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APRIL
15,
1904
ZION}S
WATCH
TOWER
(127-131)
their
lives
according
to
covenant,
but
who
have,
nevertheless,
not
repudiated
the
Lord,
will
be
brought,
in
the
time
of
trouble
approaching,
into
such
straits
tl.at
they
will
be
forced
either
to
deny
the
Lord
or
to
lay
down
their
lives
for
the
truth.
But
since
this
laying
down
of
life
will
be
in
a
sense
compul
sory,
it
is
not
reckoned
as
being
a
"sacrifice"
but
a
"destruc
tion
of
the
flesh."
Here
your
inquiry
comes
in,
Why
does
the
high
priest
confess
oyer
thiiil
class
certain
sins
which
lIave
already
been
atoned
for
by
the
blood
of
the
bullock
and
the
blood
of
the
goat'
We
reply
tlIat
sin
may
be
considered
from
two
standpoints:
First,
as
the
divine
condemnation,
which
cannot
be
liquidated
by
the
sufferings
of
the
transgressor,
but
which
must
be
met
by
the
atonement
sacrifice
of
the
great
High
Priest,
head
and
body.
Second,
there
is
a
retributive
operation
of
divine
law
amongst
men
which
brings
upon
the
sinner
a
measure
of
suffering
for
sins.
This
latter,
we
belive,
is
represented
in
the
sufferings
of
the
scapegoat
in
the
wiloer
ness.
As
the
Lord
charged
up
against
the
living
generation
of
Jews
at
the
first
aovent,
who
had
the
light
and
knowledge
pecnliar
to
their
own
day,
and
who
sinned
against
this
light
and
knowledge,
and
required
at
the
hands
of
that
generation
all
the
blood
shed
from
Abel
down,
so
we
understand
that,
similarly,
there
is
a
great
responsibility
in
God's
siglIt
rest
ing
upon
those
who
today
consitute
nominal
Christendom,
who
are
nominally
chilt1ren
of
the
Lord
and
tethered
at
tlIe
door
of
the
tabernacle.
At
the
hands
of
nominal
Christianity
toilay
will
he
required
much,
for
if
nominn
I
Chri"temlom
entire
were
consecrated
to
the
Lord
there
would
be
no
necessity
for
the
time
of
trouble
to
come
at
all,
but
the
Lord
might
come
and
set
np
his
kingdom
amongst
a
willing
people
without
the
necessity
of
overturning
present
institutions
in
a
day
of
wrath.
Consequently,
when
the
day
of
wrath
comes,
it
will
be
but
the
just
recompense,
and
the
<).ivine
wrath
should
be
fully
mani
fested
upon
and
toward
this
nominal
class.
RESPECTING
DEUTERONOMY
29:
29
Question.-Please
make
some
comment
on
Deut.
29:29.
Amwer.-We
understand
this
to
mean
that
the
Lord's
peo
ple
are
to
be
careful
to
study
and
obey
all
that
the
Lord
our
God
has
commanded,
searching
diligently
to
appreciate
it
as
it
may
become
due
to
be
understood.
There
are
questions,
nevertheless,
respecting
which
the
Lord
has
made
no
particular
revelation,
and
we
are
to
avoid
the
waste
of
time
in
considering
those
things,
and
to
realize
that
had
they
been
important
for
us
to
know
the
Lord
would
have
revealed
them
in
his
Word.
This
is
in
harmony
with
the
Apostle's
statement,
"All
Scrip
ture
that
is
given
by
inspiration
of
God
is
profitable
for
doe
trine,
for
reproof,
for
correction
in
righteousness,
that
the
man
of
God
may
be
perfect,
thoroughly
furnished
unto
every
good
work."
These
assurances
of
sufficiency
of
the
meat
in
due
season
to
the
household
of
faith
should
not
only
relieve
us
from
anxious
thought
on
outside
lines,
but
should
make
us
suspieiollfl
of
anything
and
eVl'rythin~
that
I
...
lwing
taught
that
is
additional
to
the
Scriptures,
as
well
as
contrary
to
them.
