The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-27

llRAsIQR RySSELgJ of the Golden Age
Of the Prophets
and the Poets" His text was, HE
that sat upon the Throne said, Behold,
I make all things new" (Revelation
21:5.) He said:
The promise of a New Day has long
been before Gods p~eople-in the Bible.
1t was limited to III first parents, six
thousand years ago, that eventually
the Seed Of the woman should bruise
the serpent's head. This, interpreted,
is understood to mean that the power
of Satan will be crushed, and man
kind will be delivered from the reign
of Sin and Death which has prevailed
since the disobedience in Eden.
A second promise, still more explicit,
made by God to Abraham Of old, says,
"In thy Seed shall all the families of the
earth be blessed" For centuries Abra-
hams posterity waited for the Mes
siah of promise, with the anticipation
that He would use them in connection
with His work of blessing all peoples.
The Prophets Of Israel foretold the
coming King Of the line Of David
that He should be a great Priest, a
reigning Priest, after the order Of Mel
chizedec. To Him every knee shall
bow and every tongue confess" and
through Him a blessing will extend to
all nations as "a feast of fat things
full Of marrow, and wines on the lees"
isaiah 1928; $3.50
Even the disciples Of Jesus, who rec
ognized Him as the "Sent Of God"
We're disappointed that His glorious
Kingdom, of which He spoke, was not
Immediately revealed, and that in an
swer to their question He declared, cit
is not for you to, know the times and
the seasons which the Father hath put
in His own Power" Still the proph-
ecies respecting Messiah's Kingdom
were repeated and amplified in the
parallels Of Jesus, in the teachings Of
His Apostles, and finally and graph
cally, in the last Book Of the Bible, in
the Revelation which Jesus gave the
Church through st. John.
Our text is q quotation from this
Revelation, respecting the Kingdom Of
Messiah. Through it God is to wipe
away all tears from of all faces; and
the King Of kings and Lord Of lords,
whom Jehovah has established as the
great Messiah, ssure us that He Him
self will make all things new" o
Even the heather poets sang Of the
Golden Age to ~come-quite probably
borrowing their thought from the He
brew Scriptures and quite probably
realizing in some measure that a
gracious God would not forever per-
NIT a reign of Sin and Death, but
would somehow, sometime, and through
some agent, bring to earth blessings to
supplant the curse. q"
"Arise, Look Around Thee"
After all these centuries Of waiting
and hoping and praying, "Thy King.
dom come; Thy will be done on earth,
as in Heaven" Gods people today are
more and more awakening to a realiza,
ton Of the fact that we are living In
the very dawn Of the glorious Epoch
for which all have waited, prayed and
hoped. These blessings have come
down like a gentle shower, SO quietly
that we a scarcely realize that the
earth has entered upon the foretold
Times Of Refreshing and Restitution
mentioned by st. Peter.-Acts 3:19-21.
Many are still asleep. Some are con.
fused, and know not to what the bless.
ings should be attributed. Having lost
faith in the Bible and its promises
many are seeking a solution Of the
wonderful things Of our day along the
lines Of evolution, claiming that a Ma
ture god operates by blind force, under
q law OF the survival of the fttest
Surely they overlook the fact thai
there were great characters In the past
with whom few Of the present day
may be compared-such as Shake
speare, Bacon, Socrates, Plato, st
Paul, King Solomon. King David the
poet, Job, Moses, etc.
a far better explanation is furnished
us in the Bible. It explains that the
wonders Of today are the ~foregleams Of
Messiah's Kingdom and, Its blessings
1t explains that we are in the Day OF
Jehovah's Preparation for h King
dom OF His Son. We have the numer
Ous S%criptural declarations pointing u
ne emo OF Ems age ana Cne uaWnlnE
IL a new Age, and assuring US that al
This time many would run to and fro,
knowledge should be Increased, and the
wise should understand.-Dan. 12:1-13
an the Time OF the End.
This prophecy Of Daniel is worthy OF
careful note, not only because DAME
was 81 Prophet greatly beloved by the
Lord, but because Jesus, the Redeem
er, specially quoted a portion Of this
prophecy, and thus attested its gen
nineness. The many running to ans
fro could seemingly refer to nothing
slse than the wonderful travelling
which ii feaa1ra Of our day and y
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