Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-03-07

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in tine heather and in the bible, but they
declined to give i'm advance any hint OF
what their report will be as respects the
missionary work here.
Pastor Russell, chairman of the COM
mittee. preached twice today to large and
attentive audiences In our finest audito-
rum. One of his addresses, from Jer. tx,
Is. "a. we report. He said:
Your City OF Palaces greatly i'm
presses me, as doubtless 1t does all who
visit it. But as I look at it's splendor I
am reminded if that portion of my text
which declares, Let him that glorieth
glory in this, that he understandeth and
knoweth Me, that I am the Lord, which
exerciseth loving kindness, judgment and
righteousness in the EARTH" Wherever
we go we perceive that man. by virtue of
his creation. is a %worshiper. The organs
OF reverence developed and much shat
tered by ignorance and superstition. are
to be found in the organism of every man.
My journey to this city has impressed
this thought deeply.
I stopped en- route at Juggernaut: the
very name called up the stories of my
childhood which so greatly aroused my
synlpathies for the poor heather. Mis-
sionary reports told of how in ignorance
the natives would throw themselves be-
fore the great Car of Juggernaut, feeling
sCAiC W nus XIV ~ viz NSS
And now, here am l on the Ganges river,
of which in childhood L heard so much
that thrilled my heart with sympathy
how mothers threw their babes into the
Ganges, not because they had no sympa-
tiny with their offspring, but because they
desired to sacrifice to and propitiate their
gods. Now that 1 am here l do thank
God that, although the heather nave not
been converted to a true knowledge of
the great Jehovah. they have. neverthe-
less. come under the strong hand of the
British government, which whatever its
defects. seeks at least to protect it's SUBJ
jects from the extremes of their own ig-
norance and superstition.
1.-THE Desire of All Nations"
While it is true that the worst form of
government imaginable is preferable to
anarchy. and while 1t is also true that the
British government is amongst the most
just in the world. nevertheless. no gov
eminent that fallen man has ever made
or can make CAN ever satisfy the ideals
of the more intelligent. Hence for CEN
turtles the heather world has dreamed of a
Golde Age to come and bible students
have rejoiced in the Divine promise that
the Messian:c Kingdom will follow ou1.
present arrangement and that 1T will
prove to be 1.-The desire of all nations.'
Since we perceive the ignorance and SUI
perstition of heathendom, our hearts cry
out for the promised reign of Messiah and
the blessing that then will accrue to man
kind! The very best that we have yet at
tanned in the most civilized lands comes
far short of the Divine promise of the con-
ditions to prevail as Il result of Messiah's
rule. Then all ignorance, all superstition.
all sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death shall
be abolished and, finally. the wilfully
wicked destroyed in the second death. the
will have come when Gods will shall
Ire done on earth as fully as it is now
done in HEAVIER
"Now We Know in PART"
st. Paul wrote. Now we know in part.
then we shall know even as also we
are known" u Cor. xiii, 12.) Alas! How
every true Christian must realize how his
w knowledge of God and that of his
forefathers has SO slightly exceeded the
of the heather, that he found
It difficult to glory" in his understanding
of God. Only those who are adherents
the declarations of the bible that "God
Is Love- that His mercy endureth ever.
that He is like a plying father. that He
is a God of All Grace, the Father Of
whose loving kindness we cannot
measure-only such have the assurances
which enable them TO offset the horrihle
theories of our creeds formulated in a
darker past, and which told us more hor-
rible things respecting our God and His
treatment of mankind than our poor
heather brethren ever imagined.
But now the better day is dawning, We
are seeing the glorious outlines of the Di.
vine character in the Divine Plan as never
before! Our hearts first led the way and
against the dictum of our fail.
lacious reasoning. And now, in Gods due
time, when nature is yielding up her Sc
crets and chemistry is making the world
anew, behold the key to the Divine Word
Is thrust into our hands, unlocking its
mysteries and explaining it's parabolic
symbols to our astonished faith!
knowing Our God.
Our Redeemer declared, This is life
that they might know Thee. the
only true and living God, and Jesus
whom Thou hast sent Evidently
the great Teacher had in mind the thought
Of our text-not merely a knowledge about
God. but an acquaintanceship with Him.
as can come only through a fellow
ship of spirit and an understanding of the
Program.
Thus knowledge is intimately bound up
with our eternal prospects. Earth's tenn
ing millions know not God. Even those
portions called Christian, worship the true
God with but slight appreciation of His
true character. None Of these. therefore
are. in the condition to claim eyerlastinr
life according to the teaching Of the Mas.
They are the non-elect, in contrast
with the faithful few. who are scriptural-
" styled o Elect '.The Verv
and who are urged to MAKE their
calling and election sure by perseyerine
even unto death.
The wholesale removal Of queues n
China haS resulted IN q vroor As-.