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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18. ■Til Bill HUE “Blessed ire They That Hun ger After Righteousness.” THE POWER OF GOD’S WORD A Famine In the Land—Many Hearts Crying Out For a Living and True God Faint For Want of Spiritual Food—Table of Divine Provision Well Filled—The Bread and the Water of Life —A Satisfying Portion. October 11.—To day Pastor Rus sell chose for his text the words, “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a fam ine In the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lor d.” (Amos 8:11.) He & [PASTOR gUSSELL) spoke in part as follows: Today this prophecy is fulfilled in our midst! Notwithstanding the fact that during the past century Bibles have been printed and circulated amongst the people by the million, and notwithstanding the fact that educa tion has become so general that rich and poor, old and young, have the abil ity to read the Word of God, never theless we are in the midst of the very famine which the Prophet specifies. It seems almost incredible that we should be famishing now with Bibles in our homes, when our saintly forefathers did not famish, although their educa tion was limited. The secret lies in the fact that increasing integigence on every hand has awakened our reason ing faculties along religious lines, and the result is the gnawing of hunger in our hearts. Both heart and flesh cry out for a living and true God—a God greater than ourselves—more just, more powerful, more loving. Realizing our own impotency, we feel more and more our ueed of the Friend whose love is closer than a brother’s. Consequently we cannot find In the Scriptures the rest, the refreshment and the comfort which our forefathers derived therefrom. Consequently the young men and the purest of heart in the world are repelled by the religion of the past They are hungry for the Truth, thirsty for the refreshment which they need. Intellectually, many are looking, wandering, from sea to sea, desiring the Bread of Life. Scanning the creeds of all denomina tions. they find these practically alike as respects theories of eternal reproba tion and damnation for all except the Elect, the saintly few. They grow faint for want of spiritual food and drink. They even look to the heathen world, and examine the Theosophy of Indja, the Buddhism of Japan and the Confucianism of Ciiina, seeking for some satisfying portion of Truth. In some respects these are like the prodigal son—far from home. They perceive the swinish content with the husks of business, money, pleasure and polities; but their spiritual longings cannot be satisfied with the husks Which the “swine” eat. Because of their interest in spiritual things they are thought peculiar. They are mis understood by their best earthly friends. In their wanderings along the highways of science and ('world-religion they must surely learn That they will get no satisfaction from those sources. The Table of Divine Provision. Ho, all yo that hunger for Truth. Come ye! There is an abundance for us all In our Heavenly Father’s won derful provision—in the Bible. De aerting all the creeds and traditions of men, let us gather at our Heavenly .Father’s Board as His family, as His children. Let us prove the truthfu aness of His declaration that “Like as a father pitieth bis children, so the ■Lord pitieth them that reverence Him.” Let us seek and find the satisfying portion. Let us satisfy oar longings at the table of Divine provision. Mark the words of the Lord and consider how truthful they are—“ Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after right eousness; for they shall be filled.” It is this Truth-hungry class whom tve ad-tress. We know their heart longings; for we have had-the same experience. We know the satisfaction which they crave; for we have receiv ed it and are therefore doubly glad to band forth the Bread and the Water of Life to those who desire it. There are many who are ready to serve the appetites of those who long for pleas ure— ball games, society fetes, chess, travel, etc. Against these we have U'lt one word to say. It is not our a >ught thßt they are en route to eter |»al torment; hence we do not franti cally beset them or annoy them. Let them have their pleasure. Let them wait for the time to come when some thing may occur In their experiences which will put them into the class of the broken-hearted and contrite of spirit, something which will cause them to feel after God. If haply they might find Him as a satisfying por tion. In harmony with the Master's dlrec -1 tlons. It Is our aim to "bind up the broken-hearted and to comfort those BEAD HEiCALD WANT ADS that mourn, to ten tiiem ot the oil ol Joy which the Lord is willing to be stow for their spirit of heaviness and sorrow for sin. (Isaiah 61:1-8.) As the Master expressed no reproof of those engaged in any sort of moral reform, even asceticism, so It is with us. We desire to oppose no one who is doing any good work, whether or not he fol lows with us in every particular. There are so many engaged In doing evil works, and so few engaged in doing good, that not one of the latter class can be spared from the ranks of the service of righteousness. As the Master did not give His time to temperance reform or to social re form or to political reform, but gave It to the instruction of the people in tin doctrines of the Word of God, so let us be intent to follow His example in till