The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-20

| tion. This is their
third week In India and they have al
ready travelled nearly two thousand
miles. They are keenly interested in
the heather and in the Bible, but they
| decline to give I'm 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 I'm our
! finest Auditorium. One of his ad-
dresses, from Jeremiah TX, %, "a, we
report. He said:-
Your "City Of Palaces" greatly i'm
| presses me, as doubtless 1t does all who
visit II. But as | look at its splendor
| am reminded Of that portion of my
text which declares, "Let him that
glorieth glory I'm this. that he under
standeth and knoweth Me. that / am
the Lord, which exerciseth lov ng-klnd-
ness, judgment and righteousness in
the earth" Wherever we go we per-
ceive that man, by virtue of his crea-
tion, 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.
stopped en- route at Juggernaut; the
very name called up the stories Of my
childhood which so greatly aroused my
sympathies for the poor heather. Mis-
sionary reports told OF how In igno-
rance the, natives would throw them
selves before the great Car of Jugger-
naut, feeling II an honor to thus sacri-
fee their lives to false god. And
now, here / am on the Ganges 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
propltiate their gods. Now that l am
here do thank God that, although the
heather have not been converted to q
true knowledge OF the great Jehovah,
they have, nevertheless, come under
the strong hand OF the British govern
ment, which. whatever its defects.
seeks at least to protect its subjects
from tie extremes OF their own igno-
rance and superstition.
The Desire Of All Nations.
While IL 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 Golden
Age to come and Bible Students have
rejoiced in the Divine promise that the
Messianic Kingdom will follow our
present arrangement and that 1t win be
proved to be "the desire of all nations"
Oh, since we perceive the Ignorance
and superstition OF heathendom, our
hearts cry out for the promised reign
Nof Messiah and the blessing that then
will accrue to mankind The very best
y
civilized lands, comes far short OF the
Divine promise OF the conditions to
prevail as result of Messiah's rule.
Then all ignorance, all superstition,
all sin, all sorrow, all pain, all death
shall be abolished and finally, with
the willfully wicked destroyed in the
Second Death, the time will have
come when Gods will shall be done
on earth as fully, as completely, as 1t
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
ters cover the great deep" when mo
man will need say TO his neighbor,
know thou the Lord, for all shall
know Him from the least OF them TO
the greatest OF them"-it Is for that
glorious Epoch, my dear hearers, that
we should all be hoping, longinl,
praying, and striving to prepare our
selves.
"Now We Know In Part"
Saint Paul wrote, "Now we know I'm
part, but then we shall know even as
also we are known" Il Corinthians
Kill. 12) Alasl every true Christian
must realize how his own knowI-
edge OF God and that OF his forefa-
theirs has so slightly exceeded the
knowledge of the heather and that he
found II difficult 90 "glory" In his un-
derstandlng Of Cod Only those who
are adherents TO the declarations OF
the Bible That God IS Love-" that His
mercy cndureth ever that He Is like
q plying fa.ses. that IIe Is the Cod