Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-02-23
PASTOR RUSSELL REFUTEs THE
CHARGES

CHARGES
WorId-Burning No Part Of His Mes
sage for 1915, Nor For Any Other
Date - ReverseIy He ProcIaims
Good Tidings Of Great Joy Which
Shall be unto All People. Jewish
interests Center in 1915 srael's
Standardization Presages the
Worlds BLESSING.
Mr.. EditOr:-I crave a few inches
of your space in correction of q news
item widely circulated from Washing
ton, u. c., Jan. 20, stating that a
Street Evangelist charges me with
exciting the people" by preaching
that Christ will come in A D. 1878,
and accomplish the destruction OF the
world
This Street Preacher" got himself
mixed up with my theology. 1t is true
that he sent me kind invitation to
share twenty minutes of my time in
explaining to the audience how he
misunderstood my presentations be-
fore he had heard them. It is true
that he has requested q public debate
with me at the next Baptist Conven-
ton in June Or at the Christian En-
deavor convention in July. But I did
not believe that the gentleman was
authorized to speak for. either Of the
conventions; consequently I gave him
no heed AS I was announcing the
closing hymn the gentleman attempt
! ed an interruption.
But it appears that after my meet
ing was dismissed, the interrupter,
who calls himself an evangelist, IN
dertook to explain to a bevy Of re-
porters Pastor Rllssells errors (as
published in your journaI) lie de
cIared that all over the country I was
preaching the second coming OF Christ
i'll 1915 and soaring people, AS YIN
the reporters, for how could they
know how foo]ishly the man was talk
ing?
| wish to deny, as positively as Ian
gnage will permit, that I said single
thing concerning the year 1915 last
Sunday. Nor have I ever preached
such things; nor do ! believe them
now So far from teaching that
Christ viii! come and the world be
burned up in 1915, as VIM. Miller
taught of an earlier date, my teaching
is that the world will never be burn
ed up, but as the Bible declares, ''The
earth abideth forever. ''-Eccles. Ia
| If. Evangelist represents any
Protestant or Catholic bodies, as be
intimates, his creed surely reci;es the
burning up of the world at the Second
Advent Of Christ. Many ministers
in all denominations teach that Christ
/ may come at any moment, and that
the moment of His coming will be the
end of the world! A few sanity ones
they say, will be saved; but all the re
mainder will be overwhelmed by fire
that will fall upon them from heaven
It is one Of their stock arguments in
tended to excite the people. l wonder
! if Evangelist" has not so preached
It is because my interpretations OF
the Scriptures are SO very different
on this particular point that many
Christian people are being awakened
to fresh study Of the Bible. / am
in communication with Bible classes
all over the world. Many persons
are being reclaimed from infidelity by
the Message which has nothing Of ex-
element in it, but which shows the
! Bible in its true light, as the most
commonsense book in the world.
No Jewish State Before 1915.
| What I have said respecting 1918 is
that, in my understanding, there ends
the treading down of the Jews by the
Gentiles--a period of $500 years fro1i,
the time the crown was taken from.
| .3udah's last king of the house Of Da-
vid--Zedekiah, B c., 6O6. Israel's
restoration to Palestine as nation
will, Officially, mark the beginning OF
the Messianic reign Of righteousness,
which will last thousand years.
Luke 21::24.
Mr., Editor, Evangelist" either in
tentionally or unintentially, most thor
oughly misrepresented my views. /
teach from the Scriptures that Mes
sfah. as King of Glory, is not man
and will not be visible to men-that
his Empire will be spiritual. but pow
erful.
Those Scriptures which alarm
"Evangelist' and others, as represent