The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-11-13


Of the people for the public good Th.
crisis VIII De reached when the hither
TO upholders Of law shall become VIC
lators Of the law and resistefs Of tit
will Of the majority as expressed by
the ballot Fear for the future will
lead the well-meaning masses to desper
alton; and anarchy viii result wher
Socialism fails
The Clouds silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook fol
the future did we not have the infalIi
bic Word Of God assuring us Of a
glorious outcomel Divine Wisdom has
withheld until our day the great kDowl-
edge and skill which IS at the same
time breeding milllonaires and dlscon-
tents. Had God lifted the veil thou
sand years sooner. the world would
have lined up for its 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-Sabbath OF the worlds history.
God In kindness yelled our eyes until
the time when the gathering 10 Ar
mageddon would Immediately precede
Messiah's taking 10 Himself His great
power and beginning His reign. --Reve-
lation xi, II. IS.
"Send Then, Strono DeluaionaS
ST. raul wrote prophetically Of our
time, that it would be one Of serious
trial and testing to many processing 10
be Christians. The reason for this he
states-they received not the Truth In
the love Of It, QI Thessalonians H. TO-
I'D They preferred their own errone-
GUS theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God will give them over to a
strong delusion." and let them believe
the lie which they preferred, and let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did not love. Thus they
will be in the condemned host fight
ing against Cod" because Of their lack
Of love for the Truth
1t is sad to say that we all as Chris.
tians have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting Gods Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set m
His Church in Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reigning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength OF this deusion. Jews and
heretics have been prosecuted to death
as opponents to Christ'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 ioint-heirs: but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say, "all nations were drunkv 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 "a section of the universe in
against Divine authority. M.
der the eaptaincy Of Satan and his as
sociated fallen angels. BY Divine grace
Jesus hes already tasted death for
every man." and the merit Of that sac
rifce must eventually, grant Adam and
his posterity a full, fair opportunity
for the attainment Of everlasting life.
All who thus see the Divine program
and are walking in the light may know
at least respecting the 'times
md seasons" These brethren ARE
not in darkness, that that day land
that battle Of Armageddonl should
oyertakep them "as a thief" un-
lwares.
Armageddon Not Vet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
,orees have been mastering for both
lides Of the conflict Strikes lockouts
md riots. great and small. have been
merely Incidental skirmishes as the
lelligerent parties crossed each others
laths Court and Army scandals in
Europe, Insurance. Trust and Court
scandals in America, have shaken pub
ic confidence. Dynamite plots. charg-
ID by turns on employees and on en-
ployers. have further shaken conf
lenee and tended to make each dis
rustful Of the other Bitter and angry
ceilings ON both sides are more and
more manifest. The lines Of battle are
laily becoming more distinctly marked
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet
% fought. Other matters intervene
to prophecy.
Gentle times have still two years to
-un. The Image Of the Beast OF our
,ontext must yet receive ffe-power
The Image must be transformed from
/ mere mechanism to a living force
Protestant Federation realizes that its !
will still be futile unless
t receive vitalization-unl its clergy
lirectly or indirectly shall be recog
iized as possessed Of apostolic ordina-
ion and authority to leach This tho
prophecy indicates will come from the
wo horned beast which. we believe
'yrnbolically represents the Church Of
England. High.handed activities Of
2rotesiantism and Catholicism. 0perat (
ng in conjunction for the suppression
II human liberties, await this yiyifying
If the Image. This may come soon.
,ut Armageddon cannot precede it. bur