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ADVENT
The Second Advent Christian Church.
Fenwick street near Crawford Ave
Sunday school 9 45 a. m. Preaching by
the pastor, Eld. 'John A. Carglk*.
Sunday 11 a. m.. subject: "The Goa
)»«1 Hope and How to Obtain the
Crown of Life." 8 p. m. A farewell
tuik to the church Prayer meeting
at p. m. Thursday.
BAPTIST
Second Baptist Church,
O. P. Gilbert, pastor Preaching
11 a in., "A Life With a Plan;" 8:30
p. ra., 'The Preacher and the Pub
lic ” At this hour the pastor will
aav something about the recent In
vestigation of the chargea of Miss
Downie Sunday school at 10 a. ra.,
J. O. Melding, superintendent. Pub
lic cordially invited to these services.
Crawford Avenue Baptist Church,
Thomas Walker, pastor. Preaching
at 11 a. m.; subject, "Refuge " Sun
dav school at 3 p. m., R. D. Kennedy,
rlntendent. Preaching at 8 p. m.;
subject, "Mistaken Devotion In Di
vine Worship.” Prayer meeting Wed
nesday evening at 8 o'clock.
First Baptist Church.
Preaching at 11:15 by the pastor;
theme, "The Lesson of the Seed.”
Union sendees at 8:30 p. m. under
the auspices of the First Presbyter
ian. the Firm Christian, St. John's
Methodist and the First Baptist
churches. Preaching by Rev. J. R.
Sevier; theme, "The Way, the Truth,
the Life.”
Calvary Baptist Mission
Sunday school Sunday afternoon at
4.50 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Tues
day evening at 8.30 o’clock, conducted j
by Mr. John I’ll Inlay.
North Augusta Baptist Churoh
Preaching at 11.15 a. m. and 8 1 Op.
m., by tjeo, P. White, pastor. Morn:
"Christ Our Havtor." Evening: “Home
RrasonH Given by Business Men Why
Men do not Attend Church." Sunday
school at 10 a. m , H. R. Walker, su
perintendent. B, A’. P. U. at 7.30 p. m.,
Shires Whltton, leader. Subject: "The
Fullness of Jesus." Mid-week prayer
service Wednesday at 8.30 p m. Stud
ies in Ephesians. The public Invited
to all services.
For the sake of comfort we cordially
Invite men to leave their coats at
home and come in shirt waist.
BIBLE STUDENTS
Bible Students.
Special public services Sunday af
ternoon at ft o'clock at K. of P hall,
ill Eighth street, auspices interna
tional *Hlble Students' Association.
The subject will be "The Hope for
the W'orjd." You arc Invited. Come
and bring your' friends. No collec
tions taken.
CHRISTIAN
Christian Church,
Seventh and Greene streets, How
ard T. free, minister, announces
Bible Rchool at 10 a. m. Preaching
at 11:15 ft. m., subject “The Dynamic
,of Debtorshlp." l'nlon evening ser
vice at 8:30 at the First Baptist
rhurrh. Woman's Missionary Society
6 p. m. Monday In parlors.
EPISCOPAL
Bt. Paul's Church,
Rev O. Sherwood Whitney, rector.
9:45 a. m. Sunday school. II n. m.
relefirailon of the Holy Communion
and sermon. 6 p. m. evening prayer.
Church of the Good Bhephord. the Hill,
The Von Archdeacon Johnson, rec
tor. Holy Oommunlo n and sermon at
11 a. m. Sunday arhool at 5 p. in. No
evening service.
LUTHERAN
St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church,
Walker afreet, near Sixth, Rev. Wil
liam J. Fiur.k, pastor. Sunday school
at 9:30 a. m., George H. Oercka, su
perintendent The regular morning
service 11 a. m. All seal* free Mem
bers, friends and visitors In our city
arc most cordially Invited to our Sun
day school and public services
Holy Trinity English Lutheran Church
557 Greene street. Preaching at
11 a. m. by pastor. Rev j. r. Der
rick Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.,
H. c. Loriclt, superintendent.
METHODIST
BVoadway Methodist Church,
Corner Broad and Mills streets,
Rev L. M. Twiggs, pastor. Morning
service at 11 o'clock Evening ser
vice at BSO o’clock Mld-weck ser
vice Wednesday evening at BSO
o'clock Sunday school at 9:30 a. m„
Wilfred C Lveth, superintendent.
