The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1912-01-18

mand Of the United States Army. the
latter rs the Chairman of the Commit
tee. We report Pastor Itusscl!'s dis
COURSE
Pastor Russell greatly enjoyed his
visit to the Chinese Paris. 1t was an
experience lie had longed for from
childhood. Early in life he had in
quired respecting the fate Of the
heather and had received the answer
that without faith it is Impossible to
please God" and that there is none
other Name given under heaven
whereby we must be saved" than the
name Of Jesus. and through faith in
His blood. He then inquired the fate
of the unsaved, and got the answer Of
all orthodox creeds," that such wou1d
be consigned for all eternity to
place where they would suffer inde
scribable tortures.
Supposing that the Bible was the
foundation of these creeds he aban-
doned the Bible, and for nearly two
years was on the sea OF life with
out chart or compass. seeking after
true God not less noble and loving and
just than the very best of His human
creatures.
Feeling sure that wise, just. low
ing God, having made man with men
tai capacity to appreciate Himself,
would make revelation of His char
acter and His purposes. he sought for
book containing such revelation of
the Divine will as his heart and head
could accept. Having abandoned the
Bible. he sought the teachings of other
sacred books of the world, only to find
them still more disappointing.
Hungry of soul. he returned to the
Bible, thinking possibly he had studied
it before through the distorted spec
tacles of human creeds. His fresh in
vestigations brought blessing! No
where had he found so glorious a rep
resentation of the true, Divine charac-
ter as in Jesus and His teachings!
Truly, he said, "Neyer man spake like
This man" Finally he saw the great
difficulty which had blinded himself
and others to the Divine love and
gracious plan of the Bible.
The Resurrection Of the Dead.
This discovery was that the penalty
4 for sin is not CrryIasiiag torture after
DEATH and that the Bible does not SO
teach. 1t declares. "Thc wages of sin
is DEATH" "The soul that sinncth. It
shall die" iitclnanS vi. 23; Ezekiel
xviii. 2O) He perceived that for six
thousand years the world has hccn suf-
fering the veir penalty which God de-
clurcd to Adam. Thou shalt surely
die; "ln the sweat of thy face shalt
shou eat bread. until thou return to the
! Sund from whence thou vast taken
xAe- -sought TIC Bible remedy for all
and foun That in remedy could
n applied only as the Divine sentence
Ahou,d he settled for Adam by sub
stitute-that then only could the curse
be removed. In full harmony with all
this came the Scriptural presentatio1
that the Only Begotten Son OF God
had left His spiritual plane Of glory
and become a Man. that HE by the
' grace of God should taste dcafh for ev-
ery man.; "Christ died for our sins.
according to the Scriptures. and rose
again for our Justification
Pursuing this Bible study he soon
found that the hope Of humanity cen
ters in the resurrection Of the dead: "As
bv man came death. by a Man also
comes the resurrection OF the dead;
for as all in Adam die, even so all In
christ shall be made alive-every man
in his own order" or rank. Il Corin-
thians xv, 81, 22)
TIVE Very Different saivatisns.
The Pastor was sttd as he thought
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