The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-03
SIGNS OF THE TIMES OR PRoPH
ECY FULFILLED.
(By Samuel Steele.)

who hold that the world is to be con-
verted during this age by the preach
ing of the gospel This is an unscrip-
tural, unrealized optimism. The scrip
lures hold just the opposite for these
last days. Note Paups statement to
Timothy, l Tim. Alb, 13; "Now the
Spirit speaketh expressly that in the
latter times some shall depart from
the faith, giving heed to seducing
spirits, and doctrines of devils; speak
ing lies in hypocrisy; having their
conscience scared with hot iron:
forbidding to marry and commanding
to abstain from meats, which God
hath created to be received with
thanksgiving of them which believe
and know the truth. These things
command and teach"
Our Lord also said Matt. 24:11.
12), And many false prophets shall
rise, and shall deceive many. And
because iniquity shall abound, the love
of many shall wax cold"
Paul also stated in 2 Thes. 2:1-3,
Now we beseech you, brethren, by
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto
mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit,
nor by word, not by letter as from us
as that the day of Christ is at hand
Let no man deceive you by any means:
for that day shall not come except
there come a falling away first, and
that man of sin be revealed, the son
of perdition."
1t is the Holy Spirit in the hearts of
| true believers tnat has been the power
| conserving the earth called THE salt
of the EARTH" but if the salt have lost
| his SAVIOR, wherewithal shall it be
salted? Matt. 5:13; Luke 1873. The
majority of the so-called Christian
world today, has become wise in their
own conceits," neither hot nor cold"
for the Lord; consequently as our
Lord said of them, they have lost
their SAVIOR, thenceforth good for moth
ing but to be cast out and trodden un-
der the foot of men. Isaiah the
prophet cries out (Chap. 1:2), Hear,
o heavens (powers of spiritual con-
troD, and give ear, o earth (powers
of civil controD, for the LORD hath
spoken: l have nourished and brought
up children, and they have rebelled
against me; the OK knoweth his owner,
and the ass his masters crib; but
Israel (christendom) doth not know
my people doth not consider All sin
full nation, people laden with iniquity
seed of evil doers, children that are
corrupted They have forsaked the
Lord, they have provoked the Holy
One of Israel unto anger, they are
gone away backward. Why should
we be stricken any more? Ye will re-
volt more and more. The whole head
is sick, and the whole heart faint.
From the sole of the foot even unto
the head there is no soundness in it;
but wounds, and bruises, and putrify-
ing sores: they have not been closed,
neither bound up, neither nullified
with ointment And the daughter of
| Zion (the true Church, The Little
Flock" of true believers), is left as a
cottage in a vineyard as a lodge in
a garden of cuCumbers, as a besieged
city" Again in Isiah PSI: Woe to
the crown of pride, to the drunkards
of Ephraim (the teachers of false doc
trine), whose glorious beauty is a
fading flower, which are on the head
of the fat valleys-the lucrative posi-.
tion of government, both civil and
ecclesiastical, of them that are over
come with wine; The crown OF
pride, the drunkaTds of Ephraim shall
be trodden under feet: for all tables
(the places where we should find
spiritual food), are full of vomit and
filthiness, so that there is no place
clean. They have erred through wine
self conceit, and through strong
drink-false conception of Gods word
and are out of the way; the priest
and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed III
j of wine-selfish pride, they are out
of the way through strong drink;
. they err in vision, they stumble il
) judgment"
t When the Son of Man cometh viii
t He find faith on the earth? DR. Camp
! bell Morgan renders Heb. 12:1: La!
dSlut every MtlSul anu lHG pOpuld
sim" Unbelief is the popular" sill
of today, it debars from no society, i
no reproach, but some consider it al
evidence of progress and intellectual
| power Not long since a New Yor
pastor arose in a mass meeting o
4 men, 6hd ( fhat ilisiiii 5otid :,
to heaven = q believing Jesu
Christ" This was pastor of lead
ing orthodox church of New York City
The Pastor must have forgottel
Peters admonition given in Acts 4 40
12: BE it known unto you all, and Il
all the people of Israel, that by thu
name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth
whom ye crucified, whom God raised
from the dead, even by him doth thii
man stand here before you whole
This is the stone which was set a
naught of you builders, which is be
come the head of the corner. Neithe
is there salvation in any other; TO
there is none other name under HEAVIER
given among men, whereby we mus
be saved" ITO the law and, to tn
testimony: if they speak not according
| to this word, it is because there is n,
II st, Io D..