The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1891-03-19

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tion is now read eagerly, anu Tie scquei |
is looked forward to with avidity.
To the author himself, 1 am, and al |
WAYS shall remain, under the deepest |
obligation. 1t combines extensive |
reading, scholarly patience, theological
acumen, christian sympathy IN man |
ner which far outrivals any OF our |
greatest divines with the additional adj |
vantage of solving the enigma.
l shall not fail to bring the book I'M
der the notice of my many friends.
Our acquaintance has been very
brief; but l shall always cherish the
remembrance Of the short hour / spent
with you last evening.
With best wishes for prosperous
and happy voyage, | am, dear sir,
Very respectfully yours.
GEORGE THos. PILLING.
Two finer gentlemen / never wish to
meet. What would those who have
criticised and condemned the book
without having read iD say of the
above testimonials?
There are many more such Golden
Sheaves'' in the same field waiting for
the husbandman's sickle, and to be
gathered into the masters garner
And nothing would delight me more
than to spend the balance ofmy allotted
time in the same harvest field.
The great manufacturing city Of
Manchester (where thrust in my first
sickle) is studded with churches and
teaming with infidelity, which is not
surprising, since it can be shown thet
the Gospel age ended with the year
1873, and that we entered on the pre-
dicted nominal age, or harvest in 1874,
the same that the Savior alluded to in
the parable of the wheat and tares,"
at which time the second presence be-
came due in the earth. We are,
therefore, seventeen years into that
harvest and we know it not, hence the
looming as thief in the night.'' The
present symbolic anti-typical harvest
is to be of the same duration as its
type-the ''Jewish harvest" viz: forty
years, which began with the ministry
of the Savior, and ended with the down.
fall of Jerusalem in the year A. D. 10.
The present harvest ends in the event
full year of 1914, when the ''times of
the Gentiles' will be fulfilled, and the
trouble now brewing between labor
and capital, the two great predicted
agencies now at work preparing for the
final struggle, which, according to
Daniels prophecy. is to be accomplish
ed and brought about by the "greatest
trouble that ever was since there was
a nation,' accomplishing the complete
destruction OF the present organized
sy5 ems peculiar to these evil Gen
tile times. This very condition OF
things is now before us; its eliminating
'agencies'' are now in sight, and the
hearts Of those who are ''watching'
are beginning to fail them, at seeing
such calamities coming on the earth.
And who to-day is so blind as not to
see the portent 81 gns now visible in the
lurid and murky sky of labor and capt.
tai? And who so deaf as not to hear
the ominous sounds of the ''symbolic
shoutings" as they arise from. behind
the ramparts Of the respective hostile
camps, and waited ON the dark wing
of the gathering cloud now lowering
civilization stands aghast, and with
which the most eminent craftsmanship
feels its inability to cope?
This is not the sentiment of political
agitation, neither is it the production
of either a diseased or a master mind.
1t is found down deep in the rich store
house Of prophecy, and the time is be-
10 bo ly,,n
The question is frequently asked,
how long is this fearful state of things
to last? Let prophecy give tie ars Her,
which is, that neither root nor branch
Of the present evil systems will remain
so that they may ''sprout or spring up
again. When that is accomplished
we are to have ''new word put in our
MOUTH which is to be of lone ac-
cord.'' Christianity will then be di-
vested Of its many existing titles, as it
is to be of one accord. The Savior
very graphically alluded to this i'm
pending trouble in the significant words
of ''unless those days be shortened no
flesh can be spared; but for the elect
sake those days shall be shortened. -
The unerring finger of prophecy points
to the eventful year of 1914, when
labor and capital will try their respect
i've strength on the great battlefield of
a simultaneous and universal ''strike. -
Neither will overturn the other; both
will 60 down together, dragging with
them all present organized systems,
including church and state, into the
general ruin. When labor will be out
of employment the world will be filled
with tramps, and law and order will
pass away. No doubt there are those
who will try to make themselves believe
that this great ''ado" is of human in
vention, just for sensational scare, -
and not worth passing thought but
their skepticism does not in the least
interfere with or retard the plans and
purposes of Him who stoopeth not to the
workmanship of His own hands, but
worketh all things by the counsel of
His own will, and in whose sight NOR
tai man is less than nothing.
The Apostle Peter abiding to this
very time, says: CAS- it was in the
days of Noah. so shall it be in the days
OF the Son of Man. They did eat and
drink, they bought and sold, were mar
ried and given in marriage, they build
ed and planted" ETC., having time for
everything, but what was contained in
Noah's 100 year sermon. Millennial
| Dawn places before us its scholarly re-
searches on this great subject in cheap
/ form and plain English, and shows that
! in three years from now we shall be in
| the midst of the days of the Son of
| Man. The first three chapters of
! Millennial Dawn, Vol. l., are mas
| terly reply to infidelity and kindred in
situations. Chapter Is is devoted to
unravelling the mysteries Of proph-
ecy on this impending predicted
/ trouble. Vol. II. gives the dates, the
validity of which some may question;
] but they must be allowed to stand good