The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-05
ELDER PALMER TALKS
BE Speaks From the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists' Platform.
CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN
His Lectures Are Entertaining and
When He Returns to Butte
He VIII Address the
People Again. u
CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN


OF the Montana mission OF the Seventh
I Day Adventists. spoke to a small audi
ence at the A. NJ. z. church last night
on the second coming of Christ, which
he declares to be very near at hand.
He quoted the Scriptures freely in sup
port Of this belief, and he also incl
dentally roasted the church in poll
tics and the ministers for their efforts
to Christianize people by legislation.
declared himself as being unequivocal-
ly opposed to all Sunday laws, gave
President Cleveland and his admins
tration a dig and took a shot at the
late lamented Montana legislature.
Elder Palmer prefaced his remarks on
the second advent by reading the fol-
lowing verse from the first chapter of
second Peter: Wherefore will not
be negligent to put you always in re-
membrance of these things, though We
know them. and be established In the
present truth"
He said there is a present truth for
all ages. Noah preached the coming
of the food for 120 years. John told
of the destruction of Nineveh so years
in advance. and John the Baptist told
of the first coming of Christ. 1t Is not
unreasonable then to suppose that the
greatest event in the worlds history.
the second coming Of Christ into the
world. should also be foretold in the
scriptures. To show that we are now
living Just prior to this event the
speaker quoted from the fifth chapter
of James. which he said describes the
financial condition of the world to-day.
He said that rich men had been afraid
of the present administration ever
since it came into power. They were
afraid to invest their money and were
boarding 1t. and the financial troubles
of the country under the Cleveland adj
ministration were a result OF the
boarding of money. He said that there
is only money enough in the country
to pay one-eighth of the outstanding
notes and that all Of the notes draw
more than s per cent. interest. A hum
dred thousand dollars put out at per
cent. and compounded every year
would take up the assessed valuation
of the United States in $50 years.
Everv dollar in the country passes
through the hands of the railroads 10
times in a year and they don't let all
of II get away. The speaker quoted
from the Bible. where 1t said "the land
is full of silver and gold," and then
spoke of President Cleveland's mes
sage in which he declares for gold first.
last and all the time.
He said that with free coinage Of
would not be able to control the coun-
try's finances so easily as now, which
was the sole cause of their opposition
to silver. The producer is the slave
of capital in this country, which Is sup
posed to be free. and IL Is impossible
for labor to prosper under the condi-
lions as they now exist. Mr.. Palmer
said further that there never will be
any general relief from the present
financial troubles. There may be some
temporary relief in few localities. but
there never will be a permanent inn
provement.
Mr.. Palmer compared the condition of
the rich and poor to-day with quota
tions from the Bible and said: "All OF
the evidence is that the conditions that
now exist are described accurately as
those which shall Immediately precede
the second coming of Christ. Advent
lists don't teach and have never taught
that any man can know the hour or the
day of the second advent. 1t will be
plainly told, however. how We shall
know when the end is near, and 1t is
certain this generation will not all have
passed away before Christ descends to
earth again." Continuing, the speaker
said: There are false Christs all over |
the world, as it is predicted in the BIZ
BILE, previous to the second advent, and |
wickedness is great in all OF the church. |
es. No church can save any man, and |
only those who will be saved are those |
who are doing the will of God. The |
ministers have lost the aim of the spirit |
of God and are looking to civil law to |
make men good. They are attempting |
to have laws passed in support of their |
ideas, and are looking to civil govern
ment to Christianize the world. and in
so doing they are denying the power OF /
God to make men Christians. Park
hurst and others are trying to Christ
ianize the people of New York by the |
passage of Sunday laws. / am strictly
and positively opposed to Sunday laws
or anything resembling them. l am OPP
posed to attempting to force any one /
to be Christian against his win, for
you can't do IL. All you can do is 10
make a hypocrfte out of him. State leg
isatures have no more right to pass
Sunday observance law than they have
to enact law requiring baptism. Yet |
the Montana legislature passed a law
requiring barber shops to close Sundays
and II Is Unconstitutional for two reas-
ii is class legislation and
because IT Is religious legislation. The
legislators voted for that law simply
because they believed the influence of
the church would be thrown against
them at the next election II they failed
to do so. And yet the feeling engender-
ed by Parkhurst and others has become
so strong IN New York that both the
republicans and democrats have insert
state platforms. New York generally
leads the country and We may look for
the same planks in our national plat
forms.
Il would like to know why the min
isters of Butte have a lawyer regularly
employed to advise them, and why
they take such an active part in mu-
nicipal affairs? They say that they
want to close up the saloons on sun
day so that they can get the saloon
men. They say that IL the saloons viii
close up on Sunday they can run the
other six days OF the week without op-
position. l don't believe in being two
faced. The Bible Is unquallfiedly |
against saloons and want to see them
closed seven days a week. not only one
day. The m reniis arestsnia intact
lay. The ministers are preaching TO the
world 20 turn our spears into pruning
hooks and our swords into plowshares.
and yet there were never such prepar-