The public i* cordially Invited to at
tend these services
St. John't Methodist Church,
Rev Horace M. Dußose, P. P,, pas
tor. Service at 11.15 a m. with sor
von by the pastor and administration
if the Holy Communion. No service
In this church at night on account of
the union meeting to he held at the
First Baptist church. Sunday school
it 9:45 a m Mid-week prayer ser
vice Wednesday at 8:30 p. in Do
votlonal meeting of the Epworth lea
gue Sunday evening at 7: SO o'clock.
This church is open every day In the
week Everybody is invited
St. Jamas Methodist Church
Dr. T. It Kendall, pastor Preach
ing at 11.15 a m. and the Communion
service. Evening at 8.30 a series of
short sermons on "Christian Citizen- j
ship." Involving "The state and Tem- !
perance," "Religious Significance of j
thf utato,” ;i4|d “Character-building
for Two Worlds.” Hunday school at
10 a. m. Epworth League ata 7.30
p. m. Mid-week social prayer meet
ing at 8.30 o’clock. All cordially in
vited to these services.
The triples announced by the pastor
for the evening service at Bt. James
church are vital, applicable to present
i conditions, and should be of interest
to all.
Woodlawn Methodist.
Fifteenth street, near May avenue.
Rev G. F. Venable, pastor. Preaching
11 a, m. and 8 p. m by the pastor.
Third quarterly conference will be
held today by Presiding Elder B. F.
1 Fraser. Sunday school 0:45 a. m.,
iW. A. Redding, superintendent. Broth
i erhood Bible class meeting with Stin-j
day school. All men invited to be
present. Special service each after
noon this week, from 6 to 7 o’clock
for the children. These services to
be led by a different minister each
afternoon. Decision day next Sun
day, July oth.
St. Luke M. E. Church.
Rev. G. W. Griner, pastor. Preach
ing 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. by pastor.
Sunday school at 3:30 p. m., E. M.
Osborne, superintendent. Prayer meet
ing Wednesday evening at 8:00 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN
Flr»t Presbyterian,
Corner Telfair and Seventh streets,
Ren. Joseph R. Sevier, pastor. Di
vine worship at 11 a. m. with sermon
by the pastor. Special solo by Miss
Margaret Battle, soprano, “Sometime
We'll Understand.” No evening ser
vice, as this church Joins In the
union service hold this Sunday at
the First Baptist church at 8:30 p. m.
Sunday school at 5 p. m„ Major Oeo.
P. Butler, superintendent. Mid-week
prayer meeting Wednesday at 8:30;
subject, "The Members’ Duty to the
Pastor."
Raid Memorial Church (on the Hill),
Rev. Joseph R. Sevier, minister, in
charge. Sunday school at 0 p. in.,
E. S. Johnson, superintendent. At
0:20 p. m. the address to the Adult
Bible Class will be delivered by Rev.
Joseph R. Sevier Attractive music
and strangers cordially Invited to at
tend.
Greene Street Presbyterian Church,
Rev. Geo. K. Gullle, pastor. Sun
day school at 0:45 a m. At the morn
inlt service the Lord's Supper will
be celebrated. The pastor will preach
at the evening service at 8.30 p. m.
iPrayer meeting Wednesday at 8:30
,p. m. All are cordially Invited to
| worship at this church.
Sibley Presbyterian Church.
Divine service* at 11 a. m. and at
7:45 p. m. Sunday school ut 4:30 p.
m. At the evening service on Sunday
thp pastor will lecture o n China with
reference to foreign missions. Mid
week service Thursday at 7.45 p. m.
A. M. Lewis, pastor.
COLORED CHURCHES
BAPTIST
Beulah Baptist Church.
Corner of Ninth and D’Antlgnac
CrraohlnK at. 11 n. m. and
8:30 p. in, by the paator. Sunday
school at 3 p. in. You are welcome
to these services. S. W. H. Murray,
pastor.
Hale Street Baptist Church
Karly prayer meeting at 8 a. in
Preaching at 11.)0 a. m., ny Bro. H.
Sapp. Sunday school at 3 p. m,, Bro.
Rollon Appen, HUperlntendent. Young
men’s prayer meeting at 8 p. m.. open
ed by Bro. Robert Rea. Preaching at
8 30. Also the revival begtnn Thursday
night, July 4th, 1911. Rev. J W Wil
liams, pastor. The Public is Invited
Central Baptist Church
On Walker street near the union
station, Rev. R. J. Johnson, pastor.
