The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-11
SAYS SIGNS ALL POINT
TO CHR|ST'S COMIhG
Seventh Day Adventists Hear DR.
Wilkinson on Early Second
Coming Of the Master.
COMPARE OLD AND NEW TIMES
Declares Conflict Around Constanti-
nople Crucial Struggle. Sultan's
Country Being Key to the Whole
situation.

lumbin Union Conference of Seventh
day Adventists. at the campmeeting
of the virginia Conference of that de-
spoke of many signs which
foretell the near return of Christ.
The largest audience thus far dur
ing the convention was in attendance,
the thunderstorm
that came just before the service be-
gan.
Doctor wilkinson. who has his head
quarters In Washington. and has
charge of the denomination In Ohio.
Maryland, Delaware.
and West Virginia, New Jer-
sey and the District of Columbia, said
in part:
that Immediately prior to the second
COMM of Jesus Christ there
will be degeneraey of the
human race. You say, that Is
not so; mans growing better;
we have wireless telegraphy; we
have the typewriter: we have the
reaper and binder: we have the great
ocean greyhound; and we have civili-
cation everywhere about US. Yes, but
I know that Just few days ago when
the Federal Trade Commission sat In
Washington to discuss and investi-
gate some of the great problems OF
the cities of the United States. one
man, who was authorized to know
appeared before the Federal Trade
Commission to say that IL you wanted
to advance in the United
States you had better put the torch
to all of our cities.
Now, read from Tim. 3: This
know also, that in the last days peril
.tAf Gh a
be lovers of their own selves, covet-
GUS. boosters, proud blasphcmers, dis
obedient to parents. untruthful, un-
thankful. unholy.' Let me ask to-
night: Are men who are in business
today becoming more honest? Do
they live up to their contracts more
than they used to? How about twenty
years ago--was a mans word as good
as his bond? Is a mans word today
as good as his bond? / want you
earnestly to consider your own sue
cess. and find out whether or not the
Word of God is actually fulfilling
itself before your mind.
How much seeking after reverence,
holiness and sanctity do we find to-
day? Fierce, despisers of those that
are good. Traitors. heady. highmind-
ed. lovers of pleasures more than low
ers of God Now, that 10 what the
Word of God says shall come imme-
diately prior to the second coming of
Jesus Christ--that men and women
shall be lovers of pleasures more than
lovers of God
Compares Old Times With New.
II met an old lady seventy-two
years OF age, having a powerful mem.
ory of the past, who remembers the
Al a he Ill
trio light: from the horse and buggy
to the steam railway: from the pen
and Ink to the typewriter; from the
But she said the great
est change in the past fifty years
was the degeneracy in the character
OF man. She said that once people
loved the Bible. now they love the
dime novel: back there they loved to
go to church. now they love to go to
the theater: back there they were
honest. today no longer is a mans
word as good as his bond My friends,
you yourself could bear the same tes-
timony. Is not this another evidence
that these are the last days?
Now this great war Ii another evt-
dence of the same. Today an epileptic
fit is passing over Europe: and just
as the scar OF epilepsy can never be
removed from the nervous system of
the human body. so, though Europe
should exist a thousand years. 1t will
never recover from the terrible eff
fects already produced by this war
Now note the nature of the seven
last plaques as given in Rev. 16 and 16.
Go home tonight. take down your BIZ
bios from THO ssaesf, blow t1gs dust from
them, and read Rev. Is and 16. In
chapter 16 and verse IT, 1t says: And
the seventh angel poured out his vial
int othe air; and there came a great
voice out of the temple Of heaven.
from the throne. saying. 1t is done
Thus you see that the seventh plague
IS the last. But note what the sixth
plague says: And the sixth angel
poured out his vial upon the great
river Euphrates; and the water there
Of was dried up. that the way of the
kings OF the East might be prepared
In prophecy a great river is always
taken for the country through which
i runs. In this case this prophecy
signifies the annihilation of Turkey.
Read the editorial in the Washington
Times of last Friday. You will see
n it uie tremendous importance of
he city of Constantinople. That edi-
.oriai says that Turkey is now the
Key to the whole situation. That is
what the Bible says. too. And when
Turkey is dried up. look out for the
of Japan; for 1t is a king of
he East. While this great European
war is in progress. Japan has seized
China by the throat. China has a
population of 400. 000.e 600 great, strong.
able-bodied staiwart fellows. BY their
belief in evil spirits. for centuries,
China has never opened up a coal
mine, a copper. steel or iron mine.
With all these vast resources behind
ner. Japan can stage new war and
/ new situation. along side which the
present war will not be a circum-
stance. Now what the prophet said
further under the sixth plague: And
saw three unclean spirits; u
'or they are the spirits of devils work
ng miracles. which go forth unto the
Sings of the earth and OF the whole
world. to gather them to the battlel
u that great day OF God Almighty
Behold. said Christ. I come,
my dear friends. time will not
permit to multiply further on these
'vidences. but enough has been given
o show that this great world Is stag
sering to its fall. Come back; we
lave more things for you in the next
ew evenings"
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