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Volume
23
Number
19
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SEPT£I4BEIl 
15, 
1902 
ZION'S 
WATCH 
TOWER 
(291-292\ 
2: 
19-21) 
The 
Apostle 
assures 
us 
that 
the 
church 
is 
the 
temple 
of 
God, 
amI 
that 
It 
is 
the 
body 
of 
Christ 
under 
Jesus 
its 
Head. 
Various 
agencIes 
have 
been 
m 
antagonism 
with 
the 
church, 
Head 
and 
body 
for 
the 
two 
days 
mentioned, 
the 
fifth 
thousand 
year 
period 
and 
the 
sixth 
thousand 
year 
period, 
and 
it 
still 
continues 
while 
we 
are 
in 
the 
beginning 
of 
the 
seventh 
period; 
but 
the 
Lord's 
promise 
is 
that 
now 
shortly 
the 
temple, 
the 
church, 
his 
body, 
shall 
be 
complete 
and 
he 
will 
raise 
it 
up, 
raise 
it 
from 
ruin, 
raise 
it 
to 
the 
perfection 
and 
glory 
of 
the 
Millennial 
kingdom. 
It 
is 
in 
harmony 
with 
this 
that 
we 
may 
recognize 
the 
church 
with 
her 
Lord 
as 
be- 
ing 
a 
part 
of 
the 
bread 
which 
God 
is 
preparing. 
Our 
Lord 
Jesus 
was 
the 
bread 
which 
came 
down 
from 
heaven, 
and 
we 
have 
partaken 
of 
hIm, 
of 
hIS 
ment, 
and 
have 
been 
thereby 
transformed; 
and 
we, 
as 
the 
Apostle 
declares, 
have 
become 
part 
of 
the 
one 
loaf, 
the 
one 
bread, 
and 
we 
also, 
as 
part 
('f 
tl!e 
one 
bread, 
are 
being 
broken 
with 
our 
Lord, 
and 
thus 
in­ 
dIrectly 
this 
preparation 
of 
the 
church 
and 
her 
association 
with 
her 
Lord 
are 
represented 
in 
the 
three 
days 
victualling 
which 
is 
provided 
for 
the 
world 
of 
mankind, 
and 
necessary 
to 
them 
before 
they 
can 
pass 
over 
Jordan 
and 
enter 
llIto 
the 
Millennial 
Canaan. 
VOL. 
XXIII 
ALLEGHENY, 
PA., 
OCTOBER 
1, 
1902 
No. 
19 
VIEWS 
FROM 
THE 
WATCH 
TOWER 
BLINDNESS 
GRADUALLY 
COMING 
OVER 
NOMINAL 
keep 
closed 
or 
sealed 
because 
of 
its 
iniquity 
or 
infamy. 
Then 
CHRISTf~~MFR~~ 
Fi::J>ll!~iAlLURNING 
you 
are 
in 
hell 
now; 
in 
the 
hell 
where 
men 
skulk 
and 
start 
and 
fail; 
in 
the 
hell 
where 
the 
limbs 
tremble 
and 
the 
heart 
Is 
it 
not 
remaIkable 
that 
as 
nominal 
tlpuitual 
Israel 
thumps 
and 
the 
flesh 
creeps 
and 
the 
teeth 
chatter 
and 
the 
begins 
to 
stumble 
into 
unbelief 
over 
"the 
stone 
of 
stumbling" 
blood 
runs 
cold 
and 
the 
hair 
stands 
on 
end, 
the 
heart 
stops 
-rejectIng 
the 
ransom-sacrifice 
of 
Chris~the 
Jews, 
Israel 
and 
the 
cold 
sweat 
overpours 
the 
face." 
after 
the 
flesh, 
begin 
to 
get 
glimpses 
of 
Jesus 
such 
as 
they 
nave 
never 
before 
had? 
