The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-07-05
THE WORD OF GOD:

The Second Coming and "MiUennial
Do7On" IS RmsseWS Trump Card.
He gives the most distorted intricate
view of that event. He wrests it out of all
its proper connections, distorts the Scrip
lures containing the doctrine and thus ex-
plains it all away His method of treating
it and all kindred subjects reminds us very
torclbly of what Peter said about some in
his daysand their treatment of Pau1s writ
lngs (See II Peter Sis, 16)- the unlearn-
ed and unstable in Gods Word Gall teachers
such as Russell and NANNY" Eddy. who
will not be true to the Word and let the Bible
mean what it says) wrest the Scriptures,
warp them, twist them, change them, until
they mean nothing.
RnSSeAIlSm is a Very Subtle and Intricate
System. It is conglomeration, an inter-
mingling of Swedenborgianism, Unitarian
ism, Universalism, Humanitarianism - a
visionary, speculative, Seventh-Day-Adven-
fist, annihilatory, second-chance salvation.
Verify, it is THE DEVILS MIXTURE.
No matter what a man is, or what he
intends to be, he can get, at least appar-
emily, what he wants in c. T. Russellism.
The systems invitation is: "Come one,
come all Anything to get you; anything to
suit you! No hell, and heaven for all some
time, somehow, somewhere! Repent now,
If it suits you: if not then during the Mil
lennium; for there and then every human be-
ing will have another chance to enter into
life"
Russell Made Much Ado about 7vhat He
! Called "The Due Time" He claimed land
his poor dupes do for him since his death)
to know more than any one before him =
than Luther Calvin, Knox, Wesley, Camp
bell, ETC., than even John the Baptist and
! the first apostles, simply because of ''the due
| time and ''the present truth" All of these
men were partly in error, but he could not
be, because of the present truth" and be-
cause of "the due time"
Here is question addressed to all the
deluded Russellites on earth (were Russell
here now it would be addressed to him al
SOY:
Was the Lord to come, the dead part of
the Church to be raised, the living part to
pass within the vail, and the Millennial
Kingdom to be set up in 1872, 1874, 1873,
1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, ten and
one-half years after 1914, or in 1880?
Read about every one of these dates in
the opposite column.
What Spirit INSPIRED RnsseRs "Studies
in the Scriptwes"? and for what purpose
have they been palned off on the public =?
His theory of the Lords coming is all
wrong. Look at his time feature j he says
1874. 1873, 1914, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1925, or
1880 at the latest. He has no Scripture
foundation or proof at all
Matthew "a :36 positively says that none
know the day nor the hour for "the Reve-
lation of Jesus the Christ"
We are permitted to approximate the
time, to know that it is nigh at hand even
at the DOORS" but are forbidden to specu-
late by setting dates which are altogether
guesswork.
John ALA, I Corinthians 15:51-53, I
Thessalonians 4:l3-18, say that the resur-
rection of sleeping saints and the trans1a-
ton of eve who are alive and remain to
the coming of the Lore" Russell's eject
members" = occurs at Christs descent into
the air, and notfn Russell's 1874, 1873, 1914,
1918, 1920; 1921, 1925, ten and one-half
years after 1914, 1880, etc. Between 1874,
when Russellism says Christ came, and
1873, when it says ''the holy apostles and
the other overcomers of the Gospel age
were raised lie four years. Why that
four years delay? Do the Scriptures any
where show an interval of four years after
Christ comes before any part of the Church
is raised?
Russell's Christ, Who came invisibly in
1874 and raised the first division of the
Church in 1873, is not "our Savior, and