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Newspaper Page TextSUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 PuuitA Topics CZlfelZZ] ADVENTIST Second Advent Christian Church Fenwick street near Crawford avenue. Sunday school at 9.45 a. m. Preach ing by the pastor, Elder John A. Car gile, Sunday, 11 a m., subject: "The Ages to Come." Praise service at 7 p. m. Preaching, 7.80 p. m., subject: "Sanctification.” Prayer meeting Thursday at S v m. Seats frc| All are welcome. Come and worship with us and hear on these important sub jects. BAPTIST Woodlawn Baptist Church Sunday school at 9.45 a. m., Ralph Youngblood, superintendent. Regular preaching services morning and eve nts, conducted by the pastor; morn ing hour, 11.15; morning subject, “The Marvelous Life”—text, Acts 4:13. Evening hour, 8 o’clock; evening sub ject, “The General Judgment,” the sixth of the series from Heb. 9:27-28. Prayer meeting each Wednesday eve ning at 8 o’clock. The public cor dially invited to all these services, R. E. L. Harris, pastor. Calvary Baptist Mission. Greene and Houston streets. Sun day school on Sunday afternoon at 3.30 o’clock. Prayer meeting on Tuesday, evening at 8 o’clock, conducted by Rev. J. H. Studemeyer. On Thurs day, March 2d, at 8 p. m.,. Rev. Chas. M. Wilkinson will give an illustrated talk on "The Life of Christ,” his talk being accompanied by illustrated hymns. Admission free to evgrybodq. First Baptist Church. Dr. M. Ashby Jones, pastor of the First Baptist church, will preach at 11:16 a. m. on the subject, “The Value of a Vision.” At 8 p.m. his theme will be “How Far Is it to Fairyland?” Second Baptist Church O. P. Gilbert, pastor. Preaching by the pastor at 11.30 a. m., “Perpetual Progress;” o p. m., "The Motives of a Great Life.” Sunday school at 10.15 a. m., J. G. Belding, superintendent. Baraca meets at 10.15 a. m., Sim Mos ris, president; O. P. Gilbert, teacher. Philathea, 10.15 a. m., Miss Alice Ruf fin, president; Dr. Bargeron, teacher. Good music. Free seats. Strangers welcome. Public ordially invited. Take Monte Sano car and get off at church. North Augusta Baptist Church Preaching at 11.15 a. m. and 7.30 p. m., by Geo. P. White, pastor. Morn ing: Passion for Souls. Evening; Teachings from Tragedies. Sunday school at 10 a. m., H. R. Walker, su perintendent. Prayer meeting Wed nesday at 8 -p. m. Public cordially in vited to all services. Crawford Avenue Baptist Church, Walker, pastor. Preaching a. m.; subject, “Prodigal Son.” Sunday school at 3 p. m., R. D. Ken nedy, superintendent. Preaching at 7:30 p. m. ; subject “Arise of Life.” Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. Curtis Baptist Church, Broad street, street, above Thir teenth street. Hours of worship, Bi bue school 10 a. m., Fred Agee, su perintendent. Preaching at 11:15 a. m.; subject “In His Fellowship,” or “Retaining Power.” Preaching at 8 p. m.; subject, “A Triune Experience.” The Lyric Male Quartet will furnish music for the evening service. The ordinance of baptism to be administer ed after the sermon. Public cordially invited to all services. Rev. R. W. Thiot, pastor. BIBLE STUDENTS Bible Students. International Bible Students’ Asso ciation meet K. of P. hall, 311 Jackson street, 11 o’clock Sundays. Public in vited. No collections. CHRISTIAN Christian Church, Seventh and Greene Sts. Howard T. Cree, minister, announces: 10 a, m. Bible school. 11:15 a. m. sermon, “A Threefold Definition of Religion.” Bp. m. sermon, “A Threefold Picture of the Lost." Wednesday night devo tional service at 8 o’clock. West End Christian Church Services on Sunday at 11 a. m. and 7.30 p. m. The regular minister. Rev. E. R. Clarkson,, having returned from his evangelistic trip, wilp'do the preaching. CATHOLIC Sacred Heart Crurch, Corner Greene and McKinne streets. Morning service: Masses at 5:30, 6:20, 7:30 and 9:30. Sunday' school at 10:15. High mass at 11. Evening service: Beads and Benediction at 8 p. m. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Christian Science. Regular services are held at room 315, Union Savings Bank building, ev ery Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. A free reading room is kept open dally from 11 to 1. The subject for the les son sermon for Sunday is “Christ Jesus,” golden text, "I believe that thou are the Christ, the Son of God, which shou.J come into the world.” John J\:27. A free lecture will be given at the opera house Sunday af temon at 4 o’clock by Prof. Hermann S. Herring of Boston, Mass. EFISCOPAL Christ Church. West End, corner Milledge and Greene streets. Rev. G Croft Wil liams, vicar. Sunday school at 9.45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon at 11 a. m. Evening prayer and ser mon at 7.30 p. m. Litany said and address, Wednesday at 7.30 p. tri. All are cordially invited. Church of Good Shepherd, the Hill, Rev. W. Johnson, rector. Holy Communion at 8 a. m. Morning pray er an* sermon at 11 a. m. Sunday school at 4 p. m. Evening prayer at 5 p. m. St. Paul’s Church, Rev. G. Sherwood Whitney, rector. 