The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-08-14
End Approaching, Predicts One
Seventh Day Advent
SEES the COMING OF CHRIST
Claims That The Prophesies In Books
OF Revelation and Daniel Are
BEING Fulfilled
From SATURDAYS UalIy.

From Saturdays Daiiy.
Kalamazoo, August S.-''The Euro
pean conflict, which is now raging
is the beginning of the end. When
the Turks invade Palestine and make
that country their headquarters Christ
will come TO deliver his people. Before
the present generation has gone the
end of the world will have been
reached"
This was the statement today of
Rev. Augustin c. Bourdeau, pastor
of the Seventh Day Adventist church
OF this city. while discussing the
present war in Europe He declared
that the United States would even
tually be drawn into The great war
Of the nations" and that after a per
iod of tribulatiOn which has never
before been known. the end would
come The Kalamazoo minister said
today:
The prophecies of the Books Of
Revelations and of Daniel are being ful-
filled The end of the world Is in
sight l believe that within a short
plunged into the great war and that
the second coming Of Christ will
shortly follow.
The seven trumpets. spoken OF
in the book of Revelations are really
the seven countries now engaged In
warfare on the continent of Europe.
Time is Approaching.
Ever since a time several years
before the Civil war in America we
have passed through that period
spoken of in the seventh chapter of
Revelations in which the four angels
are holding the four winds Of the
earth. The four winds are strife,
war. and tribulation, which are being
held until the seal of God may be
placed in the foreheads of his people.
The seal of God is his Sabbath or the
fourth commandment
During the Civil war it was fear
ed that England would aid the south,
but through the prayers Of Gods
people the action was delayed. In
more recent conflicts such as the
Spanish-American and Mexican en-
Eagements the hand of God in hold
ing the winds of the earth is plainly
disCernable.
The war which is raging in Eu
rope at the present time is m reality
the beginning Of the end. The reve-
lation is being fulfilled"
What Good Book Says.
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the Kalamazoo minister referred
this morning, reads in the seventh
chapter:
And after these things saw
four angels standing on the four
corners of the earth, holding the
four winds OF the earth that the
wind should not blow or the earth
nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
And | saw another angel ascend
ing from the east, having the seal
of the living God and he cried with
loud voice to the four angels, say
ing Hurt not the earth till we
have sealed the servants of our
God in the foreheads.'"
The present conflict is but the
fulfllment of the scriptures" said
the minister "For years the winds
of the earth have been held but the
second coming OF Christ draws near.
In the eleventh chapter of
Daniel we are told of the
North. or the Ottoman empire.
When the sultan of Turkey shall
fal - nj
the second coming Of Christ is at
hand and the period of tribulation
will follow
Every country shall become in.
volved in the conflict, including the
United States. This is necessary i'm
order that the word OF God shall be
fulfilled"