The chufch will celebrate their 53d
anniversary at 10.30 a. m.; recitation
'by the Sunday school. At 1t.30 a. m.,
sermon by the pastor. At 3 p. m..
preaching by Rev. J. W. Whitehead
pa:tor of Antioch Baptist church At
8.30 p. m., prtuching by Rev. S X.
Floyd.
Ah the church desires to have a four
[ hundred dollar rally all friends are
1 asked to come out and help us.
Thankful Baptist Church
Rev. K, R. Wallace, D. P,, pastor.
'Preaching at 11 o'clock a. in. Sun
day school at 3,30 o'clock p. m.. L. O.
Harmon, superintendent. Preaching at
I 8 80 P. m. All are cordially Invited
Ito these aervloea.
Good Hops Baptist Church
Corner of Hopkins and Mo Kin no
streets. Rev J, O. Dean, pastor.
Preaching at 11.30 n. m. Sunday school
at 3.30 p. m.. A Gains, superintendent
Preaching at s3op. rn We extend a
cordial Invitation to the public to be
I at all of these services.
Shiloh Baptiat Church
Rev W. M. Jenkins, pastor. Preach
ing at 11 o'clock, by Rev. J Lawson.
Fshers* meeting at 3 o'clock. Revival
meeting all the week. The public is
| Invited.
Mi. Calvary Baptist Church
Ron W. H. Dunn, pastor. Preaching
at 11,30 a m.. by Rev Wm Russell,
apt ism at 1.30 p nv Communion at
“ p m. Preaching at B.SO p. m.. by the
! pastor All invited.
Tabarnade Baptist Church
Rev C. T W aiker, l' D, U,.p., |v&s
tor. Regular Sunday services.
ing and Individual communion service
. by the pastor, to which friends and
j visitors are cordially invited. Prayer
! meeting at 0 a. m. Preaching service
11 a. m. Sunday school at 3 p. at
Jesus And the Proletariat
By Rev. H. M. Dußose, D. D.
TEXT: “This man Publicans
' and Sinnera and Eat«th with them.-
—Luke xv:2.
Some days ago I was met upon the
ntreets by a man deep in his cups, who
also confessed himself to be a T>ond
slave to the demon master, drink. His
helplessness in the presence of a so
j eiety which has linked itself with the
I drunkard maker, and which has laid
j itself out in protecting tfiese destroy
ers of men, was apparent, but I of
fered him Jesus Christ as a present
and complete Savior from the curse
of drunkenness. He promised to at
tend the preaching of the word to
»day.
I know not if my brother of the
street is here, but I shall fulfill my
j part of today's obligation by holding
■ forth the promise to even a drunk
ard. Jn the great day w’hen the
! Searcher of Hearts shall judge, I trust
to be innocent from the blood of this
man as of others.
Bin Is sin, and whether It be the
sfn of the street, the beer saloon and
the brothel, or the polite sins of soci
ety and' respectable avarice, it has
one condemnation, and there is for it
but one remedy. Only blood can wash
it out
When Jesus came into contact with
the men of this world he found, in
Palestine, the chief theater of his
movements, two distinctly marked
classes, nam'* first, the rich, the
socially powerfi'/, the of self
righteous creeds and exclusive religi
ous ideals. This class was made up
chiefly, though not wholly, of the
priests, the scribes and the pharisees.
This class was an abortive product of
the laws of Moses, just as the self
righteous teachers and time-serving
preachers of today are abortive pro
ducts of the Christian system.
Over against this first class was
the much larger class known as “the
common people” and divided, for the
most part, into the two familiar sub
classes: publicans and sinners. The
publicans were Jews, who accepted
office under the Roman rule, while
the sinners, in general, were those
who did not strictly observe the laws
of Moses. There were also to be added
to These harlots, wine bibbers, or
drunkards, and other gross offenders,
though harlotry and drunkenness, as
now, were not unknown in the class of
the rich ahd the socially proud. Jesus
had early converts from the ranks of
both the pharisees and the publicans
and sinners; but, for the most part,
the proud held aloof from him and
only the lowly came* to his ministry.
At all times, and in nil places, he
was the same Lord, the same Friend
and Savior of men, never insulting the
proud, never refuting Uu» humble and
because the humble felt their need of
j him* tlvgJF pressed in (through the gates
Hong service at 8 p. m. Individual
communion service at 8.30 p. m.
