The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-10-26
Sermon by
CHARLES +.
RUSSELL,
Pastor Brooklyn
Tabernacle

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 Doth
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 he 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 a 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 non
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 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
eternityw Thank God, No! We have
no such evil sentiment in our heart.
We have nothing for the Jew but SYM
pathy, 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-through all
kinds of discouragements, disappoint-
ments and prosecutions.
The long promised time Of 1srael's
exaltation as the channel Of Messianic
blessing to mankind is near-it hasteth
treaty 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 mankind! What
though the Scriptures tell us that Is.
rael is yet to have THE time of ia
cob's trouble in connection with the
"0i" Sie". 'iii'c VI houo'e i"l
ING, >one y. ."'Ne links S""I, 'iii'iei
US Iioih icJo'tinS III 'nc NC" iie"N cliS
anu 'ie ne" h"iln' WHICH 'ou ue'
ciares ne - apou' ~ create anu put
INTO co"'ro' ol our N"riu- De We E"u
anu feJoI'e forever i'll that WHICH
create" isaiah lxv. 1S.
Inc New heavens ana the New
Earth are but SHlnpoIlcal terms Tor the
con'l-2Tauoh or mat New Era, IN
Whlcn there VIII he Il new social order,
as well as Il new "'rleSiastiCal system,
eternal IN the heavens
The time has come when orr text is
having its tuIiilIm"nt The shining OF
the lamp OF truth upon the prophetic
page shows us llnt the great clock OF
the Universe Is n"rEIuE the hour when
he whose riGAt ID is shall take to liu-
sell his great power and reign. M,
yes We remember that it is written
that then the nations shall be angry,
and Gods wrath SHALL be manifest. and
then the time shall como for the iudg-
ment of the dead and the reward of
all. both small ana great But we are
glad, nevertheless. that the times OF
the Gentilcs' are nearly at an end and