The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-02-01

sarth yet, but they are going
to. believe that the stone that
was tit cut OF the mountains, net made
with hands has been growing, and ! be-
beve that every man and woman who rs
converted adds 20 ID. by and by the wind
Is to take It up and drive It away.
! thank God for the outlook.
Don't eall me pessimist-
Tor am not one by good deal. believe
that any man who is on Gods side never
looks on the dark side but Is looking out
for Gods plans. And 1t Is
a good thing to find out what
His plans are. II the old world
is going to be made better and better
under this dspensation--all right, only
just get your proof. But think il is go-
Ing to grow darker and darker. People
say, "lsn't 1t better than 1t used TO be?''
Mol My dear friends, isn't man
that has great light and
neglects to walk in il, worse than he would
be- il he hadn't any iightf Isn't he worse
than man born off in Africa who never
saw the light? IL seems to me that where
there is great light, there is intense dark
ness just now. Look at the time we are
passing through just nowi Why, j got
letter this last week from man 5s years
old, friend OF mine, who, for some unac-
countabIe reason, has got tired Of his wife
and sued for a divorce. She didn't know
anything about 1t until she was
called into court. The idea OF man like
that being tolerated In society! Heought
10 be put out and ostracised. ] tell you
what! (ii you ministers will allow me)
what we want now is a little
church discipline. We want to find out
about these men before the court does
and turn them out of the church. 1t Is no
time after man has been condemned by
the law for the church to find out about
him. Let the church find out about ii be-
= fore the court does! Talk about these
bright times and things growing better
and better!
Now. let US see what Paul says; the last
thing that Paul ever wrote: "This know
also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come; for men shall be lovers Of their
own selves, coyetous, boosters, proud,
blasphemers, disobedient to parents,
unthankful, unholy, without natural
affection, trucebreakers, false accusers,
incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that
are good, traitors, heady, highminded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers OF
God; having a form OF Goodness,
but denying the power thereof;
from such turn away" "Covetous!" Has
there ever been such an age Of covetous-
ness? Look at the immense fortunes that
have been piled up in the last rs years!
All these millions OF Jay Gould
having piled up in the last 25
years. Not only that, but they are
not satisfied when hey get hundred mil
lion. When they have one hundred mil
lion then they want three, and when they
have three, then they want five, and SO on.
We are living in strangs days. Oh, may
God open our eyes that we may
discern the signs OF the times. And it
will be well TO get as far out OF the world
rs you can. Judgment is coming.
"Boasters." Did you ever hear of such
an age OF boasters? You go into
these cities and hear them talk about
being self-made men. A few years ago
they came into the city poor men, and
now they have worked themselves up.
AZ, ], j, ], l." Proud! A wealthy
man died. in New York some
time ago and left his son an immense
fortune. One day one Of his workmen
came to him and tapped him on the
shoulder and spoke to him,a he replied,
"Mind your own business. When i
want you to speak to me I'll LET you know"
Proud! Purse proudl "Blasphemous,
disobedient to parents, unthaDkful, un-
holy!" Paul says these shall be the last
times. How is that for the wcrld getting
SO beautiful that Christ can not stay away
that he has got TO come back? OF course
they cannot burn us now, but they can
say lots OF mean things about US.
They can put little mean things into the
daily papers-stings that we will carry
down with us into our graves. They have
the form, you know. That is the
trouble. You go to France, and all
through France they have the
FORM. Go to Germany and they have the
form. They have the form, but they deny
the power thereof That is where we are,
'ln the last days perilous times shall
| Gomez My dear friends lets look out for
the times.
Now, lets see what Christ says, Matthew
xiv 81 TO 40. "But as the days of Noah were,
so shall also the coming OF man be. For
as i'm the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noah entered the ark, and knew not
until the flood came and took them all
away; SO shall also the coming of the Son
lSof man be-" 1t looks as II Jesus Christ
thought il was going TO be dark when he
came back, doesn't IL?
There In the last four verses OF that
same chapter, "But and il that evil SER
want shall say In his heart, my lord de-
.layeth his coming. and shall begin to
smite his fellow-servants, and to eat and
drink with the drunken, the lord of that
servant shall come in day when he
looketh not for him, and in an hour that
he is not aware OF, and shall cut him as
under, and appoint him his position with
the hypocrtes; there shall be weep
ing and gnashing OF teeth" Now
mark ye! These are the last words OF
Jesus Christ, His last teaching. You take
the gospels and there are five famous ser
mons in them and the last was the one
about His coming.
Now we have seen what Christ and Paul
say. Let Us see What Peter says-the last
thing Peter ever wrote: Second Peter, ID
chapter, Sd verse TO 1fth, "And through
covetousncss shall they with feigned words
make merchandise OF you whose judgment