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Show 1'HwK'"W-I"lM-II-I",w,I j GOD'S MESSAGE OF COMFORT, TO THE JEWS. -j "('oniforl yc. comfort yo my people. Milth your Ood. .Speak yo comfortably to .Icrufaalcm, Mini r cry unto hor. that hor warfare is ! nei-ompllshed. lliaL her Iniquity Is i pardoned, for sin; hath received or v the Lord's liiiinl double for all lier ! sins." Iwiisih xl, 1. Kji-lMl ly The Tribune. ftLONI'ON. Oct. 1'.". -Pastor KuskcII of l IJl-ouUIjn Tab'M'lia-'Ie today uddrcssod an o juiicn ai'dieih'o in the world's grculest '"""nditorlum. the Koynl Albert Hall. Many f f Ills audience wore .lows, attracted by lib liberal iwlraotK from I'mitor 1'u.s-'niMjcll's 1'u.s-'niMjcll's sermons which have been appcar-rrei appcar-rrei tg in the. Jewish paper: al) over the florid The discourse vu lull of oom-orthij: oom-orthij: uaxu ranees fboth to Jew Hud If" ijeulile) of tho glurfoua outcome lo the C blvlne Plan, sis rci-peeLs our world and jl S Inhabitant. V'c report the address filly In pari, as follows: 59 Tln re in ! no doubt that I he words S5 )f our t'wl. apply, not lo Spiritual Ja-A Ja-A ipl and the heavenly Jerusalem, but to 5 lie Seed ol .laeob. for many centuries "j .ra'Vu in pain -a nation without a. 21 and. people possessing most wonderful m jronifeos, jet onjojlnc none of them Btfpcople :caUered nmuiiKs' all other peo-Krtc.s; peo-Krtc.s; yot in harmony with Ihe Divine HirotniS" made at the' beginning ofthclr Hrgaiilzallon. they- ha.o been preserved TKcparate and dlstinel from all id her na-JiWprmu na-JiWprmu The Jws arc a miracle in theni-iLKelrc. theni-iLKelrc. 'I fy ullivis 10 the civilized .xXvorld God's promlKei and the 'power r JBLlieK'of in the human mind. As for"-Huld for"-Huld in th .Scriptures for long centuries Hhey haw had no propln't, no priest, no jjtScphbd, no ihIou from lod. no revla-afltlbu.. revla-afltlbu.. The people lo whom at one time vflBclonsod the honor of being Hie only iVwcopIc lo whom the Dhlnc purposes iK'en; r pabd bine for moro than eighl-PEpcii eighl-PEpcii centuries been left destitute of any Hfcyldencc of Ulvlue favor, except hi this jflBoue fact. Ihat their solidarity as a. poo-gMrle poo-gMrle Is preserved. fjEtlWc are not of those who rail against 2hu Jew: who cry out. "C'hrlsl -killers: jSBlIic vengeance of God Is upon you, and K evliul you have suffered is only a forr-I forr-I Haste of more awful sufferings for all & ternllv!." Thank Mod. No! Wo have Jo Mich ell pontiment in our heart. 'Cji lc have nothing for the Jew but sm- fathy, eviMi whilo in him. as in others if Adam's children, we. may see much M o reprehend: nevertheless, we also see IB )Ik commendable qualities:. Anion?: olh-fl olh-fl :rs. we see the quality which Ood so Saceatlv appivelated in Abraham, namely, ahh " in his God and in the Divino UP roniIscs. Such a faith has inspired jS! 'God's Chosen People" to wail, for his l'ronu'scil Messianic Kingdom, lo, these .2 huuy ccnturiot. through all kinds of If lIseouraKenients, dlsappolntnioiils and iersccutlons. S f,The lutii: - promised time of Israel's ff txaltalion as the channel of Mesaianlo iv ilciisin to mankind is near it haslelh IM frcatl. "What though there shall bo lill mother and great spasm of I ribula lion 111 h cijujunetlon with the birth of the New IJli 5rdej of things' Jieyond the sighing ri (iui the rvlnji, the morning dawns- - lie glorious day In -which the Sun of SS tight eqtisnciis shall ehase from tlm world :;S ill the sliadowH of death and despair. srlileh sin and Its peuaUv have brought I! Jpon mankind' What though I ho Serlp-i:Kj Serlp-i:Kj nres tdl us that Israel Ik et to have liTho time of Jacob's trouble" in cun-W cun-W iSeIion with Ihe world's great time of Irotible impending. None of these things 31 iliall hinder us from rejoicing in the L'Ji ovf IlcHvens and the New ISarth, which & i'ori declares lie is about to ereato and sR vlit Into control of our world "Be yc 11 ;lnd and reluiee forever in that which ' Ifrreate" (Nalah Ixv. JS). 