Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 275, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1913 — A MURDERED RACE; MURDERER TO DIE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A MURDERED RACE; MURDERER TO DIE

6reatest Criminal of History Soon to Meet His Fate. Jeauo Charged Satan With Murder. Adam and His Race Victims—“A Reign of Sin and Death”—The Murderer at Large Six Thousand Years. He Has Added Insult to Injury—He Has Made Us Believe That Our Best Friend Caused the Race Eternal Ruin—The Hidden Things of Darkness Now Coming to Light—The Deceiver to Be Bound For 1,000 Years While His Work Is Undone—Then He le to Be Utterly Destroyed.

Washington, D. C., November IG. Pastor. Russell gave two addresses here today. We report one, from the text. “He [Satan] was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth. * * ** When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own; for he is a

liar, and the father of it.”—John 8:44. The Pastor began his sermon by drawing a comparison between conditions in Heaven and those on earth. Then he asked. Why should God have done so differently with two creations —men and angels—His own children? The Bible, said he. explains the reason for this difference of treatment The human family became sinners, through the disobedience of Father Adam. The entire Adamic race is impaired mentally, morally and physically, as a result of the curse, or penalty of sin—“ Dying, thou shalt die.” Satan the Murderer, Then the Pastor demonstrated from Scripture that Satan was the murderer of our race, as Jesus declared. Satan persuaded Mother Eve that God. who cannot lie. had lied to her; that the declaration, “Dying, thou shalt die,” is an untruth; that man could not die; that he had some inherent life which even God could not destroy. He further persuaded her that God had a selfish motive in telling the lie; that God wished to keep them in ignorance. Then Satan declared that-by obeying him they would become like God. The death sentence was carried out. Our first parents, were driven from Eden, that they might no longer have access to the life-sustaining fruits, that they might come under the penalty. There never was a sentence, Thou shalt live in torment and be tortured by devils. All such misrepresentations are slandei's intended to dishonor God and to turn men’s hearts from Him.

Jesus the Life-Giver. The murdered race now numbers about twenty thousand million souls. Has God no gracious provision for them? asked the speaker. He then answered his own question by numerous Scriptures assuring us that God so loved the world as not to wish them to perish. He therefore gave His Son, that all exercising obedient faith in Him might attain everlasting life. The Pastor next explained tbat a savior is a life-giver. Adam failed to give his race life. What we need is what he lost—life. This God has provided through Jesus. Salvation is a raising from death to life—resurrection. The resurrection will not be merely an awakening from the tomb to the conditions prevailing before death. Adam’s dying began when he was perfect, and included all the processes which finally led him to the tomb. His resurrection will be his raising again to what he lost through din—to what was redeemed at Calvary. This principle bolds with all his children. This Resurrection will include all mankind, with two exceptions. The first will be those who refuse to cooperate with God in loving righteousness and bating Iniquity. The other will be the Church of this Gospel Age —saints of all nations and denominations. These will share in the First Resurrection. Satan the Incorrigible. Then Pastor Russell carefully traced Satan’s career of enmity toward God and righteousness for the past six thousand years, as recorded in Scripture. The fact that the Almighty has permitted Satan to remain at largo and to some extent practise evil assures us that Divine Wisdom foresees some good result therefrom. In the sight of the holy angels. Satan’s vicious; scheming, lying, murderous spirit Is fully mauifest. Scion all mankind, now subject to bis deceptions, will be fully informed respecting them. Unable to seduce our Redeemer to disloyalty to God, Satan sought to put Him to ignominious death, only to find that he had fulfilled tbe Scriptures.’ Later, in persecuting tbe Church and Introducing damunble heresies, through ■educing spirits inculcating “doctrines of demons," he has sought to mislead all respecting the Divine character. A time has beeu fixed for this great murderer’s execution. But first he must witness the undoing of his workr the honor assigned Jesus, whojliumhled Himself to become man’s Redeemer. Satan will be bound during the thobsand years of Messiah’s Reign. At the end of that period he will be loosed, to test mankind, then perfect In the flesh. This tept will demonstrate who will be worthy of the gift of life 'everlasting