Note 
the 
following 
eulogistic 
ex- 
JEWISH 
HOPES 
RESPECTING 
PALESTINE 
pressions 
respecting 
our 
Lord, 
from 
the 
lips 
of 
eminent 
Jews 
The 
JewIsh 
Exponent 
furnishes 
the 
following 
information: 
of 
our 
day:- 
The 
failure 
to 
secure 
satisfactory 
terms 
from 
the 
Sultan 
of 
"I 
regard 
Jesus 
of 
Nazareth 
as 
a 
Jew 
of 
the 
Jews, 
one 
Turkey, 
as 
noted 
recently 
in 
these 
columns, 
is 
felt 
keenly 
whom 
all 
Jewish 
people 
are 
learning 
to 
love."-Isadore 
but 
has 
not 
discouraged 
the 
leaders. 
tlinger, 
Editor 
of 
Jewish 
Encyclopedia. 
"Dr. 
Herzl 
set 
forth 
the 
standpoint 
of 
the 
Zionists 
aIHI 
"Jesus 
wus 
the 
gentlest 
and 
noblest 
rabbi 
of 
them 
all. 
formulated 
the 
conditions 
of 
Jewish 
settlements 
in 
a' 
self­ 
In 
Jesus 
there 
is 
the 
very 
flowering 
of 
Judaism."-Henry 
contained 
I?art 
of 
Palestine 
and 
in 
other 
parts 
of 
Asia 
l\Iinor, 
Berkowitz, 
Rabbi 
of 
Rodeph 
Shalam 
Congregation, 
Pennsyl· 
on 
the 
baSIS 
of 
a 
Charter. 
vania. 
"These 
proposals 
were 
carefully 
-considered 
from 
the 
"Jesus 
is 
soul 
of 
our 
soul, 
as 
He 
is 
flesh 
of 
our 
flesh. 
Turkish 
side. 
Through 
his 
representatives 
the 
Sultan 
de­ 
Who, 
then, 
could 
think 
of 
excluding 
him 
from 
the 
people 
of 
e1ared 
his 
fullest 
sympathy 
for 
the 
JewiSh 
people; 
but 
the 
Israel 
?"-Max 
Nordau, 
1\1. 
D., 
Paris, 
France. 
concessions 
which 
His 
Majesty 
expressed 
himself 
ready 
to 
"Even 
the 
most 
conscientious 
Jew 
may, 
without 
hesita- 
make 
for 
a 
Jewish 
settlement 
could 
not 
be 
considered 
ade­ 
tion, 
Iecogmze 
in 
view 
of 
the 
immense 
effect 
and 
success 
of 
quate 
according 
to 
our 
Zionist 
program. 
The 
negotiations 
His 
life, 
that 
Jesus 
has 
become 
a 
figure 
of 
the 
highest 
order 
have 
thus, 
this 
time 
also, 
remained 
without 
result. 
Never· 
in 
the 
history 
of 
religion. 
The 
fact 
that 
Jesus 
was 
a 
Jew 
theless, 
the 
Sultan 
caused 
Dr. 
Herzl 
to 
be 
assured 
of 
his 
es· 
should, 
I 
think 
in 
our 
eyes, 
rather 
help 
than 
hinder 
the 
ac- 
teem 
and 
sympathy. 
The 
relations 
have 
in 
no 
way 
been 
knowledgment 
of 
his 
high 
significance."-N. 
Porges, 
Ph. 
D., 
broken 
off. 
On 
the 
contrary, 
we 
may 
bope 
that 
the 
advan­ 
l{abbi, 
Leipsig, 
Germany. 
tages 
which 
a 
regular 
and 
legally 
guarantecd 
settlemer,t 
of 
"\Ve 
Jews 
honor 
and 
revere 
Jesus 
as 
we 
do 
our 
own 
Jews 
present 
according 
to 
our 
program, 
will 
be 
recognized 
prophets 
who 
preceded 
him."-J~cob 
H. 
