The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-02-16

cC
several places at
one tlme-New York. Boston, Cleve-
land. Cincinnati. st. Louis, and here
and in Chicago and other places soon!
Whence all this money for SO grand a
cause?-all freeI Why DO you not
charge a dollar q seat? are the cues
lions everywhere.
, Pastor Russell's only answer Is, 81
cannot sell the Gospel. Jesus and His
Apostles never took up collections, nor
authorized begging In Gods name, 50
far as the Bible shows. People blessed
by the Message UolWHt0TfIN send me
money 10 further the good work Of re-
establishing faith in God and the BIZ
BILE amongst thinking people. In pro-
portion as God supplies 1t we spend 1t.
1t must be sol"
The Pastors text was: "God willis
that all should be saved and come to q
knowledge Of the Truth" Il Timothy
2:4.l 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 nov In prog
Eess is that Of the Church-a CHIEF"
or superior salvation. However, "Sec-
ond Death" Will be the portion oe all
who prefer sin to holiness.
DR.. Abbott on Beecher and Moody.
In the coarse OF his sermon the Pas
tor said; Dr.. Lyman Abbott, the Am
mediate successor to Henry Ward
Beecher as Pastor of the Plymouth
Church. Brooklyn, delivered In. ad.
dress, on October 10Th last, at a Beech.
err Memorial service, in which he stat
ed: "Mr. Beeeher was the most ia
nous preacher In America, perhaps in
the world, and the most sharply criti-
ct2ed. He never fell under the con.
domination pronounced against the
prophet OF whom all speak well. 1
NJ q present-the year was probably
1S70, though 1 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 evangeltstic
tour with him. After Mr.. Moody had
gone, Mr.. Beeeher said TO me: ,
should like to do II, but It Is fmpos-
Sible. We do not agree. Mr.. Moody
believes that this is a lost world, aud
he Is trying to save some from the
wreck. I believe that it is the world
itself that 10 to be saved, and that the
kingdoms OF this world arc to become
the Kingdom Of cur Lord and OF His
Christi"
Dr.. Abbott has stated very succAnct-
" the two views Of religion which
generally prevail today, and which
ably represented by ME-. Beecher
and Me. Moody. While the difference
between these two views 10 a wide
one. and seemingly the one contxadicts
the otheC, nevertheless this Is not 30.
Both views contain an elen1snE Of
Truth. Both views have Scriptural
support. The right understanding Of
the Bible lies In seeing how both OF
these views are parts Of a general
whole. Whoever a get q glimpse Of
that general whole thereby gradually
increases beth his confidence in the
Bible and has own faith and hope to-
ward God. Whoever fails to get that
comprehensive view remains weak In
faith and uncertain Of his theology.
He continually recognizes q lack and
continually finds q conflict between his
heart and his head, between his view
Of the Bible teaching and his reason.
STAn nensf &c 49, rsnnmN
Let us note the TIVE sides Of this sub
5ect from the Bible viewpoint: and
thereby satisfy and harmonize our
hearts and our heads, and convince
ourselves that. the Story OF the Cross
and Of the worlds Redemption IL the
true Story of the Divine. Program, and
that the results viii not be narrow
and raeageR, but broad and generous.
Mr. Moody merely held 10 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 a curse, or blight, had
come upon mankind; and that this
curse. or Divine sentence of death, ia
DGnluU Au LD0 tCAA0 a1& R<&8 a10
groans, behind ell the mental, moral
and physical weaknesses with which
we and our neighbors are surrounded.
1t Ia a matter Of heredisy. Instead OF
our condition being one OF evolution
from a lower to q higher. plane, it Id
a condition OF devolutton from a higher.
10 q lower plane.
The reaction from barbarisEa to civa.
Iization through the influence Of Chris.
uantty was indeed a step upward from
the depths OF degradation for MANY,
bat II was mot a step cut Of the dagra-
dalton. The reiga OF Sin and DEATH
stll prevails. Despite oar edueasiosa,
the heart OF man is stil selfish and
ainful, and the human body still full
sf saealsg aala pains q EhaEsas ord essgs