Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-02-26

S--- the work amongst
them at the various stopping points
and will co-labor in the report. The
committee will report Its findings at
meeting to be held in the New York
Hippodrome on March 81. A sum
mary of todays discourse Of Pastor
Russell in the Y. NJ. c. A. Auditorium
is as follows
I had a great interest in your land
and it's people before coming to your
shores, hut my interest has been
greatly increased by what have wit
messed during the past three weeks in
Jndia-not only IN your largest cities,
but also in your towns, villages ana
agricultural districts. AS there are no
other extremes In the world so great
as between the caps Of your Hin
aaya mountains and the wash Of your
coral strands, 10000 feet below them,
so likewise there can be found no
greater contrast socially and financial
ly than between your wealthy princes
and your poverty-stricken lower castles.
Although such contrasts are deplora-
bic we have no remedy to suggest,
except the Divine one-the establish
ment of Messiah's Kingdom.
Generous Instincts Of lndia's Wealthy.
Although / have remarked Of your
hundreds of millions Of hopclcssly
poor, l have not overlooked the fact
that some Of your wealthy have
shown that they are not without gem
erous instincts. AIanS Of your .mcr-
chant princes have evidently given
largely to the charitable institutions,
notably in Bombay, large animal hos
pitfalls having been provided for de.
crepit chickens, donkcys. etc.
However we may consider such ben
cfactions, 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 will shortly give.
Our forcfathers saw the height OF
| Gods love for the holy angels and its
condesccnsion to the sanity Of men,
| but they did not sec IFS depths. They
did not see that the Redemption ar
compliShcd by Jesus IS ultimately 10
reach down 10 and embrace the worry
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. rs
we'll as of the Church. escaped our no
tice. who can explain:
But surely glad are we that now we
can see clearly that the Rcdccmcr Is
Formulation for orr sins, the Church :
| sins. and not for ours only. but also
| for the sins Of fine whole world.
This fuller appreciation Of the lengths
and brcadthS and heights and depths
of love Divine is coming to Christian
| pcoplc rs Il henediciion from heaven
| Just: ut the time when many arc High
er-trtically rcpudiating the Bible and
its God as unworthy of belief. Tic
true view Of Gods Word we have in
timatcd. namely, that all the families
| Of the earth are 10 he blessed by Mes
| siahs Kingdom. and that the Church.
| in process Of election, is 10 be Sh1rcr
with her Lord in that Kingdom.
"In the Ages to Come"
The heights and depths and lengths
| and breadtllS Of Divine love toward
the elect Church, the Bride of Christ
will not he fully exhibited to angels
and TO men. even during the glorious
period Of McSsiah's reign. Saint Pau
explicitly declares, that in the Ago:
10 come He might show the exceeding
riches Of His grace IN His Kindness
toward us through Christ Jesus
Gphcsans il. &. ~ Is it asked what
opportunity there will be for furthc;
favors TO he bestowed upon the Cburci
at the conclusion Of Messiah's reign:
| If our astronomical concepts are cor
rect. all the fixed stars are suns, ant
around each sun are planets. Arr
there. then, thousand blazing suns
Yes, more. Are there ten thousand
Yes, more. Are there ten times tel
thousand? Yes, moreJ Are there fer
times hundred thousand, a million
Yrs. more. Are there ten times ter
millions. hundred millions? Yes
more! And if we allow an average OF
fen planets to each sun this wou'o
make more than thousand million
planets, all made not in vain, but
eventually to be inhabited.
| t1,c' our poor. minds are WillCrpr
with such manifestations OF DIVINE
| Power aud Wisdom, even as we have
already been bewiIdered in our attempt
to appreciate the heights and depths
OF Divine Love. Will there not indeed
then, be quite sutticiency Of the Di
! vine Program TO be outworked through
! Christ and the Church to justify thu
| Apostles statement that III the Ages
70 come God will manifest the exceed