The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-24
~ TwoLHoUR DISCOURSE Before
mAnhoTH ceoWo AT COURT
THEATRE
says World Will Become sesless Be
for Millennium and That Death
10 Only Sleep.

With every seat on he hrst floor
and balcony occupied and scores
standing along the walls In the rear.
Charles Taze Russell. known as
Pastor Russell" an independent
minister. of Brooklyn. y. Y. delivered
a two-hour and 15-mlnutes' discourse
NJ the Court theatre last night Over
a thousand persons heard b pastor.
n during his long address less than
a dozen persons left the house.
Pastor Russell spoke on the Battle
a Armageddon." He declared that
the world Is now 40 years In the
millennium and that the present war
In Europe Ia a prelude 10 the Battle
Of Armageddou. ~prophesied In the
Scripture.
Before the End Comes.
He declared. with hands raised.
hat terrible events are 10 occur be-
fore the end: War. which In now
raging. followed by anarchy. aud
then peace. lie said that the reason
countries were rising up against the
other Is because they are not carrying
out the teaching of Christ. saying
that 50 per cent OF the people OF
both Germany and England were
~Chriet.ans," while 100 per cent. OF
he inhabitants OF Italy were declared
. be Christians. He predicted that
there would be no glorious victory
for ms nation In the great European
struggle. Pastor Russell pictured the
pastors OF the orthodox belief N every
nation IN battle declaring that their
respective country was hghting a
Christian battle; that the Lord was
on their side. He told OF a clergy
man marching with the troops oe
England. and when asked II he was.
going to fight he said. NO; but I'M
encouraging the soldiers. who are
fighting for the right"
He told OF this country's sending
missionaries to foreign lands to con
vert heathens. when. as he declared,
that this country WAS not converted.
saying that the heathens could teach
Us something about morality.
After Death Only Sleep.
The special feature hat was
brought out by pastor Russell. ana
which point he dwelled upon at some
length. was hat the teaching OF the
Bible does not say that there shall De
eternal punishment for the wicke
but eternal sleep: that after death We
are at rest. and are not consigned &c
hell. he declared that IL was a false
teaching that The two hundred thous-
and million persons who have dl d
since h creation OF the earth were IN
hell: that IL would be an unjust God
10 make one suffer through eternity
by burning. He described hell, as ne
said Is taught by the orthodox creed.
saying that II n could picture the
worst being I'm the universe OF making
one suffer through thousands OF 1Ious-
ands OF years. he would then have a
picture OF how the orthodox creed
teaches by God In making The wicked
suffer. He said that when Christ
raised Lazarus from the dead. me
did not say come down from Heaven.
LAZARUS nor did he say. come out
OF Hell. Lazarus. No he said none
OF these things. He turned his hand
toward the tomb where Lazarus slept
and told him TO rise up. This shows
that IL Is an eternal sleep for one after
death" declared Pastor Russell.
Only 600 Years Bible Study.
He then step by step old OF the
ages for $500. saying that the part OF
the Scripture about hell was written
In the dark ages; that there have been
no Bible students FOR only 600 years.
ana that during the past 40 years the
people ave learned more truth about
the word OF God and It's meaning dur.
ing the past 40 years than ali the
1900. He declared that eventually
the world will become sexless: tina
the people will be the same as those In
heaven. He said that this will come
20 pass before the millennium.
Pastor Russell then harked back 10
the place Of eternal punishment for
me wicked. as, he said. Is taught by
he orthodox creed. saying that IL
one asked a minister OF that creed
Where hell h, that the minister could
no tell him that they are preaching
things they. themselves. do not he.
iieye. He said that the belief that
such a place OF torment was orri.
mated In the dark age by the ignor.
ant people, and that Il had been
taught since that age by the min
listers. MN
He spoke Of the peace rslace that
was established a few years ago.
saying that there would be wars until
the Biblical predictions had been fuI-
nlled. but that God would check the
spillins of blood before any one ma.
non shall have been wiped off the
face Of the earth.
Fire viii Not Destroy World.
The creeds ten ms that the world