8 a. m. celebration of the Holy Com munion. 11 a. m. morning prayer and sermon. 4 p. m. Sunday school. 8 p. m. evening prayer and address. Church of the Atonement. Morning prayer at 11 a. m. Even ing prayer at 5 p. m. Sunday school and Bible class at 4 p. m. Ash Wed nesday, morning prayer and Holy Communion at 11 a. m. Ash Wednes day, evening prayer at 8:30 p. m. Ser vices daily at 5 p. m. during Lent, ex cept on Friday at 8:30 p. m. Rev. S. B. Carpenter, rector. LUTHERAN St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, Walker street, near Sixth, Rev. Wil liam J. Finck, pastor. The Sunday Ischool will meet a s usual at 9:30 a. m. The semi-monthly German ser ! vice will be held at 10 o'clock, and the regular Sunday English service at 11 o’clock. No evening service, j Wednesday next is the first day of ; Lent and the first of the weekly Lenten services will be held Wednes day evening at 8:15. All members and friends are cordially invited to attend all of our services. METHODIST St James Methodist Church No. 433 Greene street. Dr. Kendall, pastor. Worship and preaching at 11.15 a. m. and 8 p. m. Morning sub jest.- "The Kind of Revival Needed.” Evening subject, “Peril of the Indif ferent Man.” Church conference at morning hour. Sunday school at 10 a. m. Epworth League at 7 p. m. Social prayer service Wednesday al 8 p. m. Music by choir. Morning, “City of Love,” duet by Miss Crump ton and Prof. Battle. Evening, “Oh, for the Pearly Gates,” "Praise Walteth for Thee,” "Oh, Thou Who Hearest Prayer.” St. John’s Methodist Church Rev. Horace M. Dußose, D. D., pas tor. Services at 11.16 a. m. and at 8 p. rn., conducted by the pastor. Sun day-school at 9.45 a. m. Mid-week prayer meeting at 8.15 p. m. Wednes day. At the morning service on Sunday a class of fifteen to twenty young peo ple, who have confessed during the recent evangelistic meetings, will be received into full membership. The seats of this church are free; everybody invited. "A Sermon For the Times.” Dr. Dußose, the pastor of St. John's Methodist church, will speak from his pulpit morning and evening today j (Sunday). j In the evening (8 o’clock) Dr. Du- Bose will preach “A Sermon For the : Times." The text to be used will be ! Acts xlv:2s, “And as Paul reasoned >of righteousness, temperance nnd judg ment to come, Felix trembled.” : The discourse will take the follow- 1 ing outline: 1. A drunken and profligate ruler. 2. A courageous and faithful preacher. ■ 3. The dawn of law, or outraged righteousness. 4. The curse of drink—on the indi vidual, on society. 5. The judgment which comes—to morrow. The seats in this church are free; everybody welcome. Woodlawn Methodist Church Fifteenth street near May avenue, Rev. G. F. Venable, pastor. Preaching at 11. a. m. and 8 <p. m.- by the pastor. Sunday school at 9.45 a. m., W. A. Reading, superintendent. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock Strangers are cordially Invit ed to all services. PRESBYTERIAN Greene Street Presbyterian Church, Rev. Geo. E. Guille, pastor. Sun day schol at 9:45 a. m. Preaching at 11:15 a. m. by Rev. J. N. McNean. Young people’s meeting at 7 p. m. All are cordially Invited to worship at this church. Sibley Presbyterian Church. Services at 11 a. m. Rev. A. M. Lewis will preach also at 7:30 p. m. Ladies are requested to be present in the morning In order to reorganize the missionary society. Sunday school at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday prayer meet ing at 7:46. Cordial invitation to the public. This Lady Likes Pastor Russell's Sermons In The Herald Each Sunday Do you read Pastor Russell’s ser mons, which appear in each Sunday’s Herald ? , Here la a subscriber that appreci ates them: 1607 Walton Way, Augusta, Ga. To the Editor of The Herald. Sir:—l wish to express my thanks and appreciation for the publication of Pastor C. T. Russell’s sermons, which I read with much pleasure in the Sunday morning Herald. I find them full of intense Interest, good hopes and rich promises. First Presbyterian Church, Corner Telfair and Seventh streets. Rev. Joseph