1:1,1 SJThe New Heavens ami Ihe New Earth w but svnibollcal terms for the eousid-:J!l eousid-:J!l sratlon of that Now Era. in which there :f. Kill be a new social order, as well as ; arnew ecclesiastical system, eternal In 5 Ihe heavens. "3 i:Tlio lime has come when our lext Is '12 having iLs fuimimenl. The shining of i1 tlic lamp of Truth upon the prophetic HHi PRROK shows us that the great clock of jg the Universe is marking the hour when ho whose right It la shall take to himself him-self his great power and reign. Ah, yea! Wc remember that It is written thaL then the nations shall be angry, and God's wrath shall be manifest, und then the time shall come for the Judgment Judg-ment of the dead and tho reward of all, both small and great. But wu are glad, nevertheless, that the "times of the Gentiles" arc nearly at an end and the time of ISlesalah's theocratic government gov-ernment Is at band for he must rclgu until he shall havo put down all unrighteousness un-righteousness and Insubordination, until un-til he shall havo caused every kuoo lo bow and every tongue lo confess to the glory of God the Father. J-'Irst in order of the Kingdom work will be. the binding of Satan the work of a heavenly, and not of an carl lily king. Gradually. In the Judgments, decrees, rewurds. punishments of mankind man-kind and the banishing of sin and death will Ihe great King of Glory reveal re-veal his own gracious character and the Father's righteousness lo tho children chil-dren of men Gradually all will have Ihe eyes of I heir understanding opened lo see, not only the Father of all in his Iruo character, but. also the Sun In his glorious majesty the Conqueror, Conquer-or, "who. for I ho Joy tha t was set before be-fore him, endured the cross, despising Ihe shame." and heneo Is al. the right hand of Divine majesty and . entrusted with tho pouring out of tho Divine ble:islng upon Israel, and through Israel, Is-rael, oxtcndlns' that blci'Slng to every nation. V One Kiug. but Two Kiugdoiuo. Jt has escaped Christendom In general gen-eral until now that the Divino promise lo Abraham Is lo be fullllled through two t-'ceda one a heavenly class, the other an earthly class, with Messiah the Ue?d over all. For eighteen centuries cen-turies God favored the Seed of Abraham, Abra-ham, the nation of Israel. Chastisements Chastise-ments they had, reproofs in righteousness; righteous-ness; yet in all l hat time they had also Divine favor, as represented In I heir Law ami In tho Prophecies and In Ihe privileges which came lo thcin under the Law Covenant, in that they had an annual Atonement. Day, which continued contin-ued to them Divino tavor. Thai period of favor, o.pIaJn It how wc may, began be-gan to wane about tho time of Jesua'a den Hi. It was completely removed from them in the desolation of their land by the Roman army A. l. 70. Now a parallel lime has boon reached, as. latej in our lex!. Hence it is time for the return ol God'.'J favor, as herein here-in mentioned. The favor already is returning. The Jew has not been so comfortable, nor so favorably fixed as he Is today, In mop; than eighteen centuries. I5ul his blessing) Is only beginning. Shortly dl-Ine dl-Ine favor, in God's duo time, will accomplish ac-complish for his chosen people all tho precious promises of tho law and of lh prophets. Already the Jew is awakening awaken-ing lo a realization of this gitat truth. Zionism, which started as a political movement. Is about to bud and blossom into a religious movement and-the blessing bless-ing of divine providence will so order their affairs. The words of the book, the words of divine promise, wo long read ignorant ly and blindly, are about lo bo-tome bo-tome luminous and constitute the light which will direct them in the ways of the lord--leading on lo tho rehabilita tion of Jerusalem and lo the attainment of lofller ideals among the Jewish people. peo-ple. A voice Is sounding from the wilderness, wild-erness, and (ho Jews everywhere aro hearkening to 11. It docs not call them to become Christians, but. lo remain Jews a.ud to reall.c, aa Jews, the Ideals set before Ihcni by the lord in the la.w and by the prophets. To all I hose exercised exer-cised thereby a great blessing is near, , which will more than compensate for Ihe sorrows of the past. Neither by sword, nor guns, nor dreadnoughts, null hor by Hying airships, nor torpedoes will Js-raol's Js-raol's great victory be won. neither by money