River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-04-16

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rying 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 nation" will come upon them
suddenly-St. Paul says like the pangs
of a woman in childbirth. A New Dis
~pensation and new order of things is
about to be born, and this great trou-
bic is merely incidental to that birth.
st. Pau 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 a 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-
lonians 5:1-6.
Change a Cause For Rejoicing.
If 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 ~sufferings are joy
GUS. but rather grievous, nevertheless
when we know that our interests are
in the hands of a gracious Savior, who
died for us and who is intent upon do
ing all that can be done for the recov-
cry of u race from sin and death, we
may well be glad in realizing that the
Plan which Messiah is 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
things will work together for good to
those that love God.
1.-THE bud may nave a bitter taste,
But sweet will be 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-
itual powers surrounding mankind will
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 our 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
resembled the appearances of angels
in the flesh, to communicate some good
not ma~terialiZed and appeared to His
disciples, what proof would they or
we ever have had respecting His res
direction? And would not the fact
that He saw them for a few moments
and then vanished tend to prove to
them that He was no longer a flesh
being, but a spirit being, who had
merely appeared to them for a special
purpose? st. Paul declares that he
saw the Lord last, and not as a man,
but as a spirit being, whose brightness
was above that of the sun: and it in
iured his eyesight; for u Lord was
not yelled in the flesh, as when He
appeared to the disciples during the
forty days.
The Christ who is to come a second
time, then, is not the Jesus of the
flesh, but the gloriied Jesus, who in
nature and glory is far above the an
gels-of the Divine nature.
"This Same Jesus-ShaII Come Again"
When Jesus assembled, two angels ap-
peared to the disciples, saying, '"This
same Jesus, whom We have seer go into
Heaven, shall SO come again in like
as We have seen Him 60" In
the past many of us have misunder-
stood this statement-nOt scrutiniZing
it carefully enough. Assuredly it would
be the same Jesus that would come
again-the same One who died for us,
the same One who left the glory for
US before He was born the Babe of
Bethlehem. In all His changes He re-
mains the same personality, as He de-
clared: II am He that is. and was, and
is to come" The angels did not say,
however. He will come again in the
flesh, or m~aterialized, as you have een
Him go away. Their message related
to the manner Of His going and the
manner of His coming. What was
there special about the manner of His
going away that would correspond to
the manner of His coming again?
Many things! He went away quietly.
secretly, unknown to the world, un-
known to any except His disciples. In
like manner has been His ParOusia-
silently, quietly, unknown to the world.
not known to any except His disciples.
Surely, if we are right in saying that
His Parousia began in 1874, the man
ner would correspond with the name
of His going. He did not come with
glorious hosts. blaring trumpets, etc.,
but as a thief in the night" If we
have the correct date and chronology,
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