The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-09-08

time until he could satisfy the kings
granted he called his praying friends
together for a prayer meeting about
the matter. After the meeting they
went home to bed and rest, and while
resting the Lord made known to Dan
iel the dream and the Interpretation.
He rose and began to sing praises to
the God of heaven, likely singing such
passages as the 23rd psalm or the 1O3rd
psalm, etc. This is one of our weak
nesses, we do not consult together in
prayer the weighty matters that need
so much attention and they need more
than human effort to bring to pass.
THE dream Daniel gave to the king,
as recorded in Daniel 2:31-35, in the
morning and then tells the interpre-
tation of the same. These few verses
contain all the history of the world,
from that hour until Christ comes
again as the ruler of this world.
HE said to the king, Thou art this
head of gold verse &c.,, and that an
other kingdom inferior in wealth, but
stronger would arise after thee and
Daniel lived to see the Persian dy-
nasty ushered in with Darius as ruler,
Dan. 5:3l. In the year 531 b. G. was
the king Of Babylon slain. and the Per-
sian king ruled in his stead. Babylon
had debauched herself through TO much
wine and thus the end. "A third king
dom OF brass verse &c. which shall
bear rule over the earth And DAN
iel in a later vision tells Daniel, 1921,
that this king is to be Grecia, and
under Alexander the Great in 331 he
conquered the Meads and Persians and
brings i'm the third world empire of the
prophetic figure.
This leaves only the fourth to
place, which history and scripture
agree is the Roman Empire, which
be as strong as iron, etc. verse 40.
This empire came into her own before
the birth of the Christ. This empire
was divided into two parts represent
ing the two feet and legs of the image,
and Rowas, the western capital and
Constantinople, the Eastern capital,
known as the Grecian and Latin divi-
sions of the empire. These two divi-
sions were divided into five kingdoms,
each representing five nations and
they were to be mixed with iron and
part clay and neither would cleave TO
the other. verses 41-43. The military
iron is being mixed with the clay of
popular government, and some clay
ruled by the monarchial form of gov
eminent becomes miry. Verse AZ, be-
came very anarchistic.' We believe
that the present war is a contest Of
the iron and clay in the feet of the
figure.
1--WE can be sure that the next world
power will not be of earthly origin.
Charlemagne tried il and failed, Louis
XVI attempted and was foiled, Napo-
leon almost succeeded, but met his
Waterloo. The present rulers involv-
ed in the war of today will not sue
who tries. The fifth world power will
be Christ's. The stone cut out of
the mountain without hands, will fill
the whole EARTH verse a.. This will
tack place in the days of the kings of
these ten kingdoms. This stone king
dom will smite the metallic and they
will be no more. AS this figure repre-
sents the metallic, so they have been
classed by their mineral wealth such
as described i'm the image.
"All inferior kingdoms will then be
crushed, and only those who are ready
to welcome Him will have a part and
a lot in His coming kingdom. II you
want n place in II now is the time to
press into II, for there will be no rival
kingdoms to find an asylum i'm. This
kingdom will not be destroyed, no
sword here. will be the everlasting and
victorious. Can you sing from your
heart, All hall the power of Jesus
name, etc. II not, begin II tonight'