The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-12-28
ATWATER.

Mr.. George Heizer has singing school at the
Station two evenings week. Monday and We'd
nesday.
Richard Baldwin has bought the house and 10
recently belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett
and may probably live there in his declining
years.
We have a new furnace for our church. We
have used it four Sundays. and it answers its
purpose very well.
Lyman Abbott's sermon. " Jesus net reform
err" based on the text. = am come that ye
might have life, and that ye might more abund-
antly, y,"-John K. 10. was read in Church yester-
day, From the way he treats the subject one
might thi nix he places very little value on re-
form without the life. I will not quarrel with
him on that opinion.
Our Sunday School scholars and teachers ex-
pect to give Christmas entertainment on next
Saturday evening. beginning att 80.
At cur S S. Convention the great subject of
interest amongst many others. was Mr.. Meek g
sermon on the Second Coming of Christ. He
made it very plain and apparently very certain
| that the event had already taken place. on the
day of .Pentacost. and in many revivas since that
time 1 agree with him very fervently in this.
| but go further and believe that the question
what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the
end of the world. alludes to one time. two events
but one time. The Jews may have thought there
would be an end of the world when their Temple
was destroyed and their nation brought to an
| end. The sign of his coming was given by the
prophet Daniel and it was approved by Jesus
| The abomination of desolation was something
belonging to the Roman army. and when it goa
where it should not. they should flee to tn 9
mountains. The elect understood it and hurried
| to the mountains. This is the end .of the world
| Cd in khou foSfo md mil
never again be such tIibulation in the world
See Matthew 24:21. The resurrection has al
| ready taken place Those who slept in the dust
of the earth in Daniels time have bsen raised as
| he said some to life everlasting and some t,
shame and contempt. Verify, verify, I sa
unto you the hour cometh and now is, when tn
dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God ; the
that hear shall live.-John rs. For the hou
| cometh in which all that in the tombs shall
hear his voice. and shall come forth; they tha
have done good to the resurrection of life. and
they that have done i'll to the resurrection o
judgment. John, 22S. Here Jesus speaks o
things that were soon to take place. He says t.
Martha am the resurrection and the life. i'm
plying that he was ready to act in that particu
lar capacity. Judgment was also committed tn
the son. See John q and 2T.
The people who died before the resurrection @
Jesus have had their resurrection and had judg
ment passed upon them. The general judgmen
was for them. Those who live under the Christ
ian dispensation go to their proper place whe
they die We cannot expect to know the trans
actions of the heavenly world. but may be
lieve what j esus says: This generation sha
not pass till all these things are fulfilled. tt
i confirms the belief that his second coming wa
to take place during that generation. There
no further need of celebrating his death if wa
only to be done till he came again. Fo so ssha
We show forth his death till he comes W.