The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-01-18

ships Tor our country, ldIlu dllu lIdllO " NC uoCu
not only in the time of war, but particularly in
the time of peace, in carrying on commerce with
the various nations of the earth. They have
labored upon the problem Of shipbuilding until
thew have reduced it almost to science.
I marvel when I read Of the building of the
steel. concrete and wooden ships-how quickly
they are able to organize and bring together the
workmen, the material, the resources and money
for the construction of hundreds and thousands
of ships. The papers declare that it is intended
to make this country the strongest naval govern
ment in all the earth
Would you believe that it is possible to produce
one of these great commercial steel ships within
the short period of forty days from the time the
That marvel in ship construction has been accom-
plished.
If the people of the world are able to do such
great and marvellous things, should not the people
of God be able to build city?
We see before us how hundreds upon hundreds
of cities have been built in very short period.
The great city of Chicago has been built in a
comparatively short time and they are not salts
fed yet. They are planning to make wider boule-
wards, more parks and greater terminals. They
are bending every energy to put Chicago in the
forefront of the great metropolitan cities of the
earth
But is that WneTe my interests lie!
Are my interests in the world?
The Word of God declares plainly that the
cities of the nations shall fall and that nothing
will remain that man has accomplished.
Am I, as servant of God going to lose my
reward?
Am going to put myself in project that will
be losing project?
Am going to work at something that is going
to be destroyed? Or, am going to put myself,
my talents, my resources and my all into some
thing that will endure throughout the ages to
come?
NV conviction is that the call of God is going
out today from Zion to all the saints scattered
throughout the earth, that they must come and
hear the message as it goes forth from Zion, and
put themselves on record as to whether they stand
with the world-with Babylon-or whether they
will stand with God and Zion.
We may say sometimes that so little is being ac-
complished. Thousands upon thousands of copies
of LEAVES OF HEALING have been distributed in
the past years, many places have been visited, and
tens of thousands of people have been reached
with the message Has all this labor been in
vain? No, few here and there are being
reached-"one of city, and two of family
and brought to Zion.
Tonight, the General Overseer called for those
to stand who have moved to Zion City within the
last five years. Hundreds in the audience arose,
thereby testfying that the message of Zion and
the 1abors of Zion have not been in vain during
these past years The people have been reached.
The hearts of the saints Of God have been touched
and they have responded to the message; they
are helping to redeem Zion City and the work of
Zion is going forward.
The Word of God tells us of man who labored
for one hundred and twenty years upon an ark.
The world scoffed at him. He proclaimed the
TRUTH that the time of judgment was coming over
all the earth. He warned the people of the ter
rible deuge that was to engulf all humanity.
They had no use for the prophet of God, and the
records do not show that he made one single con-
vert.
We would not dare to say that the labors of
Noah were in vain. No one would dare to say
that all the money resources, lands and posses
sions that he put into the building of the ark
were for nought Let me say that he accom-
plished not only the saving of his own soul, but
his household, the one household being his wife,
his three sons and their wives-eight souls
through the faithfulness of one man-and from
these eight souls the world was to be repopulated
and humanity was to take new start.
You know the difference between the results
Of Noah's labors and that which followed in the
building of the great Tower of Babel, which was
erected to show defiance toward God. The Spirit
of God saw that only doom and destruction
awaited their efforts. Confusion of tongues fol-
lowed, the separation Of those that were at work
and the scattering of them through all the earth,
until the whole world has been filled with the
spirit of Babel.
The churches also have become one great Baby
Ion, and the Word of God has declared that both
political and ecclesiastical Babylon shall fall I'M
der the doom of the Lords judgments. Shall
be partaker of the sins and niq1ities to be found
therein?
Shall I, as child Of God, be found working