The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-04

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i, { f13TT55X5;;xs-;% public mass meet
\Sszs.2===A2s2lssJ ing In New York's
| largest auditori-
! um, The Hippodrome. next Sunday
afternoon, to hear the report OF this
| Committee respecting its findings. 4
full report Of the same will be given
I'm these columns. Pastor Russell's dis
course today was reminiscent of Ara
bia as the Cradle Of our Race. His,
text was: "As all in Adam die, even
SO all In Christ shall be made alive;
| every man in his own ordcr"-I Corin-
| thians Nv, %, %.
Tho Land Whore Man Lost Life.
Arabia is accredited with being the
ancient Eden, eastward in which was
| the specially prepared Garden where
In our first parents had their trial-not
! for a reward of heaven or punish
ment Of eternal torment. but for re-
ward Of everlasting life under perfect
earthly conditions, or for penalty OF
death. Here man, created very good. in
,ne image Of his Creator, Sinned and
, became subject to the penalty Of sin
| 1.-THE soul that sinneth, it shall die"
Here also is Mount Aararat, on which
| The ark rested after the food, and
: from which came forth the family Of
| Noah to people the earth afresh Thus
! was Arabia twice the Cradle Of man
! kind.
! Here is the fertile NIesopotamia,
! which Father Abraham left at the Di-
vine invitation, to sojourn in Palestine
| to the north, under promise to become
the heir Of Divine favor, the father Of
the faithful, whose now glorified Seed,
! the great Messiah, has already redeem
Cd the world and is yet to take the
Throne Of earth and, during the thou
sand years, conquer sin and death and
, lift up from degradation and the grave
Adam and his race.
! This is the same Arabia made IA
| nous by the tales Of the Arabian
| Nights, and where also is the tomb Of
| Mohammed, whose followers rival in
numbers the followers Of Jesus and
| still trust in n promise made to Nbra-
! ham, and, like the Jews, wait still for
! the glorious appearing Of Messiah
Like the 1sraeltcs they are blind to tho
fact that before Messiah could bless
and heal and upIift the world, it was
necessary that He redeem them with
His own life, and Select from amongst
men spiritual class to be His Bride
! and jOint-heir in His glorious King
| dom
And now rs the day draws near that
! the curse shall be lifted from the
world, when the wilderness shall bios
! som as the rose" and "the solitary place
/ shall be Glad' we behold this land Of
! the most ancient civilization awaking
| The ruins Of its ancient cities, Nineveh
and Babylon, are yielding to modern
! research the records Of thirty five hun
drcd years ago, while modern engineers
| and modern capital are at work upon
) vast irrigation schemes costing mil
! lions Of money, which they tell us will
! make that land fruitful and fertile as
! the Garden Of the Lord. Nre we not
thus witnesses Of the beginning Of the
Compromised "times Of restitution Of
! all things which God hath spoken by
! the mouth of all the holy Prophets
, since the world began ?"-Acts iii, 49,
21
Redemption by His Blood.
! When could we more appropriately
I consider the Divine provision for our
, race than when considering this land,
: the Cradle Of our Race, where the fall
| took place, where the ruin began which
! has filled the earth with sin, selfish
ness, sorrow and dying? All, surely
! we greatly erred when we supposed
that greater penalty for sin was
; needed or intended by our Maker than
the penalty we are experiencing. What
more could man lose than our race as
whole has lost? Created in relation
| SHIP with God as son and heir Of the
appropriate blessings Of the Almighty
Father, Adam and his race lost that
! precious rclationship--lost Divine IA
| vor, Divine communion, Divine care,
! 0Dd we're plunged into death condem-
! nation rs strangers, aliens, convicts,
tarrying in life merely to fulfil the YER
! dict Dying. thou shalt die" ....
How stcrny Divine Justice held to
that verdict. How reIentIessly, how
| pitilCsSly the forces Of nature were al
| lowed to plaT havoc with man in
earthquakes, drouths, famines, pesti-
lences and hereditary diseases. For
more than two thousand years the
great Heo7cnIy Parent showed man.
| kind only His Justice and Daught Of
His love. And then the first declara.
ton Of the GoSrcl-the first mention
! that Divine favor would yet rescue