The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-10
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their w weakness as compared to the
kings and princes, financial, religious
and political, which will then hold
sway. Besides, the masses have no
sympathy with anarchy. They realize
truly that the worst form of govern
ment is better than none. The masses
| will seek relief through the ballot and
| peaceful REIMBURSEMENT of earth's af-
fairs for the elimination of evil, for
! Me placing Of m~onopolies 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 resisters of the
will Of the majority as expressed by.
the ballot. Fear for the future will
! lead the well-meaning masses to desper-
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 infglli-
| 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 m~lllionaires and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil a thou
sand years sooner. the world would
/ nave lined up for Its Armageddon q
thousand years o 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 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 XII. II, IS.
"Send Them Strong Decisions"
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 1t. QI Thessalonians ii, 10,
H. They preferred their own errone-
u theories, the Apostle explains, and
| therefore God will give them over to a
| ''strong %deluslon," 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.
1t is sad to say that we all as Chris
hans have been laborlng under a thor
ough deluslon 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
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, al the Scriptures symbolically
say, call nations were drunk with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
| that will constitute the frog spirit
which oon 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, Il n
der the capta;8oy OF Satan ana his as
ISOLATED fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
/ every man." and the merit of hat sac
riice must, eventually, grant Adam and
his posterity a 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 Armageddonl should
Overtake" them "as a thief" I'M
awares.
Armaseddon Not Yet but Soon.