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ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
Al,L£GHF.NY.
PA.
I
should
be
glad
of
any
word
of
instruction
or
exhortation
from
you.
Please
deliver
one
set
of
DAW:\:S
in
cloth
to
thc
address
of
the
enclosed
note,
whIch
will
recommend
you
to
my
friends
in
Melbourne,
where
I
hope
you
will
find
many
who
love
the
Lord
and
are
hungering
for
the
truth.
Gn'e
my
love
to
all
of
like
mind
in
the
Lord,
and
let
us
"work,
for
the
night
is
coming."
Your
brother
in
Christ,
DEAR
BROTHER:-
--.,
Western
Australia.
Yours
came
to
hand
III
due
time,
and
I
wai"
~lad
to
recel\
I'
new.;
of
you
and
your
welfare.
I
am
pleaf-ed
with
the
choice
of
position
for
IH'adquart('r~,
~o
far
as
th('
Au,.,traliall
StateH
are
concerned.
I
should
have
written
you
booner,
but
have
been
very
much
engaged
of
late;
you
both
and
the
work
under
your
care
are
not
forgotten,
the
same
being
remembered
by
me
in
prayer.
Our
meeting
at
Fremalltle
was
very
profitable
to
me;
I
was
glad
to
be
there.
Though
I
had
to
make
a
sacrifice
to
do
it,
I
was
indeed
glad
to
meet
you,
and
i"orry
to
leave
you,
but
the
Lord's
will
had
to
be
done.
I
shall
be
pleased
to
hear
of
the
progress
of
the
work,
with
you
later.
The
Lord
}'less
and
proi"per
you
a
...
It
plea
seth
him,
ancl
in
due
time
he
will
exalt
you.
Your,;
in
his
servwe.
--.,
lre8fern
Australia.
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
JUNE
15,1904
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.
12
THE
OUTCOME
OF
THE
WAR
Yarions
are
the
speculations
on
the
outcome
of
the
present
war
in
the
far
East.
Russia's
prime
minister
has
surprised
Europe
by
declaring
that
Russia
will
neither
accept
any
medi
ations
for
peace,
nor
hI'
willing
at
the
close
of
the
war,
should
It
end
in
her
favor,
to
allow
other
nations
to
have
any
say
in
regard
to
the
terms
of
peace.
The
journals
of
the
world
gen
erally
agree
that
this
is
an
early
boast,
and
that
when
the
end
of
the
war
comes,
even
if
Russia
win,
she
will
be
so
weak
en('d
hy
the
struggle
as
to
be
in
poor
condition
to
resist
the
will
of
the
Great
Powl'rs.
all
of
whom
are
depply
concerned
in
the
future
of
China
and
Japan.
Thc
.Japallcsl'.
panlonably
intoxieatl'(l
l,y
their
~uccess
0\'1'1'
one
of
the
greatest
nations
of
Europe.
are
speculating
on
what
they
will
do
when
the
war
ends
favorably
to
them,
aH
they
l'Xpcct
it
will.
Some
of
thl'ir
leading
papers
counsel
modf'ration,
but
other
...
pidurl'
.Japan
a"
the
head
and
lcader
of
all
Mongolia-of
China,
Korea,
etc.,
some
evcn
thinking
of
Siberia
as
ultimately
a
part
of
Greater
.Japan.
Russia
includes
numerous
subjected
peoples-Finns,
Poles,
ctc.,
all
of
whom
havc
been
trcated
with
great
harshness,
which
they
have
been
powcrless
to
resist.
The
failure
of
Russian
>:hips
and
armies
in
the
prcsent
war
emboldens
these
peoplcs
to
hope
that
somc
kind
of
rclief
for
them
may
be
part
of
the
outcome
of
the
war,-eithcr
through
open
rebellion
or
through
the
change
of
the
gencral
governmcnt
of
Russia
from
a
despotism
to
a
more
liberal
~ovcrnment
in
which
they
would
have
somc
share.
'''e
quote
from
one
of
their
journals,
as
follows:-
"The
roar
of
the
bombs
shattering
the
Rusllian
vessels
at
Port
Arthur
mu::;t
resound
with
a
double
echo
in
the
heart
of
every
Pole.
It
proclaims
to
us
not
only
the
defeat
of
our
foe,
the
executioner
of
our
fatherland,
who
for
a
century
and
a
<Iuarter
has
becn
torturing
so
many
millions
of
our
country
men,
but
it
announces
somctlling
else.
Out
there
in
thc
Far
East
wedges
are
being
drivcn
into
thc
granite,
into
the
appal'.
I'lltly
indl',;trudible
might
of
Rus::;ia.
