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will be accomplished at the end of A. D. 1914.” Now this is Certainly very dif ferent from predicting “that a great inter national war would begin at that tim e .” Furthermore, “Pastor” Russell says in Volume .II, P 77: “S ome tim e before th e end of A. .D. 1914 the last member of the divinely recognized Church of Christ, the ‘royal priesthood,’ ‘the body of Christ,’ w ill be glorified with the Head; because every member is to reign with Christ, being joint-heir with Him in the King dom, and it cannot be fully ‘set up’ with out every member!” This certainly is just the opposite of predicting that “a great international war would begin at tha t tim e (i.e., in 1914).” Russell denied a bodily, visible coming, and put the sec ond coming of Christ back in October 1874, and made it' not a bodily visible coming. But what God has revealed in the Bible is a bodily and visible coming, just what “Pastor” Russell denied and Shailer Matthews and his school dis credit and “Mother” Eddy perverts. I once had an interesting experience with one of Pastor Russell’s satellites and teachers in Chicago. I had been preach ing on the Second Coming of Christ and showed, from the Word of God, as I have showed here this morning, that Jesus Christ was coming back bodily and visibly. At the close this teacher waited for me and said to me, “Mr. Torrey, you don’t believe that Jesus Christ is com ing back in such a way that He can actu ally be seen with these eyes.” I replied, “It .matters little what I believe, but here i^ what God says: ‘ Behold, He cometh with the clouds; and EVERY EYE SHALL SEE h im : ” 3. T h e L ord J esu s is coming again w it h great publicity . In Matt. 24:26, 27 our Lord Jesus says: “If therefore they shall say unto you, behold, he is in the desert, go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. (27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west: so shall , also the coming of the Son of Man be.”
This evidently indicates' that our Lord Jesus is coming with great publicity when He comes again. This is also evident from the passage to which we have referred several times—Rev. 1:7: “Behold He cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall see Him, and they that pierced Him;; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over Him." And from I. Thess. 4:16,17: “For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, w ith the voice of the Arch angel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord" , “Mother” Eddy and her disciples claim that the revela tion of the truth, Christian Science, to “Mother” Eddy in 1876 was the Second Coming of Christ predicted in the Bible. My sister in New York was urged by a friend of hers to go to a Christian Science service. After many refusals she at last consented to go. When the service was over my sister’s friend asked her how she enjoyed it. She replied she had not liked it at all. Her friend asked her why not. “Why,” she replied, “for one thing, there was no sermon.” Her friend replied, “We would not have a sermon, that would be human and we have nothing human in our services.” To this my sister answered, “But you had someone stand up there and read out of Mrs. Eddy’s book half an hour.” To this the devout Christian, Scientist replied, “Oh, that’s not human, that’s the Second Coming of Christ.” This is a common claim among the Christian Scientists. But certainly the revelation of Christian Science to Mrs. Eddy in 1876 or the earlier revelation of it, if it be a revelation, to Dr. Quiniby, from whom Mrs. Eddy stole it, redressed it and bap tized it as her own child, did not bear the slightest resemblance to the Comingi Again of Jesus Christ prophesied and described in the Word of God, in the pass age just read. If it were said that Mrs.
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