The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-23

righteousness to the plummet," and
when the ignorance, superstition and
darkness which so long have hindered
us will begin to be broken. The tran
sition may be painful, yet 1t will be
blessed, marking the overthrow of
Satan's empire and reign Of sin and
death and the Inauguration Of Mes
siah's Kingdom and its Reign Of right
eousness and life eternal.
"Eatins, Drinking, Planting and Build
ina."
Our Lord, in describing His Second
Presence, clearly indicated that ie
would be unnoticed by the world until
the cataclysm Of trouble should come.
Thus He likened the earlier days of
His presence to that period before the
Flood, when the world, unconscious Of
the impending catastrophe, continued
to build, eat and drink as usual, and
knew not. So, says the Master, IL will
be in the. end Of this Age. Eating,
drinking, building, planting and mar.
ry1ng will proceed as usual; and the
world will not know that they are In
the presence Of the Son Of Man. The
great Day Of Trouble, noted through
out the Scriptures as "the Time Of
Trouble such as never was since there
was a nati@n," will come upon them
suddenly-&. Paul says like the pangs
Of a woman In childbirth. A New Dis
~pensatiou and new order of things is
about to be born, and this great trou.
BILE is merely incidental to that birth.
st. Paul refers to the matter, say.
ing, yourselves know perfectly, breth-
rem, that the Day Of the Lord cometh
as a thief in the night. For when they
1.-THE world shall say, Peace and safe
ty, then sudden destruction cometh
upon them, as travail upon q woman
with child; and they shall not escape.
But We, brethren, are not In darkness,
that that Day should overtake you as
a thief. .Ye are all children of the
light, children Of the Day. Thessa-
ioniang 6:1-6. ......
Change q Cause For Rejoicing.
II this great change from the domin-
ion of Satan to the rule Of Christ shall
begin to manifest itself this very year,
1914, It will be a cause for rejoicing to
all. Although no sunerings are joy
Gus. but rather grievous, nevertheless
when we know that our interests are
In the hands Of q gracious Savior, who
died for us and who is intent upon do
Ing all that can be done for the recoy.
cry Of our q c from sin and death, we
may well be glad in realizing that the
Plan which Messiah lie about to carry
out for the blessing and uplifting OF
mankind from sin and death, conditions
Is part Of the original Divine Plan OF
the Father. And we have all the more
Joy, confidence and assurance that all
things will work together for good to
those that love God. 49,. ..... s
"The bud may have q bitter taste,
But sweet Win DO the flower"
The trouble will be an awful one,
but we believe not OF great length.
The Bible everywhere tells OF the
glorious results that will. follow, when
the shackles of darkness, SIN and error
shall be broken, and when all the spir-
ltual powers surrounding mankind win
be good and helpful, as In contrast
with those OF the wicked spirits now
operating through mediums, by clair
voyant and clairaudient powers, to en-
snare, to deceive, to bewilder, man
kind.
The fact that u Lord appeared in
seven different hesh-forms on various
occasions after His resurrection does
not contradict other plain statements.
Rather, we see that such appearances
the appearances OF angels
In the flesh. to communicate some good
message from God to men. Had Jesus
not materialized and appeared to His
disciples what proof would they or
we yer have had respecting His res.
direction? And would not the fact
that He saw them for a few moments
aud then vanished tend to prove To
them that He was mo Longer a s1esh
being, but a spirit being, who had
merely appeared to them FOR q soecial
purpose? St. Paul declares that no
saw the Lord last, and not as a man.
but as a spirit being, whose brightness
was above that OF the sun; ana IL in.
jured his eyesight; for our Lord was
not yelled In the flesh, as when He
appeared 30 the disciples during the
The Christ who s to come o second
time, then, is not the Jesus Of the
flesh, but the glorided Jesus, who In
and glory is far above the aa-
gelg-of the Divine nature.
hin ssaRas Jasaassaaul sassaA Asain.D