The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-29
THE COMING THEOCRACY
BEARING OF sPANIsH-AMERTCAN
WAR ON FUTURE MILLENNTUM.
Ingenious Theory Worked Out by
Those Why Apply Scriptures Liter
aIIy-PrOphecies Interpreted.


agined, but the orderly fulfillment of a great
drama that as far as the rise and fall Of
nations is concerned, God has foreordained
and foreannouneed. History shows the
evolving of a glorious and divine plan to
bless the race without violating the prin-
ciple of free will, and to develop the high
est and noblest type of humanity and
lift these people into their original rela-
tions to divinity, to each other and to the
world in general. This is the divine idea
and the people who fail to acquiesce in this
consummate plan breed by their own re-
fusal the germs of their own demise. With
nations, as with individuals, the refusal to
advance necessitates a retrogression and
that retrogression ends in death. The above
is borne out by the triumphs of mind and
morals on every page Of history; Spain
and America, Turkey and England, China
and Japan are notable instances. That the
human family is living to-day in a transit
ton period no thoughtful man will deny.
Coming events cast their shadows before.
Everywhere and by all classes is felt a
vague fear Of coming change, an appre-
hension of the future and an indefinable
dread of impending disaster. "A spirit of un-
rest and discomfort with present conditions
is universal andythe unstable condition OF
things in this age of establishment fills the
mind with the instructive feeling that a
reconstruction epoch is at hand. This is an
age of perplexity when, the most aston
ishing and unheard-of things are transpir-
ing on every hand, and the landmarks OF
ages are rapidly disappearing before the
swelling tide of modern scientific thought.
Money is shy and business is cautious to
the extent that enterprise is paralyzed. In
every nation revolutionary principles are at
work and openly advocated by many and
the universal instability and change prove
this to be a capricious, ftfu age. The world
is running under high pressure, too high
to be long sustained and thoughtful men
of every class feel that there must be
either relaxation or a breaking soon, and
that the latter is destined to be the out
come is evident. This condition of affairs is
not accidental, but the exact fulfillment of
the prophets declaration. The Scriptures
assert that just previous to the millennium
there will be upon earth distress of ma
tons with perplexity and mems hearts fail-
ing them for fear, and for looking for the
things that are coming on the earth" Now
that this foretold condition has obtained
and national distress, perplexity and fear
abound. it becomes us to ask what are the
things that are coming on the earth.
That answer alone can be found on the
sacred page. To replace the monarchies
and republics of earth a universal and eter-
raj theoracy is promised wherein the pre-
pared and purified people shall dwell as a
real Christian brotherhood beneath the inn
mediate scepter of the Son of God. That we
are in the beginning of the end of the pres
ent dispensation no beneving student Of the
prophecies denies, and as to whether we
are in harmony with the divine plan for
the future should be moInentous question
with all. Spain in the present conflict is
destined to fail, though all the Latin ma
lions unite to perpetuate her power. On
the whole, she is as nonprogressive as the
other Latins; over two-thirds of her people
are unlettered, while the money that should
be spent for public education is lavished
upon religious teachers. She supports near
ly quarter of a million priests and nuns,
or one to about seventy-two people in the
realm. Though her upper classes are usual
ly we'll taught, the dense ignorance of her
masses is baneful, and has tended to carry
the barbarous practices and principles Of
the sixteenth century over to the dawn of
the twentieth century. Her ignorance and
her disposition to perpetuate the practices
of the dark ages has developed inquisitors
warriors, scientists and Christians.
TEN LOST TRIBES.
America on the other hand, is q nation
of but yesterday, and yet people of the
highest moral and intellectual development
on earth. Her sails. now whiten every sea,
and the markets Of the world are largely
nodded by her commerce. who are this
people, what was their origin, and what is
their destiny? This is the question to set
tie ere the outcome of the war can be told.
Is Scripture silent as to this important Ma
ton, when lesser ones are acknowledged to
have place therein? With the best schol-
ars of this age we assert to those who
search for the identities it will be seen that
the American people have large place in
the sacred writings. The Saxons, or Eng
disappearing people, with possibly the
Protestant Scandinavian tribes Of Den
mark, Sweden and Norway, the Ten
Lost Tribes of Israel, who at different
times, six to ten hundred years before
Christ, were taken into Babylonian and
Median captivity. The two and a half
tribes to whom Jesus came, and by whom
he was rejected, were called Juda, or Jews;
the nine and half tribes, which are COM
monty called the ten tribes" are termed
Israel. The ten tribes, as both sacred and
profane history show, drifted west and set
tied lin the isles" God declared that they
would be found in the last days and would
be united with Juda as the two sticks were
united in the hands of the prophet Ezekiel,
and after some severe purging would be
given control of Palestine as the land Of
their fathers. He further declared that
1.-The rebuilt" or New Jerusalem, would be
the capital city Of the earth, from which
sanctified Saxon influence would radiate,
and that David in his Son Jesus Christ
would reign in thousand years of peace.
Though these ten tribes had lost their
identity and become amalgamated with
their gentle captors, God declared that they
were known to Him, and, to use a biblical
figure, not a grain OF the harvest should
be lost, but that He would bring them from
all countries where for their sins He had
driven them. When found in the last days
of this dispensation they were. the prophets
declared. to be people dwelling in islands,
their home was to become too small for
them and they were to reach out and pos
sess colonies in all the earth. They Vert to
be a victorious nation. They were TO be a
scientific or learned people. They were to
possess the earth in their commercial in
fiuence. They were TO have the lion and
the cross as a national ensign. They were