Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-11-19

lived TO a great age is by no means
proof positive. rs some assert. that |
their minds We're long maturin&
| fear our great men would suffer
by comparison to the patriarchs a.
much mentally as physically.
It is probable that. as the years of .
man have decreased, his physical and
mental powers have decreased also.
Our young n.en finish 4 university
education by the time they are u or
25 years old, and if they are rcall,
lovers Of knowledge for its oNn sake.
and make II life pursuit To attain Ii.
have onl% about fifty years 20 acquire,
discover and invent. How natural !
to suppose that the brains OF these
scholars dWindle 10 insi2nitiednee
Nh"n compared 10 those that were de
velopine for centuries.
Thelt were nine generations living |
Contemporaheoualy whom God Him
self IL rYetea. AID they held cor
verse with every leaf and flower ami
tree, sathcli@s from all the secrets
Of life.
On every leaf of the forest. OF stone
OF the mountains, in every dewdrop. in
every shining star, and in earth and
air and sky they found their lesson
Gods glory in the heavens, the i'll
Lumerable worlds in their revou-
tons, the balancings Of the clouds he
mysteries of light and sound. day and
night, We're open to the study of our
first parents.
In view of all this, how can We ac
count for the wonderful dongs of
our day and time? A day in which
| the commonest laborer can ride from
one end of the world to the other in
| short space of time and with far
| n.ore comfort and ease than Solomon
with his innumerable chariots and ac.
cessories of travel, could traverse his
narrow domains.
accomplished by steam. the telescope.
photography. and that most marvel
Gus occult power. the force of the uni
Observation-Disclosures can we doubt
that this is pre-eminently the Brain
| Age?' 1t stands out as bright,
shining light from the east to the
west"
| An eminent authority on the chro-
rology of the Bible, claims the pres
! Cnt century as the one in which the
Sc Cond coming of Christ is due, and
! really backs up the statement with
a marvellous array of scfiptnral proof
He claims that the wonderful things
accomplished now are due to the ac.
tual, though invisible presence of
Christ.
His presence was to be known by a
bright shining from the east unto
he west a great going to and fro in
! the earth, and great increase of
knowledge Also the Jews at that
time were to begin to flock back to
Jerusalem, which they have been do
ing in recent years.
We know that every seventh day
was to be a day of rest; that every
seven times seven days was also a
rest day and that every seven times
/ seven years was not only rest year
| for the people, but even the land was
| to rest. and the seventh thousand year
, -ushered in by our present century
was to be the thousand years in which
| Christ would take on His great power
Cn earth---in other words the milleni
I'm.
We are told in Holy Writ that to
| earth, as well as to the people, there
will be in this time restitution of
all things" THE earth to bring forth
its fullness, the desert to blossom as
the rose" and no one will say to an
other "Know the Lord for all will
know the Lord All this to be brought
about seemingly in a natural way,
but is really due to the actual pres
erce of Christ. who since his resur-
rection is, of course, a spiritual be-
ing and invisible to mortal eyes.
During the thousand years reign,
every knee will be brought to bow be
fore the king of kings, and lord of
lords, and the meek shall inherit the
, earth"
| ANNA - KAVA MATCH