The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-05-30
PEOPLES PULPIT.
PASTOR RUSSELL
HOMEWARD
BOUND
"As the Waters Cover the
Great Deep Isaiah xi, q.

us to realize that only through the es-
tablishment of the Kingdom Of Gods
dear Son can the glorious blessings of
the Millennium ever be hoped for.
Alas! We must admit. aud should feel
deeply humble by the admission, that
even In civilized lands, the number of
footstep followers of the Lamb OF God
is very few. The number who are
walking not after the flesh. but after
the Spirit" In civilized lands Is very
few, in comparison with the population
as whole. We are not In this setting
ourselves as judges Of the hearts of
our fellow-creatures-re few
make any pretention to walking In the
marrow way" which alone now leads
to life everlasting NIatthew vii. l4l.
Tho Necessity For knowledge.
Many dear Christian people, de-
sirous of thinking well of the heaven
ly Father, are SO befogged with the
teachings of the past. that they try to
imagine that the way TO eternal life Is
not SO narrow as the Master said; they
try to imagine that somehow the
heather will be saved in their igno-
rance, notwithstanding the Apostle
says How shall they believe on him
of whom they have not heard" (Romans
Y, 14). And again. his assurance that
there is none other name under heav-
en given among men. whereby we
must be saved" (Acts iv. 12,.
The error from the past which led to
this Inconsistency is the teaching that
all of the heather are going to eternal
torture, and that they never will have
an opportunity of accepting Christ In
the future They rebel against the
thought which has come down from
the dark ages that God foreknew the
ignorance Of the heather and predes-
tinated their eternal torture; that they
should not hear of the only name under
heaven or given among men whereby
they might be saved and fixed their en-
vironments so that they never heard.
The whole difficulty, we see, lies in the
fact that Gods people In the past have
not studied his Word as they should
have done. Some Of us subscribed to
one creed, and some to another, saying
to ourselves, Our creed Is not satisfac-
tory, but 1t is probably as free from
error as other creeds. We consoled
ourselves with the thought that all
Christendom was considerably befog-
ged, and we no more than others.
Some of us probably tried to satisfy
our minds by saying that those fea-
lures of our creeds which dishonored
God, and implied his lack of wisdom,
or worse, his willingness but lack of
justice, or lack Of power-that these
things were mysteries which must be
believed, although they could not be
reconciled with human reason and
common sense. Some of us even tried
to persuade ourselves that we were
exercising extraordinary faith in these
matters, but In reality we were mere
ly ignorant of Gods Word, and cred.
ulous Of the wisdom of our creed max.
ers Of the past.
True Light Now Shining.
But now, thank God, "The night is
far spent, and the day Is at hand"
Romans xiii. 49, "Now is our saliva.
ton nearer than when we believed"
(Romans Kill, 1D. The evidence that
we are in the. morning of the new dis
pensation multiplies on every hand!
We are evidently In the period which
the Bible declares as '"The day Of
Gods preparation" God Is preparing
to usher in the long-promised period
Of blessing and refreshment. which he
has foretold through all the holy