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]ANUA&Y
IS,
1906
ZIONJS
WATCH
TOWER
established
under
the
whole
heavens,
but,
additionally,
we
are
privileged
of
the
Lord
now
to
be
the
antitypical
Elijah,
the
antitypical
John
the
Baptist.
Throughout
the
entire
Gospel
age
the
church
in
the
flesh
has
been
doing
toward
the
world
a
work
similar
to
that
done
by
John
to
the
Jewish
nation
announcing
Messiah,
not
in
the
flesh,
but:
the
glorified
Christ,
Head
and
body,
and
the
kingdom
which
he
will
set
up.
This
greater
John
the
Baptist
or
greater
antitype
of
Elijah,
the
church
in
the
flesh,
has
exhorted
the
world,
or
as
many
of
them
as
have
had
ears
to
hear
the
message,
to
repent
of
sin,
to
reform
their
lives,
to
come
near
to
the
Lord
in
heart,
that
they
may
be
prepared
for
the
great
changes
that
are
imminent,
when
Messiah
shall
now
shortly
take
unto
himself
his
great
power
and
reign.
Those
who
accept
the
message
are
urged
to
make
a
conse·
cration
of
themselves
to
the
Lord
and
thus
to
prepare
their
hearts
for
his
kingdom.
Our
announcement
also
is
that
the
great
Christ
of
glory
will
shortly
appear
on
the
scene
and
that
all
in
harmony
with
him
will
then
receive
a
blessing
of
tho
holy
Spirit-not
the
first
fruits
but
the
completed
blessing,
the
resurrection
to
glory,
honor
and
immortality-while
to
the
remainder
of
mankind
will
come
the
great
time
of
trouble
s:{loken
of
by
the
mouth
of
the
holy
prophets
from
the
begin·
mng,
a
time
of
discipline
and
purification,
that
the
whole
world
may
learn
the
lessons
necessary
to
their
harmony
with
the
Lord,
that
they
may
be
ready
to
receive
the
blessing
which
his
king
dom
will
put
within
their
reach.
Let
us,
dear
brethren
and
sisters,
who
are
privileged
to
be
heralds
of
the
coming
kingdom,
be
earnest,
zealous
as
was
John
the
Baptist,
giving
comparatively
little
heed
to
the
customs
and
formalities
of
the
world,
and
giving
very
diligent
heed
to
our
appointed
work,
to
show
forth
the
praises
of
our
heav
enly
Bridegroom,
to
announce
him
to
all,
to
make
known
to
all
the
terms
and
conditions
of
his
favor
and
to
bear
witness
to
his
presence
now
in
the
harvest
time
of
this
age,
that
his
fan
is
in
his
hand,
that
he
will
thoroughly
purge
the
threshing
floor
of
all
chaff,
that
he
will
gather
the
wheat
into
the
garner
of
his
kingdom,
and
that
the
great
majority
of
Christen
dom
will
soon
enter
the
great
time
of
trouble.
If
faithful
in
this
ministry
as
the
anti
typical
Elijah
on
this
side
the
vail,
we
may
feel
sure
of
our
acceptance
as
members
of
the
body
of
the
Anointed
One
on
the
other
side
the
vail,
and
thus
have
participation
in
the
sufferings
of
the
present
time
an<l
in
the
glories
and
dignities
of
the
future.
VOL.
XXVII
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
FEBRUARY
1,
1906
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.3
leys;
but
with
its
inhabitants
destroyed
or
scattered
panic
stricken
or
degenerate
to
the
four
corners
of
the
Earth'"
EVOLUTIONISTS
IN
TROUBLE
Evolutionists
certainly
deserve
some
commiseration:
they
so
frequently
forget
themselves
and
tell
things
against
their
own
theory.
THE
CONFUSION
(BABEL)
OF
CHRISTENDOM
For
Instance,
whilst
telling
us
that
Africa
was
the
cradle
We
every
now
and
then
hear
of
some
great
scholar
who
of
mankind
from
which
by
evolution
various
races
advancing
has
spoken
or
written
things
which
have
shaken
the
faith
of
have
spread
over
the
earth;
and
while
hunting
in
that
field
many.
Then
we
note
announcements
that
his
arguments
have
for
a
claimed
"missing
link"
between
the
"least
developed"
been
met
and
refuted
by
some
other
professor:
that
Christian
of
mankind
and
the
monkey,
they
unthinkingly
blurt
out
a
faith
is
saved,
&C.
The
fact
of
the
matter
is
that
so
much
completely
different
story.
confusion
reigns
on
theological
questions
in
the
minds
of
many
In
an
article
on
Irrigation,
Prof.
A.
W.
Hadley
now
gives
that
they
know
not
what
they
are
discussing.