Thprp.
amid
the
whiz;;
of
the
balls
and
the
groans
of
the
dying,
eonditions
are
form
mg
by
means
of
which
all
upon
whom
Russia
has
laid
her
heavy
hand
may
derive
advantage.
The
name
of
these
suffer
ers
,is
legion.
Thcre
is
perhaps
no
corner
of
the
Russian
empire
in
which
feelings
of
hatred
have
not
thus
accumulated,
in
which
there
does
not
seethe
in
the
hcarts
of
the
people
the
desire
for
liberation,
for
the
final
removal
of
the
cause
of
so
much
misery
and
of
so
llIany
wrong'l,
.
.
.
.
Rendered
especi.
ally
audacious
in
recent
times
by
her
diplomatic
succcsses,
convinced
that
h('r
external
foes
would
not
dare
attack
hl'r
and
that
hcr
internal
focs
would
be
subdued
the
more
easily
the
more
severity
she
displayed
in
oppressing
them,
Russia
dis·
carded
all
restraints.
She
created
one
enemy
after
another.
After
tlle
workingmen
and
the
students
came
the
turn
of
the
peasants.
Next
the
Jews
learned
the
meaning
of
Russian
rule.
After
the
Jews,
Russia
laid
her
iron
hand
upon
the
proverbially
loyal
Finn~.
Fmally
cume
the
turn
of
Armenia,
which
only
recently
was
turning
a
yearning
eye
to
Russia,
the
deliverer
from
Turkish
chains.
Of
the
Poles
there
is
no
nced
to
speak.
With
the
exception
of
tIle
conciliationists,
there
is
no
one
who
does
not
long
to
cast
off
the
hated
yoke.
Any
action
having
that
object
in
vicw
would
certainly
meet
with
the
approval
of
the
Poles."
In
any
event
the
war
means
a
wakening
of
tIle
nations
a
prf'paration
for
the
general
and
awful
anarchy
which
the
Scriptures
forewarn
us
will
wind
up
tIle
present
Gospel
age
and
be
the
forerunncr
of
the
Millennial
I1ge.
During
the
next
ten
years
many
of
the
grel1t
nations
will
become
similarly
weakened.
ZIONISTS
ENCOURAGED
Whatevcr
price
for
.Jewish
liberty
in
Palebtinl'
might
be
acceptable
to
the
Sultan
of
Turkey,
its
actual
ruler,
the
matter
would
require
the
acquiescence
of
Great
Britain
and
Russia,
and
Germany
might
like
to
be
consulted.
Negotiations
be
tweeu
Dr.
Herzl
of
thc
Zionists
and
the
Sultan
of
Turkey
were
reported
satisfactory
some
time
ago,
but
nothmg
could
be
done
without
Russia's
consent-Great
Britain
and
Germany
being
understood
to
have
been
favorable
all
along.
Now,
under
date
of
May
26,
press
dispatche8
report
that
just
as
the
Zioni8t
Congress
at
Hamburg,
Germany,
was
clos
ing,
the,
announcement
was
made
by
Dr.
Klee
that
the
Rus
sian
government
had
replied
favorably
to
the
request
of
the
Zionists
that
it
would
use
its
influence
with
the
Hultan
of
Tur
key
in
favor
of
JeWish
colonization
of
Palestine.
CHURCH
MUST
DO
SOME
FIGHTING
At
the
City
Ministers'
Union
meeting
yesterday,
Dr.
Charles
A.
Eaton
spoke
on
"The
Relation
between
Churches
and
Men."
He
said
in
part--
"Seven
million
young
men
in
this
country
are
alienated
from
the
Christian
churches,
according
to
Dr.
Cressey.
To
this
number
a
vast
army
of
older
men
must
be
added.
I
do
not
attribute
this
condition
to
the
preacher;
nor
do
I
attribute
it
to
the
innate
depravity
of
these
7,000,000
and
more
men.
"We
can
refer
his
alienation
to
a
deeper
cause.
Biological
science,
for
one
thing,
is
at
the
root
of
the
evil.
We
elimi
nate
the
supernatural
revclation.
We
burrow
ourselves
in
nature.
Each
man
becomes
his
own
god.
Thc
idealistic
phil
osophy,
as
taught
today,
is
that
God
and
man
are
one.
That's
the
plain
English
of
Monism.'
Following
another
detail
of
this
line
of
thought,
Dr.
Eaton
said:
"I
don't
believe
the
world
today
could
produce
Jesus;
I
don't
believe
the
United
States
could
produce
Jesus;
I
don't
believe
the
city
of
Cleveland
could
produce
Jesus;
llOt
eYen
the
church,
Could
it,
Dr.
Jackson
1"
''We'd
crucify
him,
probably,
if
he
came
among
us,"
shouted
Dr.