"TO
OBEY
IS
BETTER
THAN
SACRIFICE"
Obedience
to
the
Lord
our
God
Is
what
he
doth
require;
He
looketh
not
for
sacrifice
Without
his
Spirit's
power.
The
light
of
truth
that
shines
from
God
And
shows
to
us
his
way,
Reveals
the
path
wherein
to
walk
While
in
this
house
of
clay.
If
God's
great
plan
in
vision
speak,,;,
As
prophets
said
it
would,
Oh,
may
we
heed
its
welcome
voire
And
be
among
"the
good."
Pra.y,
do
not
compromise
the
truth;
Oh,
sell
it
not,
my
friend:
Obedience
doth
our
God
require
Until
our
course
shall
('nd.
If
faithful
to
our
trust
on
earth
And
hold
"the
faith"
once
giv('n,
Then
will
our
Master
say,
"Well
done!
Come
thou,
and
enter
heaven."
-James
Hay.
VOL.
XXV
ALLEGHENY,
PA.,
MAY
1,
1904
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.9
tIl('
Bible:
the
most
pl'oductiyi'
of
originality,
the
most
fertile
in
ideas,
the
most
disciplinary
of
any
work
given
to
man.
It
is
11
misnomer
to
call
any
college
Christian
which
studies
pa
gan
authors
six
or
eight
years
and
gives
the
Bible
only
a
nom
inal
recognition
.
.
.
.
"Thesciences
should
have
a
large
place.
God
has
given
m
three
bookfl,
each
one
revealing
himself.
The
first
is
external
nature,
the
second
is
the
nature
of
man,
and
the
third
i~
the
\YOI'd
of
God.
It
is
absurd
to
suppose
that
these
three
works
hy
the
>lamp
omIlJ~('ipnt
Author
arp
1I0t
In
prrfl'l't
a(','UI
d
\Yhel'ever
a
lac-k
of
harmony
appears.
there
is
a
lack
of
the
truly
scientific.
.
.
.
Our
education
should
be
Christocentric,
In
flO
far
as
nny
education
is
not
Christocentric,
it
is
partial,
inndelluate
and
unscientific."
COLLEGE
EDUCATION
IS
ANTI-CHRISTIAN
\Yhat
we
have
ah'ead~'
pointed
out,-that
the
whole
trend
of
college
training
IS
along
the
lines
of
skE'pticism
as
respect'!
the
revE'aled
religion
of
Bible,
along
the
lines
of
"higher
criti
cism"-is
well
sustained
b~'
the
following
"tatement
of
the
matter
by
Doctor
J.
A.
Lenvitt,
President
of
Ewing
College,
Ill.
Among
other
tllings
he
says
in
the
March
Homiletic
Re
view:-
"Every
ob8el
vant
person
has
known
of
numerous
instances
of
helievers
who
have
had
their
faith
unsettled
by
their
scien
tific
studies_
.
.
.
Can
studies
so
pursued
as
to
atrophy
one's
spintual
nature
be
said
to
tend
toward
Christ?
Can
an
educa
tion
be
truly
Christian
that
does
not
increase
one's
powers
to
apprehend
God
and
to
make
him
known?
"It
will
hnrdly
be
supposed
by
anyone
that
the
study
of
the
nncient
classics
tends
toward
Christ.
Few
thoughtful
par-
THE
SEARCH
FOR
GOD
ents
will
entertain
for
a
moment
the
idea
of
having
their
ehil-
\Ve
extract
the
following
from
the
public
press.
TIle
more
dren
study
for
years
modern
authors,
however
beautifully
writ-
"e
perceive
the
blind,
unsucceflsful
groping
of
the
worl(!]y-wi'le
ten.
which
are
based
upon
the
amours
of
characters
like
Paris
nfter
truth,
the
more
do
we
value
it;
and
the
more
do
"I.'
ap-
aud
Helen,
and
such
corrupt
beings
as
pagan
gods
and
god-
preciate
the
Scriptural
declaration
that
"the
secret
of
the
Lord
desses.
It
is
known
that
the
rites
and
practices
in
the
worship
is
with
them
that
fear
him"-the
humble.
of
some
of
them
were
prohibited
by
the
heathen
themselves.
