Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
is THE END NEAR7
Evangelist Watts Gave Instructive Lee
ture Sunday Evenins-Larsc Crowds
Attend Meetings at Tent on North
Third Street.

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Third Street.
Declaring that the bible has pre-
dicte& the social and commercial con-
ditions which"now exist in the world,
and further stating that the greed and
selfishness which are SO evident among
all nations are sure signs of the APP
preaching end, Evangelist v. B. Watts
at the tent on North Third street last
night gave an Instructive lecture on
The Conflict Between Capital and
Labor.'
He said: '"One of the fiercest con-
troversies that has arisen between man
and man, is seen in the conflict that is
now being waged between capitalists
and the laboring class. This fact is
expressed in the preamble to the con-
stitution of the american Federation
of Labor "A struggle is going on in all
nations of the civilized world between
the oppressors and the oppressed,
which grows in intensity from year to
year
Gods seers Of old saw the judg-
ments that were sure to come upon the
people, long before those judgments
were visible to the natural eye, and we
idNC ia lllSiI "oIuS d CpAlplelS picture
of things as they now exist Thus
saith the Lord: For three transgres-
sions of Israel, and for four, will not
turn away the punishment thereof; be-
cause they sold the righteous for sill
Yer. and the poor for a pair of shoes
Amos 2:6 To sell man in one sense
Is to- take the products of his labor
and sell them, and by defraud deprive
the laborer of his just due. That pant
after the dust of the earth on the head
of the poor Verse Z. What stronger
language could be used to describe
earth hunger?' The monopolist is rep
presented as actually painting after
he dust on the head of the la boring
man, or on the neck of an untidy
school boy. What a picture of our
own time! Individuals, nations, corpo-
rations. are all earth hungry. See the
spheres of influence in Africa the
scramble of the nations leading war
and bloodshed, the consuming desire
for foothold in Turkey. The earth is
literally searched over and over by
the nations for some little corner OF
which they can get possession. Cor
porations and syndicates are all anXi
Gus for more land. The Unsuitable
earth hunger has seized all men.
In connection with this exhibition OF
coveteousness is also seen the oppres-
sion of the poor. and they are deprived
OF their rights. 'Forasmuch therefore
as your treading is upon the poor. and
we take from his burdens of wheat
For l know your manifold transgres-
. ions and your mighty sins they afflict
the just, they take a bride. and they
turn aside the poor in the gate from
their right Amos 5:11, l.. Behold,
the hire of the laborers who have
Eeaped down your fields, which is of
you kept back by fraud crieth. .Ye
have lived IN pleasure on the earth
and been wanton; We have nourished
your hearts as in the days of slaugh-
ter James ga, 5. All can see the nat
ure-of this oppression. The poor are
defrauded. Brides are taken by him
who sits in the gate--the place OF
judgment, and fraud and violence pre-
vail.
mo truer picture Of our social and
commercial world was ever drawn than
this. 1t is not confined to one nation
or people buti is the spirit of the age
the world over And is one of the sure
signs OF the coming of the Son Of Man.
As the Apostle James tells US again,
For the coming of the Lord draweth
nigh James IS. Then is given the
description of the great Worldwide
famine that is to come: Behold. the
days come, saith the Lord God. that l
will send a famine in the land, not /
famine of bread. nor a thirst for water,
but of hearing the words OF the Lord:
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and from the north even to the east. !
they shall run to and fro to seek the |,
word OF the Lord, and shall not find it.
Amos. Sill. IL. When that time comes. !
Gods spirit will have ceased to strive !!
with men. Probation will be past. the !
end will have come. That great famine /
is just before u.s."
The evangelist then announced his !
subjects for the week as follows:
Monday night, What Must 1 Do to
Be Saved"
Tuesday night. The Mission of Our /
Saviour to This World"
Wednesday night, What God Has
Promised Ito Give Us in Service to |
Him."
Thursday night, THE Millennium, |
Satan Bound Thousand Years. Where |
Is He Bound? How Is He Bound? !
When Is He Bound? Will There Be a /
Second Chance For the Wicked?'
Friday night, The Second Coming |
of Christ. Will It Be Literal and WISH
BILE? What Does He Come F'or??''
Sunday night The Signs of the
Second Coming Of Christ as Seen in
Marshalltown. Have You Seen Them"
Mrs. H. P. Gray.