Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1915-03-11
WHAT Is
THE GOSPEL?

Editor News:
And ye shall hear of wars and ru-
mors of wars. See that We be not
troubled, fol all of these things must
come to lass, but the end is not yet
for nation stall rise against nation
and king om against kingdom, and
there shall be famines and pestilences
and earthquakes in divers places. and
these are tue beginning of sorrows
and this gospel of the kingdom shall
be preached in all the world for a
witness unto all nations anu then shall
| the end come"
The end of what The end of the
age, the end of this present evil
world In the Bible we read of three
WORLDS. "The world that was" be-
fore the flood, this present evil world,
and the "world to come wherein dwell
leth righteousness. Has this gospel
of the Kingdom been preached to all
nations2 We think it has although
there are but few ministers now
preaching the true gospel. Their top
les are science. economics, socialism,
cleanliness, ETC., and just the other
day read a sermon on "Woman's
Dress" Woman's dress, is that a
subject for sermon These may all
be good subjects in their place. but
should not take the place of the Cos
pei st Paul instructs Timothy to
preach the "word in season and out of
season, and, thanks be to God we
still have few st. Pauls preaching
the gospel of the kingdom of Christ to
Jew and GENTLE alike. And what is
this gospel of the kingdom2 It began.
to be preached to Abraham when God
promised him that in his seed all the
families of the earth should be bless
ed, and who is this seeu2 1t is not
only Jesus, the head, but the Church.
His body, for we read, "If ye be
Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed
and heirs according to the promise.
SO we see the church has great
work, most honorable work, the
work of uplifting and blessing the
world. And how is this work to be
accomplished We know there is but
little to be done for the poor wicked
world now. They do not want to hear
the gospel Their time is taken up
have not studied the Bible for them
the gospel is. They do not take it a
"glad tidings Of great joy, which shall
be to all people, but some of them
these to think it is sad tidings of eter
nal torture, and so they prefer not to
think about such fearful things Who
can blame them They have been de-
ceived and they will not leave the old
paths Of their false conceptions until
the fire of Gods anger has burned up
all the false teachings and separated
truth from error Therefore wait ye
upon me, saith the Lord, until the
Gay that l rise up to the prey, for my
determination is to gather tue nation
that | may assemble the Kingdoms
to pour upon them mine indignation,
even all my fierce anger, for all tue
earth (the evil systems) shall be oe-
voured with the fire Of my jealousy,
for then latter the fire. will turn to
the people a pure language Tor mes
sage) that they may all call upon the |
name of the Lord to serve Him with |
one consent. -" Zech $3.50.
So tbls fire now being kindled is to |
be refining fire. When this fire has |
done it's work the people will be in
condition of heart to receive the pure |
me usage of truth, the pure, unmixed
gospel The false doctrines will all |
be consumed in the fire or anarchy
now approaching. This gospel of the
kingdom is so interviewer with the
prophecies that it cannot be preached
separately, but scholarship has decid-
ed that the prophecies are perplexiug
and Improbable, but Jesus said: "Oh,
fools and slow to believe all that the
prophets have spoken - So if we be-
lieve Jesus. we must also believe
Gods prophets, and if we believe the
prophets, we see that under the reign
Of Christ. the seed Of Abraham, Jesus
and the Church, His bride, all the
of the earth will be blessed,
for st Peter tells us that the restitu-
ton of all things is spoken Of by all
the holy prophets and what is this
restitutionr If undoubtedly is a res
toration of perfection and not of man
kind, but the earth as we'll, for do we
not read in the prophets that the des-
ert will be as the garden of the Lord
and that the earth shall yield her
perfect fruits, and that the waters
shall break forth in the Gesert and the
wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
and not only those who are living, but
all who are in their graves, must
near the voice of the Son and come
forth, for there Is to be resurrection
If the dead, both of the just and the
unjust, for st. Paul tells US so. OF
course all the wilfuliy wicked who re
use to accept the terms of the Faith
RS covenant, those who rafuse to &C.
,ept the life purchased for them on
must be destroyed in the
econd death, while the willing and
,bedient walk up the highway of holt
less to perfection ami eternal life.
Then the tabernacle of God will be
with men and He will dwell with
him and there shall be no more
leath, neither sorrow moi crying,
neither shall therebe any more pain.
Let the heavens be glad,
And let the earth rejoice,
And let men say among the nations,
Jehovah reigneth.
4et the sea roar and the fullness there
of,
let the fields rejoice and all that are
therein,
hen shall the trees of the wood sing