The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-03-26

Divine order and time In association
with the call Of the ELECT" Church-a
'1ittle hock"-called out Of every ma
ton, people, kindred and tongue, to
be the Redeemer's associates in the
Messianic Kingdom which 10 to bless
Israel and all the nations. We be-
lieve that this election of the Church
class is about complete and that soon
thereafter Gods Kingdom, the reign
! of righteousness, the worlds Judgment
Day. viii begin.
1t should not surprise us, therefore,
to find great changes imminent
amongst the peoples of the whole
world. The bounds of human habita-
lions and the barriers Of language are
rapidly yielding because of the other
times Of Divine appointment which
have been reached, viz, the period
mentioned in Daniels prophecy as ''the
| Time of the End" Daniel xii, H.
And here we must remind you afresh
that the Time Of the End does not
mean the end Of time. It merely sig
mites the time for the ending Of the
present order Of things, that new or
| der of things, the Messianic Kingdom,
may be substituted twenty-five cen.
turtles ago God determined this time
and appointed it and gave us four very
important proofs by which to identify
It. Let us examine these.
~ The first sign Of the Time Of the
End was to be, MANY shall run to and
fro" How wonderfully this prophecy
is fulfilled before our eyes todayl Its
fulflment has been In progress, espe-
cially for fifty years. And it Is less
than eighty years since the first loco
motive was built. The nations, first
separated by diverse languages, kept
well within the bounds of their habita.
lions for many centuries until now;
and now suddenly we have a running
to and fro in fuldlment of this prophe-
cy which Is amazing. The various ma
tons and languages are being scatter
ed all over the earth
(2) The next step in the prophecy
marking the Time of the End Of this
Age Is, knowledge shall be increas.
ed" This general increase Of educa.
ton amongst all classes Is logical re.
suit Of the commingling Of humanity
and the lessons of comparison and
competition being learned Suddenly,
az though in obedience to the Divine
command, nation after nation has
made schooling free; and not content
with this, has made 1t compulsory; and
this spirit is spreading to Oriental
lands. The whole world is waking upi
Personal rights and national rights are
everywhere being discussed The
schools of India are said to be turning
out a million graduates in the English
language every year. The Chinese also
are introducing English schools. What
win be the results2 Enlightenment
Yesl Goodness? Mol ContentmentH
MOI Dissatisfaction, war, strife, an
archy, are coming to the world By
leaps and bounds, as result Of gen
eral education, and the breath Of Lib
erty, because not backed by reverence
for God and knowledge OF and sub
mission to His will. Japan, China and
India seem merely waiting for spars
to start a agration-anarchy.
Destruotivensss Of Higher Criticism.
And as for Europe and America, the
conditions there are the same, for
what faith the masses did have In God
and in the Bible is being Rapidly UNI
dermined by the theories Of higher
Criticism and Evolution which are ad.
vanced from the colleges and semi
naries and pulpits, and are invading,
not only the public schools, but also
the Sunday Schools. Evidently any
system Of knowledge which denies OF
opposes God and the Bible IL an in
furious education harmful to the last
degree. However, by now this Cod
ignoring education has so fastened r.
self upon the world as to be impossi-
BILE to shake it of.
80 The third item indicative Of the
Time Of the End of this Age Is that
1.-THE wise shall understand" not the
worldly wise, but those wise toward
God. And so we find It today While
the great and the learned and the
masses are rapidly drifting into heath
enish darkness, away from the Bible.
Gods sanity few, Of every nation and
OF every denomination, are gradually
seeing more and more clearly the teach
ings of the Scriptures, and Kidding
themselves mo1e and more Of the
creeds of men which for centuries have
helped to blind and to stumble and to
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vine Word appear inconsistent and IN
reasonable. and to separate Gods chill
dren into six hundred different sects
and parties. These creeds are now be-
ing seen in their true light by the saints
and are. being discarded-smashed
a. As result Of the fulfilments Of
Nos. 1 and 2, we see nearing US, pof-
tentously. No. 4: There shall be time
of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation" That time Of
trouble, as already intimated, is now
looming up on the horizon Of every
nation. 1t comes In the wake OF an I'M
sanctified knowledge 1t would mean
the utter wreck of all of our civiliza-
ton were it not for the interposition
of the Kingdom of Gods dear Son. for
which we have long waited and pray
ed, ''Thy Kingdom come; Thy will be
done on earth as 1t is done in heaven"
Our Lord, speaking of this trouble,
declared, Unless those days were
shortened there should no flesh be
saved: but for the elects sake those
days shall be Observation-Disclosures of
the '.elect," and the Kingdom which
they will establish, that great time Of
trouble" viii be cut short-it will not
be allowed to work out the terror at
first apprehended.
The Hope of the World.
I am returning from heathendom
fully convinced that the hope Of the
world is exactly what Gods Word de-
clares. namely, the Messianic King
dom. Unless that Kingdom comes,
and comes soon, the world will be in
the most terrible plight It has. ever
known But my confidence in the
Word of God and in the promise Of
the Kingdom under the whole heav
ems" grows stronger every day. The
Bible, once a sealed Book, once appar-
emily contradictory, once assumed to
be in harmony with the creeds, and
their very foundation, l now see to be
the most wonderful Book in the whole
world 1t merely needed the light now
due to Gods people to shine upon its
pages, to scatter our night and enable
US to truly sing, Wonderful things IN
the Bible see!'
The three wonderful things Of the
Bible which would wish to impress
upon you at this time are: The JUS