The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-11-07

Crisis VIII ne retCueQ WueD the ilClcf-
10 Wpholders of law shall become VIC
lators of the law and reslsters of the
will of the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the w~ell-meaning masses to dcSper.
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails.
The Clouds Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook for
the future did We not have the infalli
BILE Word of God assuring US of II
glorious outcome. Divine Wisdom has
withheld until Our day the great know!-
edge and skill which is at tie same
dime breeding %mtllionaires and discon
tents. Had God lifted the veil a thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined up for is A~rmaeeldon II
thousand years o But that
would have been too soon for the hi
vine purpose. lecause MeSSiah's King
dom is TO he the great Thousand
Year sabbath of the worlds history
God in kindness yelled our eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
megeddon would Immediately precede
MeSsilh'S taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning His reign.-Reyc-
latiou ri, II, rs.
Send Them Strong Decisions"
st. Paul wrote prophetically of our
tiMe, that it would be one of serious
trial and testing to many processing to
be Christians. The reason for this he
stateS-tbey received not the Truth in
the love Of it. GI Thcssalonians ii. 10.
I'D They preferred their own CHROME
GUS theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore Coo will give them over To n
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 he in the condemned host, fight
ing against Cod because of their lack
Of love for the Truth.
Ii is sad to say that we all rs Chris
dans have been Iaboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church in Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reigning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this delusion. Jews and
herctics have been prosecuted to death
rs opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: Thy Kingdom
come; Thy viii be done on earth, as in
Heaven" We knew that the Redeemer
Faid that He would come again to
make us His Bride and i%oint-heirs: but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say. "all nations We're drunk'' with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog spirit
which o will begin to croak and to
prepare for .Armageddon.
The Bible presentation is that the
world is Il section of the universe in
rebellion against Divine authority, un-
der the captaincy of Satan and his as
sociated fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
every man. and the merit of that sac
riice must, eventually. grant Adam and
his posterity 4 fun, fair opportunity
for the attainment of everlasting life.
All who thus seek the Divine program
and are walking in the light may know
something at least respecting the times
and seasons" These brethren ARE
not in darkness, that that day land
hat battle of A~rmageddonl should
overtaken them "as a thief" un.
awares.
Armageddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
sides of the conflict, Strikes. lockouts
and riots, great and small, have beer
merely incidental skirmishes as the
beliigerent parties crossed each others
paths. Court and Army scandals in
Europe, Insurance, Trust and Court
scandals in America, have shaken pub
lie confidence. Dynamite plots. charg-
ed by turns on employees and on en-
ploycrs, have further shaken conf
dence and tended to make each dis.
trustful 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 wears to
run The image of the Beast" of our
context must yet receive ife-power.
The Image must be transformed from
q mere mechanism to Il living force.
Protestant Federation realizes that its
organization will still be futile unless
1t receive Observation-Disclosures its clergy
directly or indirectly shall be recog-
nized as possessed of apostolic ordina-
ton and authority to teach. This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
two horned beast. which. we believe,
symbolically represents the Church OF
England. Iligh-handed activities OF
Professionalism and Catholicism, operat
ing i'm conjunction for the suppression
of human liberties, await this vivifying
of the Image. This may come soon
but Armageddon cannot precede it. but
must follow perhaps Il year after it
according TO our view of the Prophecy