River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1914-12-24

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especially in Germany and Great Brit
ain. Here, on the contrary, the ave
nueS of business are dislocated The
| foreign absorption of gold causes fnan-
| cial embarrassment and stringency. the
| discharge of clerks, mechanics, etc.
Few of the awakening ones realize
| that the present war is permitted fol
the weakening of the nations, prepare
| tory to the utter collapse of the present
order of things and the ushering in OF
| the New Order of things-the Reign OF
Righteousness. under Messiah's King
DOM The aroused sleeper should face
about to the rising Sun Of Righteous
ness with healing in His beams and
! blessings for all nations (Malachi 4 q
| Were this recognized, there would be
less of the war spirit here at home
less of q fear of what could be accom-
plished by enemies across the deeps.
more of a confidence in the Lord. and
an endeavor TO please and obey Him
But the maddening wine still intoxi
| Gates many Americans. and will yet
probably embrOfl our nation III strife.
ReIigionists Also Awakening.
! As for religion, the awakened ones
reject the major portion of the creeds
of the past, yet carefully cling to any
rights or privileges which those false
doctrines gave them. Thus the Divine
right Of kings, mobiles, princes and gov
ernments, and rites and ceremonies
civil and ecclesiastical, are firmly
/ clutched and held high above the PEG
pie in the interests of the rulers. This
| is the secret of the willingness of the
earthly kings, emperors and princes.
| financial princes and subservient reli
| gionists to engage in the present hor
rible strife. The argument with all is
that the end justifies the means. The
ends sought are commercial suprema
! cy, political supremacy; and, inciden
tally, the religious systems are praying
for backing-up of the various contest
ants whom they have long taught are
kingdoms of God, guided by Divine
Wisdom and Providential care.
The Lord no longer restraints these;
for His time has come that iniquity
should have an end; that the HarlOt
systems should make manifest that
none of them is the Bride of Christ;
and that the kings Of earth might
humble each other and thus make
ready for the true Kingdom of God
for the Reign of Christ and His
Church, glorifed.
The masses of mankind have been
slowly awakening for some time; but
the present war is sure to thoroughly
awaken the whole world, and the mad
dening effect of the false doctrines
will anger the entire human family
AS they realize how they were drug
ged with the false doctrines, the ten
dency with the majority will be to go
to the opposite extreme-tO lose faith
in everything. The result undoubtedly
will be pandemonium, as the Scrip
lures portray-"Every mans hand
against his eighbor"-anarchy.
Patching the Old Garment.
Many, realizing to some extent the
matters we here portray, are earnestly
advocating some kind of patched-up
compromise "a reformation in the
churches, describing of the creeds in
fact while holding to them in theory,
labOring on the part of all for social
betterments, etc. We commend this
spirit as better than the ''stand-pat
program Of others; but it is too late
The opportunity for such reforma
ton has passed AS the Scriptures de-
clare, eve would have healed Baby
lon, but she is not healed" Jeremiah
81 81 There was a lack of desire for
healing, for publication, for forgive
ness, for turning away from Illicit in
tercourse with the kingdoms of this
world to afiiliation with the Lord alone
Only the few had the proper spirit
They are the Lords Jewels.-Mal. 3:17.
This Christian Age in many respects
corresponds to the Jewish Age, which
was it's prototype. Hence our Lords
words respecting Natural Israel apply
here also. He declared the New Dis
pensation so different from the Old
that it would be like putting a new
patch into an old garment; that it
would be like putting new wine into
old wineskins, which had lost their
elasticity, and could not Withstand the
strain. Hence the Jewish Dispensation
was entirely set aside, and the New
/ Order Of things was inaugurated.
So here. there is sufficient contrast
between the things of this Present Or
der-religious. financial, social, political
and the New Order Of things that the
two cannot possibly intermix, cannot
possibly be patched up. Instead. the
Lord declares that the Present Order
of things, symbolically represented by
1.-The heavens and the EARTH" the &c
| clesiastical heavens and the social
earth, are to pass away utterly, abso
lutely, In the great confiagration, which
will not be literal fire, but symbolic
anarchy. Meantime, however, the
Lord promises us that the New Order
of things to take the place of the
Present Order, will be tthe desire of