Canaan Baptist Church
The annual anniversary of Canaan
Baptist church will he celebratetd
Sunday with appropriate exercises.
Anniversary sermon at 11 o’clock.
Baptism at 1 o’clock. Mass meeting,
preaching by Rev. J. H. Evans at
p. in. Preaching at 8 p. m. The. pub
lic is cordially invited. Rev. C. J.
Jonjes, pastor.
CONGREGATIONAL
First Congregational Church
Corner Gwinnett and Jackson
streets. The usual services will he
conducted by the pastor at 11 r. m.
and 8.15 p. nv Subject for the morn
ing: "The Power of Lust.” At night:
"Blessings from Our Burdens.” The
Holy Communion will be administered
at the morning servtee. Come and
worship with us. W. L. Johnson, pas
tor.
METHODIST
*
Trinity C. H. E. Church
Corner Jaekson and Taylor streets.
Sunday school at 10 o’clock a. m.
Song service at 11.15 a. m. PTeachlng
at.3o a. m. Preaching at 8.30 p. m.
PRESBYTERIAN
Christ Presbyterian Church
Corner Telfair and Cummins
streets. J. s Ellis, pastor. Sunday
school at 10 a. my Preaching at 11.15
a 111., after which we shall celebrate
the Holy Communion" Wednesday
evening prayer service. A ckirdial in
vitation to all.
COLORED Y. M. C. A.
Colored Y. M. C. A.
Prof Isaiah Blocker will address t
Colored Y. M. C. A at 5 p. nv. Sunday
July 2nd. Ml tailored men invited. C.
T. Walker, president: Silas X, Floyd,
secretary.
A NEW TRAIN.
Between Macon and Millen, Ga.
Tin CENTRAL OF GEORGIA
RAILWAY will establish a new local
train between Macon and Millen, on
and after July S, 1911.
Leave Millen 5:30 a.m.
Arrive Macon 9:35 am.
Leave Macon 5:10 pip.
Arrive Millen 9 16 p.m.
Connects at Gordon to and from
Milled Seville and Eatonton: at Ten
nlile to and from Dublin and Sanders
ville, Ga
j For further particulars ask the
Ticket Agent, or W. W. Hackett.
Traveling Passenger Agent, Augus
ta. Ga June 22 26 28 30 Jy}
Children's Suits 1 2 price. F. G.
Mertin*.
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OLD AND NEW SCHOOLS.
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pjfrco. The role doc* n*>t n* n« *
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THE AUGUSTA HERALD. AUGUSTA, GA.
which the feet of the proud spurned to
enter. But there was both falsehood
: and truth in the charge of the phari
i sees that he received publicans and
j sinners.
These pharisees would have It ap-
I pear that he was a proletariat politi
cian, that he purposely turned away
from the rich and the socially influ
ential, and consorted with the low and
the vile In orfar to Create a party;
tha%he condoned their vices in order
to secure their support and following.
Calumny was never darker nor more
gratuitous.
On the other hand, it is true that
Jesus found a life, nor was he even
visited by a life, however, sinful and
debauched, which showed symptoms
of penitence or desire, that he did not
receive it and maite Himself Brothel
and Savior to It.
Balzac's story, "Christ In Flanders,"
is an ever memorable parable of Christ
amongst the lowly. A boat crossing
the narrow seas between Cadzant and
Ostend carried a company of proud,
rich passengers who preempted the
comfortable parts of its deck. A com
pany of Poor peasants were huddled
in the steerage. Just as the boat was
being launched there came over Its
sides a stranger with deep eyes and a
calm face. He would have sat with
the great ones, but they made no room
for him. The peasants, however, did,
and he joined their company. Pres
ently, a storm arose, and soon the
galley was sinking. The stranger
stood calmly Jn the tempest and said:
"Who so hath faith let him walk with
Me on the waters to safety." The
proud ones went down with the galley,
but those poor ones arose and walked
with their Brother Passenger to safe
ty. It was contact that gave them
faith.
The words, "this map” are most sig
nificant. Jesus was amongst men as
a man, but always as transcendantly
the greatest of men. It was this tran
scendant manhood that lifted them up
He met the men of this world, not on
their level, but on His level, which
while it was one of infinite condescen
sion, was yet one of infinite exalta
tion.
