Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-09

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| resist the force Of
his Bible teachings, they misrepre
sent them and vilify his reputation
that thus they may hinder good peo.
pie from hearing and reading. "By
their fruits ye shall know them; and
these wicked fruits indicate that many
clergymen must be In a seriously
wrong condition Of heart, else they
would not bear these unscriptural, un-
manly fruits-"works of the flesh and
Of the Devil"
Denying the Son of God.
Billy Sunday has Joined other
preachers in the slanderous misstate-
ment that Pastor Russell denies that
Jesus Is the Son of God. How foolish
1t is for them to make such deliberate
misstatements in our day, when even
tually their falsehoods will be found
out! People realize that only despera-
tion, attempting to support a weak
cause, could lead a professed minister
of the Truth thus to do it violence.
The Pastor declared that really 1t Is
he who believes that Jesus is the Son
Of God; but that the great majority of
preachers and evangelists do not clear
ly SO teach; that they confuse their ar
gument and bewilder their hearers by
telling in one breath that Jesus is the
Son of God and in the next breath
that He is His own Father. Accord
ing to them. Jesus is Jehovah. who
sent His Son into the world to die,
and He is the Son, who sent Himself,
as the Father; when He prayed to the
Father it was mockery; for He was
the Father-"one in person."
When He said, my Father is great.
er than l." He misrepresented facts.
according to these preachers and creed
makers. He spoke of the Cup which
His Father had poured for Him, of
how He could do nothing Of Himself,
Of how He would return to the Fa-
ther; He prayed, my God! Why hast
Thou forsaken Me?" and He said to
Mary, II have not yet ascended to My
Father and your Father, My God and
your God" But these wiser-than-the-
Bible teachers contradict Him, and feel
ike saying. Jesus must have been a
Millennial Dawner! But We know
better than He did"
Such teachers, he asserted, make
7oid the Word of God through their
traditions. In claiming that Jesus is
Jehovah, the Father. they really deny
hat He is the Son of God: for COM
non sense tells everybody that a son
'roceeds from. receives his life from,
he father. This is exactly what the
bible tells us in respect to Jesus.
Truthful Criticisms Invited.
The Pastor invites truthful criticism
( his teachings: but his opponents
now that to treat him fairly would be
D turn all thinking people to his side
the Bible side. For thirty years they
ynored him. lest people should find
ut; but as his sermons now reach
billions, preachers are alarmed for the
ort to falsehoods. Misrepresentation
nd slanders-the weapons of moral
owards. who realize their weakness. (
If they charged him with disbeliev- ,
lg in the doctrine of the Trinity, that
lree ones are one, he would cheerful
: admit, and point them to the fact
lat the word Trinity is not found In
lie Bible. and that the thought Of I
rinity is not there. except In one pas v
ige which all scholars of all denomi-
ations admit to be forgery. See S
John 5:7, s, Revised Version.
The Pastor believes In the Heavenly
ather, Jehovah God; in the Heavenly
on, our Lord Jesus Christ, who left
lie Heavenly nature, took the human
lture. died for our sins. and was aft b
ward highly exalted to the Divine
,ture; In the Holy Spirit, the Spirit b
Truth, the Spirit of God. the Spirit
Christ, the Spirit of all who are on
DDS side. His crime. he declared, is
at he does not believe that the Fa- =
er, the Son and the Holy Spirit are
me in person, equal In power and t,
ory," neither one existing before the Il
her, neither one the Son and neither q
e the Father, really. The Bible, he
serted, says nothing of this kind, and |,
is glad that his head is not so IL Ii
yical as to lead him to deny the BIZ g
E and common sense for the sake of
ing in harmony with creeds made in d
e Dark Ages. RI
The remainder of the discourse was i
voted to a thorough discussion Of
cry text In the Bible relating to the
bject