The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-02-15
Christ and Reform.
THE NAZARENE AND WAR-AN ANT
PODES

THE NAZARENE AND WAR-AN ANTI
PODES.
Editor Representative:
The struggle for the up-lift Of humanity.
to higher level that the whole race is
longing fer, must be made In the name Of
the NaZarene, the worlds only hope of
deliverance. Before he was born in the flesh
as the Seers were proclaiming the plan of
redemption, these words were written
"He shall be called a Nazarene''-one under
now to God. The great mistake of the age,
is not seeing this hour Of vista ion. At the
dawn of the system, the Jews failed to see
their day" now at the close the Gentle
is blind to the "signs Of thy coming and the
end of the world" (age). The last ''ti1ns'
Is upon me and the perls OF 1t are permeat-
ing all that is earthly. Discomfort is as
wide as earth and deep the ocean.
The intellectual moral and physical are
In degree preternatural, putting of the old
and with hope born Of despair crying for the
new. The world armed as never before
since Adam left Eden.
The past shows no such spectacle as now
photographs civilization. Set London on fire
with dynamite in six hours the fourteen
hundred million people represented govern
mental certers would know 1t. When the
Babe lay in the ranger. II Jerusalem had
been set on fire with a bolt Of lightnil Ia
how different. Days. weeks, months. up to
years. would have passed before all then liv-
ing would have learned the fact. II this
God Man" had been born in London and
ordered to Jerusalem. It would have taken
co days. Now it could be done in GO hours.
Then battle with bow and sword and ak
hewed to death the mortal TIL earth smoked
and heaven vas Graped In blood. Now the
powder. the steel gun and the dynamo put
more out of l.fe in a day than We're then
s,ain In {, hundred battles.
War is the diety of the age and Force
the commander; the fuse is ready to be
touched. the curtain rising to exhibit the
awfu! drama. Tweny-six millions n1obil-
lied troops in Europe, while the balance of
sin-cursed man, earth over, is following the
lead OF Mars. and when the Christ says,
Put Up again thy sword into its place. for
all they that take the sword shall perish
by the sword" men laugh. ha! ha! And the
answer to this mandate for more than is
centuries has been. I'VE have no king but
Caesar; away with him to cruciixion!"
And the conspiracy of the priests tho rui-
ers and the kings against the Amounted
'have made earth rich with blood" "have
made 1t the city Of the dead" The naughty
defiance Of the Satrops Of Satan, the SER
wants Of sin, reads: This Is the heir;
come. let Us XIII him and seize his inherit
ance." And the Shiny march of murder,
by war, leads the van.
AS the conditions that are to go before
near the contamination, the back-lying pur-
poses, begin to unfold, men hear the IN
spired words. and 1 will shake al nations,
am thC ueSiie VI i!dtlOIiS Snail come. IneSo
are followed by the order of battle, awful
above any that man has ever heard And
there comes out ano ther horse, and to the
one setting on him was it given to take
peace from the earth"
His time, this ''taker Of peace" the place
he fills, is nearer than when the command
was given. 1t is a "brooding' time-the
spirit of God is ''brooding over the whole
earth. The nations are in conmotion and
war sounds from pole to pole like a trum-
pet blast of doom.
The Nazarene made his first advent in
manger and grew to manic cd among the
lowly, and from this low estate uttered
the most sweeping prohibition against
WronGdoers that is found in the language
of the human race:
But ! say unto you that We resist not
evil This divine interdfct read from the
quarterback OF a steel battle ship, of any
nation would elicit a laugh Of derison and
scorn at its a.bsurdty. The Nazarene was
called a "glutton," associate of under
lings." He who receives a blow on the
cheek and does not smite back is mustered
out Of this age Of force" that gives us
"our rights" and Is registered in the book
of FOOLS"
ChriStendom as formulated into govern
ment is anti-Christ. The great outside
called heathendom Is non-Christ There is
to follow these. sovereignty that Is double
-human-divfne, shown In vision. "The
Drama Of the Ancient Of Days" "Set Up
a kingdom which shall never be destroyed
and the kingdom shall not lie left to other
people, but 1t shall break in pieces and
consume all these kingdoms and it shah
stand forever" The same universal empire
is described thus: The Kingdoms Of this