WHAT IS MAN?
Pastor Russell Agrees With Bob
by Burns That "A Man's a
Man For A' That."
An Interacting and Instructive Dis
course. - Buffalo, N. Y., Jan
uary 22. Pastor
Russell addressed
large assemblages
twice here today In
bis usual fresh, at
tractive aud In
structive style. Out
address was on
"The Great Here
after"; the other.
which we report, was from the text,
"What is Man?" (rsalm vill, 4).
Notwithstanding all that the Bible
has to say respecting the nature of
man few subjects seem to be more
misunderstood. Science declures man
to be an aulmal of the highest type
r order. In this, science Is In abso
lute agreement with the Scriptures,
which declare of our first parents, "The
first man was of the earth, earthy" (I
Corinthians xv, 47). Our text agrees
with this, declaring that man was
made a little lower than the angels
angels being the lowest form of spir
it beings, man the highest type of
earth beings. A particular account of
man's creation Is given, and when wo
examine it we find it In full agreement
with what we have seen to be the
teachiugs of other parts of the Scrip
tures. That account declares that God
formed man of the dust of the earth,
and It tells us that after' man's trans
gression had brought him under the
Divine condemnation of death, his
Creator said to him, "Dust thou art,
and unto dust shalt thou return."
Whence Cam Our Confusion?
In view of these facts, which we
ow have clearly before our minds,
bow strange It seems that most of the
civilized world denies all and declares
to the contrary that man Is a spirit
being, and that his death Is merely an
evolutionary step by which he passes
on to his real nature as a spirit This
Is supposed to be very scientific, be
cause many, presumably wise and sci
entific people, thus assert themselves.
Ilowever, according to these same peo
ple, such an evolution, from human
ature to spirit nature at death, la
stead of being a desirable progression
or evolution. Is a decided disadvan
tage, because, as they tell us, the ma
jority of those thus graduated from
flesh conditions to spirit conditions
will find themselves tortured, either
purgatorlally or eternally. It would
seem, If this be true, that this at least,
to the majority, would be a step of
ic-volutlon rather than one of evolu
tion. But upon what are those "scientific"
and learned assumptions bnsl? Who
will vouch for the change said to take
place nt death? Who will prove to us
thnt a man in dying becomes a spirit
being of a higher order than human?
There Is no such proof; the wish Is
parent to the thought. Yet why should
men wish to be spirit beings at death.
If they believe, as (he creeds declare,
thnt tortures nwnlt them In the spirit
land await nine hundred ami ninety
nine out of every thousand? Ah. here
again humanity does not believe lis
own creeds. The devilish suggestions
are allowed to remain in the creeds,
nnhelleved by the intelligent, to af
fright the unintelligent. But alas!
thee misrepresentation are rrntlii
blasphemies against our Creator which
misrepresent tils Wisdom. Justice.
Love and Power. And these blasphe
mous thoughts are accredited to the
Bible, with the result that it is disbe
lieved and Its great Author doubted or
denied and thousands of the Intelll
pent of our race are agnostics.
One Voice Only Answers.
Fplritlsm speaks up to assert that It.
and It alone, can furnish proof that
man, of the eiirth earthy. Is after
death n spirit It furnishes us medi
ums nt whose Instance tables are tip
ped and rapping are hard and nth
er evidences are given of unseen pow
er; and these unseen powers, we are
told, are the spirits of dead men seek
ing to prove to humans that they are
not dead, but that in the moment of
death they were transformed into
spirit
And now our scientific men are tak
ing up the subject. They decline to
be Identified with Spiritism and desig
nate their findings Psychic Phenomena
Mediums and their demonstrations
have been subjected to every Imagina
ble scientific test to demonstrate that
the results are not fraudulent that
there is really n spirit power, an Invis
ible power which enn do and has done
remarkable things beyond the power of
humanity. Accepting these Investiga
tions as scientific, and accepting the
results as scientific proof thnt there
Is a spfrlt power or force which can
and has operated In conjunction with
human affairs and especially through
mediums, what does this prove? What
scientific fact have we hero to evi
dence that these spirit powers have
anything to do with our friends who
have died?
