Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1913-02-15

24;39) Speaking
I(PAST0R RlJSSELDl without notes, he
S----- said:
| continue today my subject OF a
week ago at Brooklyn. ! am confident
that many Of you keep in touch with
my weekly discourses through the
newspapers. Last Sunday we consid-
cred the physical causes which led up
to the Deluge, and found them every
way most reasonable and in full har'
mony with history and geology. Today
we consider the Deluge from a differ
ent standpoint. We will attempt to
show from the Bible why God permit
ted the Deluge at all, and that He was
fully justified in the arrangement which
blotted out the human family, except
eight persons-righteous Noah and his
family.-2 Peter 2:4-10.
To begin with, we should remember
that Gods Covenant with Adam,
granting him everlasting life, was
based upon the fact that he was per-
feet tan image Of his Creator), and on
condition that he would maintain this
image and likeness by continued obedi-
ence to his Maker. When Satan OBJ
sessed the serpent and guided 1t to eat
the very fruit Of which our first par
ents were forbidden to eat, he pro-
duced thereby temptation,
Mother Eve saw that so far from the
serpent's being poisoned by that fruit,
1t was the wlsest Of animals. She
reasoned that humanity was so far SUI
peror to the brute that the increased
wisdom would make her husband and
herself like gods. She thlrsted for
knowledge and power. Only the Divine
command seemed to stand between her
and the highest ideals. She partOok OF
the fruit and recommended 1t to Adam
who was not so deceived, but who
knew that death would surely follow
disobedience. Nevertheless he dis
obeyed, thinking that he would rather
perish with his wife than spend etOr-
nifty without her.
The disobedlence led to expulsion
from Eden and the beginning Of the
gradual execution Of the sentence, "Dy-
ing, thou shalt die" Adam died with
in the thousand-year Day in which he
ate "of the tree"-nine hundred thirty
years old. His race inherited his dy-
ing conditions and tendencies Thus
all humanity are under the Divine
curse, or sentence Of death, and have
been going down to the tomb, Hades
for six thousand years. Whatever
therefore, may cut short human life is
no injustice to humanity, because
whatever life is enjoyed Is just SO
much more than 1t has title to. Hence
the Deluge was merely quick means
Of executing against the race the death
sentence already expressed sixteen cen
turtles before
The Deluge a DeliVeranoe.
When the Bible account Of the cause
Of the Deuge is properly comprehend
ed, It Is seen that 1t was indeed bless
ing In disguise The human family
had gotten into slavery, and would
shortly have been wiped out by a new
race which most peculiarly had intrud
ed upon humanity. The Bible tells US
that this new race consisted exclusive
ly Of males, propagated through tho
human female We read, "7he sam,
were mighty men men Of re
nown'-"glants. .'-Genesis Ola
The fallen race Of Adam was unable
to cope with the superior mental ant
physical strength Of the intrudeTS
Robbed Of their wives and daughters
and compelled to do the drudgery o.
their new masters, their lives were {
burden. Not only so, but the new rae,
was vicious, brutal, violent, as well al
immoral. The Bible account declares
"The earth was filed with violence,
The general moral corruption went 8,
far that we read, every imagination
Of the thoughts Of mans heart wa-
only evil continually" What terri
bic arraignment What Il mercy in tn,
sight Of all intelligent beings that sucl
n terribly immoral, strifeful, and en-
shaved condition should be brough
completely to an end This description
ls found graphically recorded in Gene
sis Gill, said Pastor Russell.
Whence tho Race Of eiants7
In the past we have not studied tn
Bible with sufficient care, and there
fore have not appreciated properly II
wonderful, harmonious story, The orr
gin Of the invading race Of giants 4
clearly told, snid Pastor Russell. So
tan. n glorious angelic being Of a hlgl
order, named Lucifer, the Morninl