The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1912-11-08

Will or the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the w~ell.meaning masses 10 deFper-
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism falls.
The Clouds Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook for
the future did we not have the Intatll-
BILE Word Of God assuring us Of n
glorious outcomel Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great knowl-
edge and skill which is at the snme
time breeding mlliionalres and dlsron.
tents. Had God lifted tho veil a thou.
sand years sooner, tho world would
have lined up for Its Armngeddon n
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too sOon for the III
vine purpose, because MCssiah's King
dom IL to be the great Thousand.
fenr-Sabbath of the worlds history.
God In kindness yelled our eyes until
the time when the gathering to Ar
mageddon would Immediately precede
Mcssiah's taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning His reign.-Reve.
lation 81, II, IS.
Send Them Strong Decisions"
St Paul wrote prophetically Of our
time, that It would be one Of serious
trial and testing to many protesting to
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-tbey received not the Truth In
! the love Of 1t, III ThessalonIans II. 10.
IL They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories, the Apostle explHtns. and
therefore God with give them over TO a
strong deltlsion," aud let them believe
the lie which they preferred. and let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
will DO In the condemned host, fight
Ing against God" because Of their lack
Of love for the Truth,
1t Ia sad to say TINT we NIL as Chris
tians have been laboring under Il thor
ough delusIon respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church In Kingdom power. aud
] that the Church has been ~rclgning on
the earth ns His representative. On
the strength Of this deluslon. Jews and
h%eretics have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom All
the while We ~tboughtlessly repeated
the Lords prayer: ''Thy Kingdom
come: THY will be done on earth, az In
Heaven" We knew thnt the Redeemer
said that lie would come agnin to
make us Ills Bride and Ioint.heirs: hut
we ignored the Scriptures We were
drunk. M the Scriptures symhnlieaily
say. "all ~uutions were drunk' with the
false doctrine. IT In this false doctrine
that will constitute the frog spirit
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon.
The Bible presentation IL TINT tho
world IN q section Uf the universe In
rebellion against Divine authority, IN.
der the cAptaincy OF Satnn and his M
ISOLATED fnllen angels by Divine grace
Jesus has already ''tnsted death for
every man." and the merit Of TINT sag
riAce must. eventua lly, grant Adm and
his posterity u full, fnir opportunity
for the attainment Of everlasting life.
All who thus seek the Divine program
and are walking IN the light may know
something ut least Respecting the times
and seuSOns These brethren ARE
not In darkness. that that day land
that battle Of Armageddon should
0yertake" them "as a thief" - ID
awares.
Arraseddon 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 been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belligerent parties crossed each others
paths. Court and Army scandals In
Europe. Insurance, Trust and Court
scandals In A america, have shaken pub
lie confidence, Dynamite plots. charg-
cd by turns N 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 cannot yet
be fought. Other matters intervene.
according to prophecy,
Gentle times have still two years to
run. The Image OF the Beast Of orr
context must yet receive He-power.
The Image must be transformed from
q mere mechanism to n living force i
Protestant Federation realizes that H.
organiza ton will still be futile unless
1t receive vitaiization--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 ONE from the
two horned beast. which. We believe,
symboIicaliy represents the Church or
England. High-handed activities OF
Protestantism and Catholicism. operat-
ing In conjunction for the suppression
OF human liberties. await this vivifying
OF the Image. This may come soon,
but Armageddon cannot precede 1t, but
must follow-perhaps a year after It,
according to our view Of the Prophecy.
Still another thing lnteryenes: Al
though the Jews are gradually flowing
into Palestine. gradually obtaining COM
troll OF the land Of Canaan. and al
though reports say that already nine
teen millionalres are there. neverthe-
less prophecy requires an evidently
larger number Of wealthy Hebrews o
DO there before the Armageddon crisis
DO reached. Indeed we understand
that Jacobs trouble" In the Holy
Land viii come at the very close Of
Armageddon. Then Messiah's King
dom will hnnin In he mnnifeated. -