The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-02-24

one time-New York, Boston. Cleye
land. Cincinnati. ST. Louis. and here
and in Chicago and other places soon.
Whence all this money for so grand a
cause?-all free! Why do you not
charge dollar seat? are the ques-
tons everywhere.
Pastor Russell's only answer is, Il
cannot sell the Gospel. Jesus and His
Apostles never took up collections, nor
authorized begging in Gods name. so
far as the Bible shows. People blessed
by the Message voluntarily send me
money to further the good work of re-
establishing faith in God and the b.
BILE amongst thinking people. In pro-
portion as God supplies it we spend it.
1t must be sou
The Pastors text was: God wills
that all should be saved and come to
knowledge of the Truth" Il Timothy
2:4J He declared that this salvation
for all will be from the sin, sickness
and death all inherit from Adam; and
that it will be ushered in by Christ's
Kingdom. The salvation now in prog
ress is that of the Churcha chief"
or superior salvation. However. Sec
ond Death will be the portion of all
who prefer sin to holiness.
DR.. Abbott on Beecher and Moody.
In the course of his sermon the Pas
tor said: DR.. Lyman Abbott, the i'm
mediate successor to Henry Ward
Beecher as Pastor of the Plymouth
Church. Brooklyn. delivered an adj
dress. on october 18th last, at a Beech
er Memorial service. In which he stat
ed: "Mr. Beecher was the most IA
nous preacher in America, perhaps in
the world. and the most sharply criti-
cized He never fell under the con-
demnation pronounced against the
prophet of whom all speak well. |
was present-the year was probably
1870. though | am not sure-at an in
terview between Mr.. Moody and Mr..
Beecher, In which the former urged
Mr.. Beecher to leave the Plymouth
Church for a worldwide evangelistic
tour with him. After Mr. Moody had
gone, Mr.. Beecher said to me: 4
should like to do it. but it is impos-
sible. We do not agree. Mr.. Moody
he is trying to save some from the
wreck. | believe that it is the world
itself that is to be saved. and chat the
kingdoms of this world are to become
the Kingdom of our Lord and of His
Christ :
nr hnr or fnd cInTinrt.
ly the two views of religion which
generally prevail today, and which
were ably represented by Mr.. BeecheI
and Mr. Moody. While the difference
between these two views is wide
one. and seemingly the one contradicts
the other, nevertheless this is not SO
Both views contain an element ol
Truth. Both views have Scripture
support The right UNDERSTANDINGS
the Bible lies in seeing how bQeral !
these views are parts of a-pse OF
whole. Whoever can get a1radnally |
that general whole therelce in the
increases both his corand hope to- /
Bible and his own fails to get thai
ward God. Whoe remains weak in
comprehensive Yin of his theology.
faith and ~ recognizes lack ana
He continnds conflict between his
continu.nis head. between his view
heart .ible teaching and his reason
of The End OF the Discord.
let US note the two sides of this sub
<ect from the Bible viewpoint; and
thereby satisfy and harmonic our
hearts and our heads. and convince
ourselves that the Story of the Cross
and of the worlds Redemption is the
true Story of the Divine Program. anf
and meager. hut broad and generous.
Mr. Moody merely held TO the teach
ings of Jesus. the Apostles and the
Prophets when he declared that that
which God created perfect. in His own
Image, had been sadly wrecked by dis !
obedience; that curse, or blight. had
come upon mankind: and that this
curse, or Divine sentence of death. is
behind all the tears and pain and
groans. behind all the mental. moral
and physical weaknesses with which
we and our neighbors are surrounded.
1t is a matter of heredity. Instead of
our condition being one of evolution
from q lower to Il higher plane, it is
a condition of devolution from higher
TO a lower plane.
The reaction from barbarism to civil
lization through the influence Of Chris :