The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1916-12-18
AS known by Judge Rutherford the Funeral

ty-two years ago nearly all the labor
Of the world was done with sweat of
face today 1t is nearly all accomplish
ed by machinery. Forty-two years ago
the sewing machine was just reaching
today % 1t Win Il ths
household conveniences. SO with near
ly all OF our sanitary and plumbing ar
rangements So with farming imple-
ments. Reapers and binders, mowers,
automobiles. gas engines, etc, ETC., all
belong to these forty-two years. In
our cities the modern conveniences are
wonderful Solomon in all his glory
never even dreamed of such things as
the poorest human being in America
may enjoy.
"Prophecies respecting streams in the
desert and the wilderness blossoming
as the rose are having fulhllment-not
miraculously, but in harmony with the
Divine order of an increased intelli-
gence amongst men. Artesian wells are
being drilled, irrigating canals con-
structed, not only in the western part
of the United States and Canada, but
also in far-off Mesopotamia. The re-
suits are marvellous Land previously
not worth fencing is valued at $500 per
acre today. The increase of knowledge
has been supplemented by government
al arrangements for the distribution OF
that knowledge amongst the people,
The soils of various localities are being
analysed at public expense; and the
tillers of the soil are given knowledge
as respects what kind of fertilizers are
required to bring satisfactory results.
Under these conditions 1t does not
surprise us to know that as much as
156 bushels of corn have been raised to
one acre, and that 600 bushels of pota-
record. Is not the Bible being fulfilled?
Who can dispute these facts? What do
they signify? We answer that they
exactly corroborate the Divine declara-
tab
shall run to and fro; knowledge shall
be increased; the wise of Gods people
shall understand: and there shall be a
time of trouble such as never was since
there was a nation.'--Dan. xii. a, 10, :;
Matt. xiv, 81.
Increase of Worldwide Discomfort.
1--WE are in the morning of our text.
All, what a glorious morning! How
changed the human conditions from
those of our grandfathers! How thank
full the whole world should be! Paeans
of praise should be rising from all the
people of the favored lands of civiliza-
ton; and helping hands should be out
stretched to carry the same blessings to
heather lands. But is it so? Are the
people happy and rejoicing? Are they
appreciative of the new day-of the
gifts of Divine Providence?
mo! In proportion as the blessings
of God have come, the discomfort of
humanity has increased; and unbelief,
not only in respect to the Bible as the
Divine revelation, but in many instanc-
es in respect to the very existence OF
an intelligent Creator Notwithstanding
the great increase in the worlds
wealth, and the fact that there are
some noble souls who are using their
share of the wealth in praiseworthy
manner, nevertheless the general oper-
alton Of the law of selfishness prevails:
and all the legislation which has been
enacted, or can be enacted, fails to re-
strain the giant NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
tioEs-of our day. fails to hinder them
from exploiting the masses in the in
terests OF the comparatively few.
Did God know all these things?
What will He do about them? Will He
bring in the millennial blessings, and
risk that men shall take for granted
that they have won the secrets of ma
ture by their own wisdom anj perse-
Verance, and forget God entirely? VIII
they become more discontented? Would
a millennium of discomfort be advan-
tageous What will God do about it?
The Dark Night Already Settling.
According to the Bible, God fore
knew the conditions of our day as we
are now reviewing them; and in our
text He gives key to the situation
elsewhere in the Scriptures made very
plain. Through the prophet, God tells
of the dark night coming-after the
morning dawn had been we'll ushered
ina dark storm-cloud just at sunrise.
This dark hour is described in the
prophecy OF Daniel, and also in that of
our Lord Jesus, to be "a time of trou-
BILE, such as never was since there was
a nation.
"Bible students see this great time of
trouble already beginning in the letting
loose of the winds of strife in Europe.
In the light of the Bible they perceive
that the result of this present war will
be the great awakening of the nations
of the governments OF the earth-and
increased knowledge and discomfort
amongst the people.
The next phase of the trouble, ac-
cording to the Bible, is to be the great
earthquake, such as was not since men
were upon the earth, SO mighty an
earthquake, and so great. (Rev. xvi,
49, This is not a literal earthquake,
but symbolic one-revolutton. Then
the third phase of the calamity-the
darkest of all-will be the symbolic fire
of anarchy, which will utterly destroy
our present civilization. Then, in the
midst of that most awful time of trou-
BILE, Messiah, the great King, will take
His great power and will exercise it,
with the result that the raging waves
of the sea of human passion will all be
Quieted, the fires of anarchy will all be
extinguished, and the reign of right
eousness and peace will begin.
Messiah Will snake All Things New.
Cannot We see the wisdom of the
great Creators program? He has de-
termined to permit mankind to con-
vince themselves of their own impoten-
cy' OF tnelr neea OF Co., ana OF the
fact that there is a God, and that His
glorious purposes for humanity are re-
Vealed in His Word. All, it is no won
der that the Bible speaks of that reve-
lation of the Lord as the still small
voice Of God, speaking to mankind
through Messiah's Kingdom! No won
der the Lord declares that then He will
turn to the people pure message, that
they may all call upon the name of the
Lord, to serve Him with one consent!
st. Peter gives ViVl0 picture or
Kingdom. He says, The day of the
Lord will come as thief in the night;
in which the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements
shall met with fervent heat; the earth
also, and the works that are therein,
shall be burned up; the heav-
ems, being on fire, shall be dissolved.