Show SUNDRY N Y m UNIQUE I t m HIS FRUITS IT Pr Prelude to to- to Pastor Russell's Russells i Stirring Sermon 4 l. l i Kindly but Pungent Dissection of 7 Billy's Billys BilIs Furor Furor Fake Fake Preaching Abominable Abom Abom- to God God God-God God and Man Dis Dis- honored by False Doctrines Which Preachers hers Do Not Believe Instilling Believe Instilling Superstitious Fears a If Crime If the Bible Does Teach That Eternal Torture Tor Tot ture ture ure Is ls the Fate of All Except th the Saints It Should Be Preached Yea Thu Thundered Weekly Daily Hourly J if jf It Does Does Not So Teach the Fact Should Should- Be Bo Made Known and the Foul Foul Stain Dishonoring to Gods God's Holy Name Removed February 21 w s-w- Pastor Ru Itu Russell S s e I 11 I N spoke today from i the text I am not ashamed ot of the Gospel of Christ Romans c Prior to his hi sermon ser k mon he made some Nome kindly but pungent remarks on Billy BUly Sunday Suni Sun Sun- i day the most fT noted preacher of our day The i It i Pastor would not Jot depart from his custom custom cus ens- tom torn and an l the Bible rule Speak evil ell of i- i r r no man His remarks merely ap- ap appertained ap ap- 7 pertained to Billys preaching of the GospeL Billy Sunday catches the public eye and ear by the novelty of his r methods Some go to hear him lambaste lambaste lam lam- baste the preachers on the platform i behind him bun him and to watch their faces aces and see them smile as though it were a good joke when he be tells them that their preaching has jade ade the churches cold storage places with little storage or when he be likens them to the Scribes Pharisees hypocrites of old or when he tells them that they ar are leading c their congregations straight down to Hell These things told in the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers seem so astounding that people t. t must see and hear for them themselves Proclivities i. Billys Billy's Smashing Chair-Smashing Others go to hear Billy because It Itis itis is Id the fad Business men and electric electric elec elec- the and steam railway managers realize realize real real- ic ize that thousands will ill come to town 4 as they would to a circus They bring r pressure to bear upon the poor preachers preach preach- c ers for Billy BUly wisely Insists that hei he be i will not come and save the citizens I from Hell if it there Is any competition in the business insists business Insists that all the 1 churches close down own Under the pres pres- pressure pressure sure the preachers cannot help themselves them- them themselves selves and try to make the best of ot it hoping that people will not take Billy BUly C r seriously as respects their hypocrisy j etc and assured that he will wUl divide 4 the the spoils evenly amongst all the churches not churches not the financial l spoils but the souls for tor cold storage or to be let letdown letdown down to HelL Others attend to see Billys acrobatic acrobatic acrobatic acro acro- batic feats jumping onto a table or smash smashing in a n chair others because they ha have ve be been n invited to be of the large choir others to say th that t they have havet t heard Billy nilly Sunday The worldly A adage is is- is Nothing succeeds like success success suc sue cess and every time Billy succeeds R-K R he has more success Amongst Billys Billy's virtues we should not forget the fearless way in which he attacks the social customs and sins which assail the family and the community com corn the fearless way In which he L tells the preachers what he really thinks of them and what the masses of the public think of them and the board above-board manner in which he barl bargains bargains bar bar- l' l gains the result of his efforts for coir cold coi r cash the cash the meeting of the expenses and q the giving to himself of certain vermin collections collections lions for himself and his troupe If It the Gospel must be sold It is better to r have It done in the open rather than inthe in inthe the name of ot the heathen the collectors getting the most To the extent that Billy Sunday seeks to defend the Bible against the t. t 1 Higher Critics s to the extent that he hes s really shows up th the coldness formalism formal formal- 1 ism hypocrisy of the Church of Laodicea Lao- Lao F dicea Revelation 17 to the extent extent ex ex- ex- ex r t tent that he encourages righteousness r r of r life Ufe and discourages drunkenness f and lewdness we can surely wish him k- k F. F l Godspeed and trust that some good is la t. t 7 accomplished by him In awakening wakening the people to do some thinking for themselves them selves ves along religious lines i 1 Some of Billy Sundays Sunday's Faults j l The Pastor said that if it the reports r God most irreverently y that Billy prayed to and addressed the Redeemer jas as Old Pal were true then Billys influence on the public would lead on r 5 in the direction In which the world is isnow now snow rapidly moving anyway anyway toward toward Irreverence He hoped that Billy would become more reverent more reverent and believes be be- that this result would follow a aj at t v. v j better knowledge of God lIe He could j. j scarcely recon reconcile with ho honesty es Billys Billy's Ys Y's I h attempt to tie up p all the souls s he hec saved in the churches which h he be deiF