The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-03-22

ANUS. i Nc w uolc NpA ~ ~ WANING, oF'
Personal rights and national rights are
everywhere being discussed. The
schools OF India are said TO be turning
out million graduates in the English
language every year The Chinese also
are introducing English schools. What
will be the results? Enlightenment:
Yes. Godiness? No! Contentment:
No. Dissatisfaction. war, strife. an
archy. are coming to the world by
leaps and bounds, as a 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 Il spark
to start agration-anarchy.
Destruetivsness 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 ad.
yanced 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 or
opposes God and the Bible is an iIi-
furious education-harmful to the last
degree. However. by now this God
ignoring education has so fastened it.
self upon the world as to be impossi'
BILE TO shake it off.
81 The third item indicative of the
Time of the End of this Age is that
1.-THE wise shall understands 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 Dl-
vine Word appear inconsistent and I'M
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 q result of the fulfilnents Of
Nos. and ., we see nearing us, por-
teutously. No. 4 There Sha be Il time
of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation" That time of
trouble. as already minated. is now
looming up on the horizon of every
nation. It comes i'm the wake of an un.
sanctified knowledge. 1T would mean
the utter wreck of all of our civiiiza-
ton were it not for the interpostion
of the Kingdom of Gods dear Son. for
which we have long waited and pray.
cd, Thy Kingdom come: Thy will be
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
saved: but for the elects sake those
DAYS shall be shortened because OF
the ELECT" and the Kingdom which
they will establish. that great time of
trouble will be cut short-it will not
be allowed to work out the terror at
first apprehended.
This Hope of the World.
] am returning from heatbendom
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 sealed Book, once appar-
emily contradictory. once assumed 10
be in harmony with the creeds, and
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 shine upon its
pages, to scatter our night and enable
us to truly sing. Wonderful things in
the Bible l see"' ....
The three wonderful things of the
Bible which I would wish to impress
upon YOU at this time are: The JUS
tice of God, in permitting death pen
atty to come upon our race as pun
ishmcnt for sin: CO The Mercy of God,
like the wilderness of the sea, which is
making provision for Adam ana every
member of his race to return to Di-
vine favor and everlasting life. if they
will-otberwise, to be remanded into
Death-"everlasting destruction"
(3> If there could be q more wonder
full thing than the general provision for
humanity. restitution to human perfec-
ton and an earthly Eden and all that
was lost 10y Adam and provided for in
the redemption at Calvary-that still
more wonderful thing is ''the exceeding
riches of Gods grace in His kindness
| toward us in Christ Jesus" All. what
wondrous love God is manifesting to-
ward this specially called class. invited
to become the Bride of Christ. Truly,
Eye hath not seen. nor ear heard nei-
ther have cutered into the heart of
man the things God hath in reserva-
ton for those who love Him; but God
hath revealed them unto us by His
spirit: for the spirit searcheth all
things. yea. the deep things Of God"
This wonderful provision for the