The herald., 1894-12-22
THEIR WORK IS CONCLUDED,
Premillennialists Adjourn with
Enthusiasm.
DR.. Roland D. Grant on "The Day of
His Coming"
Tho Con ference Wtnds Up with Tsstimo-
malls From "AIl Who Love
His Appearing"

Yesterday WAS the concluding day OF
the Premillennial conference. v hich has
been held since Tuesday in the First
Baptist church, corner Of Sixth street
and Broadway. A considerable amount
of interest has been evinced in this con-
ference, and several papers Of q high
theological value have been read during
the session, several OF which were re-
ported at length in these columns.
Among the papers that were read
yesterday were those OF the Rev. George
Z. Dye on the Holy Spirit and Second
Advent; Charasteristics Of the Millen.-
mum, by Rev. j. s. Mabie, D. D.; The
Rupture and the Revelation, by Rev.
W. G. Stevens; Is the Present Christian
Dispensation a Failure, by Rev. A. O.
Junkin. d. d.
The concluding lecture OF the confer.
ence was entitled, The Day OF His Com.
ing. 1t was written by Rev. Roland D.
Grant, DID,, OF Portland, Ore, but it
was read by DR.. Read, pastor OF the
First Baptist church. The divine had
taken for his text, Mark 1892: but Of
that day and hour knoweth no man no,
not the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
but the Father"
As to the studies of the prophecies. he
said, there are two prevailing views |;
both are extremists. One class insists
upon coming to definite data as to the
time of our Lords return. All it's CAL
culations are based upon exact data,
bringing about very close results. This
class is known as definite timists."
The other class quite thoroughly abb
lures the whole thing; treats definite
time as though it was almost sin. It
either spiritualizes the prophetical por-
tions of scripture. or brings them to
fulfllment at tho destruction of Jerusa-
lem or some earlier event. Either class
is quite severe in it's criticisms oil the
other. While the definite timista are
over-likelv to run into fanaticism, the
mo timista" sin equally much, either
by an indolent unwillingnesB TO enter
into careful study OF the prophecies, or
by . misconoeption OF the whole
plan. Tho text which had been
quoted 10 Q iavoyite one with those
who reject so>called time questions.
They say this once for ell settles the
matter OF non.knowing." II would be
the lecturers purpose to find, ii possi-
Bile, medium ground and . proper
balancing of this verse. He would ven-
ture to study the deepess meaning in all
the words OF the verse. BY analyzing
every portion OF the text and by bring
ing to besr upon each an array of quo
tations from the Bible, he succeeded in
the task he had carved out for himself.
Among some OF the remarks made by
the reverend lecturer was the following: |:
When We say that He came from the
non-time to this time condition. let no
one find comfort for the Unitarian idea
or want of idea. Christ was God pro-
jecting Himself into these human condi.
tions for the purpose OF masking forgive.
ness possible. The whole so-called sys-
tenn that lets down from the divinity of
Christ We sincerely despise.
lin conclusion the lecturer said that
his object was to correct the nor. n.know-
ing suffering Christ with His church
and with all the final prophetic glory OF
the Apocalypse. In reply to the ques.
tion, "Why do we not know OF the ex.
act moment OF our Lords return?" he
would say that there we're four answers.
First-Becsuse of our stupidity. 1t is q
question of human Limitation, lack OF
spiritual light and insight. The exact
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