The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1878-12-05
THE SECOND ADVENT.
Rev. Dr.. Brockes Of St. Louis Re.
views the Proceedings Of the
Prophetic Conference.

st. Louis Times: The pro-
nounced views of Rev. DR.. James
H. Brookes, of the Presbyterian
Church, upon the second coming of
Christ have attracted considerable
attention throughout the country
and particularly upon the Eastern
theologians. He has been recog
nized as one of the strongest advo-
Gates of pre- millenial coming and
in the late Prophetic Conference in
New York DIR. Brookes and DIR.
Tying the leading spirits.
Last evening DR.. Brookes adj
dressed large congregation at his
church, reviewing the proceedings
of the conference recently held and
giving the first of series of Sun
day evening lectures upon this sub
ject, which is now receiving a good
deal of attention from Christian
people everywhere.
He told the people that there
could be NO greater mistake than to
accept as true the silly statements
that are being made by post-millen
ialists that pre-millenial coming is
only believed in by the ignorant
and fanatlcal.
Some of the foremost theologians
in England had declared their be-
lief in the doctrine. OF the charac-
ter of the late conference, he could
hardly say too much. Audiences
which numbered as high as 5000
assembled to hear the papers read
and discussed. Such harmony was
never exhibited at similar body.
The self-appointed committee of
l15, who met at Clifton Springs
and made up their programme for
the conference, assigned subjects to
men 200 or 1900 miles away, and
that, too, without previous consulta-
ton; and every one OF these men &C
cepted the subject, prepared their
papers, left their homes and work
aud travelled all the way to New
York to be present at the confer
ence. And when they came togeth-
er, the unanimity which existed
upon this great theme surprised
them all.
1t seemed to be a doctrine which
united the representatives of every
creed in harmony. How the glori-
Gus hope had spread was eyinced
when DIR. Tying called for rising
vote on a resolution which declared
belief in the new faith and the great
audience rose up.
Nothing could be more erroneous
than the idea that the conference was
held to advance the hobby OF few
fanatics. He had challenged the
great audience, full of men who had
searched the Scriptures, upon one
of the evenings of the convention to
show one text, from Genesis to Rev
Citations, which declared a post mill
lenial coming of the Lord, and had
said if it was produced, he and 100
would never open their
mouths again on this subject. The
met with silence only. |
More than one twentieth part of
the scriptures is occupied by refer
cences to this second coming of |
Christ. When the attention of the
people is called to it and men be-
gin to study the Bible they will find
such an interest in the subject as
will astonish them. The more |
study that was given, the stronger
would become the faith that Christ,
and bodily, is to come
upon earth before the millennium.
81 don't fix upon any date or
time" said DIR. Brookes suddenly in
the midst of his quotations from
the Bible to support his position,
''for the Lord to come, although in
timations of that kind have been
made in the newspapers. But it
seems to me now these fortunate
signs in the sun, in the moon and
On the earth, of which the Scripture
speaks, can be seen. There is anx-
Iety and unrest everywhere. Then
shall they see the Son of man com
ing in a cloud when these signs APP
pear"
He secuted the declarations that
the world was growing better and
read from a recent statement adopt
ed by a ministerial conference in
Pittsburg which deplored the in
crease of crime of every character,
the steady lowering of the moral
standard everywhere. This conclu-
sion the close and conscientious OBJ
server could not but reach
---Ss~-.--
Kearney, the Communist, has
passed out of sight-submerged as
it were in his own nastiness.