The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05

HIS hearers were u Oil
classes and very intelligent appearing.
He had closest attention. He said IN
part:
God has messages for those who
have hearing ears at each great DIS
sensational change in earth'S affairs.
These messages have generally been
in the nature of forewarning OF COM
ing distress and the reasons therefor.
Such message was given to our hrS1
parents when they were expelled from
Eden-accursed would be the ground
for their sakes. Thorns and thistles
it would bring forth unto them In
sweat of face they should eat bread
thereof until they should return to the
ground, from whence they came. An
other great messages went forth at the
time of the flood; another before the
destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah;
another at the close of the jewish
age, when Jesus and his apostles caii-
ed attention to the prophecies which
foretold the Divine rejection of the
nation of Israel for time and de-
c4ared that all things. written IN the the
law and the prophets concerpfng
them would have fulfillment, quotlng
The Drophecy which declared that
their house would be left desolate;
that they would have neither prophet,
nor vision, nor priest nor epnod LOT
many years, but that eventually Goa
favor would return to Israel-that ne
would gather them again and fulnlI TO-
them everlastingly the blessings prom
icod both TO Abraham and toahiS de-
scendants - 1.-The sure merc1es OF
David"
A week ago we considered the pro-
nhetic message, Comfort ye, comfort
We, nv people, saith your God" (Isalan
XII Is. we noted then that the due
time has arrived for the fulf1llment TO
Israel of this comforting message
that as a people the appointed time
for the return of favor to them is &C
comDlished because their two-fo1d dis
cfpIines for sin have been fulnlled.
Thus our present day Is. clearly MARY
ed and the words of our text follow
ing imply that now is the time for a
sneciaI message to all, in proportion
as each may have the hearing ear
IT is the voice of God which calls
now through various channeIs anu
agencies. 1t cries not from the city
Rabvlon the Great" 1t cries not from
the citadel of Christendom; but from
the wilderness, from those who are
more or less separated; from those Who
have heard the voice of the Lord say
ing. come out of her, my people, that
We be not partakers of her sins. and
that We receive not of her plaques"
| (Revelation xviii, a.
Prepare the Lords way.
The message of the hour to every
| hearing ear is, 1.-THE Lord whom We
seek shall suddenly come to his tenn
! pie" (Malachi iii, -. For centuries you
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! come: thy will be done on earth as it
| is done in heaven Now your prayer
| is about to be answered. whether you
| PRAYED in sincerity or in hypocrisy
revealed. ''All flesh shall see it to-
gether" 1t will not be revealed mere
! " to one nation, nor merely to one
| holy class His glory will be revealed
! in flaming fire-in judgments All flesh
| shall see 1.-THE rich and the poor,
| the learned and the ignorant, the
/ holy and the unholy. But as the
/ Prophet Malachi declares, Who shall
| abide the day of his coming, and who
| shall stand when he appeareth; for he
| is like fulIer's soap Gin it's attack upon
| grease and dirt), and he is ike re-
| finer's fire" as it melts and separates
| the dross of sin and iniquity (Malach1
iii, %.
| to city is the signal for general
| cleaning up everywhere. And so the
Lord declares that the message OF MS
| fast approaching Kingdom should IN
| fuence all who nave the ne neasin 1g.+ ear
/ to make preparation. To each naI1on
| it means, Set your house in order. An
| INSPECTION is at hand. See that your
! laws are just and equitable and that
/ they are administered justly. the
| same message comes to each self-gov-
| erning city, and lastly, and most I'M
portant of all, the message comes TO
| each individual, and especially to all
| who have named the name of Christ.
| Or. as st. Peter declares, this inspee-
ton of the King of kings and Lord of
lords must begin with the house of
God Il Peter iv, I'D. And If the in
spection be so searching that 1t must
! begin with Gods saints, what could
/ we expect of it when it reaches those
| who are merely nominal Christians
and then the world in general All!
we may expect just what the Bible adj
/ vises us will come, "a time of trouble
such as never was since there was a