Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-04-12

teric results. His two topics were,
BEYOND THE GRAVE" and
SCARLET SINS" We report the lat.
ter from the text, Come now, and
let us reason together, saith the Lord:
though your sins be as scarlet they
shall be as white as snow"-Isa. 1918.
Although thoroughly loyal to the BIZ
BILE and very reverental, the Pastor
has evidently cut loose from the creeds
pf all the churches. He admitted that
they all contain kernels Of Truth, but
declared that the truths are buried in
mass of chalf, and worse, are hidden
In God'dishonorlng theologies so vio-
lently unreasonable that their best
friends and. supporters are ashamed of
them and prefer never to think of them.
The Pastor claimed that the repul,
siveness Of the creedal rubbish heaps
hinders people from looking for the
grains of Truth which they contain
And this is well, he said. Why should
we trouble and disgust ourselves tC
search for the grains which the varl
Gus creeds contain, while we have In
the Bible whole garner full of Truth
clean and pure? He urged all Chris
tan people to abandon their creeds and
to come together as Bible students, In
tent only on knowing the testimony OF
Gods Word and obtaining the guild.
ance Of His Holy Spirit In the under
standing of 1t. So doing, be declared,
all true Christians would soon be so
united in heart and spirit that outward
forms Of federation would be useless
and as absolutely ignored as in the
days of Jesus and the Apostles.
Jesus held up to ridicue and scorn
the inconsistencies Of His day If He
were here today, He would similarly
show us many inconsistencies in our
estimation Of sin and righteousness,
the Pastor believed. Jesus rldiculed
the religious leaders Of His time when
He pointed out their carefulness to
give 1.-THE Of their increase, even to the
smallest Of seeds, and their snowy re.
llgious performances to be seen of men,
Our Lord declared that while so do.
ing. they practised the greatest out
RACES against the very spirit Of Gods
Law Of righteousness; that In mean
ways they took the bread from the
poor, the orphan. the widow, and to
divert attention from their course, they
hypocritically heightened their pray
ers. II was not that praying was
wrong, or that tithlng was objection.
able, but that their recognition of
these showed them to be all the more
responsible in their gross violations
in "devouring widows houses" and
other sharp practices whereby they
took advantage OF those within their
power through adversely or otherwise
This principle still operates, sait
Pastor Russell. The same sins lie al
the door Of many processing godllnesi
and holding church membership. To
day, as In our Masters time, there is q
way Of keeping within the limits OF
the law, a way Of keeping out Of the
penltentary, while at the same time
the spirit Of the law is outraged and
trampled In the dust Of avariclous
money.gettlng And now, as then
these moneylovers often pose as phi
anthropists. and hold high places ol
honor and churchanity. The Pastor
spared not this class He declared re
llglous hypocrltes the worst Of sinners
in the sight Of Heaven or all sins
theirs were the most scarlet In Gods
sight, he believed,
Greater and Lesser Sins.
Today wealth covers a multitude Of
sins To be financially unsuccessful Is
a crime on account Of which many vii
consider that wife Is justified II
breaking the obligation OF her marriage
vow and seeking diyorce-a crime OF
account Of which some churches wout
feel justified in rejecting the culprit ai
undesirable and striking his nam,
from the list Of members what mat
ters II that Jesus addressed some ol
His most comforting words to The
weary and heavy-laden and unsuccess
full (Matthew l12s.30l what mat
ters 1t that the Scriptures declare that
not many rich, wise. great or learned
has God called to the Heavenly inheri
tance-but chiefly the poor Of this
world rich in falthl-l Cor. l:20-20.
II is the same amongst Catholics az
amongst Protestants 50 long as th,