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SPEAKS ON RESURRECTION.
Over 35,000 See and Hear In One Day
the Story of the Bible as Presented by
This Truly Great Drama—In Fore-
•noon Pastor Russell Preached on That
Feature of* His Photo-Drama Which
Relates to "the Chiefest Resurrec­
tion," Which Began With Jesus—His
Footstep Followers Share In It With
Wim—Then Will Come Another Class
on the Spirit Plane-—Then Will Fol­
low the Resurrection of the Ancient
Worthies—Remainder of World Will
Be Resurrected Gradually During
Thousand Years of Messiah's Reign.
Louisville, Ky.,
April 12.— In the
Sbubert Masonic
Theatre here this
afternoon Pastor
Russell presented
his Photo- Draiuu
of Creation. It is
truly a wonderful
presentation of the
Bible narrative.
Nothing of the
kind has ever be­
fore been shown
here. It is inter­
esting to the point of fascination. One
desires lo *ee it over and over again.
It is now reported successful iu more
than thirty of the best theatres of the
principal cities, where crowds are tbe
rule. Ovor 35.000 attend In one day.
end the numbers are rapidly rising.
In the forenoon Pastor Russell deliv­
ered a discourse on "The Chiefest Res­
urrection." from the text, "There shall
be a resurrection of the dead, both of
tbe just and tbe unjust."—Acts 24:li5.
Tbe Pastor remarked that Easter
Sunday, throughout tbe civilized world.
Stands as the reminder of the resurrec­
tion of .lestis; and yot there has perhaps
"never been a time when the processed
followers of .lesus have believed less
in the Resurrection of the Dead than
at present. This shows a groat falling
away from the faith once delivered to
tbe saints. The Resurrection hope is
the great hope which the Bible sets be­
fore mankind.
The Pastor cited 'various Scriptures
to prove that death is the penalty of
Sin—the curse which came upon Adam
and all his race because of Adam's dis­
obedience to God in Eden. lie showed
that God's promise to roll away the
curse, and to give blessing instead, in­
cludes every member of the human
family. lie reasoned, and produced Bi­
ble proofs in support, that the bless­
ing of all the families of the earth,
therefore, will mean the resurrection
of the dead—the resurrection of Adam
and every member of his race.
The earliest information on God's
part thai He would do anything for
man's recovery from the death sen­
tence, was given when our first parents
were expelled from Eden. There God
vaguely declared that at some future
time tbe Seed of the woman should
bruise the serpent's bead. This was
merely a ray of hope, with no intima­
tion of how it would be accomplished.
God's first definite statement of what
He purposed to do for Adam and his
race was made to Abraham two thou­
sand years after sin had entered the
world. To Abraham God made known
Hi,s future good intentions toward
Adam and .'ill of his posterity. He
said, "I purpose to bless all the fam­
ilies of the earth. Walk before Me
and be thou faithful; and the blessing
shall come to the human family
through thee ;md thy posterity." Aft­
er Abraham had endured' tests, God
confirmed the previous assurances and
gave His oath to prove the certainty
of the whole mutter. The words were:
* 4 Iu thee and in thy Seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed."
The Law Covenant and Shadow. -
God knew, when He made the Prom
>se to Abraham, that his Spiritual Seed
The Christ, would not appear even in
the flesh for more than two thousand
years.. He knew also that It would be
nearly two thousand years after that I
before the Spiritual Seed would be giv- 1
«n the necessary power and authority
io bind Satan and to release the slaves J
of sin from the tomb and from the j
shackles of ignorance superstition and
weakness. But it was neither neces-
Hury nor expedient that all this should
be told to Abraham. It was sufficient j
thnt the friend of (Jod should know of
a surety that a blessing was coining,
and that his seed would be identiiied
with that work of blessing mankind
God did, indeed, give a typical lesson
respc-Ung the tract that there wou'd
be two seeds oi Abraham; one. Heaven-
}y, and the other, m> titty. Without ex­
plaining the matter to Abraham, God
stated it so that it would be written
aforetime for tbe bno -in. f,«n of the
Household of Kaitb MC ans liospel Age
He said, "Tin Seed shsill be as the.
stars of Heaven, and as the sand of.
the seashore." One of these seed*,
"would be developed under thv> Law--by
being required !o obey the Dhine Law,
and thus being helped up toward per­
fection. The other Seed, tbe Heaven­
ly, would be b.\ grace, no! by Law
Good works would be accounted to the
Heavenly Seed on the basis of faith.
