Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-01-21

G-E tI6k O. A@iS
From the above Scripture Pastor Rus
sell deduced that after the Almighty had
been alone for an untold period his nrst
creation Of an Intelligent being in his own
likeness was accomplished. This disf1n-
guished One referred to In this Scripture
is he Only Bcgotten Of tho Father, the
Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and
the ending of Jehovah's direct creation.
The Logos was he who subsequently be-
came man. When q man he was styled
"the man Christ Jesus. who rave himself
Ransom~prfce for all. to be testified IN
due time Il Timothy II. o. He was
both the beginning and the ending Of the
direct Divine creation, to the intent that
the Almighty might use him as his
OF angels And men and In tho ordering Of
their Affairs.
The speaker declared that Christian
thought respecting Messiah. h Son OF
the Highest, Is in confusion because OF
tho general neglect to Investigate the
Scriptures bearing on the subject. He
pointed Jack to the beginning of the
Christian Era and declared that soon aft
err that time q controversy arose In the
Church and as a result great confusion
has since prevailed. At a time when
there were no such Bibles as we now pos
sess, with concordances, marginal refer
ences, ETC.; 1T a time, too, when h
masses were unable to read, d~isputation
ran high. The Jews took the ground that
Jesus was an impostor who did his works
by the power OF the fallen angels.
Some Christians took the opposite ex-
treme-that Jesus was not merely . Son,
but was God the Father hims1lk who for
a time appeared amongst men, n In
false humility styled himself the Son OF
God when, in reality. he WAS tho Father
of lights" Some carried this thought to
the extreme, teaching that there are three
Gods who are in unison, in harmony, In
oneness OF spirit or work. Others held
that there IL but one GOD, but that in
some unexplainable n he divides
himself into three parts equal In power
and glory. Still others, rejecting these ex-
IRENE views, claimed that Jesus had no
prehuman existence. that Joseph was his
father, etc.
But ali the while, said Pastor Russell,
the Scriptures bore the plain testimony
that Jesus was the beginning OF the Gre
alton OF God. the First-Born, the Logos,
the first Divine expression.
"Ths Word Made Flesh.r
The Scriptures explain that the Logos
was made nesh and dwell amonESt men
and we beheld his glory, the glory OF the
only begotten OF the Father" He thus
took upon him the form OF a servant
that he by the grace of God might taste
death for every man. Having finished
the work given him by the Father, the
latter raised Jesus from the dead by his
~fJehovah's> own power, ezaltins Jesus
again to the spirit plane Of being with
added glory-efar above angels" philip
II. 7-s),
we read that God sent his Son into the
to redeem the world. but It II a mis-
rxaB co1u~
41.ok TIA xfcrfuro nj Christ
were enforced. On the contrary, the
Scriptures declare tina the heavenly Fa-
set before his Son. the. First-Begot-
ten OF all creation, the promise OF a glort-
GUS reward. ID He should have the pleas
ure of doing the Fathers will CD Al
though this would cost him a great sacr1-
fee, nevertheless, 1t would bring him. the
great distinction Of being for q Thousand
years tfla Mediator between God and men.
the great Messiah and Deliverer Of man
kind from the reign Of sin and death. go
Additionally, he should be returned from
the earthly conditions to the heavenly
conditions, as q spirit being. and with
nadea glory
Tho Trinity Of the Bible.
Various are the Views called the doc
trine OF the Trinity. The Bible does teach
that ITO us there Is one God the Father,
Of whom are all things, and ono Lord
Jesus Christ, by whom are all things and
we by him." and that there Is one holy
Spirit OF the Father, a holy power, Will.
mind, energy. and that this Is the mtnd OF
Christ, by virtue Of his full submission OF
his will to do the Fathers viii. This holy
Spirit is also to be the spirit. mind or vii
OF the Church.
All Christians must Of necessity believe
| In the Father and IN the Son and In the
holy Spirit and must recognize that these
ara not contrary infiuences-that they are
| at one, in full harmony. But h UNI
| scripturaI theory of gome that there are
| three Gods In one person, and the oppo-
| site theory OF others that there is one God
| In three persons-thess errors of the DARK
| Ages are not onlyArrational but wholly TN,