The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-02-21

D. inherent feature
kRaSI0R RQSSELDl of their investiga-
tion. This is their
third week in India and they have al
ready travelled nearly two thousand
miles. They are keenly interested in
the heathen and in the Bible, but they
decline to give in advance any hint
of what their report will be as respects
the missionaries and their work.
Pastor Russell, Chairman of the
Committee, preached twice today to
large and attentive audiences in our
finest Auditorium. One of his adj
dresses, from Jeremiah tx, %, "a, we
report. He said
Your "City Of Palaces" greatly i'm
presses me, as doubtless it does all who
visit it. But as | look at its splendor
/ am reminded Of that portion of my
text which declares, "Let him that
glorieth glory in this, that he under
standeth and knoweth Me, that | am
the Lord. which eXerciseth loving-kind-
ness, Judgment and righteousness in
the earth" Wherever we go we per-
ceive that man, by virtue of his crea-
ton. is worshiper. The organs of
reverence and spirituality, although
only partially developed and much
shattered by ignorance and supersti-
ton, are to be found in every man and
their position is the very highest in
his organism. My journey to this city
has impressed this thought deeply.
OF ot1t. "a
very name called up the stories Of my
childhood which so greatly aroused my
sympathies for the poor heather. Mis-
slonary reports told of how in tgno-
rance the natives would throw them
selves before the great Car of Jugger
naut, feeling it an honor to thus sacri-
fee their lives to a false god. And
now, here 1 am on the Gauges River
of which in childhood / heard so much
that thrilled my heart with sympathy
how mothers threw their babes into
the Ganges, not because they had no
sympathy with their offspring, but be
cause they desired to sacrifice to and
propitiate their gods. Now that am
here do thank God that, although the
heather have not been converted to a
true knowledge of the great Jehovah
they have, nevertheless, come under
the strong hand Of the British govern
ment, which. whatever its defects,
from the extremes of their own igno-
rance and superstition.
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 government that fallen
man has ever made or can make can
ever satisfy the ideals of the more IN
telligent. Hence for centuries the hea-
then world has dreamed of a Golden
Age to come and Bible Students have
rejoiced in the Divine promise that the
Messianic Kingdom will follow our
present arrangement and that It viii be
proved to be 'the desire of all nations"
Oh, since we perceive the ignorance
and superstition OF heathend0m, our
of Messiah and the blessing that then
will accrue to mankind! The very best
that we have yet attained, in the most
civilized lands, comes far short of the
Divine promise Of the conditions to
prevail as a result of Messiah's rule.
Then all ignorance, all superstition.
all sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death
shall he abolished and finally, with
the wlllfully wicked destroyed in the
Second Death the time will have
come when Gods will shall be done
on earth rs fully, as completely, as il
is now done in heaven. When ''every
knee shall bow and every tongue con
fess'' to the glory of God; when ''the
knowledge Of the glory Of the Lord
shall fill the whole earth as the wa
tiers cover the great deep" when "no
man win need say to his neighbor,
know thou the Lord, for all shall
know Him from the least of them to
greatest of them"-it is for that
,a0rious Epoch, my dear hearers, that
e should all be hoping. longing
b7ing. and striving to prepare our
ves.
"Now We Know In Part"
saint Paul wrote Now we know in
aqrt. but then we shall know even n
$50 we are known" q CorinthIans
xiii. 12D Alas! every true Christian
mnst realize how his own knowl-
edge of God and thar Of mis- forefa-
theirs has so slightly exceeded the
knowledge OF the heather and that he