The burden of the world—of the
universe—rested on the shoulders of
Jesus, the Bon of Man, and the con
sciousness of this awoke in Him the
conscioushess of obligation. The
nails that pierced His hand sustained
the weight of eternity.
When the pharißees had rebuked
Jesus for his condescension to publi
cans and sinners, He turned and ut
tered that trilogy of parables contain
ed in the Gospel of Luke, namely, the
parable of the lost piece of money,
the parable of the lost sheep and the
parable of the prodigal son. These
are forever to answer to the worldly
cavil against the Christ who stoops to
save.
WOMEN’S GIRBNOT
IS HEM MEN'S
Fair Sex Have the Advantage
When It Conies to
Attire Say Outfitters’*
London—Women, dressed in the
summer fashions, have the advantage
of men In the weight of attire, as the
following figures supplied by a West
End firm of outfitters show:
Woman's Attire
Lb. Oz.
Hat 0 8
Shoes 12
Silk stockings o
Silk underw-ear ..o 31^
Cursets (various weights). 1 2
Lin S f ’ r| e 0 10H
Dress (leaded at hem) ~..1 114
Parasol a
Long gloves 0
Handbag 0 H
Total 6 3 V-
Men's Attire
Lb. Oz.
Suit o
Shoes 1 9
Silk shirt 0 71^
Underwear (silk) 0 13
Gloves a
Unices a 4)a
Walking stick 0 6
Straw hat a 3%
a 3
T otal 9 a
There is. of course, no arbitrary hint
of rule for the kind or weight of rai
ment worn. The corset in the ease
given Is heavier than the dress, be
cause while the dress is composed of
gossamer fabrics and absolutely limp,
the corset is long boned.
If. instead, a boned belt, or n maillot
of woven silk lightly bonds were
worn, there would be a still greater
diminution of weight.
Woman insists that her headgear
shall be light in, weight. Yet it is
rarely so light as a man's hat. A
man's “straw" weighs 3)* oz. against
the 8 oz. of straw and trimming ap
portioned to feminine wear. A
"bowler" weighs 3\ oz.. and a silk hat
for wnich a man is pitied so heartily,
turns the scale at about f 01 only.
A parasol may be a heavier burden
than a walking stick, and the fashion
able bag a woman carries, in lieu of
pocket scales, without scything In it.
nearly a pound, because this year the
sabretasche and the an.monlere are
favorite accessories of the toilette. 1 1
both are heavy with velvet and
bullion." But even these addttio-is
do not bring the sum tote! of her ap
parel up to that of a men’s.
COULD TALK”SOMeT
“Mrs. Gabhrr fell downstairs ana
( bit her tongue in two."
"1 feci sorry for her husband. She
was a terror when she had only one
1 tongue.”
ZIONISM THE HOPE
OF THE WORLD
Pastor Russell's Address 10
Bible Students,
TOURING ON SPECIAL TRAIN,
Two Zion* and Two Classes of Zion
ists but All Parts of the Great Di
vine Arrangement For the Blessing
of the World Its Uplift From
Bin, Degradation and Death, la Paa
ter Russell’* View.
San Francisco,
Cal., June 25.—Pas
tor Russell ad
dressed large audi
ences twice today
at tbe Golden Gate.
He addressed
a Convention of
the “International
Bible Students As
sociation" in ses
sion here. He has
been making a sort
of continental tour,
including Indian-
spoils. St Louis. Kansas City, Pueblo,
Colorado Springs. Denver, Salt Lake
City. Los Angeles and Santa Cruz. In
ait these cities local branches of the
"I. B. S. A." invited him and made ar
rangements for public addresses. Not
withstanding the strain of continuous
travel and continuous public speaking,
the Pastor seemed in excellent health
and vigor. He spoke enthusiastically
of the warm receptions and attentive
hearings which he bad enjoyed. He
was specially pleased with his Califor
nia experiences and the glorious climate
noted at his several stopping places.
The Pastor's visit is unique in an
other respect. Learning of his intend
ed program, some of his friends asked
permission to make up a party to ac
company him. He gladly assented. As
a result a train-load of Bible Students
are with him—about on*- hundred and
sixty in all.
While the Golden Gate Convention
Is the goal or the tour, it 1s but the
turning point of the excursion party.