Schiff, 
New 
York 
by 
the 
Turkish 
Government 
to 
their 
full 
extent. 
City. 
"For 
that 
moment 
the 
Zionist 
oIganizations 
must 
be 
pre- 
'''1 
am 
of 
the 
opinion 
that 
we 
should 
endeavor 
with 
all 
pared: 
the 
agitation 
must 
be 
carried 
on 
incessantly, 
and 
the 
possible 
zeal 
to 
obtain 
an 
exact 
understanding 
of 
the 
great 
material 
means 
must 
be 
collected. 
The 
more 
efficient 
our 
personality 
of 
Jesus, 
and 
to 
reclaim 
him 
for 
Judaism."-M. 
movement, 
becomes, 
the 
more 
speedily 
and 
surely 
will 
it 
Lanrus, 
Ph. 
D., 
Professor 
of 
Philas 
University 
of 
Berlin. 
reach 
its 
goal. 
"If 
he 
(Jesus) 
has 
added 
to 
their 
spiritual 
bequests 
new 
"It 
is 
rumored 
that 
the 
Actions 
Comite 
of 
the 
Zionist 
jewels 
of 
religion, 
truth 
and 
spoken 
words, 
which 
are 
words 
movement 
in 
Vienna 
is 
now 
seriouRlv 
considering 
thl' 
pro· 
of 
life, 
because 
they 
touch 
the 
deepest 
springs 
of 
the 
human 
position 
to 
hold 
the 
next 
Zionist 
Congress 
in 
Ncw 
York. 
heart. 
why 
should 
not 
Jews 
glory 
in 
him 
?"-Gustav 
Gott- 
The 
question 
will 
probably 
be 
decided 
upon 
at 
the 
October 
heil. 
Ph. 
D., 
Rabbi 
Emeritus 
of 
Temple 
Emanuel, 
New 
York. 
meeting 
of 
the 
comite. 
H\Ve 
want 
our 
children 
to 
know 
that 
in 
Jesus 
of 
Nazar- 
"Lord 
Salisbury 
is 
credited 
with 
hd.vinO' 
said 
on 
the 
eth, 
Judaism 
produced 
one 
of 
the 
most 
beautiful 
types 
of 
Zionist 
solution. 
'It 
is 
a 
question 
of 
sixty 
pc~ 
cent; 
if 
sixty 
humanity, 
one 
of 
the 
world's 
greatest 
teachers."-Dr. 
K. 
per 
cent 
of 
the 
Jews 
desire 
Palestine, 
thpy 
will 
get 
it.' 
It 
Kohler, 
New 
York. 
IS, 
however, 
rumorcd 
that 
Lord 
Rothschild, 
impressed 
by 
A 
MINISTER 
ENCOURAGES 
HIS 
FLOCK 
the 
Alien 
Immigration 
Commission-which 
whpn 
it 
aO'ain 
Rev. 
Dr. 
Reid, 
of 
Watertown, 
thus 
explains 
to 
his 
people 
~eets, 
will. 
sit 
in 
Soho, 
the 
French 
quarte; 
of 
the 
metr~po­ 
the 
present 
status 
of 
the 
doctrine 
of 
hell, 
and 
meantime 
gives 
lIs-and 
Ius 
conversations 
with 
Dr. 
Her",l 
will 
lpad 
in 
a 
us 
a 
suggestion 
of 
how 
impious 
he 
considers 
his 
congregation 
movement 
for 
the 
settlement 
of 
a 
large 
number 
of 
RURsian 
of 
"saints" 
to 
really 
be 
at 
heart. 
He 
evidently 
knows 
"his 
J.ews 
in 
lands, 
as 
Disraeli 
put 
it, 
'in 
propinquity' 
to 
Pales­ 
sheep" 
to 
be 
downright 
hypocrites. 
He 
says, 
as 
reported, 
evi- 
tIlle, 
and 
at 
present 
under 
the 
British 
flag. 
