The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1917-07-09

down into our own, era. But many OF
them seem confusing to us--the pro-
phecies. for instance on the one hand
that the earth shall be filed with the
knowledge Of the Lord and on the other
that In the last days scoffers and wick
ed men shall increase. But these are
not one whit more contradictory than
were the prophecies about Christ-one
set describing Him as a conquering
Messiah, another picturing Him on a
sufferer rejected by His own people.
We know how these can be reconciled,
but the Jews did not The very dis
ciples did not know
What then is the value of these pro-
phecies for the average man?
|. There Is the confident certainty
awakened that we are not drifting in
TO an unknown future but that there Is
harmonious plan In the mind of Him
who inspired the Bible.
2. Christ knows the future and
rules over it all for His people.
3. The o. T. prophecies remain as
powerful evidences of Christianity. My
distinguished predecessor John A. Nc
Clung was convinced by prophecy at
time when his faith wavered and he
became a wonderful expounder of full
filled prophecy.
We see the fulflllment of Noah's
prophecy now going on-Japhet sitting
in the tents of Shem. We see the lit
tie stone of Daniels prophecy cut out
Of the mountain and destroying the
world Kingdoms and itself filling the
earth.
The study of Daniels great image
picturing the world kingdoms one af-
ter another destroyed make me for
my part, very confident that the pres
ent attempt in Europe to set up a
world kingdom is going to fail. 1t is
very plain that the Kingdom of Jesus
Christ Is to be the only world king
dom. The details have to leave with
God.
I When was youth book was cir
culated in Maysvllle giving II reasons
why Napoleon III. was the great Anti
Christ. Was not his very name
Apollyon, like the name of Cyrus in
the Bible? But saw that interpreta-
full to me. But saw that interpreta-
tion fail. Few remember there ever
was such theory"
| Now l do not myself wish to dogma
tize. | do not say that no one reads
all the prophecies aright-knows all
the combinations, but if so it is unlike
Ianything that ever happened before
BESIDES it seems to 90 fatty against
the design of prophecy.
believe also that the dispensatior
OF the Holy Ghost will reach into the
end and He is to teach us from time
to time as events occur. l don't be-
l lieve that Christ ever taught that thu
work of the church is to be failure
land that He must come back to rescu,
lit He comes back to take the King
/ dom, over which He is even now reign
ling through the truth and by Hi
church and His spirit dwelling in tn,
pworld.
I To teach that the dispensation of tn
Holy Spirit is a failure or to substi
tute anything else for it, is to m.
mind an insult to the Holy Ghost.
I do not believe either, that the Jew
are to be set uD forever as the aristo
kcracy of the Kingdom of Heaven.
II If Christ had come or should com
now as pictured by Premillenarians
would mean that the great mass Of tn
Gentle world would never have had
Ichance Of salvation whilst the Jew
who had been rejecting Him for cen
turies would be swept in the King
dom. The Calvinistic doctrine of elec
: tion so much objected to would be a
nothing to that for partiality. Tn
Iwork of the church is not a failure
II When these scholars put at us tn
prophecies of the scoffing and wicked
L. ness of the last days I remind them Q