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LOCAL NEWS
From Friday's Dally.
J. II. C. (in-gory, from iwar Ne
liawkn, was in I In rnuiily seat to
.lay. Mrs. I). T,. Aiuick visited the
inHropolis this morning, going on
tlir lirst I rain.
Arthur Troup was railed to
Omaha on business this morning,
going on No. 15.
deorge Hay, from near Murray,
was a county seat visitor today,
driving up for a visit with friends.
Frank Monro, from near Mur
ray, was a i'lallsinout h visitor
today, looking after some liusi
ness mailers.
W. T. Hichardson of Mynard
was a lnisiness caller at (he me
tropolis yesterday, reluming on
Nik 2 last night.
Miss Helen Waiigh will arrive
from Lincoln this evening for a
isit with Miss Hazel Uovey and
other friends over Sunday.
W. II. Sperry of Weeping Wa
ter was in I he city today and re
ceipted for his judgment against
I ho M. P. Ha it way company.
Hubert I'allerson came up from
his home this morning in time In
catch the early train for Omaha,
where he was called on business.
John Poller, from near Murray,
Aas in the city a few hours today,
coming up for some seed potatoes
and visiting with county seat
friends.
H. 0. Wurl, Platlsmoulirs
gentlemanly city clerk, returned
from Omaha and Lincoln last
evening on No. 2, whore ho had
. been looking after his cigar busi
ness. Mrs. K. Will ami daughter, Miss
Itessic, of Auburn, arrived yes
terday to be guests of Mrs. V. W.
Klliot and family for u lime. Mrs.
Klliot and her guests spent the
day in Omaha, going on the early
train this morning.
Frnm Saturday's Dally.
J. L. Smith of Nehawka came
up this morning to visit his
father over Sunday. .
J. J. Schneider of Cedar Creek
visited the county seat today,
coming down on No. ihis morn
ing. Dave Pitman of Murray came
up on the morning train today and
looked after business matters for
a few hours.
(ieorge W. Wood of Louisville
came down willi the primary elec
tion returns from tiis precinct
Ibis morning.
Frank Finklo of Union was in
the city today, having come up
with the returns of the Liberty
precinct primary.
Miss Rachel Livingston wont
to Omaha on the morning train
today to spend (ho day with Miss
Helen Clark.
Adam Wolf and wife departed
for Lincoln on No. 15 this morn
ing, "whore they will visit rela
tives over Sunday.
Walter J. Schneider and wife
ami son came down on No. I this
morning and spent the day with
Plallsinoulh friends.
Henry Kngelkenielr drove in
from his homo in Ml. Pleasant
today to look after business mat
ters in the county seat.
L. J. Maylleld, editor of the
Louisville Courier, was in the city
this morning looking nftcr busi
ness matters for a time.
Pat F.agan and daughters, Mar
Kflret and Catherine, boarded No.
15 for the metropolis this morn
ing, wherot hoy spent tho day.
W. 0. Sehewe of Murdock came
down on No. 4 this morning and
brought in the primary election
spring
ft
Ladaes'
Store I
Home of Guaranteed Values. $
returns from Klinwood precinct.
(ieorge flecker was oil the street
last evening with his hand and
arm in a sling, the result of a
case of threatened blood poison.
William Schneider of Cedar
Creek came down on No. i this
morning and looked after busi
ness matters in the county seat.
Captain Isaac Wiles and wife
departed for Mauley last evening
on No. 33, where they will visit
Mr. Wiles' sister, Mrs. Akeson, for
a short time.
D. L. Taloott of firoenwood
cai lown with the Salt Creek
election returns this morning and
called on the court house olllcials
for a few hours.
Mrs. William Peters and (laugh
ter, Miss Kdith, nf Weeping Wa
ter, arrived last evening and arc
guests of Mrs. Peters' sister, Mrs.
William Hunter. Mrs. Hunter and
her guests spent the day in Oma
ha today, going on the morning
I rain.
From Monday's Dally.
W.'A. Fight, from near Mynard,
was in (he city this morning look
ing after some business mailers.
Mrs. Frank Iieksnn and miss
Nettie Morgan visited the me
tropolis fur the day, going on the
early train.
W. (i. Hoedeker and 1.. I). Hialt.
from Murray, wore in the city
Friday evening, coining up in the
auto of Mr. Hoedeker.
Miss Mabel Ossenkop of Louis
ville arrived this morning and
will be a guest of Miss (iladys
Marshall for a short time.
Mike Tritsch, deputy county
treasurer, returned from Louis
ville on No. i this morning, where
he spent Sunday with his family.
