Graham guardian., 1915-03-12

| = resist the force of
his Bible teachings. they misreprs,
sent them aud 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
II Is for them to make such deliberate
miSStatementS in our day, when even
tually their fasehoods will be found
out! People realize that only despera
ton. attempting to support Il 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 50 teach: that they confuse their ar
| gumcmt 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
Mary. Il have not yet aScended to My
Father and your Father. My God and
your God" But these wiserthan-the,
Bible teachers contradict Him, and feel
like saying, Jesus must have been a
Millennial Dawner! But We know
better than He did"
Such teachers he asserted, make
void the Word Of God through their
traditions. In claiming that Jesus Is
Jehovah. the Father. they really deny
that He is the Son OF God; for com.
mon sense tells everybody that q son
proceeds from. receives his life from,
the father. This is exactly what the
Bible tells US in respect to Jesus.
Truthful Criticisms Invited.
The Pastor invites truthful criticism
of his teachings: but his opponents
know that 70 treat him fairly would be
TO turn all thinking people to his side
the Bible side. For thirty years they
ignored him, lest people should find
out; but as his sermons now reach
millions, preachers are alarmed for the
safety of their musty creeds. and re-
sort to falscboods, misrepresentation
and slanders--thc weapons Of moral
towards. who realize their weakness.
II they charged him with disbeliev.
ing In the doctrine Of the Trinity. that
three ones are one he would cheerful
ly admit, and point them to the fact
that the word Trinity Is not found In
the Bible, and that the thought Of y
Trinity is not there, except IN one pas
sage which all scholars of all denomi-
nations admit to be forgery. See
John 81, 8. Revised Version.
The Pastor believes in the Heavenly
Father. Jehovah God; in the Heavenly
Son. our Lord Jesus Christ, who left
the Heavenly nature, took the human
nature. died for our sins. and was att
erward highly exalted to the Divine
nature: in the Holy Spirit. the Spirit
Of Truth, the Spirit Of God. the Spirit
Of Christ, the Spirit Of all who are on
Gods side. His crime, be declared, Is
that he does not believe that the Fa-
ther, the Son and the Holy Spirit are
'one in person. equal in power and
glory" neithersone existing before the
other neither one the Son and neither
one the Father. really. The Bible. he
asserted. says nothing Of this kind. and
he is glad that his head is not so H.
logical as to lead him to deny the b.
BILE and common sense for the sake Of
being in harmony with creeds made In
the Dark Ages.
The remainder Of the discourse was
devoted to a thorough discussion OF
every text In the Bible relating to the
subject