New Britain herald., 1917-11-05

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 Moses and by signs and wonders led them out and planted them in a good land.
 Tn a few generations they were 50 degenerate that God drove them out. and again they were a race of slaves in the far East. near where Abraham came from. Never recover. ing from this, with ten of the twelve tribes 50 completely lost that they have not been found to this day. Af- tor four centuries of silence in the sacred record, to the degenerate frag- ment dwelling in Jerusalem under the yoke of the world-rulers the Ro- mans. suddenly Gods crownlng in- terventlon came-the Savior was born, bringing salvation to the race and to the world.
 But even here the fatal law of de- generation still showed itself: He came unto his own. and they that were his own received him not They rejected their Savior. cried His blood be upon us and upon our chill | dren!' and to this day poor scattered Judah has been the football of the whole world. hated, smitten, spit l upon. Israers history in the land 1 stopped; two thousand years of sus- 1 pended Jewish history has followed. | while God has been calling out His church.
 His next move has been abun- dantly disclosed in prophecy: when the cup of the worlds iniquity Is full; l when the work of Satan in the realm ! 0P iafi i0 0Y1if n 1aI in f1a great apostasy;' then God Is going again to pick up the world-but this time in judgment.
 l "'As 1t was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of Man Jesus Christ. the as- cended Son of Man Is to sweep back l to this earth, first to take up his Bride; then with his Bride to judge sin relentlessly. and make an end Of l sin forever.
 Then will the weary earth. red with the blood of her children, for the first time since the fall of Adam know | a happy climax of world peace, under | the mulennia1 reign of The Prince of Peace.' What a prospect!
 How different, too. this history of | degeneration and crisis, from the poor theory of evolution! Yet noth- l ing convinces those bitten with it's deadly fangs. Blindness comes over l their hearts, and they go on battling ] against the bible in a frenzy, their 1 eyes holden, their minds unframed with seeming hatred against all that is supernatural in 1t. Even this unparal- lelled world war does not seem to have 1 any message for them!
 The mouth of unbelieving scholar ] ship is full of the cry: See how the world is growing better! The father hood of God and the brotherhood of ] man Is speeding the day of universal l peace and concord! No more wars!
 Bind the nations together in arbitra- 1 tion treaties; hold peace congresses 1 everywhere: build a peace palace at the l Hague; all nations are ready to join
 bands. as they hae already joined
 hearts. in millennial glory!' That 1 was the cry. sounding louder and 1 louder, when the fatal day of the
 beginning of the fatal war woke the
 world from its fatal slumber! Their | evolutionary civilization fell about
 their ears with the crash of doom!
 with this lesson before us; with
 degeneration met by supernatural
 crisis throughout the whole history to i the present. and with clear notice: , spread alarmingly over the pages of
 the New Testament telling us that ] this age too is going to end in 9 1 great apostasy of the churches: shall
 we be foolish enough to think that i God is going back on His sacred Word
 and reverse His procedure of the cen- ] turtles that vain man may in his f folly create, develop, evolve a
 millennium of his own! Oh, the blind
 folly of 1t all! Even now they are
 saying that there will never be an- Hi
 God has said that the worst one of all l is yet to come!
 The Great Apostasy.
 "Now for my text: Now the Spirit
 expressly declares that in later times
 some will fall away from the faith,
 giving heed to deceiving spirits and
 the teachings of demons; through the
 hypocrisy of men who teach falsely
 and have their own consciences
 scared as with a hot iron.'-1 Tim.
 Al, 2. Weymouth's translation.
 Paul the great apostle Is the au-
 counts for the Bible, then 1t is God
 the Holy Ghost speaking. And Paul
 says that the Spirit expressly de-
 clares' that in later times,' the end
 of the present age, there are to be
 teachings of demons introduced into
 the churches through the hypocrisy
 of men who teach falsely. because
 their own consciences' are scared as
 with a hot iron; and that some will,
 through this, fall away from the
 faith That falling away Is 'apost-
 a,sis' or "apostasy.
 "Here you have a dark crisis pre-
 dicted at the end of the church ago.
 very different from the evolution