Heujamiii Franklin Wiles and
I'.. II. Spangler were visitors to I ho
mlcropulis on. the morning train
today, where I hoy were called on
business.
Mr. ami Mrs. William Rico and
daughter, Lucille Young, from
near Murray, wore Plattsmouth
visitors today, driving up from
their homo Ihis morning.
I'. A. r inkle and Amos Mc
Namop, from near Union, wvro in
the city last Saturday, driving up
to bring the primary election re
turns. While here they paid tho
Journal olllce a brief call.
William Oliver, from near Mur
ray, was a county seat visitor last
Saturday, driving up for a few
hours' visit with friends. While
hero ho called at the Journal ntllce
to renew for his subscription.
11' ! Hff 1 I. -
. uiuuicws, who ami son,
Ooorge, spent Sunday in Omaha
with relatives and friends, Will
and (ieorge allendin the ball
game between Sioux City and
Omaha, which (ho Sioux won bv
a score of 0 to 0.
r. .. .-Honiman, iroin near
Louisville, was in tho cilv last
Saturday, visiting with county
seat friends and looking after
some business matters. Wbi
hero he called at tho Journal olllce
to renew bis subscription.
In From Nehawka.
W. C. Chriswissor, the No
nawka stock man; Uruce Stone
and Vilas Sheldon, all from Ne
hawka, wore in the ci'y n few
hours last Saturday, making tho
trip via tho auto mule" to dejivcr
the primary election return.
For rent Eighty acres of farm
land. Inquire of Elizabeth C. Wiles
Plattsmouth, Neb.
SAUL OF TARSUS
ANATIiESAW
"As One Born Prematurely'' H
Beheld the Glorified Jesus,
SERMON ON RESURRECTION,
fnother Proof That Jeeue It No Longer
a Man, but a God The Inditpensa
blenest of His Sacrifice and Alto of
His Resurrection Clearly Shown by
Pastor Russell In Louisiana's Capital
City.
New Orleans,
La., April 21.
Pastor Russell
gave two address
es here today. We
report one of them,
which was from
the text: "Last of
all He was seen of
in e also, as one
born before the
time." (I Corin
thians zt, 8.) lie
said:
Salut Paul was
discussing the resurrection of the dead,
lie realized that ou that great fart
rested the weight of the Gospel Mes
sage. It was easy enough to prove
that Jesus had died, but to an incredu
lous world it was difficult to prove
that He had risen from the dead; and
whoever could not believe that great
fact could uot believe the other great
facts which stand or fall with it.
For Instance, the Apostle presented
that Jesus had left the heavenly glory
and had become a Man for the pur
pose of meeting the demands of the
Divine Law against Adam and his
race, involved by him. lie could show
the reasonableness of this logic. He
has proven that as the whole world
was condemned to death through Fa
ther Adam's disobedience it was ab
solutely necessary for an untainted life
to be sacrificed in order to meet the
penalty and to secure the release of
tho condemned race.
God . Would Not Leave His Son In
Death.
The Apostle had declared that Jesus
had been faithful In Ills ministry In
fully laying down His life and that the
entire matter was pleasing and accept
able to the Heavenly Father. If so,
surely God would not leave Ills Son in
death, but would raise Him from the
dead. This fact the Apostle had re
peatedly enunciated, showing that our
Lord eutered into Ills glory and re
ward and ascended up where He was
before to perfection on the spirit
plane.
Cut all these claims fell lightly upon
some of his hearers, who claimed that
It was much more easy to believe that
Jesus never died at all, but merely
transmuted, than to believe that He
died for our sins and rose again for
our Justification; hence the Apostle's
frequent reference to Christ's resurrec
tion uud his Insistence upon it as ab
solutely ueccssary to Christian faith,
for uot only would the Heavenly Fu
titer's favor toward the Lord Jesus
thus bo shown, but the bulk of all the
holy prophecies would remain unful
filled unless Jesus arose from the deud.
In other words, a dead Redeemer
would be of no advantage; matters
would be Just as unfavorable for the
sinners as though Jesus had never
come at alL Additionally, if the resur
rection of Jesus was a questionable
matter, how could those who disputed
that great fact acknowledge the resur
rection of the Church and of the world?
Saint Paul emphasizes this, also de
claring that "there shall be a resurrec
tion of tho dead, both of tho Just and
of the unjust," as a result of tho re
demptive work of Jesus His dying for
man's sins, and Ills resurrection to
glory to carry out the blessings secur
ed by Ills death.
"Last of All He Wat Seen by Me."
