Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1912 — Admires Paster Russell's Book. [ARTICLE]

Admires Paster Russell's Book.

Atlanta Constitution;—Bill Arp, the “Southern Philosopher,” wrote t’ue following review of "The Divine Plan of the Ages” some time before he died: “It is impossible to read this book without loving the writer and pondeiing his wonderful solution of the great mysteries that have troubled us all our liyes. There is hardly a family to be found that has not lost some loved one who died outside the church—outside the plan of salvation, and, if Calvinism be true, outside of all hope and inside of eternal torment and despair. We smother our feelings and turn away from the horrible picture. We dare not deny the faith of our fathers, nnd yet can it be possible that the good mother and the wandering child are forever separated?—forever and forever?

“I believe it is the rigidity of these teachings that makes atheists and infidels and skeptics -makes Christians unhappy and brings their gray hairs down in sorrow to the grave—a lost child, a lost soul! * ® * , » “This wonderful book makes no assertiuus that are not well sustained by the Scriptures. It is built up stoiie by stone, and upon every stone is the text, and It becomes a pyramid \ t God’s love, and mercy, and wisdom. “There is'-.nothing-'in the Bible that the author denies or doubts, but there Rite miuy Texts tbit be throw.-, a flood of light upon that s yms to remove from them th - dark and gloomy meaning. I ice in at editors or leading journals and many orthodox min; "tens of uid'i rer.t denombmtii ns have endorsed it and have confessed to this new and comforting light that has dawned upon the interpretation of God’s Book. Then let every man read and ponder and take comfort, for we are ail prisoners or’ hope; This is an age of advanced thought, and more thinking is done than ever before—men bare t think now. Light—more light- -is the watchword.” 355 pages—cloth bound. 25 cents, postpaid, llibie and Tract Society. 1" Hieks Street, Brooklyn. X. Y.