Whcn 
his 
lord­ 
dently 
by 
himself, 
in 
the 
public 
press:- 
ship 
will 
move, 
or 
whether 
at 
all, 
a 
short 
few 
months 
should 
"The 
age 
of 
religious 
barbarism 
is 
past. 
Science, 
the 
ac- 
tell, 
but 
from 
excellent 
sources 
I 
know 
that 
he 
has 
some 
centuation 
of 
the 
Fatherhood 
of 
God, 
man's 
moral 
nature 
such 
scheme 
in 
mind, 
and 
that 
the 
details 
are 
being 
investi­ 
:md 
spiritual 
experience 
make 
the 
hypothesis 
of 
a 
material 
gatea 
on 
his 
behalf. 
hell 
incredible. 
The 
world 
would 
cast 
out 
the 
preacher 
who 
"Lord 
Rothschild 
has 
heretofore 
held 
outwardly 
a 
most 
would 
dare 
to 
repeat 
today 
the 
message 
of 
.Tonathan 
Ea- 
impartial 
attitude 
on 
all 
solutions, 
and 
whilst 
steering 
clear 
wards, 
that 
the 
view 
of 
the 
miseries 
of 
the 
damned 
would 
of 
Zionism 
has 
let 
it 
be 
known 
that 
he 
does 
not 
view 
attacks 
double 
the 
ardor 
of 
the 
love 
and. 
gratitude 
of 
the 
saints 
in 
upon 
the 
movement 
with 
favor. 
Hence 
the 
idea 
he 
is 
study­ 
heaven. 
ir' 
may 
prove 
one 
that 
,vill 
unite 
all 
partic", 
and 
with 
I;is 
"Yet 
there 
is 
a 
hell. 
Yet 
there 
are 
lost 
souls. 
Yet 
the 
name 
at 
the 
back 
of 
it 
there 
would 
be 
no 
finanCIal 
diffi- 
guiltv 
do 
go 
into 
everlasting 
punishment. 
culties." 
"You 
are 
in 
hell 
when 
you 
cannot 
look 
your 
fellow 
crea- 
STARTLING 
STATEMENT 
IN 
NEW 
YORK 
PULPIT 
ture 
in 
the 
face 
because 
of 
the 
wrong 
you 
have 
done 
him; 
New 
York. 
Rept. 
7.-Th(' 
Rev. 
Dr. 
R. 
S. 
MacArthur, 
at 
in 
hell 
when 
you 
would 
like 
to 
wring 
your 
own 
neck; 
in 
the 
IOOth 
meeting 
in 
the 
Evangel 
tent 
today, 
assailed 
the 
hell 
when 
you 
do 
not 
have 
a 
word 
to 
say 
for 
yourself, 
but 
doctrine 
of 
baptism. 
He 
declared 
that 
the 
dropping 
of 
water 
arc 
struck 
dumb 
by 
the 
consciomness 
of 
your 
own 
meanness 
on 
an 
infnnt 
at 
birth 
was 
heathenism, 
and 
that 
the 
idea 
that 
and 
arrogance 
and 
basenesA. 
You 
are 
in 
hell 
when 
envy, 
Gmi 
would 
forever 
condemn 
an 
innocent 
but 
unbaptized 
babe 
hatred 
and 
malice 
hold 
carnival 
in 
your 
heart; 
in 
hell 
when 
makPR 
Him 
a 
tyrant. 
you 
know 
that 
yOU 
are 
not 
telling 
the 
whOle 
truth; 
in 
hell 
That 
utterance, 
coming 
from 
Dr. 
MacArthur, 
had 
a 
won­ 
with 
all 
your 
lies, 
losses. 
and 
perversions 
and 
distortions 
of 
derful 
effect 
on 
his 
hearers. 
They 
rose 
to 
their 
feet 
and 
the 
truth. 
