The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-23

and charted them.
AS the cold at the poles was extreme
to form the great ice-caps covering
the earth and only gradually melting
aWay-so the heat at the equator must
have been proportionately extreme.
The intense heat at the equator,
warming the ocean, set up ocean cur
rents. These for the past 1000 years
have been gradually modifying the arc
tic MISUNDERSTANDING the temperate
zone further and further toward the
poles, and more and more reducing the
ice-caps, bringing them toward IN"
equator as great icebergs to be melted
and sent back warm.
The Ark DivineIy Protected.
We naturally inquire, where was the
the ark while such a torrent of water
poured over the earth from the poles!
How was it that the ark was kept safe
and comparatively quiet in such a time
of stress? The answer of faith would
be that God. who directed Noah and
his family to build the ark. exercising
His power would undoubtedly protect
it..
And now comes forward Professor
George Frederick Wright, the geologist'
who tells the world that the region
around about Noun Ararat, where the
ark rested, was apparently at one time
the scene of a great eddy. While the
waters ragged elsewhere, God specially
held that part quiet, just as we nave
often seen a quiet eddy or bay along
side of a swiftly rushing stream. Pro-
fessor Wright's deductions respecting
the quietness of this little corner of
the earth are drawn largely from the
fact that he finds there a wonderfully
deer soil. which seems to indicate that
it was a settling basin for intensely
muddy waters in the long age
Pastor Russell Their drew a lesson
from the deluge in the line of his text.
He deduced that the Savior's words do
not refer to the wickedness of the
ante diluvians, and that He did not
compare it to the Wickedness at the time
of His second advent, though doubt
less a correspondence might have been
deducible. The Masters words imply
rather that, as the people of Noah's
day were quite unconscious OF the
coming deluge, so will all mankind be
totally unconscious of the great cat
astrophe which will come upon the
WOrlu III the emu ol lilS age, piSpoi
ing the way of Messiah's kingdom.
The clear teaching of our text Is
that the day of the son of man, the
time of His parousia, or presence, VIII
precede the time of trouble coming
upon the world. st. Matthew'S ac-
count of this same discourse is slight
ly different and emphasizes the point
we are making. 1t declares, Thus
shall it be in the presence (parousla)
Of the son of man." In other words,
the scriptures clearly teach that the
second coming of Jesus will be invis-
ible to the world, and visible, even to
His people, only by the eye of faith.
During His parousia a sitting, or
testing, of His consecrated church Will
proceed, and will result in the gath
ering of all the elect into the heaven
ly kingdom by the change of the first
resurrection. This will be the full end
of the gospel age. and the full begin
ming of the new age. 1t Is to this time
Jesus referred, saying Watch We,
therefore and pray always, that We may
be accounted worthy to escape all
these things that shall come to pass,
and to stand before he son of man"
AS soon as the church shall all have
passed beyond the veil into the condi-
ton of heavenly glory-the kingdom
condition-the great time of trouble
will fully envelope the earth-'a time
of trouble, such as never was since
there was a nation,'-Dan 12:1; Matt.
24:21.
1t will be that time of trouble which
will be Messiah's revelation of Him
self to the world. In it, they will seek
the covering, or protection, of the
great rocks of society ~(secret orders)
and of the great mountains of earth
earthly governments.) (Revelation
6:14-16.) But none of these will be
able to deliver them from the fiery
trouble (distress) of hat day, which
will consume every institution out OF
accord with righteousness, truth, JUS
tice. He shall be revealed in
flaming fire, taking vengeance
The vengeance will not be so much
against deluded INC %ensnared human
ity, as against evil principles and the
unjust arrangements of the present
time. When we say unjust arrange
ments, we do not wish to be under
stood that the world Is necessarily
more unjust than in the past; but
rather that. with our increased light
; and knowledge, more Is expected of
the present generation than of their
forefathers.
r From all accounts, we infer that the
time of trouble will be sharp and
7 short, else would no flesh be saved
Messiah's spiritual kingdom. invisible
E to will come to the rescue. 1t viii
have its earthly representatives, and
order will soon come out ofschaos. HUI
manity, humbled by the fall of present
institutions, will be ready to accept
e Messiah's kingdom. We read. there
fore. that it will be the desire of all
nations"
s 1t is for us, my beloved hearers, te
continue to abide in Christ, to seek
n His will in every matter, to wait pa
: tiently for His appointed time for oul
deliverance. and according to our cove
nant, lay down our lives in the serv.
a ice of the brethren. We remind you
, of st. Pauls words. The day of the
: Lord SO cometh as a thief in the night
When they (the worldly shall say
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