The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1911-02-07
PASTOR RUSSELL
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news item widely circulated from
Washington, d. c., Jan. Goth, stating
that a street evangelist charges me
with exciting the people, by preach
ing that "Christ will come in A. D.
1915, and accomplish the destruction
of the world
This "street preacher got himself
mixed up with my theology 1t is true
that he sent me a kind invitation to
share twenty minutes of my time in ex-
planning to the audience how he misun-
derstood my presentations before he
had heard them. 1t is true that he has
requested public debate with me at
the next Baptist convention in June or
at the Christian Endeavor convention
in July. But / did not believe that the
gentleman was authorized to speak for
either of the conventions; consequent
ly / gave him no need. AS / was an
nouncing the closing hymn the gentle
man attempted an interruption.
But it appears that after my meet
ing was dismissed, the interrupter, who
calls himself an evangelist, undertook
to explain to a bevy of reporters Pas
tor Russell's "errors. He declared
that all over the country I was preach
ing the second coming of Christ in 1915
and soaring people, as VIM. Miller did
years ago. do not blame the report.
ers, for how could they know how fool
ishly the man was talkingf
| wish to deny, as positively as Ian
guage will permit, that | said single
thing concerning the year 1915 last
Sunday. Nor have I ever preached
such things; nor do I believe them now
So far from teaching that Christ will
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 burned up, but, as the
Bible declares, "The earth abideth for
ever. '-Eccles, IA.
If the evangelist" represents any
Protestant or Catholic bodies, as he in
Inmates, his creed surely recites the
burning up of the world at the second
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 remand
er will be overwhelmed by fire that will
fall upon them from heaven. 1t is one
of their stock arguments intended to
excite the people. / wonder if "Evan
gelist' has not so preacheds
1t is because my interpretations of
the Scriptures are so very different on
this particular point that many Chris
tian people are being awakened to a
fresh study of the Bible. 7 am in com
munication with the Bible classes all
over the world Many persons are be-
ing reclaimed from infdelity by the
Message. which has nothing of excite
ment in it, but which shows the Bible
in its true light, as the most common
sense book in the world.
No Jewish State Before 1915.
What have said respecting 1915 is
that, in my understanding, there ends
the treading down of the Jews by the
Gentiles--a period of 1920 years from
the time the crown was taken from
Judah IS last king of the house of
David-Zedekiah B. G. COG. Israel g
restoration to Palestine as nation
will, Biblically, mark the beginning of
the Messianic reign of righteousness,
which will last thousand years-Luke,
21-24.
Mr.. Editor, Evangelist either in
tentionaly or unintentially, most
thoroughly misrepresented my views. I
teach from the Scriptures that Mes
siah, as the King of Glory, is not a
man and will not be visible to men
that his empire will be spiritual, but
powerful
Those Scriptures which alarm
=" Evangelist and others, as represent
ing the burning up of the world, I un-
derstand to refer to a great time of
trouble with which this age will ter
inmate and the new era be inaugural
ed. Those who read my sermons and
books could not be deceived by "Evan-
gest." Yet thousands of other peo-
pie may have been. So / thank you for
this opportunity for explanation.
Respectfully,
G. T. RUSSELL.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Feb. 2, 1911.