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OCTOB:£R
15.
1903
ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
(399--403)
10m,
the
disrespectful,
ungrateful,
disobedient
son,
selfish,
ava·
ricious
and
grasping,
came
to
a
disgraceful
end
in
the
prime
of
life,
and
marks
a
lesson
to
his
kind.
On
the
other
hand
Solomon,
the
peaceful,
the
good,
the
wise
son,
attained
to
the
kingdom,
and
attained
to
it,
too,
with
his
father's
blessing
and
the
divine
favor.
REV.
DR.
MORGAN
SAYS
HE
IS
NOT
AN
INFIDEL
"I
preached
this
summer
in
Fifth
Avenue
church
New
York,
a
series
of
sermons
on
some
of
the
saying
of
the
Gospel
of
John.
When
I
came
to
deal
with
the
death
of
Christ,
I
began
by
saying
that
it
brought
me
face
to
face
with
a
moral
mystery;
that
unless
there
was
some
explanation
of
that
tragic
ending
of
a
pure
life,
it
was
the
most
terrible
reflection
on
the
government
of
God,
and
would
make
me
an
infidel.
The
whole
sermon
was
to
answer
that
position
and
to
show
how
the
death
of
Christ
reveals
the
infinite
goodness
of
God.
But
next
morning
I
saw
in
the
New
York
Journal
a
flaming
head
line:
"'DR.
MORGAN
PUZZLED
ABOUT
THE
DEATH
OF
CHRIST:
SAYS
THA'£
THERI':
IS
A
MORAL
MYSTERY
IN
IT,
AND
IT
MAKES
HIM
AN
INFIDEL.'
"This
was
copied
into
religious
'periodicals,
and
ever
since
I
have
been
receiving
letters
explaming
the
death
of
Christ.
In
faet,
the
cutting
has
been
sent
to
me
three
times
within
the
last
two
weeks
by
people
in
England."
*
*
*
ZION'S
'VATCH
TOWER,
having
circulated
the
error,
takes
pleasure
in
correcting
it.
It
is
always
difficult
to
choose
words
which
the
worldly
cannot
misconstrue,
and
doubtless
this
illustration
will
make
Doctor
Morgan,
and
us
all,
more
careful
than
ever
to
avoid
expressions
subject
to
such
distor
tion.
On
the
other
hand
we
are
glad
that
in
this
day
of
"falling
away"
from
the
faith
there
were
still
numerous
re
ligious
journals
ready
to
proteet
against
such
teachings
in
pulpits
dedicated
to
God.
VOL.
XXIV
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
NOVEMBER
1,1903
No.
21
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
A
BIBLE
LEAGUE
"A
'Bihle
Leug-ue'
has
been
organized
in
the
Methodir;t
Epis
copal
church,
with
the
avowed
purpose
of
driving
out
destruct
ive
Higher
Oriticism.
Its
president
is
Bishop
Mallalieu,
and
the
promoters
hope
to
establish
branches
in
every
Methodist
Conference
in
the
country."-Exchange.
Weare
glad
to
see
that
the
situation
is
being
partially
realized.
It
is
much
more
dangerous
than
many
might
be
willing
to
believe.
No
words
can
more
graphically
describe
the
results
than
the
words
of
Scripture
themselves,
viz.:
"A
thou
sand
frlhall
fall
at
thy
side."
(Psa.
91:7)
A
thousand
to
fall
to
one
who
will
stand
means
a
great
"falling
away"
from
faith.
Our
Master's
question
is
pertinent
here,
"When
the
Son
of
Man
cometh
[at
his
r;econd
advent]
shall
he
find
faith
on
the
earth
1"
The
cleavage
or
separation
on
this
subject
can
only
result
favorably
so
far
as
the
gathering
of
the
Lord's
"jewels"
is
concerned.
Those
who
will
cling
to
the
Bible
honestly
and
intelligently
will
give
it
more
careful
examination
than
ever.
And
their
longings
will
not
be
satisfied
by
the
interpretations
and
creeds
of
the
dark
ages,
ruled
by
superstition
and
the
spirit
of
persecution.
Nothing
short
of
"the
faith
once
delivered
to
the
saints,"
which
now
rejoices
our
hearts
with
its
lengths
and
breadths
and
heights
and
depths
of
divine
love
and
provi
sion,
will
satisfy
them.
These
will
he
but
a
"little
flock"
in
all,
however.
We
will
be
glad
to
greet
Bp.
