Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-01-06
PRESENT YOUR BODIES.

"What Shall Render Unto the
Lord My, God For All His Benefits
Towards Me? Will Take the Cup
OF Salvation and Call Upon the Name
Of the Lord. 1 VIII Pay My Vows
Unto the Lord psalm cxvi, 12).
II Besseech You, Brethren. by the
Mercies of God, That We Present Your
Bodies a Living Sacrifice, Holy and
Acceptable Unto God and Your Rea-
sonable Service (Romans xii, 49,.
Chicago, Jan. 2-Pastor Russell Of
Brooklyn Tabernacle, New York.
preached here twice today to large
audiences. The Auditorium of world
wide celebrity for its size and excel
lent acoustics, afforded the immense
audience a superior opportunity to
hear Pastor Russell's discourse in the
afternoon. We report his evening dis
/ course based on the foregoing texts.
He said
( The opening of New Year is like
the opening of a new ledger. It is q
favorable time for determining what
should be disposed of in the profit
and loss account and for putting into
effect resolutions governing the New
Year. The fact that thousands O.
resolutions will be made at this sea-
son only to be broken later under the
impact Of temptation, should not dis
courage us from making such resolu-
lions ourselves and advising the
course to others. The man or woman
who makes no Resolutions or Vows
makes little progress in character
building. Poor, fallen human nature
needs al 1.-The bands and braces and
supports which well-directed will
can give it. We are not advocating
hasty, and sometimes unreasonable,
vows and resolutions and pledges
thoughtlessly taken. What we do ad-
vocate is thoughtful, rational sitting
down and counting the cost, and then
and there resolving with the full
strength of the character, with the
Full determination of the mind, to pur-
sue the way which deliberate judg-
ment tells one is the proper course.
A Christmas Vow or Resolve.
"A Christian, like other men, can be
benefited by such Resolves to himself,
which should be sacredly kept. in pro-
portion as he respects himself and
would be respected. These Resolu-
lions may apply to sundry affairs of
life -his home, his business, his per-
sonal habits.zetc. But when the Chris
tian comes to consider his highest in
terests, he at once recognizes that
| they are those by which he is related
to hiss Creator and his-savior. At the
very beginning Of his Christian ex-
perience; after he had longed for
| righteousness and turned from sin;
after his eyes had seen Jesus as his
Redeemer; after his ear Of faith had
hard that he was reconciledf to God
| through tn death of his Son and had
J forgiveness of sins through faith in
| his blood-then came to him the most
| important moment of his life. For
God, through his Word, invited him
/ to make full conservation of himself
~including every earthly interest and
affair to- the Lord and his service.
+ The proposition, in the language of
the Savior, was that he should take
up his cross and follow Christ; and
|That sa reward he should have in
the present life tribulation from with
out, but the peace Of the Lord within,
and in the future life experience
share in the First Resurrection. That
change to glory, honor, Immortality,
the Divine nature, means joint-heir-
ship with his Redeemer in his greaa.
office and work as the Mediator be
tween God and the world during the
Millenial Age. The terms are clearly
state self-denial, cross-bearing, ser
vice for Christ, faithfulness unto
death. The rewards also, as clearly
stated, are crowns of life and member
ship in the Royal Priesthood, seat
T with the Lord in his throne, an oppor-
tunity of being one of the judges fol-
helping and uplifting mankind during
the Millennium.
While stating the conditions clearly
and distinctly, through his Word the
Lord did not urge consecratio but
said rather that each should sit down
first and count the cost. After having
counted the cost, whoever chose to ac-
cet the proposition did so by making
Vow unto the Lord-a Conservation
Vow of full submission-the full sur
render of the will This was to the
intent that thereafter not only the
conduct of life, but the words of the