Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-02-24

ture of the inves-
tigation. This is their third week In
India and they have already Travelled
nearly two thousand miles. They are
keenly interested in the heather and In
the Bible, but they declined to give in
advance any hint of what their report
will be as respects the missionary work
here.
Pastor Russell, Chairman of the Com
mittee, preached twice to-day to large
and attentive audiences in our finest
auditorium. One of his addresses, from
Jeremiah TX, %, "a, we report He
said
Your "City Of Palaces" greatly i'm
presses me, as doubtless 1t does all who
visit 1t. But as look at its splendor
/ am reminded of that portion of my
text which declares, LET him that glo-
rieth glory in this, that he understand
eth and knoweth Me, that 1 am the
Lord, which exerciseth loving kindness,
judgment and righteousness In the
earth" Wherever we go we perceive
that man, by virtue of his creation, is
a worshipper.
stopped enroute at Juggernaut; the
very name called up the stories of my
childhood which so greatly aroused my
sympathies for the poor heather. Mis-
sionary reports told of how in igno-
rance the natives would throw them
selves before the great Car of Jugger-
naut, feeling it an honor to thus sacri-
fee their lives. And now, here am on
the Gauges River, of which in child
hood heard so much that thrilled my
heart with sympathy-how mothers
threw their babes into the Ganges, not
because they had no sympathy with
their offspring, but because they de-
sired to sacrifice to and propitiate their
gods.
"Now We Know In PART"
Now that am here do thank God
that, although the heather have not
been converted to true knowledge of
theless, come under the strong hand
of the British Government, which,
whatever its defects, seeks at least to
protect its subjects from the extremes
of their own ignorance and supersti-
ton.
st. Paul wrote, Now we know in
part, but then we shall know even as
also we are known" Q Cor. xiii, 49,
Alas! How every true Christian must
realize how his own knowledge of God
and that OF his forefathers has so
slightly exceeded the knowledge of the
heather, that he found 1t difficult to
"glory" in his understanding of God.
Only those who are adherents to the
declarations of the Bible that God is
Love-" that His mercy endureth ever.
that He is like a plying father, that
He is a God of All Grace, the Father
of Mercies, whose loving kindness we
cannot measure-only such have the
assurances which enable them to Offset
the horrible theories of our creeds
formulated in a darker past, and which
told us more horrible things respect
ing our God and His treatment of man
kind than or poor heather brethren
ever imagined.
But now the better day is dawning!
We are seeing the glorious outlines of
the Divine character in the Divine Plan
as never before! Our hearts first led
the way and rebelled against the die
tum of our fallacious reasoning And
now, in Gods due time, when nature
is yielding up her secrets and chemis-
try is making the world anew, behold
the key to the Divine Word is thrust
into our hands, unlocking its mysteries
and explaining It's parabolic symbols
to our astonished faith!
Knowing Our God.
Our RedeeIler declared, This is life
eternal, that they might know Thee,
the only true and living God, and
Jesus Christ. whom Thou hast sent"
Evidently the great Teacher had In
mind the thought of our text-not
merely a knowledge about God, but
an acquaintanceship with Him, such
as can come only through a fellow
ship of spirit and an understanding of
the Divine Program.
In our blindness of the past, assum-
ing that all the non-elect would be
consigned to an eternity Of torture, we
published in our missionary reports
that ninety thousand every day
go down into death, into Christless
graves-and, by inference, into eter-
nal torture.
Now we read Gods character in fair
er lines. Now we perceive that for
thousand years, the Elect, on the heav-
emily plane, invisible to men, like unto
the angels" will live and reign with
Christ tRev. Xxx, A. for the blessing of
the non-eect-for their uplifting from
Of ofp anH characterization,