"The
era
in
which
we
live
has
often
been
called
an
age
of
White.
in
his
'Mythology,'
sa~'fl:
'There
can
be
no
doubt
that
religious
doubt.
Perhaps
it
could
more
correctly
be
descl'ibed
the
stories
concerning
them
had
an
unfavorable
influence
on
as
one
of
religious
hesitation
and
helplessness.
The
bewilder-
the
pagan
world,
and
they
contributed
to
weakl'n
whatever
re-
ing
changes
of
recent
years
have
created
for
us
a
new
world,
speet
remained
for
public
or
private
virtue.'
Is
it
reasonable
but
we
have
not
discovered
a
heaven
to
match
it.
The
old
con-
to
suppose
that
the
imagination
of
our
youth
can
dwell
for
ception
of
God
has
become
impossible,
and
WE'
have
not
found
years
upon
the
vices
of
the
pagans
and
their
gods
and
remain
another
to
tnke
its
place.
So
has
come
about
what
a
recent
untainted?
writer
regards
as
"one
of
the
1ll0"t
wonderful
phenomena
in
the
"Students
should
be
grounded
in
the
fundamentals
of
history
of
religion,"-the
withdrawal
of
multitudes
of
good
moral'!.
Christian
evidences
should
have
a
larger
place.
men
f~om
affiliation
with
the
church.
They
have
turned
their
Psychology
should
be
Blblieal
and
emphaSized
on
tIl('
"piritllal
hacks
upon
Christianity,
not
at
all
becaufle
they
are
out
of
side.
.
.
.
sympathy
with
the
religious
impulse,
but
because
they
are
in·
"The
ancient
classics
should
be
grE'atly
curtailed.
In
its
telleetually
uneonvinced.
They
have
lost
faith
in
God.
place
we
should
have
much
of
the
oldest
and
purest
history,
"Such
is
the
train
of
thought
suggested
by
a
perusal
of
the
the
most
exalted
poetry,
and
the
profounde'!t
thought
found
in
Rev.
S.
D.
McConnell's
new
book,
entitled
'Christ';
and
the
IV-39
[3357]
Apriy 15, 1904 their lives according to covenant, but who have, nevertheless, not repudiated the Lord, will be brought, in the time of trouble approaching, into such straits that they will be forced either to deny the Lord or to lay down their lives for the truth. But since this laying down of life will be in a sense compulgory, it is not reckoned as being a “sacrifice” but a “destruction of the flesh.” Here your inquiry comes in, Why does the high priest confess over this class certain sins which have already been atoned for by the blood of the bullock and the blood of the goat? We reply that sin may be considered from two standpoints: First, as the divine condemnation, which cannot be liquidated by the sufferings of the transgressor, but which must be met by the atonement sacrifice of the great High Priest, head and body. Second, there is a retributive operation of divine law amongst men which brings upon the sinner a measure of suffering for sins. This latter, we belive, is represented in the sufferings of the scapegoat in the wilderness. As the Lord charged up against the living generation of Jews at the first advent, who had the light and knowledge peculiar to their own day, and who sinned against this light and knowledge, and required at the hands of that generation all the blood shed from Abel down, so we understand that, similarly, there is a great responsibility in God’s sight resting upon those who today consitute nominal Christendom, who are nominally children of the Lord and tethered at the door of the tabernacle. At the hands of nominal Christianity today will be required much, for if nominal Christendom entire ZION’S WATCH TOWER (127-131) were consecrated to the Lord there would be no necessity for the time of trouble to come at all, but the Lord might come and set up his kingdom amongst a willing people without the necessity of overturning present institutions in a day of wrath. Consequently, when the day of wrath comes, it will be but the just recompense, and the divine wrath should be fully manifested upon and toward this nominal class. RESPECTING DEUTERONOMY 29:29 Question—Please make some comment on Deut. 29:29. Answer.—We understand this to mean that the Lord’s people are to be careful to study and obey all that the Lord our God has commanded, searching diligently to appreciate it as it may become due to be understood. There are questions, nevertheless, respecting which the Lord has made no particular revelation, and we are to avoid the waste of time in considering those things, and to realize that had they been important for us to know the Lord would have revealed them in his Word. This is in harmony with the Apostle’s statement, “All Scripture that is given by inspiration of God is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto every good work.” These assurances of sufficiency of the meat in due season to the household of faith should not only relieve us from anxious thought on outside lines, but should make us suspicious of anything and everything that 1. being taught that is additional to the Scriptures, as well as contrary to them. “TO OBEY IS