The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-08-24
Before a Splendid Congregation
in Strong Sermon by Meth
odist Minister.

PASTOR 2 ~ j III - IS. j
A splendid congregation greeted
the Rev. w. H. Foglesong, Of the st.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, yesterday morning. The
subject Of the hour being ''Heresy''
some came curious. to hear what
would be said on the subject. surmis-
ling (and rightly SO that he would
pay his compliments to Pastor Rus
sell" and his doctrines.
The Rev. Mr.. Foglesong did not
leave his hearers long in doubt as to
his intentions, but plunged immedi-
ately into some of the .'heresies being
taught by this self-styled pastor" OF
the present century.
The text chosen was from second
Peter, second chapter and part Of
the first and second verses. There
shall be false teachers among you who
shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought
them. and many shall follow
their pernicious ways"
The preacher said in part: "Of all
the heresies worked out by tn. ingen-
uity of man perhaps none has been
more readily accepted by the unsta-
BILE than 'Russellism.' I feel 1t my
duty to condemn 1t for the reason that
either Russell is right or the
churches are right. Either the
teachings of Russell are, in the main,
wrong or the Faith of our Fathers"
is a nonentity.
"Let us notice some Of Russell's
teachings as compared with the Word
of God.
81. Russell teaches that Jesus
was created being and was there
fore not equal with God in eternity.
(voy. l.. pp 177-8S). The Bible
teaches that Christ was In the be-
ginning therefore not a created
being. God said: Let US make man
in OUR image, and after OUR like
ness Practically all scholars are
agreed that the words u.s. and
our prove the existence Of Christ.
Who was Coo speaking to IL not to
Christ and the Holy Ghost? John
says by inspiration: In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was
with God and the Word was Cod
All things were made by him (the
Word) and without Him was not any
thing made that was made.'-(J John
i; 1, 81. Jesus, himself, says: Be
fore Abraham was ] am John 8;
$50 Scholars are agreed that the
phrase I am implies eternity-with-
out beginning or end.
p. He teaches that Jesus Christ
the Lord had but one nature at a
time. That he could have but one.
Look at Series /. pp.179-S4. Here
are his exact words; When Jesus
was in the flesh he was perfect HUI
MAN being. He was not combina-
ton Of human and spiritual The BIZ
BILE says: Hereby know we the Spirit
of God: everyone that confesseth that
Christ Is come in the flesh Is of God
and every Spirit that confesseth not
that Christ is come in the flesh is not
of Cod Jno. 4::2. Jesus as He
prayed to His Father for his disci-
pies said. That they may be one as
thou Father art in me and in Thee. >
In ] Tim. 8; 16 we read: And with
out controyersity great is the mistery
Of Goodness: God manifested in the
flesh. justified in the Spirit, seen of
angels. preached unit the Gentiles
| (Whom did Paul preach unto the
Gentiles but Jesus?) believed on in
the word. received up into glory
Again we read in 2 John Z verse For
many deceivers are entered into the
world, who confess not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and anticnrist. II Jesus was
mere man while in the world 1t de-
stroys entirely the doctrine of tho
atonement; for as a man he could not
be the Precipitation for the sins of the
world, which He is declared to by the
Bible.
"3. This modern hereto also
teaches that the body Of Jesus was not
raised from the dead. (vol. 2.p125-
800. He says: Our Lords body was
however. supernaturally removed
from the tomb; because had II re-
manned there, : would have been an
ihsurinountable obstacle to the faith
OF the disciples. We know nothing
about what became Of 1t, except that
It did not decay or corrupt: Whether
It was dissolved into, gases (think Of
that!) or whether It Is still preserved
lson1ewelire NO ONE KNOWS:
NO one lnoWs7 What does the Bible