The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-20

ought not to be any leader to do the preach
ing. lhe people ought to come together and
sit little while Then all at once somebody
will Jump up and preach I decline I
have no time to waste nor any of my life to
throw away. God is a God of order and
not of confusion
The ministry of God the Father was ex-
ercised under law The ministry of Tesus
the Christ, under grace, and the ministry
of the Holy Spirit, under election.
God the Father came down upon Mount
Sinai and spake to Moses.
Jesus the Christ came and lived, loved.
suffered, died and rose again and ascended
to His Father.
"Then the Holy Spirit came; and now
people are being prepared for the Second
Coming of Christ.
There are some of the best people on
Gods earth in Zion City That is to be ex-
pected. The contest is over Zion City, and
the Devil is determined to destroy it, and
you will get victory only through PRAYER.
You can pray the Devil out that is the only
way"
! And Zion can pray every property now in
the hands of the enemies of God and Zion
back into the hands of Zion.
Then it is a good thing to back up our
prayers by our works and by consecrating
our money for the complete and speedy re-
demption of the City of Zion.
Let us rise UP and build this city. Let
us go up and possess the land at once; for
we are able, and Jehovah is with us.
The Great Commission sent the Apostles
to the whole creation It is binding upon
Zion today.
lions message and ministry is to all man
kind.
| The Methodists go only to Methodists
and the Baptists only to Baptists. They are
sent only to their own sect Zion workers
are instructed to miss no man, high or low,
white or black, male or female Zion has
a mission to all men, and a message for all.
| We have one for all the churches. as well
| as for the brothe1s and saloons. These
| churches need, most emphatica1ly. to be
| called to repentance. Were they converted,
the rest of the work would be an easy mat
ter. They stand as great stumbling block
| In the way of sinners.
| God has so arranged His work that all
may have share in it, and there is no ex-
cuse for idle hands The Devil always finds
mischief for them to do. 1t is a dangerous
thing to be at ease or idle in Zion
Are you alone in your field or city? That
IS no excuse for being idle. 1t is all the
more need of your being busy One man
can chase thousand Poor Jonah, with a
message from God set all Nineveh in an
uproar, and brought them to repentance.
Get your message and go. Did He not
promise to go with you, even unto the end
of the Age?
| we need not many teachers, says the
Apostle. But workers and simple witness
es are greatly needed. "The 1aborers are
few Zion should be as busy as bees, for
the world is perishing and the time is short.
Awake, thou that sleepest."
Zion is working church
A few years ago, the world was startled
by the message that went forth from lions
platform There thtndered voice, Gre
bent! RebentH Rebent!!"
God made this world 1t belongs to Him
He sent His Prophet to emphasize and to
proclaim neglected and forgotten truths.
The Christian Catholic Apostolic Church
was organized, and from the beginning it
has been witnessing church. Realizing
that God has laid great responsibilities upon
Zion to witness to the uttermost parts of
the earth, we are proceeding along that line.
Zion is not another sect like the Metho-
dist, Or Presbyterian or Roman Catholic:
but Zion is Gods organization for the last
days, and has work to do in which angels
might rejoice
A clipping from paper in neighbor-
ing town says the population of that town
is twenty-five thousand, and that the aver
age attendance at all the churches in that
town would not exceed five hundred. What
terrible commentary! What does it all
mean? In the first place, the people have
lost their faith in the church that was once
powerful. Preachers have lost their hold
on the people, Many ministers have lost
their faith in God, and do not believe any
longer in prayer.
If the people in almost any city should
at once decide to go to church, there are
not churches enough to hold them; but in
the present condition of things there is no
danger along that line; for churches are
being abandoned and the buildings sold for
commercial purposes making merchandise
out of the old hulk after it has been aban-
doned.
Zion does not owe her existence to the
Devil!
That which is born of God is Divine.
Zion was born of Cod therefore Zion is
Divine. God sent her forth to depraved
humanity, bound in fetters of transmitted
vlce-stronger than surrounded bv
terrible conditions which are almost inde-
scribable: but we go with the message from
the Eternal God, which came from His