The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-10-12
Are You Dwelling in the Secret Place
of the Most High?
Have You Become New Man in Christ Jesus?


nacle, last Lord s Day. the General Overseer
said in part:
During the past three weeks we have held
six services in which [ have asked every mem
Der of this church to answer the questions
Have you experienced the New Birthg Are
you faithful in tithing, in attending Divine
worship in reading Gods Word? Have you
put off the old man? Are you new creature
in Christ? Can you say that old things have
passed away and that all things have become
! new? Are you faithful in attending the
means Of grace?
| 'SSeveral hundred have answered these ques-
tions, and we will continue these meetings
until all have an opportunity to speak. At the
service this morning thirty three persons said
they had been faithful in tithing and at these
various meetings a number have testified who
have paid tithes all their lives
'That is great test Whenever a man be-
comes truly converted his pocketbook becomes
converted also. In almost every case, have
found that the man who got into trouble in
Zion started on the downward road by neg
expect after you have had the light, but that
God will withhold His blessing and turn
deaf ear when you cry for help?
81 terrible plague has come upon this
world. Tens OF thousands in this land have
been stricken down and thousands of deaths
have occurred. Introduced from Europe, the
epidemic has spread with great rapidity
through the army camps and naval training
stations and towns and cities of this country.
The other day 1t was announced that 1874 900
| cases had developed in the United States.
1T is nothing like previous scourges that
have swept the country. I well remember the
epidemic OF influenza which spread over the
entire world in 1890. It was then called the
Russian influenza. 1t attacked chiefly, older
people, but this scourge attacks many strong
men, children and young people. The day is
coming when this old world will suffer in
desscribable judgments for having rejected the
Word Of God.
"Now, today some people are realizing
what it means to fight battle The time or
the place to fight this battle in 1918 was away
back yonder years ago. What do [ mean by
that? [ mean that in order to be able to
claim Gods protection in time of stress. one
must live In sacred nearness with his
Heavenly Father, month in and month out.
year in and year out. Then, when the storm
RACES and the foul hand of disease reaches for
the heartstrlngs, you can look up and say
Father, [ am Thy child [ have served Thee
as faithfully as l knew how. There is no sin
IN my life unrepented of-no wrong to nv
fellow man which | have neglected to make
right. Deliver us for the sake Of Jesus, Thv
Son, Who poured out His life for us on Cal
vary.
'fSome who have been calling the loudest
this past week, day and night, for an Elder
to come and pray for them, have not paid one
cent OF tlthes IN years. 1t is poor time. to
wait until you are down ON your deathbed be-
lore you repent and seek God
Nov, God has never changed God Who
opened the waters Of the Red Sea, God Who
sent the ravens to feed Elijah, is just the same
today, and IN Zion thousands of miracles have
been wrought. Nothing is impossible with
God All things are possible to him that be-
l1eveth. And yet how little some people
know about real faith.
. In order to pray the prayer Of faith and
night the battle man must be right Now.
lear and faith never inhabited the same heart
at the same time. Is it any wonder, if you
have been trying to deceive God and lead
double life, that you are overtaken by fear when
danger comes? You may deceive me. YOU NAV
deceive yourselves, but you cannot deceive
God. God is not mocked. Whatsoever a
man soweth that shall he also reap
In Zion, we trust God absolutely It is
possible for saint to live without sickness or
pain. Ii you have not reached that point. the
trouble is not with God but with you The
TACT that you have been stricken down does not
prove that Gods Word is not true It simply
proves that you have not attained to all the glo-
| r1ous privileges and possibilities which God has
in store for you.
"The possibilities of wireless telegraphy
were just as much a fact thousand years AGO
as today, but no one had ever discovered them
But today, the radio station down here at
Great Lakes receives wireless messages from
Japan, and communication with Key West is
daily occurrence.
why is it that when message is thrown
out into the atmosphere from station on the
Atlantic coast it is picked up here at Great
Lakes? Because the instruments of the one