Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-11-07
suppose is justice. truth and righteous

suppose is justice. truth and righteous
ness. under a Divine arrangement.
For brief time. as we understand
the Scriptures. these combined forces
Of ArmageddOn 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
iessly shut Off under the plea Of neces-
sity. the glory Of God. the commands
of the Church. etc. All will seem to be
serene. until the great social explosion
In our context described as the great
Earthquake" An earthquake" In
symbolic language. signifies social
revolution. and the declaration Of the
context tx that none like unto 1t ever
before occurred Revelation xvi. 10.
49,, Jesus described it as a time of
trouble such IA never was since there
was ntion.-Matthew xiv. II
The Lord viii Gather Thorn.
The false. frog-like teachings will
gather together into one host the great.
the rich. the wise. the learned and the
kings of the earth. to battle. At this
juncture Divine Power will step for
ward. and our text tells us that Re
shall gather the marxhaled hosts to
Armageddon-to the Mountain Of De
structi0n The very thing which they
sought to averts by their union. fedora
ton. ETC.. will he the very thing they
will hasten Other Scriptures tell US
that God will he represented BY the
Great Messiah. and that He will be ON
the side Of the masses Thus we read
In Daniel xii. i: AT that time shall
Michael 1.-THE Godlike One-Messiahl
stand up"-assume authority. He will
take possession Of His Kingdom In Y
manner little looked for by many Of
those who errOneOuxly have BEEN
claiming that they were His Kingdom.
and authorized by Him to reign In HE
name and III His stead.
Jesus declared. "His servants ye are
unto whom We render service" Some
may be rendering service to Satan and
to error. who claim TO be rendering
service to God and to Righteousness:
and some Of these may be serving ig.
nOrantly. as did Saul Of Tarsus. who
"verily thought that he did God serv.
Ice" In prosecuting the Church. The
same principle holds true reversely.
As an earthly king does not hold him
self responsible for the moral character
Of each soldier who fights in his bat
ties. SO the Lord does not vouch for the
moral character of all who will enlist
and fight on Els 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
school Of reason and unreason, will be
in the forefront of that battle. The
majority Of the poor and the middle
class prefer peace at almost any price
A comparatively small number, Gods
consecrated people. will at heart be
longing for Messiah's Kingdom. These
will bide the Lords time and wait pa
tiently for 1t: they will be Of good
courage, knowing the outcome outlined
in the more sure word Of prophecy"
to which they have done we'll to take
heed. "as unto a light shining In
dark place. until the Day dawn."-Il
Peter l, 10
The masses will be restless of their
restraints, hut will be conscious Of
their own 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 at
fairs for the elimination of evil. for
the placing OF monopolies ana urlrues
and the supplies Of nature In the. hands
of the people for the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hitler
to upholders Of law shall become vic
lators Of the law and resisters Of the
will Of the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the welI-mealing masses to desper
alton; and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails
Tho Clouds Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook for
the future did we not have the infalli-
BILE Word Of God assuring us Of
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great knowl-
edge and skill which il ut the same
time breeding millionalres and discon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner. the world would
have lined up for Its Arlnageddon a
thousand years sooner. 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
Messiahs taking to Himself His great
power. and beginning His relgn.-Reve-
lation xi. II. 49,
"Send Them Strong Decisions"
st. Paul wrote prOphetically Of our
time. that 1t would be one of serious
trial and testing to many protesting to
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth In
the love Of It. III Thessalonians II, 10.
H. They preferred their own errone-
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