dei delare de- de c iF lare storage vla plants plant t lead lead- i fi L' L r 4 f t tI t I y 4 in Ing down 10 lO Hell lIell He ll wi wished bcd that Billy would reconcile these sites He ITe was vas pleased to note that Billy Sun Sundays Sunday's ays ay's last sermon In each place was usually on the Second Coming Corning of Christ and that Billy apparently recognize recognizes recognizes rec rec- rec- rec th tho present and last stage of the Church typified In Ll This caused hint him all nil th the more to wonder why Billy would help people into the Church which the Bible styles Babylon and declares that God out of His mouth Revelation Next Sunday the Pastor will discuss the Second Coming of Christ viewing that great event and Messiahs Messiahs Messiah's Mes Isles siahs siah's Kingdom from a somewhat different dif dir ferent angle from Billys The Pastor declared that it makes make his blood boil boll with righteous Indignation indignation tion to find Billys Billy's preaching a practical practical practical cal Indorsement of the God God dishonor I ing theory that the great mass of hu hu- i are to suffer eternal torment I because they were born brn in sin misshapen misshapen mis mis- In Iniquity Psalm and nd then failed to live saintly lives True Tru Billy does not explain Hell Like most preachers he probably hides his true thought on this subject while allowing the the common people to think that he believes In a Hell of eternal tortures The Pastor could not ot benee believe believe be be- lieve ne that Mr Sunday or any other i Intelligent In in- 1 man of our day really believes bel believes be be- l this invention of the Dark Ages which b antagonizes the Bible as well as common sense Mr Sunday and all other preachers who realize the fallacy of this great doctrine of devils 1 Timothy 4 41 1 owe it to the pe people who trust them and who make nake up their collections to tell them the truth More Mc re than this they owe it to God that this foul st stain in upon the Divine character be denounced They owe It to themselves as men to stand stan for and speak out the truth and to assist in opening the eyes of ot the poor deluded world The Pastor hopes that Mr Sunday will yet realize that no one can long maintain in a moral moral standard higher than that which he attributes to his God The Injustice and persecution of ceu ceu- tunes is largely attributable to the false doctrines which represent the tile Creator Crea tor as a demon who unjustly and created our race with the knowledge and intention that nine hundred and ninety-nine ninety out of every thousand would endure an eternity of torture Of this as a Gospel the Pastor has as been ashamed for four forty years A better understanding of ot the Bible Bibie has led him since to preach The Not-Ashamed Not Gospel of Christ Beginning his discourse the Pastor said Everybody knows that the word Gospel signifies Good Tidings as Inthe in inthe inthe the angels angel's Message at the birth of Jesus Jesus Behold Behold I bring you Good Tidings Tidings Tid- Tid Tid I ings of great joy which shall be unto all people Who is responsible for forthe forthe forthe the fact tact that this Message of Joy to all people has been turned completely around to mean bad had tidings of great misery to all people people- people except except to an elect handful The fact is that no person deliberately plotted this thil turning of Gods God's Word upside down It is the work of f tl the e Devil who gradually foisted foist foisted ed cd it upon the Church as well as upon the heathen world with the view to turning people p ople away from God and the Bible St St. Peter and St. St Paul both predicted the falling faIlIng away of ot the Church and the success of ot the doctrines of ot demons The god of ot this world Satan hath bath blinded the minds of all unbelievers I If it were not for these delusions of ot Sawn Satan the whole world might speedily be he brought to know to admire to love the true God The Apostle continues telling us why Satan blinds men men lest lest the light of the knowledge of the glory of ot God C C should shine Into their hearts Wherever the true knowledge of God shines into the human heart it presents the Almighty in such glorious character as to demand the reverence of His creatures Hence Satans Satan's endeavor endeavor en en- deavor to blind mens men's minds through false faille doctrines which misrepresent the Almighty's character and Plan But while we hold that Satan had chief responsibility in the matter It is not for us to say that the clerics of ot the Dark Ages did not more or less connive at the error trusting that It would make the people subservient subservient sub sub- servient to the clergy through whom they might hope to escape future tor tor- tor tures But leaving the past and Its responsibilities we may surely say that great grent and grave grate responsibility rests upon the preachers of today for their perpetuation of this great deception tion this tion-this this fraud upon the people slander sIan sian- der upon the Almighty and opposition to the Truth Of or the degree of this wickedness only God Is 18 capable ol of Judging correctly but It Is wicked to keep the people in darkness on the subject and It is slanderous blasphemy bins blas phemy against the Divine character There Is no question