The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1911-08-11
The HEREAFTER IN A
nutshell.
By Pastor Russell.
PRnrIrING BY PAST ERRORs.

PROFITING BY PAST ERRORS
Whilst Catholics are returning 10
the Bible and the present Pope has
directed that their people he encour-
aged in Bible study, Protestants are
drifting into Infidelity under the
modern designations Higher Criticism
and Evolution, said the pastor. Our
fathers during the dark ages got
away from the Bible by suposing an
apostolic suggestion Gradually the
Creeds got the Bibles placs under the
supposing that they agreed. Now have
ing outgrown these Creeds i'm reject-
ing them many many are rel citing tn
Bible also. This is mistalSe! The
Bible is the most wonderful book in
the world when allowed to interpret
itself. 1t furnishes the only allying
ground for human brotherhood and
Christian brotherhood. The world
otherwise DIS facing anarchy. A lost
Religion will soon mean a lost God,
and a lost future hope, and selfish
strife for the present life only
MANS FALL FROM PERFECTION.
Let us not mourn our errors of the
past unduly, but at once, now, get
right with God and his Book! Its
presentation is logical from Genesis
to Revelations. 1t tells of the perfec
tion of OUT first parents, of the test
of their loyalty, of their failure and
its penalty d ath,-nOt eternal tontRtre
1t tells that all of present imperfec-
ton, mental and moral and physical
are incidental to the death penalty,
&c, 900 ,0OO,0 have been born dying
and soon tcpled over unto the tomb.
GODS MERCY MANS ONLY HOPE.
Gods mercy cannot allow sinners
to live in happiness in injure them
selves and others and to mar creation
nor could 1t permit sinners I'll live in
torture to blaspheme the Holy Name
But one thing could be done under
the pan arranged. Man could be re.
deemed by Savior dying the just
for the unjust to square the demand
of justice against the race through
one mans disobedieuce. God pur
posed this remedy for all the rac'
''bafore the foundation of the world.
"In due time Christ died for the I'M
egodly' tasted death mot 10
torment) for every, man.
SETTING FREE THE PRISONERS
The Bible alone teaches that me-
die when they seem to die; yet
4 calls this ''sletp' because there is
be "a resurrection of the dead, boz
e lust and unjust" The Prophets an
h Apostles all "fell asleep" as wei a
: all Others of Adams race. They al
n sleeping in a great prison-house III
conscious until the prison tomb sha
to be opened and they shall be calle
: forth. This was shown by many Scr
u lures
|, THE DELIVERER-THE RANSOMl
d 1t was not sufficient that Jesus can
Il and died for mans sin. That sai'
h saction Of Justice is preliminary
n their recovery from the prison IN
II from the hereditary weaknesses whic
e led themt O the prison house, I'll
n tomb. Hence the Redeemer is ais
q to be the nestorer and Lifegiver. TT
II time for that deliverance or ''res,Gt'
n ton lis still future, but near. Itwi
bagdn at Jesus second advent sa,
St. PIeter-Ac,s 3:19-23.
MESSlAHIS KINGDOM THEORY E
m PLODED.
IS So say some good people; but th'
IL err. lit was Jesus himself that to
~ of his future reign of a thonsal
~ Years when his Bride-Church ID
IL 'telect" will be associated with Ind
r in his Kingdom and work; and wh'
'g Satan shall be bound.-Revelatic
20: 10.
Re The loss of this hope by our for
e. fathers led on to all the gnlcvous {
o. rors frcm which We are now soeki
" to escape. Do we not still pray IT
Ut Kingdom come, thy will be done
earth ever as it is done i'm heaven
The coming Messlah's Kingdsn
THE kay to the worlds blessing
I'd restitution-bnck TO human peril
cd ton i'm a worldwide Eden.
''HIGH CALLING" OF THE "BRID
oe While waiting for his "due tim
ls to come for the blessing of mankj
n God is not idle. He made one eecti'
during the Jewish age from amons