Perhaps 
there 
is 
a 
chapter 
in 
your 
lives 
that 
you 
applaud('d 
wildly. 
The 
spene 
was 
st'riking. 
[3081] 
SEPTEMBER 15, 1902 2:19-21) The Apostle assures us that the church is the temple of God, and that it is the body of Christ under Jesus its Head. Various agencies have been in antagonism with the church, Head and body for the two days mentioned, the fifth thousand year period and the sixth thousand year period, and it still continues while we are in the beginning of the seventh period; but the Lord's promise is that now shortly the temple, the church, his body, shall be complete and he will raise it up, raise it from ruin, raise it to the perfection and glory of the Millennial kingdom. It is in harmony with this that we may recognize the church with her Lord as be ZION’S WATCH TOWER (291-292) ing a part of the bread which God is preparing. Our Lord Jesus was the bread which came down from heaven, and we have partaken of him, of his merit, and have been thereby transformed; and we, as the Apostle declares, have become part of the one loaf, the one bread, and we also, as part cf the one bread, are being broken with our Lord, and thus indirectly this preparation of the church and her association with her Lord are represented in the three days victualling which is provided for the world of mankind, and necessary to them before they can pass over Jordan and enter into the Millennial Canaan. Vou. XXIII ALLEGHENY, PA., OCTOBER 1, 1902 No. 19 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER BLINDNESS GRADUALLY COMING OVER NOMINAL CHRISTENDOM AND GRADUALLY TURNING AWAY FROM FLESHLY ISRAEL Is it not remaikable that as nominal Spiritual Israel begins to stumble into unbelief over “the stone of stumbling” —rejecting the ransom-sacrifice of Christ—the Jews, Israel after the flesh, begin to get glimpses of Jesus such as they nave never before had? Note the following eulogistic expressions respecting our Lord, from the lips of eminent Jews of our day:— “I regard Jesus of Nazareth as a Jew of the Jews, one whom all Jewish people are learning to love.”—Isadore Singer, Editor of Jewish Encyclopedia. “Jesus was the gentlest and noblest rabbi of them all. In Jesus there ig the very flowering of Judaism.”-——Henry Berkowitz, Rabbi of Rodeph Shalam Congregation, Pennsylvania. “Jesus is soul of our soul, as He is flesh of our flesh. Who, then, could think of excluding him from the people of israel ?’—-Max Nordau, M. D., Paris, France. “Even the most conscientious Jew may, without hesitation, recognize in view of the immense effect and success of His life, that Jesus has become a figure of the highest order in the history of religion. The fact that Jesus was a Jew should, I think in our eyes, rather help than hinder the acknowledgment of his high significance.”—N. Porges, Ph. D., Rabbi, Leipsig, Germany. “We Jews honor and revere Jesus as we do our own prophets who preceded him.”——Jacob H. Schiff, New York City. “I am of the opinion that we should endeavor with all possible zeal to obtain an exact understanding of the great personality of Jesus, and to reclaim him for Judaism.”—M. Lazarus, Ph. D., Professor of Philas University of Berlin. “Tf he (Jesus) has added to their spiritual bequests new jewels of religion, truth and spoken words, which are words of life, because they touch the deepest springs of the human heart. why should not Jews glory in him?”’—Gustav Gottheil, Ph. D., Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Emanuel, New York. “We want our children to know that in Jesus of Nazareth, Judaism produced one of the most beautiful types of humanity, one of the world’s greatest teachers.”—Dr. K. Kohler, New York. A MINISTER ENCOURAGES HIS FLOCK Rev. Dr. Reid, of Watertown, thus explains to his people the present status of the doctrine of hell, and meantime gives us a suggestion of how impious he considers his congregation of “saints” to really be at heart. He evidently knows “his sheep” to be downright hypocrites. He says, as reported, evidently by himself, in the public press:— “The age of religious barbarism is past. Science, the accentuation of the Fatherhood of God, man’s moral nature and spiritual experience make the hypothesis of a material hell incredible. The world would cast out the preacher who would dare to repeat today the message of Jonathan Hdwards, that the view of the miseries of the damned would double the ardor