St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-26
Twin City Ministers Preach
On, Regardless Of the
Impending Fate.
Daniels Interpretation OF
NebuchadnezZar'S Dream
Is Here. y
"Truth" breaches to Preach
ers, and Evangelists Are
Admonished.


the Chaldeans we're called to make
known unto the king the dream OF his
head upon his bed; and none but Daniel,
the Israelitish captive, could make
known the dream. "Thou. 0, king,
sawest and beheld a great image. This
images head was of fine gold, his breast
and arms of silver, his belly and his
thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. 1nou
SaweSt till that stone was cut out With
out hands, which smote the image upon
his feet that were of iron and clay, and
brake them to pieces. Then was the
iron, the clay, the brass, the silver and
the gold broken to pieces together ana
became like the chaff OF the summer
threShing floors; and the wind carried
them away, that no place was fouhd lor
them; and the stone that smote the I'm.
age became great mountain, ana nlleu
the whole earth.'
Thus reads part of the second chap
ter of Daniel. 1t sounds to the people
of this day like "Gulliver's Travels or
''The Arabian Nights" and venture to
say has received from the people OF this
age of Biblical fruition less attention
than the writings carrying those attract
i've headings. But the prophet Daniel
thought the revelation through the
dream to King Nebuchadnezzar an
important thing. and, following
upon the request of the king
for an explanation, Daniel, as
sisted by revelation from the LORD,
opens one of the sublimest chapters or
human history. Eight short verses OF
the inspired word tell the whole story;
yet that story embraces the history OF
hi
moments will suffice to commit it to
memory; vet the period which it covers,
commencing more than twenty-five CEN
turtles ago, reaches on from that Tar
distant point, past the rise and fall of
Kingdoms, past the setting up and
overthrow of empires, past cycles and
ages, past our own day, over
INTO THE ETERNAL STATE.
Then the prophet Daniel, speaking
before the king, said: Thou, o King,
art the head of gold.' and after thee
shall arise another kingdom inferior to
thee (the Modes and Persians). and
third kingdom of brass (Grecia) which
shall bear rule over all the earth. And
the fourth kingdom (Rome) shall be
strong as iron; forasmuch as iron
breaketh in pieces and subdueth all
things, shall it break in pieces and
feet and toes part of potter'S clay and
part of iron, the kingdom shall be 'dl-
vded. (The division of the Roman
kingdom into ten parts, viz: !, Lom-
bards: 2, Franks: 8, Heruli 4, Huns;
5, Burgundians; 6, Ostrogoths: Z, Sueyi:
S. Visgoths; 9, Vandals; 10, Anglo
SaXons) And in the days of these
kings shall the God of heaven set up a
kingdom, and it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms, and 1t
shall stand for ever. land the dream is GER
tain and the Interpretation Thereon sure.
The student of history Is familiar with
the grandeur of Babylon, the power OF
the Modes and the PerSians, the con-
quering armies of Greece and Rome;
yet where are they to-day? Their null
titudes of people are dead and buried,
their colossal cities covered with the
debris of ages; they exist only through
the people forming the ten Kingdoms
scattered abroad, of whom the United
States is part. 1t need not be asked
what is the important question of to-
day: the holy record declares the ma
tions now existing shall be broken in
pieces, and the kingdom of heaven shall
be set up. Il John saw new heaven
and a new earth, for the first heaven
and the first earth were passed away,
and so had the sea-" The next thing in
order is the destruction of the earth by
fire now stored away in its enormous
stomach, of the presence OF which the
increased activity of volcanoes, the ag-
gressiveneSS of the earthquake, the
spouting of the novel oil and gas wells
GIVE US FAIR WARNING.
would ask, where are the products of
our theological colleges? The boosted
in Sprlntnr1I o.
search? The bright young men that
put in from five to seven years hard
work to prepare for the ministry? They
are scattered til rough the cities and
towns, aye, occupying the pulpits of
the Twin Cities crying, peace
and safety" when Sudden destruction
cometh :" deceiving their willing listen
ers to think the end is far off, saying.
"Where is the promise of his coming?
for since the fathers fell asleep the
world remains the same since the be-
ginning of creation?" Covering up the
beautiful gems of truth with tiowery ell
ocution; filling up their sermons with
unnecessary detail, those coming hun
cry to church are fed upon subjects that
they should have graduated in long
since. The Lord is good and full of
mercy. These things will not come
upon the people without full warning.
Before the world was destroyed by
water Noah cried loudly to the people:
.'Obey the Lord; return to His holy
commandments When Sodom and
Gomorrah were destroyed with fire and
birthstone, Lot warned the people, say
ing: Leave your unclean ways and
keep the commandments" For forty
years past there has been a people
crying, Fear God and keep His CON-
mandments, for the end is near"
Are the orthodox clergy of Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul
WARNING THEIR FLoCKs
that prophetic record is ended? that all
things are soon to be destroyed? Nay,
truly they are circulating petitions to
get thereby legislative enactments en-
forcing Sunday, a Catholic holy day, and
without Scriptural foundation, upon the
people, causing the people to forget the
commandment that declares 1.-The
seventh day is the Sabbath" causing
the people by fire and imprisonment to
desecrate the true day and venerate the
SUMS day."
In addition to the fact that they are
deceiving their followers and holding in
dishonor the fourth commandment,
they are seeking through pernicious
means to destroy the fundamental part
of our constitution religious liberty
that has placed US where we now stand,
foremost among the nations of the
earth; they urge the reasonable act,
union of church and state. They
directly oppose the teachings of the
father of this country. George Washing
ton. They are opposed to the teachings
of the greatest general America has
produced, q. S. Grant. They are OPP
posed to the discreet instructions OF
James Madison. They are opposed to
the teachings of Jesus Christ. viz:
Every man who conducts himself as q