R. Sevier, pastor. Divine worship at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m., with 6ennon by the pastor. At the morn ing service the suubject will be “Fol lowing Afar Off." In the evening a special evangelistic sermon will be preached, text 10:47., “Have Mercy On Me,” in which the plan of salva tion will be made plain. Sunday school at 3:30, Maj. Geo. P. Butler, superin tendent. Christian Endeavor at 7 p. m., Mr. Chas. E. Whitney, president. Wednesday evening prayer and praise service at 8 o'clock. A cordial wel i come to all to “come and worship j with us.” Reid Memorial Church (on the Hill), Rev. Jos. R. Sevier, minister in i charge. Sunday school at 4 p. m., E. .S. Johnson, superintendent. At 4:20 ■p. m. the address to the Adult Bible class will be delivered by Mr. Clifford T. Sego. Thursday evening at 8 p. m. regular service will be conducted by the minister. Attractive music in Sunday school and church and every one cordially invited to attend. Special Church Cars. As announced last week, arrange ments have been made with the street car company to run special church cars from the Bon Air and Partridge Inn, and from Hampton Terrace every Sunday to the First Presbyterian church. Cars will leave the Bon Air at 10:20 and 10:32 a. m., and return ing will start from Walker street just in rear of church fifteen minutes after close of service. Cars will TPave Hamp ton Terrace at 10:38 and stop at the terminal building, just one block w’est of the church, and will start from the terminal building at 12:25. With these special facilities for reaching church large numbers of the winter tourists from the hotels and boarding houses are attending the services. COLORED CHURCHES BAPTIST Metropolitan Baptist Church ! Campbell street, will open Sunday i moring at 11 o'clock. Preaching by Rev. E. P. Harris. Preaching at 8 p. m., by the pastor, Rev. L. W. Mur ry. Bethel A. M. E. Churoh Sunday school at 10 a. m. Preach ing at 11 a. m., by pastor. Memorial j services of the late Bishop A. Grant by the Missionary Sisters at 3 p. m. i Special sermon to men by Bishop R. iS. Williams at 8 o’clock p. m. Pub | liccordially invited. T. J. Ljliton, pas ■ tor. Good Hope Baptist Churoh Corner of Hopkins and McKinne ! streets, Rev. J. C. Dean, pastor. Preaching at 11.30 a. m. by the pastor and at 3.30. There will he a. great meeting. The Seeking to Save mis ; Sion band held, Rev. Sister Cowen, ! president. Preaching at 8.30 p. m. ' Our revival meeting will begin Sun day night. We ask the good people to come and help us in our meeting. Thankful Baptist Church Rev. F. R. Wallace, D. D., pastor. ; Preaching at 11 o’clock a. m. Sunday : school at 3.30 o’clock p. m., L. G. Har mon, superintendent. Preaching at 8 o’clock p. m. All are cordially invited ito these services. < Canaan Baptist Church. Preaching at 11 a. m. and at 8 p. m. by Rev. Laurson. AH the members are urged to be out Sunday for which we are going to call a pastor. All are cordially invited to attend all ser vices. Hale Street Baptist Church. Early prayer meeting at 6:30 a. m. Preaching at 11:30 a. m. Sunday sdhool at 3:30 p. m„ Bro. Levy Welch, superintendent. Preaching at 8 p. m. by the pastor. The public ia cordially invited. Rev. J. W. Williams, pastor. Bro. M. L. Green, C. C. Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. W. M. Jenkins, pastor. Preach ing at 11 o’clock. Ushers meeting 3 o’clock. At 8:30 o’clock preaching by Rev. J. H. Ivory. Colored Y. M. C. A. The Colored Y. M. C. A. will be ad dressed on Sunday, Feb. 26, at 5 p. m. by the Rev. R. J. McCann, pastor Cum ming Grove Baftist ehuxch, The Hill. All corored men are invited to attend. C. T. Walker, president; Silas X. Floyd secretary. OTHER ATTRACTIONS. ”1 fear we are losing our ideals In the mad rush for wealth.” “Oh, I don’t know. The mad rush for the ball park will soon begin.” V A RARe'VrTak! Smith (at the dime museum) — “Pshaw, I don’t see anything curious or remarkable about that old man that seems to gather such a crowd to look and gape at him." Jones—“ Don't eh? Why, that old fellow lived 68 years in Adams county, 0., and never once sold his vote.”— Life. A GOVERNOR’S TROUBLES. “What’s the matter, governor?" “Oh, I let a man out of the peni tentiary to go home to die. Now I find he has married a chorus girl and gone on the stage in a vaudeville sketch ” —Exchange. I am certain if others, who read the sermons, derive as great a blessing from them as I do they are of Ines timable value. Hoping the future sermons to which I look forward with great pleasure will prove of as much profit as have the preceding ones, particularly the one of last Sunday’s issue, with which X was much Impressed and which no doubt wa3 an eye-opener to many thoughtful people and once more ac knowledging my gratitude for the pub lication of these sermons. I am, yours gratefully, MISS S ANNEBERG. