St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-26

made that Babylon is fallen. Now what
does this mean? From Revelations xvii,
So, we learn that Babylon represents a
great ecclesiastical body, or church; and in
chapter xviii, Ia, we learn that the fall OF
Babylon is a moral fall. 1t becomes spirit
ually corrupt, worldly and formal. From
many other Scriptures we learn that in the
last days there is to be just such an apos-
tacy among the protested churches OF
Christ. See Luke, xviii, s; I'd Timothy,
iii, Is. There the apostle says that in
the last days many will depart from God,
having only form of godliness. This Sec
ond message, then, in Revelations, xiv,
announces that as an accomplished fact
In verses 912 of my text is a statement
of the third and last message of warning.
1t threatens the unmingled wrath of God
upon every one who shall worship the
beast, the papal power, and shall not keep
the commandments of God. There will be
then, at that time, warning some way
about the commandments. Right follow
ing this, the text says that Jesus comes in
the clouds of heaven.
Now. if we believe the word of God. we
must expect that in the last generation
three-fold warning will go to the world, to
prepare the people for the coming of the
Lord.
We have shown in other sermons that we
are down in the last days, just where we
should expect such q warning. Now, the
question is, has the warning been given?
Has the world heard of it? Does anybody
know anything about it? Oh, yes, indeed.
The whole world knows that during the
last half century the Adventists have given
warning in the very words of this chap
ter, announcing that the advent of Christ is
near. In 1914 was heard the proclamation
that the hour of his Judgment is come. For
five years the world was nightly stirred by
this message. Tens of thousands were con-
verified, and it was preached in all the
world. Everybody heard it.
THE JUDGMENT
is a work that takes place in heaven before
Christ comes to the earth, for when he
comes every mans case is settled and de-
cided, and the Lord merely comes to meet
the saints; the award is already decided
upon. So we believe the work of judging
the world began in 1874, as was proclaimed
by the Adventist people. Right following
this was proclamation given by this peo-
Pile. in the very words of the text, Babylon
is fallen, is fallen They took the position
that the religious bodies who had rejected
and opposed the doctrine of the coming of
the Lord had opposed the truth of God, and
that in consequence they would go into the
dark, and the Lord did not bless them as
he previously had. This announcement
was made openly and loudly to the world.
Now. look at the facts Does not every
man know that there has come wonderful
change over the churches of the land within
the last fifty years. Many of them have
become as proud and popular, stylish and
worldly as the world itself. Jewelry,
finery, fashion, is seen in the church about
as much as anywhere. The power of
God that used to be, is wanting in many
cases. The modern revivals are different
affairs from those of old times. They are
largely produced now by singing, loud talk
ing and wild harangue. The old fashioned,
plain preaching, pleading with God. broken
ness of heart, has dropped out. Very little
change of life attends most OF the CONVEX
sions, and very generally few months
ends their career. We are afraid of these
things, and I believe they are not the genu-
inc gospel of the Bible. Evidently, then,
this message is true, for facts sadly corrob-
crate it.
The third and last message was to be
about the commandments of God. V. -:
Here are they that keep the command
ments of God" Where? Why, right
here; just before Jesus comes. So then
there will be brought out at this time pc
culiar people, keeping the commandments
of God, as others do not keep them, and as
they have not been kept before. Now, it is
a fact that Seventh-day Adventists are do
ing just this thing. Forty years ago they
began to preach about the commandments
of God. the ten commandments. and to
keep them as the Lord gave them from
heaven. Of course they had to keep the
seventh day Sabbath, and they have
preached this with vigor all around the
world. The whole earth has heard it. ITO
day they are numbered by tens of thous-
ands, and they have institutions, missions,
printing and publishing houses encircling
the globe.