The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-25

rule of God through His man. 1t is not some
thing new, it is the old, old Divine plan-Theo-
cratic rule, the rule of God through His chosen
and prepared man.
Oh, how | thank God for leadership! would
not have it any other way. | am very glad do
not have to decide lot of things and take the
responsibility before God and man. What re-
sponsibiity rests upon any leaders shoulders and
especially upon the leader in Zion
Tonight, I rejoice to be under the leadership
of the General Overseer. I have not found it
hard or irksome. | have never seen the day yet
when I have wanted to get out from under it.
I sometimes may have been little self-willed or
stubborn-perhaps | have. If SO, | know the
General Overseer will forgive me without my
asking.
have always had it in my heart to work in
Zion, and it has been pleasure know moth
ing else and I live for nothing else. | have no
other thought night or day, and have not had for
twenty-four years. | can say that before God,
the holy angels and my brothers and sisters in
| Zion When we live for God we live for Zion.
do not see how in this day we can live for Him
and not live for Zion.
To me, Zion is the last CALL God will never
give another chance There will never be another
organization There were not two arks, there
were not two places of refuge when Jerusalem
was destroyed: there was just one ark and one
Pella, and there will be only one refuge to which
the saints of God can flee today-Zion How
any man or woman, who knows his or her Bible,
can remain among the apostate churches is more
than [ can understand
When the first disciples received their call to
follow Jesus, it is written, "They forsook all,
and followed Him" They did not think it over
for week or two, Or year or more.
Have you had the call my brothers and sisters,
YOU who may be here as friends and visitors
| tfoe of o1d oil
and followed Him." That is the way to respond
to the call.
| May God help us all in this morning hour and
show to us what He has given us to do-a work
that no other people has to do, that no other peo
pie can do and that no other people want to do;
but God hath chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the things which are mighty"
Not many great or mighty are called, and if
you were mighty and were called into Zion, you
would soon loose your mightiness your pride
and all the rest of it, and you would become a
humble member of the true brotherhood of
Christ-not this fatherhood and brotherhood that
we read SO much about in the papers today.
You knows where there is true, there is
false; where there is genuine, there is counter
felt; where there is Divine Healing, there you
will find Christian Science; and where you find
the brotherhood of Zion coming into existence.
there you find the brotherhood of the devil COM
There were some people who came into Zion
for the loaves and fishes-people who came from
other motives than the one great motive of living
for God and building up His work; but they did
not endure when the time Of testing came
When God called the people of Israel to come
out of Egypt, if they had not done it, there would
have been no future for Israel and they would
have missed the promise given to Abraham. To
day, if the people who love the things, of Cod
if the few who constitute the salt of the earth
were to come out of the churches, those organi-
cations would be no more than places of amuse-
ment and entertainment, and they would fall of
their own apostasy; but little salt is there-a
little SAVIOR; but should these few saints of God
all come into Zion, then ecclesiastical Babylon,
the confederation of churches and the devil will
have full control of everything.
How thankful am that when that time comes,
Jesus will have taken out the saints. May that
day hasten and may this year be wonderful
year. May Our lives, may our work and may
Zion at headquarters be such that the world will
be compelled to say that here is godly body of
people, that here is people who really believe
and live the Word of God, who stand for some
thing and who know what they stand for; peo-
pie who have really experienced the "new birth"
and who believe in the Divinity of the Son of
God and the cleansing blood believe Zion will
shake this old world once more.
Oh, how beautiful Zion is-Zion City, Zion
Schools and everything in Zion!
The choir never seemed so beautiful to me as
it did tonight. | have seen it wind up these
stairs, hundreds Of times one stream of white,
and often | have shed tears of praise and thank
fulness [ have looked upon it; but tonight it
seemed more beautiful than ever, and that the
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