BETTER THAN SACRIFICE” Obedience to the Lord our God Is what he doth require; He looketh not for sacrifice Without his Spirit’s power. The light of truth that shines from God And shows to us his way, Reveals the path wherein to walk While in this house of clay. If God’s great plan in vision speaks, As prophets said it would, Oh, may we heed its welcome voice And be among “the good.” Pray, do not compromise the truth; Oh, sell it not, my friend: Obedience doth our God require Until our course shall end. Tf faithful to our trust on earth And hold “the faith” once given, Then will our Master say, “Well done! Come thou, and enter heaven.” Vou. XXV COLLEGE EDUCATION IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN What we have already pointed out,—that the whole trend of college training 1s along the lines of skepticism as respects the revealed religion of Bible, along the lines of “higher criticism’—is well sustained by the following statement of the matter by Doctor J. A. Leavitt, President of Ewing College, Ill. Among other things he says in the March Homiletie Review :— “Every observant person has known of numerous instances of believers who have had their faith unsettled by their scientific studies... . Can studies so pursued as to atrophy one’s spiritual nature be said to tend toward Christ? Can an education be truly Christian that does not increase one’s powers to apprehend God and to make him known? “Tt will hardly be supposed by any one that the study of the ancient classics tends toward Christ. Few thoughtful parents will entertain for a moment the idea of having their children study for years modern authors, however beautifully written. which are based upon the amours of characters like Paris and Helen, and such corrupt beings as pagan gods and goddesses. It is known that the rites and practices in the worship of some of them were prohibited by the heathen themselves. White. in his ‘Mythology,’ says: ‘There can be no doubt that the stories concerning them had an unfavorable influence on the pagan world, and they contributed to weaken whatever respect remained for public or private virtue.’ Is it reasonable to suppose that the imagination of our youth can dwell for years upon the vices of the pagans and their gods and remain untainted ? “Students should be grounded in the fundamentals of morals, Christian evidences should have a larger place. Psychology should be Biblical and emphasized on the spiritual side. ... “The ancient classics should be greatly curtailed. In its place we should have much of the oldest and purest history, the most exalted poetry, and the profoundest thought found in IV—39 ALLEGHENY, PA., MAY 1, 1904 —James Hay. No. 9 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER the Bible: the most productive of originality, the most fertile in ideas, the most disciplinary of any work given to man. It is a misnomer to call any college Christian which studies pagan authors six or eight years and gives the Bible only a nominal recognition... . “The sciences should have a large place. God has given us three books, each one revealing himself. The first is external nature, the second is the nature of man, and the third is the Word of God. It is absurd to suppose that these three works by the same omniscient Author wre not in perfect aceoid Wherever a lack of harmony appears. there is a lack of the truly scientific. ... Our education should be Christocentric, In so far as any education is not Christocentric, it is partial, inadequate and unscientific.” THE SEARCH FOR GOD We extract the following from the public press. The more we perceive the blind, unsuccessful groping of the worldly-wise after truth, the more do we value it; and the more do we appreciate the Scriptural declaration that “the secret of the Lord is with them that fear him’—the humble. “The era in which we live has often been called an age of religious doubt. Perhaps it could more correctly be described as one of religious hesitation and helplessness. The bewildering changes of recent years have created for us a new world, but we have not discovered a heaven to match it. The old conception of God has become impossible, and we have not found another to take its place. So has come about what a recent writer regards as “one of the most wonderful phenomena in the history of religion,’—the withdrawal of multitudes of good men from affiliation with the church. ‘They have turned their backs upon Christianity, not at all because they are out of sympathy with the religious impulse, but because they are intellectually unconvinced. They have lost faith in God. “Such is the train of thought suggested by a perusal of the Rev. S. D. McConnell’s new book, entitled ‘Christ’; and the [3357]
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