The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-08-16


Daniel, the pastor said that this chapter
was the key to all the prophesies in the
Bible concerning the kingdom of God In |
this holy book there are two kingdoms |
mentioned-one the kingdom of !
grace which is the kingdom of God with !
in you, the other the kingdom of glory
when Jesus Christ shall reign as king of
kings in material kingdom. The speak
er said he believed thoroughly in the ma
terial kingdom idea. 1t was more reason
able to suppose that if Gods original plan
was carried out the kingdom of God would
be very practical and material one and
superior. to anything. this world has even
seen.
-Four times universal kingdoms have
been established in this world. The first
was; Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar as
brought to view in the great image of the
second of Daniel The head of gold, the
prophet told the king, represented his
own kingdom and after his would be an
inferior kingdom represented by the
breast and arms of silver This was Media
Persia. Following it was the third king
dom under Alexander the Great Then
was to come the legs of iron or the Ro-
man empire. 1t is represented by the
10 toes of the image, to be divided into 10
kingdoms. These 10 Kingdoms eventually
became the entire kingdoms of Europe
The speaker said that the startling point
in this prophecy was the fact that time
would come when these 10 Kingdoms would
endeavor to associate together by the rul-
ers mingling themselves with the seed of
men, or intermarrying as brought to view
-, H. ha,, d. al II,
reached that time. Turning our minds to
the heads of the great European countries
of today, we can clearly see that they are
related through intermarriage, so much
so that the last king of Denmark and
Queen Victoria of England were called
grandfather and grandmother of Europe
According to the prophecy, though they
should intermingle with the seed of men,
they should not be able to cling together
Since the fall. of the Roman empire, no
one ruler has been able to rule the world
Napoleon hoped to accomplish this but
was defeated, and now we have Just seen
the kaiser of Germany overthrow III the
same plan; yet according to the prophecy,
there is a universal kingdom to come out
of these kingdoms This one is to be es-
tablished not by man. but by God himself
with Jesus Christ as the ruler upon the
throne; a kingdom of righteousness, and
glory, when the entire earth is to be re-
newed and brought back to its Edenic
beauty with peace and equity in all parts
of the world This will take place at the
second coming of Christ in the clouds of
glory when the kingdoms of this world
will become the kingdom of the Lord and
| of His Christ. The speaker gave many
scriptures and historical facts to substanti-
ate the position taken.
| Today is the Sabbath according to the
Seventh Day Adventist's idea of observing
| the seventh day of the week in honor OF
| the power of God in creation Consequent
| ly the program was different than it will
| be all other days of the week.
| At 9 o'clock Sabbath school was held
with a large audience eventually dividing
into three parts and to the tune of a
march the children and young people
marched out of the big tent and formed
two lines, one taking its place in the
lchildren's tent and the other in the
youths tent. Competent instructors con
| Quoted studies of the Sabbath school les
sons and at the close a Sabbath sehoo
offering of nearly $500 was taken up.
| After the Sabbath school Pastor r. d
| Quinn conducted a revival service Pastor
| Quinn is one of the leading reviyalists o.
| the denomination, having crossed the con
tinent many times as well as having trav
eled around the world twice He frs
spoke at some length on the power o
God to save men from sin through Chris
and the power of Christ through the al,
of the Holy Spirit to keep men from sin
ming. The revival effort that followed con
tanned none of the boisterous talk or man
ifestations frequently seen in revival eli
forts but was of quiet, though seriou
nature. Every one of the large audienc
moved forward when the call came
Tonight Doctor ID. H. Kress of Wash
ington, ID. c., vice president of the Ant
Cigaret League of America, is to speak
the subject being The World Outloo
from Medical Point of View.
The camp meeting committee is plan
ming big program for tomorrow 1t wi
be as follows: Bible study at o'clock, de
partment meetings at 1920, Bible study a
2.3O, department meetings again at
o'clock, and young peoples meeting at
o'clock. The lecture for the evening wi
be by one of the leading speakers of tn
camp.
III Special seating arrangements are bein
planned for the large audience from Bra
tleboro which is expected to attend Th
services are free and open to the public