The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-11-01
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL.
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle

Of Brooklyn Tabernacle today address
ed an immense audience In the worlds
greatest Auditorium, the Royal Albert
Hall. Many of his audience were
Jews, attracted by the liberal extracts
from Pastor Russell's sermons which
have been appearing in the Jewish pa
pers all over the world. The discourse
was full of comforting assurances Goth
to Jew and Gentile) Of the glorious out
come to the Divine Plan, as respects
our world and its inhabitants. We re-
port the address only in part, as fol-
fows:-
There can be no doubt that the words
Of our text apply, not to Spiritual Is
rael and the heavenly Jerusalem, but
to the Seed of Jacob, for many CEN
turtles Travelling in palma nation
without land, people possessing most
wonderful promises, yet enjoying none
Of them-a people scattered amongst
all other peoples; yet, In harmony with
the Divine promise made at the begin
ming Of their organization. they have
been preserved separate and distinct
from all other nations! The Jews are
a miracle in themselves They witness
to the civilized world Gods promises
and the power thereof in the human
mind AS foretold in the Scriptures
for long centuries they have had no
Prophet, no Priest, no ephod, no vision
from God, no revelation. The people
to whom at one time belonged the hon.
or Of being the only people to whom
the Divine purposes were revealed have
for more than eighteen centuries been
left destitute of any evidence Of d.
vine favor, except in this one fact,
that their solidarity as q people Is
preserved
We are not Of those who rail against
the Jew; who cry out, "Christ-killers;
the vengeance of God is upon you, and
what you have suffered Is only fore
taste of more awful sufferings for all
eternity" Thank God, Mol We have
no such evil sentiment in our heart
We have nothing for the Jew but SYM
patty, even while in him, as in others
Of Adams children. we may see much
to reprehend; nevertheless, we also see
his commendable qualities. Among
others. we see the quality which God
SO greatly appreciated In Abraham;
namely, faith in his God and In the
Divine promises Such faith has in
spired Goods Chosen People" to wait
for his promised Messianic Kingdom,
10, these many centuries all
kinds of discouragements, disappoint-
ments and prosecutions.
The Compromised time Of Israel's
exaltation as the channel Of Messianic
blessing to mankind is near-it hasteth
greatly. What though there shall be
another and great spasm Of tribula-
ton in conjunction with the birth Of
the New Order of things! Beyond the
signing and the crying, the morning
dawns-the glorious day In which the
Sun of Righteousness shall chase from
the world all the shadows Of death
and despair, which sin and its penalty
have brought upon mankindl What
though the Scriptures tell us that Is
rael is yet to have 1.-THE time Of ia
cob's trouble" in connection with the
worlds great time Of trouble impend-
ing. None Of these things shall hinder
us from rejoicing In the New Heavens
and the New Earth, which God de-
clares he is about to create and put
into control of our world-"Be ye glad
and rejoice forever in that which
create" isaiah lxv, 49,.
The New Heavens and the New
Earth are but symbolical terms for the
consideration of that New Era, in
which there will be new social order,
as well as new ecclesiastical system,
eternal in the heavens.
The time has come when our text is
having its fulfllment The shining Of
the lamp of Truth upon the prophetic
page shows us that the great clock Of
the Universe is marking the hour when
he whose right 1t is shall take to him.
self his great power and reign. All,
yesl We remember that 1t Is written
that then the nations shall be angry,
and Gods wrath shall be manifest, and
then the time shall come for the judg-
ment of the dead and the reward Of
all, both small and great But we are
glad, nevertheless, that the ''times Of
the Gentiles" are nearly at an end and
the time of Messiah's theocratic gov
eminent Is at hand-For he must reign
until he shall have put down all un-
Righteousness and INSTRUMENTATION, I'M
til he shall have caused every knee to
bow and every tongue to confess to
the glory of God the Father.
First In order of the Kingdom work
will be the binding Of Satan-the work
Of a heavenly, and not Of an earthly
king. Gradually. In the judgments,
DEGREES, rewards, punishments OF man
kind and the banishing Of sin and
death will the great King Of Glory re-
veal his own gracious character and
the Fathers righteousness to the chill
dren Of men Gradually all will have
the eyes of their understanding open
ed to see. not only the Father Of all
in his true character. but also the Son
In his glorious majesty-the Conquer
or. who. for the Joy that was set be-
fore him, endured the cross, despising
the shame" and hence is at the right
hand of Divine majesty and entrusted
with the pouring out Of the Divine
blessing upon Israel. and. through Is
rael, extending that blessing to every
nation.
One King, but Two Kingdoms.
1t has escaped Christendom in gen.
eral until now that the Divine promise
to Abraham Is to be fulfilled through
two Seeds-one heavenly c1ass, the
other an earthly class, with Messiah
the Head over all. For eighteen GEN.
turtles God favored the Seed of Abra-
ham, the nation Of Israel Chastise-
ments they had, reproofs In righteous
ness; yet in all that time they had also
Divine favor, as represented in their
Law and In the Prophecies and In the
privileges which came to them under
the Law Covenant, In that they had an
annual Atonement Day, which contin-
ued to them Divine favor. That period
Of favor, explain it how we may, be-
gan to wane about the time Of Jesus
death. 1t was completely removed
from them in the desolation Of their
land by the Roman army A D. 10.
Now a parallel time has been reached,
as stated in our text. Hence It is time
for the return of Gods favor, as here
In mentioned. The favor already is
returning.
The Jew has not been so comfort
able, nor SO favorably fixed as he is
today, in more than eighteen cen
turtles. But his blessing is only begin
GIL In.