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. Old FASHIONED REVIVAL WANTED IS WALL STREET. Tils Wall Street Journal's Ap peal Considered 6y Pas tor Rasseil, , 4 BISHOP CANDLER FREELY QUOTED. * ! [ '•‘.l the text, “Righteousness Exalteth a Nation: But Bin Is a Reproach to any People" (Proverbs xiv, 34). The speak er said:— Many besides myself surely were as tonished to read the following extract from the Wall Street Journal, under the caption, “What America Needs”:— “What America needs more than rail way extension and western irrigation, and a btgger wheat crop, and a mer chant marine, and a new navy, is a revival of piety, the kind father and mother used to have—piety that count ed it good business to stop for daily family prayers before breakfast, right in the middle of harvest; that quit field work a half hour earlier Thursday night, so as to get the chores done and go to prayer-meeting. Thut’s what we need now to clean the country of filth, of graft, and of greed, petty and big, of worship of fine houses and big lands, and high office and grand social functions.” This reached the eje of Bishop Can dler, whose comment is so appropriate that 1 cannot do better than quote it here:— “This editor is right In calling us back to more eurnest forms of life than all these things involved. He wants religion In the home; he calls for lives of prayer; he insists that we need the most earnest type of religion to save the country from moral wreck. And he is right. But can we get that sort of religion under the spur of the mo tive to which he appeals? Hardly. “We cannot get a revival of religion by seeking a revival of religion. No where in God’s Word are men admon ished to seek religion or to seek a re vival of religion. They are always urged to seek God. AH the revivals of religion which have blessed the world In the history of the past have come when men have undertaken to seek God. None have ever come oth erwise. We cannot deify even a revival of religion. God must be the supreme object of our love and desire. “Men Called Preachers Have Explained Away the Word of God.” "Herein is our trouble—we have lost God. Men called preachers have ex plained away the Word of God. mak ing it no longer a sure word of proph ecy, but an antique for the critics to analyze and discuss. The moral law has been lowered. The ten command ments have been reckoned as a piece of Mosaic plagiarism applicable to the moral needs of ancient nomads In the wilderness, but have no more than a qualified bearing on the life of today. The Sermon on the Mount has been treated as ‘An Iridescent dream.’ "The Lordship of Jesus Christ has been denied, while treacherous com pliments have been poured out upon his name, as that of a great teacher and a noble martyr. His teachings have been defied or set aside wherever they have stood in the way of a ram pant worldliness or an insurgent ra tionalism. The outcome of It all is that multiplied thousands have lost all knowledge of God in their souls. To all intents and purposes God is dead to them. They take no account of His will in any of their plans and doings, but live as if there were no God. They are atheists without tak ing the trouble to declare formally the atheism which they have Inwardly ac cepted. “The people must now be called to seek God. He is a real, living Person, and He will be found of those who win cerely seek Him. But He must be sought as the supreme need of the lives of men. lie must be sought for His own sake. He will not be found of men who seek Him simply to reme dy a bad commercial situation, or to cure social and political Ills. He will not consent to be used as a sort of celestial and omniscient oblef-of-polleo to help us suppress grafting and steal ing and licentiousness. “It Is quite true that If all the peo pie turned to God they would be turn ed away from every evil thing. But they will never turn to God until they feel that the worst disaster In life Is that one should fail to know our Heav enly Father. They must be made to feel the sorrowfulness of the orphan age of the soul until, like the prodigal of the parable, they begin to say each within himself, T will arise and go to my Father.’ “We have had already too great a disposition to try to use God for all sorts of social ameliorations, moral re forms, and political renovations. Jt Is time now we sought Him for Himself alone. It Is time we becan to cry with the I*naiml3t. 'Whom have I In heaven but Thee, and there Is none upoa USE HERALD WANTS earth that I desire beside Thee.’ Then indeed we shall find Him. when our hearts pant for Hlin, as the hart pant eth after the water-brooks.” Difficulties In the Way, Says Pastor Russell. The words of the Wall Street Jour ruil respecting the need of the old-time religion are along proper lines. The Bishop sees clearly what I also have so frequently pointed out, namely, that the so-called New Theology, High er Criticism and Evolution theory have so undermined faith that it would be folly to look for a return of the pious earnestness of the past, which was built upon a living faith, even though it was not the pure faith “once deliv ered unto the saints” (Jude 3). We do not admit that none today are pious; that none are what St- Paul styled “sanctified in Christ Jesus” (I Corinthians i, 2). We ciait that there are as honest, as upright, as loyal children of God today as ever lived in the world. But they are few. The vast majority, under the false teaching mentioned by the Bishop, have utterly lost the “faith once de livered to the saints.” The great ma jority of professed Christians are drift ing. Long ago they gave up the creeds of the “dark ages,” nnd. believing that the Bible taught the same things ns tile creeds, it also Is being abandoned as too absurd for present-day Intelli gence. Higher Criticism luuother name for infidelity and opposition to the Bi Me), Evolution, Christian Science, Theosophy and Atheism have swallow ed up the majority of the intellectuals of the Churches, and the mediocre masses are rapidly following them into the outer darkness of unbelief and godlessness. It Is impossible for an honest man who has lost his faith in God, and in the Bible as tlie Word of God, to take a real heart-interest in prayer-meet ings. in Bible study and in attempted holy living. He finds nothing substan tial for his faith to rest upon. He scorns to be a hypocrite. Hence the old-time religions life is not to be gen erally expected. Modern Revivals Unsatisfactory. Modern revival methods (slangy talk, clownish actions and a pretense that rising to one’s feet In a public assem bly means Christian reformation and spirit-begetting) Is too foolish for think Ing people of the class represented by the Editor of the Wall Street Journal. It Is not for us to say that absolutely nothing Is accomplished, and that all fall away who. under excitement, stand up to be prayed for. or to Indi cate that they prefer to spend eternity In bliss rather than In torture. Wo do, however, mean to say that such persons are bewildered, If no worse, and a year after, we fear, are as bad or worse than the year before. This Is because they are not really converted —because they have no real foundation for faith given them, and have no faith to put upon such n foundation. They are not even what St. Paul styles “Babes in Christ" (I Corinthians 111, 1), for only the spirit-begotten belong to that class. What Is Roally Needed. The revival really needed should not be looked for uor expected amongst worldly people. They have nothing of Christianity to revive. It should begin with Christians who have not. yet lost •II their fallh In God and In the Bible. These should become awakened to the fact that spirituality and faith are at • low ebb. Their prayers should as cend to God, and their BAles should he studied as never before. They should make use of present-day helps In their Bible study and become fervent and revivified of spirit through a better un derstanding of the Scriptures. They must see that the Bible was not prop erly represented lu the creeds of the past; that It Is In direct opposition to many of the doctrines of the past which have Justly become repulsive to Intelligent minds. When once they get the proper focus on God’s Word, one passage Illuminat ing another, their faith In God and In the Bible will become a living one, a moving one, and. with this spirit, faith and works will come—Christian zeal, fervency of spirit in the service of the Lord. With these In turn will come activities In helping one another, ac tivities In family worship, In Bible classes, In prayer and testimony meet ings, etc. Then, as the Master said, they will let their light shine find the worldly will see und be influenced by these living epistles, known and read of all (II Corinthians 111, 2). Most