The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-08-31

please =" "disobedient to parents II Timothy
|3:2) In many homes the parents are themselves
to blame; for they pay no attention to their own
children no longer even try to control them
If the home fails to be the center of godiness,
it fails in the very purpose for which the AL
mighty instituted it.
It is plainly to be seen that THE HOME IS
IN A STATE OF FDISINTEGRATION.
AS men lose home identity, they become only
driftwood, swept along by the flood of impulse
and passion. Such was France when she lost
home purity and power All the world knows,
but has quite forgotten the result: the great and
terrible French Revolution with its steady thud
thud of the guillotine Such will the last seven
years of the Gentle Times be- They are near
at hand because the home is doomed.
At that time, in Paris every prominent man
had mistress, and the wife paramour. How
is it in the great cities and nations of earth
Shall not God avenge for all these things?
Yes, and Antichrist and his guillotine for the
seven years are about to appear
Look at the decadence of Bible reading and
prayer in the homes of the world today The
fires of faith and worship do not burn on family
affairs now. In the average professed-Chr
home the effort to call the family to prayer would
be very embarrassing and painful indeed. Some
would be at the Show some at the park, some
at the dance and some on "joy ride The
people are pleasure-crazed, money-mad demon
possessed.
It is told us that just before the end of this age
THE GREAT APOSTASY would engulf all,
and all the above is a part of it. What home out
side of Zion is shut against the Sunday paper?
"WATCHMAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT"
Homes, calling themselves Christian, are mixed
up with everything under heaven except God,
Christ, the Bible and salvation; knowing nothing
about the signs of the times and the Lords Com
ing and determined not to know anything.
Over eighty per cent of all who enter the Sun
day Schools of the Great Apostasy are lost to even
their churches.
The churches no longer have any Christ and
any real Gospel, so they preach anything the
people want, and then can induce only few to
attend them. They can't get them back with the
same bait the second time, so are ever trying to
give them some new thing. Acts 7:21
8. THE SUBMERGENCE OF THE
LORDS DAY is increasing the awful darkness
of THE NIGHT
God set apart one day out of seven as day of
rest, worship and service. To Israel, it was Sat
urday, the seventh day; to the Church, it is the
first day, the Lords Day = commemorative of
His resurrection.
The three great pillars upon which Gods
GODS BOOK and GODS DAY.
Christianity began with these three great
fundamentals = not one can be lightly esteemed
disregarded.
In Chrstendom there is no longer regard for
the Lords Day In France, the elections are
then held, and France calls herself Catholic
Christian nation. In Spain and Mexico, cock
and bull fights held on that day. Every
where, even in America, the day is spent in dis
sipating, rioting sightseeing and theater going.
Office seekers publicly announce their purpose
to disregard the day. Corporations discharge
all who will not work on the holy day. Every
body plans to break the day, not to, keep it.
We now have a COMMERCIALTZED
LORDS DAY. A certain superintendent of
great city railway says, 1--WE figure that our Sun
day business must pay the entire operating ex-
penses OF the company; the income, therefore,
during the week is clear profit" The company
planned all kinds of attractions in the parks and
places OF amusement so that the floating rabble
would patronize the cars on Lords Day.
Railroads arrange their excursions for the
Lords Day. Church members by thousands pa
tron1ze them, and in all these street and railway
companies many officials are high officers in the
churches
Hotels, restaurants, drug stores, ice cream par
lors, soda fountains, parks games, theaters and
saloons altogether plan more and more to break
down utterly and destroy completely anv sacred
ness attached to the day Consequently. the peo-
pie have no further use for Gods Book and Gods