Prosecuting his argument, the Apos
tle marshalled the whole chain of wit
nesses except the womeu who first saw
the Lord on the morning of His resur
rection. He says, "He was Been of
Cephas (Peter); then by the remainder
of tho twelve; then of above five hun
dred brethren at once; later, He was
seen 'of James; then of all the Apos
tles," when ne ascended. Then conies
the text: "Last of all He was seen of
me also."
There Is something pathetic In this
reference to His own gllmpso of Jesus.
It called up the period of his own
bigoted persecution of the Church. It
reminded him of his own responslbll
lty In connection with the death of
Saint Stephen, and of the blind hatred
which led him to persecute Inoffensive
fellow-creatures, simply because they
believed that Jesus died and roso again,
tlie very thing which He was now try
lug to testify to all having the hearing
ear.
Ills memory went back to tho mad
uess which be had manifested In pur
suing Christians even to Damascus,
bnllng them to prison. Agnln he saw
tho great, blinding light from heaven,
above tho brightness of the noonday
sun, his fall to the earth, and heard the
voice speaking to him, saying, "Saul,
Saul, why persocutest thou MoT" (Acts
lx. 1-0; xxvl, 12 10). Again he remem
bered his astonishment at learning that
those whom he had persecuted were
not renegade and deceived Jews, but
highly eeteemod and acknowledged by
this Great One, a glimpse of whom fell
ed mm to tne oartn. An, that was a
wonderful slghtt If Messiah was so
great, so glorious, so powerful, he could
believe in Him, be could reverence
Him.
The objection which all Jews had to
Jesus, and what they considered abso
lute proof that ne was not the Mes
siah, was Ills apparent weakness, His
apparent inability to accomplish the
things foretold by the Prophets. They
said, It is foolish to think of a man
without an army and without wealth
claiming to be a king. It is still more
foolish for II im to claim that lie is the
Messianic King, who is to be above all
kings, and before whom every knee
shall bow and every tongue confess.
They said, therefore, that Jesus must
either be beside Himself, crazy, or else
He was seeking to deceive the people
and temporarily create a little commo
tion of popularity.
To them it. seemed that when ne was
crucltled a demonstration had been
given that He was not the Messiah.
Was not the Messiah to live forever,
and wns lie uot to reign successfully
as King of kings and Lord of lords?
Was it not, therefore, proven that any
man whom the Jews or the Romans
could crucify, could put to death, must
have been an imposter? They consid
ered the matter proven to a demonstra
tion. The persecution of the followers
of Jesus was merely with a view to
stamping out a new religion, which, it
was feared, would do harm to Israel in
that it would call In question the hopes
of Israel respecting a coming King and
Uls Kingdom. Thus Saul of Tarsus
had felt himself fully Justified in per
secuting all of that way of thinking
for "tho good of the cause," as so many
persecutors have said.
A New View of Matters.
The honesty of Saul of Tarsus led
him to be Just as honest after he got
his eyes of understanding open as ho
had previously been with them closed.
It took him a little while to get the
proper focus, then he saw and could
explain to others the necessity for the
death of Jesus and how It was typllled
In the sacrifices of the Law and how
the Divinely arranged Plan had made
this great sacrifice In order thereby to
more fully show forth the Divine Jus
tice, Wisdom, Love and Fower.
Now he saw, not only the need for
Jesus to come In tho flesh and to give
Himself a ransom price for all, but
he saw equally the necessity for His
resurrection, not in the flesh, but In tho
spirit, that He might be a fully quali
fied Ruler and Savior not only to save
His people from the Romans, the As
syrians, and from till other human ene
mies, but also to save them from Sa
tan, from sin. from sickness, from sor
row, from death. Ah, now he saw how
great Messiah must be In order to meet
the necessities of the case! . .
The matter changed Immediately in
his mind; Instead of n human Savior
and Messiah and an earthly King. GoJ
had prep uel a Ileaveuly One. purtnk
er 6f the divine nature, glorious, "far
above angels, principalities and powers
and every name that Is named." Now
be saw that the sufferings of Jesus had
a two-fold vslue. First, they were nec
essary for man's release from the
death sentence and, secondly, they
were necessary as a demonstration of
tho loyalty of Jesus. Now he saw that
God, in preparing to bring many sons
to glory, determined first to prove the
loyalty of Him whom He bad Invited
to become the Captain of our Salva
tion, and that this was done by the ar
rangement which necessitated Jesus'
death.