Meetings are to be held on the return
Journey at Sacramento. Portland, Ta
coma, Seattle. Vancouver, Calgary,
Winnipeg, Duluth, Buffalo and Toron
to, the latter being reached July 16th.
The Pastor’s scheme is a novel and a
benevolent one; for surely what he
has undertaken and is carrying out is
not a lazy man s burden. From the
evidences here we surmise that the
Bible Students along his course of
travel will be blessed, stimulated, en
ergized. Pastor Russell and his party
bear with them from the Golden Gate
the good wishes and Christian love of
many friends.
The Earthly Zionism.
Speaking from the text, “The Law
shall go forth from Mt. Zion and the
Word of the Lord from Jerusalem”
(Isaiah 11. 3). Pnßtor Russell declared
that Christians have inadvertently
misappropriated to themselves many
promises of the Scriptures which are
not wholly theirs. Christian creeds
and theories have surmised that,
through the rejection of Jesus, all Jews
dying iu unbelief of Messiah were
foreordained to an eternity of torture
because ot that unbelief In the Only
Name.
A more careful study of the Bible,
he declared, is showing Bible Students
the error ot this position. Jews who
do not accept Jesus as their Savior and
who do not become followers in His
steps in the “narrow way" will indeed
fall ot attaining a place with Jesus in
His Throne of Glory. They will fail
to become joint-heirs with Him in His
glorious Messianic Kingdom. They
will fall to become members of the
spiritual Seed of Abraham, respecting
whom St Paul said. “If ye be Christ’s,
then are ye Abraham’s Seed and heirs
according to ibe promise" (Galatians
111. 29) "In thy Seed shall all the fam
illes’of the earth be blessed."
But asked the Pastor, are there not
many besides Jews who will fail of
making their “calling and election
sure" to that Heavenly portion—to
membership in the Messianic Body or
Kingdom? His own conviction Is that
there will be found as many Jews as
of any other nationality in that spirit
ual company which, the Scriptures de
clare. will, alt told, he but a “little
flock.” Indeed, there are strong rea
son* for believing that the whole num
ber of this "elect" company, this Roy
al Priesthood. this spiritual Seed of
Abraham, this Messiah of glory, long
promised, will be only “a hundred and
forty-four thousand" (Revelation xir,
1).
What Become* of the Others?
If the Church of glory, the Body of
Christ, be but a small company out of
the millions of Christendom, what be
comes of ibe remainder of Christendom
as well as tbe Jews? If only the Elect
gain the Kingdom—ls only the few
make their calling and election sure
what will become of tbe great mass
of the non-elect, both Jews and Gen
tiles. and the heathen myriads? Pas
tor Rnaaell declared ibat very foolish
and unscrlptural conclusion* have been
reached in respect to elect and non
elect.
Tbe Apostle declares that all non
elect are to be blessed by the elect as
soon as the election Is completed But
we. following tbe teachings of a darker
time and a less convenient Bible, bare
READ HERALD WANTS
declared that when God predestinated
to elect the Church, He equally pre
destinated to damn to eternal torment
all others But not a word of author
ity could be found for such a view in
the Bible. St. Paul’s statement is
wholly respecting the Church, not the
world, when he declares, "Whom He
did foreknow, them He also did predes
tinate that they should be conformed
to the Image of His Sou.” Such a pre
destination on God’s part, all can
heartily endorse. Who can say that it
would be right on God's part to accept
any to membership in tbe glorious Mes
sianic Body, of which Jesus Is the
Head, except such as are pure in heart,
saintly, and so demonstrated even by
fiery trials and disciplines!
God kept secret this mystery, SL
Paul declares—the mystery that He is
now selecting a favored class to be
associates with Messiah in the King
dom of God. for which we have been
praying, and through which the whole
world of mankind will shortly be
blessed. Now tbe Church’s election is
about completed, the Pastor believes;
and therefore now is the time for more
light to shine out, that God’s further
gracious purposes toward natural Is
rael and the world may be more clear
ly seen.
The Heavenly Zionism.
The Zionism of the past eighteen cen
turies has been of the heavenly kind.
It has been calling and inspiring to
loving zeal, obedience and activity
such as have the “hearing ear” for the
heavenly calling to joint-heirship with
Messiah. This glorious privilege is
about to end because the full number
predestinated of the Lord will soon
have been completed. Meantime, the
Pastor and others of God’s consecrat
ed people should be Zionists in the
highest sense of the word, and. laying
aside every weight and every besetting
sin, each should strive to make his
“calling and election sure” to a place
in the Heavenly Zion—the Kingdom of
Messiah.
