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Show j! PASTOR RUSSELL IS HOMEWARD BOUND i Foreign Missions-Investigation : Committee on the Atlantic i Thoy Will Report at a Maos Meeting i In tho Now York Hippodromo Next Sunday Aftornoon at 3 o'Clock Tho Interest Centered Is Country Wido. i s .gjasav Mld-Ocean.Marcli P&CS.' Uc- speeding home K?)oJ ward, the Foreigr. MaHK-v" Melons invcstlga. fflSM'J 'ou Committee lit JKBjjtfagpfofca in communication W$yfl & understood that nr- HMS ''v&ft ranscn3ents httvf IHgit mh Ik: en made for a HEKfcff vl$ pnlillc mass meet- (PASTQg. RUSSELL) gest auditorium! the Hippodrome, next Sunday afternoon, to hear the report of this committee respecting Its findings A report of the mutjo will be given In these columns. Pastor Russell's discourse today -was reminiscent of Arabia as the Cradle of our Race. His text Tvas: "As all in Adam die, even so nil In Christ shall be made alive: evoo man in his own order." or-der." I Cor. xv, 22, 23. Arabia is accredited with being the ancient Eden, eastward In which was the specially prepared Garden wherein our first parents had their trial not for a reward of heaven or u punishment of eternal torment, but for a reward of everlasting life under perfect earthly conditions, or for n penalty of death. Here man, created vory good, in the Imago of his Creator, sinned and became be-came subject to the penalty of sin "Tho soul that sinncth, it shall (he." Hero also Is Mount Ararat, on which the ark rested after the Hood, and from which came forth the family of Noah to people the earth afresh. Thus was Arabia twice the Cradle of mankind. "Israol Hath Not Obtainod." The first declaration of the Gospel, the first mention thnt Dlvlno fnvor would yet rescue mankind from the reign of sin and death, was made, not publiclj', not to all of the race, but merely to ono man, the friend of God-Abraham. God-Abraham. But God gave Abraham words only, "Wonderful words of life" that In him and in his posterity eventually all the families of the earth should be blessed. But there was not a sign of change so far as the Divine dealings were concerned. con-cerned. Doubtless it was because God foreknew thnt approximately four thousand years would Intervene before the blessing of the world that He added add-ed His oath to His promise. In due time, at Mount Sinai, God entered en-tered Into a Covenant with the children of Israel, by which He agreed to bless them and to fulfill In them the Abra-hnmlc Abra-hnmlc promise that they, as Abraham's seed, should bless all the nations of the earth. Tho only condition connected with the promise was that they wero to show their fitness to be the Divine channel. Full of Joy and faith, the Israelites obligated themselves thus. Ah I much they knew not. They did not realize their own weakness and imperfection im-perfection through the fall nnd their Inability to fulfill the Dlvlno requirements, require-ments, tho spirit of the Law of their Covenant They soon fouud that while the Law said, "He that doeth these things shall live," they were not nblo to do thoso things; and therefore they were all dying like other men. Had God deceived them and entrapped them? No. God's proposition was simple sim-ple enough. He was merely teaching them a great lesson that sin ns a dls-easo dls-easo hud tnken hold upon humanity and thnt, however willing they might be, all were weak and perverse nnd unablo to fnlflll their good intentions. As a consolation God assured Israel that He would eend the Deliverer, Ono still greater than Moses, who had delivered them from the Egyptian bondage. Thi6 great Deliverer would deliver them from the greater bondago of sin and death, so that they would bo able to obey the Divine Law nnd bo used of God In blessing and In- oiruciing oiucr nations- inis urcair than Moses, they were assured, would Inaugurate n New Lnw Covenant, based upon better sacrifices than the blood of bulls and goats, and ne was known to them ns Messiah, the Messenger Mes-senger of the New Covenant. Helro of tho Promiae. TVe must never lose sight of the kernel of the Gospel Mesflnge. The ultimate ul-timate blessings of tho Messianic Kingdom, through the Seed of Abraham, Abra-ham, will be to all the families of tho earth, but previously, the Dlvlno work Is tho calling of the Seed of Abraham which Is to do that work of blessing. Tho promise was uot made to all tho families of the earth, but to Abraham and his Seed. Ilenqe tho heirs of tho promise are not all the families of the earth, but the Seed of Abraham. To tho snlnt of Gnlatla, who had been Gentiles, but hnd accepted Jesus and were truellng to become Jolnt-helrs Jolnt-helrs with God'u dear Son lu His Messianic Mes-sianic Kingdom ns mouibcrs of nis Bride Elect, Sn'nt Paul writes, "If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's Seed, and heirs according to tho promise." prom-ise." (Galntlann ill, 20.) How strange that we should have lost sight of this great inheritance! With our Lord, as Abraham's Seed, we shall inherit the earth; as it la written, "I will give thee the heathen for Thine Inheritance, Inher-itance, nnd Lhc uttermost purta of the -nrtli for Tby possession," |