Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-27
CaRIsT's COMING.


CaRIsT's COMING.
The Fallacies of the Lutte Prophetic Confer
ence In Neav York E.cposed.
The undersigned clergymen, of Anoka,
Mimi, having seen and read document
written by I. NJ. Jordan, in opposition TO
the resolutions of the prophetic conference
held in New York, November 1, 1878, desire
to say, that we consider it sound and worthy
OF The attention of editors of the st. Paul
GLOBE, and the Fitness, in New York, and
the public generally, and hope it may be pub
hshed IN the above named papers and all
others that have published the resolutions of
the said prophetic conference.
CHAs. GR1swoLD,
A. M. ToRBEr.
10 the Editor of the Globe.
Your paper of the I'd ult. brought to my
view the doings of the prophetic conference
held in New York the first of last month
It said they unanimously passed resolutions
that Christ is soop to return in bodily shape
to this earth. They cite us to the first
chapter of Acts and the 18th verse, which
reads: eye men of Galilee, why stand ye
gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus,
which is taken up from you into heaven,
shall SO come in like manner as ye have seen
him 60 into heaven"
The angel did not say he would come in
the shape of man, nor that he would put
his foot this earth, but that he would
come IN Like manner as ye have seen him go
into heaven Gin like manner); that is, if lie
went In the cars he would come in the cars;
if he went in cloud he would come in a
cloud; no mention of his bodily appearance
or dress.
Jesus said to the saints he would come
again and receive them to himself. He does
not come to the earth to do it. They are
caught up to meet him in the air. Please
read Thes. 4:16, II: "For the Lord himself
shall come from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel and with the
trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall
rise first. Then we which are alive and re-
main, shall be caught up to gather with them
in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air"
You see, then, that the Lord has not got to
come to earth to gather his dead and alive
saints. 1 object to the doctrine that Christ is
coming to earth again in the shape of a man
until the last day of time. Job was sure he
should see him that day. Then Job with
the rest of the saints will be raised and they
will all see him and be caught up to meet
him in the air.
The Adventists tell us that the Lord is to
come and assume the throne that David
swayed. Please turn to John 10: SO: Jesus
answered, My kingdom is not of sthis world.
So Jesus tells them plainly his
kingdom is not Of this world
Now let US read Luke II: 1921: And when
he was demanded of the Pharisees when the
kingdom of God should come, he answered
and said, the kingdom of God cometh not
with observation. Christ knew there would
be false teachers in the world, and wishing
to put us on cur guard, he says in Matthew
"a: 1921: If they say unto you, Behold, he
is in the desert; go not forth; behold, he is
in the secret chamber; believe it not. For
as the lightning cometh out of the east, and
shlneth even unto the west so shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be- There we
have the testimony of Christ a. to his COM
ing. Job says he shall at the latter day, and
| trust that all that are in their graves will
then see him that day sware that time shall
be no longer.
l have endeavored to show my reader
from scripture that he is not to come in
bodily shape to this earth till the day of
Judgment, or the last day of time, and call
upon that military man Major Whittle, of
Chicago, and Rev. Debrookes, of St. Louis,
Rev. s. Il. Tying, Rev. DR.. Mackay and all
others that had hand in passing those res
olutions in the Premillennlal conference in
New York, Nov LIST, and everybody else, to
tell me where to find one passage of scrip
ture to prove that Christ will come to this
earth in bodily shape of man before the
last day of time.
Now, let us read the fourth resolution
passed by the military officer and reverend
gentlemen and others unanimously
IN That prophetic conference, which
reads as follows: The scriptures no where
teach that the whole world will be converted
to God, or that there will be reign of uni
return of our blessed Lord.
These sentiments object to because, as I
have shown, Christ is not to come to the
earth again until the end of time, and have
the promise in Rev. 20: 2, that Satan shall
be bound for thousand years. And God
1nstructs, Jer. 31:34, to write that all should
know the Lord, and Isaiah. 52:9, to write
that the watchmen shall lift up the voice;
with the voice together shall they sing; for
they shall see eye to eye. Now read the tenth
verse of the same chapter, "And all the ends
OF the earth shall see the salvation of our
God.''
Now to prove that there is to be reign of
universal peace, please read Isaiah.
"a: And they shall beat their
swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they
learn war any more. And the following is
hguratlve of the peace that shall be during
the millennium when Satan is bound. Isaiah
ll:6: The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
and the leopard shall lie down with the kid;
and the calf, and the young lion
and the failing together; and a little
child shall lead them. And the
COW and the bear shall feed; their young ones
shall lie down together; and the lion shall
eat straw like the OK. Is it not astonishing
that men who profess to be teachers of the
bible can'let their eyes run over such quota
lions as the above, and then pass such reso-
luton? Thomas M. JoRDAN
Anoka Minnesota.
Getting Rid of Rats.
A correspondent of the English Mechanic
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