River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-03-12

one time-New York. Boston. Cleve
land. Cincinnati. St Lonis. and here
and i'm Chicago and other places soon
| Whence all this money for SO grand
cause?-all free! Why do you not
charge dollar seat? are the ques
tons everywhere.
Pastor Russell's only answer is, II
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 Bi
bic amongst thinking people, In pro
portion as God supplies it we spend it
1t must be sop'
The Pastors text was: God wills
that all should be saved and come to
knowledge of the Truth" q Timothy
2:4.D 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 Christs
Kingdom. The salvation now in prog
ress is that of the Church--a 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 ad
dress on October 18th last. at 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 crit
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 world wide evangelistic
tour with him After Mr.. Moody mad
gone. Mr. Beecher said to me: i
should like to do it, but it is impos
believes that this is lost world, and
be is trying to save some from the
wreck. believe that 1t is the world
itself that is to be saved. and that the
kingdoms of this world are to become
the Kingdom of our Lord and of His
Christ.
DR.. Abbott has stated very succinct
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generally prevail today. and which
were ably represented by Mr. Beecher
and Mr. Moody. While the difference
between these two views is a wide
one. and seemingly the one cOntradicts
the other, nevertheless this is not so.
Both views contain an elemNnt OF
Truth. Both views have Scriptural
support. The right understanding OF
the Bible lies in seeing how both OF
these views are parts of general
whole Whoever can get a glimpse OF
that general whole thereby gradually
increases both his confidence in the
Bible and his 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 a lack and
continually finds conflict between his
heart and his head. between his view
of the Bible teaching and his reason.
The End of the Discord.
Let us note the two sides of this sub
ject 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, and
that the results will not be narrow
and meager, but 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 a 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 matter of heredity. Instead OF
our condition being one of evolution
from lower to higher plane. it is
a condition OF devolution from a higher
to a lower plane.
The reaction from barbarism to civil
lization through the influence of Chris
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