They
will
not
it
as
his
opinion
that
Africa
once
had
a
wonderful
civiliza-
look
at
the
truth,
but
will,
without
reading,
denounce
it
on
tion,
whose
"stupendous"
plans
and
perfect
"technical
de-
the
strength
of
some
one's
opposition.
They
are
blind
and
dote
tails"
were
so
grand
that
"
later
efforts
are
paled
into
in·
on
things
they
do
not
comprehend.
significance."
If
thousands
of
years
have
brought
degrada-
For
illustration,
Prof.
Haeckel,
a
German
scholar,
has
been
Hon
to
the
inhabitants
of
Africa,
does
not
this
down
the
Evo-
whacking
away
at
all
revealed
religion
in
a
publication,
"The
lution
theory
and
exalt
the
Bible
teaching
of
a
fall?
We
Riddle
of
the
Universe."
Because
he
attacked
openly"
Ortho·
quote
from
Prof.
Hadley's
article
as
follows:-
doxy"
could
understand
him
and
concluded
it
should
be
fright-
ENGINEERING
PAST
AND
PRESENT
ened
because
he
so
intimated.
At
once
a
champion
is
found
"The
ancient
period
has
to
do
with
that
accomplished
in
the
person
of
"Sir
Oliver
Lodge,
D.
Sc.,
F.
R.
S.,
LL.
D.,"
during
the
reign
of
the
Pharaohs,
kings
of
Egypt
who
ruled
whose
array
of
titles
implies
worldly
wisdom.
He
declares
4,000
years
ago,
and
carried
out
irrigation
plans
so
bold
in
that
he
can
refute
Haacke!'
"Orthodoxy"
grasps
the
sug
conception
and
colossal
in
execution
that
modern
works
are
gestion
with
joyl
not
because
Orthodoxy
knows
what
he
will
dwarfed
into
practical
insignificance.
say
or
cares
much,
but
because
he
says
he
is
on
her
side
ahd
"Recently
discovered
ancient
writings
and
subsequent
in-
he
has
influence
and
titles.
vestigation
by
scientific
explorers
reveal
substantial
evidence
The
Christian
Commonwealth
devoted
an
entire
page
recent
to
the
effect
that
the
famous
six
cataracts
of
the
Nile
between
ly
to
Sir
Oliver
Lodge's
arguments
and
commented
on
them
Assouan
and
Khartoum
are
not,
as
had
been
supposed
for
ages,
thus:-
mere
works
of
Nature,
but
are,
instead,
the
ruins
of
gigantic
"In
view
of
the
world-wide
circulation
of
Prof.
Haeckel's
wor\s
of
man,
who
constructed
them
for
irrigation,
power
and
attack
on
the
fundamentals
of
the
Christian
faith-for
that
navigation
purposes.
is
what
his
"Riddle
of
the
Universe"
amounts
to-the
pub-
"If
this
be
true,
then
is
Egyptian
irrigation,
like
its
civili.
lication
of
Sir
Oliver
Lodge's
reply
is
a
matter
of
the
first
zation
and
literature,
but
another
of
the
'Lost
Arts.
of
the
importance
to
all
Christians,
especially
preachers
and
teach
Ancients;
.
for
so
stupendous
were
the
plans
and
so
perfectly
ers."
were
the
technical
details
of
engineering
carried
out
that
later
With
such
indorsement
what
spiritual
wisdom
might
we
efforts
paled
into
insignificance.
not
expect.
From
among
other
unchristian
and
unscriptural
"For
hundreds
of
miles
over
the
barren
wastes
on
either
presentations
we
quote
below
some
extracts
which,
going
out
side
of
the
Nile,
where
history
tells
us
there
once
flourished
thus
labeled
I'
Orthodox,"
will
no
doubt
do
far
more
harm
populous
cities,
can
now
be
found
the
traces
of
great
canals
than
Prof.
Haeckel's
nonsense,
more
plainly
labeled
infidelity.
extending
northward
to
the
Mediterranean
and,
in
fact,
radiat-
Thus
it
is
everywhere:
professors
and
ministers
are
posing
ing
over
the
entire
Soudan.
These
are
found
to
lead
to
the
as
defenders
of
Orthodoxy
who,
most
decidedly,
are
unbelievers
Vicinity
of
the
several
cataracts
where
the
gigantic
block"3
of
in
the
fundamentals
of
Christianity.
granite
which
form
them
extend
for
more
than
a
mile
across
Among
other
things
Sir
Oliver
Lodge
said,
as
quoted
in
the
river
and
are
visible
at
low
Nile.
