Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-09-07

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ln-season affairs
Pastor Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacle.
now also Of London Tabernacle, is the
principle speaker on the program.
Hundreds Of ministers and thousands
of Bible students are in attendance.
The program shows more than sixty
public addresses The Association is
unsectarian. Christian union on the
Bible basis and without sectarian
fences to separate is the sentiment
the Bible truths, previously misunder-
stood and misinterpreted by the jar
ring, separating creeds, is the expla-
nation. Gods love and Mercy in the
blessing Of the Church and the world
and the glorious salvations provided
is the keynote The Convention will
continue in session another week.
Pastor Russell. remarking that the
beautiful grounds and Auditorium are
the property of the Methodist Breth-
rem. took for his text John Wesley's
favorite slogan Of Free Grace-"And
the Spirit and the Bride say, Come;
and let him that heareth say. Come;
and let him that is athirst come; and
whatsoever will. let him take the wa
ter of life freely" Revelation xii.
10. Pastor Russell remarked that
Professionalism in general was Calvin
istic when Brother Wesley began his
preaching, "God is Love-" whatsoever.
will may come and take Of the water
of life. freely"-there is no predestina-
ton to eternal torture! The result of
Brother Wesley's teachings is seen.
not merely in the numbers protesting
Methodism and Free Grace: his influ-
ence has overswept all the Calvinistic
denominations. Their confessions of
faith still are Calvintsttc, but in their
hearts and on their tongues they have
Brother Wesley's Message, God is
Love; He never predestinated anybody
to eternal torture"
Right In Some Partieulars-Wrong In
Others.
Pastor Russell declares that Broth
ers Calvin and Wesley were both right
in certain particulars and both wrong
in other particulars. Brother Calvin
was quite right in declaring an cleo
ton according to grace, and in speak
ing Of the Church as Gods elect, and
in exhorting the Church to make their
calling and election sure" He was
right in these matters because he was
in accord with the Bible. But he was
wrong in declaring that God had pre-
destinated the non-elect to an eternity
Of suffering-because there is no Scrip.
ture to this effect The only Scripture
respecting Divine predestination re-
lates to the Church-the elect. 1t tells
us that God foreknew the Church as
specially elect class and predestinated
that no one could be member of this
class except such as would become
copies of. His Son, the Redeemer. To
this, the Scriptural predestination,
none can object. 1t is the unscrip-
tural deductions which have caused us
difficulty.
| St.aPaul gives the key to the situa-
ton In l Timothy ii, 4-6. He declares
that-it Is Gods will that all men shall
be saved recovered from the condem-
nation which came upon all through
Adam) and also come to an accurate
knowledge Of the Truth. He declares
that it is for this reason that Jesus be-
came the Mediator between God and
the world of mankind and that the
testimony Of this great fact will reach
all men Tin due time"
In Gods "Due Tire"
Now is the Church's "due time" to
see and to hear, but not the worlds
Satan blinds and deafens the world of
mankind now so that only favored
few, comparatively, hear and see
Gods proffered grace in Christ. Great
Is the blessing of those who see and
hear, for they may make their calling
and election sure and become joint.
heirs with their Redeemer in His Mes
sianic Kingdom. Then will be due
the blessing Of the non-elect Satan
will be bound for the thousand years
of Messiah's Kingdom. Darkness. 1g.
norance and superstition shall flee.
Those then refusing to bow and con
fess under this full and gracious op-
portunity will die the Second Death.
from which there will be no resurrec-
ton, no restitution. They will per-
ish as brute beasts-be utterly destroy
ed from amongst the people III Peter
Il, II; Acts iii. 1929,
| Brother Wesley's favorite text pro
claiming Free Grace Is a precious one
still. though 1t does not belong to the
present Age. but to the coming one.
The proof of this is evidenced by the
context The Church Is not vet com.
plete She is not yet the Bride. the
Lambs Wife. but merely His espoused
: virgin.