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THE
WATCH
TOWER
ALI
..
IlGHIlNY,
PA.
fetish
or
chal
m
to
ward
off
the
adversary,
but
take
it
intelli
gently,
as
unto
the
Lord,
and
throw
your
influence
in
favor
of
it
to
all
the
dear..brethren
m
Christ.
There
is
a
blessing
in
it,
and
the
quicker
you
take
it,
the
quicker
you
wIll
share
in
that
bless
ing,
which
many
others
an
already
confessing.
"Make
straight
paths
for
your
feet."
THE
NEW
COVENANT
AND
THE
NEW
TESTAMENT
These
two
words
in
our
Ellglibh
are
the
same
word
in
the
Greek.
The
explanation
of
the
matter
is
this:-
The
blessings
of
God
upon
Abraham
were
ostensibly
given
to
the
Jewish
nation.
Lut
not
actually
so.
A
hidden
meaning,
or
spirit,
made
that
blessing,
under
the
Law,
applicable
only
to
Jesus.
who
alone
kept
the
law
and
inheritl'd
its
blessings.
Secondly,
that
spiritual
inheritance
of
the
law
blessing
came
to
all
those
who
a<'cepted
ChriRt
as
the
end
of
the
law
and
be
came
united
to
him
by
consecration
unto
death.
Thus,
spiritual
Israelites
arc
the
heirs
with
Jesus
of
everything
pertaining
to
the
Abrahamic
C'ovl'nant.
Howl'ver,
our
Lord's
object
in
keeping
tJ1E'
Ic1w
wll.~
not
merely
to
gain
life
for
himself,
but
by
dying
and
getting
the
new
nature
for
himself
to
be
able
to
give
to
natural
Israel,
in
harmony
with
the
divine
law.
tIl<'
blessings
whil'h
they
had
originally
re
l'eive<l,
but
were
unable
to
retain
through
weakness
of
the
flesh.
Thus,
through
Jesus'
death,
a
testament-good-will--or
bless
ing,
was
entailed
upon
natural
hrael;
but
instead
of
giving
them
that
blessing
at
onc<',
hy
divinl'
arrangement
it
is
given
first
to
spiritual
Israel,
the
"holy
nation,"
the
"royal
priest-
hood,"
the
"peculiar
people;"
it
is
given
to
these
conditionally
-that
they
will
not
keep
it
to
themselves,
but
dying
as
mem
bers
of
the
body
of
Christ,
they
will
join
with
their
Head
in
his
will,
or
testament,
giving
all
those
earthly
rights
as
the
seed
of
Abraham,
to
fleshly
Israel.
As
soon
as
all
the
members
of
the
testator
shall
have
died,
this
New
Testament
or
New
Cove
nant
will
thereby
be
sealed,
or
made
effective,
operative
toward
natural
Israel.
Thus
Jesus
was
the
minister,
or
servant,
of
the
New
Cove
nant
which
God
proposed
to
make
with
Israel.
Although
he
had
a
right
to
all
that
is
to
go
to
Israel,
he
kept
it
not,
but
freely
surrendered
it
for
us
and
them.
We
as
his
brethren,
justified
through
faith
in
his
blood
(not
through
faith
in
the
New
Covenant),
were
permitted
to
become
"able
ministers
of
the
New
Covenant
or
New
Testament"-able
or
fully
qualified
by
our
justification
and
by
the
terms
of
our
sanctification,
to
be
associated
with
our
Lord
and
Head
as
sharers
in
his
suffer
ings,
proclaimers
of
his
grace,
announcrrs
of
the
New
Covenant,
and
aSRistants
one
of
another
as
members
of
his
body
in
the
filling
up
of
the
sufferings
of
Christ
to
the
intended
end.
SOME
INTERESTING
LETTERS
DEAR
BROTHER
RU8SEI.L:
Enclosed
newspaper
clipping
from
a
Dayton,
Ohio,
paper
is
worthy
of
more
than
passing
notice
as
a
piece
of
church
news
:-
"Rev.
E.
E.
Baker,
formerly
of
this
city,
but
lately
of
Los
Angeles,
Cal.,
has
withdrawn
from
the
ministry
to
become
west
ern
manager
for
the
fowllool
of
salesmanship.
In
his
farewell
to
his
congregation
Mr.
Baker
said:-
"
'The
pastor
of
the
present
dal
has
to
.pr~ach
what
h~s
.con
gregation
wants
him
to,
or
he
won
t
keep
~lS
Job.