St Paul calls our attention to these
two seeds, and assures us that the
Promise of God made to Abraham ap­
pertains to both the Heavenly, Spirit­
ual Seed, and the earthly, human-na­
ture eluss. His words are: "Therefore
it is of faith, that it might be by
grace; to the end that the Promise
might be Mire to ail the seed; not to
thai only uhlrh is of the 3,aw, but to
that also which is of the faith of Abra
ham."--Romaus I Hi
(Jod allowed Abraham's, posterity.
through ,I:iu. |o go down to Egypt
and theie |o be. o;ne a nation of bond
was Hi
obodlen
that no
is able
no -man
to k.
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precious sacnlL-e. These, the Aposi!e
declares, are holy and acceptable s.n
rilices, because offered by their arc-it
Redeemer and Advocate.
Soon, we believe, the autitypica!
sacrifices will all be slain. Soon all
the members will be glorified with
their Head, their Lord Jesus, beyond
the veil. This is the First Resurrec­
tion. The change of Jesus to the
Heavenly condition at His resurrection
was the beginning of this Chief Resur­
rection; and tbe glorious change of the
last member of the Body of Christ, the
Church, will be the consummation of
the Chief Resurrection. Only the bless­
ed and holy will have part in it.
The High Priest Will Appear.
The typical high priest on the Day
of Atonement, after having offered the
sacrifices, put on his glorious garments,
and then appeared to bless the people.
The antitype will be when our great
High Triest,'Jesus, shall have finished
offering the last member of His Body,
and when that last member shall have
passed beyond the veil. Then the en­
tire Melchi/edek Priest will put on His
official robes as King of glory, and be
manifested to the world as tbe great
antitypieal Mediator, whose sacrihe*
satisfies Divine Justice in behalf of all.
Then, for a thousand years, this anti­
typieal Priest. Mediator. King, will be
engaged in blessing mankind—uplifting
Adam and all his race from sin and
death; and thus He will fulfil, as God's
Representative, the promise, "God
shall wipe away all tears.—Rev. 21:4.
Redemption Necessary First.
We now see from God's standpoint
that the Law Covenant was added be­
cause of transgression—to show the
natural tendency of sin, the impossi
bility of any other way of righting the
matter than that which God foreor­
dained; namely, through Jesus and Ills
glorious Messianic Kingdom.
We see also that whoever would be
the Seed of Abraham with power and
authority from God to bless mankind
must, first of all, accomplish a redemp­
tion—must pay the penalty against
mankind/ In God's Providence, only
one man was tried and sentenced to
death—Adam. Therefore when the
time came for redeeming mankind it
required only one man. The Man
Christ Jesus, to die for Adam. As
Adam's sin had entailed itself throuqh
heredity upon all his children, so the
redemptive work of Christ's sacrifice
would be cO'CJ-tensiw. and signify recon
ciliation to all of Adam's race.
Thus it was impossible for anything
to be done in the way of blessing man
kind or granting a resurrevtiou from
the dead until Christ had died for th
sin of Adam - the sin of the world. < ,\\
the third day alter Jesus' crucifixion
God raised Him from the dead, fulh
empowered to he the Deliverer of
Adam and bis race.
But when Jesus arose from trie"fien~rT.
the blessing of the world was not jet
due. God, who had foreordained that
Jesus should be the antitypieal Seed ol
Abraham, had foreordained also that
Jesus should have a Church to be IJi^
Joint-heir in the Kingdom of glory and I
the work of blessing mankind. Cod
foreordained that all who would be of
this Body of Christ must show the
same spirit that He bad a spirit of
faithfulness, loyalty, self-sacrifice. God
predestinated that this Church class
must be conformed to the imago of His
Son-must possess similar character.
