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MAY
I,
1909
THE
WATCH
TOWER
(143-147
)
of
my
thirty-six
years
been
spent
in
the
newspaper,
printing
and
publishing
business,
which
enables
me
to
draw
a
fair
idea
of
your
burdensome
duties
while
serving
the
Lord
in
so
many
different
capacities.
However,
I
am
impressed
that
it
would
be
unwise
on
my
part
to
further
delay
writing
you,
hence
this
letter.
We
have
a
small
class
here
which
elected
me
teacher.
Will
you
and
the
Bethel
family
remember
me
daily
at
the
throne
of
grace
1
I
want
more
of
the
holy
Spirit
and
the
spirit
of
a
sound
mind.
I
want
to
teach
with
understanding.
Fifteen
years
ago
I
joined
my
wife
and
the
Methodist
Church.
I
know
at
the
time
my
wife
was
the
principal
magnet,
although
I
firmly
believed
the
Lord
would
come
my
way
anc}
in
due
time
make
me
as
happy
as
my
brethren
pro
fessed
to
be.
My
blessed
Redeemer
did
not
give
me
the
:;weet
assurance
I
expected,
and
after
two
years
I
withdrew
with
more
noise
and
confusion
than
I
commenced
with.
I
resolved
to
never
enter
the
building
again
and
that
resolution
hall
not
been
broken.
I
took
up
Darwin,
Hume
and
Ingersoll.
These
were
later
discarded
for
Confucius,
Buddha
and
Mohammed.
None
of
these
things
satisfied
my
hunger
for
Truth.
Then
came
the
Book
of
Mormonism,
which
I
read
with
considerable
enthusiasm
and
finally
passed
it
up
to
a
Baptist
preacher.
About
this
time
Mrs.
Eddy
made
her
little
bow
in
my
com
munity,
begmning
with
my
wife's
mother,
a
very
bright
and
well·disposed
lady,
whose
wealth
and
social
prominence
added
no
little
to
the
Eddy
Idea
at
this
place.
I
studied
the
proposi
tion
hard,
but
was
not
permitted
to
see
the
point.
One
day
one
of
the
Lord's
faithful,
Bro.
C.
S.
Livingston,
of
Enter·
prise,
asked
me
if
I
would
take
pleasure
in
the
Truth
if
I
knew
it
was
Truth.
I
told
him
I
would.
Then
he
gave
me
Volume
I
and
asked
me
to
~o
to
my
closet
and
pray
for
help
to
understand
that
book.
If
there
was
a
God
I
wanted
to
know
it.
Besides
I
was
in
the
micldle
of
a
campaign
for
an
important
county
office
and
the
election
was
only
six:
weeks
ahead,
and
I
wanted
to
please
Brother
Livingston
and
get
his
vote.
I
went
on
to
my
closet
and
tried
to
pray.
It
was
the
first
time
I
had
tried
to
communicate
with
the
Lord
in
ten
or
twelve
years.
My
petition
was
short
and
remarkably
stupid,
but
the
Lord
certainly
looked
at
the
spirit
in
which
I
approached
him
and
not
the
eloquence
or
multiplicity
of
words.
One
week
later
I
retired
from
politics
forever,
thank
the
Lord.
My
friends
urged
and
threatened,
but
I
retired
from
the
race.
Five
weeks
later
I
had
read
the
six
volumes,
Tabernacle
Shadow8
and
several
\V
ATCH
TOWERS.
I
went
out
on
the
streets
and
wrangled
with
every
preacher
and
Sunday
School
teacher
I
could
find.
I
thought
I
was
going
to
be
a
power
among
my
friends
and
political
followers.
But
alas,
it
is
sad
to
relate.
They
say,
and
believe,
"Much
study
has
wrecked
his
mind,
for
a
truth
he
has
paresis!"
I
have
been
zealous
for
the
Lord
and
the
doctrine
of
the
Kingdom.
On
every
suitable
occasion
I
pour
out
all
the
hall
at
my
command;
but
they
won't
listen.
If
they
can't
slip
away
they
will
try
to
change
the
subject-sing,
do
anything
except
listen.
Not
one
grain
of
wheat
can
be
traced
to
my
energies.
The
real
pillar
of
the
Baptist
Church
at
this
place
for
twenty
years,
Brother
J.
J.
Morris,
accepted
the
Truth
four
months
ago
and
Babylon
charges
me
with
his
ruin
and
destruction.
Would
to
God
they
told
the
truth,
but
they
do
not;
as
usual,
they
err;
the
Lord
did
it.
