The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-24

- AatetGls, anu that VIA, * good I
ior humanity mus prevail. II comes
20 the deepest experience of any man
that the doom OF EVIL i prophesied in
the very nature Of things i'm \ world
Ike ours. 4 world 50 made and 30
loved by Cod was made for God. And
We realize that only in a graphing Of
strpendous conflict Will the exil en-
pres be conquered.
one death grapple in the darkness
Twixt old Sytems and the Word"
fastening the Day.
n European war * not this final
Armageddon but more than any event
since Jesus Christ and Pentecost il Is
nastenlng the world toward that CON
hour. Not even the de-
Struction Of Jerusalem by Titus. which
christs disciples supposed would be
the end OF the world. is comparable
IN its profound effects on the future
OF humanity. SO does this huge strug-
gle or eleven nations at once bear
tupon the welfare of mankind and
upon hunlanity's moral and spiritual
estate, and upon the happiness OF
unborn souls, that its suggestion of
Armageddon is fully justified. If
victor Hugo. writing as one almost
inspired. could sense the tread Of
God upon the battlefield of Waterloo
and could interpret Napoleon's defeat
as not Of mans power over man. he
exclaimed: Was it possible for Ma
polean to win the battle? We an
swer in the negative. Why On ac-
count of Wellington On o Of
Butcher? No; on account Of God.
Napoleon had been denounced in the
infinite and his fall was decided
He troubled God.
Waterloo is not "A battle, but a
II -
Universe" If Hugo. | say. was en-
titled so to interpret Waterioo-th-n
With what th~ousandfold more truth
the words Of d great American editor
On the war in Europe. who speaks of
it as Europe at Arrnageddon," and
says: Back of all, underneath all.
may be the onrush of democracy de-
signed. indeed. by God to sweep
despOt.Sm from the face of the earth
and open the eyes of His children to
their rightful heritage of that life.
liberty and pursuit OF happiness
whose winning through conflict con-
stituted the greatest boon Of man
kind, perhaps in reverent truth a holy
war"
Whoever cannot discern that old
Europe is dead is blind. With that
dying passes many a beast and false
prophet who have served truly
enough the great red dragon in his
designs upon the good Of God and
men. No words are filter than
; Lowelrs to one who tool his stand
before the situation OF moral demo
{ cracy in Europe but yesterday and
believed in God and humanity:
: Right forever on the scaffold: wrong
forever on the throne:
: But that scaffold sways the future.
and behind the dim unknown
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5 keeping watch above His own
This. then, is the prospect now
t opening to the eyes Of a Christian
The powers Of darkness must become
desperate more and more. The hap
piness Of evil is deeply disturbed
over the world. The security and
f contentment of selfish forces that ex.
plot humanity, whether kaisers. car.
or cabinets or tratfics and trades ano
t sin mOngering, kaiser, car, liquor
: traffic, slave traders, alike, are beinf
y ~placarded in his world. The abys.
e for them in the future now dawninE
lis decreed.
e There is a good time coming
S good time to live and be men. Poll
tiCally, it came to America a Centur.
t ago. and it is coming to Europe now
G Morally, it is coming to America, also
e and to Europe and Asia and Africa
e It's portents stand out like banners il
e the sky. But not without battle. Tn
: wrong thing-the idea, principle o
S purpose Of evil-does not surrende
easily. The old dragon-the father o
lieS-will deceive many; the beast
the mother of worldly lusts and flesh
" appetites-will show her teetl
i. driven to bay: the false prophet-th
: priest of subtle sophistres-the piou
IS Header for falsehoods that smack o
# truth-will still speak the smoot1
It words of fair seeming in the churcl
o and out of it to cover the retreat o
o the black army. But they are beater
e and Christ has beaten them. Evi
d must dies the death. The world tina
d crucified the Son Of God was doome
S from that lei The world tina
S fattens on the SORROWS Of the sons c
men and drags them at its chariots c
greed has written its own doom
with its satanic prince it has bee
is Judged. Morally. it is dead airead,
,e The sentence has passed the Judge
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