The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-19

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ture of the inyes
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 *. %, "a, we report He
said
Your City of Palaces" greatly I'm
presses me, rs doubtless 1t does all who
visit it. 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 / am the
Lord, which e1erciseth loving kindness,
judgment and righteousness In the
earth" Wherever we go We perceive
that man, by virtue Of his creation, Is
wcrshipper.
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 1t 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 Ia Part"
Now that am here do thank God
that although the heather have not
been converted to true knowledge Of
the great Jehovah, they have, never
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-
tion.
st. Paul wrote, Now we know in
part, but then we shall know even as
also we are known" q Cor. xiii, 12)
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 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 darker past, and which
/ told us more horrible things respect
ing our God and His treatment of man
kind than our 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 Plar
as never before. Our hearts first let
the way and rebelled against the die
tum Of our fallacious reasoning. Ant
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 thrus
into our hands, unlocking its mysterie.
and explaining its parabolic symbols
to our astonished faith.
Knowing Our God.
Our Redeemer declared, This is III
eternal. that they might know Thee
the only true and living God, ant
Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.
Evidently the great Teacher had ii
mind the thought OF our text--no
merely knowledge about God, blu
an acquaintanceship with Him, sucl
as can come only through fellow
!, ship Of spirit and an understanding o
the Divine Program.
Ii our biiHaness OF the past, aSsum
ing that all the non-elect would b
consigned to an eternity of torture, VI
! published in our missionary report
that ninety thousand every da
go down into death. into Chrisues
grayes-and, BY inference into eter
nal torture.
NOW we read Gods character in fair
er lines. Now ne perceive that for
thousand years. the Elect. on the heav
emily plane. invisible to men. like unit
the angels will live and reign wit
:. Christ (Rev. TX. A for the blessing o
I the non-elect-for their uplifting from
conditions Of sin and fmnerfeetiol
: back to the glorious heights Of the i'm
:-e of God - III. tes,