The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-09-09


through Thy Spirit unto this people, Lord my Strength
and my Redeemer. Amen.
delight to think of all things as they were the begin
nng and delight to think of all things they will be at
some time in the future.
AS you read the first chapter of the Book of Genesis
you not help being orcby impressed when at the close
of each days work, the sentence "And God
that good And at the close of the sixth days work
God that not only good" but Every good"
AS look around at the present time, bearing in
mind that in the beginning all things very good
forced to excam: what wonderful changes have taken
pace Because all things today very far from being
good.
THE HOLY AND PERFECT BECOME DEFILED AND IMPERFECT
Descended from parents whose spirits tainted,
whose blood uncean and whose bodies far from
being perfect ushered into this world in the midst of
and disease and death and hell it is very difficult for
after years of careful training to imagine to believe
that had spirit perfectly cean blood free from
impurities and body perfectly sound to imagine, to be-
leve that had perfect environment when there
sin aiction disease tears pain sorrow,
hell but the Word of which has stood the test of
ages and has wthstood the repeated assaults of it's in
Vulnerable enemies, tells that there time when
perfect when he had perfect environment; and God
has placed upon record the very words that He uttered to
that man, and to the whom He gave to be help
meet. God said they not to do certain thing. If
they had obeyed the voice of God they would have continued
that perfect condition, with perfect environment But
they needed the voice of Cod they ansgressed His law
and brought upon this EARTH upon man. upon and
upon the animal and the vegetable Kingdoms terrible
CURSE and that rests heavily upon this earth today
not been removed except in far Jesus the
Great Deverer been accepted and deverance has
THE CRUEL ENEMY SEEKS TO DESTROY ALL
All men will admit without asking for argument, that
sin is rampant this world that disease is fastening itself
upon the majority of and women; that cruel death
knocks daily at thousands of doors and claims it's Victims
from the newborn babe to the and who have
reached ripe old age
Death respecter of persons visiting the howell
we'll as palace striking down the bueeyed rosycheeked
godenhaired children the rich and the poor the high and
the low until every day. throughout the length and breadth
this and other lands there constant procession of the
dead to resting place. and the wall the dying
and the dead ceases.
He'll is in tens of thousands of breasts; pain, crying
weeping and mourning all around us; and all these
things directly traceabe to mans ransgresson OF God
Almighty's laws.
It is for you, for every man and woman who would
correctly understand this great change about to
road the first chapters of Genesis study the third chap
tor and hear the voice of God He pronounced the
upon the animal kingdom, upon woman, upon man, and
upon the entire earth Today there poisonous reptiles
and ferocos that kill and devour tens of thousands
of human beings annually poisonous herbs and noxious
weeds so that the tier of the SOIL in order to CROP
must fight continually against the noxious Weeds and
against the insects that destroy and devour
THE DEFENCE AGAINST THE ENEMY, AND REMEDY
FOR HIS HURT
Now what is the remedy SIM for disease, for DEATH