"Lying Spirits" Says St. Paul.
These spirits operate through me
diums sometimes in trance, sometimes
answering by written notes from "no
where," sometimes mechanically grasp
ing the hand of the writing-medium
and usliiff It without her volition;
sometimes by rapping and sometimes
by ouljnbonrds, declaring themselves
truthful, sincere, honest, desirous of
assisting humanity, etc.
But does this prove, scientifically,
that they are honest, that they
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are true? Ask any spiritualist! lie
will tell you. at very most, that he be
lieves some of them are honest, or
will tell you sorrowfully that some of
them have lied to him time and again;
and if he be au advanced and expe
rienced Spiritualist he will tell that
at times some of these evil spirits
have made ull manner of vile sugges
tions to him. But he will tell also
that nt first It was not so; Instead he
was at first told that he should pray
more and read the Scriptures more.
Afterwards he was Jeered at and
mocked aud toll that the Scriptures
were nonsense aud that although
there Is a God tie Inquirer Is too rene
gade to hope for any blessing from
God.
We have negiected our Bibles too
much; we have trusted too much to
worldly wisdom. The Bible alone
gives the solution of the matter. It
alone tells us respecting tbse spirits;
that they are not humans and never
were; that they are the fallen angels.
D. V. we will consider them a week
from now.
"A Man'a a Man For A That."
The Bible Is thoroughly consistent
with Itself; from first to last It main
tains that man Is an earthly being.
According to the Greek and the lie
brew of the Bible he Is an animal soul
or animal being In contradistinction to
a spirit soul or spirit being. "Man
that Is born of woman Is of few
days and full of trouble"; "Man dleth
and wasteth away, and where Is he?
lie shall not awake nor be raised out
of his sleep until the heavens be no
more" until the present order of
things shall have passed away (Job
xlv, 1-10).
Again we rend respecting the death
sentence and man's hope of recovery
out of death by a resurrection, "Thou
turnedst man to destruction; thou say
est return ye children of men"; "Cease
ye from man, whose spirit (breath of
life) is in his nostrils" (rsalm xc. 3;
Isaiah 11. 22); "If a man die, shall ho
live again? All the days of mine ap
pointed time will I await until my
(resurrection) change come. Thou shalt
call and I will answer thee (awakening
from the sleep of death), for thou wilt
have desire unto the work of thy
hands"; "There shall be a resurrec
tion of the dend, both of the Just and
of the unjust" (Job xlv, 14; Acts xxiv.
15).
They are dend, they are not alive as
spirit nor In any other sense. They
will be dead until God's time for the
resurrection of the dead. Resurrection
of the living would be unnecessary,
and If death brought to man a change
to a higher plane of existence as a
spirit being, then the. resurrection of
the dead would not be set before hu
manity ns a blessed hope, for rather
It would be a punishment, even to the
holy.
Whence Came the ErreW
It seems probablo that this serious
error, which has had so much to do
with the world's theological confu
sion, came about through the misun
derstanding of the Bible teachings re
specting the Church the application
of things said concerning the Church
to the world, to whom they lid not
apply. Bible students are coining
more and more to see, In the light
which one passage of Scripture throws
upon another, that the Church Is a dis
tinctive class, separate from the angels
and the world of mankind in general.
The Divine Plan revealed in tho
Scriptures sets forth one salvation for
the Church on the spirit p!;ne. It re
veals to us two classes who will bo
blessed on that spirit plane. It shows
us that one of these classes was typl
fiel In the priesthood of natural Is
rael and thnt the other class was typi
fied In the Levlles who assisted the
priests ns servants. The remainder of
tho tribes of Israel represented, typ
ically, the entire world of mankind who
will ultimately be saved, not to a heav
enly state or condition, but as men to
a restored earthly condition.
It will be remembered that the Priests
and Levlles had no inheritance In the
land, thus typically showing that they
represented that portion of humanity
which, by God's grace, will obtain a
heavenly Inheritance anil experience n
change from human to spirit nature.