If
a
mmIS~E'r
were
not
depending
npon
the
people
he
IS
bupposed
to
uphft,
we
would
have
a
broader,
trUl'r
and
more
~ffective
work
from
the
pulpit
today.'
"
Mr.
Baker
was
pastor
of
the
First
Lutheran
CHurch
of
Day
ton
and
was
one
of
the
most
popular
clergymen
of
the
eity.
Ill'
reRigned
his
charge
to
acecpt
a
call
to
the
Woodward
Avenue
Preflbyterian
('h111"('h
in
Cleveland,
and
later
accepted
a
call
to
the
Los
Angeles
('hurch.
About
ten
years
ago
Rev.
Baker
accepted
from
me,
for
criti
cism
a
coPy
of
your
"What
Say
the
Scriptures
About
Hell."
Afte~
lookmg
it
over,
he
not
only
failed
to
criticise,
but
stated
that
a
person
could
not
preach
from
the
pulpit
all
one
thought.
His
takin~
thiR
stand
at
this
time
seems
to
me
to
be
the
result
of
a
ten-vears'
battle
in
his
mind,
and
I
am
pleased
to
note
that
he
now
has
the
l'ourage
to
stand
by
his
convictions.
Your
brother
in
Christ,
G.
C.
DRISCOLl
•.
DEAR
BROTHER
RUSSELL:-
'Ve
again
express
to
you
our
continued
and
growing
love
for
yourself,
and
also
for
the
work
entrusted
to
your
hands.
We
would
also
like
to
express
our
satisfaction
with
"the
vow"
in
many,
many
ways;
and
particularly
blessed
have
we
been
by
the
prayer
for
you
all
there
and
the
work
in
your
hands
and
our
humble
part
therein.
This
vow
hae
been
also
the
means
of
bringing
home
to
us
th",
fulness
of
the
consecration
vow
long
since
made,
and
has
('aused
us
to
be
much
more
careful
in
our
scrutiny
of
our
daily
life.
not
only
in
the
home,
but
before
the
world
as
well.
The
Word
has
been
made
more
precious
to
us
than
ever
before,
and
we
cannot
but
feel
that
the
vow
has
been
instrumental
in
a
large
measure
in
this.
We
are
indeed
pained
to
know
that
some
are
offended
by
that
which
it
would
appear
could
not
offend
any
who
do
not
desire
to
be
somewhat
entangled
in
the
yoke
of
sin.
The
bless
ing
to
those
who
take
it
in
its
fulness
will
surely
be
manifest
in
the
general
church.
With
kindest
regards
to
yourself
and
the
friends,
and
espe
cially
to
Brothl"r
Page,
who,
we
note,
is
with
you
again,
we
are,
Very
sincerely
yours,
C.
H.
DICKINSON
AND
WIJ'E.
VOL.
XXX
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
MARCH
15,
1909
VIE\VS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.6
CHRISTIAN
NATIONS
PERPLEXED
Onr
drar
fril'llds,
Vv
ho
do
not
believe
in
a
future
.:\:llIJpn
nium,
attempt
to
prove
that
we
are
now
enjoy.in~
the
bl~ssings
of
Cllrist's
kingdom,
and
point
us
to
the
ChrIstIan
natIons
of
the
world,
called
"Christendom."
They
are
greatly
perplexed
",h('n
we
illquil'l'
why
if
Chri~t
is
King-
he
should
have
<111ierent
forms
of
g-oVl'rnllle~t,
and
why
his
different
governme,nts
for
('enturie'3
have
fonght
each
other
and
today
are
wastmg
the
blessings
of
our
day
on
armies
an.d
navies
.and
fortific~tion~?
Alas!
the
name
"Christendom'
IS
a
delUSIOn.
Satan
IS
stIll
"the
pr~nee
of
this
world"
and
the
term
"Satandom"
would
be
the
truer
title.
But
our
"wily"
adversary
is
so
crafty
that
he
puts
darkness
for
light
and
deludes
the
poor
world.
Thank
God
that
soon
Satan
shall
be
bound
for
a
thousand
years
that
he
lllay
dec'eive
the
nations
(peoples)
no
more,
until
the
thousand
vears
are
finished.-Rev.
20
:3.
.
Meantime,
however.
so",e
useful
purposes
are
being
served
by
the
military
expenditures.
Employment
is
being
~ven
to
millions
of
men
not
only
in
military
and
naval
serVIces,
but
also
in
thl'
builrling
of
guns
and
fort"
and
battleships,-the
mininO'
of
the
ore,
the
Rmeltin~
and
rolling
of
the
steel,
etc.
