The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1910-08-05
Sermon by
CHARLES T.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle.

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-hve centuries
the Jews have waited for him as the
great Prophet foreshadowed by Moses
and foretold by him (Acts iii, 90; and
their Kings David and Solomon; and
as their glorious Priest typifed by
Aaron, but specially in the formers
majesty as king and priest foreshown
by Melchisedek-a priest upon his
Throne psalm cx, A..
Free masons have waited twenty-five
hundred years for the same glorious
parsonage, as Hiram Abiff, the great
Master Mason whose death, glorifca-
ton and future appearing are conttn-
ua1ly set before them by the letters
upon their keystones. He died vto-
lent death, they claim, because Of his
loyalty to the Divine secrets typed in
Solomon's Temple. He must reappear,
they claim, In order that the great
antitypical Temple may be completed
and its 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 as they are conversant with the
Bible tOld Testament and New be-
ueve, also, in a great Temple builder
who died because of his faithfulness
to the Divine plans, re the spiritual
Temple, the elect Church q Peter ii.
4, 81. Him they expect to come a sec
ond time ''in 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.
ping the God of Abraham. Isaac and
Jacob and David and Solomon, are
also expecting a great Heavenly Mes
Renger to bless them and all peoples
by the establishment Of a heavenly
- +.-,-,1r-rom. They have awaited his com
ing for centuries. They believe his
Kingdom to be near at hand.
Who Is This King of Glory2
The same glorious parsonage viii 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, 1.-THE de-
sire of all nations shall Gomez
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
slandered and prosecuted one another.
If now they viii sympathetically draw
near to each other. surely they will
find much to appreciate in each 9th
er's hopes and aims.
The Basic Of Sympathy.
The fact that the Jews and NOLAN
medans. Catholics and Protestants and
Free Masons. all base their faith on
the Old Testament of the Holy Scrip
lures, is ground for the better under
standing pleaded for.
All Christians must accept the au-
thority of the Hebrew Scriptures be-
cause the, founder Of Christianity,
Jesus, and his special mouthpieces, the
Apostles. taught nothing contrary to
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 fulfDment
The error in the past has been the
general disposition to appeal to super
stition and prejudice and bigotry, rath-
er 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-
An agree that the world needs the !
Divine blessing! All agree that we
have been laboring under a mistake in |
supposing that education and civiliza
ton are alone necessary to secure hui /
man happiness We perceive that the |
greater the civilization the greater is
the unrest: and the broader the edu- |
cation the greater are the suggestions |
and opportunities for taking selfish I'D
vantage of others
All are agreed that only the later In
ventions. telephones. etc, and our /
modern and costly police precautions |
make Il possible TO live in civilized |
lands and that, despite all these, muir
ders are a hundred-fold what they |
were fifty years ago. In those days a |
murder would be detailed and discuss
ed for a year. Now we give little heed |
10 several reported in each days news
papers. Thousands are executed. other |
thousands are imprisoned for life and |
we nay little heed-so gradually have |
we become accustomed 10 these hor-
rors Of our civilization and education |
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