The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-12

ASIoR 8 SJsSELsy Of the Ftrst-boIHS.
,Ch0se names are
,1ritten in heaucn' QIebrews xii, 81
He urged that the subject be APP
preached prayerfully and honestly
that all who see that there was but
one Church in the beginning, establish.
ed by the Rcdeemer see also that
there will be but the one Church In
the end, the Church Triumphant in
glory. 1.-The Bride. the Lambs Wife"
For the same reason that there have
been doctrines many amongst the fol
lowers of Jesus, there have been
churches many, as representing those
doctrines.
AS last Sunday the question was
What is the T~le Gospel" and as We
found that true Gospel more or less
scattered in all he various creeds, and
none of them the pure and unadulter
ated Gospel. so tonight we should I've
prepared to End that hc oHe irer
ChHrch of Christ for the past eighteen
centuries has been scattered here and
there amongst various denominations.
and that not one of these dPnCmiiiH
lions is the true Church. Not one OF
them can claim to contain all the
wheat" and none of The "tarpS N0i
one of them can claim to contain nj.
Of the saints and DO hyp0crite>. The
time was when the various divisions
of the Christian Church SeverailN iHit
claim to being the one and only
Church But that time has PASSED. So
far as the people are concerned. auG
has passed so far as the ma jority OF
the clergy are concerned
That They All May Be One"
| am not here to charge Intentions.
wrong doing on the part Of any ul Hl.
divisions of the Christian Church silt.
Pastor Russell On the routrurF. .
shall assume that the trainers ul iH.
various creeds were sincere. home.
men; and that the original folloW.r-
of those crecdS were sincere. and Dir,
a few today may be equally sincere !
shall assume however, that the ma
Ijority Of Christians, ministers ana
Ilavmen, realize that the sectarian
fences are largely composed Of miscon-
Iceptions of the Divine Word and Plan
land that the causes which originally
led to Church divisions have consil
erably disappeared. If we can now
recognize one true Gospel we may all
reuuite, in harmony with our Masters
prayer, that "All may be one, as Thou
Father. and / are one
remind you again Of the simplicity
of this Gospel which recognizes the
broad outlines of the Divine Plan and
allows each individual to see as many
of the finer lines of the same as his
spiritual development will permit On
that broad basis OF Christian Hni0H
the early Christians were one and rep
robated any division St Paul rebuk
ed those who said, Il am Of Paul: I
an of Apollos am Of Peter" q CORN
thians i. 10 As only Christ died for
us all. He alone must be recognized as
our Sa viOr As He is the Head of the
Church and the only Head. He only
must be recognized As all We are
brethren, SO the class distinction as
between clergy and laity must be abro
gated that we all may be one Church
with one Lord. one Faith and one Bap
tism and one God and Father over all
(Ephesians iv, %
Babylon the Great, the Mother CT 4ar-
lots"
How the divided Church, with clash
ing creeds, appears to the Almighty,
He tells us calling 1t Babylon-w which
signifies confusion. And who can deny
the appropriateness of the name? In
times past Catholics have applied this
/ name to the Protestant sects. and the
Protestants in turn have applied it tC
the Church Of Rome. But when we
come to examine the Scriptures on the
subject they seem to include all-the
T Church Of Rome being represented as
the mother Church and the various
Protestant Churches as her daughters
The charge of harotry which the Lore
makes against mother and daughters
must be acknowledged although witt
some this harlotry has been more oper
and pronounced than with others.
. Using the Jewish marriage ceremony
as the basis of the figure. all Chris
tians, MS members of the true Church
are declared to be "esnoused to on,
husband which is Christ I'll Corin
thians ri, p Under the Jewish custom
the espousal brought the woman I'm
= Ser the same obligation of chastity n
though the marriage had taken place
Thus the Church. by her vow to he
+ Lord. Is ohligated to the full although
q the marriage with the Heavenly Bride
a groom will not take place until Hi
X Second Advent and the change of tn
- esnouSed from earthly to heavenly con
n ditions. for "nesh and blood cnuuot in
q uer1t the Kingdom OF God" Revela
> ton xix, :; John xiv. 3; Cor. XIV. 50l.
9 Spiritual tarIotry is the condition il
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