The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-29


'-.>@'' largest auditOri-
um, The Hippodrome. next Sunday
afternoon. to hear the report OF this
Committee respecting it's findings. A
full report of the same will be given
in these columns. Pastor Russell's dis
course today was reminiscent of Ara
bia as the Cradle Of our Race. His
SO all in Christ shall be made alive;
every man in his own order."-I Corin-
thians KY. %, %.
Tho Land Where Man Lost Life.
Arabia ia 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 a 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
the image Of his Creator, sinned and
became subject to the penalty Of sin
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. 8. .-..-.< !. -. #~:
Here is the fertile Mesopotamia,
which Father Abraham left at the Di-
vine Invitation, TO sojourn i'll 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
ed 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 i'm n promise made to Abra-
ham, and, like The Jews, wait still for
the glorious appea ring Of Messiah.
Like the IsraelileS they are blind to the
and heal and uDlift the world, it was
necessary that IJc redeem them with
His life, and select from amongst
mem spiritual class to be His Bride
and joint-heir III His glorious, King
DOM
And now as the day draws near that
the curse shall he lifted from the
nrl1 Nx-hn wi ct,.,u IA
SOM as the rose" aud 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 aud fertile as
the Garden of the Lord f;Are we not
thus witnesses Of the. beginning Of the
long-promised times Of restitution of
all things which God hath spoken by
the mouth OF all the holy Prophets
since the world began: H-Acts iii, 49,
81. 80 sf " -.
Redemption by His Blood. 90.
When could I'VE more appropriately
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 filed the earth with sin. selfish.
ness, sorrow and dying? All, surely
We greatly erred when we supposed
that a 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
a whole has lost2 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 relationship-lost Divine IA
ror. Divine communion. Divine care.
and were plunged into death condem.
nation as strangers. aliens, conyicts.
tarrying in life merely to fulfil the yer.
dict: Dying. thou shalt die
How sterny Divine Justice held to
that verdict, How releutlessly. how
pHilessly the forces Of nature were ell.
lowed to play Ina voc with man in
earthquakes. drouths. famines. pesti.
lences and hereditary diseases. For
more than two thousand years the
great Heavenly Parent showed man.
kind only His Justice and naught of
His Love. And then the first deciara.
ton of the Gospel-the first mention
that Divine favor. would yet rescue