Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-11-10

ed 4 wonderful gathering today anu
heard a wonderful message from the
Brooklyn Tabernacle Preacher. 1t is
said that Pastor Russell breaches ey-
cry week to more than ten million
families in the United States and
Canada through his sermons pub
lished in hundreds of newspapers.
British newspapers also are taking on
these sermons. Surely no other
Christian minister ever had so inter-
esting a hearing from the Jews! Pas
zOr Russell explains that his public
interest is not in himself but in the
divine message of the hour, due both
to Christians and Jews, because we
are in the dawning of the New Dis
Messiah's Spiritual King
dom about to be inaugurated.
His text declares that a certain
definite time a Divine message would
go to Israeli message of comfort
and assurance of returning Divine
favor. The message declares that al
though the Jews have been cut off
from Divine favor for centuries they
are still Gods people. 1t declares that
the time of Israels disfavor was def
initely foreknown of the Lord and
that now the time for the turning
away of that disfavor has come. He
said that Christian people in the past.
himself included, had appropriated
all of Gods promises to themselves
and had thus blinded and confused
their own minds; that now the time
had come to rightly divide the
Word of Truth" Pastor Russell not
ed the portion belonging to the Jews
as separate and distinct from that
given to the Christians, or more prop
erly to the saints amongst the Christ
ians. who claimed he, a re a little
flock" as compared to the nominal
masses.
The blessings promised to the
Jews from Genesis to Malachi are all
earthly Paradise lost" is to be re-
stored worldwide. The earth, Gods
footstool in the Messianic admins
tration. is to be made a glorious Ed
en-.
Few Bible students, apparently
have discerned that the Divine prom
Use included two seeds of Abraham
"a heavenly seed and an earthly
one-a spiritual seed and a natural
seed. There are abundant BLESSINGS
for both and there is no need that
either should appropriate the prom
ises made to the other. The Jew ana
the vast majority of the Gentiles VIII
greatly appreciate the earthly oles-
sings-far more than they could APP
preciate the heavenly. Only the spir-
7tual-begotten, sanity few, can APP
preoiate the spiritual things when
4eve hath not seen nor ear heard
neither hath entered into the heart
of man." but (which God hath in
reservation for those that love him
more than they love all earthly
things.
Gods message declares, "She hath
received of the Lords hand double
for oil of her sins" This does not sig
nifv that God is unjust and that ne
would give twice as much punishment
&c uas due to Israels sins. The He
brew word rendered double sigr
fes a second part. The thought is thu
Israel had a long period of Divine IA
vor and then an equal period OF d.
vine disfavor. At the end of this dou-
BILE. Divine favor was due to return
The speaker reckoned 1915 years
from the Abrahamis Covenant to the
death of Jesus and that double which
there began marks the year 1878 as
the beginning of a period of return
ing favor. That very year, Jew
Lord Beaconsfeld, Prime Minister d
Great Britain. was a member of the
Berlin Conference Of Nations and its
leading genius. It's policies for deal
ing with the Turkish Empire were
accented in fulhllment of Zechariah
viii, %:
"Thus saith the Lord of hosts, In
those days it shall come to pass, thai
ten men shall take hold out OF al
languages of the nations, even shall
take hold of the skirt Of him that Is
a Jew, saying, We will go with you
for we have heard that God is with
you" There the Lords good promises
to Israel began to have fulfillment
There the stability of titles in Pales
tine was assured as the Jew began tC
have some recognition in his Owl
land. There all the principle nations
followed the policies suggested by the
Jew. subsequently, in Divine provi
dence, Egypt, as well as Palestine