Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-02-23

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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. 4 sum
mary Of tcday's discourse of Pastor
Russell in the Y. NJ. C. A. Auditorium
Is as follows
I 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 III
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,
so likewise there can lie found no
greater contrast socially and financial
~ than between your wealthy princes
and Your poverty-stricken lower castles.
Although such contrasts are dcp,0ra-
bic we have 10 remedy to suggest.
except the Divine one-the establish
ment of Ness'ah's Kingdom.
Generous Instincts Of ind.als Wealthy.
Although / have remar,-el OF YOUR
hundreds Of millions Of hopelesslT
poor, l have net 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.
notably In Bombay. large animal hos
pitfalls haviag been provided for de
crepit chickens. donkeys, etc.
However we may consider such ben
efactions, in view of human need AMI
Suffering, we cannot overlook the fact
that sympathy is there, only waiting
for the prc1sr direction, which Mes
siah's Kingdom will 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 depths. They
did not see that the Redemption ac-
complished by Jesus is ultimately to
reach down to and embrace the very
humblest and most degraded of hui
mankind dead as we'll as alive. How
the precious Scriptures which tell OF
Jesus as the Savior of the world, as
we'll as OF the Church, escaped our no
tee, who can explain?
But surely glad are we that now we
can see clearly that the Redeemer is q
Precipitation for our sins, the Church's
sins. and not for ours only, but also
for the sins cf the whole world.
This fuller appreciation of the lengths
and breadt,-s and heights and depths
of love Divine is conf to Christian
people as a benedic; b. .om heaven
just at the time when many are High
er-Critically repudtating 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
slams Kingdom, and that the Church
in process Of election. is to be sharer
with her Lord in that Kingdom.
an 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
vi Of 81, Ii,
toward us through Christ Jesus .
Ephesians il, 6, ~ Is it asked what
opportunity there will be for further
favors to be bestowed upon the Church
at the conclusion of Messiah's reign?
If our astronomical concepts are cor
rect, all the fixed stars are suns, and
around each sun are planets. Ar,
| there, then, a thousand blazing suns
| Yes, more. Are there ten thousand /:
Yes, moret Are there ten times ten
| thousand? Yes, more, Are there ten
times a hundred thousand, million
Yes. more. Are there ten times ten
| millions, hundred millions? Yes,
morei And if we allow an average Of
| ten planets to 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
I Power and Wisdom, even as we have
already been bewildered in our attempt
to appreciate the heights and depths
Of Divine Love. VIII there not indeed,
then, be quite a sufficiency of the Di-
I vine Program to be outworked through
Christ and the Church to justify the
to come God will manifest the exceed
ing riches of His grace in His loving
Kindness toward us In Christ Jesus?