The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-12-30

tralia!
greet you the of all the wholly-ransomed and
redeemed of all the ages"a great host which
can number"
greet you in the name Of a living people, who have
taken Jehovah at His word and trust Him for the saliva
tion and redemption of body, soul, and spirit!
great you amid all the dreadful signs of the closing
of this age!
National degeneration and moral decay are apparent on
every hand, in all their awful vastness and unmitigated
horror But God has still his heroes and his heroines
scattered here and there amongst the nations of the earth
They are waiting for clear ringing call!
They surely will know the voice of the rueheared and
the whole-soued!
"Gy sheep hear My voice.
"A stranger will they not follow, for they know not
the voice of strangers"
You cannot deceive Gods elect! They discern the
faintest echo of false note.
You cannot hoodwink the chosen of Jehovah! They
are royal people, They wear the royal purple as born
If ZION sends the full clear ringing note of full
demption round the world later every truly
somed child OF God going to be gathered into it's SUBJ
lime fellowship
It is business comrades to sound the clear CALI
That call only from fully consecraed people,
The regal spirits of Gods supermen will have
promises God, man. devil They will never fellow
ship the hafhearted.
If ZION aspires to lead the last great movement for
gathering the elect of the EARTH then ZION must beat the
great war-drums of alarm and warning.
The day of redemption draweth near!
lions Lord awaits His in the Valley of Decision!
There must be no false notes. no half measures
Only the fully prepared and spiritually equipped will
endure!
The call must go round the world to every tribe and
nation. Great sacrifices must be made; great responsible
ties must be borne
There is time for straw-splitting, theo-
logical theores What ZION needs cean strong,
Grated living and who have established THE
KINGDOM GOD in their hearts, first of ALL and who
have unshakabe faith in the great vertes of Divine
Love and Compassion.
The day of doctrinaires is past.
We do not want Luthers who will nail theses
cathedral doors.
We want and women who above theses and
doctrines and who will bravey nail down every lie of the
devil.
We do not want John -Bunyan- pilgrims groanng under
load of sin, and daily crying, "God be mercifu to
sinner"
of sin from their hearts and the hackes of disease from
their bodeswho saved body, SOUL and spirit, and
and not only act upon Individuals but found and build
cities upon it. and stake their own lives and the lives OF their
children upon it.
This is the only way to take hold of this generation
This generation will only laugh at your doctrines and
nesounding theories and philosophers They only sco at
your har-sptng Higher Criticism and go merrily>
their way to He'll. But put them up against real,
tangible proposition, and they will listen.
Show them city full of people who stake their lives
and the lives Of their children upon the truth or asty OF
certain doctrine and they will begin to think
ZION has the world thinking!
ZION has people thinking than the decrepit re-
gious and phanthropc organizations of the day to
admit and those who desire nOber and better things
thinking hardest.
vast number of humanity do no thinking at all, and
have desire for higher and better things They just
wallow in their filth, and make their world hogpen.
Peter has painted horrible portrait OF them in his
second epistle.
"But these like unreasoning animals produced natur
ally for capture and destruction abusing what they do not
understand will also be destroyed in their corruption
receiving the due reward of their progacy These delight
to revel in the luxury which lasts but dayspots and