And
now,
since
he
is
not
grinding
at
their
mill,
they
say
"he
always
did
have
cranky
notions."
Enclosed
you
will
please
find
"the
Vow,"
our
Vow.
All
the
"Israelites
indeed,
in
whom
there
is
no
guile,"
will
take
the
Vow.
Tho
more
I
see
of
it
the
more
I
am
impressed
that
it
is
the
Lord's
sieve.
Please
send
us
a
Pilgrim.
The
friends
want
an
Alabama
Convention
at
Texasville
in
the
summer.
Remember
us
daily
at
the
Throne
of
grace.
Yours
in
the
One
Hope,
W.
M.
BAILEY.
THE
NEWSPAPER
EVANGELISM
The
number
of
newspapers
publishing-
Brother
Russell's
sermons
weekly
continues
to
increase.
\Ye
advise
these
be
given
the
preference
and
every
way
encouraged.
If
any
poper
cuts
down
the
space
below
three
columns
or
fails
to
publish
the
sermon,
write
the
editor
a
kind
card
telling
of
your
interest
in
the
sermons
and
that
you
subscribe
for
his
paper
largely
on
account
of
the
sermons.
If
you
subscribed
through
us
drop
us
a
card
of
explanation
also.
VOL.
XXX
BROOKLYN,
N.
Y.,
MAY
15,
1909
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
No.
10
":BLASTING
AT
THE
BOOK
OF
AGES"
For
the
past
twenty
years
we
have
been
sounding
the
alarm
a~ainst
the
infidel
tendencies
of
the
colle~es
and
seminaries
of
Christendom.
We
have
pointed
out
that
Higher
Criticism
of
the
Bible
and
the
Evolution
Theory
are
taught
in
practically
every
institution
of
learning
of
higher
grade
than
a
Grammar
School
and
that
even
in
these
the
seeds
of
infidelity
are
being
sown
in
the
class
books
and
studies,
though
not
openly
lec·
tured
upon.
In
these
twenty
years
we
have
counselled
parents
that
it
is
better
to
give
their
children
less
education
than
to
risk
the
complete
wreck
of
their
religious
instincts
and
faith
in
God
and
the
Bible.
Our
views
were
thought
to
be
extreme
and
rarely
heeded.
Now
parents
are
writin~
us
of
their
sad
mis
take--that
the
faith
of
their
children
IS
irreparably
lost,
be
cause
they
refuse
to
read
the
only
thing
which
would
enable
them
to
regain
the
ground
of
faith
lost,
namely
The
Divine
Plan
of
the
Ages.
Finally,
when
the
new
manhood
and
womanhood
have
been
thoroughly
inoculated
with
the
poison
of
infidelity
others
are
awakening
to
the
situation;
as,
for
instance,
Mr.
Hjarold
BoIce,
who
writes
in
the
"Cosmopolitan,"
and
Hon.
H.
S.
Blake,
who
has
started
a
good
warfare
in
Canada.
We
give
below
John
Temple
Graves'
note
of
alarm.
He
says:-
Out
of
the
curricula
of
American
colleges
a
dynamic
move·
ment
is
upheaving
ancient
foundations
and
making
an
open
way
for
a
revolution
in
the
thought
and
life
of
this
people.
Those
who
are
not
in
close
touch
with
the
great
colleges
of
the
country
will
be
astonished,
in
most
cases
indignant,
to
learn
the
creeds
that
are
being
fostered
by
the
strong
men
in
the
professors'
chairs.
In
hundreds
of
classrooms
there
is
a
scholarly
repudiation
of
all
solemn
authority,
and
it
is
being
taught
daily
that
"the
Decalogue
is
no
more
sacred
than
a
syllabus";
that
"the
home
as
an
institution
is
doomed";
that
"there
are
no
abso
lute
evils";
that
"immorality
is
simply
an
act
in
contraven-
tion
of
society's
accepted
standards";
that
"democracy
is
a
failure
and
the
Declaration
of
Independence
only
spectacular
rhetoric"
;
that
"the
change
from
one
religion
to
another
is
like
getting
a
new
hat";
that
"moral
precepts
are
passing
shibboleths";
that
"conceptions
of
right
and
wrong
are
as
un·
stable
as
styles
of
dre'ls;"
that
"wide
stairwa.YH
are
open
be
tween
sorial
levels,
but
that
to
the
climber
children
are
en·
cumbrances";
that
"the
sole
effect
of
prolificacy
is
to
fill
tiny
graves,"
and
that
"there
can
be
and
are
holier
alliances
outside
the
marriage
bond
than
within
it!"
