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


your hospitality you see how near they around us
They eyes full of adultery and unrestraned SIM ur-
unsteady SOULS they have heart practised in greed
they wandering children of These are
wateress we tempest tossed fogs for whom the gloom of
darkness is ed Peter 2:12-17. (Fentons Trans
lation)
Referring to those who having once escaped the de-
Elements of the world return to them the Apostle Peter
makes bones about calling them hogs He they
washed pigs, returning to their WaoWing in the mre
ZION has for the human hog than Peter
had They still abuse what they do not underestimate And
after ALL it is better to be abused by hog than praised by
For the man and woman who will think and who as
pre to something above the animal and the sensual ZION
presents problems OF absorbing interest 1t is to these
and to all the choice and Illuminated spirits of the redeemed
that lions call rings clear today.
The establishment of KINGDOM GOD in any sort
of visible manifestation big propostiona stupendous
proposition None but prophet of God could attempt
it with any hope of success.
ZION's founder had all the daring and originality of
prophetexplorer in attempting such task
ZIos present General Overseer and Apostles have this
gigantic task to carry forward and ZION throughout the
world has this same task it's hands till Jesus
If it not carried forward faithfully and successfully
then ZIoNs founder toed and suffered in vain.
1t is for us, my comrades and my comrades yettobe
to see that our share is done faithfully.
Men are going from around me here every week, to
offer their lives in the trenches the bateeds of Europe
in the present epochmang war; much less significant
and tangible ideal than the for which ZION is ghting
They laying down their lives cheeruy and willingly for
ideal of patriotism that many of them very mperfecy
It sort of religion, but very re
gion 1t itself in the battlecry My country
Now, the ideal for which fight in ZION is not only
the righteousness of which question: but it is
as wide as the universe of God.
We do not fight for the kingdom of Belgium, for
the kingdoms of the allied entente; but for KINGDOM
OF GOD itsef-as wide the universe and lasting
than the stars of Heaven
In this KINGDOM che who saveh his life shall lose it,
but he who loseth his life for My sake shall find it,
The spirit of St. Paul-"Neither count my life dear
unto mysef'-is the only that be tolerated
couraged Anything short of this is doomed to failure and
disaster.
Back from the grave then my comrades and from the
great open Goded spaces of Central Australia, send
my greetings and my call to you
When say am ready to answer with my own life,
I see answering the call of the empire every week
around me- feel certain that the answering cry will
from every consecraed child of God throughout the world
and together shall shout
"GO FORWARD! O ZIONv
PS-If this letter should touch responsive chord in
the heart of any of the elect of God yet outside the gates
of ZIoN sit down, my comrade and friend at once and
write to the General Overseer Zion City, to My
address is simple and easily remembered Box SO, Pin
narOO. South Australia"