All through this Compel Age Cod h.u
been* developing the Church as the
Body of the great antitypieal Mediatoi
of the New Covenant. These are de
veloped under a special Covenant, dit
ferent entirely from the New Cove
mint, made with the world.
Jesus did not become I he great Medi
ator under the Law Covenant; for th"
Law Covenant offered life; wherea-
the Cowuant under which Jesus quali-
iled called for dmth. The Church ol
Christ is developed under Ihe same
Covenant under which the Master
qualified, which reads: "Gather My
saints together unto Me; those that
in His R.
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re to leign w ii h Him
in the resunection, o>u bke," ho added, "to thin'. J
I wish you success, and it will he!'.
you to work, John, you may surely do
so. 'But we sue young—5011 and 1 —
and Frederick—to think of mar­
riage !"
in the third winter news came of
another bereavement—news through
a firm of Manchester solicitoia, wlr
added the information that a small
fortune now devolved upon her, IK..
though folk noticed that she wor.
mourning, and heard it was for an
unole, sihe held her peace about th
money, and no one was the wiser to"
she lived her life as before.
"Evening, John," said Lowburn.
with Lowburn during his stay in the
modern Athens, always writing as a
sister migtht, even as she sipoke to
Whalley, ithe plodding sta-at-home.
But ever the news of his increasing
success contrasted with the apparent
standstill of John's affairs; who since
that memorable day upon the beacon
hill spoke to her with a reserve that
resen? lVx, t 1 diffidence.
Yet now Lowburn was comin.g to
Gisworth, Hester felt no enthusiasm.
It had already begun to snow (light­
ly after noon, and toward sunset,
when Lowland arrived, Hushed with
his walk.
"At last, Hester!" he said, taking
and retaining her hand. "This is the
moment I have worked tor!"
'His eyes drank in her 'beauty. The
girl he had known had developed int >
a calm, clear-eyed woman.
And after tea, tete-a-tete with ITes-
j ter, he unfolded the story of his do-
, ings, reserving for the last the 'im-
for us, that they without us should n
be made perfect." By this the Apostle 1
signifies thnt the Church must be per- 1
fected On the Heavenly plane prior to '
God's fulfilment of His promises to the '
Ancient Worthies on the earthly plane '
-Hebrews 11:1.'S. 40.
The better resurrection of the An-,
cient Worthies will be to human perfec- j
tion, to be used by Messiah as earthly
mediately to become a partner in his
firm.
"But, Hester, there is one thing
wanted to crown it. I want to take you
'I-p.ck with me, one day. You would be
hanpy there, in \our true element.
And I should be happy with such a
wile bes'.de me Will you trust m^
win >owrsplf?"
He took her hand, not noticing tlr
reluctance with which she allowed
him to keep it in his grasp, and the
next moment shf leaped to her feet.
"1 hear John '\.\al'ey's *" > '
"though .it's a surprise. I called in to
fallen asleep must needs be awakened.
Then the world's resurrection program
will begin. It will include the pro­
gressive steps of uplifting out of sin
"It ahout the Pilkingtons, Hester
I've just been there to see Tom—
vou've heard he's ill. His wife has
her hands full, nursing him, and to-
BANISHES ETHER DANGER
ignorance, imperfection, back to God's , night's the crisis. She'd feel a lot
image and likeness. Only the wilfully ; happier and able to do everything if
wicked shall ultimately be destroyed ] kittle Lottie could sleep somewhere
in the Second Death. '• el ' se safely. I said you'd have her—
Then every creature in Heaven and j ! felt sure you would."
earth, everywhere, will be beard say- ' "Decidely, John. I'm very glad you
ing, "Praise, glory, honor, dominion , said so."
and might, be unto Him that sitteth , Hester was strangely stirred. With
upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb the two men before iier—the one with
forever." \ the 'Polish ond breeding of tbe town,
the other wind tanned, suggestive ol
fresh air—she knew instinctively that
they differed in every fiber.
