Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1909-09-07

1he characteristic 1T this dispen
satlon-the age of the Church
The appalling disobedience ane
Ignorance of the church of the
distinct characteristic of theil
age is seen in the fact that only
Ill the first two OF three centuries
and In the last century, have
there been any foreign missionary
effort worthy of the name Jas. at
the council of Jerusalem summar.
lied the great purpose Of this dis
pensation (Acts Is: :13-18)w he
said it was to take out of the
world people for His (Christ
name? It is not. therefore, the
conversion of the whole world
That is nowhere promised in the
Bible to take place in this age.
II think that foreign missions
will cease at the end Of this age,
for Christ, after giving the Great
Commission, said: 'Lo, [ am
with you to the end of the age
(not worldly.
sat the beginning of this dis
pensation.
81. Christ assembled.
go. The Spirit of God descend
ed.
"3. The Jews rejected the
Gospel, as a race.
81 The Gentiles, who had
been in darkness, began to re-
ceive the Gospel,
"As we are approaching the end
of this age.
81. The Spirit of God is re-
vealing future things-cHe will
show you things to come.')
"2. Christians are being
aroused and their spiritual life
deepened.
SO. The Jews are going back to
Palestine, the Zionist movement
being one of the most significant
events cf the present time.
a. Nearly all nations have
had the Gospel preached to them.
eff we could only realize the
Importance of mission work at
this iuncture. Christ shed His
blood for me. I accept eternal
life from Him as the result of His
inconceivable sacrifice, and then
give Him, by way of gratitude,
the crumbs that fall from my
table. One of our Southern
Presbyterian preachers sold all
that he had and gave it to mis-
sions. We said he must be crazy
and retired him from the minis
try. Thus did our own church
persecute a man who had real
vision of the meaning of mis-
slons."
Briefly outlining the future, Dr..
Mack said, concerning the usher
ing in of the next age, the millen-
ial:
1. There will be war in heav.
en-Michael and his angels fight
ing against Satan and his angels
Satan, as the result will be cast
down to the earth,
2. Jesus Christ will come from
the first heaven to the third heav-
en-.
3. The trumpet cf the arch
angel will sound. The faithful
Christians will be "canght up to
meet the Lord IN the air" The
faithful living ones will be
changed, and the faithful dead
raised. Then at the Judgment
seat of Christ they will be judged
as to the rewards they are to re-
ceive for service.
4. With the church gone from
the earth, evil will have free play,
The personal anti-Christ will come
upon the stage. He will have
kingdom. Three others shall be
added to him. Finally he will
dominate the world. Nobody may
buy or sell without having his
mark. The concentration of COM
merce into the hands of a very
few now is the anti. Christian
spirit-a forewarning of what is
coming.
5. The antichrist will make a
7-year covenant Or treaty with the
Jews, then established nationally
in their own country, Palestine,
again. In the middle of the term
he will 60 back on his word, and
in the unparalleled prosecutions
which he will visit on this race,
thew will look on Him whnm