Important Points. It Is uselesa for any to attempt to believe, or to attempt to teach others that God is great, and just, and lov ing, while at the same time teaching that He prepared, before the fouiida tloo of the world, an Immense torture chamber In which thousands of mil lions would be forced to spend eter nity. How our forefathers could be lieve this and yet believe somehow or other that God is love we do not un derstand. It was tbelr faith in God’s Love, und not their faith In eternal tormeut, which constituted the power of God working In them for good and which offset the errors of their creeds to a large degree. But no one of to day who Is at all awake can any long er think of worshipping a God inferior to himself. A God unjuat and unlov ing, or unkind and powerless, can no longer be worshipped in spirit and In Truth. What the world needs, and what first of all the Church needs. Is to get doctrinslly straight In respect to the Almighty’s character, and In respect to His purposes for His human crea tures. As soon as that condition of mind shall have been reached thero will be no need to pray or ask for re vivals of religion—-they will follow ir resistibly. But wbat do we see opposing any •teh desirable denouement? We see USE HERALD WANTS Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 19. Pastor Russell of Brook lyn Tabernacle gave two interest ing discourses here today to large and appreciative audi dences. We report one of these from two hundred thousand Protestant min isters and Sunday-School superintend ents working against such desirable results. We see about two-thirds of them advocating Higher Criticism-In fidelity and one-third of them striving to hold the people in ignorance respect ing the teachings of the Bible concern ing man’s future—seeking, by infer ence at least, to uphold the atrocious doctrines of devils foisted upon God’s people by the great AtfJersary during the “dark ages.” it is a sad picture. Has it no silver lining? The Cloud’s Silver Lining. There are still a saintly few in the world who are not bowing their knee to Baal, not worshiping the golden calf of mumrnon. not wandering, not seeking to prove that they are de scendants of monkeys, not seeking to figure God out of creation and to say that nature is God. In this time, when others are going Into outer dark ness, these children of God, feediug upon Ilis Word, are being blessed aud refreshed In spirit as never before. To them God’s Word is shiuing more brightly as the days go by; the rough places are becoming smooth and the dark places clear. To them the glory of the Divine character is being re vealed. The seeret. of the Lord is with them. Me is showing them His Cove nant nnd making them to understand many of the deep things of Ills Word, which the natural eye has not seen, nor the natural ear heard, neither have these things entered into the heart of the natural man—things which he hath in reservation for them that love Him. These are now seuing tbaV the King dom for which He taught us to pray is not a myth; theße are seeing that It did not come at Pentecost, nor when Papacy was established, nor with tho establishment of any of the sects of Christendom. Consequently they are now praying from the heart, “Thy Kingdom come,” and waiting for the glorious Messiah, promised to begin His great work of blessing nattirnl Is rael nnd through Israel all the families of the earth (Acts xv, 14-17; Acts 111, 19-23). These see that the Kingdom of God’s dear Sou Is to be one of “power and great glory"; that before It, In a time of trouble, every other religion nnd In fluence will crumble to dust ; that Satan shall be bound, and for a thousand years the most blessed Influences favor able to righteousness will be brought to bear upon mankind. Church and World Standards. During the "dark ages” the fact that the Church is a specially called, eho ren, faithful class (and only "a llttlo flock"), was seen and preached to some extent. But this lofty Church stand ard was difficult of application to the world, and the world’s hope, under a different standard, was not seen. It clarifies our minds greatly when we recognize that the elect few are Intend ed by God to be the world’s Instructors and helpers by and by, when the world will be granted an opportunity of res cue from sin and death—not to heaven ly conditions, but to earthly Restitu tion of all that was lost by Adam's transgression and Redeemed by Ihe Great Bacriflce of Calvary (John 111, 16; Isaiah xxxv). After learning that the hell to which the world goes lu death