River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-02-19

Time OF Trouble at that date, as fore
told by the Prophet Daniel and also by
our Lord.-Daniel 1911.
The great trouble of 1915 will suf-
fee for all time, as says the Prophet
psalm 1879 There will be no more
war. Then the princes of Israel will
have dictatorial powers, backed up by
the spiritual Kingdom-just what. the
world needs, but what it dare not
trust to any imperfect men under the
present reign of Sin and Death.
Jerusalem and Messiah.
The time has therefore come for the
message of Isaiah 40:1. to be given to
Gods ancient people. The time has
come for the fulfilment of the highest
ideals of Zionism! He that blesSeth
Israel shall be blessed of God! He
that ccurseth Israel shall be cursed of
Cod Let us all encourage Gods an
cient people to go up and possess their
land, as Cyrus did in figure long ago.
1t is not our thought to encourage all
Jews to return to Palestine. Many Of
them are better off where they are at
present. Only those who have faith in
the precious promises dc we encourage
to go now. Gradually their numbers
will increase, as faith in the promises
Of God returns to the Jewish heart
But there is work in which every
Jew should have a share. If favOrably
situated, and unready to go personally,
they should go by proXy-they should
put plenty of money into the hands of
the Zionist Manager at Jerusalem. He
should be enabled to assist every
worthy son of Abraham fleeing from
Russian persecution. He should be
prepared to advance money to every
settler to purchase every foot of land
in Palestine that is offered for sale. He
should be enabled to supply all with
tools, etc. He should have a free hand
to do exploits in the name of God and
of His Chosen People.
Zionism will prosper, whether or not.
Messiah's Kingdom will be set up. But
who WI have the honor of having
NANTES led his faith by his works and
by his money? The love of money is
a root of all evil amongst all people,
and the Jew has not escaped it. Both
Jews and Christians need the exhor-
tation not to worship the Golden Calf,
but the true God. | can thus reprOve
and exhort Jew, Gentle and Christian
the more freely because it is well
known that | never solicit money for
myself or the work entrusted to me
by the Lord-not even Church cOllec-
tiOns-not even insinuations that mon
ey is scarce and desirable. | do, how
ever. eXhort Jews in prosperous cir
cumstances to bless their own hearts
by helping their own countrymen to
fulfil the holy prophecies.
Gods Great Kingdom at Hand.
The fault of Christendom has been
| the rejection of the Divine Plan and
| the acceptance instead of a human
plan of salvation. The Church, it was
asserted was to convert the world for
Jesus and present it to Him as tro-
ply. Alas, we have not been able to
convert ourselves, which is the partic-
ular work the Master gave us to do!
Greater humility would have shown us
our folly long ago.
All through the Old Testament Gods
promises abound, telling all who have
ears to hear of the glorious Reign of
Messiah and of the success of His
KingdOm-that the result shall be that
''every knee shall bow and every
tongue confess, to the glory of Cod;
that 1.-THE eyes of the blind shall be
opened and the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped."
We remember the prophecies which
picture earthly governments and show
us their termination and the establish
ment of the Kingdom of Heaven on
| their ruins We remember the Jubilee
picture repeated by the ISraeliteS every
| fiftieth year, proclaiming liberty and
restoration of property for the peo
pie and typifying restitution of all that
has been lost through sin and that is
to be restored through Messiah's King
dom
Bible students are more and more
coming to see that the Gospel Age is
the time In which Messiah is selecting
from amongst men sanity class, and
is proving and testing their loyalty to
UOU dIu W righteousness. AAC0C dAC
to be Messiah's assistants-"the Bride,
the Lambs Wife" Bible students all
know that the New Testament ab0unds
with references to the Kingdom. Near
ly all the parallels that our Lord gave
were in illustration Of something con-
nected with the Kingdom or with the
class being called out Of the world to
inherit the spiritual Kingdom as joint
heirs with Messiah. All such know,
too, that the Great Teacher proclaimed
that Kingdom, and taught His follow
ers to pray for it, "Thy Kingdom come;
Thy will be done on earth, as it is done
in Heaven"
Bible students all know that the
Apostles referred to that Kingdom and
pointed the Church to it's establish
ment for the realization of her hopes
the time when the Marriage of the