Western Kansas world., 1912-03-09

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. A sum-
mary of today's discourse of Pastor
Russell in the Y NJ C. A Auditorium
is as follows
1 had a great interest in yeur land
and its people before coming to your
shores but my interest has been
greatly increased by what 1 have wit
messed during the past three weeks in
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 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-
BILE we have no remedy to suggest,
except the Divine one-the establish
ment of Messiah's Kingdom
Generous Instincts of india's Wealthy.
Although / have remarked of your
hundreds of millions of hopelessly
poor, ! have not 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 having been provided for de-
crepit chickens, donkeys, etc
However we may consider such ben
efactions, 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 forefathers saw the height of
| Gods love for the holy angels and it's
| 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 hu-
| mankind. dead as well as alive. How
the precious Scriptures which tell of
Jesus as the Savior of the world, as
well as of the Church, escaped our no
| tice, who can explain?
But surely glad are we that now we
|
Precipitation for our sins, the Church s
sins. and not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the whole world.
This fuller appreciation of the lengths
and breadths and heights and depths
of love Divine is coming to Christian
people as a benediction from heaven
just at the time when many are High
er-Critically repudiating the Bible and
| hu Of
true view of Gods Word we have in
timated. namely. that all the families
of the earth are to be blessed by Mes
siah's Kingdom, and that the Church
in process of election, is to be sharel
with her Lord in that Kingdom
''In 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 angel.
and to men, even during the gloriou.
! period of Nessiah's reign. Saint Pan
, explicitly declares. that in the Age,
to come He might show the exceedin,
riches of His grace in His kindnes,
toward us through Christ Jesus
Ephesians ii. 6, - Is it asked wha
opportunity there viii be for furthe
favors to be bestowed upon the Churcl
: at the conclusion Of Messiah's reign?
r If our astronomical concepts are cor
rect. all the fixed stars are suns, an,
) around each sun are planets Ar
' there. then, a thousand blazing suns
, Yes, more! Are there ten thousand
Yes, morei Are there ten times tel
thousand? Yes, morei Are there tel
times a hundred thousand, a million
I Yes, more! Are there ten times tel
millions. a hundred millions? Yef
: more! And If we allow an average O
n ten planets to each sun this woul
r make more than a thousand millio
n planets. all made not in vain, bu
eventually to be inhabited.
Alasi our poor minds are bewildere
with such manifestations of Divin
Power and Wisdom, even as we hav
!, already been bewildered in our attemr
b to appreciate the heights and depth
h OF Divine Love Win there not indee(
n then. be quite a sufficiency of the ID
q vine Program to be outworked throug
Christ and the Church to justify th
: Apostles statement that in the Age
TO come God will manifest the exceed
L ing riches of His grace in His Iovin
kindness toward us in Christ Jesus?