The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-03-06
PASTOR RUSSELL'S
SERMON
Blessings of Mess,ah's Re,g,,

| stars indirectly implying the Spiritual
Seed, while the sands OF the seashore
| refer To Abrahams Natural Seed. AS it
IS written. 'I have constituted Thee a
So the Spiritual Seed 81 Abraham is
now being developed. With its compile.
| ton this Age will end, and the Natural
Seed OF Abraham will return TO special
favor and become the Heading nation OF
the world under the guidance and direc-
ton OF the spiritual and Invisible, yet
All Powerful Kingdom Of Messiah.
The blessing through natural Israel Will
gradually extend to every nation. In that
the door Will be fopened by which all
part Of nSg sGe seea and 9has
| harmony with Messiah's kingdom. Who
soever refuses this great privilege and
blessing OF Messlah's Kingdom will be
destroyed from amongst The people in
the Second Death.
Hundred -Year-old Children.
centcnarlsns OF the present time are
| few. and they by no means arc like
children Usually they arc wrinkled and
| haggardi We are TO remember. how
ever, the Biblc record that several of
| lived nine hundred years. rather. they
! were more than nine hundred years In
, coming fully under the sentence against
! sinners-"By one mans disobedience sin
| entered into the world and death as a
| result Of sin; and thus death passed
mon all men, because all are sinners
I V.
Gradually. and especially since the flood.
when great change took place in our
cosmosony, human longevity has de-
creased, while mental. moral and physical
ailments have increased, Several OF
Adams children did not have their first
| born child until after they were a century
| old. N confirmation of this. and CORE
| spondingly in contradiction OF the F,volu-
ton theory, we find that the Ancicnts
were stronger than we, mentally as we'll
as physically; for they intcrmarried broth
lers with sisters and cousins without in
Jury whereas today the menta! weakness
| OF the race is such that one out OF every
| l3O adults is in an insane asylum, and
inc marriage OF brothers and sisters is
prohibited, and even the marriage of sec
ond cousins is disapproved and held re-
sponsible for increasing weak -mindedncss.
we see, then. that our text describing
Nessiahs Kingdom. merely explains that
| restitution blessings Will recover mankind
! from the effects of the fall so that ii shall
| then be as 1t was in Adams day-that
iuIi human riGhtness. maturity, will he
! reached in century and that a man dy-
compared with the remainder OF the race.
| The further guarantee is that none will
die even al 100 years of age, except will
| ful sinners who, refusing TO submit them
| selves 30 the regulations Of Messiah s
Kingdom. viii then he cut off from life as
unworthy OF any further favor at the
! hands of the great. Redecmcr--Mcssi
| all OF whose dealings Will represent Divine
Justice, Wisdom, Love and Power.
Mans Years as q Trees.
The Scriptures tell us that under Mes
siah's Kingdom the days of a man shall
be as the days of Il tree. And it is bc
iiieNcd that some trees live to he at least
a thousand years old. This is Gods pro-
I the human family-aftcr He shall have
accomplished tho work of his gospel age,
| the selection Of the spiritual seed OF
| Abraham. typlfied ny the priests and
| of he b,r
| whose names are written in heaven
Messiah's kingdom is to dominate the
earth for thousand years. with a view
to blessing Adam and all of his posterity
with view 10 uplifting them from sin
and degradation and death. The upift-
ing Influences will begin at once. follow
| the Kingdom will be inaugurated. The
judgments OF the Lord will be abroad In
the earth and the inhabitants OF the
mm world will VII learn rishleonsncss: on, None
/ his brother, Know thou tho Lord; FOL
all shall know Him, from the least unto
the greatest OF them" for the knowl-
edge of the Lord shall fin the whole
earth Ger, Xxi, 80: Isaiah Ni., -.
| Whoever then, by obedience To the
laws Of the Kingdom will avail himself
(Acts ILL. bed. n'lll not only he helped
upward out of mental, moral and physical
lmperfeclion, step by step toward per
fection, but so long as he progresses, he
blessed thousand years. II we had never
seen trees; il our own experiences hac
been with vegetation such as perishes
within year, We might have difficulty
In believing some one who would tell us
OF having aeon trees centuries old. Sucr
a statement would seem as unreasonab bic
70 us 10 tell us that humanity coulC
live for thousand years or forever
Have ne not indeed seen children ole
and wrinEled looking, yet only in theil
| teens- And have not seen other!
cheerful, fresh and compara lively young
looking al sixty and seventy?
ALI Unrighteousness Is Sin
Al the present time God "winks" a
much of the wrong doing that there is ir
the world. He does not Interfere Will
IT. But of course every transgressiol
carries with IL naturally more or less o
q depraving influence the trans
gressors mind and body. The conscience
is the most tender and the most import
AM element Of our human nature. Who
ever violates IL. whoever Injuries il. mucl
or little, Will proportionately he disad
yantaged in the future. and will have al
the more difficulty in rising up gradu
ally out OF his degradation and weak
nesges, even with all the helps that viii
tllen he available. Thus Will he fulfilled