Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-12-05

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sure the true application will ft well.
A frog has Il sage look, a wise look.
1t swells itself up In an apparent en-
deavor to impress the beholder. Its
great mouth we'll represents it's chief
power. used to croak.
Applying these symbols, we learn
that an evil spirit. influence. teaching.
will come from the Protestant churches
federated. from the Church of Rome.
and frcN the Civil authorities. all in
full agreement. The spirit Of all will
be boastful: an air of superior wisdom
and knowledge will be proudly assum-
ed-all will croak in harmony. All will
tell Of dire results that would follow,
involving the interests Of both the
present and the future life. if their
counsel be not followed. However con-
ficting the creeds. the differences will
be ignored in the general proposition
that nothing ancient must be disturb
ed, or looked into, OF repudiated.
The Divine authority of the Church.
and the Divine right of kings, aside
fron the Church. will not be allowed
to confict. Any persons or teachings
In conflict with these boastful and I'M
scriptural claims will be branded as
everything tile, at the mouths of these
frogs" speaking from pulpits and
platforms and through the religious
and secular press. The nobler sent1-
ments Of some will be strangled by the
philosophy of the same evil spirit
which spoke through Caiaphas. the
high priest, respecting Jesus. AS Gaia
/ phas declared it expedient to commit
q crime in violation of justice, human
and Divine, to be rid Of Jesus and His
teachings, so this frog" spirit will ap-
prove of every violation Of principle
necessary to their self protection.
The croaking of these "frog" spirits or
! doctrines will gather the kings and
princes, financial, political, religious
and industrial into one great army.
| The spirit of fear, inspired by the
croakings Of these "frogs," will scourge
the passions of otherwise good and
reasonable men to fury, desperation.
In their blind following Of these evil
spirits, evil doctrines, they will be
ready to sacrifice life and everything
on the altar of what they mistakenly
suppose is justice, truth and righteous
ness, under a Divine arrangement.
For a brief time, as we understand
the Scriptures, these combined forces
of A%rmageddon will, triumph. Free
speech, free mails, and other liberties
which have come to be the very breath
of the masses in our day, will be ruth
lessly shut off under the plea Of neces
sity, the glory Of God, the command:
of the Church, etc. All will seem to b.
serene, until the great social explosion
in our context described as the "grea'
Earthquake" An Earthquake" IL
symbolic language, signifies socia
revolution, and the declaration of thu
context is that none like unto it eve
before occurred. Revelation xvi, 1s
1917 Jesus described it as a time o:
trouble such as never was since ther'
was a nation.-Matthew xiv, p.
The Lord Will Gather Them.
The false, frog-like teachings will
gather together into n host the great
the rich, the wise, the learned and TIL
kings Of the earth, to battle. At thi
juncture Divine Power will step for
ward, and our text tells US that III
shall gather the marshaled hosts t.
} Armageddon-to the Mountain Of De
,struction. The very thing which the,
sought to avert by their union, fedora
tfau, etc., will be the very thing the
viii hasten. Other Scriptures tell u
. that God will be represented by tn
} Great Messiah, and that He will be Of
the side Of the masses. Thus we rea'
in Daniel XII !: "At that time shal
, Michael 1.-THE Gedlike One-Messiah
stand ~up'-assume authority. He vii
take possession of His Kingdom in
t manner little looked for by many o
those who enormously have bee
claiming that they were His Kingdom
and authorized by Him to reign In Hi
name and In His stead.
Jesus declared, Ellis servants ye ar
unto whom ye render service" Som
, may be rendering service to Satan an
to error, who claim to be renderin
service to God and to Righteousness
and some Of these may be serving 1g
porantly, as did Saul Of Tarsus, VIII
"yerily thought that he did God a ser1
icp in prosecuting the Church. Th
same urinctple holds true reversed!
IA an aa t'.ts king does not hold hin
Il sehts In his ba'
OF each soldier who L.. >rch For III
ties, so the Lord does not w. anlis
moral character Of all who will
and fight on His side of any question
His servants they are to whom they
render SERVICE" whatever the motive
or object prompting them.
The same principles will apply in the
coming Battle Of Armageddon. Gods
side Of that battle will be the peoples
side, and the very nondescript host,
the people, will be pitted at the begin
ming of the battle. Anarchists, Social
lists, and hot-headed radicals of every
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