Sickle of Truth

Among Christians there is much which passes for “entire consecration,” but it is often a consecration to some self-imposed tasks, or work, instead of to God. Some are consecrated and are living sacrifices to business, some to their families, some to the temperance work, some to building up and working for their particular denominational church or to some particular ministry, some to ministering to the poor and the sick, some to social or moral reforms. These are each good enough…

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The following request was sent to Pastor Russell, which he allowed his wife to answer. (We have edited it here a bit, but have not changed the questions or answers.) Are we to expect revivals and the conversion of sinners now?  Are we to labor for this result?  Is the church coming up higher?  Are we to come out of the church, take our name off church books, or remain in the church and labor to bring the rest upon the higher plain; or is each individual to be fully persuaded in…

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“Many are familiar with the outline of God’s plan as embodied in the three worlds, – The world that was before the flood, the world that now is, and the world to come. This is a striking example of the fundamental character of the number three in the structure of the Bible plan of revelation and salvation. Each of these worlds, or orders, is spoken of in succession as having its own “heavens and earth.” 2 Pet 3. Here we have the foundation…

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Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast. 1 Cor 5:7 The Passover was a Jewish feast kept annually (and is still observed by them) as a commemoration of their remarkable deliverance under the tenth plague upon Egypt – the Passing-over or sparing from death of their first-born. The circumstances as narrated in Exodus Chapter 12 – the slaying of the Lamb, the roasting of the flesh with fire, and the eating of it with bitter herbs and unleavened bread while…

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Who will develop, this higher nature – many or few of those who enter the covenant? We answer: All of them, except those who openly ignore the value of the “blood of the covenant wherewith they were sanctified,” i.e., set aside and ignore the value of Christ’s death – as their ransom or purchase and we believe this will be a small number. So, to speak, Jesus enters the covenant for us. He agrees to guarantee that our part of the contract shall…

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Restitution signifies the restoring of a thing which was lost. You might give a person anything, whether he had once possessed it or not; but it would be quite improper to call it restoring unless he had once possessed and then lost it. The human family once possessed a perfect mental, moral and physical nature as represented in the person of Adam their head. Beautiful and majestic in form, God-like in the mental and moral qualities of his being (in God’s image) and commissioned to…

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In ordinary times it is the privilege and duty of the children of God to shine as “the light of the world.” As in nature, the energies of everything that is germinated are directed to the building up and perfecting its own organizations, and thereby fulfilling its own mission in the realms of animated creations; so in the spiritual sphere of existence, the great business of “the begotten again” is to grow, develop and mature, and in the accomplishment of these processes…

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