It will be from this Mt Zion, the
spiritual Kingdom of Messiah, that the
Law will go forth during the thousand
years of the Messianic reign; the greac
Judge and Law giver of the world will
be the glorified Redeemer; and His as
sociates. in His various offices of
Prophet, Priest, King. Judge and Medi
ator, will be tbe faithful Zionists of
the present time who follow in the
steps of tbelr Redeemer, delighting to
lay down their lives for the Truth’s
sake and for the brethren’s sake. In co
operation with the great Captain of
their salvation, through the merit of
His Imputed righteousness.
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As soon as Mt. Zion, the Kingdom,
shall be completed by the glorification
of the last member of the Church, it
will be time for the Law to go forth
therefrom for the correction in right
eousness of the world’s affairs—for
the overthrow of every form of in
iquity and everything contrary to the
Golden Rule. In other words, when
the Kingdom class shall -have been
completed by the elective process,
which is the Divine arrangement of
this Age, forthwilh that Kingdom will
come into power and the reign of right
eousness will- begin.
But God has a time and order and
arrangement in respect to every fea
ture of His Program. In the remote
past, before Jesus came and became
the Head and Leader of the Church to
Glory, God was In covenant relation
ship with Abraham and his natural
seed. .The Scriptures assure us that a
considerable number were so full of
faith and loyal obedience to God that
even though they lived at a time be
fore the calling to the Church began
they, nevertheless, were marked by the
Lord for special blessing and a special
share in the Kingdom work when the
time should come for Messiah to take
His great power and reign.
Reference is made to these Ancient
Worthies by SL Paul, in Hebrews xi,
38-40. He says: "These all died in
faith, not having received tbe things
promised them—the earthly promises—
God having provided some better
thing for us (the Church) that they,
without us, should not be made per
fect”—should not enter into the earth
ly blessing which belongs to them.
Accordingly, the Scriptures ted us
that one of the first operations of Mes
siah’s Kingdom, after the binding of
Satan, will be the resurrection of the
Ancient Worthies of the Jewish race.
These, the inspired Word tells us, will
be made Princes in all the earth—rep
resentatives ot tbe spiritual and in
visible Messianic Kingdom. These
will constitute the earthly Jerusalem,
tbe capital of the New Dispensation.
While the Law will proceed from the
invisible and ail-powerful spiritual
Messiah, it will come through these
resurrected, perfect and epproved
earthly representatives; and from
them it will go forth gradually, as the
Divine message and rule, to every na
tion, people, kindred and tongue.
Tbe New Covenant Israelitish.
Even if nothing were said in the
Scriptures respecting God’s special
blessing to natural Israel, it might be
inferred that they would most quickly
fall into line with the leaders of their
own race, particularly as this would
be in harmony with the traditions of
their race for the past thirty-five hun
dred years. Besides, tbe Law given
to Israel, and represented on tbe two
tables of stone, will be the same that
will go into force again as the Law of
the Klngdom-tbe Gospel Call being
an appendage. The difference De
tween the Old Law Covenant and tile
New Law Covenant (Jeremiah xxxl.
311 is that Israel's New Covenant will
have a greater and more powerful
Mediator tbau Moses; the Antitype of
Moses—Jesus the Head and the Church.
His Body lActs ill. 22. 23).- Besides,
all coming under that New Covenant,
by devotion to righteousness, will have
their past sins so fully forgiven that
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the Lord will not remember them any
juore—tbe basis for this full forgive
ness being the merit of Jesus' sacrifice.
Few have realized how clearly the
Scriptures set forth that the New Cove
nant will be Israelitish—if the promise
respecting it be carefully read and
noted. Christ is the Mediator of that
New Covenant and its “better sacri
fices” have been in progress during this
Gospel Age. It will be instituted with
the Ancient Worthies first, but grad
ually with all tbe Israelites who flock
to the standard then lifted up afnongst
the people. As the blessings of resti
tution, earthly prosperity, health,
strength, etc., begin to be manifested
amongst those living under that Cove
nant arrangement, other nations, the
Bible tells us. will aiso desire to enter
into Its blessings; and they will be per
mitted so to do. By individually re
nouncing sin and accepting the Cove
nant and its Mediator they will become
“proselytes of tbe gate.” Hearken!
