The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-11-04
PEOPLES
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
abernacle

London. October 3O-Pastor Russell
of Brooklyn Tabernacle today address
cd an audience OF nearly four thousand
people from the above text. His hear
ers We're of all classes and very intel
ligent appearing. He had closest at
tention. He said in part
God has messages for those who
have hearing ears at each great Dis.
sensational change in earths affairs.
These messages have generally been
III the nature of forewarning of com
ing distress and the reasons therefor.
Such a message WAS given TO our first
parents when they We're expelled from
Eden-accurSed would be the ground
for their sakes. ThOrns and thistles
it would bring forth unto them. In
sweat of face they should eat bread
thereof until they should return to the
ground. from whence they came. An
other great message went forth at the
time Of the food; another before the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah;
another at the close of the Jewish
Age, when Jesus and his Apostles cali
ed attention to the prophecies which
foretold the Divine rejection of the
nation Of Israel for time and de-
clared that all things written In the
Law and the Prophets concerning
them would have fulfillment, quoting
oh hat
their house would be left desolate:
that they would have neither prophet.
nor vision. nor priest. nor ephOd for
many years. but that eventually Gods
favor would return TO lsrael-that he
would gather them again and fulfill to
them everlastingly the blessings prom
Used both TO Abraham and to his de
scendants-"t sure mercieS of Da.
vid''
4 week ago we considered the pro-
phetic message, Comfort We, comfort
We. my people. saith your Cod isaiah
xl. il. We noted then that the due
time has arrived for the fulfillment to
Israel of this comforting message
that as people the appointed time
complished because their twofOld dis
ciplines for sin have been fulfilled:
Thus our present day is clearly mark
ed and the words Of our text follow
ing imply that now is the time for Il
special message to all. in proportion
as each may have the hearing ear.
1t is the voice Of God which calls
now through various channels and
agencies 1t cries not from the CITY
Babylon the Great" 1t cries not from
the citadel of Christendom; but from
the wilderness. from those who are
more or less separated: from those who
have heard the voice of the Lord say
ing, Come out of her, my people. that
We be not partakers of her sins. and
that We receive not of her plaques"
Revelation xviii. a.
Prepare the Lords Way.
The message of the hour to every
nearing ear is, The Lord whom We
seek shall suddenly come to his tenn
pie" (AIalachi iii. y. For centuries you
have been praying, Thy Kingdom
come; thy will be done on earth as it
Is uOuc III ucslN I'll NON yOul prayer
is about TO be answered. whether you
prayed III sincerity or in hypocrisy.
The glory of the Lord is about to be
revealed. "All flesh shall see it to-
gether." 1t will not be revealed mere
ly 10 one nation. nor merely to one
holy class. His glory will be revealed
III flaming fre-in judgments. All flesh
CHI rio no
the learned and the ignorant, the
holy and the unholy. But. as the
Prophet Malachi declares. who shall
abide the day of his coming, and who
shall stand when he appeareth: for he
is like fuller's soap lin its attack upon
grease and dirt. and he is like re-
finer's fire. as il melts and separates
the drOss Of sin and iniquity CIalachi
iii. p
The coming of a great earthly king
10 city is the signal for general
cleaning up everywhere. And so the
Lord declares that the message of his
fast-approaching Kingdom should in
iiuence all who have the hearing ear
TO make preparation. To each nation
it means. Set your house in order. An
inspection is at hand. See that your
laws are just and equitable and that
they are administered justly. The
same message comes to each self-gOy
erning city, and lastly. and most i'm
portant of ALL this message comes to
each individual. and especially to al
who have named the name of Christ
Or. as St Peter declares, this insDec. |
ton of the King of kings and Lord OF |
lords must begin with the house o. |
God q Peter iv, 10. And if the in.
spection be so searching that it mus, |
begin with Gods saints, what could !
we expect of it when it reaches those
who are merely nominal Christians
and then the world in general. All. |
we may expect just what the Bible adj i
ViSeS us will come, "A time of trouble /
such as never was since there was
nation" Daniel xii. -. The message |
of this hour. dear friends. elsewhere
stated in Holy Writ. is. Seek meek
i:ess; seek righteousness. 1t may be
that We shall be hid in the day of the
Lords anger (Zephaniah ii. 81.
Hidden Things to Be Revealed.
The greatest Teacher the world has
ever known, a Jew, eighteen centuries
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