The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-02-27

kzZ 49, Dy edcn giving Spe-
| cial attention to a
| - @=eI1-e-- different feature
| klKA2lGE kU2S6lLJ 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 and their work
Pastor Russell, Chairman of the
Committee, preached twice today to
large and attentive audiences in our
| finest Auditorium. One Of his ad-
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-
ton, is a worshiper. The organs of
reverence and spirituality, although
only partially developed and much
shattered by ignorance and supersti-
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 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 to a false god. And
now, here l am on the Ganges River,
| OF which in childhood / 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 be-
cause they desired to sacrifice to and
propitiate their gods Now that l am
here do thank God that, although the
| heather have not been converted to
true knowledge Of the great Jehovah,
they have, nevertheless, come under
the strong hand of the British govern
ment, which, whatever Its defects,
seeks 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
| telligent Hence for centuries the hea-
then world has dreamed of Golden
| Age to come and Bible Students have
rejoiced in the Divine promise that the
| Messianic Kingdom win follow our
present arrangement and that it will be
proved to be 1.-The desire of all nations
Oh, since we perceive the ignorance
and superstition of heathendon, our
hearts cry out for the promised reign
Of Messiah and the blessing that then
will accrue to mankindi 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 a result Of Messiah's rule.
Then all ignorance, all superstition,
all sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death
shall be 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, as completely, as it
Is now done In heaven. When every
knee shall bow and every tongue con-
fess" to the glory Of God; when "the
knowledge of the glory of the Lord
shall I'LL the whole earth as the wa
ters cover the great deep" when mo
man will need say to his neighbor,
know thou the Lord, for all shall
know Him from the least Of them to
the greatest of them"-it is for that
glorious Epoch, my dear hearers, that
we should all be hoping, longing.
praying, and striving to prepare our
selves.
"Now We Know In Part"
Saint Paul wrote, Now we know in
part, but then we shall know even as
also we are known" q Corinthians
xiii, 12.) Alasl every true Christian
must realize how his own knowl-
edge of God and that Of his forefa-
theirs has so slightly exceeded the
knowledge Of the heather and that he
found 1t difficult to glory" In his un-
Outstanding 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 the God |
OF All Grace, the Father Of Mercies, |
the length, breadth, height and depth |
OF whose loving kindness we cannot |
measure-only such have the assur. |
ances which enable them to Offset the |
horrible theories of our creeds formu- |
lated In a darker past and which told |
us more horrible things respecting our
God and His treatment of mankind |
than our poor heather brethren ever
imagined.
The Key of the Divine Word.
But now the better day is dawningl |
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
dictum of our fallacious reasoning,
And now, in Gods due time, when
nature is yielding up her secrets and
chemistry is making the world anew,
behold, the key to the Divine Word is
thrust into our hands, unlocking its
mysteries and explaining its parabolic
symbols TO our astonished faithI But
alasl meantime many Of the brightest
minds of the world have rejected the
Bible, many of them even denying the
personality of the Creator; and so far
have these gone in the substitution of
human wisdom for Divine Revelation
that 1t seems impossible for them to
return to the paths Of faith.
Now, however, Is the time for all of
those who have a hungering and
thirsting after God and His righteous
ness to begin afresh the study of His
Word in the light of the morning of
this New Dispensation. Not only is
this necessary for our own comfort
and establishment, but it Is necessary
also in the interests of others before
whom we stand as bulwarks of the
Truth, having on the whole Armor of
God, the Helmet of Salvation, the
Shield of Faith, the Breastplate of
Righteousness, the Sword of the Spir-