Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1912-12-06

VI tue people Tor the plltlllc HOou. A"0
crisis will be reached when the hither'
to npholders of law shall econ vio'
lators of the law aud resisters OF the
will Of the majority as expressed Oy
the ballot. Fear for the future VIII
lead the well meaning masses to desper-
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails.
The Clouds Silver Lining.
HOrrliiie would be this outlook TOR
the future did wP not have the infaill-
bic Word nj God assuring us OF a
glorious outcome, Divine Wisdom has
withheld until onr day the great knowi-
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding m~illionaires and @"on-
tents. Had God lifted the veil Il thou
sand years srmnrr. the world would
have lined up for its Armageddon q
thousand ears sooner. But that
would hav" Imen too soon for the ID.
vine purpose. because Messiah's King
dom Is to le the great Thousand
Year-Saltlait Of the worlds history.
God In Kindness yelled 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, IS.
"Send Them Strong Decisions"
st, Paul wrote prophetically of our
Sinfe. that It would be one of serious
trial and testing to many protesting to
be Christians, The reason for this he
states-tlley received not the Truth in
the love of it. III Thessalonians Ii. 10,
H. They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories. the Apostle explains, and
therefore tod will give them over to a
'strong deIusion," 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 God" because of their lack
of love for the Truth.
It Is sad to say that we all as Chris.
tians have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set mp
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
heretics have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: 'Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth, as in
Heaven" We knew that the Redeemer
said that He would come again to
make us His Bride and joint-heirs; but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say, "all nations were drunk' with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog" 81 irtt
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon.
The Bible presentation is that the
world Is a section of the universe in
rebellion against Divine authority, I'M
der the captaincy of Satan and his as
ISOLATED 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 postertty q full, 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
that battle of ArmageddonI should
0vertake" them "as a thief" I'M
awares.
Armaseddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the A%rmageddon
forces have been mastering for both
sides of tire conflict. Strikes, lockouts
and riots, great and small, have been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belligerent 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-
ployers, 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 canno yet
DE 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 Efe-power.
The Image must be transformed from
q mere mechanism to a living force
Protestant Federation realizes that its
organization will still be futile unless
II receive vitalization-unless 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. H~igh-handed activities OF
Professionalism and Catholicism. Operat
ing in conjunction for the suppression
OF human liberties, await this vivifyinl
Of the Image, This may ONE soon
but Armageddon cannot precede 1t, but
must follow perhaps a year after it
according to our view of the Prophecy