As the Levites and Priests represent
ed the first-born of Israel saved at the
Passover, so those who will attain n
resurrection to the spirit plane nre
Scrlpturally designated "the church of
tho first-born," and again, "the first
fruits unto God of his creatures." The
elect of this Gospel Age nre not, there
fore, all who are to be saved, but mere
ly nil who are to be saved to the spirit
plane. With the completion of the
elect Church and her glorification with
our Lord In his resurrection, the "first
resurrection" (Phlllpplans III, 10; Rev
elations xx, C), tho Kingdom will be
established for which we pray.
The Kingdom, per so, will bo spirit.
Invisible to men, but It will have
earthly agents and representatives,
and Its dealings will be with mankind
to uplift Adam and his race from sin
and degradation not to spirit condi
tions, not to the heavenly plane, not
to make them like the angels, but, ns
the Scriptures declare, to restore them
to human perfection to perfection of
the earthly nature, In which Adam
was created and from which by sin
he fell aud has been redeemed by tho
grace of God In Christ Jesus.
Begotten to a New Nature.
Very long hgo the distinctions between
these two salvations was lost sight
of tho heavenly calling for tho Church
and tho Restitution for tho World
(Hebrews 111. 1; Acts 111, 19-21). The
old Testament refers exclusively to
tho earthly and the fact that tho New
Testament tells almost exclusively of
tho heavenly nnd Its promises was over
looked Thenceforth no difference was
recognized between the. consecrated
Church and mankind In general, ntid
the words of thp Apostle, addressed to
the Church class only, were applied to
alL
For Instance, In first Corinthians,
the fifteenth chapter. St. Paul dis
cusses the general fact of death reign
ing through Adam and of the provi
sion, through Christ, of a resurrection
of the dead Then he proceeds to
speak specially of the Church class,
saying, "this i the resurrection of tht
dead." The (emphatic) resurrection sig
nifies the special or First-resurrection
class, and the dead similarly marks the
special class of dead ones the saintly
dead, the Church of Christ, begotten
of the holy Spirit to a new nature, the
heavenly nature.
ot noticing this, commentators and
people In general have applied these
words to humanity In general aud un
derstand them to teach that all that
are sown In corruption will be raised
In lncorruptlon; that all who die In
weakness, will be raised In power; that
all who die animal bodies, will be
raised spiritual bodies. But the Apos
tle is endeavoring to Impress a very
different lesson, namely, that tho
Church Is a special class and will have
a special resurrection to spirit condi
tions which the world will never know
anything about, experimentally.
The Blblo shows this bad we but
noticed It: Tho Apostle says, "God
giveth to every seed Its own body";
thnt Is to say, If we sow wheat we
expect to reap wheat, If we sow oats
wo expect to reap oats. The Apostle's
argument Is thnt. none need expect to
be of the wheat class, tho spirit class,
unless they are of that class when
sown In death. In other words, ho
would have them understand that a
natural man, on nnlmal man, in the
resurrection will be an nnlmal man,
but those who accept the Divine offer
of this Gospel Ago, to become new
crea nres In Christ Jesus, begotten
again by tho hoiy Spirit these will
not come forth In tho resurrection
human beings, but, being In full har
mony with tho begetting of the spirit
which they have received, will In tho
resurrection bo born of the spirit
The Hidden Mystery Revealed,
Tip to tho time of Christ no promise
of a change of nature from human to
spirit had been received by any mem
ber of our race. The Lord Jesus him
self became the Captain and Forerun
ner of "the Church, which Is his
Body," nnd which, during this Gospel
Age, has been walking In his steps of
self-sacrifice. The special privilege of
this Gospel Age Is the sacrifice of tho
earthly nature In order to tho attain
ment, Instead, of the heavenly nature,
This was an Incomprehensible mat-
ter to those to whom It was preached
at first No Jew had ever thought of
anything higher thnu the human plane
and Divine service ou the human
plane. But the message of the Gos
pel was a call or Invitation to the
heavenly nature and heavenly service
as the Bride of Christ and his Joint
Heirs in glory. Of this call St Paul
says that It is a "mystery that was
hidden from past ages aud dispensa
tions, but that it is now revealed unto
tho saints" (Colossinus 1, 20). It was not
proper thnt any but the saints should
fully appreciate and comprehend this.
