Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-02-13
IN TIE CHURCHES.

In the various churches yesterday the
usual Sunday services were held. In the
Congregational Church, after service, the
ordinance of baptism was administered, new
members received, and the Sacrament of the
Lords Supper celebrated.
Rev. II. j. Becker, of the United Brethren
IN Christ, preached at IL A NJ. upon the sub
ject of Armaged1on-sl Battle of that
Great Day Of God Almighty" Rev. xvi. 14)
Mr. Becker began with Qlotatisn from st.
Matthew. VIZ: ..When shall these things
be, and what shall be the sign of Thy coming.
aud of the end of the world % lie said ::
This question hss been asked il every century
of tbs Christian era from A. ID. 33 to the
present time, and will no doubt Continue to be
asked until "everynne shall knew the Lsrd,
from the least unto the greatest I5may be in
place TO ask if the prophetic answer to the
Interrogation is like some mysterious ok.
the kay to which has been lost or hidden
away iu some sequestered labyrinth, to be
discovered and interpreted by generations yet
unborn? Or may we search the records of
the prophets and ejoice that these things
were written for our learning?" All of tire
fixed time, and pl aces heralded to the world
by the wise and learned of the past. and even
of our day, have proved untrue. Numerous
chronologists have set the hands on the
prophetic horologe, only to be ssdly
disappointed and greatly discounted.
The mission remained in its ancient seal.
Daniel was commanded to ''Shut up tie
words, and seal the book, even to the time of
the end" (Dan. xii. 4 The famous Time,
times. and the dividing of a time, spoken of
by the revelator. have symbolical meaning
which is generally agreed upon to be l. 260
years. Daniel speaks of "Time, times, aud
an half" Babylon had fallen, Persia had
lost the seat of empire. Greece was about to
press against the gates of the great city held
by the half exhausted sentinels of the Medo-
Persian army, Rome was marshaling her
forces and leading them on from nation to
nation, subduing their citizens and con-
fsca.ing their property. Daniels vision
caused him to be grieved. He did not
understand it; and so he "shut up the words
aud sealed the book" When tine Russians
and Austrians met the French at Austerliiz
in 1896 there were those who said the end Of
time had come. At the time Bonaparte raj
lied mis- forces at Moscow ia the great battle
of 1872, the excitement became great, and the
chronogram was again inscribed with the sud.
den coming of the Lord. The predictions
were repeated in view of the battle of Leipsic
in 1878 And, finally, in 1915, when the
English, tAe Russians, Hanovarians, Dutch
aad the Flemish troops withstood the French
at Waterloo, the end of time had surely come,
The modern horologe has now run its cord
from the pullies. and the hands have stopped
upon the dial immediately under the apostolic
inscription, Be ye therefore also ready, for
in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of
man cometh."
ave wrestle, not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities and against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickeaness in high
places" sour weapons are not carnal. but
mighty through God to the pulling down of
National combats will con-
Time until the anarchic tendencies to
monarchy and the cicatrizstion of ma
tional strife shall cease, and until civil
and religious principles shall form COM
pact that may properly be denominated the
+" Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.
There is great battle being fought at this
time. On the one side is truth, while on the
other is error. Right and wrong, light and
darkness, fidelity and infidslity, have entered
the field of battle. 1t is being fought at the
Mount of the Gospel" Righteousness is
prevailing. If we may be allowed to add the
1860 prophetic years to A d. 755, when Pope
Stephen assumed universal power. then the
come the Lords in 1915. Should we, how.
ever, count from A. ID. COG. the period when
Phoco made the Bishop of Rome " Universal
aud Supreme Head of the Church" then the
papal power was broken in 1866.
1t was in 1884 that England liberated her
G ,lonial serfs. Sweden liberated her slaves
in 1916. France, in 1S4S Portugal, in 1858.
Russia. in 1862 to %, 900, 600 serfs. Holland,
in 1868, and in the same year the United
States of Americs liberated her 100000
of slaves. In 1866 Victor Emmanuel set the
seal of his power upon papal arrogance. In
1866 Chile granted religious liberty. In 1866
Mexico opened her iron-bound door to the
messengers of light and salvation In 1868
Austria abolished the "Concordat," not
withstanding the allocuticn of the Pope
against such legislation. In 1869 Pere
Hyacinth, Carmalite monk, quit the pulpit
of Notre Dame, in Paris, and made Pope
Plus tremble, and all Rome with him
In 1869 tho Ecumenical Council convened
at Rome. There were 700 pselates and 600
present. The dogma of In
was adopted, by $50 for and IS
against. Pere Hyacinth and DIR. Dollinger,
like Luther and MelaRchton, have aroused
the apostolic see, and chiefly drawn the mar
ginal lines of their intentions in the political
as well as in tie religious world. Russia has
no place FIR the Pope. Neither France.
Germany, England nor America are ready to
invite the judgments of God by offering sub
sidiary encouragement to the chair of ST.
Peter, nor by inviting it's occupant to a safer
retreat. The papal power is broken, and the
gospel is making the lamb to lie down with
the lion. Civil and religious liberty is on
the increase. The gospel has become the
caIuu O. of peace. We are entering upon a
grand era of triumph. The nations will be
brought to Christ Kings and Princes con-
verified to God then righteousness will reign,
and "earth may hold her jubilee thousand
years." 1 shall from henceforth teach my
people 60 believe that both now, and in the
ages to come" Christ will show the :" ex-
ceeding riches Of his grace" and simultau-
eously keep before them the probabilities of
their mortality, in order that they may be
ready in the unthought-of hour to depart ana
ha With Christ