Furthermore,
these
"The
Christian
Commonwealth"
(we
are
glad
that
we
are
blocks
are
of
a
peculiar
formation
of
granite,
totally
unlike
not
participators
in
its
common
wealth
of
error):
any
other
rock
in
the
vicinity,
and
found
only
built
up
in
this
.
"I
believe
that
the
universe
is
struggling
up
towards
some·
way
at
the
several
cataracts.
thing,
and
that
we
are
agents,
that
God
does
not
work
with-
"As
additional
writings
are
discovered
and
exploration
out
agents.
We
have
to
lend
Him
a
helping
hand;
certain
progresses
the
evidence
continues
to
grow
until
we
are
now
things
will
not
be
done
on
this
planet
unless
we
do
them.
We
practically
convinced
that
immense
areas
in
the
great
Soudan,
have
the
power
to
help
and
the
power
to
refuse
help
or
even
with
its
miles
of
trackless,
sun-scorched
waste,
were
once
under
to
hinder."
the
most
intensive
cultivation,
and
the
support
of
a
vast
popu-
Sir
Oliver
Lodge's
vague
ideas
respecting
a
Nature
God
lation.
may
be
guessed
from
his
statement
following.
He
is
wholly
"Who
may
say
but
that
the
surviving
ruins
of
the
pyra-
adverse
to
the
Bible
teaching
of
man's
creation
in
God's
im
mids,
temples
and
tombs
were
but
at
the
elevated
gateway
to
age,
his
fall
through
sin,
his
redemption
by
the
sacrifice
of
such
a
region,
and
that
there
now
lies
hidden
beneath
hundreds
Christ
and
his
hope
of
resurrection
to
more
than
was
lost
by
of
feet
of
silently
shifting
sand
the
graveyard
of
an
empire,
obedience
to
the
Redeemer
when
his
kingdom
comes.
We
with
its
cities,
towns
and
hamlets
and
its
one-time
fertile
val-
quote:-
[3713l
JANUARY 15, 1906 established under the whole heavens, but, additionally, we are privileged of the Lord now to be the antitypical Elijah, the antitypical John the Baptist. Throughout the entire Gospel age the church in the flesh has been doing toward the world a work similar to that done by John to the Jewish nation— announcing Messiah, not in the flesh, but the glorified Christ, Head and body, and the kingdom which he will set up. This greater John the Baptist or greater antitype of Elijah, the church in the flesh, has exhorted the world, or as many of them as have had ears to hear the message, to repent of sin, to reform their lives, to come near to the Lord in heart, that they may be prepared for the great changes that are imminent, when Messiah shall now shortly take unto himself his great power and reign. Those who accept the message are urged to make a conseeration of themselves to the Lord and thus to prepare their hearts for his kingdom. Our announcement also is that the great Christ of glory will shortly appear on the scene and that all in harmony with him will then receive a blessing of the holy Spirit—not the first fruits but the completed blessing, the resurrection to glory, honor and immortality—while to the remainder of mankind will come the great time of trouble Vou. XX VII ZION’S WATCH TOWER ALLEGHENY, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1906 (31-35) spoken of by the mouth of the holy prophets from the beginning, a time of discipline and purification, that the whole world may learn the lessons necessary to their harmony with the Lord, that they may be ready to receive the blessing which his kingdom will put within their reach. Let us, dear brethren and sisters, who are privileged to be heralds of the coming kingdom, be earnest, zealous as was John the Baptist, giving comparatively little heed to the customs and formalities of the world, and giving very diligent heed to our appointed work, to show forth the praises of our heavenly Bridegroom, to announce him to all, to make known to all the terms and conditions of his favor and to bear witness to his presence now in the harvest time of this age, that his fan is in his hand, that he will thoroughly purge the threshingfloor of all chaff, that he will gather the wheat into the garner of his kingdom, and that the great majority of Christendom will soon enter the great time of trouble. If faithful in this ministry as the antitypical Elijah on this side the vail, we may feel sure of our acceptance as members of the body of the Anointed One on the other side the vail, and thus have participation in the sufferings of the present time and in the glories and dignities of the future. No. 3 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER EVOLUTIONISTS IN TROUBLE Evolutionists certainly deserve some commiseration: they so frequently forget themselves and tell things against their own theory. For instance, whilst telling us that Africa was the cradle of mankind from which by evolution various races advancing have spread over the earth; and while hunting in that field for a claimed ‘‘missing link’’ between the ‘‘least developed’’ of mankind and the monkey, they unthinkingly blurt out a completely different story. In an article on Irrigation, Prof. A. W. Hadley now gives it as his opinion that Africa once had a wonderful civilization, whose ‘‘stupendous’’ plans and perfect ‘‘technical details’’ were so grand that ‘‘later efforts are paled into insignificance.’’ If thousands of years have brought degradation to the inhabitants of Africa, does not this down the Evolution theory and exalt the Bible teaching of a fall? We quote from Prof. Hadley’s article as follows:— ENGINEERING PAST AND PRESENT ‘‘Phe ancient period has to do with that accomplished during the reign of the Pharaohs, kings of Egypt who ruled 4,000 years ago, and carried out irrigation plans so bold in conception and colossal in execution that modern works are dwarfed into practical insignificance. ‘*Recently discovered ancient writings and subsequent investigation by scientific explorers reveal substantial evidence to the effect that the famous six cataracts of the Nile between Assouan and Khartoum are not, as had been supposed for ages, mere works of Nature, but are, instead, the ruins of gigantic works of man, who constructed them for irrigation, power and navigation purposes. “‘Tf this be true, then is Egyptian irrigation, like its civilization and literature, but another of the ‘Lost Arts of the Ancients; ' for so stupendous were the plans and so perfectly were the technical details of engineering carried out that later efforts paled into insignificance. “For hundreds of miles over the barren wastes on either side of the Nile, where history tells us there once flourished populous cities, can now be found the traces of great canals extending northward to the Mediterranean and, in fact, radiating over the entire Soudan. These are found to lead to the vicinity of the several cataracts where the gigantic blocks of granite which form them extend for more than a mile across the river and are visible at low Nile. Furthermore, these blocks are of a peculiar formation of granite, totally unlike any other rock in the vicinity, and found only built up in this way at the several cataracts. ‘As additional writings are discovered and exploration progresses the evidence continues to grow until we are now practically convinced that immense areas in the great Soudan, with its miles of trackless, sun-scorched waste, were once under the most intensive cultivation, and the support of a vast popuation. ‘““Who may say but that the surviving ruins of the pyramids, temples and tombs were but at the elevated gateway to such a region, and that there now lies hidden beneath hundreds of feet of silently shifting sand the graveyard of an empire, with its cities, towns and hamlets and its one-time fertile val leys; but with its inhabitants destroyed or scattered panicstricken or degenerate to the four corners of the Earth???’ THE CONFUSION (BABEL) OF CHRISTENDOM We every now and then hear of some great scholar who has spoken or written things which have shaken the faith of many. Then we note announcements that his arguments have been met and refuted by some other professor: that Christian faith is saved, &. The fact of the matter is that so much confusion reigns on theological questions in the minds of many that they know not what they are discussing. They will not look at the truth, but will, without reading, denounce it on the strength of some one’s opposition. They are blind and dote on things they do not comprehend. For illustration, Prof. Haeckel, a German scholar, has been whacking away at all revealed religion in a publication, ‘‘The Riddle of the Universe.’’ Because he attacked openly ‘‘ Orthodoxy’’ could understand him and concluded it should be frightened because he so intimated. At once a champion is found in the person of ‘‘Sir Oliver Lodge, D. Sc., F. R. 8., LL. D.,”’ whose array of titles implies worldly wisdom. He declares that he can refute Haeckel. ‘‘Orthodoxy’’ grasps the suggestion with joy! not because Orthodoxy knows what he will say or cares much, but because he says he is on her side and he has influence and titles. The Christian Commonwealth devoted an entire page recenty to Sir Oliver Lodge’s arguments and commented on them thus:— ‘In view of the world-wide circulation of Prof. Haeckel’s attack on the fundamentals of the Christian faith—for that is what his ‘‘Riddle of the Universe’’ amounts to—the publication of Sir Oliver Lodge’s reply is a matter of the first importance to all Christians, especially preachers and teachers.’’ With such indorsement what spiritual wisdom might we not expect. From among other unchristian and unscriptura] presentations we quote below some extracts which, going out thus labeled *‘Orthodox,’’ will no doubt do far more harm than Prof. Haeckel’s nonsense, more plainly labeled infidelity. Thus it is everywhere: professors and ministers are posing as defenders of Orthodoxy who, most decidedly, are unbelievers in the fundamentals of Christianity. Among other things Sir Oliver Lodge said, as quoted in ‘“‘The Christian Commonwealth’? (we are glad that we are not participators in its common wealth of error): ‘I believe that the universe is struggling up towards something, and that we are agents, that God does not work without agents. We have to lend Him a helping hand; certain things will not be done on this planet unless we do them. We have the power to help and the power to refuse help or even to hinder.’’ Sir Oliver Lodge’s vague ideas respecting a Nature God may be guessed from his statement following. He is wholly adverse to the Bible teaching of man’s creation in God’s image, his fall through sin, his redemption by the sacrifice of Christ and his hope of resurrection to more than was lost by obedience to the Redeemer when his kingdom comes. We quote :— [3713]
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