Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1913 — MAN’S WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MAN’S WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENTS

Pastor Russell Delivers Addresses at Panama and Colon. The Marvel* of the Canal—lntellect at Work—Steam, Electricity, Machinery, the Slave* of the New Orde^—Future Gloria* Anticipated—Man, the King of Earth, to Be Rei rotated—Hie Recovery From Sin and Death Guar- ; anteed at- Calvary—The Next Ten Centuries Will Bo Marvelous.

Panama—Colon, February 23.—Pastor Russell mani.fested a keen interest in the great Panama Canal work, which is speeding to completion. He took for his text Psalm 8:4, “WHAT 18 MAN!” He re hearsed human engineering feats of the past—the Tow

er of Babei, the great city of Babylon, the Great Pyramid of Egypt, full of scientific accuracy and symbols of Heavenly things. Solomon’s Temple and Herod’s, the Cathedral of St Peter’s at Borne, and other great cathedrals, each wonderful in its way, were referred to as examples of man’s skill In the past i All these stately edifices, the Pastor declared, glorify man’s intellectual power not less than do some of the legal statutes of the past—the Mosaic Law, the Laws of Lycurgus, etc. These achievements refute the thought that our forefathers were monkeys.

Within the last half-century, human intelligence has bounded forward in a most remarkable manner. The telegraph, the telephone; the wireless, steam power, electric power and light have given talents a wider scope than ever before. They have forwarded the art of printing, which, in turn, has .'stimulated education. World-wide intelligence is making the world fabulously rich. Millions are on the alert to associate themselves with the new things and the resulting prosperity. The Canal Illustrates All This. Modern cities, with their multiplied conveniences, our tunnels, or subways, under cities, and all for which they stand, amaze us. As we realize that' these things have come within fifty years, we repeat, “What Is Mani” How wonderful Is the Intelligence .which has been able to grapple with nature, its laws, etc., and master them! Is not man a great king in all the earth?

j Nowhere is man’s power to dead with earthly conditions more strikingly manifest than on this Canal Zone. We have here an (Illustration of mountainmoving faith. Six tons of Trojan powder exploded at one instant, crumbling an entire hill, is certainly a wonderful record. These great steam shovels which move enormous masses of loosened earth are marvelous. If only a few years ago, some one had told us that a man. by moving a lever, could lift six tons of earth, transport it an eighth of a mile, and load it upon cars, all in three minutes or less, we would have thought him insane.

Tells of Messiah’s Day. We must accredit our great progress to God. His time has come for lifting the veil of Ignorance and superstition. He has been gradually favoring the increase of knowledge along every line. We today are merely taking advantage of this more extended knowledge, carried into homes and offices by means of printing presses, railroads, steamships, postal service, etc. Instead, therefore, of trying to belittle our ancestors, let us confess that we have drawn from them deep inspiration. Let us credit our progress, not to evolution, but to the more reasonable proposition that God’s time has come to give us the blessings promised in the Scriptures—the blessings which herald Messiah’s Kingdom. We have waited and prayed for it Now that the dawning of the New Day is visible oh every hand, let~hs not forget to be taught of God. reading in the signs of the times the fulfilment of the predictions of forty centuries. What Will Man Become? Qnr text Intimates that man is poor, weak, fallen, unworthy of bls Creator's favor and blessing. He is not deserving of eternal torment, but of the Divine sentence, “Dying, thou shalt die,” because of degradation through the fall. Yet God bas made provision for man’s recovery from sin and death. The foundation for this recovery was laid by the Sin-Atonement Sacrifice on Calvary. The blessings of that Atonement have been extended thus far to only a small number, such as would take up their cross and follow tn the Savior’s footsteps. ! But the selection of the Elect to be associates with Messiah tn His King flora is only the beginning of God’s favor to mankind. The Elect will soon 'be complete. Then the Kingdom will (be established by Diylne Power in authority and dominion, not to crnsb mankind, but for human uplift out of sin and degradation, back to the-full image and likeness of God.

If falleu man can accomplish the wonders of our day. what will not be possible to restored man. under the fa vorable conditions of Messiah's King dom, for which the world of mankind lias waited ever since God promised It to Abraham—four thousand years ago.

PASTOR RUSSELL