Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-01-13
Pastor RusseIEs Sermon

that much Of the New Testament Is
composed Of passages from the Ola
Testament and comments thereon.
Alasl | said. for | cannot accept the
Old Testament Scriptures. But the
more I studied the matter the more
convinced | was that If Jesus and the
Apostles we're at all what they claim
ed 10 be the Old Testament must be as
true as the New-as St. Peter declared
holy men Of old spoke and wrote IS
they were moved by the Holy Spirit"
Then began a more critical study OF
the Old Testament, and to my JOY, as
l sought, | found, as 1 knocked the door
Of Truth opened for me. found the
Bibl9 teaching very different from
what had supposed It to be, very con-
trary to that OF all the creeds. The
latter, indeed, each and all, contain
truths taken from the Bible, but truths
incrusted with various human creduli-
ties and misconceptlons-the Bible mes
sage as a whole divided amongst many
creeds and made to contradict Itself.
The Bible He'll Is tho Key.
To my surprise ] found the presen-
tatlons OF the Bible not only more log
ical than anything else in the world,
but absolutely the only logical presen-
tatlon on earth. AS interpreted by It
self, and not by the creeds and theo-
rles Of the Dark Ages, the Bible tells
one beautiful, reasonable, harmonious
story, from Genesis to Revelation. 1t
tells nothing Of a fiery hell manned by
Are-proof demons, and supplied with
fuel for all eternity, to which Adam
and his race were sentenced on ac-
count Of sin. On the contrary, 1t teaches
that 1.-The wages Of sin is death"
1t tells that "the soul that sinneth, 1t
shall die" and tells that Adam slnned
and came under this death penalty and
that all Of his race by the laws OF
heredity are subject to frailty, weak
ness, mental, moral and physical-and
that these have trlumphed in reign
Of sin and death for now six thousand
years 1t tells that this death Is the
death into which Adam and all of his
race go-8hGol, the hell Of the Bible, for
all mankind, good and bad. 1t tells that
there is no pain or suffering there, no
knowledge, no work of any kind.
1t tells that all, both good and bad,
sleep, awaiting the resurrection Of the
dead. 1t tells that mans death would
have been an extinction as complete as
that of the brute beast had God in His
Wisdom and Love not arranged foI
human redemption and resurrection
Of the dead, both of the Just and un'
just 1t tells that the Divine arrange
ment whereby God could be just and
not repudlate the rulership Of His own
Court and yet recover man from the
death sentence, was arranged for The
arrangement was that Jesus, "by tht
grace Of God, should taste death fol
every man." that "as by man came
death, by Man also should come the
resurrection of the dead; for as all In
Adam die even so all In Christ shall be
made alive, every man in his own or
der"-Hebrews II, 8; Cor, Nv. 81, %.
First tho Elect Bride.
With God "a thousand years are as
one day" QI Peter iii, 81 He ha.
therefore arranged that six OF these
great days shall constitute mans peri
cd Of battling with sin and death anC
that the seventh Of these great day!
shall be the Day Of Messiah, the Sab
bath or Rest Day to the world, II
, which Messiah, as the Divine Repre-
sentative, shall lift up all the Willing
and Obedlent, opening their blind eyes
unstopplng their deaf ears and cuuslnl
all to know the Lord from the least t,
the greatest
As result, some will refuse and dl
D the Second Denth"-utter destruction
No more than century Of trial Is t,
be granted, because we read, The sin
ner hundred years Old shall be Gu
t ORA child a century old in sin shal
/ DO accursed-to the Second Death
isaiah lxy. 20l But all who will ac
cept Divine favor may then be brough
} to full, human perfection similar I,
that which Adam enjoyed at the be
/ ginning, plus the knowledge Of goo,
and evil. which he lacked.
OF these willing and obedlent one
1t is written, Every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess, to the glor,
OF God" Many Of You Chinese. doubt
less, will then be bowlng before tn,
: great King Of kings and Lord Of lords
, whom then you viii know completely
Tor "the knowledge Of the Lord shal
oil the whole earth as the waters cove
the great deep" And your forefathers
/ whom you reverence will be there
too; their eyes shall be opened an,
l their ears unstopped, as II Is written
t "All the blind eyes shall be opened ant
all the deaf ears shall be unstopped
s What a great reunion time that vii
. be for the Chinese hundreds OF mil
, lions! Yes, and still more! As I'M
b. Scriptures declare. all the families O
the earth shall be blessed simuarl,
/ with knowledge Of God and with
full opportunity for restitution to nj
that was lost in Adam-to all that WA
redeemed NJ Calvary. iii, 1921
DO you say to me. This news Is II,
T, good to be true? no you say. No mis-
slonary ever told US OF such a graciou
|, God and such a mighty Savior! Ua,
, we heard such a gracious Message
would have attracted our hearts Ion,
ago for our gods are uon,sympatheti
,, they are great, powerful and viclous
nut we thought as we heard the mi,
Sonaries message that the Christian
, Nod must be even more feroclous tnar
ours, for the awful burning hell o
which we have heArl thrnryb Cbri,