Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-03-02

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the work amongst
them at the various stopping points
and will co-labor in the report. The
committee will report its findings at a
meeting to be held In the New York
Hippodrome on March 81. A sum-
mary of today's discourse Of Pastor
Russell in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium
is as follows
/ had a great interest in your land
and Its people before coming to your
shores, but my interest has been
greatly increased by what have wit
messed during the past three weeks In
F! India-not only In your largest cities,
/ but also In your towns, villages and
agricultural districts. As there are no
other extremes In the world so great
as between the caps of your Him
alaya mountains and the wash Of your
coral strands, $4,000 feet below them,
80 likewise there can be found no
greater contrast socially and financial
iy than between your wealthy princes
and your poverty stricken lower castles.
Although such contrasts are deplora-
BILE we have no remedy to suggest,
except the Divine one-the establish
ment of Messiah's Kingdom
Generous Instincts of India's Wealthy.
Although l have remarked of your
hundreds of millions Of hopelessly
poor, / have not overlooked the fact
that some of your wealthy have
shown that they are not without gen.
erous instincts Many of your mer-
chant princes have evidently given
largely to the charitable institutions,
pitfalls having been provided for de-
crepit chickens, donkeys, etc.
However we may consider such ben
efactions, in view of human need and
suffering, we cannot overlook the fact
that sympathy is there, only waiting
for the proper direction, which Mes
siah's Kingdom viii shortly give.
Our forefathers saw the height OF
Gods love for the holy angels and its
condescension to the sanity of men.
but they did not see its deSths. They
did not see that the Resumption ac-
complished by Jesus Is ultimately to
reach down to and embrace the very
humblest and most degraded of hui
mankind, dead as well as alive. How
the precious Scriptures which tell of
Jesus as the Savior of the world, as
well as of the Church, escaped our mo-
tice, who can explain?
But surely glad are we that now we
can see clearly that the Redeemer is a
Propitiation for our sins, the Church's
sins, and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the whole world.
This fuller appreciation of the lengths
and breadths and heights and depths
of love Divine is coming to Christian
people as a benediction from heaven,
just at the time when many are High
er-Critically repudiating the Bible and
its God as unworthy of belief. The
true view of Gods Word we have in
timated, namely, that all the families
of the earth are to be blessed by Mes
siah's Kingdom, and that the Church.
in process of election, is to be sharer
with her Lord in that Kingdom.
ain the Ages to Come"
The heights and depths and lengths
and breadths of Divine love toward
the elect Church, the Bride of Christ.
will not be fully exhibited to angels
and to men. even during the glorious
period of Messiah's reign. Saint Paul
explicitly declares, that in the Ages
to come He might show the exceeding
riches of His grace In His kindness
toward US through Christ Jesus"
(Ephesians Ii, G, ~ Is ii asked what
opportunity there will be for further
favors TO be bestowed upon the Church
ut the conclusion Of Messiah's reign?
IL our astronomical concepts are cor
rect, all the fixed stars are suns, and
around each sun are planets. Are
there. then, a thousand blazing suns?
Yes, more! Are there ten thousand?
Yes, more! Are there ten times ten
thousand? Yes, morel Are there ten
times a hundred thousand, a million?
Yes. more! Are there ten times ten
millions. hundred millions? Yes,
morei And # we allow an average Of
ten planets 10 each sun this would
make more than a thousand million
planets, all made not in vain, but
eventually to be Inhabited
Alas! our poor minds are bewildered
with such manifestations of Divine
Power and Wisdom, even as we have
already been bewildered in our attempt
to appreciate the heights and depths
Of Divine Love win there not indeed,
then, be quite sufficiency of the Di-
vine Program to be outworked through
Christ and the Church to justify the
Apostles statement that in the Ages
TO come God will manifest the exceed
Ing riches OF His grace in His loving
kindness toward us In Christ Jesus?