The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-12

of Brooklyn, New York, preached here
today. Royal Albert Hall held vast
audience of deeply interested hearers.
The speaker chose his text from Reve-
lation Xxx, IL
"I saw a great White Throne, and
him that sat on it, from whose race
the earth and the heaven fed away.
and there was found no place for them"
He said:
Sin made moral towards of our race.
From early infancy fear and apprehen-
sion, especially in respect to things fu-
ture, have been impressed upon US.
We realize our imperfect1on, ana tnat
our God is perfect, and that perfectlon
is the only standard which he could
approve, and that some kind of pun
ishment for sin must be expected. The
Adversary, taking advantage Of our
forefathers, misrepresented the Al
mighty and has used our fears TO
ALLEVIATE us from him and to wrest and
distort his message to us in the Bible.
ST. Paul assures US that this is Satan
general procedure; that he puts hght
for darkness and darkness for nght-
Thus it comes that our text, which is
really one of the most beautiful ana
comforting in the whole Bible when
rightly understood, has to many be-
come a lash in the hands of their fears.
1t is needless to say that our text is
one of the symbolisms of Book filled
with symbols Gods people, guided by
preciate these symbols. For many of
them the due time is already here. The
Throne is Messiah's. 1t represents his
Madiatorial Dominion of earth for
thousand years. Its Wilderness sym
bolizes the purity, the justice, of his
Kingdom of righteousness under the
whole heavens. The heavens and
earth which will flee away from the
presence of the great Emmanuel will
not be the heavens of Gods Throne
nor the earth which he has given to
the children of men. The heavens and
earth which will flee away, and for
which no place will be found, are, of
course, the symbolical ores. In Bible
symbology the earth represents estab-
lished civilization; the. sea represents
the restless, dissatisfied masses OF hu-
manity. The mountains Symbolic hui
man governments, kingdoms, which
constitute the backbone of present
spiritual influences - EccleSiasticiSIn,
Churchianity. Thus interpreted our
text declares that when Messiah shall
assume control OF the world; Wnen ne ne
shall sit upon his Throne; when he
shall exercise ruership amongst men,
the result will be that the social sys-
tenn of today, as well as the present
day ecclesiasticism, will fee away, will
pass out of existence-no place will be
found for them.
Satan Now the Prince.
Some man may be inclined to ask,
Has not Christ been the great Ruler
of the world for these past nineteen
centuries? And whatever may be said
Of the four thousand years before the
coming of Christ may it not be claimed
that he has been reigning ever since
his ascension to the right hand of the
Father? We answer that if this be
true: If the Redeemer of men has been
reigning as the King of earth for these
nineteen centuries there
something in the Bible to so teach.
But we find nothing. On the contrary,
we hearken to the Masters own words
telling us that Satan is the Prince of
this age John xiv, 30). We harken
to him again telling US, my Kingdom
is not of this world (age)" (John xviii,
S6). Again he says, It will come again
and receive you unto myself John
xiv, 81. Again he tells US that he went
into a far country to receive the title
to his Kingdom, then to return to take
possession of 1t (Matthew xxi 80; XIV,
14), and that at his second coming hi,
will be the great King of glory. He
tells US the same thing in Matthew
XIV, 81, when the Son of Man shall
come in his glory, and all the holy an
gels with him. then shall he sit upon
the throne Of his glory"
On the other hand, as we scan the
pages of history during the past eight
cen centuries, we are convinced that
Messiah has not been the King of the
world. To think of him as such, with
the omnipotent power which we ac-
credit to him, would be to charge him
with responsibility for bloody and
atrocious prosecutions and wars and
fanines and peStilenceS. Surely no
risht-minded person, after mature con-
sfderation. can nationally accept the
theory that the glorious Messiah
reign of Righteousness for the blessing
the Whnla earth If
the whole race. the enlightenm ent OF
every creature, and the bringing of Ill
possible. into accord with God-none ot
us could think that that reign of tho
great Mediator between God and men
is In the past We must agree with
our test that it is in the future, and
that. when. established, its effect upon
the institutions of the present-politi-
cal. social. financial. religious-will be
such that they will flee away: nc
! place ever more will be found FOL
| them. All from this standpoint there
| is hone; but from no other standpoint
| We are living today at the very eli
| max of civilization. Yet today we be.
| hold more clearly than ever before
that the -deeply-ingrained selfishnes:
Of humanity is a blight upon all the
| blessings and conveniences and advan.
tages Of our day.
The Curse of SeIfishness.
! need not do more than remind vol
| that selfishn ess is to be found in ever,
| one of US, and that a senblance o
righteousness is insisted upon by IL
lall and adhered to. and violators of /
/ are styled criminals. Nevertheless
! seems impossibIe to 1egislate equity
| Justice. The keen 5intellects of me-
/ find opportunities for circumventinl
the laws and for committing theft an
murder and sin in the face of law
and without danger of being punished
/ Let US illustrate this: We hav
heard of the famines of India and hol