matter, not “teaching for doctrines the precepts of men,’’ but the Word ol God, which llvetb and abldeth forevei —expounding to the people the Scrip tures and assisting them to see thi length and the breadth and height and depth of their meaning. The Disciple Not Above His Lord. Nevertheless, as the religious teach ers of the Master’s day hated Jesus and His disciples for this cause, “be cause they taught the people,” and as they perseauted the Master and His followers because they did not wall; in the beaten paths of their day, so wi may expect that the Scribes, tin Pharisees and the Doctors of the Law today will be grieved because the peo pie are taught, because the light of thi knowledge of the glory of God shinin' in the face of Jesus Christ is presented to the people as an Incentive to lov; and obedience, instead of the doctrim of eternal torment. It matters not that all the educate; ministers today well know, and wou.d not for a moment deny, their disbeliel in the doctrine of eternal torment, ii cross-questioned. Nevertheless, main of them hate us and oppose us becaust we show the people the true iuterpre tatlons of the Word of God and lift be fore the eyes of their understanding i. God of Love, just, merciful, rlghteou; altogether, and fully cnpable both li Wisdom and Power to work out all tin glorious designs which He “purpose! in Himself before the foundation 01, the world." (1) They perceive that the teachlu; of the doctrines of purgatory and etc, nal torment has not had a sanctifyin Influence upon mankind in all the six teen centuries in which these doctrlm have been preached. But they sea that to deny these doctrines now woul only make a bad matter worse. The fear that if the Gospel of the Love o God and the fact that the Bible doe not teach eternal torment for any we: generally made known, the effect up< the world would be to increase ii wickedness, to make life and propert less secure and to fill the world wlti blasphemies still more than now. (2) They fear also that a certai, amount of discredit would come t themselves because, knowing that th Bible does not teach eternal tormeu according to the Hebrew and Grer originnl, they secreted the knowledr from the people. They fear that t!:' would forever discredit them with the hearers. Hence they still lend their in fluence outwardly to the doctrine o eternal torture, which they do not bt lieve, and feel angry towards us b< cause we teach the people the truC upon the subject, which they knov will bring to them hundreds of ques tlons difficult to answer or to dodge. God's Love Constrains Us. We ask you, dear fellow Christians Were you constrained to become eliil dren of God and to renter to the Lord the homage and obedience of your lives through fear or through love? We are not asking you whether you nevei have feared; but what brought you to the point of consecrating your life to God? Surely it was net fear! We are aware, of course, that there is a proper, godly fear, reverence; and that the Scriptures declare it—“ The fear [rev erence] of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.” (Psalm 111:10.) But this is not the fear of eternal torment, which tends to drive out love. How could we love or esteem or truly worship a God who purposed the eternal torment of His creatures from before their crea tion! We could give you many proofs of the power of love over the human heart, In contrast with the ungodly fear of the error. God says to us in so many words, “Their fear toward Me is taught by the precept of men.” (Isaiah 29:13.) As an illustration: Some years ago at a Bible Students Convention in Ohio a well-dressed gen tleman in attendance told me of how his heart had been touched with our presentation of the “Lova Divine, All Love Excelling.” He said, "For years I have been a member of the Presbyterian Church without being really a Christian at all Occasionally I went on sprees, some times I gambled and drank, etc. Not until I received a knowledge of the true character of God as set forth in your 'STUDIES IN THE SCRIP TURES' did my heart ever come to the proper attitude of sufcender to the Lord. Then I was glad to give Him my little all, and wished that it was more." , The next day, as I was passing from the hotel to the auditorium to conduct a question meeting, this gentleman pul a slip of paper into my hand. Suppos ing that it contained a question, 1 thrust it into my coat pocket. On the platform I drew it forth as one of the questions to be answered, and to my astonishment I found it to be a check for one thousand dollars. The man had not been asked to contribute even one cent: but the love of God had captivated bis heart and had gotten control—not only of it, bnt of his pock et-book and all. He wished to show the Lord his appreciation of the Love USE HERALD WANT ADS. Divine, the length, the breadth, the height and the depth of which he now comprehended as never before. The Power of God’s Word. Another case; Several years ago I met with a Convention of Bible Stu dents in Chattanooga. While there, a gentleman introduced himself, saying that he was from Mississippi and that he had become deeply interested in our presentations of the harmony of the Word of God. He said in substance, “I will not attempt to tell you how wicked a man I was before I got your literature. My dear wife here, an earnest Methodist, said to me, ‘John, John, you will surely go to nelll’ I replied to her, ‘Mary, I know it! I know It! And, Mary, lam determined to deserve all that I get. lam not go ing to Hell for nothing.’ “One of your tracts came to my desk in my store. I read it and perceived that it was different from anything I had ever understood respecting the teachings of the Bible; for it seemed more rational and more God-like. I sent to you for various Bible Students’ Helps. The result is that the Love of God has constrained me, has conquer ed me, in a way that the doctrines of devilish torments could not Influence me. Now I see the true tenching of the Word of God; I can honor Him. worship Him, and take pleasure Inlay ing down my life in His service. I have made a full consecration of ev erything I possess. “For a time I sent you a fifty-dollnr check every month; but, Brother Rus sell, It was In the nature of conscience money. At that time the most profit able feature of my store trade was the sale of liquor to the Mississippi ne groes. As the grace of God more and more filled my heart to overflowing, 11 brought me to see that I must love my neighbor as myself and do Injury to none, and those checks stopped. 1 ceased to deal in liquor, and have de voted my whole life to the service of God and of my fellow-men.” Three murderers confined in the Ohio Btato Penitentiary had from childhood been trained in the doctrine of eternal torment by different denominations; and yet these men had committed mur der. Under the providence of God, these men received some of our liter ature—"STUDlES IN THE SCRIP TURES”—and were cut to the heart when they learned of the Love of God as expressed in the Divine Plan of the Ages. This knowledge made such a change in the hearts and the lives of these three murderers that the prison keepers took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus and had learned of Him. By and by they were patroled, and today two of them are preaching the Gospel of the Love of God, seeking to bring their fellow-men out of the condition of darkness an sin into the glorious sunlight of Divim Love and Truth. Let Us Acknowledge the Truth. Having tried the Gospel of Fear and Damnation and Torture for the past sixteen centuries, and having seen that under this teaching there are more blasphemy and general wickedness in Christendom than even in the heathen world, should we not decide that it Is due time to give the true Bread and Water of Life to the hungry and thirs ty ones who, for lack of It, are search ing the earth over, and many of whom are falling into Higher Criticism and other delusions peculiar to our day? With shame of face we must all ac knowledge that “we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and there is no health In us.” The proper thing for us ,to do, dear Chris tian friends, is to get down upon our knees before the Lord and in contri tion of heart acknowledge that we have, wrought no deliverance in the earth (Isaiah 26:18); that our sectarian differences are our shame; that the ig norance in which we have all been re specting the Word of God is humiliat ing. When once the eyes of our under standing arc opened, we can compre hend as never before the harmony of God’s Message from Genesis to the Revelation. Daily the Word of God becomes more precious to us. More and more we realize that it Is our duty to fly to the assistance of our dear brethren in Christ and to call upon them to Join us in a determined stand for God and Ills Word of Truth. We mast show them that onr God has been dishonored by misrepresentations of His character and of the real teach ings of His Word. We must point them to the fact that the Bible does not teach that all mankind except the Elect will be consigned to un eternity of torture at the hands of demons. We must also show them that the Election of the Church during this Gos pel Age docs not moan Injury to the non-elect; but that on the contrary it la the Divine purpose that the elect saints with the great Redeemer shall constitute God’s Kingdom, which will bind Satan, put down sin, banish ig norance, error and superstition, and uplift mankind by resurrection proc 1 esses to all that was lost in Eden by Adam's disobedience, but secured for him and all bis race through the great j transaction accomplished on Calvary All mankind shall yet see that the D 1 vine Purpose shall be occompllahed that the Word which has gone font out of Jehovah’s mouth shall proape In the thing wherimnto fie sent it. In concluding Ills discourse, the Par > tor declared that a* the test at the en< ; of the Millennial Age will l»e loyalty even so this Is the test upon Chrlstlni | [teople today. The I/>rd desires no< I those who merely fettr to do wrong , but those who love to do right an'' I hate to do wrong. He claimed tbol there Is only a little more time in ! which Christians will bnvo !b» oppor ' t tunity to (’"veioo character and to j *t»t’d ti - *• - BEAD HEBALD WANT ADS. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. BETTER THAN SPANKING Spanning does not cur* children of bed-wetting. There la a constitutional cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum mers, Box W, Notre Dame, Ind.. will send free to any mother her successful home treatment, with full Instructions. Send no money, but write her today if your children trounle you In this way. Don’t blame the child, the chances are It can’t help It. This trea.tmen* also Hires adults and ngr i people troubled with urine difficulties by day or night. 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