The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-18

pastor made an earnest appear Tor all
to come back to the Bible and live out
its. divine precepts, as this would enable
the maintenance of staple govern
ment. The speaker undertook to show
that the prophecies of the Bible spoke
of the times through which We are now
passing as being sign of the coming
of Christ. In part, he said that Christ
spoke of the last days as being similar
to the days that proceeded the flood,
which were days of great evil, and sin
and crime everywhere, even the mag
nations of the heart of man We're evil
continually. He spoke of the race riots
in Chicago and the struggles between
capital and labor, calling attention to
the fact that it was a time of great
perplexity when men IS hearts were
failing them for fear and for looking
after the things that were coming up
on the earth.
In the evening Pastor Bryant, the
president of the conference, spoke, his
subject being, A Definite Message to
the World Today The pastor said in
part that there was no excuse for al
man to come before the public without
definite message, and in his judge
iiChb tHC SlCotCSt uiSSodSC iOl iHt
world today was the nearness of the
second coming of Christ The Bible
speaks clearly of present truth. Many
messages have been given in the past
which were present truth in their day
but is not today, such as, for example,
the warning that Noah gave and that
of Lot and John the Baptist. After the
death of John, and long after his mes
sage had reached its climax and per-
formed its work. Apollos was endeav-
oring to preach the same thing but it
became necessary for Priscilla and
Aquilla to take him aside and expound
unto him the word more fully. Thus
it is seen that a message from God must
be given in its proper season or not at
all. .tThe fact that Christ S coming is
near said the speaker, ''is witnessed
by many signs that are given in fulfill
ment of prophecy One of the most
remarkable is of Daniel 1874, where we
ire told that an increase of knowledge
md much running to and fro would be
4 sign of the end
Is it not strange that the world
should go on for so many thousands of
Years and finally, within memory of
people still living, such a flood of
knowledge should be poured upon the
world as seen today in the great in
ventions and scientific demonstrations
# our great grandfathers could come
from the dusty graves and see us rush
ng through the streets with our auto
mobiles, talking to one another though
hundreds and thousands of miles apart,
by the use of the telephone, sending
'elegrams over wires and even flashing
hem through the air without wires; if
they could see the great airships of to-
day, the fine railroad trains and the
mighty steamships that ply the ocean,
hey certainly would think they had
been resurrected and entered another
world
Millions of men now sleep in their
raves, who in their generation We're
considered the worlds greatest thinkers,
but if they were to come from their
graves today they would have to enter
he primary department of our schools.
Surely this is time when knowledge
has been increased, and by number of
| modern facilities men are running to
and fro.
The prophet Nahum said Thanh the
| last days chariots would rage in the
streets, running like the lightning and
seeming like torches, jostling one
| against another in the broad highways
t takes no stretch of Imagination to-
day to see automobiles that fulfill this
| prophecy. Thousands of signs in many
other ways are seen. Thus said the
peaker, ''earth, sea and sky. all seem
% proclaim that the great day is near
and the message for today is to get
ready to meet your God. -
| This morning the program of tn,
camp was given up and over 200 of tho
campers went out calling on the people
giving them a personal invitation t,
attend the meetings, also distributing
many hundreds of books, the proceed.
of which are used in home mssionar,
work in Vermont and New Hampshire
Tonight delegates from the Brattle
boro board of trade are to wait upol
the convention extending real Brat
fleboro welcome to the delegates.
special program is being arranged TO
the occasion, which like all other meet
ings, is free to the public.