Every
quoted
sentiment
is
from
the
spoken
or
written
word
of
some
one
of
the
leading
and
famous
professors
of
the
great
colleges.
And
the
colleges
carrying
such
new
and
revolutionary
creeds
are
not
the
minor
schools,
but
those
vaster
seminaries
such
as
Harvard,
Yale,
Princeton
(shade
of
Jonathan
Edwards
behold
it!),
University
of
Pennsylvania,
University
of
Chi·
cago,
Columbia,
Syracuse,
California,
George
Washington,
Wil·
liam
and
Mary,
Northwestern,
the
universities
of
New
York,
Iowa,
Kansas,
Michigan,
Wisconsin,
Cornell,
Brown,
Leland
Stanford,
Union,
Nebraska
and
others.
In
each
of
these
great
institutions
some
professor,
neither
infallible
nor
inspired,
but
a
free
thinker
rioting
in
the
mere
license
of
opinion,
and
some,
alas,
hungering
for
the
noto
riety
of
the
utterance,
are
flinging
down
daily
doctrines
like
these,
not
to
strong
and
mature
men
capable
of
discrimina
tion
and
accustomed
to
disputation,
but
speaking
from
reo
sponsible
stations
to
youthful
and
undeveloped
minds
which
are
accustomed
to
receive
what
comes
from
the
scholar
in
the
chair
of
authority
as
the
unchallenged
gospel
of
the
time.
"Meat
for
strong
men
and
milk
for
babies,"
has
no
re
straining
influence
upon
the
riot
of
opinion
among
these
so
called
professors
of
today.
If
these
men
really
believe
the
monstrous
conceptions
which
are
stirring
the
age
to
unwhole
some
revolution
against
the
doctrines
of
the
ages,
they
should
at
least
voice
them
first
in
serious
councils
of
their
peers,
and
submit
them
solemnly
and
primarily
to
an
arena
in
which
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May 1, 1909 of my thirty-six years been spent in the newspaper, printing and publishing business, which enables me to draw a fair idea of your burdensome duties while serving the Lord in so many different capacities. However, I am impressed that it would be unwise on my part to further delay writing you, hence this letter. We have a small class here which elected me teacher. Will you and the Bethel family remember me daily at the throne of grace? I want more of the holy Spirit and the spirit of a sound mind. I want to teach with understanding. Fifteen years ago I joined my wife and the Methodist Church. I know at the time my wife was the principal magnet, although I firmly believed the Lord would come my way and in due time make me as happy as my brethren professed to be. My blessed Redeemer did not give me the sweet assurance I expected, and after two years I withdrew with more noise and confusion than I commenced with. I resolved to never enter the building again and that resolution has not been broken. I took up Darwin, Hume and Ingersoll. These were later discarded for Confucius, Buddha and Mohammed. None of these things satisfied my hunger for Truth. Then came the Book of Mormonism, which I read with considerable enthusiasm and finally passed it up to a Baptist preacher. About this time Mrs. Eddy made her little bow in my community, beginning with my wife’s mother, a very bright and well-disposed lady, whose wealth and social prominence added no little to the Eddy Idea at this place. I studied the proposition hard, but was not permitted to see the point. One day one of the Lord’s faithful, Bro. C. S. Livingston, of Enterprise, asked me if I would take pleasure in the Truth if I knew it was Truth. I told him I would. Then he gave me Volume 1 and asked me to go to my closet and pray for help to understand that book. If there was a God I wanted to know it. Besides I was in the middle of a campaign for an important county office and the election was only six weeks THE WATCH TOWER (143-147) ahead, and I wanted to please Brother Livingston and get his vote. I went on to my closet and tried to pray. It was the first time I had tried to communicate with the Lord in ten or twelve years. My petition was short and remarkably stupid, but the Lord certainly looked at the spirit in which I approached him and not the eloquence or multiplicity of words. One week later I retired from politics forever, thank the Lord. My friends urged and threatened, but I retired from the race. Five weeks later I had read the six volumes, Tabernacle Shadows and several WatcH Towers. I went out on the streets and wrangled with every preacher and Sunday School teacher I could find. I thought I was going to be a power among my friends and politica] followers. But alas, it is sad to relate. They say, and believe, “Much study has wrecked his mind, for a truth he has paresis!” I have been zealous for the Lord and the doctrine of the Kingdom. On every suitable occasion I pour out all the hail at my command; but they won’t listen. If they can’t slip away they will try to change the subject—sing, do anything except listen. Not one grain of wheat can be traced to my energies. The real pillar of the Baptist Church at this place for twenty years, Brother J. J. Morris, accepted the Truth four months ago and Babylon charges me with his ruin and destruction. Would to God they told the truth, but they do not; as usual, they err; the Lord did it. And now, since he is not grinding at their mill, they say “he always did have cranky notions.” Enclosed