The climax of the argument was
reached when he found that God not
only had raised up Jesus from the
dead, but that additionally Ho had be
stowed upon Him the glory, honor and
immortality of the divine nature, of
which Saul had n demonstration or
proof in the blinding flash of light
which felled him to the earth, nnd In
the voice which said to him alone, "I
om Jesus, whom thou persocutest."
Crown Him Lord of All.
I like to think that, as I was once
blinded to many of the precious truths
of God's Word, so It is with many oth
ers whose eyes of understanding have
uot yet opened. I like to thluk of Saint
Paul's experiences, his sincerity, even
to hatred and persecution, and then
his loyalty, even to stripes and Im
prisonment and death. I like to think
of him as exemplifying possibly a
largo class of the opposers of the
Truth,
I like to hope that all they will need
to bring them into line with God's ar
rangements and to make them loyal
servants of righteousness will be the
great light which will shine forth re
splendency very soon, when the due
time shall come for Messiah to take to
Himself Ills great power and relgu-
when Ills elect Bride shall have been
completed and glorified with II lm. I
like to remember the words of the
Lord through the Prophet respecting
that glorious Epoch: "Then shall the
eyes of the blind b opened and the
ears of the deaf be unstopped; then
shall the lame man leap as an hart
nnd the tongue of the dumb sing" In
that day.
Where would Saul of Tarsus have
ended his career if the great Redeemer
had not Interposed for his help? And
how poorly you and I would have
fared and how little of the Light HI
vine would wo have seen If Divine
providence had uot helped us in varl
ous ways? And so with the world. It
Is beyond our power to give the hear
ing car or the seeing eye. This is the
work of the Great Physician, and His
day for healing and blessing and up
lifting the world we perceive to be
atgh, even at tho doors.
Ah, yesl Now we can sec that the
little opening of the eyes and unstop
ping of the ears and healing of the
lame accomplished at our Lord's first
advent merely foreshadowed Ills com
Ing glory and much greater work. Now
wo can set a reason why so many of
Ills mighty works were done on the
Sabbath days-berause they were all
prophetl', as the Sabbath days them
selves were prophecies of the great
Thousand Year Sabbath of Messiah's
glorious rclgu, during which all of hu-
maulty who will may enter into Ills
rest rest from sin and from Satan and
from everything that would hinder
them from a full return to the Heaven
ly Father's love and favor.
Now we see that the great work of
that thousand-year Sabbath will be the
healing of the morally lame and the
giving of sight and hearing to the
minds now bliuded and deaf under the
evil influences of the groat Adversary
'the god of this world who hatb
blinded the minds of them that believe
not."-II Corinthians iv. 4.
One Born Before tho Time.
Many have remarked at the peculiar
ity of Saint Paul's statement that he
saw the Lord as one prematurely born.
But, if at first the statement wns dark
nnd puzzling, now it is luminous ttnd
enlightening. His thought Is this: the
time for giving ocular demonstrations
of the Lord's resurrection had gone by;
the next manifestation of Iliixa Is to bo
to His saints, und after that to the
world. Thus we read: "We shall be
like Him, for we shall see Illni os He
is" made like Him by our resurrection
change from the human conditions to
the spirit conditions.
Strictly speaking, then, the experi
ences of Saul of. Tarsus were out of the
ordinary. No one else than be alone,
not even the saintly, were to see the
Lord before their resurrection change,
in the end of this Age. When there
fore he saw Jesus, he saw Him before
the time more than eighteen centuries
before the time. Moreover, ho saw
Him as one bom before the time as one
resurrected before tho time. We ore
to have in mind tho Scriptural use of
this word born that the Church must
all be begotten of the Holy Spirit in
order to experience the resurrection
birth.
Thus, concerning our Redeemer's res
urrection, we read: "He was the First
born from the dead;" and again, "He
was the First-born of many brethren."
So the hope of all of God's people is
that tho begetting of the Holy Spirit In
the present time will be followed by
the resurrection birth, which Saint
raul describes in this same chapter,
saying, "It Is sown in weakness, it is
raised in power; it is sown an animal
body. It is raised a spirit body."
With these things before our mental
eye we see the meaning of the Apos
tle in the words, "ne was seeu of me,
also, as of one born before the time."
He was not thus seeu by the other
Apostles. They saw Him merely as
He oppeared sometimes in one form
of body and with appropriate cloth
ing, at other times in another form
and with diverse clothing. He appear
ed and disappeared, but they did not
see Hint, the New Creature! they saw
merely the various forms in which He
appeared. But Saint Paul saw the
Lord more nearly as all the saints shall
see Him when they shall be born from
the dead by the glorious resurrection
changes.
