The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-06-26

ton" in session
here. He has been making a sort Of
continental tour. including Indianapo-
lis. st. Louis, Kansas City. Pueblo, Col
orado Springs. Denver, Salt Lake City,
Los Angeles. Pasadena and Santa
Cruz. In all these cities local branches
of the II. B. $. A." invited him and
made arrangements for public ad-
dresses. A train-load Of Bible Stu
dents are with hin-about one hun
dred and fifty in all.
Meetings are to be held returning
at Sacramento. Portland. Tacoma,
Seattle. Vancouver Calgary, Winni-
peg. Duluth. Buffalo and Toronto.
The scheme is n novel and benevo-
lent one; for surely what he has I'M
dertaken and is carrying out is not q
lazy mans burden
This Earthly Zionism.
Speaking from the text, 'The Law
shall go forth from Mt. Zion and the
Word of the Lord from Jerusalem"
isaiah ii. 81. Pastor Russell declared
that Christians had inadvertently mis-
appropriated to themselves many
promises Of the Scriptures which are
not wholly theirs. Christian creeds
and theories have surmised that,
through the rejection of Jesus. all
Jews dying in unbeIef of Messiah
were foreordained to an eternity of
~, tie y,
Only Name.
| A more careful study Of the Bible,
he declared. is showing Bible Students
the error of this position. Jews who
do not accept Jesus MS their Savior
and who do not become followers in
His steps in the marrow way" will in
deed fail of attaining a place with
Jesus in his Throne Of glory. They
/ will fail TO become joint-heirs with
Him in His glorious Messianic King
| dom. They will fail to become mem
bers of the spiritual Seed Of Abraham,
respecting whom st. Paul said. If ye
be Christ's. then are ye Abraham's
Seed and heirs according to the prom
! Use Galatians iii. 20).
The Heavenly zionism.
! The Zionism of the past eighteen
centuries has been of the heavenly
kind 1t has been calling and inspir-
/ ing to loving zeal. obedience and ac-
| tivity such as have the hearing ear,
| the heavenly calling to joint-heirship
| with Messiah. This glorious privilege
| is about to end because the full num-
Der predcstinated of the Lord will soon
| have been completed. Meantime, the
| Pastor and others of Gods consecrated
people should be Zionists in the high
est sense of the word and, laying aside
| every weight and every besetting sin
| ench should strive to make his calling
and election sure" to place in the
| Heavenly Zion-the Kingdom of Mes
| siah
1t will be from this Mt. Zion, the
spiritual Kingdom Of Messiah, that the
Law will go forth during the thousand
years Of the Messianc reign; the grea,
Judge and Law-giver of the world will
be the glorified Redeemer; and His
|
Prophet, Priest, King, Judge and Me
diator. will be the faithful Zionists OF
the present time who follow in the
steps Of their Redeemer, delighting tc
| lay down their lives for the Truths
sake and for the brethren's sake. in
cooperation with the great Captain OF
their salvation. through the merit OF
His imputed righteousness.
rho Word From Jerusalem.
AS soon as Mt. Zion. the Kingdom
shall be completed by the Qualification
OF the last member of the Church. i,
will be time for the Law to go forth
| therefrom for the correction of the
worlds affairs in righteousness-for
the overthrow of every form of iniqui
/ ty and everything contrary to the Gold
en- Rule. In other words. when the
Kingdom class shall have been com
pleted by the elective process, which
is the Divine arrangement of this Age
forthwith that Kingdom will come into
power and the reign of righteousness
will begin.
/ 81
we believe the Lord is stirring up-a
| preparation of natural Israel for the
great blessing which so soon will be al
their door. As they begin to really
appreciate the Land of Promise, the
rich promises in connection with thai
land must become theirs, and the in
spiration of those promises will lea6
their hearts back to the Lord in pray
er and supplicntion and will lead the
feet of n reverential, representative
number Of them back to the land it
self. to which the Lord declared He
would bring them; and that from
thence they should be plucked up nc
more at all. Remember, in this con
nection st. Paul's reference to the
New Covenant and the time when Il
will go into force with Israel. as re
corded In Romans ri. 81.
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