that nearly all ministers privately confess that they do not believe these slanders while publicly they Y continue to speak words which give the opposite thought The time when such horrible assassination of the Divine reputation can prosper is surely short Messiahs Messiah's glorious Reign will wUl make an end of all such lies as It is written I will wUl lay justice to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail ban shall sweep I away the refuge of lies lies Isaiah Isaiah 2817 Gods God's Power to Every One Ono Believing i If It belief in the real Gospel is the I Divine power which works in the bel believer belive be be- bei i l live liever v it t follows that wh whoever v r has not i the Gospel has hus not this Divine Dl power I and that in proportion ns as the Gospel is perverted its power is lost So we see set today millions of people professing to believe the Gospel yet acting like devils under delusions from the Dark Ages which have been fostered by the preachers of Christendom If It they knew the real Gospel they would act aci differently and not dishonor Christ by claiming to be His lIis followers The Gospel Message Is double It has one portion of promise of blessing lessing for the Church and another for tor the tho world For the Church who renounce earthly hopes and ambitions and cultivate cultivate cul cul- the Heavenly It promises the high reward of glory honor and immortality immortality im im- im mortality with Christ in His ITi Millennial Kingdom Jin dom to be entered into by the power of ot the tho First Resurrection The Gospel Message tells the tbt Church of Gods God's gracious purposes for the world that through Christs Christ's Kingdom the blessing of Restitution Acts everlasting life as perfect human beings beings be be- eings e- e ings In a world-wide world Paradise has hns been made possible for all mankind through the Redeemers Redeemer's sacrifice and that as lIS soon oon as the Church shall have nae been glorified the blessing of the world will to to be bo accomplished fully tully during Messiahs Messiah's Reign of I Righteousness We leave for next Sunday the discussion lis of the beautiful teachings of the Bible vs the teachings teachings teachings teach teach- i ings of Mr l Sunday the Aden Adventists and and the creeds on this subject Only Only Uto to Every One That Believeth Only a comparatively small number of humanity have opportunity of believing believing be be- lieving during this Age Messiahs Messiah's Kingdom will give the whole world worl an an opportunity of believing In Christ not Christ not mer merely ly those Jiving iving when Messiahs Messiah's Kingdom will be beset set up but as the Bible says All that are in their graves shall hear the Voice of the Son of Go God and shall come forth from the grave not not from Heaven not from Purgatory Purgatory Purgatory Purga Purga- tory not from our Protestant Protes Hell of eternal torture but from the grave The Church will constitute the First Resurrection class and having haing passed their trial successfully they will have havethe havethe havethe the reward of life everlasting on the Heavenly plane The world to be awakened at that time will include the heathen an and all the millions of Christendom Christendom Christendom Chris Chris- who have never known what real Christianity is They will all be brought to a knowledge of the Truth that they may be tested or judged thereby and prove themselves either worthy or unworthy of everlasting life Ufe as human beings in that world-wide world Paradise So So Jesus declares of them They that have done evil that that have not been approved of God God shall shall come coine forth unto a Resurrection of Judgment Judg ment ment trial trial testing with testing with a view to seeing how they will respond to those Judgments enlightenments etc that tile the willing and obedient at the close closet of t Ci Christ's Christs may be received into all the liberties properly appertaining to Gods God's children Romans Homans The wrong thought in the mind of the translators of our Common Version Bible has misled them occasionally into gi giving ng poor translations See John JohnI I Revised Version The Not Not- Not Ashamed shamed Gospel Briefly Stated All Gods God's work is perfect Deuteronomy Deuteronomy Deuteronomy Deuter Deuter- onomy Man originally was perfect per feet in the Creators Creator's likeness Disobedience Disobedience Dis Die obedience brought upon man not a penalty of eternal torment but a death thou die penalty penalty Dying Dying The he wages wa es of sin is 1 death For six thousand years the world has been undergoing this sentence Cut ot off by sin from fellowship with God man has degraded himself Satan has contributed con con- ti to this reign of ot Sin and Death by deceiving mankind fosterIng fosterIng foster foster- Ing lag errors errors misrepresenting God etc God has the situation fully tully in hand He lIe purposed to permit both angels an and men men t to see one great illustration of the effect of sin leading on to disease disease dis dis- ease and aUll d death ath mental moral and physical physicalS Meantime the Creator has hat gracious purposes for tor man Their ex ex- with sin and death will not nol be bt fruitless They will wll have opportunity bUy of learning valuable lessons lesson's |