Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1914 — MESSIAH TO ASK FOR THE HEATHEN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MESSIAH TO ASK FOR THE HEATHEN

Tin Redeemer Has Not Yet Asked For His ielieritenceL World-wide Dominion Promised Messiah—The Conversion of tho Hoathon Bhortly to Be Accomplished—Messiah’s Conquest of tho Nations —The Arrows of .Truth Will Reach Men’s Hearts From the Quiver of Divine Wisdom, Justice and Love—Force to Be Employed In Putting Down Ail Opposition—Death to Be Destroyed.

March B.—Pastor Russell’s discourse today related to the fulfilment of Jesus’ prayer. “Ask of Me, and i shall give Thee the heathen for Thine Inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession.”—Psalm 2:8. The Pastor Medared that his

text, taken from a Messianic Psalm, represents Messiah as making known to His people the Heavenly Father’s decree rewarding Him for His faithfulness as our Redeemer and assuring Him of His exaltation to the Kingdom, with power to subject all things to the Father’s will. This dominion has not yet come to Messiah. The Prince of Darkness still reigns. The reason for this, the Pastor explained, is that our Redeemer has not yet asked for His Inheritance. Knowing the Divine Plan, our Lord was content to wait until the due time, in harmony with another feature of that Plan which .must precede the setting up of the Messianic Kingdom. That feature is the selection.of the Church, the Bride of Christ. The Pastor next showed that meantime the heathen have been suffering no loss. Born in sin. condemned to death, all of Adam’s family have had experiences with sin and death, and have been going down into the tomb —the prison-house of death—there to remain until the Redeemer at His Second Advent shall call them from their graves. Then a fair trial will be given them, to determine their worthiness or unworthiness of life everlasting. It was part of the Divine purpose, he explained, that the earth should be filled with people; and hence the bringing forth of a progeny Is part of the Divine will. The few years of this life, with experience of sin and death conditions, will be supplemented by the grand opportunities of the next Age. Converting the World. Then the Pastor contrasted God’s method of dealing with the world In general with that which He adopted tor the Church during .this Age, In the next Age, force will be used, not merely moral suasion. Mankind will be compelled to be obedient. Numerous Scripture's were quoted to sustain this position. Among these Psalm 45. This Psalm, the Pastor declared, is descriptive of Messiah’s triumph during the Millennial Age—a picture, of the conversion of the heathen. The arrows of Truth, which will go forth to the whole world, will reach the hearts of men and will smite them down. To illustrate the thought the speaker reminded his audience that when St. Peter preached that the Jews had crucified the Son of God, his hearers were “cut to the heart’’—pierced with the lance of Truth. The Pastor holds that this work of dealing with the world will begin with the generation living at the time of the establishment of Messiah’s Kingdom. Ultimately It will include all that are in their graves, in the reverse order of that in which they entered. The last will come forth first—“every man in his own order.’’ or class. Referring to the Second Psalm, the Pastor appled it to the time of our Lord’s Second Coming, when the Church will have entered Into His glory as “the Bride, the Lamb’s Wife," symbolically pictured as the New Jerusalem. From that Heavenly City, according to SL John, the Water of Life will flow freely, and whosoever will may partake. Meantime, the -speaker declared, before the nations will be ready for that blessing, they must pass through a period of deep humiliation—“a Time of Trouble such as was not since there was a nation.” The extent to which the nations will suffer at that time will depend largely upon their own attitude, the Pastor believes. He bases his opinion upon the verse following his text. Those that accept Messiah’s Rule heartily will be correspondingly saved from the breaking process. Hence the exhortation. “Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way." The Glorious Outcome. The Pastor concluded with a brief Bummary of God’s Plan of salvation. First He has selected The Christ—Jesus the Head, and the ChUrch His Body—through whom He purposes to bless all the families of the earth This blessing will consist of a knowledge of Himself. His glorious character, and also of an opportunity for life everlasting. The Scriptures, be declared, do not authorise us to claim universal salvation, blit .distinctly speak of Some who wiU die the Second Death. These will have demonstrated fully that they are not in harmony with the principles of righteousness, and therefore unworthy of life everlasting.

A. Gunderson, agricultural expert and farm director at the Interlaken school near Laporte, has resigned to become county agricultural agent in Wisconsin. _ For any pain, burn, scald or bruise, apply Dr. Thomas’ Eclectic Oil—the household remedy. Two sizes, 25c and 50c at all drug stores. The Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Asia arrived at Vancouver, B. 8., Monday with 3,500,000 Chinese eggs consigned to points in the United St&tes. F. J. Anderson, who for nearly two years has held the position of assistant manager of the Woolworth store in Laporte, has been transferred to the Woolworth store in South Bend, where he will hold the position of first assistant. Dyspepsia is America’s curse. To restore digestion, normal weight, good health and purify the blood, use Burdock Blood Bitters. Sold at all drug stores. Price SI.OO. • The "Wabash car shops burned at Moberly, Mo., Monday, entailing a loss of nearly $200,000, An explosion in a passenger coach was responsible for the fire. Two baggage cars, two mail cars and seven passenger coaches were destroyed. Frank Melton, an Evansville policeman, Monday afternoon shot and instantly killed Bradley Wilson, a negro, and probably fatally wounded Solomon Bryant, another negro, when they attacked him for trying to arrest them. Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind piles have yielded to Doan’s Ointment. 50c at all stores. The United States supreme court Monday granted to the state of Louisiana permission to apply for an injunction to restrain Secretary McAdoo from giving Cuban sugar a 20 per cent differential under the Underwood tariff law.

After a characteristic speech, at times pathetic and at times humorous, Senator Tillman of South Carolina, Monday obtained the adop tion in the senate of an amendment to the rules- prohibiting smoking in the executive sessions of that body. Doan’s Regulets are recommended by many who say they operate easily, without griping and without bad after effects. 25c at all drug stores.

The apologists of the new tariff law are accusing the fanners of being “scared before they are hurt,” and are comparing the prices of grain this year with prices a year ago to convict the republican press of misrepresenting facte. Republicans have asserted only what the daily market reports verify, viz: that the shipments of Argentine com, present and prospective, are having a bearish tendency in this country and are keeping the price of com down below wihat it would be if foreign com were not admitted free. This is admitted by every unbiased observer, and nobody realizes it more keenly than the men who have com to sell. It is rather galling to the home producer just when conditions promised unusual returns for their crop, to have their market flooded with Argentine and Danubian corn. The foreign ship pers seem to like the taste of American blood and are preparing to make bigger shipments, so that the American farmer’s competit on has merely begun. And about the only comfort they are getting Ls the advice to raise more cattle and hogs and less corn. And this just as they were getting educated by the agricultural experiment stations to a point weftil nigh perfection in the art of corn raising. We will unload next Saturday and on Monday a car of fancy Wisconsin sand-grown potatoes in 2Vs bushel sacks, 85c a bushel in 5hushel lots; orslngle bushels 90e.

JOHN EGER.

PASTOR RUSSELL