Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-25
SAYS WAR PROPHET IS
lNSANELY RIDICULOUS
All Signs Point to Peace Among Ma
tions of the World lie State
ment Of Los Angeles
Pastor

"The lugubrious prophet who still
croakes that the world Is getting worse
is becoming too ridiculous to make
any further claims of sanity. The
kingdom is surely coming" said Rev.
c. G. Pierce, pastor of the Memorial
Baptist church, last night in his SER
mon on signs OF the Coming Kingdom
in Modern Events" Rev. Mr.. Pierce
said:
1T is the custom, l know, OF many
who are seeking the full coming of the
Kingdom OF God to look in one Of two
directions for the signs of is consum-
nation. There are those who are for
ever seeking light upon this subject
from things which were either said or
done in the dim and distant ages of the
past Something out Of t., hoary past
is to them the authoritative and the
prophetic thing. Then there are 9TH
ers who are quite as tnsistent to look
into some dim and unknown future
expecting some great and wonderful
thing to transpire which shall surely
announce the full coming of that king
dom, which Is supposed to mark the
completion of Gods purposes for the
race. Some are eagerly looking for
Christ to drop down out of the skies
and proclaim a new order of things
which shall revoluttonize humanity.
Both these classes are wrong. The past
has something to teach us and the fu-
ture has something for us, but 1t Is in
the living present that we are to be-
hold the sure promise Of the kingdom
of God. The signs of that coming king
dom are all about us. Let me mention
one or two and he who keeps his eyes
open will behold them coming right
along almost every week. The recent
gift of Mrs. Russell Sage OF 100000 to
the American Bible society. with the
understanding that this amount will
be increased to one million, is only a
faint indication of the tremendous eff
forts which are being put forth to i'm
plant In the hearts of humanity all over
the world those lofty ideals which are
found more perfectly in the Bible than
anywhere else, and which will most
surely bring forth an enormous harvest
in human character In the years to
come. This great gift is only one
which stands for many others from
many sources, all aimed In the same
direction.
1.-THE demolition Of the recently con-
structed Japanese War Scarecrow,
erected by Mr.. Robson and Q few 9TH
ers of his sort. occasioned by, the sign
ing of the treaty between Japan and
America, is only an indication that the
terrible calamity, inanity. insanity and
anachronism of warfare, Is slowly but
surely disappearing from the, activities
OF world fast becoming civilized.
"The remarkable reforms which are
occurring in China. the.sweeping changes
In her educational system, the determ-
ined effort to do away with the opium
habit, the disappearance of the idiocy
of foot-binding, the feeling Of the peo-
pie everywhere that this great nation
Is a part of the great world of prog
ress. all proclaim the truth Of the fact
as recently stated IN a remarka BILE adj
dress by the Chinese minister. Or. W.T.
Ting Fang, before the civic forum of
New York that the so-called Sick Man
of the East is fast becoming con-
valescent, that the .Sleepin Lion Is now
fully awake and that the 'Tottering
Empire has ceased her wobbling and
is beginning to move with power and
a rapidity difficult to understand"