Mallalieu
among
them,
but
we
do
not
forget
the
Apostle's
words,
that
not
many
rich
or
great
or
noble
are
being
chosen
now,
but
chiefly
the
poor
and
ignoble,
rICh
in
faith,
to
be
heirs
of
the
kingdom.
That
the
battle
above
referred
to
has
commenced
is
shown
by
the
press
dispatach:-
"CHICAGO,
SEPTEMBER
10.
"The
Outlook,
an
official
publication
of
the
Methodist
denomination,
has
made
a
sensational
attack
upon
the
Metho
dist
universities.
That
the
doctrines
of
"Tom"
Paine
are
being
taught
by
Dr.
Milton
S.
Terry,
professor
of
Theology
in
Garrett
Biblical
Institute,
and
by
Dr.
Hinckley
G.
Mitchell,
of
the
Boston
University
School
of
Theology,
is
the
charge.
Methodists
are
advised
not
to
send
their
sons
and
daughters
to
schools
'where
such
teachers
are
allowed
to
remain
on
the
faculty.'
"
golden
hours
of
childhood
given
specially
to
studying
the
Roman
Catholic
Catechism.
In
no
sense
is
it
a
movement
to
curb
the
freedom
of
thtl
Roman
Catholic
conscience
to
believe
and
teach
as
it
pleases
outside
the
public
schools.
This
warfare
is
so
absorbing
to
the
French
that
other
questions
are
no
more
than
secondary.
The
clerical
party
would
even
favor
war
in
hope
of
reviving
monarchy.
In
England
a
very
similar
question
is
before
the
public
mind.
Parliament
has
recently
put
the
control
of
public-school
education
into
the
hands
of
the
church
(Episcopal),
and
other
denominations
are
fearful
of
the
results.
In
Austro-Hungary
partisanism
runs
high.
Both
nations
desire
to
exercise
controlling
influence,
yet
both
realize
that
division
would
injure
both
dreadfully.
They
maintain
a
union
of
hatred
and
bitterness
that
bodes
an
open
warfare
at
the
opportune
moment.
Russia,
according
to
the
London
Times,
is
keeping
from
general
publicity
her
dreadful
internal
disorders,
which
may
eventually
force
her
into
war
to
offset
the
restless
spirit
and
give
it
employment.
It
says
in
part:-
"The
murderous
assault
made
on
Prince
Urussoff
by
the
peasants
of
his
estate,
in
the
province
of
Tchernigoff,
has
its
parallel
in
the
similar
crime
perpetrated
on
the
person
of
Prince
Gargarin,
his
wife,
and
their
guest,
Prince
Sherbatoff,
in
the
province
of
Riazan,
hundreds
of
miles
further
north.
The
governor
of
the
province
of
Ufa
has
been
murdered
under
the
shadow
of
the
Ural!.';
and
the
prisons
of
St.
Petersburg
are
filled
with
political
prisoners,
who
largely
belong
to
that
most
dangerous
of
all
classes,
the
intellectual
proletariat.
The
very
forces
of
the
state
are
not
themselves
untainted.
There
were
military
trials
at
Moscow
not
many
weeks
since
for
revo
lutionary
agitation
in
the
army,
and
it
is
even
alleged
that
several
members
of
the
crew
of
the
imperial
yacht,
including
some
non-commissioned
officers,
are
at
present
in
detention
in
the
capital
for
being
in
possession
of
forbidden
literature
on
board
the
Standart,
(the
Czar's
yacht)
herself.
"The
government
appears
to
have
been
attempting
to
prac
tice
a
double
policy
toward
the
labor
movement,
which
now
for
the
first
time
is
growing
conscious
of
its
strength.
On
the
one
hand.
M.
Witte
seems
to
have
attempted
more
than
two
years
GENERAL
UNREST
PREVAILS
ago
to
solve
the
problem
by
discovering
the
real
wants
and
wishes
of
the
artisans
and
factory
hands.
As
the
result
of
a
con-
"Prepare
war,
wake
up
the
mighty
men,
let
all
the
men
of
ference
instituted
on
his
suggestion,
the
men
obtained
the
right
war
draw
near
j
let
them
come
up:
Beat
your
plow
shares
into
to
elect
spokesmen
who
might
confer
with
the
manufacturers
swords,
and
your
pruning
hooks
into
spears
j
let
the
weak
say,
and
government
inspectors.