And
n~t
the
poor,
hut
the
riell,
foot
the
bills
in
taxes.
The
fol
lowing
from
the
Atlantic
Monthly
is
interetlting:-
CAUSE
OF
NATIONAL
DEFICIT
All
the
great
nations
are
today
facing
deficits,
caueed
in
every
cai'le
by
the
military
and
naval
experts.
Into
what
a
tangle
the
finances
of
Russia
and
Japan
have
been
brought
by
militarists
is
known
to
everybody.
Germany
has,
in
a
single
generation,
increased
her
national
debt
from
eighteen
million
dollars
to
more
than
one
billion
dollars.
The
German
Mim"tt'r
of
Finance
looks
wildly
around
in
search
of
new
sources
of
na
tional
income.
Financial
experts
confess
that
France
is
ap
proaching
the
limit
of
her
sources
of
revenue.
Her
deficit
is
created
by
her
army
and
navy.
The
British
government
is
al
ways
seeking
for
new
devices
by
means
of
which
to
fill
a
de
pleted
treasury.
Her
dreadnoughts
keep
her
poor.
Italy
has
for
years
staggered
on
the
verge
of
bankruptcy
because
she
car
ries
an
overgrown
army
on
her
back.
Even
our
own
rich
re
public
faces
this
year
a
deficit
of
over
a
hundred
million
dol
lars,
largely
due
to
the
one
hundred
and
thirty
millions
we
are
Rpending
on
our
navy.
Mr.
Cortelyou
has
called
our
attention
to
the
fact
that
while
in
thirty
years
we
have
increased
our
pop
ulation
by
85
per
cent.
and
our
wealth
by
185
per
cent.,
we
have
increased
our
national
expenses
by
400
per
cent.
MANY
SECESSIONS
FBOJot:
THE
CIlRMAN
STATE
CHURCH
Ecclesiastical
circles
in
Germany
are
much
exercised
at
the
rapidly
increasing
desertionR
from
the
State
church
..
Although
the
process
of
official
separation
from
t~e
.church
iq
one
of
the
greatest
difficulty,
delay
and
expense,
It
IS
com
puted
that
in
Berlin
alone
considerably
over
Ib,ooo
persons
have
seyered
thpir
connf'ction
with
the
church
during
the
past
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(79-83) fetish or chaim to ward off the adversary, but take it intelligently, as unto the Lord, and throw your influence in favor of it to all the dear brethren in Christ. There is a blessing in it, and THE WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, Pa. the quicker you take it, the quicker you will share in that blessing, which many others are already confessing. “Make straight paths for your feet.” THE NEW COVENANT AND THE NEW TESTAMENT These two words in our English are the same word in the Greek. The explanation of the matter is this:— The blessings of God upon Abraham were ostensibly given to the Jewish nation, but not actually so. A hidden meaning, or spirit, made that blessing, under the Law, applicable only to Jesus, who alone kept the law and inherited its blessings. Secondly, that spiritual inheritance of the law blessing came to all those who accepted Christ as the end of the law and became united to him by consecration unto death. Thus, spiritual Israelites arc the heirs with Jesus of everything pertaining to the Abrahamic Covenant. However, our Lord’s object in keeping the law was not merely to gain life for himself, but by dying and getting the new nature for himself to be able to give to natural] Israel, in harmony with the divine law. the blessings which they had originally received, but were unable to retain through weakness of the flesh. Thus, through Jesus’ death, a testament—good-will—or blessing, was entailed upon natural Israel; but instead of giving them that blessing at once, by divine arrangement it is given first to spiritual Israel, the “holy nation,” the “royal priest hood.” the “peculiar people;” it is given to these conditionally —that they will not keep it to themselves, but dying as members of the body of Christ, they will join with their Head in his will, or testament, giving all those earthly rights as the seed of Abraham, to fleshly Israel. As soon as all the members of the testator shall have died, this New Testament or New Covenant will thereby be sealed, or made effective, operative toward natural Israel. Thus Jesus was the minister, or servant, of the New Covenant which God proposed to make with Israel. Although he had a right to all that is to go to Israel, he kept it not, but freely surrendered it for us and them. We as his brethren, justified through faith in his blood (not through faith in the New Covenant), were permitted to become “able ministers of the New Covenant or New Testament”—able or fully qualified by our justification and by the terms of our sanctification, to be associated with our Lord and Head as sharers in his sufferings, proclaimers of his grace, announcers of the New Covenant, and assistants one of another as members of his body in the filling up of the sufferings of Christ to the intended end. SOME INTERESTING LETTERS Dear BRoTHER RUSSELL: Enclosed newspaper clipping from a Dayton, Ohio, paper is worthy of more than passing notice as a piece of church news :— “Rev, E. E. Baker. formerly of this city, but lately of Los Angeles, Cal., has withdrawn from the ministry to become western manager for the school of salesmanship. In his farewell to his congregation Mr. Baker said :— . “«The pastor of the present day has to preach what his congregation wants him to, or he won’t keep his job. If a minister were not depending upon the people he is supposed to uplift, we would have a broader, truer and more effective work from the pulpit today.’ ” Mr, Baker was pastor of the First Lutheran caurch of Dayton and was one of the most popular clergymen of the city. He resigned his charge to accept a call to the Woodward Avenue Presbyterian church in Cleveland, and later accepted a call to the Los Angeles church. About ten years ago Rev. Baker accepted from me, for criticism, a copy of your “What Say the Scriptures About Hell.” After looking it over, he not only failed to criticise, but stated that a person could not preach from the pulpit all one thought. His taking this stand at this time seems to me to be the result of a ten-years’ battle in his mind, and I am pleased to note that he now has the courage to stand by his convictions. Your brother in Christ, G. C. Driscoir. Dear BROTHER RUSSELL :— We again express to you our continued and growing love for yourself, and also for the work entrusted to your hands. We would also like to express our satisfaction with “the vow” in many, many ways; and particularly blessed have we been by the prayer for you all there and the work in your hands and our humble part therein. This vow has been also the means of bringing home to us the fulness of the consecration vow long since made, and has caused us to be much more careful in our scrutiny of our daily life. not only in the home, but before the world ag well. The Word has been made more precious to us than ever before, and we cannot but feel that the vow has been instrumental in a large measure in this. We are indeed pained to know that some are offended by that which it would appear could not offend any who do not desire to be somewhat entangled in the yoke of sin. The blessing to those who take it in its fulness will surely be manifest in the general church. With kindest regards to yourself and the friends, and especially to Brother Page, who, we note, is with you again, we are, Very sincerely yours, C. H. Dickinson anp WIFE. Vou. XXX ALLEGHENY, PA., MARCH 15, 1909 No. 6 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER CHRISTIAN NATIONS PERPLEXED Our doar friends, who do not believe in a future Millennium, attempt to prove that we are now enjoying the blessings of Christ’s kingdom, and point us to the Christian nations of the world, called “Christendom.” They are greatly perplexed when we inquire why if Christ is King he should have ditterent forms of government, and why his different governments for centuries have fought each other and today are wasting the blessings of our day on armies and navies and fortifications? Alas! the name “Christendom” is a delusion. Satan is still “the prince of this world” and the term “Satandom” would be the truer title. But our “wily” adversary is so crafty that he puts darkness for light and deludes the poor world. Thank God that soon Satan shall be bound for a thousand years that he may deceive the nations (peoples) no more, until the thousand years are finished.—Rev. 20:3, Meantime, however. some useful purposes are being served by the military expenditures. Employment is being given to millions of men not only in military and naval services, but also in the building of guns and forts and battleships,—the mining of the ore, the smelting and rolling of the steel, etc. And not the poor, but the rich, foot the bills in taxes. The following from the Aélantie Monthly is interesting:— CAUSE OF NATIONAL DEFICIT All the great nations are today facing deficits, caused in every case by the military and naval experts. Into what a tangle the finances of Russia and Japan have been brought by militarists is known to everybody. Germany has, in a single generation, increased her national] debt from eighteen million dollars to more than one billion dollars. The German Minster of Finance looks wildly around in search of new sources of national income. Financial experts confess that France is approaching the limit of her sources of revenue. Her deficit is created by her army and navy. The British government is always seeking for new devices by means of which to fill a depleted treasury. Her dreadnoughts keep her poor. Italy has for years staggered on the verge of bankruptcy because she carries an overgrown army on her back. Even our own rich republic faces this year a deficit of over a hundred million dollars, largely due to the one hundred and thirty millions we are spending on our navy. Mr. Cortelyou has called our attention to the fact that while in thirty years we have increased our population by 85 per cent. and our wealth by 185 per cent., we have increased our national expenses by 400 per cent. MANY SECESSIONS FROM THE C@RMAN STATE CHURCH Ecclesiastical circles in Germany are much exercised at the rapidly increasing desertions from the State church. Although the process of official separation from the church is one of the greatest difficulty, delay and expense, it is computed that in Berlin alone considerably over 10,000 persons have severed their connection with the church during the past [4350]
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