The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-05

Sal to The Tribune.
|,tOOKLYN, Sept, A.-Pastor Russell
| ehed today in the Academy OF Music
f}arsest auditorium. the Tabernacle
of insufficient capacity. He bad a
'attentive hearing. There were many
ews In the large audience. lie salo
orning events cast their shadows be-
|F Startling shadows arc all about
LA great change in the affairs OF
Lis Indicated and Acknowledged by
[lhoughtful, intelligent people. Thc
rs pace during the past fifty years
ktishes everybody. New conditions
us on every hand. The majority
Ia scientinc lines are considered rno-
|ltoday Rules and customs and the
of the past, supposed TO be immoN
II and absolute arc abandoned as
hlcss-iu chemistry, In manufactures,
It. In finance and commerce; Al.
changes necessitatc new View OF
1 conditions and a rc-eNaminatlon OF
elationship of religion and the Blolc
an and his conditions, as seen IRON,
resent viewpoint. The business ana
A world have been compelled 10 Keep
with the steps of progress. some VI
gladly and some of them reluctant
| But religionist3 have been piaccu ~,
sense constitute the backoon ana
OF the best progress in civilization;
oerplexity of religious thought ana
||anifest inability TO adjust itscf 10
|changed conditions. Is working n
| us disadvantage to all disposed 10
Ito the Almighty for guidance IN
affairs
q Increase in worldly wisdom. the
| bved human conditions. the advance
along scientific lines in materlal
| 3erity have turned many az Inc
| Is brightest intellcctS away from
| and from the Bible Many of these
| 'iprofessing Christianity in an out
! formal manner have rcsiy sI,s.,, anam-
n in favor OF a theory OF 'ciVlllIa-
They have wandered from the d.
| |lRevelation. the Bible, into maths OF
k.lation-thpir own and other men $:
.havc cogitated thai the reverse, oil
|Bible statements is the Truth.-that
| IA OF man falling from the image
Ihd into sin and death. he Is rising
|I n, brute or monkey plane upward,
HIAlly, Ia Divine heights. Instead or
E&r for a Great nelivcrer. Messiah
|1r Live -Givcr. they arc hoping 10 nc
| lone by any outside influence, that
lin fancied laws Of evolution might
[1theIn upward and onward 10 glory,
| and immortality.
y result is that religious thought to-
[~syervwhere and in all denominations
1aotic. Tho whole or Christendom
Irbractically become AGnoStic-a admit
|k,fhat they do not know the Truth
low to adjust their reasoning facul-
To present conservation They are
expectant attitudc-seeklng light
rfheless many fear the light lest 1t
! make munlfoSt cherished errors or
NM hopes and ambitions which must
Ibandoned But they are still pre-
Phg 10 know many things which We
dfey know that they do not know.
|0heily the strain becomes more In
III Gradually everybody is recoeniz
ks,hat there is q great crisis along
RliIue.-t1st the people are awaken
kyni Blinking and viii no longer re-
ffheir errors.
Converting the World TO God.
" years ago Christian people fun
9TH In the Bible which they scrl-
lar misunderstood and read with sec
W specIacics OF Va Tious colorS, were
J. kagreed that God had given his
'Rth The commission TO convert the
'Ud world and 10 establish Messiah =
Iom. when the nations would learn
|Q,to more but beat their swords into
|N,hares and their spears into pruning
Jealous Christian people urged
Lhe hcathen were going down 10 a
|4h eternal torment a ( the rate Of
"f thousand every twenty-four hours.
la noble, men and women sacrificed
Seerthly interests for the assistance
We heathcn-to prevent that awful
rophe, to help thwart the very pro
Of God which some other Christian
~ of an earlier day had declared
predestinatcd and foreordained as
Fable. Good was certainly at
= Cd. We trust that some good was
plished We know that some harm,
1one. in that fallacious conceptions
VI character and plan of The Creator