River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-03-19

| IlRAolON kO90LLLU RUSSELL'S PHOTO
DRAMA from Coast
to Coast-Boston, New York, Cleve-
land Cincinnati, Indianapolis and ST.
Louis-Chicago and other places soon.
The Valencia, which is one of the
finest theatres in the West, will be-
what might be called for the present,
the home of the Photo DRAMA on the
Coast. The DRAMA will be produced
daily, both afternoon and evening.
Parts l. and II. were run today; parts
III. and Nv. next. and SO on.
The elite of the city were well rep
resented. Reserved seats (Which, by
the way are free to all these exhibit
tions, and no collections) were soon ex-
hauSted.
1t is unquestionably true that Pas
tor Russell has brought to the Coast
the finest collection of motion-pictures
and slides ever shown here, and a long
run will follow About $4,000 people
now attend the PHoTo-DRAMA OF GRE
ALTON daily. The Gospel is being
preached in a most enticing manner;
a lOng-felt want is being supplied.
IN his syndicated sermon in the fore
noon Pastor Russell's subject was
quite appropriate Great Feast for
a Famished World" 1t is believed
that his audience agreed. His text
was:
"And in this Mountain shall the Lord
of Hosts make unto all people a feast
of fat things" isaiah $3.50 He said:
Throughout the prophetic Scriptures
the word Mountain is used as the sym
Dol of a kingdom. Earthly governments
are represented as mountains and hills,
while the Lords Government is repre-
scented as being esta blished "in the top
OF the mountains" 1t is this Noun
tain, or Kingdom of God, which is re-
ferred to in our text. 1t has not yet
been established in the earth, and
hence it's blessed work has not yet
been realized. We still properly pray,
''Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be done
on earth, as it is done in Heaven"
True, beginning has been made
For more than eighteen centuries since
our Lords ascension and the bestOw
ment of the Holy Spirit at PentecOst
the Church has been in process of Sc
lection, and the Church is sometimes
styled the Kingdom, because it's mem
bers when glorified will constitute the
Kingdom class-the Bride-who will
share with the Heavenly Bridegroom
the Kingdom hOnors and services for
the world.
1t is true, also, that our Lord is ex-
allied q Prince and a Savior; and that
shortly, at His Second Advent, He is
to take to Himself His great power
and reign as King Of kings and Lord
of lords. But He has not yet done
this. He declared at His resurrection,
"All power in Heaven and in earth is
given unto Me-" Yet He also in His
last Message to the Church distinctly
pointed out that the time for taking
possession of His Kingdom was flu
ture; and that the time will surely
come when He will take unto Himself
His great power and reign, because the
time to reign will then have come
Revelation II II.
More than this, the signs of the
times, read in the light of the Lamp Of
Truth, the Word of God, seem clearly
to indicate that the time is near at
hand for the setting up of Christ's
| Kingdom. How glad we all should be!
What rejoicing it should cause to the
whole world of mankind, to know that
the reign of Sin and Death is nearing
its conclusion; that Satan, the Prince
of this world, will shortly be bound for
a thousand years, that he shall deceive
the nations no more until its termina-
ton! How we should rejoice that "the
night is far spent and the day is at
hand; that the Millennial Morning is
already dawning; that the Sun of
Righteousness is already rising. and
that soon the whole earth will "be
full of the knowledge of the glory of
God as the waters cover the great
eep"-Habakkuk 2:14.
A Feast In This Mountain.
The bare announcement of the King
dom of God would strike mankind va
riously in proportion as the character
of the Kingdom and its work might be
understood or misunderstood. Thus
today to many the mention that the
Kingdom of God is nigh at hand would
carry the thought of 80 wreck of mat
ter and crash of worlds" Not only