Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-28

#N1H Pastor Russelt
A M##W breaches every week
S~ to more than ten
HoASToP, RISSPIT million famllies in
the United States
and Canada through his sermons published
In hundreds of newspapers. British news
papers also are taking on these sermons.
Surely no other Christian minister ever
had sointerested a hearing from the JewsI
Pastor Russell explains that this public in
terest is not In himself. but in the Divine
Message of the hour, due both to Chris
dams and to Jews, because We are in the
dawning of the New Diapensation-Mes-
slabs Spiritual Kingdom about to be in
augurated.
His Text Was Isaiah xl, I, 2.
His text declares that at a certain definite
time a Divine message would so to Israel
"a message of comfort and assurance of
returning Divine favor. The message de-
cIares that although the Jews have been
cut off from Divine favor for centuries
they are still Gods people. 1t declares
that the time of 1sraeF's disfavor was
definitely 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 In
cluded, 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 Rus
sell noted the portion belonging to the
Jews as separate and distinct from that
given to the Christians, or more properly
to the saints amongst the Christians.
whom he claimed are a little flock" as
compared to the nominal masses.
The blessings promised to the Jews from
Genesis to Malachi are all earthly. Par
adise lost" Is to be restored worldwide.
n,1 - A. To- H. nJA-ni
anic administration. is to be made a glo-
rious Eden.
Few Bible students, apparently, have
discerned that the Divine promise In
eluded too Seeds of Abraham-a hearenlD
seed and an earthly one-a spiritual seed
and a natural seed. There are abundant
Divine blessings for both and there is no
need that either should appropriate the
premises made to the other. The Jew and
the vast majority of the Gentiles will
greatly appreciate the earthly blessings
far more than they could appreciate the
heavenly. Only the spiritual-begotten,
sanity few. can appreciate the spiritual
things which "eye hath not seen nor ear
heard. neither hath entered into the heart
of man" but which God hath in reserva-
ton for those that love him'-more than
they love all earthly things.
The Jew Has Had His Double.
Gods Message declares, "she hath re-
ceived of the Lords hand double for all
of her sins" This does not signify that
God Is unjust and that he would give
twice as much punishment as was due to
Israeps sins. The Hebrew word rendered
double signifies a second part. The
thought is that Israel had a long period of
Divine favor and then an equal period of
Divine disfavor. At the end of this dou-
BILE, Divine favor was due to return. The
speaker reckoned 1876 years from the
Abrahamtc Covenant to the death of Je-
sus and that double which there began
marks the year 1873 as the beginning of a
period of returning favor. That very
year, a Jew, Lord Beaconsdeld, Prime
Minister of Great Britain, was a member
: of the Berlin Conference of Nations and
its leading genius. His policies for deal
ing with the Turkish Empire we're accept
ed, in fulhllmentrof-Heehariah viii. %:
Thus saith the Lord OF hosts, In those
lays 1t shall come TO pass, that ten men
shall take hold, out OF all 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 ave fulfill
ment. There the stability of titles in Pal
estine was assured as the Jew began to
have some recognition in his own land.
There all the principal nations followed
the policies suggested by the Jew. Sub
sequently, in Divine providence, Egypt.
as well as Palestine, came under super
vision of Great Britain. Since then the
Jewish star has been in the ~ascendancy.
Slowly, but steadily. advances nave been
made in wealth and social standing.
In due time the message of Zionism was
proclaimed and started the hearts of the
Jews pulsing with new life. Now we have
come to the time when Gods message
OF comfort to Israel is being heard by
both Jew and Christian and a fresh i'm
petus is laying hold upon the Jew, 1t is
Gods Message that will really stir the
hearts of Israel. They have been without
Prophet, Priest, ephod or sin-atonernent
for more than eighteen centuries. But
now they are hearing the voice of God.
It's effect will be stimulating. reviving.
The Law and the Prophets will be more
studied by the Jews within the next few
years than In all the eighteen centuries
past. The faith of the fathers will re-
turn. Representatives out of every ma
ton will revive Judaism in the land given
to Abraham.
Jewish Prosecutions Are Shameful.
Every true Christian should blush for
shame for the atrocities against the Jew
committed in the name OF Jesus and
Christianity! Not merely the crimes of
the Dark Ages cry out for vengeance and
for shame. but the atrocities of the pres
ent are terrible. The priests of so-cslied
Christian Russia chant praises TO Jesus
and, according to report. lead their de-
luded people to many OF the onslaughts
upon the Jew. numbering. pfilaging. abus-
ing, in the name Of Christ. In ChrIs-
tan () Roumania two months ago. the
poor Jews had an experience hard to be
charitably forgotten, Their Christian m
~DeighboTs oesecrated their cemeteries.
dug up many of the recently inferred and
east the corpses on their doorsteps.
With such devilish deeds done In the
name OF jesus and Christianity is IT any
wonder that the Jew has come 10 hate
these Terms We would not preach Jesus
to the Jews under present Conditions. He
gave them the Message of Gods Word
comforting them as his people. whose
times OF refreshing are now coming. We
urge upon them the highest sentiments
and Ideals found in the Law and IN the
Prophets. We poiat them to the blessings
that are theirs. The prophets declare
their establishment In Palestine as a
people at the time OF the TRANSPORTATION
OF Messiah's Kingdom and that IT will be
then that the Lord viii pour upon them
the spirit OF praye and "they shall look
upon him whom they pierced" Then and
not until then will they Identify the gio-
rious Messiah with the seif-sacrihcing Je-
~sus-"rhey shall look upon him whom
they have pierced (Zechariah xii. 100.