"To you it is given to know tho things
of the Kingdom, but . to outsiders
I these things are spoken In parables and
dark sayings that they might not un
derstand." This Mystery was, therefore, never
understood by many because the saints
were never many, nnd by and by,
when salntshlp was nt a discount and
when nominal Christians became nu
merous and Influential nnd made the
creeds, it was but natural that tho
Mystery should become moro or less
befogged. Hut instead of going back
to preach human restitution to the
human plane In n world-wido F.den,
the misinformed theologians hung their
own hopes nnd the hopes of tho world
upon tho heavenly assurances Just
where they did not belong.
Thus it was that, despite our Dvo
senses and every plain statement of
the Bible, It has becomo the prevalent
belief that humanity is of spirit na
turo and not earthly, human; that dy
ing Is but getting him either to
Heaven, Purgatory or Hell. With this
confusion tho danger nil along theo
logical lines has become great, so that
practically every doctrine of the
Church Is more or less confused there
by. This Is the secret, this Is tho
reason w hy the Bible Is misunderstood
nnd being enst asldo with tho creeds
of tho Dark Ages us no longer worthy
of consideration, while the bulk of
Churchlanlty rushes madly toward
tho ditch of "Higher Criticism, Evolu
tion, Agnosticism" with little faith In
a personal God nnd no definite hope.
"Seek Ye the Old Paths."
It Is time, my dear hearers, thnt we
seek the old paths, tho Bible paths,
and that wo seek them intelligently
and reverently nnd honestly. There hns
been much searching of tho Bible
to find proofs of what we believe nnd
to entrench ourselves In errors handed
to un from the past by well-meaning
but deceived forefathers. It Is time
for us to bo honest nnd to search that
we may know God's message to us
through his Inspired prophets nnd his
Son nnd the Apostles.
It will uot do to say that doctrines
nro unnecessary. The Bible puts faith,
proper f.ilth, at the very foundation of
Christian character. "We believe and
therefore speak."
Let us do this, let us not be content
until we know exactly what the Bible
teaches concerning "Whnt Is man"
nnd respecting tho hope, man's restitu
tion, nnd respecting tho high cnlling,
tho heavenly calling of the Chnrch.
When we begin to seo these matters
clearly the entire Blblo shlues ns never
before, our faith becomes strong ns
never before. And then. If we are
honest, our love for God and our zeal
for his service must also Increase pro
portionately. At some future time we may take
up, "What Is the aoul of man?"
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FRED 0! ESCAPES
FROM COUNTY JAIL
Fred Ohm, who has been serving
time in the county Jail In default of
giving bond for his proper behavior,
gave leg ball last evening and so far
the chief of police and the city gov
ernment Is concerned his where
abouts at this time is a hidden mys
tery. During the recent cold weather It
seems Ohm was a sort of trusty
about the premises, and was allowed
to bring In the coal and such other
pleasant light diversions, and during
the exceeding cold weather there was
no danger of his departing, Jjut laBt
evening when he was sent for a hod
of coal he never returned. He is still
at large and may hie himself away
to the sunny southland and he the
first on the scene of the Panama ex
position", which tho congressional
comlmttee has voted to place at New
Orleans. The city will be gainer by
the price of his board, but the othei
residents of the jail will be lonesome
without him. Becker Inquired this
morning of the chief as to why their
cook was allowed to go.
LAW GOVERNING ASSESSOR
In behalf of the Joint senate' and
house committee on revenue and tax
ation, McKlssiek, of Gage, chairman
of the house committee, yesterday in
troduced the county assessors' bill to
amend about a dozen sections of the
present law. These changes are con
templated in the bill: To raise the
salaries of county assessors $200 each
In all counties except Ianeastcr and
Douglas; allowing county and pre
cinct assessors two consecutive terms
Instead of one as at present; city as
sessors are to be elected en masso
and in jiumber fixed by the county
board and county assessor; providing
that leases on public lands nre to bo
assessed; changing the right of
assessing hanks, trust companies, In
vestment companies, public utilities
companies, , telephone and telegraph
companies, foreign corporations, and
the like from the precinct assessor to
the county assessor in person; pro
viding that the precinct assessor
Bhall appear in person and take oath
as to the correctness of his schedules
when he turns them in; county asses
sors must revise realty assessments
annually to make corrections thcro
in; county boards with the county
assessor acting in conjunction shall
have power to remove precinct asses
sors for failure to do their duty Just
as the state board shall have the
power to remove the county assessor
for the Bame offense; real estate Is to
be equalized In 1911 and each two
years thereafter; county clerks and
county assessors may make correc
tions in the tax list whenever it Is
evident that errors are involved, but
a record of such changes must be
kept in the back of the tax list. An
emergency Is declared In the bill.
