The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-10-11
PEOPLES
Sermon by
CHARLES I.
RUSSELL.
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle


Russell of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
addressed a large and very attentive
audience today at the Academy of Mu-
sic from the above text. He said
Ours is day In which, more than
ever before, the statement of our text
is disputed disbelieved-by Jews, Gen
tiles and Christians The great Chris
tan author, st. Paul, agrees exactly
with the words of Moses in our text.
saying, without the shedding of
blood there is no remission of sins
Hebrews TX, 22). The orthodox Jew
and the orthodox Christian, therefore,
are in substantial agreement as to the
foundation of things and the unortho
dox are in agreement of opposition.
The latter agree that there is no neces-
sity for Sin Atonement-that the later
thought of all the wise men Of the
earth, the greatest ministers and rab-
bis, is that there is no such thing as
Original Sin; hence could be no such
thing as necessity for cancelling it-of
making an atonement or satisfaction
to Justice on behalf of it. Two things
have contributed to these unorthodox,
unscriptural views.
a. The agnostic Jew not only dis
putes the Bible as an authority on the
subject, but, in addition, admits to
himself that If the shedding of blood.
If the sacrifices commanded by the
Levitical code for Sin Atonement be
admitted to be right and necessary, 1t
would involve the thought that the
Jewish people have had no Sin Atone
ment in any sense of the word for
more than eighteen centuries, because
Sin Atonement must be made accord
ing to certain specified conditions or
else 1t could not be made at all The
loss of the Ark Of the Covenant con-
tanning the Law, and covered by the
mercy-seat, was one Of these disasters.
The destruction of Jerusalem, the City
Of the great King, was another, and,
above all, the Law required that, the
sacrifices should be killed, and the
presentations specifically made to God,
only by priest who could show his
lineage as a son of Aaron.
e. Since the destruction of Jerusalem
A D. 10, the Jewish nation has been
scattered and devastated by their foes
some of these, alas, claiming to be
Christians and dishonoring the name
of Jesus! As result all official rec
ords and genealogies of the Jewish
people are broken, vitiated, destroyed.
Undoubtedly there are numerous de-
scendants from Aaron living today; but
since they cannot prove their descent.
they are absolutely forbidden to at
tempt to make Sin Atonement ON the
Atonement Day. Viewing the matter
from this standpoint the unorthodox
Jew feels all the more inclined to re
pudiate the necessity for any Sin
Atonement. Alas, indeed, many OF
them seem not only to have lost con
fidence in the Mosaic arrangement, but
to have lost faith entirely in a persona
God. We hope and believe that many
of these are sincere and will be blessed
and assisted back to faith shortly and
to better understanding of the holy
Scriptures and of Gods dealings with
their nation.
Jewish Atonement Farce.
In view of what we have said, all
must see that it would be impossible
for the Jews properly to observe the
Atonement Day, having no priest nor
other facility necessary to the require
ments of the Law. Nevertheless, an out
ward show of ceremony is kept up. On
the proper Atonement Day of their year
the Tenth Day of the Seventh Month.
the Jew f1guratively acknowledges that
the merit of the previous sacrifice has
expired. He fasts. He prays, accord
ing to the original program. But he
has no priest. No bullock is slain for
the sins of the tribe of Levi. No goat
is slain for the sins of the other tribes.
And no blood is taken into the Most
Holy to make an Atonement Not
only have they no priest to officiate,
but they have no mercy-seat. Some
of them wiring the neck of q rooster,
swinging 1t over the head three times.
Day Of Atonement and could not take
its place.
We should not be misunderstood as
holding up the Jew to ridicule. Quite
to the contrary. we sympathize with
him. We appreciate his reverence for
the Divine Law and his desire for fel
lowship with God in the cleansing of
his sins. We would, however, suggest
to them that nothing is to be gained
by deceiving themselves and each 9th
er into the superstition that their
Atonement Pay brings them any relief
or harmonizes them in any sense of
the word with the Almighty What
they do is mere farce. The sooner
this be acknowledged the sooner will
their honesty in the matter bring them
into the pr per condition of heart to
recognize that the sins of more than
eighteen centuries rest upon them I'M
cancelled and that this is the explana-
ton of the calamities that have be-
fallen them.
When Israelites come properly to un-
derstand the situation, they will see
that all their hopes center in Mes
siah's Kingdom Messiah is not only
the great King typifed by David and
Solomon. but he is also the great
Priest typified by Aaron and more par
ticularly by Melchisedec, who was a
priest upon his kingly throne. So Mes
siah will not only be the great King
over Israel and the world, but he will
be the great Priest whose application
OF his own merit will effect the can
collation. Of sins forever. He win nor
re-introduce to them sacrifices of bulls
and goats, but win make known to
them that those sacrifices were mere
foreshadowings of better sacrifices
SO much better that they will not need
repeating yearly, but work a perpet-
uai cancellation Of the sins of Israel
and of all the children of Adam.
Higher Critics Repudiate the Blood.
All the worldly-wise of Christendom
have reached the point of regulating
the testimony Of the Old Testament
and the New respecting the need of a
sacrificial death for the satisfaction of
Divine Justice, the cancellation of sin
and the restitution of the sinner to Di-
vine favor. The claim Of the so-called
New Theologists repudiates the fall
repudiates the ransom and repudiates
a restitution to all that was lost
claiming that nothing was lost and
that all we have is gain. Thus the
world and its wisdom know not God
and appreciate not his arrangement
that, as death came upon mankind
through the sin Of one man adam
even so a restitution to life should