The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21

\ @Essa%sssaskzSsss SRS&a different feature
klRaSIQR RQSSElLll of their investiga-
ton. This is their
third week in India and they have al
ready travelled nearly two thousand
miles. They are keenly interested in
the heather and in the Bible, but they
decline to give in advance any hint
of what their report will be as respects
the missionaries aud their work.
Pastor Russell, Chairman of the
Committee preached twice today to
large and attentive audiences in our
finest Auditorium. One of his adj
dresses, from jeremiah tx, %, "A, we
report. He said
Your "City Of Palaces" greatly i'm
presses me, as doubtless it does all who
visit it. But as look at its splendor
] am reminded Of that portion of my
text which declares, "Let him that
glorieth glory in this, that he under
standeth and knoweth Me, that | am
the Lord. which exerciseth loving-kind
ness, Judgment and righteousness in
the earth" Wherever we go we per-
ceive that man, by virtue of his crea-
tion, is a worshiper. The organs of
reverence and spirituality, although
only partially developed and much
shattered by ignorance and superstf
ton. are to be found in every man and
their position is the very highest in
his organism My journey to this city
has impressed this thought deeply.
| stopped en- route 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 tgno-
rance the natives would throw them
selves before the great Car of Jugger-
uaut feeling it an honor TO thus sacri-
fee their lives to a false god. And
now. here | am on the Gauges River,
OF which in childhood / heard so much
that thrilled my heart with sympathy
how mothers threw their babes into
the Gauges, not because they had no
sympathy with their offspring, but be
cause they desired to sacrifice to and
propitiate their gods. Now that I am
here ] do thank God that, although the
heather have not been converted to a
true knowledge of the great Jehovah,
they have, nevertheless, come under
the strong hand Of the British govern
ment, which. whatever its defects,
Reeks at least to protect its subjects
from the extremes of their own igno-
rance and superstition.
The Desire of All Nations.
While it Is true that the worst form
of government imaginable is preferable
to anarchy, and while it Is also true
that the British Government is
amongst the most just in the world,
nevertheless, no government that fallen
man has ever made or can make can
ever satisfy the ideals of the more In
telllgent. Hence for centuries the hea-
then world has dreamed of a Golden
Age to come and Bible Students have
rejoiced in the Divine promise that the
Messianic Kingdom will follow our
present arrangement and that 1t will be
proved to be 'the desire of all nations"
Oh, since we perceive the ignorance
and superstition OF heathendom, our
hearts cry out for the promised reign
of Messiah and the blessing that then
will accrue to mankindl The very best
that we have yet attained, in the most
civilized lands, comes far short of the
Divine promise Of the conditions to
prevail as result of Messiah's rule.
Then all ignorance, all superstition,
ill sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death
shall he abolished and finally, with
the willfully wicked destroyed in the
Second Death, the time will have
come when Gods will shall be done
on earth as fully, rs completely, as it
is now done in heaven. When every
knee shall bow and every tongue con
fess" to the glory Of Cod; when ''the
knowledge Of the glory Of the Lord
shall I'll the whole earth as the wa
tiers cover the great deep" when "no
man will need say to his neighbor
know thou the Lord, for all Shall
know Him from the least Of them to
greatest of them"-it is for thai
.5iious Epoch, my dear hearers, thai
sc should all be hoping, longing
sizing, and striving to prepare our
YES.
"Now We Know In Part"
saint Paul wrote, Now we know il
.art, but then we shall know even n
olso we are known" q Coriuthlnns
sill. 1917 Alas! every true Christian
must realize how his own know
edge of God and thar Of his fofefa,
theirs has so slightly exceeded the
knowledge OF the heather aud that he