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A MOVEMENT I IE DIRECTION
IF DISPOSING OF AIL SCHOOL LANDS
State Land Commissioner Cowles it Very Much in Favor of the
Proposition, Which Would Place One Million Acert of Land
Upon the Market.
The legislature will be given an
opportunity at this session to deter
mine whether the state shall con
tinue the policy, adopted four years
ago, of holding Us public land and
leasing It for school purposes or Bhall
return to the policy of selling It and
reinvesting the money as a part of the
permanent school fund. A hill Intro
duced by W. Z. Taylor and Nordgren
in the house proposes throwing open
the whole public domain of the state
for sale.
At the present time there are up
wards of 2,000,000 acres in tho state
domain. Of this amount more than
225,000 acres Is under sale contract
and tho rest Is leased. Under tho
law of 1907 about 1,000,000 acres
cannot bo sold. Tho rest of the leased
land can ho purchased at the option
of the lessor.
State Land Commissioner Cowles
Is very much in favor of the proposi
tion to permit tho sale ot all tho
school land. Under tho present
method of leasing, ho declares, tho
state can secure a greater return by
selling tho land and reinvesting the
proceeds as a part of the permanent
school fund. Interest on sale con
tracts bring in to tho temporary fund
about three and a half times the
amount which tho same lands
brought In under leases. This is due
largely to the fact that appraisements
for sale contracts are reviewed by the
B.
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IN PLEASANT SOCIAL TIE
Another very pelasant Boclal event
of the winter season was thnt ten
dered the "n. I. L'b" by tho members
of the I K. O. Boclety and which
was held at the hospitable home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. AHawls, last even
ing. It has become a custom among
tho ladies of the P. E. O. society to
entertain the B. I. L'b at a social
time one evening during the year and
for this occasion the ladles had
selected a committee, who were to ar
range tho entertainment for the
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state board of educational lands and
funds and are fixed at a much higher
figure than leasehold appraisements.
The Income from the public Bihool
lands Is now about $400,000. The
land, If sold, it la estimated, would
bring considerable In excess of $10,
000,000 and a much higher revenue,
when reinvested in bonds.
One of Mr. Cowles' arguments In
favor of permitting the land to be
sold Is the hardship the present sys
tem works on school districts In the
west, where there is still much state
land. This land Is of courso not
nvailnble for taxation In the school
districts where It lies nnd leaves some
of them without sufficient revenue to
keep the district BchoolB open any
length of time. The state has recog
nized this fact and appropriated at
the lost session of the legislature
$.r.0,000 of state money to aid weak
districts.
It Is also felt thnt the law forbid
ding sale of much of the public land
Is doss legislation. A man who holds
a lease prior to 1 8 It 7 may purchaso
his land, or ono owning forty acres
or moro In tho Irrigated section may
purchaso. Another, not in ono of
those classes, cannot purchaso.
The land commissioner says that
the fact that a tenant is debarred
from ever purchasing tho land ho is
on hns a tendency to prevent his Im
proving the land to any extent.
evening and the guests and tho ladles
arc very much Indebted to this com
mittee for the splendid entertainment
afforded them on this occnslon. Tho
nations amusements and games Intro
duced during the evening were n
tcrod into with much interest and
enthusiasm and created much merri
ment, while sociability reigned
Biipreme. Previous to tho close of
this delightful entertainment, the
guests were invited to partake of a
dainty as well as delicious luncheon,
which wns thoroughly enjoyed. It
wns a late hour when all departed
for their homes, having spent one of
the most enjoyable evenings partici
pated In for some time.
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