The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-08-21

" put ali luSd iuIO pcOpIS D lSduS
that will constrain them to give
of what they suppose is their own
volition. than to extract money by
urgency.
When the case of Pastor" Russell
was before the court at the time he
sued the Brooklyn Eagle" for libel be-
cause of its references to his miracle
wheat transactions, his own counsel
told the jury that "a verdict for the de-
PENDANT would be equivalent of brand
ing Pastor Russell as a crook" The
jury rendered the equivalent, found for
the defendant. The Eagle said
after the trial: THE Eagle believes
that it should serve to brand him as a
man unfit to lead others in the ways of
God"
The Eagle" bad suggested by its
cartoon that Pastor" Russell might
try his hand in miracle" stocks as well
as in miracle" wheat. After the YER
dict was rendered in its favor, it made
bold to say:
1.-The validity of this suggestion
was brought out during the trial,
for the evidence showed the Pas
tor to be the president and control
ling factor in whole series of in
terlocking corporations, through
which he transacts his business,
and from which he derives his in
come. Believing the Pastors
prediction that the world, as now
constituted, will come to an end in
October, 1914, his deluded followers
are providing him with an income,
which in the case of a single one of
his corporations has reached an ad-
mitted total of 100000 during
the past ten years.
What Pastor" Russell calls the
truth. his teaching, is a singular COM
bination of Scripture, sound doctrine
and long exploded errors. There is an
abundance of Scripture in it; there is
enough sound doctrine to appeal to those
who have been trained in orthodoxy,
and there is so much of the third in
gredient as to make his teaching as a
whole very insldious and dangerous. 1t
seems to be scriptural, and thereby are
deceived; for the discarded method of
scriptural Interpretation which he so
constantly and freely employs, by the
use of which anything can be made
plausible, vitiates and perverts the
truth of the Scriptures he uses. The
The people to whom Pastor" Russell
makes his appeal, and whom he cum
ningly seeks to reach, are church-mem-
bers who take an interest in purely
religious questions of certain kind
questions about which disputes have
been waged through the centuries. He
has boasted of the number of Methodists
he catches-there are more of them to
be caught than of the other Protestant
churches.
The notes of evangelism and of earn
est ethical appeal-of urgent moral re-
form are not to be found in his teach
ing. The questions he delights in seem
remote from the life Christians are call
ed to live in this world, where righteous
ness and sin, love and selfshness, are in
deadly strife. But men and women can
not give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister question
ings, rather than a stewardship of God
which is in faith" without receiving
spiritual and moral hurt. For 1.-The end
of the charge is love out of pure heart
and a good conscience and faith unfeign-
ed; from which things some having
swerved have turned aside into VAN
talking" ''Doting about questions
and strifes of words" is one of the
maladies against which the early Chris
tians were faithfully warned in the New
Testament. One of the marks of man
afflicted with this sort of sickness is in
dicated in the statement that he is
"puffed up" Charles Taze Russell s
picture was drawn long ago in clear
lines and distinct colors when st. Paul
wrote his letters to Timothy and Titus.
The latest move of this consummate
religious actor is to pose as martyr.
Because Christians have been warned
against him, it is gravelY announced in
the Bible Students Association Month
ly" that there is a clerical conspiracy
against mm. Doctors of divinity are
melting the people to cry out, as in
Jesus day, Cruelty him!' and he is
being burned at the stake in churches
where his views are roasted" The
role of martyr is one of the easiest to
play, yet it is often effective. 1t is a
shrewd way of advertising ones impor-
lance. When Pastor" Russell went
to England, it was announced that the
pastor of Brooklyn Tabernacle" had
come to London. 1t was supposed by
many that he was the successor of Doc
tor Talmage, and on the strength of
this supposition he was invited to preach
in more than one prominent church OF
the city. But when the facts about
him became known, the invitations
were quickly withdrawn. The rea
measure of the man and his writings is
all that is necessary to dissipate the idea
that he is being prosecuted. Real mar.
tyrs are prosecuted for righteousness OIL
truths sake. Pastor" Russell il
immune.
Notice to The Public.