The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-08-15

1t wOult not be too much TO say that
in the short space Of nineteen years
from now, the many unjust systems
existing between man and man will
then disappear; among others the
monopoly ct the earth by few Of our
fellow mortals, who, without a recon-
pense refuse the great balance Of their
fellowmen place whereon to lay their
head, and without fee are actually
denied small space beneath the sur
face as resting place until the resur
rection; hut this great impending
social revolution will effect a radical
change with respect to the ownership
of the earth; property, instead of being
private as it is now, will then become
common and the people will enjoy
once and forever their rightful inheri-
lance in this their own world; such a
mighty and sudden change will disturb
and unsettle the present order of things
and will prove to be great shock to the
long line of esta blished custom, but
great benefit to humanity. This is
no. the doctrine OF socialism, anarCb-
ism, or nihilism, neither is it the pro-
| ducton of either a diseased or a mas
ter mind, it is found down deep in
the rich store house Of prophecy, and
the time has become due for it to be
made known. We are not directly
told how long this impending trouble
is to last. Doubtless it will continue
until all the evil and unjust systems
with which we are surrounded will be
SO completely uprooted as never to
have chance to sprout or to spring
up again, presumably the trouble may
last some eight or ten months. 1t is
to be sharp, therefore it must be short
or else the race would be exterminated.
This is corroborated by the Saviour
himself when he said: "Unless those
days be shortened no flesh can be
saved, but for the elects sake those
days shall be shortened" Both
Prophets and Apostles speak of this
great trouble as being dark night Of
devastation, of "weeping and wailing
and crashing of teeth.'' The Apostle
James tells of it as being the result of
the monopoly Of capital over labor;
the prophet Daniel says "the trouble
shall be such as never was since
there was nation" Ezekiel
says, "trouble shall be upon the whole
multitude; there shall be no protection
of property and money will be value
less; they shall cast their silver in the
streets and their gold shall rot" Zeph.
says speaking from the standpoint Of
the day Of the "Son of Man" in the
midst of which we are now living)
"Nigh is the day Of the Lord, it is
nigh; nearer and nearer cometh the
uproar of the day of the Lord; there
the mighty shall shrek bitterly; will
bring distress upon men and they shall
60 about as blind men; their blood
shall be poured out as the dust and
their flesh shall be as dung" added to
this, the living contents of all the jails,
pententaries, and mad houses will be
turned loose to swell the pandemo-
mum; as for the inmates of sick hos
pitfalls they will be left to live or die as
best they can. Malaki says with
respect to the trouble that it shall burn
as an oven, in which the proud and
all who do unjustly shall be as stubble."
Quotations from prophecy might be
continued pointing to the dark side
of that ominous cloud now overhang
ing that terrible fit of madness in
which the human race is about to be
involved; but it is a blessed consola-
ton to know that the cloud, however
dark and lurid, has got a silver lining
on which is portrayed the glorious
brightness of that Kingdom of Right
eousness which can never be shaken;
that thousand year millennial day in
which the sun of righteousness shall
shine forth in splendor and power,
blessing and healing the sick and dying
but redeemed world. BY the time the
Gift is over obstreperous man will be
brought to his senses, and for the first
time will patiently listen to that voice
at which creation trembles, and with
his pride humbled in the dust will be
led to exclaim, "The Lord He is God,
The Lord He is God"
On the subsiding of that unprece-
dented symbolic storm, and the pur-
poses designed accomplished, then
that voice which spoke,,to the boisterous
Gallllean lake will be heard across
that turbulent, that storm sea of "hu-
man passion" saying: "peace, be
still" And a great calm lasting
throughout the incoming thousand
year millennium, will set in. During
and in the midst of this great commo-
ton, Satan, the symbolic "strong
man" will be bound with that chain
which John saw on highly favored
"Patmos," and his goods" consisting
of all the evil systems which he has
got introduced into our world dur ing
the last six thousand years, will be
"spoiled" at the same time. King
Emmanuel, in company with His
"Bride" whom he has been selecting
from the world during the now closing
gospel age, will ascend His millennial
throne, and for thousand years "will
Judge the world of humanity in right
eousness, and rule them with a rod
Of iron." The first resurrection,
comprising the "overcoming little
flock" of the gospel age, took
place in the year 1878, and on
the subsiding of the impending storm
the second, or general resurrection
will be due to commence, which great
event is not to be consummated and
wound up in the short space oftwenty