The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
PNID hDVERTrSINENT.
Millions Now Living viii
NeUer Die
fuIl Text Of the World Stirring Lecture by
JUDGE RUTHERFORD,
Successor to the Late Pastor Russell

action Of any or all an ideal con
dIiiOn could not Doe attained GOO
IN his wisdom forokucw and fore,
told the formation OF tho League nj
Nations: and ne likewise forotold
that II must Gs1ith 80. 10.
Tho inducing cause for the for.
! nation Of the league IL admittedly
f'ar. Faith IN God aud his prom.
is"s lg entirely Ignored. because OF
thcr" facts the league win never ac.
complish the expressed desire. II
is not Gods way lie has plainly
said MY thoughts are not youi
thoughts, neither are your ways my
ways, uith the Lord For as tho
heavens are higher than tho earth
go are my ways higher than your
/ ways, and my thoughts than your
4 thoughts lsniah 55:S,O Je-
I hoyahs great plan was entirely lg-
norod IN tho formation OF this
League Of Nations Tho prophet
truly wrote: "Hlcsucd Is the nation
whose God IS the Lord" Cpsalm SO:
. ~ liut nation that ignores the
divine plan, or any league OF nations
forH'd which Ignores the sane,
need not expect a desirable result.
The Lords prophet clearly had in
nina the formation OF the League
/ uf Natluua and llb the league OF
| rccl"siastlcal systems. when nc
wrote; Associate yourselves. q yc
people, and yc shall be broken in
pieces. Take counsel together, and
1t email come to nought: speak the
word. and It shall not stand. -
Isaiah $50, 10.
Ecclesiastical I,cmedy.
Joclesiasticism relates 20 organ
lzed church systems, and particu-
larly to the Clcrgymen or pricstly
class operating and controlling the
same. For long time the Roman
Catholic was practically the only
creed extant In the sixteenth CEN
tury there was "A great reformation
movement and Protestant ccclcsias-
ticism resulted The cCClcMastics.
therefore, come forward with "A
proposed remedy for distressed hu-
manity; and since they do So. we
are justified in candid cNamlna-
ton OF their proposed remedy to
sec whether or not IL is adequate.
Tho ecclesiastical systems both
Catholic and Protestant claim that
their mission Is 10 convert tho
world, thereby bringing the people
into the churches. Let us suppose
they could accomplish this ex-
pressed purpose and that the whole
human race was brought into one
or the other OF the churches What,
then, Is the hope that they hold out
70 the people?
The Catholic creed or teaching is
that the destiny Of man Is fixed at
death and that those who are good
and faithful Catholics at death pass
on to heaven, "A condition OF endless
nt h.r
not been faithful in every particu-
lar go TO purgatory, there to re-
main for an indefinite period OF
time (not less than a thousand
years., during which timo they are
supposed to be cleansed and puri-
fled and made ready for the hcav-
emily realm: that all the others, the
her"tlcs. the apostatc, etc, must
spend their destiny in hell fire, con-
sciously suffering forever.
The Protestant teaching general
ly Is that the destiny Of every man Is
eternally fixed at death, the faith
iul church member passing at
death into glory, condition OF
bliss in heaven. and all others
spending their eternity in conscious
torture, eternal in duration.
IL win be noticed, therefore, that
" there he any real difference be-
tween these two remedies the
Protestant remedy Is the worse of
the two, because II offers no middle
ground. II is plainly to be seen by
any one that neither the Catholic
nor the Protestant creed offers any
remedy whatsoever for the present
disorder that would lead to peace,
prosperity, liberty and happiness
and life everlasting on the earth. II
Follows, then. that II they should
succeed I'm converting most or all OF
the people to their theories IL
would be no solutitn of the present
problems
The great difficulty with the sys
toms eccleaiastical is that they ig-
more entirely the divine remedy,
They ignore the commission given
to the Christian and build their
hopes upon manmade theories. |
croeds and institutions. They Ignore
completely the commission divincly /
given to every one who has conae-
Grated himself to do the Lords will. .
1t will bo admitted by both Caiho- .
lies and Protcstants that only a
small portion OF the earth's popula- /
tIon nave even pretended to em- /.
brace the teachings OF their rcspcc- /
tive systems, and thr most Sanguinc .
amongst them will never claim that
they hope TO convert everybody TO |
their way of thinking and bring
thcm into the church organi2ation .
The facts are that in modern times
they have ignored the doctrines and
do not ask the people to believe .
these but to unite in action. and
the chief action is the solicitation
ana collection of money. SciNng
the war spirit, the spirit OF the
world, these ccClcslasticaI systems
now are engaged in raising millions
or dollars, saying TO the people: "If
only we had thu money we could
convert tho world" Is IL not appar-
cnt TO all that this Is reflection on
the Lord, that he needs money to
carry out his purposes, and is he
pleased TO use the uuConsccrated
FUNDS OF the Workings TO do his
work. Is IL necessary TO solicit I'm
the name of the Lord money from
men who have no interest In the
Lords arrangement but who yield
TO the opportunities of the clergy
and pay the money i'm order that
they may have Il social or political
standing amongst n certain class OF
people? Could IL be said that the
Lord must resort To such methods
n order TO carry out his arrange
nonts, Every reasonable man must
'ay surely not. And again we are