Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-15
THE SECOND ADVENT


The first advent Of our Lord in the meridian OF time
is the great event of history The oyershadowng event OF
prophecy is His second advent Of which the Scriptures
speak with certainty and ceaess that leave room for
doubt This same Jesus which is taken up from YOU into
heaven shall so come like ye have seen him go
into heaven Acts u H. This is prophetic decara
ton with no uncertain sound
There is diversity OF opinion to the Interpretation of
Scripture passages relating the second advent the mil
lenum and kindred subjects and necessary be watch
full against premature conclusions and unchartable cr
csms But as is fact that the Lord will and estab
lish His kingdom upon this earth behooves the Bible stu
dent hunby watch for the signs of His coming and to
be prepared for the midnight cry.
The present time is undoubtedly the hour OF Gods prep
aration for the great Miennia day When we behold the
wonderful inventions and discoveries Of age,
forced to the conclusion that drawing and
nearer the establishment OF the promised kingdom OF the
Lord This the time of the end in which, the Prophet
Daniel expresses it. many shall and fro and know
edge be increased In his comments this Sir Isaac
Newton wrote: 81 should not be surprised if the time
would come that men would travel the OF fifty miles
an hour" Voaire rdicued Sir Isaac Newton and called
him poor old doard because he declared that he found in
of the prophecies OF Daniel prediction of speedy travel
OF the characteristics of the time of the end But
believe Newton has been than indicated by the events
notice them around us every day.
AS for the increase of knowledge, another character
stc OF the period of the end when there time in the
history Of man in which this increase marked the
present? Children from ten to fourteen years of age
generally instructed upon subjects OF which in former
generations only few did ever dream century ago. bare
y read and to write deemed great achievements To-
day child that does not know something OF algebra Ian
the studies in the schools is considered ignorant
knowledge is increasing Man is approaching the very
boundaries Of the spiritual world that is manifest in the ma
teral creation Dr. Loeb believes he has found some of the
secrets of life He has announced that he has succeeded in
producing organisms showing all the essentials of animal
life Prof lie Due Frenchman has lust announced that
plant life can be productivity chemical action His plants
have nothing Of the vegetable in their makeup but they be-
have after their production do the real vegetables they
resemble under natural conditions Into the makeup Of
these products nothing living enters Prof lie Due makes
seeds in pill forms part of suphae Of copper and two
parts OF glucose These deposited in bullion made OF
geatine which added per Of ierro cyanide of
potassium and a little salt The seeds give birth TO
plants resembling seaweeds and other marine plants The
plants thus produced are influenced similarly BY heat and
cold as are the vegetables they resemble The achievements
of scientists are really marvellous No prophecy has
been clearly fulfilled than this concerning the increase
OF travel and the increase Of knowledge,
We are also told that one OF the characteristics Of the
time Of the end is the multiplication Of trouble II
look about us think is not hard to discern the elements
from which multitude OF troubles will finally spring. We
seem to be nearing the time in which human passion hui
man frenzy will know no bounds and before which law and
order are threatened by complete anarchy n Morse myth
oloqy we read of time when:
Brothers STAY brothers,
Sisters children
Shed each others blood
Hard is the world
Sensual sin grows huge,