Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-19
Pastor RusselIs Sermon

, during the last | ~ years is the oosinl
Of Satan. This is the explanation
= given I'm the footnOtes Of some editions
Of the Catholic Bible. 1t must be dis
couraging TO our Catholic brethren t
see how many blessings have come t
the world under what they claim IL
Satans regime. Surely some Of then
will contrast this with the supersti
tion, bigotry. and the prosecuting spiri,
which seemed to dominate both Prot
estants and Catholics during what they
claim was the Millennium.
As for Protestants In general the
kindest statement Of their position IL
that they are confused. They do moi
like to agree with Papacy that the
Millennium Is past; and yet they agree
with Papacy IN claiming that the great
kingdoms Of Europe are parts Of
Christs Kingdom, Notwithstanding the
fact that they are lmpOyerlshing them
selves to prepare for blowing each 9th
er off the face of the earth.
Christs Kingdom Brings Millennium.
Premillennialists hold that Christs
Second Advent precedes the establish.
ment Of His Kingdom; and that the
Church during the Gospel Age is in
preparation for the Kingdom honor
glory and service. Such believers in
the teachings Of the Bible alone are
preaching that the coming Of Messiah's
Kingdom IS the hope Of the world. and
that the call Of the present is for the
Elect to share in the Kingdom Hark
to the Masters words, Fear not, Lit
tie Flock; for 1t is your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the Kingdom"
70 these 1t. is not astounding that
the heather are not all converted,
either at home or abroad for they real.
ize that Gods Word does not so teach
They find the Scriptures to tell that at
the Second Coming Of Christ "the ma.
tons will be angry" and Gods wrath
will come upon them. There shall
be time Of trouble such as there
llNNNl Nbo nllNt llltlt Nbo a llullulls
They find that during that time Mes.
slahs Kingdom will be established. .
and that incidental to It's establish.
ment the First Resurrection will take
place. They note Jesus words, blessed
and holy are all they that have part
in the First Resurrection; they
shall be priests unto God and unto
Christ and shall reign with Him
thousand years" upon the earth."-
Revelation Xxx, 6; v, 10.
But Premllennialists very generally
make two mistakes; a They think OF
His Kingdom as one I'm which Christ
and the saints will hold earthly court.
They fail to discern that the resurrec.
tiOn change raises both Christ and the
Church fully out Of the human nature
into the Divine nature; and that Gods
Kingdom, spiritual and all powerful,
will bless mankind through earthly .
agents already prepared These will .
he the saints who died previous to
Pentecost, and whose resurrection will
be to human pGrfectlon-to which all
Of the Non-Elect world will be granted
opportunity Of attaining,
(2) Premillennlallsts fail generally to
discuss that the Bible teaches that bless.
lngs will be granted the Non Elect who
have died during the past six thousand
years, without having full opportunity
of attaining to life everlasting. They
have overlooked the Scriptural state
ment that all the dead OF Adams race
sleep until the resurrection; that the
Morning OF the Great Day Of Mes.
siah's Kingdom will be the resurrec.
tion morning not only for the church,
but for the sleeping billions Of human. ,
lty Our unscrlptural conceptions Of
the dead, as alive in Paradise or in
Purgatory or In Hell of torture, \
came originally from the heather: but u
we have used our greater enlghten. /
ment to Intensity the joys OF the {
heather Paradise, and the sufrerings
of the heather in the intermediate ,
state. Hence It is that the most intel.
ligent people In the world by neglect.
Ing Gods Message, the Bible, today be- u
lleve things respecting God and His S
more monstrous than any OF {
the doctrines Of demons which aflict G
the heather world and drive them
from God In fear
APPLYING Now Our Text.
We note that the Lord did not say
that the Gospel would convert the
world, but merely that It would be
witncsS to them. The word here trans
lated witness" is In the Greek mar
twion, from the root martus, the equiv
alcnt Of our English word MARTYR. Thus e
seem this text agrees with all Of the
Masters testimonies TO His followers
that In becoming Ills disciples they {
would be sacrificing earthly friend
ships, honor etc. aud that they would
bring upon themselves sulcrmus. Tc b
he His disciples, therefore they must
be martyrs, witnesses for the Truth
aud the light, In the midst " dark
ness, blgotry and superstition. The
additional light and Truth which the
followers OF Jesus would possess and
testify TO would make " them
and only such would be ac
counted worthy 10 share with Him In
The coming Kingdom Marvel not
IL the world hate We know
that 1t hated Me before it hated YOU
II ye We're OF the world. the world
would love It's own; but now we are
not OF the world, Tor 81 have chosen
Iou' ont or the world. "uud ordained
YOU "Whosoever will live godly In
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution"
TO him that overcometh will | grant