DOCTRINES
DEMONS
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time those who shout the loudest are the most tightly bound slaves of Satan. `The truth shall make you free'. All
other `freedom' is a snare.
Millennial Dawn
`Millennial Dawn' is the original title of the volumes published by Charles Russell, and his teaching is
sometimes known by that name. The reader should be advised that Pastor Russell's works are published under a
variety of titles. We give those we know. `Millennial Dawn' was published in 1886. The same works were re-
published in 1911, as `Studies in the Scriptures'. Other publications bear the mark of the `Watch Tower and Tract
Society', Brooklyn, N.Y., and `Zion's Watch Tower', Pittsburgh, Pa. The followers of this teaching are known as
the `International Bible Students League' or `Association' and should be carefully distinguished from the I.B.R.A.
the International Bible Reading Association, with which it has nothing whatever in common. On the title page of
each of the first three volumes is a statement concerning circulation:
Series l.
3,358,000
edition.
Series II.
1,320,000
edition.
Series III.
909,000
edition.
If you will not buy these publications they will be offered you gratis. It may be as well to give an idea of what
they teach on some vital subjects:
The Lord Jesus Christ, before Bethlehem was a spiritual Being, and none other than the Arch-angel Michael.
The Lord Jesus, when He was in the flesh, was a perfect human being - nothing more.
Regarding the keynote of the gospel - the resurrection of Christ, Russellism teaches:
`The man Jesus is dead, for ever dead'.
We know nothing, they say, of what became of Jesus' body. It may have been dissolved into gas; having been
supernaturally removed, it may be preserved somewhere as a grand memorial.
The above is enough for any child of God, but it may be as well to mention another harmful error. Russellism
teaches that the second coming of Christ took place in October 1874. The end of the age was computed to be
October, 1914. Since then Russell's followers have revised his chronology, and the last date for the rapture of the
saints of which we have heard was, we think, 1927.
Christian Science
The fundamental principle of Christian Science is that sin and disease have no real existence. In fact, matter
does not exist; mind is everything.
According to its teachings, God is an impersonal being; He is infinite mind. Prayer to a personal God is a
hindrance; true prayer, according to Mrs. Eddy, being a soliloquy or auto-suggestion. The Lord Jesus Christ was the
offspring of Mary's self-conscious communion with God. To accommodate Himself to immature ideas of spiritual
power, Jesus called the body, `flesh and bones'; which utterance shows the concession He was willing to make to
popular ignorance. Concerning the resurrection of the Lord, we have the following blasphemy:
`The lonely precincts of the tomb gave Jesus a refuge from His foes', and there `He met and mastered, on the
basis of Christ Science, all the claims of medicine, surgery and hygiene'. When `Jesus' students ... saw Him
after His crucifixion' they `learned that He had not died'. `We were reconciled to God by the (seeming) death of
His Son' (Science and Health, pp. 44 and 46).
As to sin, Christian Science teaches that it is an illusion, and as to the atoning efficacy of the precious blood of
Christ, it is altogether denied. Mrs. Eddy states that the blood of Christ was of no more avail when it was shed upon
the cursed tree, than when it was flowing through His veins in daily life.