HEIGHTS AND
DEPTHS DIVINE
Faster Russell en tha All-Par-vad.ng
Lova of God.
BIDS FAREWELL TO BOMBAY-
Preacher Sees Hopeful Signs That the
Religious Sentiment of India Will Be
Illumined With the True Light Di
vine Power Will Be Exercised to
Awaken the People to an Under
standing of the Glory of Cod.
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fPASIOli (?TJSSTir)
lionibay. Feb. .
Tbe Committee of
tbe International
Itlblo Student k As
soelation for the in
vestigation of For-i-Ijin
Missions have
spent three weeks
id India and trav
elled over three
thousand ml let.
The seven mem
bers divided tbe
work amongst
themselves at the
various stopping points and will eolabor
ill the report. VV'c report today's dis
course It) the V. M. C. A. Auditorium
by I'nstor Knssoll. the Chairman of
tbe Committee, us follows:
I bud a great liferent In your land
and Its people lie fore coming to your
shores, but my luterest has been
greatly Increased by what I have wit
nessed during the past three weeks in
India -not only In your largest cities,
but also In your towus. villages and
agricultural districts. As there are no
other extremes in the world so great
as lie) ween the caps of your Himalaya
mountains and the wash of your coral
Ht rands. J!t.(Kl() feet below them, so
likewise there can le found no greater
contrast socially and financially then
between your wealthy princes and
your poverty iilrlckon lower castes.
Although such contrasts are deplora
ble we have no remedy to suggest, ex
cept the Divine one the establish
ment of Messiah's Kingdom.
Sympnthy Misapplied.
Meantime, If poverty be favorable to
salntslilp. there should be excellent
material In abundance here. Indeed,
one of the things w hich has Impressed
me Is the religious sentiment of India.
The religious fervor of the thousands
who bathe In the Ganges, and the
numerous temples nnd shrines In every
city, remind me of Saint l'uul's words
respecting some of tils day: "feeling
after God. If Imply they . might Hud
Mm" The two thousand temples and
shrines of the one city of llenares
speak volumes for the religious senti
ment of the people and. although I
have remarked of your hundreds ot
millions of hopelessly poor. 1 have not
overlooked the fact that some of your
wealthy have shown that they are not
without generous Instincts. Many ot
your merchant princes have evidently
given largely to the charitable Institu
tions, notably In Itoinbny; and I would
not overlook tbe fact that In one of
your great cities large nnimal hospitals
have been provided for decrepit chick
mm, donkeys, horses, etc. However
we tuny consider such sympathy mis
applied, In view of human need and
HtifTerlmr. we cannot overlook the fact
that sympathy is there only waiting
for the proper direction which Mes
siah's Kingdom will shortly give.
J it your own grand Itotnbny I noted
with astonishment the Towers of Si
lence, where the Parse element of
your population gives the tlesh of Its
dend to feed the vultures. Alas! my
soul cries out. Is not such heroism
worthy of a better cause would not
these I 'a ires make wonderfully faith
ful Christians. If they but had the
blessing of the true Light? Mow I re
joice In t ho Irivlno promise that the
true Light of the world shall yet light
en every man that cotmth into the
'world: iJobn I, 0.1 Mow glad I am
that now i see the Divine provision
for the hundreds of millions of India
and ot the Whole world to come to a
knowledge of the glory of Cod, under
tbe uplifting of the Kingdom of Mes
siah! And how I rejoice to believe It
la near, even nt ttip doors Just behind
a terrible time of trouble and anarchy.
which India will not escape:
Heights and Depths Divine.
lint I must not dwell too much on tbe
dark side of India's picture; you know
it tisi well already. I will allow the
wonderful heights of the Himalayas
from your sea shore to draw our ntteu
tlon to the Apostle's words respecting
"the heights nnd depths, the lengths
and breadths of the Love of Hod.
which pasHcth all understanding " That
Is the text of my parting words to
India. In the past our forefathers
studied God's Word with the light of
tallow candle, or of a pine knot, or
of a smoking lump; now we may
uearch the Scriptures In the clear,
.steady light of ttte electric lamp, which
brings us utmost noon day bright
ticks.
Correspondingly, we dud beauties In
the Divine Word and Plan which our
forefathers of the day of the tallow
dip could not discern. Once we be
lieved with onr forefathers that God's
love was merely for the "elect." saintly
lew. aud that the non-elect. In Ms dis
pleasure, lie bad doomed to eternal
Buffering. Now we see the same bless
ings as ever for ho "elect," but other
blessings for tbu uon-eloct. the world -artbly
blewdngs of restitution to hu
man perfection and to on earthly Eden,
world-wide
Our forefathers saw the height of
Cod's love for the holy angels and its
condescension to the saintly of men.
but they did not see its depths. They
did not see that the Kcdcmption accom
plished by Jesus Is ultimately to reach
down to and embrace the very
humblest and most degraded of human
kind How the precious Scriptures
which tell of .lesus as the Saviour of
the world, as well as of the Church,
escaped our notice, who can explain?
