The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-23
PASTOR RUSSELL'S
SERMON
Gods Standards to Be Ubraised

muIatcd financial power and energy
called trusts and combines. is about TO
come iaio conflict with selfshncss (sin).
represented in the combining forces of
humanity. labor unions, etc, The head
on collision which thinking people fore
sec, and which the Scriptures graph
cally portray, will give to society au
earthquake shock; more than this, the
graphic picture Is of world conflagra-
tion which will involve the heavens, or
ecclesiastical powers, as well AS the
GARTH or social system, and the noun
tains, or Kingdoms of the world The
and useless as we'll were it not for the
silver lining to the cloud.
Tho awful shock which Gods pcope
are warned to avoid so far possible
by following peaco-peace and 'benevo-
lence-will merely prepare the way for
the glorious blessings Of the great sew
enth day in which man WIN rest from
his own schemes and endeavors and
great king. Messiah. whose rule Of
righteousness for human upIift has
been propheticalIy pictured for cen
turies.
A Picture in Retrospect
Still looking from Tho divine stand
point at the siS great thousand-year
days in which sin and death have
r"igned. We perceive that ono effect
has been as forctold to Mother Eve. II
viii greatly multiply thy sorrows and
Thy conception: We perceive that our
that IL would have done had II remained
perfect AS ri first. for The first children,
even in the days following The fall. were
frequently born when the father WAS an
hundred years old.
We have already referred 10 the les
son respecting the sinfulness Of sin
winch comes 10 all msnkind-mosL fully,
t-t- ti...Ls, 4,
contact with The people of God who have
received the divine revelation. The en-
HShtencd ones have been but n small
proportion of the whole. After Two thou
God Torctold In an obscure manner tho
blessings he intended 10 bring subse-
guently 10 the race: To Abraham lle
said, "All the families of tho earth | VIII
bIess--rhrough thee and through thy
seed That message followed in Israel
by the giving OF the law covenant, has
been the light of the world. For elgh
teen centuries IL was the only light of
hope. OF prospect Then. in partial full
hllmcnt Of that promise, came Jesus, the
hrst practical expression Of divine love
and pity FOR our race. No longer would
God content himself merely with prom
!scs. lie would now begin the
Work of Human Rescue.
But If any hoped that worldwide
blessings would Immediately spring up
as the result of Jesnss work. he was mis-
taken. On the contrary, Jesus himself
was combated by the prince OF darkness
and his deluded subjects. And the same
principle has obtained for nearly two
thousand years-all followers OF Jesus
have been obliged TO take no their cross
and suffer for righteousness. for godl-
ness. in the mids; OF q crooked and per-
verse people, among whom they have
shonc as lights and whom. TO some eN
tent. they have assisted in enlightening.
civiizing. etc.
Thus The six days Of the week, so far
as light, truth knowledge of God is con-
cerued. have all been Dark days, The
lights which God provided in his fol-
lowers have been as candles set upon
caudlesticks. They have indeed re-
proved the darkness. but they have been
powerless TO scatter 81 Nor did COD
so intend. His declaration through the
prophet is. Weeping may endure for the
night. but Joy cometh III the morning.
(PSam :tNX.. o. Again. Darkness
covers the esrth. gross darkness the pco,,,
arise with healing in his beams. Isaiah
lx. .; Malachi iv. 2.
This promised son OF righteousness
which is TO scatter the darkness OF earth.
VIC are told distinctly, consists OF jesus
and those who have walked in his foot
steps throughout this gospel age. These;
approved of The. father. will be glorified
beyond the veil by d resurrection to
glory, honor and Immortality. Then
speedily these will "shjnc forth az the
sun In the Kingdom OF the father" Mat
erins IN of the great seventh day-Mes-
sishS day
God Has Not Neglected Us.
From this divine viewpoint God is not
slack concerning his promises. Only SIX
days OF the week have yet passed The
glorious seventh day in which the great
mediator between God and men will as
sumo bis kingdom powers Is Just al hand.
Instead Of thinking tnat God IS neglect
ing and forgetting TO fulGll the McssiaDic
promises We should with the eyes ot
faith realize That he is working all things
according TO the counsel OF his own VIII.
VIC should consider the matter from the
standpoint that God has exercised great
patience with humanity in not blotting
out the race: he has been long suffering.
And this assures Us that the unchanSca-
hle one would prefer that none OF his
rather that all II they would. might turn
unto him and liVc.-EZekicl NXXiN.. II.
The great opportunity for the masses
az our race TO turn TO the Lord and at
tain everlasting He will be after the
darkness shall have passed when the
sun Of righteousness shall be shining
forth after the highway Of holiness shall
have taken the place OF the broad road
10 destruction: after Messiah the great
king. shall have dethroned Satan, the
prince Of darkness. from the worlds con-
troll; after the prince of peace shall have
established peace upon Il proper basis
Who cannot sing heartily with the poet:
~ thousand years. carth's coming glory
'Tis The glad day so long forctold,
'TiS tho glad morn OF Ion's glory,
Prophets foresaw in times or old"
Our race was generated by Father
Adam as well rs condemned TO death