Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1912-11-11

huQ tne suUDlle4 Vi udtuIe III thc hohuH
Of the people OR the public good. The
crisis will be reached when the hither.
to upholders Of law shall become vlo-
lators Of the law and reslsters 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 Infalll-
BILE Word Of God assuring rs Of a
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great Knowl-
edge and skill which Is at the same
time breeding mllllonalres and discon.
tents. Had God lifted the veil a thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined up for It's Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the Di-
vine purpose, because Messlah's King
dom Is to be the great Thousand.
Year.Sabbnth Of the worlds history,
God In kindness yelled our eyes until
the time when the gathering TO Ar.
m~ageddon would Immediately precede
Messiah's taking to Himself His great
power, and beginning His relgn,-Reve-
latlon xi, H. 1S,
"Send Them Strong Decisions"
st. Paul wrote prophetlcally Of our
time, that It 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 It. (I Thessalonlans II, 10,
~ They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God viii 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
viii be In the condemned host, fight
ing against God" because of their lack
Of love for the Truth,
II is sad TO say that we all as Chris.
tl0ns have been laborlng under asthor.
ough delusIon respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church In Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reiguiug on
the earth as His representative. on
the strength Of this delusion, Jews and
herctlcs have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Chrlst'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, MS the Scriptures symbollcally
say, "nll nations were drunk" with the
false doctrine. 1t is this false doctrine
that win constitute the frog" spirit
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon.
The Bible presentation Is that the
world Is n section Of the universe in
rebellion against Divine authority, un.
Ter the c%aptalncy Of Satan and his MS.
'ociated fallen angels, BY Divine grace
Jesus has already tasted death for
very man." and the merit Of that sac.
'lAce must, eventually, grant Adam and
his posterlty n full, fair opportunity
FOR the attainment Of everlasting life.
All who thus seek the Divine program
are walking In the light may know
something at least respecting the "times
md seasons" These brethren fare
lot In darkness, that that day land
lint b0ttle OF ArmageddOn should
,vcrtoke" them "as a thief" - un.
wares.
Armasoddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mastering for both
Sides Of the conflict Strikes, lockouts
mud riots, great and small, have been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
lc%lligerent parties crossed each others
paths. Court and Army scandals In
Insurance, Trust and Court
scandals In America, have shaken pub.
ic confidence, Dynamite plots, charg
'd by turns on employees and on en-
,loycrs, have further shaken cont
icnce and tended to make each dis
Irustrul Of the other. Bitter and angry
Feelings IN both sides are more and
manifest The lines Of battle are
becoming more distinctly marked
Nevertheless Armagcddon cannot vet
pc fought other matters intervene.
according 10 prophecy
Gentle times nave still two years to
The Image Of the Beast" Of our
'ontcNt must yet receive iife-power
The Image must be transformed from
mere mechanism TO q living force
Protestant Federation realizes that It's
organization will still be futile unless
( receive yitallzation-uules Its CLERGY
directly or indirectly shall he rccog
lizcd MS possessed OF apostolic ordinu
ion ana authority 10 teach. This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
.wo horned beast, which. we believe.
'ymbolically represents the Church OF
England High handed activities "
Professionalism aud Catholicism. operat
ng In conjunction for the suppression
VI human liberties, await this yiyifyiug
the Image This may come soon.
,ut Armagcddon cannot prcccde II. but
must tollow-pcrhups a year after it,
according 10 our view OF the Prophecy
Stlll another thing mterveucs At
hough the Jews are gradually flowing
nto Palestine gradually obtaining con.
~ tb, land 80 E,u,,, ..l al