The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-16
SERMON IS GIVEN
BY DR. ENGLAND
chautauqua ooers a Hamilton Had
Opportunity TO Greet speaker
Who i Well Known
hsrs.
VISIONS Do NOT END
Speaker says Revelations May be Il
End. But That Visions Never
End-WouId Make Ihsm
Practical.
VISIONS DO NOT END

/ Especial to The Gate City.[
/ HAMILTON, ILL.,, Aug. 16.--Rev. =.
1 B. Ringland Of Oklahoma City. was
warmly greeted at the Sunday morn.
ing chautauqua services by many old
time friends. and preacherd sermon
from Proverbs 29:18, Where there Is
mo vision the people perish" He sail
in part:
with one thousand years as one
day to God we estimate that to Him
the world has had six birthdays, and
that In eighty-five years the earth Will
celebrate another, allowing of course
that these age days like our days
may vary In length. God gave earth
| its first birthday In Edenic blessed
mess. Gods first plans for man are
always His best. Eden came first.
Gods first days began with high noon,
not with midnight.
st John saw q new heaven first.
then new earth. Gods second worlds
birthday gave Enoch's translation
amidst ten thousand saints, as won
ioerful inspiration to the sin cursed
imam.
! '.The third world birthday gave us
Abraham, the faithful and most hon
ored man today. among the three
great religions Of the ages. christian.
Hebrew and Mohamedan. The fourth
world birthday brought the righteous
david and the wise Solomon to help
remove the worlds curse. OF sin and
ignorance. All having worse than
failed God himself as manifest in
flesh, came to earth In human form to
hiring it heavenly blessing on its fft1
world birthday age. But earth reject
led Him and turned from light to dark
mess as It had done before. So great
WAS the darkness from this refusal to
receive mans father.maker that the
worlds gloom but little frightened
Iby the end Of the sixth world age,
land this birthday could know but
feeble joyous greetings from its God.
tanaxiOus though He WAS to make
earth glad indeed. And now the sew
enth world birthday will be here In
less than hundred years. What shall.
I've then accept as Gods world birth;
day gift! Are we getting ready 70
receive millennidl bliss
1.-THE christian world is planning 70
give the Bible to al men by 1850.
VIII We make earth paradise by Civ.
ling the truths Of the gospel 70 the
hearts OF all men by the year 1000
land thus make It possible for God to
give us<Eden again? This rests with
ms: and our children and our chill
idren's children ought to be infused
with the idea that Gods next worl'l
birthday should, and may bring to "a
Ia paradise as Gods good gift to us II
i've only will.
Were Alike In Visions.
!, man." said Dr. Ringland, was frst
created in the image and likeness OF
God God and man were alike In be-
ling, IN mind, In vision. can only
speak OF the unity Of vision in God
and man What God could zee, man
could SEQ. Man was given the vision
lof both microscope and telescope.
And Adam also In q soul and spirit
vision was alike At home, whether he
talked with the highest God or the
lowest animal. His vision compre-
lhended both. The h0ly<God and the
,,sinless man were OF the same spirit.
The only difference in vision was one
LOT degree. That unity, lost in the fall
lof man. certainly should and may be
lregained by the next 1000 year birth
day, say eighty-five years hence.
paul said, I pray your whole spir.
lie, and soul and body be preserved
|blameless.' Psychic research Is re.