Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1914 — A GREAT CONQUEROR A GRAND TRIUMPH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A GREAT CONQUEROR A GRAND TRIUMPH

Jesus “Put to Death In Flesh, Made Alive In Spirit.” Our Lord’s Ascension—Purpose of His Manifestations to His Disciples—Pentecostal. Blessings—The Apostles as ' Witnesses of Jesus’ Resurrection. Our Lord's Extreme of Humiliation and of Exaltation—The Triumph of a Great Conqueror—Following Him the Royal Priesthood Then Counties? Hosts of Every Nation.

May 3L—Pastor Russell’s famous Photo-Drama of Creation beautifully pictures our Lord’s ascension and the subsequent outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost The public seem very appreciative of the Drama as a means of Biblical instruction. Large crowds

are In dally attendance. The Pastor’s text today was, “When He ascended on High, He led a multitude of captives.”—Eph. 4:8, margin. The speaker declared that in one sense of the word our Lord ascended from the human nature and the tomb to the Divine nature and immortality at the time of His resurrection. He tarried for forty days with His Apostles, however, for their establishment and instruction. Being then a Spirit, He was invisible to them, except When He materialized in various forms to convince them that He was no longer confined to human conditions. His resurrection had made Him a spirit Being on a higher plane than where He was before He took the human nature for the suffering of death, in order to redeem humanity.

The Pastor demonstrated that our Lqrd taught His followers these important truths by both word and conduct As they had not yet received the Holy Spirit, they could hot appreciate spiritual things, but must be instructed along natural lines. Had He ascended without manifesting Himself to His disciples, they would not have understood the truth of the matter, and could not have borne witness to His resurrection. Hence their lessons were given them .in pantomime, corroborated by the Master’s explanation that Messiah must needs die to redeem mankind, and then ascend on High to be the more capable of filling the duties of His great office. The Outpouring of the Spirit. The speaker then reviewed the wonderful manifestation of the descent of the . Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This manifestation evidenced to the disciples the fact that their sins had been freely forgiven for Christ’s sake, that their consecration to sacrifice themselves had been accepted by the Father, and that henceforth they might count themselves part of Abraham’s Seed, who would bless all humanity. The Apostles were to bear witness to Jesus’ resurrection. Hence when Saul of Tarsus was given Judas’ place, It was proper that he also should be able to bear that witness. His experience on the road to Damascus convinced him, that Jesus had risen from the dead and that He was tfie Messiah. The Pastor then showed that the descent of the Logos to the human plane and the ascension of Christ to the Divine plane were related as cause and effect. Our Lord now fills the highest position in the Universe, next to the Father. To suppose that our Lord went to Heaven a man Is to mistake the significance of His title, Son of Man, which He maintains as identifying Him with His great redemptive work for humanity. To suppose that He Is still a man is to overlook the Scriptural statement that man is “a little lower than the angels,” and that since our Lord’s ascension angels and men are commanded to worship Him. As usual, the Pastor discussed all texts bearing, upon this point and fully sustained his position. He went into details respecting the transfer of the Logos from Heavenly to earthly conditions, and proffered his hearers, free upon application, a treatise entitled “The Undeflled One,” which he believes shows scientifically the process by which the Logos was changed from spirit to human yet was preserved immaculate. A Multitude of Captives. Then the Pastor considered his text, which figuratively represents Jesus’ ascension as the triumph of a great Conqueror. Sin and Death had gained ascendency over Father Adam and his race, and had brought them down to the dust—mentally, morally and physically. Moreover, this victory had been won legally—by one man’s disobedience. But the Logos was made flesh, proved Himself competent to pay the sinner’s ransom-price, and paid that price, paving finished His sacrificial work. He was again received to the spirit plane, and exalted to the right hand of God. The speaker depicted our Lord as returning to the Heavenly state, -acclaimed of the Heavenly host Far down the centuries, jthe prophetic eye saw following Him, first the Church, the Royal Priesthood, delivered from the power of Sin and Death; and next the minions upon millions of humanity. rescued from the bondage of corruption.

-Mrs. O. R. Sherrell and son, Kenneth, returned to Otterbein Sunday, accompanied by her sister, Miss Florence Burns. Miss Alice Witham went to. Indianapolis Sunday to remain all summer with her sister, Mrs. Bruce Swazee, Dr. and Mr®. Rue Parcels and baby came from Chicago Friday, where he graduated last week from Dental college. They will spend two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcels, and then depart tor Amarillo, Tex., where he has purchased an established practice and will enter upon it. Rue deserves great credit tor his grit in securing an education in this profession and is certain to build up a large practice as his many Rens - selaer friends will join The Republican in wishing tor him. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meyer and baby and Mrs. Meyer’s mother, Mrs. Brady, and her sister, drove over from Danville Saturday in Frank’s big 7-passenger Cole auto. In deference to the old soldiers all Danville stores were closed all day Saturday. Frank and bis partner have two stores there and a fair estimate of Saturday’s business is $1,600, but they were closed up tight as a drum and Frank was surprised to find that in Rensselaer people were chasing the dollar so hard that they would not even close up tor an hour or two.

PASTOR RUSSELL