The Washington herald., 1914-12-14
Nations Are Drunk
With False Doctrines
The Bibles Portrayal of Our Day
Mixed Wines Most Intoxicating Golden Wine Cup of the Bible
The Maddenng Daft-Some Crazed One Way Some Another
America Not ExemptFevershy Mad AsoSoberng Experience
Terrbe-The Only Alternative Messah's Kingdom

with which our race was originally en-
dowed-the chief element of Godlike-
ness being understood to be love.
! Americas Half-sobered FOOIishness
PrOIOnginE the War.
We are liable to a certain amount OF
( foolishness as we awaken from the ig-
norance and superstition and get our
first glimpse OF the sufferings OF those
in the war zone. To illustrate: The
cables recently told that a United
States warship had cleared from an
English port. laden with Christmas
toys. to be distributed to the unfortu-
nate children OF war refugees in Bel
gium and France. II seems a joke to
send a war vessel on such an errand.
Thousands OF dollars worth OF coal
were required. besides the time and at
tention of a ships crew. to take a lot
of dolls. teddy bears and nick-nacks to
children much more in need Of food and
clothing.
We are not faulting the kind hearts
that desire to do something for the
| sufferers. but we wonder that the wise
heads OF our intelligent statesmen
should lend themselves to such foolish
ness, even though it emanated from
hard-headed journalists. who induced
school children to such folly. The ef-
| feet of this mental confusion is to
awaken thinking people to the real
facts OF the case and greatly to dis
credit all effort on behalf Of war SUI
! ferers.
Thinking people are saying to them
! selves: The warning nations should
| each look out for the victims OF their
war. They are bound to do this through
| self-respect at home and abroad. As
sistance from US should not be neces-
| sary-is not necessary. Money spent
thus benefits the givers more than the
| receivers, for those who should look
. h. will "a
! themselves with saying to the unfortu-
mates: Did you not get your share Of
| the American donation? Thus our in-
! tended generosity may merely help to
prolong war and injure its victims.
On the other hand. the submerged
tenth" at home are in straits and likely
to suffer this winter-perhaps fully as
much as the Belgian refugees. Thou
sands have already been eyicted be-
! cause of inability to pay their rent,
l and, with their few belongings in the
/ street are certainly nearly as much to
be pitied as the war refugees across
| the ocean-perhaps more Surely char
| ity begins at home! We therefore
| highly commend a general movement
| toward HOME RELIEF, believing it to
| be a safe and sane policy in accord
with the teachings OF the Bible: IF
any provide not for his own he is
worse than an iniideL"-1 Timothy SIS.
sponsibiIity. In many respects the war
is more injurious here than in the
warning countries. There government
| contracts for army ratiOns. clothing.
, military apparatus, shipbuildlng. etc,
/ are causing great business prosperity
/ especially in Germany and Great Brit
I ain Here. on the contrary. the avenues
| of business are dlslocated- The foreign
| absorption Of gold causes financial en-
! barrassment and stringency. discharge
! Of clerks. mechanics. laborers, etc.
! Few of the awakening ones realize
! that the present war is permitted Tor
the weakening OF the nations, prepara-
/ tory to the utter collapse of the Pres
ent Order of things and the ushering
/ in Of the New Order-the Reign OF
| righteousness, under Messiah's King
dom The aroused sleeper should face
about to the Sun OF Righteousness ris-
! ing with healing in His beams ana
blessing for all nations. (Malachi 40
! Were this recognized there would De
| less of the war spirit here at home. less
| of a fear of what could be accomplish
/ ed by enemies across the deeps. more OF
a confidence in the Lord and an en-
| deavor to please and obey Him. But the
maddening wine still intoxlcateS many
| Americans, and will yet probably en-
broil our nation in strife.
RefiEiOnIstS Also Awakening.
! As for religion, those awakened re-
| ject the major part of the creeds OF the
! past yet carefully cling to any rights
| or privileges which those false doc
trines conferred. Thus. the Divine
rights of kings. mobiles. princes ana
| governments, and rites and ceremonies,
civil and ecclesiastical are firmly
clutched and held high above the peo-
pie in the interests Of the rulers Thls
| is the secret of the willin gness OF
earthly kings. financial princes and
in
the present horrible strife the argu-
ment with all is that the end Justifies
| the means. The ends sought are COM
mercial supremacy. political suprem-
acy; and. incidentally. the religious
| systems are praying for the various
| contestants. whom they have long
| taught to believe that they are Gods
Kingdoms. guided by Divine Wisdom.
| God no longer restrains these: His
tinlc has come that iniquity should end;
| that the HarIot systems should make
manifest that none OF them Is the
Bride Of Christ: and that earth's kings
| might humble each other and thus
make ready for the true Kingdom Of
God-the Reign of Christ and HIS
! church, glorifed in the First Resur-
| rection.
| The war is sure to thoroughly
] awaken the world. and the maddening
effect Of the false doctrines Will anger
Il the entire human ldLlAlg- <AS NAACg
| ize how they were drugSed with raise
| doctrines. the majority will lose faith
| in everything. Pandemonium will result
! as the Bible portrays-anarchy.
| Many, realizing conditions to some
| extent, earnestly advocate reforma-
| tion in the churches. a laboring for So
ciaI betterment. etc. But it Is too late
| Jeremiah 51:sO The Lord declares
] that the Present Order-ecclesiastical
/ heavens and social earth-wiu pass
away utterly in q great symbolic con-
! haCration-anarchy; and that the New
order will be the desire OF all ma
tions"-"a new heaven" the glorihed
| Church; and "a new earth" new So
cial order-the worlds only hope.
| Surely il behOoves every child OF Coo
to stand free from Babylon. as q true
| overcomer of the world and its spirit.
To others, loving righteousness, but not
| consecrated. two courses are open The
better one is a full conservation to the
| Lord; the other, less satisfactory, Is an
| endeavor to live justly. truthfully.
ALL ABOUT ANTICHRIST.
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