The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1914-10-29
FAMOUS RELIGIOUS EDITOR

| Brooklyn Tabernacles. has won I'M
stinted praise from the press and public
Of many nations By forty years unceas-
/ ing activity as evangelist and writer.
In the early part of his ministry
smaller cities were frequently visited
but not so now. since his field Of OPP
Grafton has become worldwide. and
the 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 scmi-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 public speaker on Bible topics.
Pastor Russell stands unrivaled-
/ stands alone in a place created by his
own individual work. a place not prevt
ously attained nor occupied By another.
! The mammoth crowds that repeated
/ Iy assemble to hear him at every op-
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his drawing power. Last year. While
4 conducting series of Sunday meet
/ ings in the London Royal Albert Hall,
| Pastor Russell received written com
nunications through the mail from
\ more than six thousand persons. re-
/ uuesting printed copies of his sermons.
| SO spontaneous "a demand was both
unprecedented and unlocked for. An
/ other evidence of his popularity on the
/ other side of the rolling blue is the
1 publication of his weekly sermons In
] something over three hundred papers
/ in England Ireland. Scotland. Australia.
The Editor Of Great Britain's fore
most family paper. The Peoples Jour
nal. has so aptly commented and acted
on the matter that we can do no better
/ than 70 quote here the heart-to-heart
talk he gave his readers. He said
a Wonderful Preacher.
eft is NOT the non-church-going tenden-
/ cias Of the Age that ] want 70 talk to
/ YOU about. although my theme is more
/ or less closely connected with that SUD
I iect You have all | think. heard OF
Pastor Russell. the wonderful American
/ preacher. who has just been inducted 10
/ The charge of the London Tabernacle,
known an over the United Kingdom and
thousands Of miles beyond. as the pulpit
/ OF the revered Spurgeon. Mr. Russell has
achieved position in the world OF re-
| Iiyious thought unequaled by any living
/ Divine And. curiously enough. he deilV-
e-s his message 10 far more people OUT
/ side the church than could ever De
brought together within the walls OF the
] he T-ufparSe His ser
mons and writings have won for tnem-
selves an extraordinary popularity IN
| america and am credibly informed that
/ Pastor Russells printed books on religious
| subjects are excelled in circulation only
by the Bible itself Just think what tnis
rreans 1t means that millions OF people
all over the world have found something
in Pastor RusseHs sermons. essays and
lectures which they have been unable 10
discover in any other religious writings
apart from the Great Book itself
A Weekly Talk.
Now. 10 come to the crux of the mat
ter [ feel sure that the vast majority OF
my readers will learn with pleasure that
| have arranged for weekly contribution
| from the pen of Pastor Russell A ser
monette' Mr.. Russell himself calls it, bat
have an idea it Will be found to be
| something more. something fuller. than
Il
reading a selection Of the famous Pas
/ tors religious writings and they appeal
| TO me as being more of the nature or
| quiet discursive talks on serious subjects
than sermons or pulpit deliverances OF the
| conventional description Pastor Russeii
! is clear, easily understood thinker; ne
eschews dogma and all subtleties of form
| and faith. and he says what he has to say
! on the great truths of religion and morals
/ in Main but always beautiful language
lie speaks and writes not only to the or
| dinary church-goer. as We accept the
I phrase. but to all intelligent men and wo-
men and | for one can quite well appre-
! ciate the unparalleled popularity which
/ he has achieved in America-a popularity,
/ I feel Convinced. he Will very soon equal
in this country Pastor Russells talks
| will begin in the J0Hf1sGI next week. and
am hopeful that they viii be an extremely
popular feature Of the Journal
Tie Press of America.
Pastor RusseIl's popularity abroad
does not deprive him of the honor Of
preaching to the largest congregation
in America Surprising as it may
seem. his sermons are at present pub
lshed in more than one thousand
| newspapers in America. reaching APP
proximately ten milton homes weekly
Last June and July. while making a
tans-continental tour to attend the BIZ
ble Students Convention at San Fran
cisco. Pastor Russell made several
stops en- route. and the reception every
where accorded the american Spur
reonr was most heart-cheering.
Many excellent accounts of his meet
;,,,s we're published THE San Fran
cisco Call" in making reference to
what other papers were saving. inter
estingly summarized as follows
.,Pastor Russell's given name has been
lost to public record during the last ten
wears IN which he has been famous as the
great Pastor plain Pastor Russell-who
has swayed hundreds OF thousands in this
country and abroad
,Do they come to hear him. Well rath-
or, So far il has been impossible to en-
rare a han large enough TO hold the
crowds. Dreanland Rink has been hired
,or this occasion In Kansas City. Dem
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