The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-13
By MRS. G. II. MATHIS

Many speakers and writers have seenl in the present war the fulfillment of prophecy and the armaggedon of theI Scriptures. Whether that be a correct, interpretation of the Scripture prophecy or not we will not know until the great events prove it to us.
 However we are warned by many Old and New Testament writers to ob- serve transpiring events and judge for ourselves al to whether the passing world movements are in keeping with the prophecy. The details of the prophecy are sufficiently minute for us to be able enough to steady our faith and prepare us somewhat for that which may be preparing for us.
 Nearly all of the Old Testament proph- cts were permitted to look down the long ! road of time and see the passing scenes | of great moment the things that would prove to be turning points in human l history and divine evolution toward the great object of mans creation-namely, ! the glory of God, which is the com panionship of the human soul with its
 author and creator. Life is a school of experience in which the text books are
 opportunities for thought and action in
 unselfsh devotion for human good, lead ] ing to soul elevation
 1 A great plan for this great experience school was laid before the foundation of tue world and to the prophets were i given visions of some of the stirring scenes and notable actors. that should
 appear down the long road. It seems l that at one place the scenes shift from side scenes to full road scenes and they cross the road of time and block it's iway The prohpets call that the end, but | go on to state the continuance after the end. which is supremely glorious, and without conflict.
 1 We take the end to mean the great change that must occur when the earth
 moves into another circle, and the men l tai and moral attitude of it's people 1 must change with it. or be swept rom lit in the centrifugal force of mistaken conceptions which have opened the door for the power of evil The one clear thought in all of the prophecy is that evil is to last for eime only, and after that it will find no place upon
 the earth for it's adherents cannot ex- l ist. ,
 The Bible calls it the kingdom of God ! in which no disloyalty and deception VII he permitted by the Creator, and lie VIII look straight at the soul and be the supreme judge Himself He will no iongei tolerate in His kingdom things and peo, ple of questionable attitude. The Gfea' divide must come some time, anu pc part of earth's history.
 That is a part of the plan. ana + will work itself out through people not by forcing them but by permitting them to choose which side they want to get on, and after they decide they
 will find opportunity to work.
 t IN SUPREME CONFLICT Right and wrong, truth and raise hood. sincerity and deception are pic tured in supreme conflict Whieh
 wages so fiercely as to destroy millions
 of people and lay maste to one
 fourth the land, and to last many days It is referred to by all of the sacred
 writers as the ahomination or desc. , lation and the final great tryout or the powers of evil. Those powers make . their supreme test, and go the limit ] of human abandonment great de. [ ception that has been the growth oi
 years finds it's culmination in those
 minds obscessed by it's influence and
 deceived by it's power. This great con-
 Aict is prophesed to be precipitated tby a fierce king of great power who
 shall prosper and destroy the mighty
 and holy people. and his power shall { be mighty, but not by his own power Ice shall destroy wonderfully and h.
 shall cause craft to prosper in hls