The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-11-12

Declares Apostle Russell in q
Sermon at His Court House
Meeting Here. ....

at the court house last evening the
congregation was large and very
much edited by the discourse Of
Apostle Russell, whose theme wai
.Sanctihcation.''
The real meaning OF the word being
ito make free from sin, ~ and he
showed by the Scriptures that the
only way fora sinner to be liberated
from the sins Of his past life was To
be baptized by immersion, as stated
on the day Of Pentacost and subse-
quent times, and that when a person
was thus baptized by a man holding
divine priesthood his past sins were
|pardoned, no matter how dark o class
of sins they may have been and he
produced proof to. show that, IN the
New Testament times even murderers
were SO pardoned, and then they were
told to grow in grace and thus they
would eventually, by adding to their
faith, virtue, temperance, pallence,
|brotherly kindness. Goodness and
charity reach the measure and stat
ura by the fullness Of Christ and by
that means they would eventually be-
come wholly sanctified and saved al
the end Of the Christian. race, and moi
before 1t.
He compared the great change
made In the lives Of those who thus
took upon them the yoke Of Christ.
and those who took the yoke of man.
The former in their baptism were
freed from sin and then through the
laying on of the hands Of the Melch-
isideck priesthood the Holy Ghost
came from God and took up his abode
within the person SO baptized and
God took away. all their evil habits
taken away and the spirit Of god abid-
ing with them they did not fall by
the wayside and go back into theis
old habits only in exceptional cases.
and they they always agreed with
Christ in the fact that His yoke was
easy and light. But on the contrary
II a person fitted on the yoke of man.
such as that which Saul Of Tarsus
tried which was really the mourner's
bench for seventy-two long hours
without eating or drinking, and then
abandoned that he might be bap-
tie dand have his sins washed away.
Acts 22:10-16, they would find as Is
evidenced in every hamlet and city in
the country that when the excitement
was over and Hamiltonian Sundays
were gathering the fleeces OF othcr
sheep, their wool was scarce and their
yoke SO heavy that in less than a year
twenty-six hundred would be sifted
down to the hundreth part and some
times less and the deserters were loud
In their vaccinations that the yoke
they picked up was only homemade
and they refused to carry 1t again.
But when the fleece grows out again
the annual shearer comes along and
the poor creatures are induced to take
another yoke and shed their coat.
And SO 1t goes on from year to year
in what the Bible calls "a way that
seemeth right unto a man, but the
end thereof are the ways Of death."s
! Often when the homemade yoke is
put on It makes the bearer SO stagger
that they fulfill the prophecy Of Isa,
29-ch. and. goes through such aero.
battc maneuvers that when that God
leaves her she bushes to meet those
who have seen or heard OF their &C.
tions. u
Mr.. Russell asked II the spirit Of
God lowered or elevated humanity?
Thus said he It is easily seen that
those shouting acrobats are not OF
the kingdom that humanity were ad.
vised to seek.
Subject tonight, Should the Clergy
Get Salary Of Money!"
interest is excellent and the ques.
lions very entertaining.