The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-19
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.
THE FINED TIME, ACCORDING TO
PROPHECY Is CLOSE AT HAND.


Armament of 14,OOO,OOO soldiers
Trained for Appeal to War an
Evidence That Christ Is Not Yet |
"King over All the Earth"-Whnt |
the beginning of the MilIenial
Reign Means.
With the attention that is paid to MIR. |
Henry Varleys meetings it is believed the |
views of the English preacher on the sub |
ject of the Lords Second Coming viii be |
| of interest In series of brief statements. |
Mr.. Varley writes what intelligent stu
dents believe and teach on this important
theme.
! The Scriptures clearly teach, said Mr. !
| Marley, that Christ would become incer-
nate and come into the world. That He
came born of a woman, the only begotten
of the Father, fun of grace and truth. the
brightness of Gods effulgence and glory.
| The fact of His first advent is identified
with every date, coin, book, and newspa-
| per published, His first coming clearly inn
| plies the possibility, nay, the certainty of
| His second coming. The words of God are
| conclusive. AT the time of the Lords as
cension from Mount OIvet. the testimony
| was given: This same Jesus, which is TAX
en- up from you into Heaven, shall so come
in like manner as We have seen Him go
unto Heaven" And lest it should be said
| that this coming was fulfilled at Pentecost
| we read in Acts 800, after the giving of
the Holy Spirit: God shall send Jesus
Christ, which before was preached unto
| you, whom the Heaven must receive until
the times of restitution of all
things" The fact of the Lords coming
again to the earth is here distinctly made
known and will be fulfilled according to
the word spoken.
! Common sense and experience sustain
and stand in line with the word of God
said Mr.. Marley. The worlds greatest need
to-day is the presence of the Divine King
The close of the nineteenth century sees
| the continent of Europe a vast armed
| camp. Fourteen millions of soldiers are be-
ing trained for the dread appeal to war.
1t is obvious that if the Lord Jesus Christ
was as the prophetic word says He shall
be king over all the EARTH" war would
at once decline to be utterly abolished,
Armed hosts exist because of diverse INFER
| ests and contendng amongst the nations
| of the earth. For example, France is jeal-
Gus of Germany, and both are afraid of
| Russia. Great Britain sustains her
| premacy as the mistress of the seas by
her extraordinary navy. The United States
| has recently crushed the power of Spain,
| and in many directions the probability of
war threatens The past year the great
nations of the earth have spent from thir-
teen to fourteen hundred millions of dol
| lars in naval and military ornaments and
| expenditures.
There is no likelihood of change the
| preacher said, so far as human legislation
and earthly power is concerned. The ten
dency on both sides of the Atlantic is not
| in the direction of peace or national unity.
Diverse ambitions and national interests
| have been the fruitful cause of the wars
| which have devastated the
| earth, ever since earthly governments
| have had place. From the time of Baby
] Ions despotic monarch onward to the close
| of the nineteenth century, the utter incom-
| potency of earthly soVerefgns to reign, so
as to secure peace on earth and good will
| amongst men, has been everywhere DEM
| onstrated.
The Interior for the Lord of Glory becom-
ing man, according to Mr.. Varley, was That
| he should reign He came into this world
| not only to make known the grace and love
| of God, and die as the infinite sacrifice for
sins. but that He should at the appointed
| time be 1.-The blessed and only potentate,
| the King of kings and Lord of lords"
| These are the words used by the Holy
Spirit, (Which in His times He shall show
who is the blessed and only potentate."
The Apostle Paul used the definite future
| tense He did not confound the times of
! the Caesars, and Of imperial Rome with the
coming universal sovereignty of the Lord
over the whole earth.
| The fact that "the times of the Cen
| tiles" which began somewhere about the
| year COG B. c., and were to continue for
$50 years, proves beyond dispute, Mr..
| Marley contends, that the kingdom of
| Christ, which succeeds the times of the
| Gentiles, has not yet come. That king
| dom will be set up in great majesty To
| use our Lords words lin power and great
| glory" Just as the twentieth century can
| not commence until the nineteenth is run
out, even so ChTists personal return to the
earth Is yet in the future. Christ's second
coming to the earth is not contemporary
with "the times of the Gentiles,' but sue
, ceeds them. Jerusalem, the city of the
Great King" was to be trodden down of
| the Gentiles until the end of the $50
years To-day the Sultan of Turkey, the
| official head of Mohammedanism reigns
over the city. Our Lord said Il and moth
/ ing in history has altered the truths of
| His words, Jerusalem shall be trodden
| down of the Gentiles until the times of the
| GentiIes are fulfilled" With reverence be
it said, the Lord Jesus knew when he ut
tered these words that nineteen centuries
of the times OF the Gentiles were unex-
|, | hausted.
The power of the Sultan has been and Is
rapidly declining, and the time of Jerusa-
LENS delverance, the evangelist believes.
is at hand. When PLATE, the Roman
pro-consul asked our Lord, Art thou
| king? He did not say to him that he
was mistaken, and that his thought was
! carnal and earthly, but He answered him
thus ITO this end I born and for
this cause came l into the world that
should bear witness to the truth .
| Evidently our Lord emphasized the
| great fact that the uIterjor
purpose in becoming man was
He should reign. This fact was also borne
witness to by Gabriel Gods great minister
of state. Speaking TO the Virgin Mary con-
corning Jesus Christ, he said: "And the
Lord God shall give until Him the throne