Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-03-10
Pastor RusselPs Sermon


TO be obedient. AS it is written, unto
Him every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess, to the glory Of God"
Offers Of grace will no longer be held
out. with reward for faith attached;
instead. knowledge shall I'll the whole
earth. as the waters cover the great
deep. philippians 2:l0. IL; Isaiah
11:9.l AS result. no one shall then
say to his neighbor or to his brother.
Know thou the Lord. for they shall
all know Him. from the least unto the
greatest Of them.-Jereninh 3i::'4
Heather Fall Under Him.
Another Psalm describes MpSsiah's
triumph in the Mlllenuia Age. saying.
"Gird Thy sword upon Thy thigh. 0
Most Mighty. with Thy glory and Thy
majesty. And in Thy majesty ride
prosperously In the cause Of Truth aud
Meekness and Righteousness; and Thy
right hand shall teach Thee terrible
things. Thine arrows are sharp In the
heart Of the Kings enemies; whereby
the people fall under Thee" psalm
45:3-50 Instead Of people here, read
heather. as In the original, and we
have picture Of the conversion Of the
heather as 1t will shortly be accom-.
plished. We are rot to suppose the
Lord will ride upon horse, or that
literal arrows will literally pierce the
hearts Of His enemies. We are to un-
derstand this picture to signify our
Lords triumphal conquering of the
world: and that the arrows Of Truth.
which will go forth unto the whole
world, will reach the hearts of men
and smlte them down. Even so we
read that when st. Peter preached at
Pentecost that the Jews had taken
and crncified the Son Of God, the hear
ers were "cut to the heart" the
lance Of Truth. Thank God for such
arrows from the qulver of Divine Wis
dom, Justice. Love. We rejoice that
the heather will thus be conquered
for the Lord. and thus eventually
every knee bow and every tongue con-
fess.
The work Of dealing with the heath
en-, with the world-with all except
the Church-will begin with the gen
Grafton living at the time of the es-
tabllshment Of the Lords Kingdom.
In due time it will proceed and will
ultimately include all that are in their
graves In the reverse order from that
In which they entered And the last
shall be the first to come forth-"ev-
cry man in his own order or class.
Deep Humiliation Is Yet Promised the
World.
Too frequently do Bible students
neglect to see whether or not their in
terpretations are in harmony with the
context of the passages under discus
sion. Let us not make this mistake.
Turning to the second Psalm, we find
that following our text is the declara-
tion, Thou shalt break them with Il
rod Of iron; Thou shalt dash them In
pieces like potter's vessel" Verse
o. The application Of this evidently
is to the time Of our Lords Second Ad-
vent, when the selection OF the Church
shall have been completed and she
shall have entered into His glory as
the Bride the Lambs Wife, symbol
ically pictured rs the New Jerusalem.
coming down from God out of Heaven
From that New Jerusalem, we are
told, the River Of the Water Of Life
shall tlow freely, and whOsoeyer will
may freely partake OF 1t, On either
bank viii grow the Trees Of Life,
whose leaves are for the healing Of
the nations. And the Spirit and the
Bride will say, Come; and whatsoever
viii may come, and take OF the Wa.
ter OF Life But IN the meantime, be-
fore the nations. the world, will be
ready for that blessing from the New
Jerusalem, they must needs pass
through period Of very deep hu-
mlliatlon-"A Time of Trouble such as
never was since there was a nation. ~
Matthew 24:2l
As for the nations Of that time, the
extent to which they viii suffer de-
struction will depend largely upon
their own attitude, as is intlmated by
the verses following our text. Those
Of the nations who freely and heartily
accept Of Messiah's rule will be cor.
respondlngly saved from the breaking
process. Hence It Is urged, "Be wise,
0 We kings OF the earth, Kiss the Son.
lest lie be angry, and We perish from
the way, when His wrath is kindled
but little"
But while this seems to otfer lenl.
ency, mercy, these fayors are condi.
tlonal on the manner In which the
Messionlc Kingdom shall be rars,ted.
other Scriptures intimate that ~, 'he
nations, not only heather hut csvarSed,
will be found In violent oppcNN n to
the Heavenly Kingdom, and hence that
all together they win be crushed rs the
vessels OF potter
Tho Glorious Outcome,
The Lord tells us that MS the henv.
ems are higher than the earth, SO are
His ways higher than mans ways, aud
His plans higher than mans plans,
Aud this we dnd true as We come TO
better understand the Scriptures. Who
ever dreamed Ot such lengths and
breadths aud heights aud depths Of
Love Divine, all love excelling," as
arc implied and included In Gods
grcat Plan Of selecting 0rst The Christ
Jesus the Head, and the Church, His
Body. .and then through these bless.
ing all the families Of the earth with