The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-14
PREACHER SPEAKSON |'S|GNS OF THE TIMES
Evangelist Morton Gives H. lustrated Lecture At Sev- enth Day Adventist
 Church

"The increase of Knowledge in the last 100 years is an ufimistaaipie eVi- dence of the nearness of the end,' said | Evangelist Irwin NJ. Martin in his lec- ture last night on the Seven Seals oI Revelation" at the Seventh Day Ad- ventist church, 723 Nineteenth street. north.
 He used many stereopticon slides H. lustrating the subject and outlined the progress of inventions during the past century and quarter and compares
 them with the statement of the angei to Daniel, as recorded in chapter l-' verse 4, of that book. He went on 10 say:
 At the comm mencement of the last century men were writing with e feather just as they had for the past 5000 years, then came, all the III ventions that reached the climax m the great power printing presses today which print. cut, fold and count news papers at the rate of more than looo a minute
 "One hundred years ago men were | travelling just as they did in the days of Abraham, as fast as man couia run or horse could trot. When our forefathers left for the western part of the country they bade farewell to
 their loved ones never expecting to see them again Now, all this has been changed and instead of going over land in an oxcart we enjoy the pleas ures of the home while, we are pelnS hurled across the continent. The prophet Daniel saw tue time when
 men should run to and fro. Sure:y we are there. On land on water, in | the air and under the water 1t Is surge from one place to another. "The signs of the financial world are just as positive as those we have | just considered. James, in the first | few verses of the fifth chapter of thdt | book pictures these times when he says: 'Ye have heaped together treas ures for the last days. Such fabulous | increase of wealth and such unheard | of fortunes gathered n such shos. 1 times constitute one of the signs of 1 theN approaching end.
 We see the same unnl istakable eNi- dence in the social world. On every | hand men and women are casting away l the old landmarks and the great cry 2f
 the age is pleasure. The idle, rich 1 society women of today spends more | time with her poodle dogs than she | does with her children. She leaves the
 nurse at home with the children to
 take the dog out for ride in the car Hotels and apartments. while eXclud- 1 ing children. admit dogs.
 "The Saviour said. 'Ye can discern 1 the fact of the sky, but can ye not dis ! cern the signs of the times?' God is l calling men to repentance through the | very things we see going on around us. Let us learn the reason from the
 1 signs of the times"
 Next Sunday night the evangelist will speak on Baptism"
 mportant business will come before the 1 club.
 | The Fairview Improvemt tnt association will have call meeting at the school | Tuesday afternoon at 215 o'clock. l business meeting of Moore School l Improvement association will be held at l the school Tuesday afternoon at 2:15. 1 All patrons are requested to be pres l ent. | All Sunday school attendance records l were broken yesterday morning In the | 'go to Sunday school and stay for 1 church campaign Much interest was
 manifested throughout tho district.