The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-25
PASTOR RUSSELL'S
SERMON
drunken With False Doctrine,


ano without confidence In our former
views. lot us cat. drink and be merry
let US enjoy life-let US &c; all that we
can of pleasure out OF present existence
Tor We are hopeless respecting a future
one IL II any wonder that tho apostle
loretold that. under these conditions the
masses would become moro and more
pleasure mad?
Thus We account for the great la
n1ent that is going up from all
chuEchcS tnat Inc peNs arr empty. ard
thc coiIecuon boxes empty. and that
nc system would go down except for
tnr bcneNolent wealthy. who really do
not believe IN the creed idols. but who
desire & thai Others shall believe In them
crowds which once focked 10 the
churches. with their nickels and pen
MES, now mako for the theaters and
crowd inc hard. rough ''bleachers" OF
lovers or pleasure rather than lovers OF
God. because The representations OF
GOO In INC various gTceds arc too re-
pulsiVc. too Irrational. too dcvtlish. 20
ne longer believed In or worshiped.
What the people need is general
smashing OF all tho creed idols and the
Blhlc and TO the worship OF the true
God. which the Bible sets forth
Preachers Are in Perplexity.
No men in the world arc TO he more
syInpath,zed with than the preachers.
Ihc creed idols have been richly en-
''N'' " N'll-Il'dEinE NnE2llGS oil Inc
past, The interests Of the clergy are
all wrapped up with the interests OF
the creed idols--not only their financial
interests; iI,i. -, but their honor. dignity.
TO-DAY is. How can We smash The creed
IDOLS? How can we destroy them
without ourselves perishinc with them?"
f VIC tell the common people plainly
what We believe they Will all leave
the creed idols. They will ask US. How
p, l2mE rs II since Nou came 10 this con-
not believed in our creeds for many
wears. VIII they not call US hypocritca |!
and lose their confidence In US? And.
besides. what could VIC offer them In :
II is no secret that the great ma
iority, of the educated CLERGY are total
unpehevers. not only in the creeds
critics" and "evolutIonlsts They have
people. except their doubts. their mis-
understandings. Having lost faith In
the creed idols, they are seeking for
the true God. in whom the masses be-
lieve little enough as II Is They are
q very slim cord composed of three
strands-Ignorancc. superstition and
natural reverence. The Ignorance and
shnersti,ion sup m VIII soon break, and all
reverence. Now is The time for re-
placing ignorance with knowledge and
superstition with loving obedience to the
true Cod.
"a Famine in the Land
When I was in Boston last June the
largest opera house OF that great city,
seating $500. was crowded: 400 more were
behind me on the platform besides those
VINO stood. and ! learned afterwards that
hundreds were turned away from the
doors. The next day the editor OF re-
lisious journal called on me- His lead
ing question was: Pastor Russell. how
do YOU explain the fact that the people
OF all creeds. and OF the world come In
such crowds 10 your meetings? I was
present yesterday al the Boston theater
and witnessed that vast concourse of in
telliEent people. As 7 looked at them !
asked myself the question am now ask
Ing YOU. How is n that such crowds al .
tend your services, even In this sul,ry
summer weather. when the summer re-
sorts and seaShore pleasures would call
them elsewhere. and while many Of our
leading and a bile ministers. supported by
talented cholrs. have small attendance
twenty, forty. fifty or so? What is your
explanation
/ replied, MY brother. believe we are
which saws: There shall be famine
in the land Not a famine for bread nor
famine for water hut A famine for the
hearing of the Word OF the Lord (Amos
viii, 1lD. The public are getting their eyes
TOO widely opened TO ever again respect
the God whom Brother Calvin pictured
Cod all-wise and all-powerful, but
thoroughly unloving who foreordained and
predestnated n saintlv handful to glory.
and the insanity thousands Of millions 10
an eternity of torture. We once believed
those things. but the new morning OF
Gods grace in Christ Jesus Is gradually
scattering the darkness.
Neither can vo longer believe with
Brother Wesley that our God is good and
loving. and would Ike TO save everybody
II he could. but was unwise in his crca :
on ~ md ,S Ia nclfin In, 70
direct the matter now, The people are
hungering for something better-for some
thing consistent and rational and in ac-
cordance with the Bible declaration. that
arc co-ordinate--that God Is love and is
as just and wise and powerful as he Is
loving. The people need to he shown a
theology which will accord with this di-
ment that known unto the Lord are all
his works from the beginning OF the
world. and again: My Word that goeth
forth out OF my mouth shall not return
unto me void. but shall accomplish that
which | please, saith the Lord and shall
prosper in tho thing whereto l sent it B."
Bible. Doctrine Election.
Christian people need 10 believe the
Bible doctrine of election. but most see
IL I'm q differen, light from that which
They must gee election from the Bible
standpoint--the election of sanity
church a little flock. "a royal priest
hood a holy people" 10 be the bride OF
Christ. and his joint-helrs. They must
that this elect" church with tho Re
deemer is Gods appointed channel Tor
tho blessings Of the non elect world. They
need 10 be shown clearly that the sanity
few. gathered first from the Jews. but
subsequently completed 10y additions OF
those of saintlV character OF all nations
are with Christ to become the great seed
oi Abraham. the great Messiah. Abraham $
spiritual seed. like the stars Of heaven.
II must then he shown why this spiritual
seed has been called" elected, Sc =
lerted from amongst mankird-that II is
for the very purpose Of blessing the nom
elect the masses Of Adams race In mar
mony with Gods promise TO Abraham
lin thy seed shall all the families OF the
earth he blessed"
81 Paul refers To this spiritual seed.
saving And TO thy seed. which is
Christ" and III We be Christs. then arc
~, Abraham's seed and heirs according 10
the promise" CGalntians ill.,. is. 29). The
fullliIment waits until the completion OF
n forcordained number. an elect little
flock" OF the sanity few Then these,
changed by the power OF tho first rcsur-