But
the
new
scheme
has
not
been
I
am
strong."-Joel
3
:9-16.
fairly
applied,
while
a
childish
attempt
has
been
made
by
the
The
whole
world
is
growing
restless-preparing
to
fulfil
reactionaries
to
convince
the
working-men
that
their
best
the
above
prophecy,
of
which
we
quote
only
the
introduction.
friends
are
the
bureaucrats
and
their
worst
enemies
the
enlig-ht
The
people
of
Macedonia
and
Bulgaria
are
impatient
of
the
ened
middle
clnsses.
In
several
cases
the
men
have
elected
Turkish
rule,
and
fomenting
rebellion
and
bringing
upon
them·
their
representatives,
only
to
see
them
subjected
to
summary
selves
the
brutal
vengeance
of
their
rulers-the
only
kind
of
arrest,
while
any
combined
action
by
the
men
employed
in
reprisal
and
suppression
known
to
the
Ottoman.
different
factories
is
severely
punished.
On
the
other
hand
France
is
still
in
a
warfare
with
the
secret
orders
of
the
the
secret
police
of
St.
Petersburg
have
been
endeavoring
to
Roman
Catholic
church,
in
an
attempt
to
free
the
rising
gen-
educate
the
workmen
in
loyalty
to
the
existing
institutions
of
eration
from
the
incubus
of
superstition,
which
it
realizes
has
the
country
by
telling
them
that
the
French
Revolution
led
for
years
been
opposing
the
Republic
by
misrepresentations
of
merely
to
the
triumph
of
the
bourgeois,
bought
by
the
blood
of
the
facts
of
history.
In
a
word,
the
French
Government
is
the
proletariat,
and
that
the
Government
arl'
eager
to
meet
seeking
to
turn
the
religious
schools
built
by
the
people
into
free
them
half
way.
Naturally
these
devices
have
not
produced
public
schools,
similar
to
those
of
the
United
States.
They
much
effect.
but
neither,
so
far,
have
the
repressive
measures
refuse
to
have
these
taught
by
garbed
nuns
and
priests,
and
the
of
M.
dePlehve.
The
problem
remains
unsolved
and
perhaps
[3263]
Ocrozer 15, 1903 lom, the disrespectful, ungrateful, disobedient son, selfish, avaricious and grasping, came to a disgraceful end in the prime of life, and marks a lesson to his kind. On the other hand REV. DR. MORGAN SAYS “J preached this summer in Fifth Avenue church New York, a series of sermons on some of the saying of the Gospel of John. When I came to deal with the death of Christ, I began by saying that it brought me face to face with a moral mystery; that unless there was some explanation of that tragic ending of a pure life, it was the most terrible reflection on the government of God, and would make me an infidel. The whole sermon was to answer that position and to show how the death of Christ reveals the infinite goodness of God. But next morning I saw in the New York Journal a flaming headine: “Dr. Morgan PuzzLep Asout THE DEATH oF CHRIST: Says THar THERE 1s 4 Moral MYSTERY IN IT, AND IT MAKES Him an INFIDEL,’ ZION’S WATCH TOWER (399-403) Solomon, the peaceful, the good, the wise son, attained to the kingdom, and attained to it, too, with his father’s blessing and the divine favor. HE IS NOT AN INFIDEL “This was copied into religious periodicals, and ever since I have been receiving letters explaining the death of Christ. In fact, the cutting has been sent to me three times within the last two weeks by people in England.” * * * Zion’s Watcu Tower, having circulated the error, takes pleasure in correcting it. It is always difficult to choose words which the worldly cannot misconstrue, and doubtless this illustration will make Doctor Morgan, and us all, more careful than ever to avoid expressions subject to such distortion. On the other hand we are glad that in this day of “falling away” from the faith there were still numerous religious journals ready to protect against such teachings in pulpits dedicated to God. Vou. XXIV ALLEGHENY, PA., NOVEMBER 1, 1903 No. 21 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER A BIBLE LEAGUE “A ‘Bible League’ has been organized in the Methodist Episcopal church, with the avowed purpose of driving out destructive Higher Criticism. Its president is Bishop Mallalieu, and the promoters hope to establish branches in every Methodist Conference in the country.”—Eachange. We are glad to see that the situation is being partially realized. It is much more dangerous than many might be willing to believe. No words can more graphically describe the results than the words of Scripture themselves, viz.: “A thousand shall fall at thy side.” (Psa. 91:7) A thousand to fall to one who will stand means a great “falling away” from faith. Our Master’s question is pertinent here, “When the Son of Man cometh [at his second advent] shall he find faith on the earth?” The cleavage or separation on this subject can only result favorably so far as the gathering of the Lord’s “jewels” is concerned. Those who will cling to the Bible honestly and intelligently will give it more careful examination than ever. And their longings will not be satisfied by the interpretations and creeds of the dark ages, ruled by superstition and the spirit of persecution. Nothing short of “the faith once delivered to the saints,” which now rejoices our hearts with its lengths and breadths and heights and depths of divine love and provision, will satisfy them. These will be but a “little flock” in all, however. We will be glad to greet Bp. Mallalieu among them, but we do not forget the Apostle’s words, that not many rich or great or noble are being chosen now, but chiefly the poor and ignoble, rich in faith, to be heirs of the kingdom. That the battle above referred to has commenced is shown by the press dispatach:— “CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 10. “The Outlook, an official publication of the Methodist denomination, has made a sensational attack upon the Methodist universities. That the doctrines of “Tom” Paine are being taught by Dr. Milton S. Terry, professor of Theology in Garrett Biblical Institute, and by Dr. Hinckley G. Mitchell, of the Boston University School of Theology, is the charge. Methodists are advised not to send their sons and daughters to schools ‘where such teachers are allowed to remain on the faculty.’ ” GENERAL UNREST PREVAILS “Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: Beat your plow shares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears; let the weak say, Lf am strong.”—Joel 3:9-16. The whole world is growing restless—preparing to fulfil the above prophecy, of which we quote only the introduction. The people of Macedonia and Bulgaria are impatient of the Turkish rule, and fomenting rebellion and bringing upon themselves the brutal vengeance of their rulers—the only kind of reprisal and suppression known to the Ottoman. France is still in a warfare with the secret orders of the Roman Catholic church, in an attempt to free the rising generation from the incubus of superstition, which it realizes has for years been opposing the Republic by misrepresentations of the facts of history. In a word, the French Government is seeking to turn the religious schools built by the people into free public schools, similar to those of the United States. They refuse to have these taught by garbed nuns and priests, and the golden hours of childhood given specially to studying the Roman Catholic Catechism. In no sense is it a movement to curb the freedom of the Roman Catholic conscience to believe and teach as it pleases outside the public schools. This warfare is so absorbing to the French that other questions are no more than secondary. The clerical party would even favor war in hope of reviving monarchy. In England a very similar question is before the public mind. Parliament has recently put the control of public-school education into the hands of the church (Episcopal), and other denominations are fearful of the results. In Austro-Hungary partisanism runs high. Both nations desire to exercise controlling influence, yet both realize that division would injure both dreadfully. They maintain a union of hatred and bitterness that bodes an open warfare at the opportune moment. Russia, according to the London Times, is keeping from general publicity her dreadful interna] disorders, which may eventually force her into war to offset the restless spirit and give it employment. It says in part:— “The murderous assault made on Prince Urussoff by the peasants of his estate, in the province of Tchernigoff, has its parallel in the similar crime perpetrated on the person of Prince Gargarin, his wife, and their guest, Prince Sherbatoff, in the province of Riazan, hundreds of miles further north. The governor of the province of Ufa has been murdered under the shadow of the Urals; and the prisons of St. Petersburg are filled with political prisoners, who largely belong to that most dangerous of all classes, the intellectual proletariat. The very forces of the state are not themselves untainted. There were military trials at Moscow not many weeks since for revolutionary agitation in the army, and it is even alleged that several members of the crew of the imperial yacht, including some non-commissioned officers, are at present in detention in the capital for being in possession of forbidden literature on board the Standart, (the Czar’s yacht) herself. “The government appears to have been attempting to practice a double policy toward the labor movement, which now for the first time is growing conscious of its strength. On the one hand, M. Witte seems to have attempted more than two years ago to solve the problem by discovering the real wants and wishes of the artisans and factory hands. As the result of a conference instituted on his suggestion, the men obtained the right to elect spokesmen who might confer with the manufacturers and government inspectors. But the new scheme has not been fairly applied, while a childish attempt has been made by the reactionaries to convince the working-men that their best friends are the bureaucrats and their worst enemies the enlightened middle classes. In several cases the men have elected their representatives, only to see them subjected to summary arrest, while any combined action by the men employed in different factories is severely punished. On the other hand the secret police of St. Petersburg have been endeavoring to educate the workmen in loyalty to the existing institutions of the country by telling them that the French Revolution led merely to the triumph of the bourgeois, bought by the blood of the proletariat, and that the Government are eager to meet them half way. Naturally these devices have not produced much effect, but neither, so far, have the repressive measures of M. dePlehve. The problem remains unsolved and perhaps [3263]
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