Put surely glad are we that now we
can see clearly that the Itodeemer is
,1 Propitiation for our sins, the Church's
sins, und not for ours only, but also
for the sins of the v. hole world.
This fuller appreciation of the
lengths and breadths and heights and
depths of love Divine is coming to
Christian people ns a benediction from
heaven. Just at the time when many
are Highor-Critically repudiating the
Illble and Its God as unworthy of be
lief. The true view of Cod's Word
we have Intimated, namely, that all
the families of the earth are to be
blessed by Messiah's Kingdom, and
that the Church. In process of election
for the past eighteen centuries. Is to
be sharer with her Lord In that King
dom.
Is It any wonder that this glori
ous view of our Creator and His plan
for human salvation Is Inspiring sanc
tifying to the hearts of all who have
the hearing ear to receive It! Is It not
In full accord with the earliest state
ment of the Gospel. Through thy Seed
shall all the families of the earth be
blessed?" Is It not the claim of the
Church and of the lllble that the saint
ly believers of the Gospel Age consti
tute the spiritual Seed of Abraham, the
lirlde of Messiah, "the Hotly or Christ
which Is the Church?" And have we
not also the assurance, "If ye be
Christ's, then are ye' Abraham's Seed,
and heirs according to the promise V"
Galatians 111. Pi. 1!0.
From the Horrible Pit.
Another view or the heights nnd
depths of God's love Is that which rec
ognizes us as a race fallen from hu
man perfection Into the mire of sin
whose quicksands are swallowing up
mankind at the rate of itO.OOO every
day. The Divine Program shows two
salvations for the groaning creation.
The lirst of these Is the most wonder
ful; It Is now In progress, and we urge
all who have the hearing ear to lay
aside every weight ami every besot
ting sin that they may attain this spe
cial salvation offered to the Church.
Hy faith, through the medium of ex
ceeding great and precious promises.
God Is now lifting the obedient "elect"
from the original pit of sin and death,
from the mental degradation In which
we all were as Adam's race; and to
some extent they are being lifted also
physically from this degradation.
The transforming work begins with
each believer In .lesus who presents
himself a living sacrifice to walk in
tho Master's footsteps. Eveo thoug'.i
these may not generally be of the
wealthy nnd educated and higher so
cial classes, the power of the Holy
Spirit operating through the Divine
promises gradually beautifies- not only
the characters but to some extent the
features of those who rejoice to take
up their cross and follow the Savior.
However uncouth and rude or care
less or savage they may have been be
fore, the transforming Influence of the
Holy Spirit develops In them the fruits
of the spirit meekness, gentleness, pa
tience, lorigsufferliig. brotherly-kindness,
love; nnd these things continuing
in them and abounding more and more,
ami attesting their faithfulness unto
death, make these neither barren nor
unfruitful In the knowledge of Cod
und In the character-likeness of Jesus:
nnd hence the Resurrection change will
usher them into the everlasting King
dom of their Saviour to be sharers lu
His glory, honor nnd Immortality far
above angels, principalities nnd pow
ers nnd every name that Is named
Do we not here see wonderful depths
from which these are rescued nnd won
derful heights to wbclv they are yet to
be lifted by Divine grace nnd Its ar
rangements on their behalf. Surely
all mauklnd who see this glorious ar
rangement of our God enn glorify Him
on this account.
God's Original Design to Be Carried
Out
For the world a somewhnt similar nnd
yet very different blessing Is outlined In
the Divine Plan of the Ages. Our poor
race lu some quarters of tho world.
fallen from the Image of God almost
to tho level of the brute, sadly needs
the uplifting, restricting, restitutlonnry
Influences which Messiah's glorious
Kingdom will bring to them. To what
heights will man be raised? Oh, not
so high ns the Church, tbe elect Pride
of the Lnml not so high ns cherubim
or even ns angels, but very high, never
theless back to all that was lost In
Eilen.
How our hearts glow with gratitude
toward God ns we perceive that Ills
original design for Ills human crea
lures Is yet to be carried out to the
letter! "Ms Word that Is gone forth
ouf of Ms mouth shall not return unto
Mm void, but It shall prosper In the
thing whereunto He sent It." (Isaiah
Iv. 11.1 He said. "Let Us make man In
Our Image;" nnd when he was made
the Divine Judgment expressed was
that he was "very good," only "a little
lower than the angels." (Hebrews 11
7.1 Moreover, he was crowned with
glory nnd with lienor In n sense that
the angels were not crowned, for mnn
was made the king, the ruler, the Dl
vine representative of all the lower
creatures of the earth. As we rend
"Thou didst set him over the works of
Thy hands all sheep and oxen,
yen. nnd the benst of the field, the fowl
of the air and the fish of the sea, and
whatsoever passeth through the path
of tbo seas." -IVa I in viit. 0-8.
