Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-14
FOR NEW THEOLOGY
Pastor Russell DepIores Err
rors of the Older Creeds.
SAYS THEY ARE ASHAMED
Christians Have Come to Parting of
the Ways and Must Make
Choice.

. Choose We this day to stand for the
Bible and reason and to oppose the creeds
of the dark ages and their unreason.
Rev. CT. Russell. pastor of the Brook
lyn Tabernacle. the church of Henry
Ward Beecher and T. De Witt Talmage,
preached a sermon before a capacity au-
dience in the old Masonic Temple, 9th
and + streets, last night, and this was
his concluding injunction. following an
extended argument against what he
characterized as the fallacies of the
creeds of majority of the Older
churches. DR.. Russell is the president
of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract
Society. and his friends frequently refer
to him as the man who knocked hell
out of the Bible.'' for, they declare. he
breaches a new gospel of hope and cheer
and that he has disproved out of the
Bible itself the idea of hell being a place
of perpetual torment.
Pastor Russell's evening sermon was
on the subject Choose Ye This Day
Between Truth and Error
At Parting of Ways.
AS Christians, in the light of this won
derful twentieth century. We stand at the
parting of the ways he said. land we
must decide for right or wrong, for truth
or for falsehood. in respect to our re-
ligious convictions. Without questioning
the sincerity of our forefathers, we all
object to their theology.
Declaring that he would show in what
ways all denomina ashamed of
their creeds and anxious to hide the fact
that they ever profesSed them. or were
anxious to give them some new interpre-
Il
thought and more generous sentiment
common to civilized man in the twentieth
century DR.. Wilson took up in turn what
he specified az the foibles of the different
churches
Our Methodist friends are ashamed of
that feature Of their creed which declares
that the Almighty is doing every
thing that divine wisdom and power can
accomplish on behalf of our poor race to
bring all to a full knowledge of Christ
dience." he said.
"All intelligent Presbyterians are being
driven away from Calvanism, and away
from the Bible also. because of their er-
roneous superstition that the teachings of
Calvin and the teachings of the Bible are
Identical.
All Teach Higher Criticism.
Baptist and Disciple schools and col
leges and theological seminaries, like
those Of other denominations, are man.
ned with the brightest minds, and all
with one accord teaching higher criticism
and Darwinian evolution.
Our error and deception was the sup
position that all who are not sanity, all
who would not become the bride of
Christ, all who are not baptized into His
death. all who do not drink of His cup
of ignominy will we eternally tortured.
This great mistake common to all Prot
of purgatory shared also by Catholics),
must be displaced by the Bible teaching
that as soon as the elect church shall be
completed and glorified the ant-typical
year of jubilee will begin: that then, for
the thousand years of the reign of Christ
and the church as the spiritual seed of
Abra ham. the non-elect of all the families
of the earth will be blest by the elect
Galatians, 3:16-29; Acts. 3:19-23). Let
us. dear brethren, choose this day to
stand by the word of God, to reject all
human traditions contrary to it. and to
hold. fast the things that are true, just,
loving, good
DR.. Russell also spoke yesterday morn
ing to an audience which filed the Ma
tional Theater SO that standing room
was at a premium. The subject of this
discourse was the Overthrow of Satan"
and he spoke of the necessity for
change in the system by which some
ministers are now trying to hypnotic their
congregations. by which physicians seek
to cure all ills by hypnotism and even
department stores train their clerks to
try to hypnotic customers into buying
goods which they do not want