Frederick Lowburn, obviously, knew
what he wanted. He was the sort of
man who would always know what he
wanted.
But John Whalley would always
know what others desired; he would
always understand what she desired.
Two boys, breathless, appeared at
the door.
"We want Mestur Whalley! Two o'
Pilkington's sheep are deouwn t'
quarry. 'Me an' my brother's seen
'em. Mrs. Pilkington towd us as he
were here, an' ihe'd see to it."
"That's bad," 'said Whalley. "I'd
better go. Poor Pilkington can't al-
t'o d 10 lose anything just now, and
the poor animals might gee lamed
Perhaps, Low bum, you'd like to come
and help."
"No, thanks!" was the reply. "Not
quite my forte, \ou know. You'll man­
age all right You'll be in your ele­
ment "
Hosier lollowed to the door, and
looked out into the moorland night
When she came back into the room
she wore her cloak and Tarn o'Shan-
ter hat
'[ am going to the quany hm'.,
she said and was gone.
Hciug a little taken by su'puse.
Lowburn was slow in setting out, an I
could not overtake her lie knew the
nith as well as she, and so armed
in time to see the little drama pla>ed
out which relegated to him a small
part.
l r p the steep, shehing sides of the
quarry John Wl\j.llo.y was climbing
slowh, thrusting before him a dun
shape winch ever and anon bleated
plaintively On the brink stood lie.-,
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lee around a ship sufficient for the
safe launching of small boats. Accord­
ing to this authority, nine pints oi od
are sufficient to calm a sepia; e mi.e
of water, and, incredible as it may at)
pear, one drop will calm seven square
feet! The oil spreads out over the
surface of the sea in a film which ha:-'
the almost unimaginable thickne&i o
two mil'liont'hs of a millimeter, jet it
holds in leash t'he mighty power 01 the
ocean. When this film of oil spre,
over the surface the heaping-up
tion of the wate/, which lesults in nie I
formation first of ripples and then of!
waves cannot take pi ice. The thinnc.
tlhe film the greater is its effect in
pulling down the crests of the wave
and making a lower wave line, free
from break.
That all leading nations are prepar­
ing to make the use of oil at sea com­
pulsory is indicated 'by the London
board of trade's statutory rules and
orders regarding life-saving appliances
on \essels. The rules novv piovide
that, in all cla oes of iorei,?n-goin-
ships, lifeboats shall be equipped with
one gallon of oil and a \essel of ap­
proved pattern for distributing it in
rough weather. The calming action of
the oil on water has been mathemati­
cally demonstrated.
In nearly every instance where oil
is used on the Great Lakes, the cap­
tains let it drip through the waste
pipes both foiwaid and aft. Some oi
the masters claim excellent results
from dripping oil through a short
piece o deck hose run through tne
"muter or chocks, forward. Many Liko
men think 'thai thes-e two method
are as sufficient as the use of oil hac>
and are much easier to put into op-
peration. One steamer has a circular ,
tank in the fore peak with pipes lead-'
ing from each side of tiac Low. When
oil is to be used weights are applied t
to a piston in the tank, thus forcing
the oil by pressure further from the
side of the vessel.
The few possible variations in the
method of distributing oil overboard
makes its use a simple matter for any
vessel. 'No expensive or intricate gear
is required and the oil can be applied
to the water with* very little loss or'
time.
'Many captains 'have saved lives 011
the lakes by dying to winward of a
steamer in distress and letting out a
little oil, which enabjed them to
launch small boats and transfer the
crew and passengers. A small scaoon-
er that was in town of a steam barge
went down under the crew, ho took
to the yawl boat; but there as such
a big sea that the steam barge could
not pick up the yawl. The mate too\
an oil can and make two heaving
lines fast to it, letting it diift oft to
leeward toward the yawl. There were
several gallons of oil in the can and
the oil flowed over the water and
knocked down the sea to such an ex­
tent that the yawl was able to reach
tine steamer, and the crew was hoisted
aboard
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