The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-02

direction guaranteed eternal life; no, no,
it only settles the condition of the first
penalty and guarantees return to life to
be followed by another trial on much
easier terms.
The finger of prophecy points to the
eventfu1 year 1914 when the predicted
trouble such as was not since there was a
nation, will fall with crash on our de-
voted world; when the phials containing
the bottled up wrath of an angry God will
ward for six thousand years uni ,hteous-
ness. All through prophecy it is described
as a dark day of intense trouble and dis
tress upon mankind. The apostle James
in the 5th chapter OF his epistle, from LIST
to 4th verses, gives the cause, and who to-
"signs of the times in the lurfd and
murky sky of capital and labor? And
who so deaf as not to hear the symbolic
shouting as it arises from behind the ram
parts of the respective hostile camps? and
waited on the wings of the cloud, now
lowering over the affairs of mankind, at
which civilization stands aghast. and
with which the most eminent statesman
ship feel its inability to cope. This very
condition of things can Low be seen
approaching, and in the world among
men, those who are awake. their hearts
things that are coming on the earth, and
now on every hand it is being acknowl
edged that there is trouble in the air,
which men are attributing to every cause
but the right one. Some folks say that it
is owing: to the scarcity, of money, while
value of gold and silver; while some
again contend that it is monopoly on the
part of capital, and strikes and disturb
ances on the part of labor; and now the
government is being loudly called upon to
rectify the trouble, whatever it is. Con
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over the supposed cause, and to disagree
as to the right method OF getting under the
trouble, and now mutual recriminations
are abroad for sending up the wrong men
to do an impossibility. Could they divest
themselves of some of their political
prophetic records they would find that the
present crisis is only parliamentary
spasm of something worse to come, and
which is beyond human power to prevent.
BY little close study of the "signs OF the
times they would discover 1t to Oe the
of His lightnings and the rumbling OF His
chariot wheels; a slight volcanic shock be-
fore the general eruption; a gentle shaking
of the nations prior to their being ground
to powder and engulfed in that coming
stormy sea OF trouble.
great calm has set in, man will be brought
to his senses and authoritatively COM
manded to be still. He Will then become
what he is not now, nor never has been
teachabLe-and throughout his thousand
year lesson will learn his duty to his God
and to his neighbor, and will be happy to
accept Of everlasting life on the terms
laid down in the great redemption plan:
At the close of this coming trouble the
general resurrection will be due to COM
mence. The first to be resurrected are the
patriarchs and prophets and all those who
died in the faith previous to the first adj
vent. They are scripturally called princes
of the earth, and are destined to take the
lead on the visible earthly phase in con-
nectiOn with the Bridegroom and Bride on
the spiritual invisible phase in teaching,
training and preparing the redeemed and
resurrected race when placed Oh their
thousand year trial for life. At the close
of that blessed eyentful period all those
who have taken advantage of that long
and easy trial and proved themselves
worthy of life, will be presented to the
Father as his restored favorite creature
Man. without spot or wrinkle or any
such thing; and when the incorrigibles Gf
any with satan their prince will be blot
ted out OF existence in the second cath,
then will the Son deliver up His commits
sion to the father by saying " 1 have fin
| ished the work Thou hast given me to do. !"
There revelation stops, only to point. to
stupendous world will then be purged of
sin, and freed from all its train of misery
will become a universal paradise of
which Eden was the type. She will con-
tinue to revolve on her diurnal axis and
pursue her everlasting journey on her as
signed orbit in connection with her sister
worlds in their everlasting revolutions
throughout the solar system. She will
carry on her paradisiacal surface a re-
deemed and happily restored race. They
will forever taste of that bliss that Adam
and Eve enjoyed before sin entered and
broke up their happy Eden home. Then a
stain of sin will never mar the harmony
ard peace of a perfect society. Not Bit
ter thought nor an unkind look or word,
love yelling up from every heart, meets a
kindred response in every other heart.
Benevolence marks every act. Then sick
ness shall be no more; not an ache nor
pain, nor any evidence of decay. The in
ward purity, mental and moral perfection
will stamp and glorify every radiant coun-
tenance. and perfect humanity will be of
surprising loneliness. Such will earth
society be! And such, my dear Harriet,
will be your society if you are not already
a member Of the Bride, which is of far
| higher degree, attaining to the divine ma
| ture. And weeping bereaved ones will
| have their tears all wiped away when
thus they realize the resurrection work
complete.
| Most respectfully yours,
RICHARD MARSTON