The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-02-07
BIBLE THEORIES
Of REV. RUSSELL
ARE EXPLAINED
Address Sunday Afternoon by
w. E. Van Alnburgh
AT HIGH SCHOOL HALL
Audlenoe included a Number Of Per.
sons from Nearby Towns
and cltieG,
AT HIGH SCHOOL HALL

w. p, YanAmburgh of Brooklyn, n
follower Of Pastor Russells theories
and an Cfticial of the international
Bible Student Associat on, addressed
an audience of $50 people at High
School hall Sunday afternoon and ok.
pounded the religious doctrine of this
line Of thought
The speaker was introduced by D.
] Brown Of North Adams and the
audience Included a number from
North Adams, Hoosick. Pownal and
SALISBURY. Another nett ng is to be
held next Sunday
That this mundane sphere IS wound
up to run for millions of years: that
IL Is to be thoroughly renovated and
purified, physically. mentally, morally,
socially. climatically and every-other-
wise, peopled by human beings as
beaut full and perfect fn form and
character as the ange's in heaven.
with deed to eternal home here up
on earth is not an unDleasing antici-
patton though not quite in line with
usually accepted orthodoxy AT first
the view seems rather VS. onary; but
from the evidence presented by Mr..
Van Amburgh in his address Sunday
held Il as the solution OF the pressing
problems Of the age.
The Bible said Mr.. Van Ambursh,
though secuted by many is rapidly
forcing is critics to cover The first
three charters of Genesis record that
God formed the earth in six creative
epochs. or days. Other statements
give the length Of these days as 1000
years each or $4,000 years in all It
stu needed one dav. 1000 years to
reach perfection However, God per-
fected one spot the Garden Of Eden,
furnished II with perfect food, climate
and condi tions, that it might sustain
life fer hts forthcoming new creation.
man. There he placed the first pair
the man and his mate. with instruc-
tions to 6'i the entire earth. The man
was perfect. beautiful, lord Of the
earth. in full harmony with his Crea-
tor, but human in every respect, "of
Ehe earth. earthv~ Before him the
prospect of a. perfected world filled
with his own children. as perfect as
himself, and endless life with which
to enjoy his blessings Genes's .3:22
states positively that IL man could
have remained In touch with the gar
den Conditions he would have 7ved
forever as a human being But his
d dsloyaity cost him his beautiful
home. his dominion, his life Today
he Is dead, and his children are dy
ing, unahle 10 save themselves. What
a calamity! Who can repair such a
wreck?
Passing over the intervening parts
OF the Bible which relate TO mans
experience with sin and his struggles
to free himself from IS death tolls
and the explanation at the proper
tine note the last three chapters OF
Revelation. They describe this same
earth, then perfect, with millions aud
hi'ltons of people, still human beings
though then perfect in full harmony
with God and a deed for eternal life
Strange to say they are the very
children of Adam. his family rescued
from sin and death by Christ re-
united and happy Only the wilfully
disohedent ones missing. Their por
ton the second death, extinction, not
eternal misery,
AS CHRIS ST died for the whole world
God has promised that all the chill
dren Of Adam shall have a full oppor
tunity to regain the favor OF God and
the BLESSINGS accompanying II The
time for that favor is still future fol
most of the world, when the kingdom
of God shall he established upon the
earth. This kingdom was the top'c
Of nearly ali the Lords public dis
courses. His parables were picture!
Of that kingdom and his miracles
samples OF the glorious work TO bt
done therein that Of relieving and r,
pairing human beings He cured
every form cf disease known, and re
paired every broken human body
brought TO him He also raised some
from the dead to demonstrate hi,
power over the grave and the method
OF awakening "all that are in thel
graves" that the dead as we'll as tht
living might share in his blessings
These samples show clearly, wha
other Scriptures declare, viz; tina
the dead are to be awakened as hu
luhu DtlubS do ltsti anu psi SONdl al
before death. to be recognized b.
themselves and their fl ends ant
again to take UP the activities of lif,
and enjoy the blessings of God
Somewhere between the events re
corded in the first three chapters o
the Bible and the conditions fcretolt
in the last three chapters, there mus
come time when God VII take
personal hand in the affairs of me-
and nations, According to- the SRI
lures that t me is now and the pres
ent turmoil throughout the world /
incident to the change. The Bib
divides this last day 1000 years ii
to three divisions or worlds 9TH
world that was or the "old world
Peter 2, s. 3: lasted from Adam t
the ncod. 1856 years The second Q
this world" John Il. 30, Galation
l.; 1N from the flood to the secon
advent Of Christ, approximately 440
years; and third the world t
come (Hebrews q 5 and 8; 81 abor
1000 years, Revelation 90; A.