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Show MAN'S WONDERFUL 1 ACHIEVEMENTS Pastor Russell Delivers Addresses Ad-dresses a! Panama and Colon. Th Marvels of the Co nW Intel leot at Work Steam, Electricity, Maohinary, the 8lavea of the New Ondei Future QlorlM Anticipated Man, the King of Earth, to Be Reinstated H ia Recovery Re-covery From Sin and Death Guaranteed Guar-anteed at Calvary The Next Ten Centuriee Will Be Marvelous. ff&SS55SBH5 Panama Colon HBjVrHy February 23 Psh- HbbBOB K ' m ,,ir lJ',"''l' munl LK' ' 'M felted a keen In I HBHKiI tcrest In the threat ifHHn&P c' ja5 Puna mil I'nnnl SB work. which la Pfet SB I pieHon He took bbbIHBkJRB f"r Q,S ,eIt rsalQ1 1 H -I WHAT I RBsRhl' lEm MAN" H" re WnE&b, 'SbvJ Learned human en PSTOTfUSSELO frineertng feats of -' the peat the Tower Tow-er of Babei, the great eltr of Babylon, the Great Pyramid of Egypt, full of scientific accnnii y and symbols of Heavenly things Solomon Temple and Herod's, the Cathedral of St Peters Pe-ters t Rome, and other great cathedrals, cathe-drals, each wonderful In It wny. were referred to as examples of man 8 skill In the past All these stately edifices the Pastor declared, glorify man s Intellectual power pow-er not leas than do sunie of the lecal statutes of the past the Mosaic T.aw the Laws of I.ycurgus, etc. These achievements refute the thought that our forefathers were monkeys. Within the last half-century human Intelligence has bounded forward it) a most remarkable manner The telegraph, tele-graph, the telephoue the wireless, steam power electric power and light bare given talents a wider scope thau ever before They have forwarded the j art of printing, which, in turn has stimulated education World wide intelligence in-telligence is making the world fabulously fabu-lously ri b Millions are on the alert to associate themselves with the new thiDgs and the resulting prosperity The Canal Illustrates All This. Modern cities with their multiplied conveniences, our tunnels, or subways under cities, and all for which they stand amaze us. As we realize that these things have ume within fifty years, we repeat, Wliat is Man'" How wonderful la the Intelligence which has been able to grapple with nature, its la TO a, et- ind master them! Is not man a great king In all tho earth J Nowhere is man s power to deal with earthly conditions more strikingly manifest man-ifest than on tins (anal Zone We hove here an illustration of mountain-moving mountain-moving faith Hix tons of Trojan powder pow-der exploded at one Instant, crumbling an entire bill, is certainly a wonderful record Theae great steam shovels which move enormous masses of loosened loos-ened earth are marvelous If only a ! few years ago some one had told "us ! that a man by moving a lever, could lift six tons of earth, transport it an eighth of a mile, and load it upon cars, all In three minutes or less, we would bavo thought him Insane. Telia of Messiah's Day. Wo must accredit our grent progress to God. Ills time bns COCDO for lifting the veil of Ignorance and superstition He has been gradually favoring the ln rease of knowledge along every Hue. Wo today are merely taking advantage of this more extended knowledge, carried car-ried Into bonu s and office, by ir.eaus of printing presses, railroads, steam ships postal Berrlce, etc. Instead, therefore, of trying to belittle our an cestors. let us confess that we huve drawn from them deep Inspiration Let us credit our progress, not to ev- j oiution, but to the more reasonable proposition that God a time bus come to give Q8 the blessings promised in Ihe Scrl turea the blessings which hendd Messiah's Kingdom. We have waited and prayed for It. Now that ' the dawning of the New Day Is visible on every hand, let us not forget to be ' taught of flod. reading in the signs of ! the times the fulfilment of the predictions predic-tions of forty centuries. Wht Wdl Man Qecomo? Our text Intimates that man Is poor, weak, fallen, unworthy of his Creator's favor and blessing He Is not deserr- ! Ing of eternal torment, but of the Dl vine sentence. "Dying, thou shalt die, ' because of degradation through the fall V. r God tins made provision for man s recoVery from sin and death The foundation for this recovery was ! laid by the Sin Atonement Sarritk-e on Calvary The bleaslngs of that Atone I mcnt have been extended thus far to only a small number, such as would take up their cross and follow In the Savior's footstep:. But the aelectlOD of the Elect to be eaaedates with Meeatflh In 31a King (Join is only the oeclantiig of Qod'a fa vor to mankind The Ele t will soon I be complete Then th Kingdom will be established by Divine Power In nu tborlty and dominion, not to crush mankind, but for human uplift out of sin ami degradation hick to the full i Image and likeness of (od If fallen man nn accomplish the wonders of our day what will not be possible to restored maD under the fa j Torable condition of Messiah's King doui, for which the world of mankind has waited ever since God promised It to Abraham four thousand years ago. |