Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1910 — AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.

Tribute of Pastor Russell at Albert Hall to Late King Edward. [From the Leeds Yorkshire Post.! Pastor Russell of Brooklyn Tabernacled the great American preacher, who is now on a tour in this country, prefaced his remarks to a huge audience in the Albert hall last night with the following: “In Germany I learned of the death of your esteemed monarch, Edward VII. 1 realized that not your nation only, but all Christendom, had lost an unobtrusive but wise counselor, a power for peace and good will among men I take this opportunity to express to this great audience my sympathy-, which. I assure you, is shared by the great majority of my American countrymen. My first thought was that out of respect for the illustrious dead, his family and the nation this service should be postponed, but my second thought was to the contrary. Surely at no more fitting hour could we consider ’ 'the great hereafter.’ There is. thank God. a hereafter for kings as well as peasants. Royal mourners and a mourning nation need a message from God's word particularly now. and, since no more representative audience will probably assemble in this capital of the empire. I have a suggestion to offer, which I trust Will have your approval. It Is that before offering prayer we show our sympathy for the royal family in their bereavement by standing."

After about a minute, while silent prayer was offered. Pastor Russell offered prayer generally and requested the great audience to sing one verse of “Nearer. My God. to Thee.” The whole scene was very impressive.