Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-01-29
FAMOUS RELIGIOUS EDITOR.

Inc lameu 0iDie UeIeuu6T, Tie ven
erabie Pastor Russell Of London and
Brooklyn Ta%bernacles. has won un.
Stinted praise from the press and public
of many nations by forty years unceas.
ing activity as evangelist and writer.
In the carly part of his ministry
Smaller cities were frequently visited.
but not so now, since his field Of OPP
Grafton has become worldwide, and
she urgent invitations to deliver free
public lectures In the largest cities
have become so numerous that even all
of these cannot be accepted.
For the past several years Pastor
Russell has made ~semi.annual foreign
tours, and, through the press reports OF
his meetings held in large public halls
of the leading cities, he has received
much favorable comment and publicity.
Wonderful Drawing Power.
AS a public speaker on Bible topics,
Pastor Russell stands %unrivaled-
Stands alone in a place created by his
W individual work, Il place not previ.
ously attained nor occupied by another.
The mammoth crowds that repeated
iy assemble TO bear him at every OPP
portunity is conclusive evidence as to
his drawing power, Last year, while
conducting o series OF Sunday meet
ings in the london Royal Albert Hall,
Pastor Russell received written com
munications through the mail from
more than six thousand persons. re-
questing printed copies of his sermons
So spontaneous 4 demand was both
unprecedented and unlocked for. An
other evidence of his popularity on the
other side or the rolling blue is the
publication of his weekly in
something over three hundred papers
in England, ireland. Scotland. Australia.
The Editor OF Great Brttain's fore
most family paper, The Peoples Jour
nal. has so aptly commented and acted
on the matter thnt we car do NJ better
than to quote here the heaFt-to-heart
talk be gave his readers. He said
A Wonderful Preacher.
1T is not the non-church-going tenden-
cics OF the Age that | want to talk to
sou about, although my theme is more
or less closely connected With that sub
tect. You have all, l think, heard of
Pastor Russell. tho wonderful American
preacher, who las just been indicted TO
the charge of the London Tabernacle,
known all over the United Kingdom and
thousands of miles beyond, as the pulpit
of the repered Sturgeon. AIr. Russell has
achieved a position IN the world Of re-
Aigious thought ~nnequaIed by any living
Divine. and. curlously enough, he deliY-
ers his message TO far moro people out
side ths church than could ever be
brought together within the waits Of the
largest temple IN the Ur!verses His ser
mons and writings Iiave won for them
selves an extraordinary popularity in
and I nm cradibIy informed that
Pastor Russells printed books on religious
SUBJECTS are exceiied In circulation only
by the Bible ltaeif, Just think what this
means, II means that millions Of people
NIL over the world have found something
in Pastor Russeil's sermons, essays and
l~sctnFes which they hpye been unable to
discover In any other religious writings
apart from the Great Book Itself.
A Weekly Talk
wow. to come to the crux OF the mat
ter. I feel sure that tho vast majority or
my readers will learn with pleasure that
j have arranged for u weekly contribution
from the pen of Pastor Russell, A ser
xrlonette' Mr., Russell himself calls 1t, but
] have an idea it VIII be found to be
something more. something fuller. than
merely a condensed sermon. I have been
reading a selection OF the famous Pas
TOT religious writings. and they appeal
TO me as being more of the nature OF
quiet, diseursixe talks on serious subjects
shrn sermons or pulpit delivaranees of the
conventional description. Pastor Russell
is II clear, easily understood thinker; he
estaheNs dogma and all snbtleties OF form
and faith. and he says what he has to say
on The great truths OF religion and morals
IN plain but always beautiful language
lie speaks and writes not only to tho or
binary cliurcli7goer, as we accept the
phrase, but to all Intelligent men and wo-
anen. md I for one can quite we'll appre-
saiate the unparalleled popularity which
he has achieved In America popularity,
4 feel convinced. he wiiF very soon equa,
In this country. Pastor Rassell's talks
Will begin In the JoHrnds next week. and / b
sala hopeful that they will be an extremely
popular feature OF the ioa,Hal..
The Press Of America.
Pastor Russelps popularity abroad
does not deprive him OF the honor of
preaching to The largest congregation
In America. Surprising as 1t may
seem. his sermons are at present pub
lislicd In more than II thousand
newspapers In America, reaching APP
proximateiy ten million homes weekly.
Last June and July, while making u
trans.contirentai tour to attend the BIZ
hie Students Convention at San IFran1l
cisco, Pastor Russell made several
stops en- route. aud the reception every /,
where accorded the american Spur
geons was most Mountaineering.
Many excellent accounts of his meet
ings were published. 'srhe San Fran
cisco Call, IN making reference TO
what other papers We're saying, Inter
estingly summarized as follows:
Pastor fsusseil's given name has bcen
Lost to public record during the last ten
years. in which he has been famous as the
great PaHtor'zzptain Pastor RusEelL2who
has swayed hundreds OF thousands In this
country and abroad.
ssDo they come To hear hifns Well, rath-
er. So far II has been impossible to en-.
gage a. hall large enough to hold the
crowds. prsalniana Fink has been hired
FOR fais occasion. In Kansas City, Dem
yer, Salt Lake and los Angeles the Pas
tor and his faithful crew have taken the
popuiace by storm, The newspapers have
EVEN him more spare thaf d war scare
md nrint his speeches likesa Presidential
tnesssAse
Has MANY Interpreters.
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