The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-24

righteousness and obedience to God
and it will so make manifest the
stripes that must attend all wilful dis
obedience to the Divine arrangement
that the Scripture will be fulfilled
which declares that when the judg-
ments OF the Lord are abroad in the
earth, the inhabitants of the world
81.
Humanity for six thousand years
has been learning "the exceeding sin
fulness of SIM its downward tenden-
cy in every sense of the word. Every
form OF government has been tried in
an endeavor to secure the greatest
amount of blessing. But the uniform
results have been that those exalted to
place and influence and power have
proved themselves unequal to the OPP
portun1ties and temptations of the po-
sltlons and have abused them selfshIy
whoever is acquainted with history
realizes the truthfulness of all this
If some of US have hoped that the gen
eraI education of the masses and the
general enlightenment of the race
would abolish sin and selfshness and
demonstrate the truthfulness of the
proverb, Honesty is the best policy
we are willing to confess that this has
been a mistake. We perceive that the
greater the wisdom and intelligence
granted to a selfish mind and heart
the greater will be its opportunities
for evil and Indictment thereto.
Every Man Against His Neighbor.
AS a consequence the world is losing
commence IN itself All, whether poll
tlclanS or judges or governors, great
or small, of one party or another, of
one nationality or another-all are ac-
cused of being tarred with the same
STICK of Self1shness. The Bible clearly
indicates that this distrust is not with
out reason and that the great time of
trouble soon to come upon every ma
ton lDaniel xii, 1 }, will be the direct
result of this loss of confidence. The
Bibles description of the matter brief
ly summed up is, Every mans hand
shall be against his neighbor (Zecha-
rlah viii, 10; xiv, 49,. 1t will be after
the great time of trouble shall have
thoroughly sickened humanity as re-
spects itself and any hopes it might
nave had of bringing about a millen-
mum by its own efforts-that God will
manifest his Kingdom in the top of the
mountains - higher than all other
kingdoms every way, and all people
shall flow toward it. AS it is written.
THE desire of all peoples shall come"
(Haggai ii, -.
This is described in the verse follow
ing our text which reads, "And many
people shall go and say, Come We, let
us go up to the mountain (kingdom) of
the Lord, to the house (temple) of the
God of Jacob; and he will teach us of
his ways and We will walk in his
paths, for out of Zion 1.-THE spiritual
unseen Kingdom of Messiahl shall go
forth the law and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem 1.-THE seat of
earth's empire to bel And he shall
judge among the nations forwarding
and Furnishing JUSTLY, and shall re-
buke many people; and they shall beat
their swords into ploWshares and their
spears into pruning hooks. Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more"
All Christians agree that these words
apply to the Messiah's Kingdom. They
tell us clearly and distinctly of how
the judgments of the Lord will be
cease and the knowledge of the Lord
to fill the whole earth as the waters
cover the great deep (Isaiah XII, %.
o, House of Jacob, Come:
We have already noted that this
prophecy belongs to natural Israel and
not to spiritual Israel. AS the first
verse declares, it concerns Judah and
Jerusalem. BY the time this prophecy
will have begun to be fulfilled, spir-
itual Israel will be beyond the vale.
1t is in full harmony with this that
we read in the fifth verse, 80 house of
Jacob, Come We and let us walk in the
light of the Lord This is particular
~ the time when this message to nat
ural Israel should go forth. We I'M
derstand the Scriptures to teach that
during the next few years the Lord
will have special dealings with Israel
in connection with this call. He will
point out to them the way of righte
BUSINESS and the great privileges that
are theirs as a people, because of Di-
vine promises to their fathers, Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob, etc. But only
those who respond by turning to the
light of Gods Word to walk in it will
and obedience to promptly get the
blessing at the beginning of Messiah's
reign. Those most prompt to respond
will get the greater blessing.
Verses clio portray some of the rea-
sons why Gods favor has been with
drawn for a time from natural Israel
aside from the fact that his special
favor was for the time to be given to
Spiritual Israel. Then follows a de-
scription of the time of trouble, in
which present institutions will sue
cumb, to be followed by Messiah's en-
pire. Let us read some of these verses
and note their application to our day
and the correspondence between these
nouncements in the Book of Revela-
ton, applicable also to the time in
which we are living. We will quote
and paraphrase from verse IL to the
end of the chapter
What the Trouble Will Accomplish.
The lofty looks of man shall be
humbled and the haughtiness of men
shall be bowed down; and the Lord
alone shall be exalted that day. One
of the greatest obstacles in the path
way OF humanity, nlnQ6r1nS approach
to truth and Righteousness, is pride.
The Almighty God is not sufficiently
reverenced. The very learned men of
all our colleges seem more and more
to doubt that there is a God and that
the affairs of earth are subject to any
other regulations than those of chance,
except as the learned can regulate
them. The time of trouble when the
various theories of man will be tried
and found wanting will demonstrate
most thoroughly that the wisdom from
above is neglected in favor of earthly
wisdom The Lord says in another
place. the wisdom of their wise men
shall perish and the understanding of.
their prudent men shall disappear.
For the day of the Lord of Hosts
shall be heavy upon every one that is
proud and lofty, and upon every one