People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1892-12-23

our preachers say the world is grow
ing better. God pity the best, if
these things are better. The advo-
Gates of a temporal millennium all
say that the time is near at hand,
and one of them has gone so far as
to say that this is the year of grace.
If his calculation is right, I pray the
Lord to deliver us from the year OF
curse or time of trouble. In Mat
thew, 18th chapter, our Savior tells
us the parable of the wheat and the
tares. He says the harvest is the
end of the world. The enemy that
soWed the tares is the devil. The
reapers are the angels. Verse 80:
"Let both grow together until the
harvest; and in the time of the har-
vest [ will say to the reapers, gather
ye together first the tares, and bind
them in bundles to burn them; but
gather the wheat into my barn"
Can not any one see that the good
and bad are to remain until the end
of the world? Where then is the
worlds conversion? No room for
it in this sin cursed world. But
these fellows say, stop and read
Numbers 1921: "But truly as [ live,
all the earth shall be tiIsd with the
knowledge of the gloryef the Lord"
Isaiah 11:9 saws the eme. Now,
they say this proves a temporal mil
lennium. I guess not. Try to un-
derstand little better. This glori-
Gus event will be fulflledin an earth
renewed. Now let us read II Peter
3:10-13, inclusive, "But The day of
the Lord will come as a tlief in the
night; in the which tbs heavens
shall pass away with gaeat noise,
and the elements shall mel with fer
vent neat, the earth also and the
works that are therein shall be burn
ed up. Seeing then that al things
shall be dissolved, what manner Of
persons ought ye to be, in Jail holy
conversation and goodness Look
ing for and fastening unto the COM
ing of the day of God, whet ein the
heavens being on fire shall |be dis
solved, and the elements shall melt
with fervent heat" NeveE theless
we, according to His promise, look
for new heavens (atmospheris) and
a new earth wherein dwellethN right
eousness. After this old sin cursed
earth has been burned up, and a new
Ole springs up from its ashes then
this renewed earth shall be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of
the Lord, as the waters that cover
the sea. But be assured, my breth-
rem, that no such state will exist until
after that fiery day of the Lord.
Oh! the beauties of Gods word.
How His truths harmonic when un-
derstood. But you use Psalms the
2:8 against me. know that they
read thus: eAsk of me, and [ shall
give thee the heather for their In
heritance and the uttermost parts Of
the earth for thy possession. Please
read the next verse. 1t does not say
that the heather are given to Christ
as objects of salvation to reign a
thousand years il righteousness on
this earth. No, SIR (; they are given
for quite another purpose. Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron
thou shalt dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel. Not much in this to
Indicate the worlds conversion. 1t
is more like Daniel 2:44, where the
stone is to smite. the image on the
feet, and scatter it to the wind.
Isaiah 60:8 asks a question, "ShalA
a nation be born at once ?" This
chapter certainly leads US to infer
that such will be the case. And it
also teaches that wholesale birth will
be at the first resurrection, when the
earth is made to bring forth all the
righteous dead in one day. 1t has
no reference to the spiritual birth
Cor conversion) of a nation in a day,
which has never happened and never
will.
A per cent Of every city and ma
ton accept Christ, while the many
go on in sin.
Matt. "a +: Il is used by temporal
millennium advocates to set up this
vain theory. This scripture does not
say the gospel is preached to convert
ali nations, but for a witness to all
nations. And then shall the end
come. Not a thousand years after.
But they use some other scripture.
lisa. 2 /, 2, 3, A. Examine this
more closely, my friends, and you
will find that this is the saying of
many people and not the saying Of
the Lord. Truly, many are now
saying this just at this time, but
using it as the Lords syings is fond
dolubion Of Satan, and is damning
thousands.
Mich. Al, 2, 8, and 5 is parallel
with this, but is quoted as the say
ings of many nations.
Now turn to Joel 3, and read from
the 9Th to the 21st verse, and see
what the saying of the Lord is, and
you will find that the sayings Of many
people, and many nations on this sub
ject differ as widely from the sayings
of the Lord as heaven and hell differ.
Now let us look at the facts.
Preachers of every denomination are