The Cairo bulletin., 1913-09-01

tRA2iQk Ku2SLlllj "a did the Lord
behold the earth,
to hear the grooming of the prisoners
to loose those that are appointed to
death. Psalm 102:lS-o0.
The Pastor opened his address with
| the declaration that the Bible reveals
the only God of love and pity. The
heather gods are yengeful, tyrannics..
merciless. The picture of God In our
creeds, formulated Ia the Dark Ages,
misrepresents Him even more than do
the heather idols To rid himself OF
the misconceptions of the Almighty.
| furnished by our creeds. and 10 appre-
ciate the God Of the Bible should be
the endeavor of every person.
| Next the Pastor called attention to
Gods sympathy for His fallen crea-
lures, as expressed in the text, and to
the fact that 1t Is a direct contradic-
ton of our theories respecting the Di-
vine predestination Of more than nine
tenths of humanity to an eternity Of
torture. The Lord did not wholly aban-
don His creatures because Of the dis
obedience In Eden.
Human Wretehedness In Gods Sight.
| Pastor Russell then described human
conditions as they must appear from
| the Heavenly viewpoint The sight Is
terrible~enough to make angels weep
Some are demented to the extent of
wallowing In the mire Of sin; some 80
deprayed that they love wrong ami
hate right. others so weak that they
cannot do as they would; many In pris-
ons; hundreds Of thousands In hospi-
tails; other hundreds OF thousands In in
sane asylnms; thousands OF millions
gone down into the tomb: with few.
in comparative health. rushing head
long seeking happiness. or fighting and
cheating to amass fortunes, which, dy-
ing, they must leave As God looks
down, the earth must look like Il vast
hospital, cemetery, mud-house
The Almighty foreSnew mans way
ward course and It's penalty Of sin and
death, and from the beginning planned
to rescue man That rescue Is not
1
but from the terrible condition of sin
and death In which we find ourselves.
Freeing Death Appointed Prisoners.
Adams entire race, shackled with sin
| and under sentence of death have for
six thousand years been marching to
the great prison-house Of the tomb.
They are now entering the prison
hoJse at the rate of ninety thousand
every twentyfour hours God has sym
| pa thized with them and has provided
a redemption
| The Pastor then demonstrated that az
| one mans sin brought death upon hu
mainly, 80 Divine Wisdom has ar
| ranged that Savior should Give Him
self Ransom for Adam and his race.
| This has already been accomplished In
| Christ's death. But this Is only the be-
ginning. The thousands Of millions OF
| Adams children must actually be set
free from sin aud death conditions.
| But life must he restored ere they can
profit by the Redeemer's sacrifice.
The New Creation.
Pastor Russell declared that Gods
benevolent design for the recreation
OF humanity began It's work at Pen
| tccost Ia His acceptance of the Church
and the Eecettlns of its members by
| the Holy Spirit. This work win con.
tinue until the entire number Of the
fore-oriHined Net0 Creation are exalted
by the power of the First Resurrection.
These VIII be kind OF tirst-fruits t.
God Of His creatures. The after-truIts
will be much more numerous, though
less choice in quality Again. the
! Church now being selected Is the
| Church OF the Irirst-borns, written in
Heaven" The Inference Is plain that
there VIII be afternoons.
In the Regeneration Timss.
Then the Pastor showed conclusively
from Scripture that the reign OF
Christs saints is the Compromised
| Millennium. or thousand years of
| righteousness during which Satan will
be bound st Peter shows that then
viii be the time OF human Restitution
| to the Original perfection. lost by
Adams disobedience redeemed by
Jesus obedience All the willing and
obedlcut will be raised out Of sin and
death e-created in Gods image This
is tho resurrection of the unjust, men
| toned by St Paul.
The rest Of the dead-aside from the
Church. constituting the First Resur-
rcctlon-wll not fully live again until
the thousand years Of the Messianic
| Kingdom are finished. st Paul de
claree that the grooming creation shall
be delivered from the bondage Of cor
| rt1otIon-slayery TO death