Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-06-04
THE HAPPINEss MAKER.
EDITOR Democrat:

quoting Milton to prove his assertion
Milton may be correct in this one par,
ticuIar point, and we're glad our Ashe-
vile friend mentioned Milton as We
happen to know a little about Milton
ourselves. Listen: Milton was a Bible
student and wrote a book affirming
the fall of man, which our Ashev1lle
friend says never happened. If our
dear Asheville friend be correct and
our dear Milton be correct-then who
lie the incorrect one? Milton after
reading after Paul's description of the
fall of man from. 5:8 to 80 sang:
"Of mans first disobedience, and the
fruit
OF that forbidden tree, whose mortal
taste
Brought death into the world, and all
our woe,
Till loss of Eden, till one greater man
Restore us, and regain the blissfut
seat"
(See Millions Paradise Lost)
According to the above from "Par-
adise LOST Milton was trouble
maker and if he could get back and
drop into Hendersonville and begin
to sing:
<Avenge, o Lord, thy slaughtered
saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine noun
tains cold;"
He would have to sleep on the hardest
bed in town and pay two prices for
his bread and water, i. e. if our Ashe-
vile friend had anything to do with it.
Our Ashevile friend uses lot Of
words against the thought of the over
throw of Christendom. 1t is useless
here to quote scripture to intelligent
people who know that the present or
der of things are not satisfactory to
neither rich nor poor, and that the
Bible teaches a reign of righteousness
on this earth yet future-and if the
Bible is worth its face value-right ut
our door. The past year has witness
ed many religious conventions Of all
denominations setting forth their be-
lief that the Bible plainly reveals the
reign of Messiah SHORTLY. Rev.
G. Campbell Morgan, told a reporter
in Washington May, Goth, 1914, that
fthe Dawn of Gods great Day is very
near" Rev. DR.. Scofield says he ex-
poets to live to see the millennium,
if he lives few more years. Perhaps
these great Bible students are trouble
we don't think so.
As our Asheville friend seems loath i
10 part with Christendom we wish to |
give you pen picture of Christen- |
1om's glory, as follows:
Ninety thousand people are dying in |
Christendom every day. Every time !,
you get your breath there's a funeral. |
The poor are scarce repelling the |
wolf from the door. There are three |
thousand professional burglars in the |
United States There is eighty thou
sand tramps, loafers and vicious per-
sons in the United states. Twenty
i've thousand people in the asylum for
he insane in New York and half that !
many in every asylum in all other
states according to population. Sta
istics show that if insanity should
continue at the present rate in twen-
y years from now there would not be
enough sane people to take care of
he insane Little children are fore
ID to labor long hours in cotton mills
n order that those able to work may
i've in luxury. Every mans hand is
Igainst his brother. Labor and CAPT
al are numbering each other. Great
yea disasters are happening one right
Lfter another. The Mexicans are APP /
all insane and butchering |
saeh other up by the thousands.
treat coal mine explosions with
great loss of life Wars in both hem
spheres during 1913. The cry of
,eace from the mighty when "there IS
10 peace" to him that goeth out to
Tim that cometh back" Morality and
religion at low ebb. All nations
great ships naming them
'Dreadnaught" which means I'VE fear
neither God nor man." ALI of these
ships are being built to shoot each
1ther into atoms.
Our Asheville friend may be satisfied
with the foregoing conditions, but we
prefer to believe that the reign of sin \
md death is about over and that soon
Christ will return to earth and Reign
from sea to sea, from rivers to the I
ends of the earth" and that soon "the I
kingsdoms of this world will become
The kingdoms of our Lord Grew.
l1:15) when there shall be no more