Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1912-11-13
WM. H. STEWART, EDITOR

the placing of monopolies and utilities
and the supplies of nature in the hands
| of the people for the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hither-
to upholders of law shall become vio-
lators Of the law and resS yrs Of the
will Of the majority as e -essed by
the ballot. Fear Cor the nature will
lead the well eaulng masses to desper-
alton; and anarchy Will result when
Socialism fails .x4
The Clouds Silver Lining.
| Horrible would be this outlook forI
the future did we not have the infalli-|
BILE Word of God assuring Us of a,
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great knowl-
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding millionaires and discen-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined up for its Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the Di-
vine purpose, because Messiah's King
dom Is to be the great Thousand
Year-Sabbath OF the worlds history.
God in kindness veiled our eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately precede
Messiah's taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning His reign.-Reve-
lation xi. II, 49,
"Senda Them Strong Delusions."
St. Paul wrote prophetically Of our
time, that 1t would be one of serious
trial and testing to many processing to
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth In
the love of it. GI Thessalonians ii, 10,
III They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God will give them over to
'strong delusion," and let them believe
the lie which they preferred, and let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
will be in the condemned host, fight
ing against Cod" because of their lack
Of love for the Truth.
1t is sad to say that we all as Chris
tians have been laboring under thor
Ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church in Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been ieigning on
the earth as His representative On
the strength Of this deiusion Iews and
heretics have been nersecutad to death
as opponents to Christ's Eingeeni All
the while we thoughtlessis repeated
the Lords Irs ser:s "''hH .kin sdoln
tome: Tiny viii be done - earth, as in
Heaven" We snew seii44at the Redoemsr
i: raid that =. would cone again TO
make US His Eside :iad Jc;l! heirs; but
we ignored the Scriptures. Va were
! drunk. as IT,, Scriptures s bolically
say. "all nations were drlnk' With the
! false doctrint- Ii is tbs false doctrine
that will constitute the frog" spirit
which soon wi! begin TO croak and to
prepare for Armageddon.
The Bible presentation is that the
world Is section OF the universe In
rebellion against Divine authority. un-
der the captaincy of Satan and his as
soctated fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus hes aiready "tasteG death for
rifce must, eventually, grant Adm and
his posterity Il full. fair opportunity
for the attainment Jf everlasting life.
All who thus see the Divine program
and are walking in the light may know
something at least respectirg z the times
and seasons" These brethren "are
not IN darkness. that that day land
that battle of Armageddonl should
overtake' them las a thief - un-
awares. 4
Armagedoo on Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
sides Of the conflict Strikes. iockouts
and riots, great and small, have been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belltgerent parties crossed each others
paths. Court and Army ~candals in
Europe, Insurance. Trust and Court
scandals In America. have shaken pub
lie confidence Dyna mite plots. charg-
Ell by turns on employees and on en-
ployers. have further shaker conf
1eace and tended to make each dis
tr1i istful Of the other. Bitter and angry
feelings on both sides are more and
more manifest. The lines of battle are
daily becoming more distinctly marked.
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet
be fought. Other matters intervene,
according to prophecy.
Gentle times have still two years to
run The Image Of the Beast Of our
context must yet receive fte-power.
The Image must be transformed from
mere mechanism to li0iuG force.
Protestant Federation realizes that its
organization will still he futile Nnles6
it receive vitalization-unless its clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recog-
nized as possessed of apostolic ord1na-
ton and authority " teach. This the
prophecy indicates viii come from the
two horned beast, which. we believe.
symbolically represents the Church Of
England. High-handed activities OF
Professionalism and Catholicism. operat-
ing in conjunction for the supp ession
of human liberties. await this vivify1ng
Ol lue 1uldSe LUIS ulhy '''uS SOoA,
but Armageddop cannot precede 1t, but
must follow-perhaps year after 1t.
according TO our view Of the Prophecy.
Still another thing intnrvenes: AL
though the Jews are gradually Towing
into Palestine. gradually obtaining con-
troll of the land of Canaan. and al
though reports say that already nine
teen millionaires are there. neyerthe-
less prophecy requires an evidently
larger number of wealthy Hebrews to