you will please find “the Vow,” our Vow. All the “Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile,” will take the Vow. The more I see of it the more I am impressed that it is the Lord’s sieve. Please send us a Pilgrim. The friends want an Alabama Convention at Texasville in the summer. Remember us daily at the Throne of grace. Yours in the One Hope, W. M. BaILey. THE NEWSPAPER EVANGELISM The number of newspapers publishing Brother Russell’s sermons weekly continues to increase. We advise these be given the preference and every way encouraged. If any paper cuts down the space below three columns or fails to Vor. XXX BROOKLYN, N. Y., MAY 15, 1909 publish the sermon, write the editor a kind card telling of your interest in the sermons and that you subscribe for his paper largely on account of the sermons. If you subscribed through us drop us a card of explanation also. No. 10 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER ‘BLASTING AT THE ROCK OF AGES’’ For the past twenty years we have been sounding the alarm against the infidel tendencies of the colleges and seminaries of Christendom. We have pointed out that Higher Criticism of the Bible and the Evolution Theory are taught in practically every institution of learning of higher grade than a Grammar School and that even in these the seeds of infidelity are being sown in the class books and studies, though not openly lectured upon. In these twenty years we have counselled parents that it is better to give their children less education than to risk the complete wreck of their religious instincts and faith in God and the Bible. Our views were thought to be extreme and rarely heeded. Now parents are writing us of their sad mistake—that the faith of their children is irreparably lost, because they refuse to read the only thing which would enable them to regain the ground of faith lost, namely The Divine Plan of the Ages. Finally, when the new manhood and womanhood have been thoroughly inoculated with the poison of infidelity others are awakening to the situation; as, for instance, Mr. Harold Bolce, who writes in the “Cosmopolitan,” and Hon. H. S. Blake, who has started a good warfare in Canada, We give below John Temple Graves’ note of alarm. He says:— Out of the curricula of American colleges a dynamic movement is upheaving ancient foundations and making an open way for a revolution in the thought and life of this people. Those who are not in close touch with the great colleges of the country will be astonished, in most cases indignant, to learn the creeds that are being fostered by the strong men in the professors’ chairs. In hundreds of classrooms there is a scholarly repudiation of all solemn authority, and it is being taught daily that “the Decalogue is no more sacred than a syllabus”; that “the home as an institution ig doomed”; that “there are no absolute evils”; that “immorality is simply an act in contraven tion of society’s accepted standards”; that “democracy is a failure and the Declaration of Independence only spectacular rhetoric’; that “the change from one religion to another is like getting a new hat”; that “moral precepts are passing shibboleths’”; that “conceptions of right and wrong are as unstable as styles of dress;” that “wide stairways are open between social levels, but that to the climber children are encumbrances”; that “the sole effect of prolificacy is to fill tiny graves,” and that “there can be and are holier alliances outside the marriage bond than within it!” Every quoted sentiment is from the spoken or written word of some one of the leading and famous professors of the great colleges. And the colleges carrying such new and revolutionary creeds are not the minor schools, but those vaster seminaries such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton (shade of Jonathan Edwards behold it!), University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Columbia, Syracuse, California, George Washington, William and Mary, Northwestern, the universities of New York, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Cornell, Brown, Leland Stanford, Union, Nebraska and others. In each of these great institutions some professor, neither infallible nor inspired, but a free thinker rioting in the mere license of opinion, and some, alas, hungering for the notoriety of the utterance, are flinging down daily doctrines like these, not to strong and mature men capable of discrimination and accustomed to disputation, but speaking from responsible stations to youthful and undeveloped minds which are accustomed to receive what comes from the scholar in the chair of authority as the unchallenged gospel of the time. “Meat for strong men and milk for babies,” has no restraining influence upon the riot of opinion among these socalled professors of today. If these men really believe the monstrous conceptions which are stirring the age to unwholesome revolution against the doctrines of the ages, they should at least voice them first in serious councils of their peers, and submit them solemnly and primarily to an arena in which [4393]
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