounted Priest and King for Israel and
through Israel to the world. BY virtue
or that amounting he became the special
ambassador OF Jehovah-his special rep
resentative amongst men. Thereafter he
was God manifest in the flesh in a far
higher sense than was Adam Thus was
this Wonderful One The Son OF The
Man. and, by the begetting of the holy
spirit, specially also the Son OF God
MiehaeI-one Like God.
The speaker reminded his hearers that
the Hebrew prophets had foreiolI this
greatness Of the Messiah. who at the hi
yinely-appointed hour will assume the do
minion OF earth. setting up by Divine
authority his Medatoriai Kingdom. which.
for a thousand years, Will reign triumph
antly, binding Satan and sin in 10 ever,
form and setting at liberty every good
principle of righteousness for the bless
ing Of Israel under the New Covenant
Jeremiah XXI, 80 and through Israel the.
blessing of every nation. Unto him every
knee shall bow and every tongue confess.
when the knowledge of the Lord shall M
the earth (Phil. ii, 10, II; Hab H. 40
Jehovah through the Prophet Daniel
called this great Messiah Michael, and tells
that when he shall stand up. when he
shall take his authority and begin his
rule, there VIII be a time OF trouble such
as never was since there was a nation,
incidental TO the Inauguration OF the EN-
pire Of Righteousness. for the purpose Of
bringing peace on earth and good will
amongst men.
Michael, the speaker said, signifies One
| like Coda god-like one. Whoever, there
fore. believes in Messiah from this stand
point must rot expect a human Messiah
| OF flesh and blood. He must expect just
such an One as the Scriptures declare
| Jesus now TO be-the glorifed Son OF the
Highest. Moreover. the New Testament,
| after telling that this Great Messiah must
reign until he shall have put all enemies
under his feet. in subsection, tells also
that then he viii in turn, at the close of his
| Mediatorial reign. deliver up the Kingdom
| to God, even the Father. that Jehovah
| may be all in all. There is no suggestion.
| therefore, on the part Of Jesus or RI
| Apostles that at all corresponds with the
absurd suggestions and contradictions q
| those who claim that Jesus was his own
1 Father-that the Father and the Son are
Il A..