This Godlikeness In the flesh and
this Divine authority associated with
It has leen marred aud much of It has
been lost The six thousand years or
the reign of sin and death have not
changed the Divine Intention. On the
contrary, the human family has bceu
multiplying: it has been given valu
able lessons on the exceeding sinful
ness of sin; it has learned to know
nil first. Next it must be brought to
a knowledge of good and to an nppre
elation of Divine mercy. This will
come to mankind during the thousand
years of Messiah's reign, in which not
only the living will tie blessed with
knowledge and with recovery from the
power of death, but gradually all that
have gone down to the tomb shall come
forth, that they may be raised up. up,
up again to the perfection of life, and
fully lire again at the end of the thou
sand years. Revolution xx. 5.
In the Ages to Come.
Nor will the lengths aud the breadths
of Divine love toward the elect Church,
the Pride of Christ, be fully exhibited
to angels and to men, even during tho
glorious period of Messiah's reign.
Saint Paul explicitly declare., "that In
the Ages to come He might shew tho
exceeding riches of His grace in His
kindness toward us through Christ
Jesus." U it asked what onnortuuitr
there will be for further favors to be cJ
bestowed upon the Church at the con- M
elusion of the Millennial reign? We
answer that as the Scriptures declare
t lint Gotl formed the earth not in vain fA
but made it to be inhabited, ami will
make It glorious as His footstool in due
time, so ft'n iiimv !(:! so 1 1 with resneet to, fi
the oilier phi nets of our solar system.
Gradually through coining Ages Divine i 3
power will lie excrctseii in nnnging lint
being millions of Intelligent creatures
on every planet of our system.
And still more than tliis, if our astro
mimical concepts are correct, all the
Used stars are suns, ami around each
sun are planets. Are there, then, a
thousand blazing suns? Yes. more,
Are there ten thousand? Yes. more.
Are there ten limes ten thousand? Yes.
more! Are there ten lime a hundred
thousand, a million? Yes. more! Are
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there ten times ten millions, a hundred
millions? Yes, and more! And if we i A
allow an average of ten planets to eacn.
sun this would make more than a thou
sand million planets, ull made not lu
vain, but eventually to bo Inhabited.
And astronomers assure usf that we
bave every reason to believe that if we
could stand upon the very farthermost
sun or our knowledge we would see ....
many millions more beyond.
Alas! our poor minds uro bewildered'
with such Immensity, with such mani
festations of the lengths nnd breadths
of Divine Power and Wisdom, even as
we have already been bewildered In
our attempt to appreciate the-lengths
and breadths and heights ucd depths
of Divine Love'. Will tiler not In
deed.'then. be unite a mifllclenr-y of the
Divine Program to be outworked
through Christ and the Church to Jus
tify the Apostle's statement that in.(
the Ages to come Gotl will manifest fjfjjfo "cClQIlS UV
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His loving kindness town-! us lit
Christ .lesus?
India's Shore In God' Grace.
India's hundreds of millions have
not gone to a bell of hopeless despair
and endless torture! Thank God, no!
They have gone to the sumo hell to
which Jesus went, the same to which,
the Apostles and Prophets went, the
same to which all manklnJ. both good'
und bad go the Rible ic)l. the tomb,
the state of leath-irott In the Old
Testament Hebrew, und huilrs. In the
New Testament Greek. They are all
asleep, unconscious, until the morning
of the resurrection. Thus "Abraham,
slept with his fathers." as did Kings;
David ami Solomon, nmi nil. both gooil
and bad. Thus .lesus' friend. I.a.arus,
fell iisbep and was awakened by tlx?-
Saviour on the fourth day. called forth;
from the tomb. Thus also Saint Ste
phen, stoned to death, fell asleep; and
Saint Paul speaks of mankind In tho
tomb ns sleeping In .lesus. nnd of tha
Church ns being asleep lu Christ.
In tho glorious morning of the New
Dispensation, inaugurated' by Messi
ah's Kingdom, the awukenlng of man
kind will gradually proceed. Our Sav
ior Informs us that His Church. th
elect Pride, will constitute thp First
Resurrection, nnd thnt subsequently
nil that sleep In the dust of the earth
shall come forth, "every mnn in bis
own order." In his own rank. Even
tually all shall be brought forth nnd
thus Sicol will be no. more, Radr shall
be destroyed ns th Scriptures say,
"Ob. Sheol. I will b thy destruction!"
(Hosen xlll, 14.1 Our Lord declares
that He has the keys of Hades tho
rightful authority to open tbe tomb
and ultimately release nil the prisoners
of sin nnd death and to grant them
restitution privileges under Ms Mes
sianic Kingdom, which first of all will
bind Satan and overthrow his King
dom of darkness nnd sin, ignorance
and superstition.