of the love and gratitude of the saints in heaven. “Yet there is a hell. Yet there are lost souls. guilty do go into everlasting punishment. “You are in hell when you cannot look your fellow creature in the face because of the wrong you have done him; in hell when you would like to wring your own neck; in hell when you do not have a word to say for yourself, but are struck dumb bv the consciousness of your own meanness and arrogance and baseness. You are in hell when envy, hatred and malice hold carnival in your heart; in hell when you know that vou are not telling the whole truth; in hell with all your lies, losses and perversions and distortions of the truth. Perhaps there is a chapter in your lives that you Yet the keep closed or sealed because of its iniquity or infamy. Then you are in hell now; in the hell where men skulk and start and fail; in the hell where the limbs tremble and the heart thumps and the flesh creeps and the teeth chatter and the blood runs cold and the hair stands on end, the heart stops and the cold sweat overpours the face.” JEWISH HOPES RESPECTING PALESTINE The Jewish Exponent furnishes the following information: The failure to secure satisfactory terms from the Sultan of Turkey, as noted recently in these columns, is felt keenly but has not discouraged the leaders. “Dr. Herzl set forth the standpoint of the Zionists, and formulated the conditions of Jewish settlements in a selfcontained part of Palestine and in other parts of Asia Minor, on the basis of a Charter. “These proposals were carefully -considered from the Turkish side. Through his representatives the Sultan declared his fullest sympathy for the Jewish people; but the concessions which His Majesty expressed himself ready to make for a Jewish settlement could not be considered adequate according to our Zionist program. The negotiations have thus, this time also, remained without result. Nevertheless, the Sultan caused Dr. Herzl to be assured of his esteem and sympathy. The relations have in no way been broken off. On the contrary, we may hope that the advantages which a regular and legally guaranteed settlement of Jews present according to our program, will be recognized by the Turkish Government to their full extent. “For that moment the Zionist organizations must be prepared; the agitation must be carried on incessantly, and the material means must be collected. The more efficient our movement, becomes, the more speedily and surely will it reach its goal. “Jt is rumored that the Actions Comite of the Zionist movement in Vienna is now seriously considering the proposition to hold the next Zionist Congress in New York. The question will probably be decided upon at the October meeting of the comite. “Lord Salisbury is credited with having said on the Zionist solution. ‘It is a question of sixty per cent; if sixty per cent of the Jews desire Palestine, they will get it’ It is, however, rumored that Lord Rothschild, impressed by the Alien Immigration Commission—which, when it again meets, will sit in Soho, the French quarter of the metropolis—and his conversations with Dr. Herz] will lead in a movement for the settlement of a large number of Russian Jews in lands, as Disraeli put it, ‘in propinquity’ to Palestine, and at present under the British flag. When his lordship will move, or whether at all, a short few months should tell, but from excellent sources I know that he has some such scheme in mind, and that the details are being investigated on his behalf. “Lord Rothschild has heretofore held outwardly a most impartial attitude on all solutions, and whilst steering clear of Zionism has let it be known that he does not view attacks upon the movement with favor. Hence the idea he is studyir' may prove one that will unite all parties, and with his name at the back of it there would be no financial difficulties.” STARTLING STATEMENT IN NEW YORK PULPIT New York, Sept. 7—The Rev. Dr. R. 8. MacArthur, at the 100th mecting in the Evangel tent today, assailed the doctrine of baptism. He declared that the dropping of water on an infant at birth was heathenism, and that the idea that God would forever condemn an innocent but unbaptized babe makes Him a tyrant. That utterance, coming from Dr. MacArthur, had a wonderful effect on his hearers. They rose to their feet and applauded wildly. The scene was striking. [3081]

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