The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-05-02
lDAERAhT LECTURER
TALKS NTERESTIN GLY
upon BIBLE HISTORY

Speaking to a gathering Of inter
ested Bible students, J. A. Bohnet,
itinerant lecturer of the international
Bible Students Association, of New
City, delivered a discourse at Con-
York City, delivered a discourse at
Convention Han, Friday night, ON
Gods Two Witnesses using the
eleventh chapter of Revelation as the
bass of his remarks.
Declaring that the book OF Reve-
Iation consists mainly Of highly fig
urative lsnguage, the speaker pro
ceeoed to point out how the SYM
bois could be distinguished from the
plain statements of the book He
also gave keys TO the Interpretation
OF q number Of metaphors contained
in the Apocalypse.
The speaker declared, in comment
ing on the verse from which his sub
iect was taken, that the two wit
aesses were the Old and New Testa-
ments. He said that the reference
to their testimony in "sackcloth and
ashes for 1850 days was TO be in
ltIpItltu llS SuIdllNtlNs lilttt NHt NfiNh-
cloth and ashes represented the dead
languages in which the Bible was
hidden during the dark ages Au'
thority for interpreting the 1850 sym.
bolic days to be 1890 literal years
from 539 A. D. to 1899 A. D.-was
drawn from Ezekiel. The three and
u half days during which the dead
bodies Of the witnesses lay in the
street, he said, could refer to the
three and a half years during which
the Bible was prescribed by the Com
mune in the French revolution. Dur
ing the reign Of terror, observance
Of the seventh weekday Of the Bible
was prohibited, and every tenth day
submitted for mirth and profanity.
At this point, Mr.. Bohnet referred
TO the remarkable revival Of the
study Of the Bible following the year
1899. Printing with advanced inven-
tions, including movable metal type
has made it possible for the Bible to
be distributed throughout the earth
by hundreds of millions in more than
three hundred languages, during the
past hundred years.
value To be obtained from critical
study of the many good translations
of the Scriptures now extant He
mentioned q scholar of his acquaint-
ance who had 80 different transla'
tions.
An interesting statement by the
speaker, in view of present events,
was his reference to the church of
St. Sophia at Constantinope 1t is
reported on reliable authority, he
said, that this building contains val
liable ancient manuscripts deposited
there in the early history of the
Christian faith Built by Emperor
Justinian in 5S9 it later came into
the hands of the Turks, and was
converted into a Mohammedan mos
cue.
The patriarch Of the Eastern Greef
church, recently petitioned by the
supreme council Of allied prsmiers
for possession of this temple in the
event that the allies expel the Turk
from the European side of the Bos-
phorus-
The year 1925, according to the
speaker, will mark an important
event in the history of mankind, es-
pecially with reference to Christianity
and Judaism. Explaining that the
present Christian dispensation or gos-
pei age-33 a. D., to 1925 A. D.
is exclusively for the selection of the
church. After the church has been
fully completed and raised to spir-
itual resurrection, the millennium will
be fully ushered in, he said.