Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-08
POWER OF GOD
SEEMS POURED
SUNDAY
EFaHCeisst breaches Sermon or
Second coming Of Christ 70
Immense IhrOng.
~ C0TTA BARTHOLOMEW.

Quoted and the air seemed sur.
charged with a great spirit thai
moved the people as the evangel-
ist poured forth upon his audience
the great truths Of the gospel that
flowed from his lips as if inspired
by higher power. The interest
was intense and probably never
before in Rock Island has so pow
erful a sermon been preached
At its close great throngs of peo-
pie poured down the aisle to ac-
kn0Vl-a2e tleir Christ and it was
NOT possible 10 even estimate ta,i
nuu-=r aha. took their stand soI
tn Hra- & me or renewed ,HGiI CO.
Yenalt ".tl God. il vas wonder
ful Sign as the people came DOM
the ira to grasp the evangelist 5
hand Some kissed the outstretch-
ed hand, others seized him with
both arms, others gave him their
blessing and paid him the reyer-
ence of a man sent from God.
Every available place in the great
tabernacle was filed. People were
seated on the sawdust floor, they
stood crowded close around the
tabernacle walls, thrOnged the
platform, filed every inch on the
steps and in the choir loft, filled
y the windows and door ways ami
hundreds were turned away unable
20 find room on the inside.
Powerful Sermon.
But greater far and more won
derful than everything else was
the sermon delivered by Rev. Nj.
Sunday on the second coming of
Christ. a subject that great the
ologians have hesitated to attack
the evangelist waded into and with
quotation after quotation from the
scriptures uncovered the great
mystery and with a tremendous flow
of words and facts and oratory
drove home its meaning in a won
derful way.
THE second coming of Christ is
the emphatic doctrine of the new
testament 1t is mentioned and re-
ferred to more than $50 times. We
are not all right unless we obey
he command to watch, for it is cec-
ainly as much of a command to
ook for the coming of the Lord as
t is to keep the Sabbath holy" said
Mr.. Sunday as he launched into the
discussion of the subject
There can be no millennium
until Jesus comes; it is his pres
snce that makes the millennium
You might as we'll talk of daylight
lot coming until the sun goes
Town. The millennium cannot be
sin until Satan has been bound in
he pit. Nothing is more certain
han that the glory Of God shall
over the earth, but it will be after
fesus comes,' he said
Continuing. MANY have an idea
he world will grow better and be-
eT until the coming of the millen-
iium and everybody will be con-
erted and you will hear that stuff
reached, but the bible does not
each any such trash The world
Till grow worse and worse. Law
Rsssness, vice, crime will increase,
ommunism. nihiIism, anarchy.
dultery, divorce, graft, all will
ontinue to grow until they will
nally riDen into the anti-Christ.
First Coming Literal.
''The first coming of Christ was
teral. visible and personal, and
hat right has anybody to conclude
lat His second coming will be al
ent was with a real body, why not !
lie same with His second coming? |
then Jesus first came the small |
It predictions were fulfilled to the |
cry letter; and should not this I
.ach us to expect that the same /
i'll be true when He comes again? (!
Jesus is going to come and re-
sal Himself to the members of !
l. l. l. -, i,
se last soul is saved necessary to I
1mplete that body, for the body of /
artist must consist of a certain .
Tmber of souls. or it never could .
completed If it was an infinite
imber it would be an endless task, .
I'd Jesus would never return, for
can no more come with his
,avenIy body than ne could come /
first time without his human
dy.
"Every time we do personal +.
)rk or try to get anybody saved,
may be doing something that
II bring the coming OF the Lore.
stead Of being discouraged By /.
liking about US and sesing what
small prospect there IS of the
hole world being converted. it
M II set our bones on fire to think
IL perhaps the last man needed
complete the Lords body and
.ng Jesus back to earth may be
Inverted this very day, this very
ur. That gives US something
finite and tangible to work for
q hope for, don't you see?
The body of Christ will be COM
sed OF believers from every race
/ nation on earth That is the
the gospel must first he
sached as a witness to every na-
4. Not from every dispensation.
had it's beginning on the day of
atecost and will be completed a:
time of the meeting in the air,
ich is called the Rapture. For
is now preparing, perfecting and
npIetiug the church-the body Of
rist, the bride who is to meet the
"a in the air, and be with him
ever more.
When the Rapture comes It will
he in the twinkiing of an eye, and
Nj be altogether unexpected ex-
t by those who have been
vching the prophecies and are
sing for it. After Jesus comes
takes the believers out Of the
Id, then takes place the great
,ulatIon.
After TrfbuIation the Lord.
At the close OF the tribulation
lord will raTIIru bringing with