power and worshiping of thu golden calf of Jlnance, nor by trusting in the arm of llesh, but by looking lo l)ic lord, from whom will como their help. ' Messiah's spiritual empire, about lo be established, will bind Ha tan, rostraln every evil and. lift up a standard ftr the people, blessing Israel and establishing establish-ing with thcin the now (law) covenant instead of the old law covenant under tho better mediator, still more eapablo I ban the great Moses; under the greater king, still more wise than Holomou and still more beloved of God than David. This great celestial empire will be established estab-lished with great authority In the world by a time of trouble, a lime of c.irlhly distress, which the prophecies pleturo as tcrriblp a short reign of anarchy. Jew's and Gentiles will be responsible, rich and poor, for the bringing to pass of this awful trouble, by reason of the splHsbness which at present Is governing govern-ing the world and which will be used of the Lord to wreck our present grand civilization grand at least on its surface sur-face and in Its aspirations and pretensions. preten-sions. A. socialistic artillery of words and ,eccleslastical bonds of similar nature will only aggravate the strife Financial Finan-cial weights and levers will have much to do with the great crash of the forces of civilization In this near approaching cataclysm of trouble. In which the reign ol sin, inequity, Injustice, selfishness, shall forever fall, to rise no more; and the. present religious systems also shall be found wanting and pass away, J'or these old systems, symbolically the heavens and earth of the present time, will be substituted the new heavens and the now earth the church glorified beyond the vail as the brldo of tho great Messiah, and, society on earth reorganized, will constitute the new earth, wherein will dwell righteousness. The transition will be but a momentary ordeal, as compared with the glorious eternity of blessing under un-der "Messiah's righteous supervision, "lie maketh wars to cease unto tho end of the earth." Israel's Hopes "Why So Delayed? The perplexing thought with our Jew- : Ish friends, as well as with Christians, i Is, If these things bo so; If Messiah's! kingdom is yet to be established, as tho Jcvs contemplated, only on a spiritual plane instead of an earthly one; and If God's purpose Is lo use those, anciently favored people as the channels of Ills blessing In the future, why has there been so long delayV AVc answer, this is what the Scriptures Scrip-tures term the mystery the mailer which God did not reveal directly, either to Abraham or through any of tho prophets. proph-ets. Indirectly he hinted at il. saying lo Abraham, "Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the seashore for multitude." But Abraham did not discern, noi did others, that these two Illustrations belonged, not to tho same people, but to two different Is- , raels. Tho earthly promises belonged ' to natural Israel. 22ventnally an man-1 kind, blessed under iho Messianic reign, will become Israelites of the sued of Abraham. Thus Abraham's "seed shall bo aa the sand of the seashore for multitude." And they must all Imve the faith of Abraham and his obedience, ere they can reach perfection as members of his seed. First in the order of blessing bless-ing will come the ancient worthies Abralmm, Isaac. Jacob and all the prophets proph-ets and holy ones of the past. " These will be raised from tho dead by the Eower of God not Imperfect and fallen, ut perfect; fully up to all the glarlous idenls of their minds aforollmc. This will be their reward for having walked by faith and not by sight'. Thus wo read. Instead of being tho fathers, they shall be the elilldern, whom Messiah will make princes in all the earth his representatives rep-resentatives In power, In rulershlp, In authority (Psalms siv., 16). At that time the blessing shall return lo Israel that has been taken from them for moro than elglUecn centuries God's special favor. Under their now covenant thoy shall bo blessed; "they shall look upon llliu whom they pierced ;" they shall mourn for Him; they ulmll rejoice In Illm, They will ay, this is our ruler, We have j ! waited for Illm, and He will save uu I (Znohaiiah xii., 10). ' Crimes Committed iu Jcsua's Name. I With shame true Christians must admit ad-mit that most atrocious crimes were I committed in the name of Jesus during the "dark ages." Worse than that! The horrible misrepresentation of all that the name of Jesus stands for still continues. 