The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-04-06

Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle spoke
here twice today to large and atten-
tive audiences. We report one of his
diScourses from the above. He said in
part
My text is one Of the strongest Of
those which once we enormously mis-
understood to teach the eternal tor
ment of the non-elect. Coming to the
text with our minds filled with the
wrong impressions respecting the
character of the Almighty Creator and
respecting his purposes toward hu-
mainly it is easy for us to misunder-
stand the words of st. Jude. SO deep
ly were the erroneous thoughts i'm
pressed upon our minds from child
hood that, irrational though they were,
we considered them fundamental the
Ology. In like manner we wrested to
our own confusion and injury many
Scriptures. reading into them what
they do not say and ignoring what
they do say. AS. for instance, the
messages of Holy Writ to the effect
that all the wicked will God destroy;
that the wages of sin is death; that
the soul that sinneth, it shall die;
that there is no eternal life out Of
Christ. All these and others We warp
ed and twisted away from their beau
tiful and simple teaching. and mad"
out Of them doctrines Of devils with
which we alarmed ourselves ana those
committed to our instruction.
We thank God that gradual. the
eyes of our understanding are open
ing to discern the great Truth that the
testing of the Church in the present
Age and the testing of the world at
large in the coming Ace will be as to
worthiness for eternal life or worth
ness of ctcrnl death-cverlasting de
struction-tbe Second Death from
which there will be no redemption. 30
resurrection. no recovery. As St. Peter
declares, Those who enter into it wiz
be- like brute beasts. made to be taken
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the Bible hell-to the state of death
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was manufactured by our torefathers
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