The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-08-04
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

this place Pastor Russell of Brooklyn
Tabernacle addressed the Information
al Bible Students Association-about
1000. He said
The great Messiah. "King of Glory"
has long been waited for by the civil
lied nations. For thirty-fve centuries
the Jews have waited for him as the
great Prophet foreshadowed by Moses
and foretold by him (Acts iii, 22); and
as the Great King foreshadowed by
their Kings David and Solomon; and
as their glorious Priest typf6ed by
Aaron, but specially in the formers
majesty as king and priest foreshown
by Melchisedek-a priest upon his
Throne psalm OK. 4).
Free masons have waited twenty
hundred years for the same glorious
parsonage, as Hiram Abig, the great
Master Mason whose death, glorifica-
ton and future appearing are contin.
uelly set before them by the letters
upon their keystones. He died vic.
lent death, they claim. because of his
Solomon's Temple. He must reappear,
they claim, in order that the great
antitypical Temple may be completed
and it's grand service for Israel and for
all peoples may be accomplished. They
claim that his presence Is TO be ex-
pected speedily.
Christians of every shade, in proper
ton az they are conversant with the
Bible told Testament and New be-
lieve. also, in a great Temple builder
! who died because Of his faithfuness
| to the Divine plans, re the spiritual
| Temple. the elect Church q Peter H.
4, 81. Him they expect TO come a Sec
ond time lin power and great glory"
| TO complete the Temple which is his
Body, and in and through that spirit
ual and glorious Temple to bless Is
rael and all the families of the earth.
His second presence in glory and pow
er, but invisible to men. is believed to
be imminent
The Mohammedans, also worship
ping the God of Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob and David and Solomon. are
i also expecting Il great Heavenly Mes
senger to bless them and all peoples
| by the establishment of a heavenly
| Kingdom. They have awaited his com
| ing for centuries. They believe his
| Kingdom to be near at hand.
Who Is This King of Glory?
The same glorious parsonage will full
| fill all these desires-these hopes. Is
it not time that all of these peoples
fearing God and hoping in his prom
Uses, should come together in one hope
in one expectation? 1t must be so. for
do we not read prophetically, ''The de
sire of all nations shall come"
| We are well aware that great bar
rierS lie between these multitudes; but
we hold that they are chiefly barriers
Of superstition and ignorance. In the
| past they have pulled apart. and have
slandcred and prosecuted one another
If now they will sympathetically draw
near to each other. surely they vii
find much TO appreciate in each 9th
er's hopes and aims.
The Basio of Sympathy.
The fact that the Jews and NOLAN
medans. Catholics and Protestants and
Free Masons. all base their faith OF
the Old Testament of the Holy Scrip
lures, is ground for the better under
standing pleaded for
All Christians must accept the au
ihority of the Hebrew Scriptures be
cause the founder of Christianity
Jesus. and his special mouthpieces, the
! Apostles, taught nothing contrary &c
the Law and the PROPHETS Indeed
they quoted from the Old Testament
In proof of every doctrine advanced
They claimed that they neither de
stroyed nor ignored the Old Testament
but merely noted its ful6llment.
! The error in the past has been tn,
general disposition TO appeal TO super
stition and prejudice and bigotry. rath
err than to facts and Scripture. We
must reverse the lever in order TO at
tain the good results-in order TO see
eye to eye.
What All Can Agree To.
All agree that the world needs thu
, Divine blessing. All agree that W.
have been laboring under mistake II
supposing that education and civiliza
ton are alone necessary to secure hu
man happiness. We perceive that The
greater the civilization the greater il
the unrest; and the broader the edu
cation the greater are the suggestions
and opportunities for taking selfish ad
vantage of others.
All are agreed that only the later In
ventions. telephones. etc. and on
modern and costly police precautions
make II possible to live in civilized
lands and that. despite all these, muir
ders are n hundred-fold what they
were fifty years ago In those days ;
murder would be detailed and discuss
ed for q year. Now we give little hee(
to several reported in each days news
papers. Thousands are executed. othe
, thousands are imprisoned for life ant
we pay little heed-so gradually have
we become accustomed TO these hor
rors of our civilization and education
We oppose these with Church an(
tnte.ion Influences with Sunday