“Many nations shall come and say, let
us go up to the Mountain of the Lord’s
House, for He will teach us of His
ways and we will walk in His paths.”
One King, But Two Kingdom*.
It has escaped Christendom in gen
eral until recently that the Divine
promise to Abraham is to be fulfilled
through two Seeds—one a heavenly
class, the other an earthly class, with
Messiah the Head over all (Romans
iv, 16). For eighteen centuries God
favored the Seed of Abraham, the na
tion of IsraeL
That period of favor, explain it how
we may. began to wane about the time
of Jesus' death. It was completely
removed from them in the desolation
of their land by the Roman army A.
D. 70. Now a parallel time has been
reached, beuce it is time for the re
turn of God's tavor. as shown on previ
ous occasions. The favor already 1*
returning.
The Jew has not been so comforta
ble, nor so favorably fixed, as he is to
day, in more than eighteen centuries.
But his blessing is only beginning.
Shortly Divine favor, in God’s due
time, will accomplish for His Chosen
People all the precious promises of the
Law and of the Prophets. Already
the Jew is awakening to a realization
of this great truth.
A voice Is sounding from the wilder
ness. and the Jews everywhere are
harkening to It. It does not call them
to become Christians, but to remain
Jews and to realize, as Jews, the ideal*
set before them by the Lord in the
Law and in the Prophets. To all
those exercised thereby a great bless
ing is near, which will more than
compensate for the sorrows of the past.
Neither by swords nor gitns nor dread
noughts. neither by flying airships nor
torpedoes will Israel’s great victory be
gained; neither by money power and
worshiping of the golden calf of finance
nor by trusting in the arm of flesh, bnt
by looking to the Lord, from whom
will come their belp.
Messiah’s Spiritual Empire, about to
be established, will bind Satan, re
strain every evil and lift up a stand
ard for the people, blessing Israel and
establishing with tbem the New (Law)
Covenant instead of the Old Law
Covenant—under the better Mediator,
still more capable than the great
Moses; under the greater King, still
more wise than Solomon and stiff mora
beloved of God than David. This great
Celestial Empire will be established
with great authority in the world by a
time of trouble, a time of earthly dis
tress. which the prophecies picture a*
terrible.
Israel's Hopes—Why So Delayed?
The perplexing thought with our
Jewish friends, as well as with Chris
tians, is: If these things be so; if Mes
siah’s Kingdom is yet to be establish
ed. as the Jews contemplated, only on
a spiritual plane instead of an earthly
one; and If God’s purpose is to use
those anciently favored people as the
channels of His blessing in the future,
why has there been so long delay?
We answer: This is what the Scrip
tures term the Mystery—the matter
which God did not reveal directly,
either to Abraham or through any of
the Prophets. Indirectly He hinted at
it, saying to Abraham, “Thy Seed shall
be ns the stars of heaven, and as the
sand of the seashore for multitude."
But Abraham did not discern, nor
did others, that these two illustrations
belonged not to the same people, but
to two different Israels—the heavenly
and the earthly, tbe stars representing
the heavenly Seed and.the sand of the
seashore the earthly Seed.
The restitution privileges soon to be
opened, first to Israel, will, later on, be
thrown open to all nations, peoples,
kindreds and tongues—that they may
press in also under tbe same glorious
terms of Israel's New Covenant, be
cause "Israelites indeed,” without
guile and sharers In all tbe blessings
of God supplied through the great
Mediator of tbe New Covenant and
His earthly instrumentalities.
Zionism, amongst the Jews today,
we believe the Lord is stirring up—a
preparation of natural Israel for the
great blessing which so soon will be
at their door. As they begin to really
appreciate tbe Land of Promise, tbe
rich promises In connection with that
land must become theirs, and the In
spiration of those promises will lead
their hearts back to tbe Lord in (Itayef
and supplication and will iqad the feet
of a reverential, representative ntun
ber of them back to tbe land Itself, to
which the Lord declared He would
bring them; and that from thence they
should he plucked up m> more. Re
member. in this connection. St. Paul's
reference to the New Covenant and
the time when It will go Into force
with Israel, ns recorded in Romans xi.
27 The Pastor rejoiced in any oppor
tunity he had of stimulating Zionism,
both spiritual and earthly, for both are
vitally connected with tbe salvation of
the world of mankind In general. •
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