The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-12-28
Bible Chronology Showing That
Christ Will Soon BE Here.
Rev. l.. Il. Nichols Says We Are
Living in Perilous Times.

tofuay AFTERNOON ~ the SeCOuu Tfcc-
byterian church. The mission preach.
er said that some things he lad TO say
might DO distasteful to some but the
Truth had TO be proclaimed and in the
lesson Paul declared that in the last
days men should be proud and boast
full, lovers Of pleasure more than low
ers OF God. IL might be thought that
this had reference TO those who made
no profession Of religion, but not So
IL was those who had form Of God
illness" this could not refer 10 Hux'
ley, Darwin, Tom Paine OF Voltaire,
who made no profession, had no form
of Goodness No, it referred TO
church members
CHRISTS' SECOND COMING.
Scarcely anything was ever said
from the pulpits OF our land and its
was the verv backbone Of the teaching
of Christ and the apostles, he declared.
IL was the last word in the Bible. The
Almighty had taken the trouble to
write 6S letters to us--were we peying
attention to them and the subject OF
Christ's return to the earth was
deemed Of such Importance that in
the last letter il was spoken OF Ave
times end 25 times referred to and
yet men calling themselves ministers
OF the gospel ignored the subject.
There was something wrong. Those
who did thus had only form OF God
illness, they denied the power. Jesus
Christ said, Behold | come quickly
and my reward is with me, to give
unto everv man-every man not one
could get il before Christ came-ac-
cording as his word shall be. He
thought the reason why the religious
world had dropped the subject Of
Christ's return was because they had
invented the idea Of men being 70
warded Immediately mt death whereas
Paul declared that he was to get his
reward at the dav Of Christ's coming.
People were not saved now. They
that endured to the end the same shall
be saved. Salvation is not present
possession IL is q future gift.
The mission preacher said that in
Cincinnati a man came to him and
said that Christ was already come.
His reply was that he knew better.
How Z" said the man. Because, d"
his reply was, 1.-THE dead are not
raised. A"
The Rev. Nichols said that the
church was drifting farther and farth-
er from the Bible not only in doctrine
but in practice. Forty years ago
where could you find church which
would permit euchre parties of church
members, but now they have grown
more and more like he world till il is
difficult to, distinguish between the
church and the world.
Look at the hundreds OF dollars
spent in Psducah on Christmas over
firecrackers. Just think OF Christian
parents allowing their children to
spend money over such folly and the
poor calling for help on every side and
SO much misery all around to be re-
lieved. II only every minister and
every father and mother would in
struct and teach their children to save
their firecracker money, which made
only . dangerous nuisance and do good
with is, how much good would be
done and q preparation made for the
coming Of the Lord.
In conclusion Rev. Nichols went
over the chronology every link Of
which he declared was In the Bible in
30 many words. Adding mp the ages
of the ante -deluvians he found that it
was 1856 years from Adam to the
Flood; 422 from then to the Offering
up of Isaac. From there to the giving
OF the law 4SO years and so IN to the
birth of Christ . grand total Of 406s
years. The world was to run 5000
years from Adams creation to the es-
Enlistment of Gods kingdom and
1859 from 5000 left ls4l A. ID. as the
year in which Gods kingdom will be
established and having destroyed ev-
cry earthly Kingdom and power and
rule Christ will sit enthroued in Zion
ss universal king.
The mission people will not hold
service again till Thursday night, De-
oember 81, at 1880.