Jackson.
''Yes,''
Dr.
Eaton
went
on;
"we'd
find
him
tile
most
incon
yenient
member
of
our
church,
and
the
hardest
to
get
along
with.
His
doctrines
would
stagger
us.
''We
have
failed
to
use
our
scientific
heritage,
but
we
are
better
off
than
we
were
ten
years
ago.
We
have
had
our
SCI
entific
deluge.
We
have
discovered
that
a
man
can
have
a
thorough
knowledge
of
science,
and
yet
die
of
a
broken
heart.
We
have
discovered
that
science
is
not
infallible.
"'Ve're
beginning
now
to
fcel
hungTy
for
some
meat
and
lIome
milk,
something
that
will
sit
well
on
the
stomach.
We
have
tried
all
the
isms,
all
the
new
things,
and
now
we
are
about
ready
to
turn
to
the
truth."-Oleveland
Plain
Dealer.
*
*
*
How
strange
such
confessions
sound
to
the
well-nurtured
phildren
of
God.
While
realizing
that
science,
fasely
so
called,
has
done
great
harm-has
destroyed
the
faith
of
many-Dr.
Eaton
is
seemingly
oblivious
to
the
fact
that
his
own
faith
is
undermined.
Otherwise
how
could
he
talk
about
our
day
being
unable
to
produce
a
man
the
equal
of
Jesus.
Evidently
Dr.
Eaton
believes
that
our
Lord
Jesus
was
a
mere
man,
a
sinner,
"born
in
sin
and
shapen
in
iniquity,"
even
as
others.
Evidently
he
rejects
the
Biblical
teaching
that
our
Lord
had
a.
preexistence,
and
that
his
life
was
transferred,
and
so
pepu
Harly
born
that
he
was
"holy,
harmless,
separate
from
sin
ners."
And
yet
this
gentleman
has
accepted
and
avowed
a
creed
which
declares
that
Jesus
was
Jehovah.
Alas,
such
in
consistency!
Is
it
any
wonder
that
the
"world'
is
gradually
seeing
through
such
theological
deceptions
and
double
deal
ings?
How
hard
theologians
sometimes
secm
to
struggle
in
their
endeavor
to
be
honest
with
themselves
and
their
bear-
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(175~180) 1 should be glad of any word of instruction or exhortation from you, Please deliver one set of Dawns in cloth to the address of the enclosed note, which will recommend you to my friends in Melbourne, where I hope you will find many who love the Lord and are hungering for the truth. Give my love to all of like mind in the Lord, and let us “work, for the night is coming.” Your brother in Christ, Deag BROTHER :— ——., Western Australia. Yours came to hand in due time, and J was glad to receive news of you and your welfare. I am pleased with the choice of position for headquarters, so far as the Australian States are ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa, concerned. I should have written you sooner, but have been very much engaged of late; you both and the work under your care are not forgotten, the same being remembered by me in prayer. Our meeting at Fremantle was very profitable to me; 1 was glad to be there. Though I had to make a sacrifice to do it, I was indeed glad to meet you, and sorry to leave you, but the Lord’s will had to be done. I shall be pleased to hear of the progress of the work, with you later. The Lord bless and prosper you as it pleaseth him, and in due time he will exalt you. Yours in his service, ——., Western Australia. Vou. XXV No. 12 ALLEGHENY, PA., JUNE 15, 1904 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER THE OUTCOME OF THE WAR Various are the speculations on the outcome of the present war in the far East. Russia’s prime minister has surprised Europe by declaring that Russia will neither accept any mediations for peace, nor be willing at the close of the war, should it end in her favor, to allow other nations to have any say in regard to the terms of peace. The journals of the world generally agree that this is an early boast, and that when the end of the war comes, even if Russia win, she will be so weakened hy the struggle as to be in poor condition to resist the will of the Great Powers, all of whom are deeply concerned in the future of China and Japan. The Japanese, paidonably intoxicated by their success over one of the greatest nations of Europe, are speculating on what they will do when the war ends favorably to them, as they expect it will. Some of their leading papers counsel moderation, but others picture Japan as the head and leader of all Mongolia—of China, Korea, ete., some even thinking of Siberia as ultimately a part of Greater Japan. Russia includes numerous subjected peoples—Finns, Poles, etc., all of whom have been treated with great harshness, which they have been powerless to resist. The failure of Russian ships and armies in the present war emboldens these peoples to hope that some kind of relief for them may be part of the outcome of the war,—either through open rebellion or through the change of the general government of Russia from a despotism to a more liberal government in which they would have some share, We quote from one of their journals, as follows:— “The roar of the bombs shattering the Russian vessels at Port Arthur must resound with a double echo in the heart of every Pole. It proclaims to us not only the defeat of our foe, the executioner of our fatherland, who for a century and a quarter has been torturing so many millions of our countrymen, but it announces something else, Out there in the Far East wedges are being driven into the granite, into the apparently indestructible might of Russia. There, amid the whizz of the balls and the groans of the dying, conditions are formimg by