Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-05
JUDGMENT.
The Millennium What it is to be and When.
1t Means Peace and Prosperity for
all the World.
AUDITORIUM HOTEL.

CHICAGO, April 1920, go.
To Whom it May Concern:
More than two years ago the editors OF the
United States received from me an open letter
calling their attention to q proposed book en-
titled Judgment, - one of which was to start
movement to abolish the regular army of the
United States This letter will contain few
ideas concerning the king and judge of the whole
earth. People have been taught to expect the
com ing of such a character, and in anticipation
have clothed his coming with various phenom-
ena of spectacular Generalization. Perchance
he will say, s'BeboId, am GodI swallow the
ocean at gulp and spit fire like Vesuvius! All
there, you sheep. 60 TO heaven! All there, you
goats 90 to hadesl'
Purc6ance the machinery is out OF order.
Perchance nobody will move. If the king Of
kings depends upon such improbable transfor-
nations he will be disappointed. Very likely,
however, he will have judgment enough to ex-
pect only natural and beneficial changes. He
will sow the seed of new ideas and wait for the
seed to grow. his coming will be synchronous
with the needs of humanity at a certain epoch.
His treatment will follow the ordinary course of
ton He will be killed first and called Worthy
Lamb afterwards.
What wiz he teach? Repeat the sayings of
hans yesI Hema avs say. Faith. hope. charity
and judgment, but the greatest OF these Is judg-
ment."
International peace. time when wars shall
cease. A time when armies and naVies shall be-
come obsolete, or attain a condition OF ''innoc-
rous desuetude. It may be too much 10 hope
that the people viii, in the course of thousand
years, become sufficiently intelligent to
entirely abolish armies and navies. l
that some people are SO fond of standing army
that rather than do without it they would deny
themselves and their children all the Injuries of
the millennium. In some respects the millennium
will be what we make 1t. 1t may be time of
Judgment in the affairs of men, but the good
Judgment must come first. l wish TO advance
the idea that the day OF judgment will bear to
the millennium the relation Of cause and effect.
1t is difficult to speak at one ana the same
time, with the authority Of god and the meek
ness of 9 man. 1 am writing this letter with
the idea that God has chosen me to represent
some of His ideas. If he has not chosen me,
represent myself, and in either case acknowledge
no man my superior. l assume to full
fill certain functions connection with the So
called day Of Judgment The Bible has served
purpose. The exercise of faith has not been
destitute of good results. The exercise OF iudg-
ment viii produce the millennium. Men OF
Judgment will discover the rat-hole-between
preparing for peace and preparing for war. Men
Of Judgment will End that the best way to wor-
ship God is TO work with Him Tor the good OF
humanity. The day Of Judgment will not result
in sudden transformation of human nature. or
interfere with the action Of natural law.
1t NAV however, have some influence upon
the foolish institutions and ideas of the past.
It will not be s time OF wholesale and arbitrary
punishment. 1t will not be time OF senseless
destruction; but rather time of unusual dis
crimination A few armies may be doomed to
pass through the ceremony OF g. last roll call''
and settlement Of their accounts lew nayies
may be similarly treated; but If any Jew has
eaten piece Of pork ne psed not feel uneasy
unless ii interferes with his digestion.
The peace and prosperity of'fhe millennium.
resulting from the common exercise OF good
judgment: viii afford pleasant contrast to the
wars ana famines Of the past, resulting from the
exercise Of no judgment at all.
at the risk Of offending many who may ut first
consider me mere freak, venture to prophesy
that within twenty years the leading commercial
nations OF the world will have representatives in
an International court whose duty it will be to
settle international disputes and make interna-
ticnal laws. This court will assume authority,
as an advisory body, to express what the mem
beEs may determine to be the VIII Of SOD as
some sessions in city Of cities. to be known as
the New Jerusalem, the City of Peace. This
court viii help to Abolish standing armies and
navies, thus enabling the people to save hunzl
dreds Of millions of dollars every year. "A ~
The key of the Bible-is iudgmerk *