The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-27

Zion rejoices chiefly in her spiritual pro-
gress This must be her ONE GREAT
ASSET. The Word of God must be
faithfully preached, published and lived by
one and all in Zion.
lions principal mission is to be witness
ing Church. She must deliver the testi-
mony and send forth the message through
LEAVES OF HEALING and THE THE
OCRAT.
Words and figures can never tell the deep
influence of Zion literature upon the lives
of a great multitude the Judgment Seat of
Christ for Rewards will alone reveal this.
Zion demands that all people everywhere
face Gods Book firmly and squarely. We
never have had any doubts concerning God,
Christ, the Holy Spirit and the Precious
Word of God Today we believe in God and
His Book more frml y than ever. So much
of its contents are being fulfilled before our
very eyes.
1t is, indeed "The Word of Prophecy
made more sure"
The one great passion of our life is to
read it, to study it, to believe it, to write
it, to preach it, to teach it, and, above all
else to live it.
Christianity is more than a theory; it is
Gods great fact. 1t is more than a doc
trine: it is a life-the Life of Jesus the
Christ Christianity is action against every
sin in the catalog-everythin under the
sun with the least faint or suspicion of evil.
Zion smites the Devils lie that the Church
should not control the politics, the business,
the social affairs, and the education of the
people Any politics, any business, any So
cial affairs, and any education that the
Christian religion cannot mix with and abso-
1utely control is of the Devil and not of
God
Do you follow God afar Off at all?
Are you living so close to the border line
of this world where sin, sickness, and death
abound, or are you living in the secret place
of the Most High-where you may be kept
by Divine power?
Do you insult Jehovah, as multiplied
thousands of apostate church members are
now doing, by saying that it keeps you
so busy making living, that you have no
time for prayer, Bible reading attendance
upon the means of grace, and the distribu-
ton of the literature?
The Lord said, "Seek We first the Kingdom
of God and His Righteousness (Jesus Christ
is Gods only Righteousness, and all these
added unto you.
0, that God would so stir up our beloved
Zion that every member would take Him at
His Word-His ''many exceeding great and
precious promises so that Zion would
actually give such demonstration of Chris
tianity as has not been on the earth since
the days of the first Apostles.
The average processing Christian is only
&c
what he is missing in this life and of what
he will fail to receive in that which is to
come.
The General Overseer has well said:
'''The person who lives for others will
erect a monument compared with which the
finest and most costly monuments of marble
and granite sink into utter insignihcance.
In many cemeteries you will find $4,000
monuments erected over ten-cent men and
furthermore, no bigger liars can be found
upon the face of the earth than many of the
monuments erected by the ill-gotten gains
of selfish men.
con many tombstones are found such cpl
taphs as, Blessed are the dead that die in
the Lord when far more appropriate
epitaph would be- He lived like hog and
died like one, and no one is any the richer
in good things for his having lived
"'Dollars and dimes, and dimes and dol
lars and the Holy Spirit, do not dwell in
the same temple"
In order to save your life, you must first
lose it. You cannot live until you have died
Jesus first died, and He is now alive for
evernore. He humbled Himself; He laid
down ALL. Now He has a great reward.
and will yet receive still greater. 1t will
be increasing in size and worth forever and
forever
The Mind of Christ is clearly set forth in
Philippians TO-
Jesus the Christ is humanity's great Elk
ample; and what else is the life of a Chris
tan but the repetition, in a measure, of the
life of Christ?
What are you willing to do for the saliva
ton of the sinful?
What are you willing to do for the heal
ing of the sick?
What will you do to increase the influence
of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church
in Zion?
What are you doing to advertise Zion and
the principles which the Church. the Move
ment, and the City stand for?
What are you doing to help drive out the
heather who still linger here-the enemies
of your God and Zion?
Have you invested anything for the COM
plete redemption of Zion City?
What are you doing to help others to be
ready for the Coming of Christ?
Is your family-all your children-ready
to meet the Lord in the air?