Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-04-20

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III $780, Tabernacle was
crowded TO hear
Pastor Russell's
Easter sermon on
The Resurrection T
VI Hope the only I
One" His text was /
from Corinthians /
t9sN Ioe lsae1L XIV PTS
How say some
among you that there is no resurrec- /
ton of the deadr'* . If Christ be not
risen then is our preaching vain and
your faith is also vain: then they
also which are fallen asleep in Christ
are persisted The speaker said
Bibles Have Been Read Too carelessly.
For years Gods people have had ex
cellent Bibles and thus been blessed
far in advance of brethren who lived
during the Dark Ages We have
read our Bibles too carelessly and Of
ten have most Of US wondered at the
great stress st. Paul laid upon the
resurrection. Rarely is the subject
ever preached upon now and rarely is
it ever thought of except as an absurd
ity.
The reason for This is not far to
seek From childhood we have been
j taught that nobody is dead. that in dy-
ing everybody. goodand bad, gets more
alive than ever before. that this alive
ness to the sanity few means spiritual
powers and an immediate entrance
into heaven. death being swallowed up
in life. The insanity masses also. we
were told,. would have quickened sensi-
biiues after dying: that they became
more aArc. more able to appreciate and
suffer pain.
Our Catholic neighbors told us that
the, majority would Immediately go to
. I'urgatoly. there to he tried by various
suiferings and tortures-later on to en-
ter heaven Our Protestant teachings
were to the effect that. the insanity
MASSES. unfit for the presence of God
and the holy, would be consigned to an
eternity Of torture and made very much
more alive to their awful sufferings.
Thus we were taught to believe that
death is a portal or door into an In
tenser life-thgf nobody is dead Many
of Us perplexed ourselves and were
perplexed by others with questions re-
speeding how there could be "resur-
rectiOn Of the dead" If nobody is dead.
We avoided the question. or gave the
answer. Mystery; go run and play"
Now What Do We Find?
When once we see that THE wages
of sin is DEATH and not eternal tor
ment; and that the Bible bell is the
tomb and not fiery furnace: and that
all mankind 90 to Sheol-to hades-j just
as did our Savior; then we begin TO
see that what we all need is to be
saved from sheol. from hades. just as
the Savior was. A resurrection saliva
ton is thus the salvation hope Of the
Church and of the world.
What a relief this gives us as re-
spects parents. children, neighbors,
friends and the heather. who have died
out Of Christ. insanity. What com.
fort it brings to know that they are
sleeping in the great prison-house OF
death. unconscious Of the lapse OF
time. waiting for the Redeemer who
will set up His Kingdom in glory. as
sociating His Bride with Himself for
the blessing of all the families of the
earth.
The bringing forth of the prison
ers out of the prison-house of deatt
will be to set before them. under the
glorious provisions of the New Dispen
p sation. an opportunity for life eUerlGst
ing by obedience to the laws Of the
Kingdom under the assistance of tn,
heavenly One-the alternative being
/, not eternal torment. but death-SeconC
Death. from which there will be a,
| hope Of recovery.
All Souls Go to Sheol.
/ Some one may say. Pastor Russell
what about the soul? If the body goel
8 to sheol, hGdes. the tomb. where goei
the soul? | reply that it is the sou
that goes to sheol, to h0des. the Craze
the tomb. the state of death. Although
the words sheol and hGdes are translat
ed grave more times than TRANSLATED
he'll. nevertheless they refer. not Il
the mound OF earth. which is in tn
. nature of a monument. but to the Sc
cret. hidden condition. preferably styles
the tomb. the abyss.
As Jesus descended into hddes. so d.
all mankind. AS the Father raise
Him from the dead on the third day
so 1t is promised that He will raise us
q the Church. up from the dead. Nor
than this. the unjust also. those VIII
y have not been approved Of God in tn
present life. shall all be awakened frOn
6 the sleep Of death. They will com
forth Informed respecting sin, havin
= lived under the reign OF Sin and DEATH
They will come forth that they ma
learn the ways OF righteousness. tn
reward OF which Is life everlasting.
The glorihed Jesus and His glorihe
( Church. the Bride. will be the Roya