The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-12-07
Synopsis of Thanksgiving Day Address
Delivered in Shiloh Tabernrce by Wilbur Glenn Volvs
General Overseer of the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church in Zion
&C. B. W.

islands OF the sea, VINO old not worship IN some
form or other The spirit proceeds from God
and seeks even in heathen blindness to offer
homage to the Creator.
'sIt is impossible for any individual, no mat
ter how hard he may try to deceive himself
with false skepticism, to look upon the face
Of nature without having his thoughts rise to
being higher than himself. Everything gives
evidence Of Divine plan and wisdom.
''But God has not left us simply with the
book Of nature before us. We have the Bible as
our rule of faith and practice. From the begin
ming Of the world down through the ages, He
has revealed Himself through His servants the
holy prophets, and at last through His only Son,
Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world.
'fTo us, God is personal God He loves, He
talks, He creates. He is our Friend He is our
Guide and Comforter; He is our Heavenly
Father Who knows the innermost thoughts of
our hearts, and Who is willing to come into
our lives and abide with and within u.s.
In these days be very careful that you are
not robbed of God before you know it. There
are so many ''isms' and such a mass Of false
teaching
81 thank God that He is and that He has
revealed Himself. We are told that in the be-
ginning He created the heavens and the earth
and made man in His own likeness The first
man and woman were perfect when they left
His hands. God permitted man to have his
own way and he became so wicked that God
destroyed him from the earth and through
Noah, His faithful servant, a new start was
made.
whenever man refuses to take God into con-
sideration and acknowledge His supremacy, any
system Of government he may attempt to build
up, is doomed to ultimate defeat.
"We must not let our eyes rest upon the dis
pensations Of man. and the fact that all of them
Ill i'll
a time when the curse will be removed and
everything upon the earth will be in accord
with His will.
con this national Thanksgiving Day, many
thoughts arise in the mind Of a man who has
been placed at the head of the Christian Cath
olic Apostolic Church in Zion. AS student of
the Bible there are many popular beliefs to
which he cannot subscribe.
"Not for one moment do I believe in the rule
of man. for man and by man. [ believe in the
rule of man by God and for God and that is
the teaching Of the Word. IF God has not a
right to rule His offspring, who has?
Il do not take any stock in Thanksgiving
service participated in by men and women
whose lives give the lie to their profession.
There are many things which when viewed from
Gods standpoint, appear in a very different
light than when viewed from mans standpoint.
God created man free moral agent, and
except for His over-ruling power, man has had
his own way and has had it for long time.
Adam and Eve were driven out Of the Garden
OF Eden, and in about sixteen hundred years
the sons of men had become so vile that God
repented He had ever made man; and so down
through all the centuries it has gone on until
you and | stand at the end of another period
when all that man has undertaken will end in
absolute failure. The most awful judgments
Will sweep this earth, one after another until
God Will intervene and usher in the Millennium
we must never fail to distinguish between
what God permits and what He commits Do
not think that God is the author Of all the
misery and ruin and destruction in the world
today. He has only permitted it.
The man who knows his Bible knows that
the entire sweep of the world s history is out
lined in Nebuchadnezzars dream in which he
saw the four great world empires as shown in
the mage-the head of fine gold, representing
the Babyloman; the breast and arms of silver.
tne VI Medo-Perslan; the belly and thighs of BRASS
,nl Inc Greclan, and the legs of iron. the Roman
Inc feet and toes, consisting of mixture Of
iron and miry clay, represent monarchy and
democracy, partly strong and partly broken
w!lcn M Will De smltten by the stone cut out
Mi1nout hands, dashlng In pieces the iron, the
orass tne clay, the silver and the gold, and be-
coming great mountain and filing the whole
earth '-io "0l0
The rule of democracy is now in orr dav
oelng literally fulfilled. The ten toes represent
zen s1 Kings and in the days Of these KINGS God
Almighty will set up His Kingdom that shall
never be destroyed. 'n"-'
Ihls is beautiful earth and this earth
some som Gay Will be occupied by the saints who
VIII rule with Christ in the Millennium. IF II
were not Tor the sin of man, what . beautiful
have rao ~. !. woulo De- God has permitted man to
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