1 Witness, for instance. tho Injustices practiced In tho name of Christianity against tho Jew In P.ussJa for years past, and in various nations In remoter times. Witness the fact also that only two months ago tho so-called Christians of Koumania acted like veritable demons toward their Jcwls neighbors. Well au-i au-i ihcnlloalcd accountSv tell that tho Jcw-I Jcw-I ish cemetery was despoiled. Many of thoso burled within the two preceding months wen; dug up and the putrid and mangled corpses thrown on the steps and In the door yards of their famllios. Can wo wonder that the Jew ha:i como to havo a hatred for tho word Christian and for'thc name Jesus? The name Jesus, as is well known. la but another form for .Toahua, which slg-nillcs slg-nillcs Deliverer. Tho name Christ is the Greek equivalent for tho word Messiah. F.vorv Jew. rightly informed respecting the- character and tho teachings of Jesus, Is bound to respect him and his immediate imme-diate followers as' among the grandest Jews that ever lived. They must nut be Judged according to the- perversion of their teachings, so common among Christians. Chris-tians. And it should not be forgotten that while the masses of Christendom havo misrepresented their teaching, loc-Irlnes loc-Irlnes and practices. there has been throughout the entire ago a saintly few who have closely followed in tho foot-Miep foot-Miep uf Jesus In iiiv preaching I do not urgo upon Ihe -Jews lo become Christians; but I seek to hold forth the Divine standard for them and to assist them to get ready for the fulllllment of the glorious glori-ous promises which are theirs. That the duo tune for Ihe fulllllment of these is at hand is the comfort wo offer of-fer them, ip harmony with our lext. The Prophet declares Dial, it will be after Ihelr return lo their own land, and after the great lime of double which is now impending omcni Christendom, Chris-tendom, that the Jew will recognize that iho great Measiah of glory, tho great Micheal of Daniel xll.. 1. for whose Kingdom they have, been walling, wall-ing, is none other than the "Man Christ Jesus, who gave himself a. ransom for all men" eighteen centuries ago. God will then blessedly open their eyes of understanding. As the Prophet declares. de-clares. "They shall look upon him whom they pierced": I hey will then sec the Identity between the Jcsur who was sac-ritle...i sac-ritle...i for lhv slim of Israel and the world and Iho Messiah of Glory, whoso Kingdom will use Israel in the blessing of the world. , Meantime. what has God wrought' Ah, this, again, we any ii; the Mys lory! Her"' and there from Jew and Gentile, sain'ly characters have been sought and found by tho preaching of Ihe message of Christ. even though that message frequently was dlmmod by earthly imperfections and blemishes blem-ishes by erroneous represeiilatioiis. Those sainllv ones will be sharers with Messiah in Divine blessings on the spirit Iila ne, mentioned lo Abraham under the tigum thai his "Seed shall be as the rilani of luaon." I?ut under what conditions do lUese attain a spiritual Inheritance like unto Ihe angels and far above them? We answer that the spirit nature is Iho divine reward of a special obedience. Our race was' not created on the heavenly plane nor for a heavenly nature; but of the earth "arthy. And its salvation from sin will bring it to the full perfee-l perfee-l ion of human nature and to the .full enjoyment of a world-wide Eden. Tho Spiritual Seed tif Abraham is to be composed com-posed of Messiah and the Elect Little lHock of saintly foolstep followers. The price of Ihelr exaltation Is their eonee-cralion eonee-cralion unlo death and faithfulness ta that Vow. These aro I he Jewels mentioned men-tioned by Ihe Lord to the Prophet "Gather together my saints unlo mc, sailh the Lord; those who have made a Covenant with mo by sacrlUcc"; "They shall be mine, iu that day when 1 mako iqi my jcwelo." |