The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-03-20

this spirit is spreading to Oriental
lands. The whole world is waking upl
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
will be the results? Enlightenment
Yes. Goodness? No Contentment?
No, Dissatisfaction, war, strife, an
srchy, 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 a knowledge of and sub
mission to His will. Japan, China and
India seem merely waiting foI a spark
to start a conflagration--snar
Dcstructiveaees 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 I'M
dermined by the theories of Higher
Criticism and Evolution which are adj
vanced from the colleges and semi
nares and pulpits. and are invading.
not only the public schools, but also
the Sunday Schools Evidently any
system of knowledge which denies or
opposes God and the Bible is an in
furious education-harm to the last
degree However, by now this God
ignoring education has so fastened It,
self upon the world as to be impossi-
bic to shake it off.
90 The third item indicative of the
Time of the End of this Age is that
"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 more and more OF the
creeds of men which for centuries have
helped to blind and TO stumble and to
make the Divine character and the hi
vine Word appear inconsistent and un
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 saint"
and are being scarded-smashed.
"a AS a result of the fuItilments o.
Nos. | and 2, we see nearing us, por
tentously. No. 4: There shall be time
of trouble such as never was since
there was 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 IN
sanctified knowledge. It would mean
the utter wreck of all of our civiliza
ton were it not for the interposition
which we have long waited and pray
cd. "Thy Kingdom come; Thy will he
done on earth as it is done in heaven,
Our Lord, speaking Of this trouble,
declared, "Unless those days were
shortened there should no flesh be
SHNGu. bUI lOI lIit CittI - SdhC NhpN'
days shall he shortened because OF
the elect" and the Kingdom which
they will establish. that great time 81
trouble" will be cut short-it will not
be allowed 30 work out the terror al
irst apprehended.
The Hope of the World.
am returning from heathendoIn
fully convinced that the hope of the
world is exactly what Gods Word de
cares, namely, the Messianic King
dom. Unless that Kingdom comes
and comes soon. the world Will he IL
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 Il sealed Book. once appar
emily contradictory, once assumed t(
be in harmony with the creeds, ant
their very foundation, / now see to be-
the most wonderful Book In the whole
world. 1t merely needed the light now
due to Gods people to slime upon it,
| pages, to scatter our night and enable
us to truly sing, Wonderful things il
| the Bible | see.''
The three wonderful things of tn,
| Bible which | would wish to impreS'
upon you at this time are: The Jus
| tice of God, in permitting a death pen
| atty to come upon our race as a pun
| ishment for sin; (2) The Mercy OF God
| like the Wilderness of the sea, which /,
making provision for Adam and every
| member of his race TO return to hi
| vine favor and everlasting life, if the!
| will otherwise. to be remanded int,
! Hth--"everlssting destruction"
90 If there could be more wonder
| full thing than the general provision 70
| humanity, restitution TO human perfeC
| ton and an earthly Eden and all tina
was lost by Adam and provided for il
the redemption at Calvary-that still
more wonderful thing is "thc exceeding
riches of Gods grace in His kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus" All, wha
wondrous love God is manifesting to
ward this specially called class. invites
! to become the Bride of Christ! Truly
Eye hath not seen. nor ear heard, mel
| ther have entered into the heart o
man the things God hath in reserva
! finn far those who lpVa Him. hut Co