means of which all upon whom Russia has laid her heavy hand may derive advantage. The name of these sufferers is legion. There is perhaps no corner of the Russian empire in which feelings of hatred have not thus accumulated, in which there does not seethe in the hearts of the people the desire for liberation, for the final removal of the cause of so much misery and of so many wrongs..... Rendered especially audacious in recent times by her diplomatic successes, convinced that her external foes would not dare attack her and that her internal foes would be subdued the more easily the more severity she displayed in oppressing them, Russia discarded all restraints. She created one enemy after another. After the workingmen and the students came the turn of the peasants. Next the Jews learned the meaning of Russian rule. After the Jews, Russia laid her iron hand upon the proverbially loyal Finns. Finally came the turn of Armenia, which only recently was turning a yearning eye to Russia, the deliverer from Turkish chains. Of the Poles there is no need to speak. With the exception of the conciliationists, there is no one who does not long to cast off the hated yoke. Any action having that object in view would certainly meet with the approval of the Poles.” In any event the war means a wakening of the nations— a preparation for the general and awful anarchy which the Seriptures forewarn us will wind up the present Gospel age and be the forerunner of the Millennial age, During the next ten years many of the great nations will become similarly weakened. ZIONISTS ENCOURAGED Whatever price for Jewish liberty in Palestine might be acceptable to the Sultan of Turkey, its actual ruler, the matter would require the acquiescence of Great Britain and Russia, and Germany might hke to be consulted. Negotiations between Dr. Herzl of the Zionists and the Sultan of Turkey were reported satisfactory some time ago, but nothing could be done without Russia’s consent—Great Britain and Germany being understood to have been favorable all along. Now, under date of May 26, press dispatches report that just as the Zionist Congress at Hamburg, Germany, was closing, the, announcement was made by Dr. Klee that the Russian government had replied favorably to the request of the Zionists that it would use its influence with the Sultan of Turkey in favor of Jewish colonization of Palestine. CHURCH MUST DO SOME FIGHTING At the City Ministers’ Union meeting yesterday, Dr. Charles A. Eaton spoke on “The Relation between Churches and Men.” He said in part— “Seven million young men in this country are alienated from the Christian churches, according to Dr. Cressey. To this number a vast army of older men must be added. I do not attribute this condition to the preacher; nor do I attribute it to the innate depravity of these 7,000,000 and more men. “We can refer his alienation to a deeper cause, Biological science, for one thing, is at the root of the evil. We eliminate the supernatural revelation. We burrow ourselves in nature. Each man becomes his own god. The idealistic philosophy, as taught today, is that God and man are one. That’s the plain English of Monism.’ Following another detail of this line of thought, Dr, Eaton said: “I don’t believe the world today could produce Jesus; I don’t believe the United States could produce Jesus; I don’t believe the city of Cleveland could produce Jesus; not even the church, Could it, Dr. Jackson?” “We'd crucify him, probably, if he came among us,” shouted Dr. Jackson. “Yes,” Dr. Eaton went on; “we'd find him the most inconvenient member of our church, and the hardest to get along with. His doctrines would stagger us. “We have failed to use our scientific heritage, but we are better off than we were ten years ago. We have had our scientific deluge. We have discovered that a man can have a thorough knowledge of science, and yet die of a broken heart. We have discovered that science is not infallible. “We’re beginning now to feel hungry for some meat and some milk, something that will sit well on the stomach. We have tried all the isms, all the new things, and now we are about ready to turn to the truth.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. * * * How strange such confessions sound to the well-nurtured children of God. While realizing that science, fasely so called, has done great harm—has destroyed the faith of many—Dr. Eaton is seemingly oblivious to the fact that his own faith is undermined. Otherwise how could he talk about our day being unable to produce a man the equal of Jesus. Evidently Dr. Eaton believes that our Lord Jesus was a mere man, & sinner, “born in sin and shapen in iniquity,” even as others. Evidently he rejects the Biblical teaching that our Lord had a preéxistence, and that his life was transferred, and so peculiarly born that he was “holy, harmless, separate from sinners.” And yet this gentleman has accepted and avowed a creed which declares that Jesus was Jehovah. Alas, such inconsistency! Is it any wonder that the “world’ is gradually seeing through such theological deceptions and double dealings? How hard theologians sometimes seem to struggle in their endeavor to be honest with themselves and their hear [3380]
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