The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-05-31
PEOPLES PULPIT.
PASTOR RUSSELL'S
DISCOURSE
The Overthrow Of
Satan S Empire


are breaking as we near the time of
Satan's overthrow. According to the
Bible our Lord at his Second Advent
will bind the Adversary for thou
sand years that he may deceive man
kind no more. Meantime all the bless
ed influences of light and Truth and
grace will be let loose in the world
and as a result, the knowledge of the
glory of God shall fill the whole
earth Instead of the darkness of
the night of sin and death there will
be the morning of joy and gladness
and restitution and blessing. The sun
of righteousness will arise with heal
ing in his beams or that glorious
day Saint Peter spoke, saying, Times
of refreshing shall come from the
presence of the Lord. and he shall send
Jesus Christ, who before was preach
ed unto you, whom the heavens must
retain until the Times of Restitution
of all things which God hath spoken
by the mouth of all the holy prophets
since the world began (Acts iii, 1920.
Satan's destruction, according to the
Bible, will not be consummated until
after the MILLENNIAL KINGDOM
OF CHRIST shall have accomplished
its glorious work of uplifting human
fly out of sin and death conditions to
full human perfection and the image
Of God. All the unwilling and dis
obedient will be counted as servants
of Satan and will, with him, be de-
stroyed in the Second Death-extinc-
tion-from which there will be no re-
demption or recovery.
Great Missionary Work.
1.-THE missionary work Of blessing
and uplifting all the families Of the
earth is appointed of God for the Mil
lenniaI Kingdom-and, thank God, the
evidences are that it is very near, yea,
In sense. already beginning. Its
blessings are intimated by the wonder
full progress Of our day. Everything
waits until the predetermined number
Of Missionaries shall have been called
and schooled and tested and found
worthy of the great and honorable
work. The qualification is that each
must be a copy of Gods dear Som
so far as heart intention Is concerned.
Then these Missionaries will be glori-
fed like their Lord, on the spirit plane
and with him they will constitute the
Kingdom Of Gods dear Son. which
for a thousand years will bless the
world and bring to pass all that the
Lord our God has spoken, and more
than we could have asked or thought.
christian people have no need to
upbraid themselves on the score that
the missionary efforts of eighteen cen
turtles have accomplished comparative
ly little. They have no need to be dis
couraged with the fact that the census
returns show that in the past century
of the greatest missionary endeavor
the proportionate numbers of the hea-
then have doubled (six hundred mil
Hons a century ago-twelve hundred
millions today. This is all as God
foreknew and intended. God did not
purpose the conversion of the heather
during this age, but commissioned his
people to preach his Gospel to every
nation for a t0itness, that the Elect Mis-
sionaries for the future work might
be gathered from every country, peo-
pie and tongue Gods will has been
done The Adversary temporarily mis-
led the Church into a misunderstand-
ing Of her mission. He sought to have
us lower our standard of saintship, in
order to increase the Church far and
near. He sought to oppose the Divine
will by lowering the standards Of
saintship so as to include the masses
of mankind. He thus worked against
Divine arrangements. But he has not
succeeded. God has merely allowed
him to prove, test, separate and mani
fest the saints-the very elect
A Great Time of Trouble.
''The coming Of the light, the loos-
ing of the letters of ignorance and
superstition from the minds that are
not submitted to God. the Scriptures
show us, will result in a great time OF
trouble, in which the passions of men
but partially enlightened will do grea
violence to the entire social fab
ric We see the preliminary step.
already being taken, and, in the light
Of the Scriptures, we see the awfn
catastrophe which will result. The
world is rapidly resolving itself into
two mighty powers, selishly and with
acknowledgements, preparing for
headlong collision which will mean
wreck and ruin, tribulation and all
guish, to practically the whole world.
The Bible, in calling attention to this
great time Of trouble, warns the peo-
pie of God, so far as possible to avoid
both sides of the controversy, saying
Seek meekness; seek righteousness
1t may be that We shall be hid in the
day Of the Lords anger (Zephaniah
Ii, 81. With the wreck of present in
situations comes the end of Satan's
regime. So terrible will be the heat Of
passion and strife engendered at that
time that the Scriptures declare that
If it were not for the Elect there
would be no flesh saved mark xiii,
2O). The interposition Of the Elect as
the Kingdom Of God under Jesus. the
great King and Head of the Elect, is
the silver lining to that dark cloud.
The moment of mans extremity will be-
come the moment of Gods opportunity.
$50 terrible will be that time of trou-
BILE that the Scriptures symbolically
represent it as whirlwind as a food;
and as a fire. Some have mis-interpret-
ed these Scriptures and are expecting
a literal burning of the earth, but the
Lord denominates it the fire of his jeal-
ousy,' which will devour Society. And
then he tells us that following the fire
of trouble he will turn to the people
pure message that they may all call
upon the name of the Lord to serve
him with one consent (Zephaniah iii, 81.
Satan has had much to do with cor
rupting the message originally given to
the Church by Jesus and the Apostles
The Earring creeds have made dis
cordant sounds which have driven
many noble and logical hearts away
from the Bible Gods assurance is
that the completion of the Church Is
near; that her change to the heavenly
glory in the First Resurrection will
soon be accomplished and that then
the reign Of SIN and DEATH will end
under the Kingdom of Jesus. Then
the bondage of the world to ignorance,
superstition, ETC., will terminate; then
all the blind eyes will be opened and
all the deaf ears will be unstopped' and
the Lords pure message of Divine
Justice, Divine Love, Divine Wisdom
and Divine Power exerted on mans
behalf shall be made known to every
creature.