Church' Glory to Bo Greater Than
That of tho Angela.
One great difference between the ef
fect of what Saul saw and what the
entire glorious Church will see in the
resurrection Is, that Saul's eyesight
was Injured by the sight; besides, be
saw nothing very distinctly merely a
blinding light, which the voice ex
plained to be the appearance or mani
festation of Jesus. Far more precious
will be the experiences of the Church.
Before beholding Him who is declared
to be "the express Image of the Fa
ther's person," "whom no man hath
seen nor can see, dwelling In light
which no man can approach unto" be
fore this, we shall have been changed,
glorified. This will enable us to see
Him as ne Is, for the glory of the
Church will be llko to the glory of her
Lord, and superior to the glory of the
angels.
While heavenly glory does not con
sist exclusively of brightness, never
theless the Scriptures everywhere seem
to associate brlght-shlnlng with the
heavenly oues, and would Imply that
tho higher tho station and rank the
brighter will be the sheen, the glory.
Thus the glory of the Heavenly Father
Is represented as being so great that
few could endure It; and angols and
seraphim are represented as veiling
their faces before the Divine glory,
which bo greatly transcends their own.
It should not, therefore, surprise us
that tho Scriptures everywhere repre
sent that our Lord Jesus aud the
Church, "made partakers of the divine
nature" (II Peter 1, 4), will have a
great honor and brightness, far above
that of angels and all others except
that of the Heavenly Father. As the
Lord Jesus was able to veil the glories
of nis person and to appear as a man
after nis resurrection, so undoubtedly
lie could do as respects the world,
during the thousand years of Ills Mes
sianic Relgu.
Aud, similarly, It would be possible
for the Church to appwr as men with
the glory veiled. It miht nppenr nt
first as though this was what was sig
nified through the Mosaic type when
Moses, representing Messiah In glory,
came down from the mountain, his
face radio ut, but veiled for the sUe
of the people. Our thought, however,
Is that Jesus and the Church will nev
er thus appear In the flesh as angels
havo done lu tbo past, but that on the
contrary the Ancient Worthies, per
fected on the human plane, will be
their agents and representatives In nil
communications with mankind. Thus,
"the Law shall go forth from Mount
Zlon (the Spiritual Kingdom) and the
Word of the Lord from Jerusalem"
(tho earthly Kingdom!, to every nstlon,
people, kindred nnd tongue, that all
may be blest If they will, and attain
everlasting life.
FIGURES IN INQUIRY.
Senate Committee Head,
Captain of Carpathia
And J. Bruce Ismay.
TWO DEATHS RESULT
OF FREIGHT WRECK
Second Secllon Crashes Into
Rear End of First Train. '
Iowa . Falls, April 22. The second
section of a double header stock train
on the Illinois Central crashed into
the rear end of the firBt train here.
Both engines were demolished and the
rolling stock badly damaged.
Two stockmen In the caboose of the
first train were killed and another was
probably fatally injured.
The dead: Fred Carson, Oto, la.;
Fred Bliss, Washta, la.
Nels Juergenson of Anthon, la.,
had his legs badly crushed and prob
ably is fatally Injured. Eleven othera
In the caboose at the time escaped un
hurt. Both engine crews Jumped.
CONVICT MURDER CASES UP
Three Trials Will Air Charges Against
Prison Management
Lincoln, April 22. The present
week doubtless will witness a court
airing of some of the things which
have been told regarding the past
management of the penitentiary.
Three murder cases from the peniten
tiary are scheduled to be taken up
In succession.
First comes that of Albert Prince,
the colored man who killed Deputy
Warden" Davis at the conclusion of
chapel exercises. His principal de
fense, as outlined by his attorney, la
that he was rendered desperate by the
abuses which he alleges ho was sub
jected to. If the case Is fought out on
these lines the public will have on op
portunity to learn from testimony un
der oath what foundation. If any, there
Is for these charges.
Following the Prince case comes
that of Morley, the only survivor of
the escape wh'ch resulted in the death
of Warden D:lahunty, Deputy Wag
ner, Guide Hellman, Convicts Gray
and Dowd and Roy Blunt, the Sarpy
county farmer whom they had forced
to drive a team for them. After this
comes the case of Tom Davis, the
convict who killed a fellow convict
with a knife while at the breakfast
table.
Roosevelt Wins In Kansas.
Topeka, April 22. Reports received
from ten Kansas counties which held
primaries or conventions show that
Roosevelt forces won in nine of them
and that one will send a split delega
tion to the state convention at Independence.
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