Is the grave, and that It Is an unconscious condi tion, a “sleep,” the next lesson Is the resurrection of the dead—“ Many that sleep in the duHt of the earth shall awake, • ♦ * some to shame and lasting contempt” (Daniel ill, 2). Man kind fall asleep with experiences only with unrighteousness and very Indis tinct glimpses of holiness and saint ship. When awakened they will rec ognize the glory, honor and Immortal ity of the saintly Bride of Christ and be recipients of her loving care aud blessing, In proportion as they respond to the blessed privileges of that time. As Uie Restitution work will progress, and they obediently rise from their degradation, tlielr shame and contempt will gradually disappear, and eventual ly perfection of human nature may be attained In an earth also attaining per fection, as the Garden of the Lord. Error Losing Its Power. Intelligent people no longer believe the God dishonoring doctrine of eter nal torture, nor even the doctrine of purgatorial suffering. Having lost these, they are doubting every reli gious teaching. What they need to see is the Btble’s presentations. They should Bee the “high calling” now ex tended to the faithful, saintly few und should sit down and count the cost before undertaking so greut a contract as to become members of that Royal Priesthood. If they do not accept this, the only call now extended, they should have in mind that there Is a general Law of Retribution operating expressed In the terms, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” They should understand dearly that every thought and word and act of theirs will have to do with their future conduct and affect them more or less favorably In the resurrection, when Messiah's King dom will provide to every man a full, gracious opportunity of Restitution to human perfection In a world wide Eden. To the Kingdom of Messiah belongs the promise, “Righteousness exalteth a nation.” Ills will be a reign of righteousness, and. by Divine direction, will have control of the whole world tor tho uplifting of all mankind Re deemed by the precious blood of Cal vary. At present. In every kingdom UDder heaven we see exemplified the latter part of our text, "Sin Is a dis grace to any people”—to the whole world. Let us accept the direction of God’s Word aud set our faces toward righteousness with greater zeal than ever- to attain Divine favor, either by the “high calling’” of this present time *r by the blessed Restitution time* loon to be ushered in (Acts ill. 19-23). | USE HERALD WANTS SEVEN A HAPPY FINISH. In discussing the ethics of speech making, Simeon Ford said: “It was a long and tedious speech, but, I listened attentively. I like to have people listen to my speeches, and turn about is fair play. Well, I’m glad f did listen, because If I hadn’t I’d have missed one of the best wind ups l ever heard. ‘And now,’ said tue speaker, just as we were all ready to drop off to sleep, ‘as Lady Godiva remarked when s..e was returned from her ride, I am drawing near my clothes.’ ” Your Clothing is Adulter ated AND the adulteration! adds a lot to your cost of living* “AH wool” that is very little wool; heavy silk that is fifty per cent tin; pure linen that is almost pure cotton, are being handed over counters as the genuine articles in all stores every day. Store-* keepers do not seem toi realize that they arc! cheating and swindling] their customers by &j contemptible trick. It is| a ** trade custom 99 —a, universal trade u cus tom”— that will be practised just as long as you stand for it. An. article in Pearson's Magazine, now on sale* shows how to identify! these mixed fabrics. Al« so it shows the surprise ing extent of fraudulent practices in clothing tex tiles. Unless you have more money than yoti know how to spend, this article will be mighty helpful to you. Consider what these fake mean to your daily exJ pense. See what yotfl think should be done! about it. ——— . Why women are paid leu than men ft* doing the same work is the subject of article. Changes la the Constttattoa and in the manner of representation In the United States Senate which are necesMCg to tho country’s welfare will be explained In taJ other. Allred Henry Lewis tells'a third story of the famous Apaches of New York—a tlie worst gun-men on earth. Another artis cle sets forth the sight-destroying graft of th* fake eyeglass dealer. Seven Corking Good Stories Pearson’s Magazine for March

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Augusta daily herald. (Augusta, Ga.) 1908-1914, February 26, 1911, Page SEVEN, Image 23