As for those who will ultimately re
ject Divine favor, the message Is that
thoy shall die the Second Death. From
It there will be no redemption, no res.
urreotlon, no recovery. As Saint Peter
declares, they shall perish like natural
brute beasts.
It Is time that wo should begin to
magnify God's Love, the lengths and
breadths nnd heights nnd depths of
which are beyond all human apprecia
tion. As we do this our benrts are en
larged; our lives nro ennobled; the
grace of Oml Is shed abroad in our
hearts; the light of Divine Truth shines
out from our words nnd conduct more
and more. Thus we become copies of
God's denr Son, llttlo by little, In tho
spirit of our minds; and thus we are tit
ted and prepared for a abnre with Mm
In Ms glorious Kingdom which shnli
bring In Restitution uplift from sin
ml death for Adam and bis race.
acts 111, 10-21.
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Nation Will Be Officially Entitled "the
Great Republic of China," to include
All Its Provinces Many Proposals
on Capital.
Peking, Feb. 26. TJi government is
preparing an elaborate reception for
the delegation of republicans who are
coming here under ths leadership ot
Tang Shao Yi from. Nauklng to notify
Yuan Shi Kul of his election aa presi
dent of the republic. The people
however, seem to ho Indifferent re
specting the momentous visit.
Telegrams have b'ien received from
Tarlous sections o tbe country om
bodylng various proposals with respect
to the. future capital. It Is believed
that Yuan Shi Kal U secretly inspiring
thin with the. obiwet of dividing the
south on the mutter of the location of
the capital.
While Yunn Sh! Kal realizes tbe im
perativeness ot uniting the nwintry.
he Is proceedtus; confidently tn the
knowledge chat he guHsussu tTui
means-of mmverting or politically de
tenting his (lynnnents. Apparently the
country is very strongly in favor of
Yuan Shi Kai'ns president. Many sol
diers, who n:-c not republican, have
given their full adherence to tile presi
dent elect, ami Yuan Shi'Kai holds the
confidence c.f both Munch us and Chi
nese, whlcU indicates that the- sus
picions that-tin was double dealing for
the court's overthrow were unwar
ranted. The new government' has decided
that (lie ctitmu v sliair Hereafter be of
ficially styled "The Great Repnblic or
China," tho word' "great" being intend
ed to Include Thibet, TuTkestarti
Mongolia and Manchuria. It has prac
tically been- decided to convert the
Forbidden- City into' a government en
closure, where all the offices will be
situated. When the empress dowager
and thu emperor depart, the extensive
grounds about the winter palace will
he-converted into-a public park.
TWO STORMS THIS WEEK
Weekly Bulletin of Weatmjr Bureau
predicts Ram or bnow..
Washington.. Feb. lit!. Two storms
or rain or snow, or both, are predicted
to eros the country this week, hy the
weekly bulletin of the weather bu
ream
A dltsurhun;e central, in the south-
wet will advance to tU Ohio val'ey
today and nio.ve to the St. Lawrence
vallev. It will be attetwied by general
precipitation over the Mississippi val
lev und 'he region east, tho preclpita
r.ioa being In the l'oinv of rain In Bouth-
und sr.ow and in in. la nortnern
states.
TWa disturbance v;.ll h- followed
uy a change to co'.t'er s. ;Ukt over all
";;tricls east of t'ic Ilocky mountains,
rut It will be s'.;ort duration, aud it
?a probable iVat rising t. mperature
-.ill overyprrr.tl tti' plains states to
morrow and the ' astern half of tho
r oantry .y the mioM!c of the week.
Th next goivral disturbance to.
.-ross the cnuntr will appear in the
far wcrt on Wednesday or Thursday,
cross the middle west nhonf Friday
smd the eastern tntes near tho close
of the week. It probably win be at
tended hy gen-K-.il rains, although
hiiows are likely ii the northern states
Fifty Killed in Bei.-Mt.
Constantinople, Feb. 2(l.-At:cording
to the latest dispatches from Holriit,
the forts, the corvette Avnlllah and a
torpetlo boat replied to tha Italian fire'
during the bombardment. The AvnH
lih was struck and soon was In flames.
The torpedo bn;U was sunk. No fewisr
than fifty persons were killed.
Feudist Sentenced to Death.
Uardwell, Ky.. Feb. 2li Willard
Ilirhardson, who killed John Violent lu
Carlisle cta.nty and who has been
threatened by three different mobs
since his arrest, waiv tried1 at, Bard
well and sentenced ts death.
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His Only Worry.
Grapht.er I've got my hooks out for
a swell political office, big salary and
all that. .lenklns-Do you think yo
can fill it? Graphier-Never thought
of that. What's worrying me is wheth
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