The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-10
Address Delivered by Wilbur Glenn Volva General
Overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in
Zion at the
ALLNIGHT MEETING
Tabernacle Zion Illinois, USA Wednesday Even
ing December 3lst, 1919 = Sunrise, January l, 1920
(Reported by G. M. E.

1920, will round out fourteen years in my
life as General Overseer of the Christian
Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion; and on
the Tenth of March, if my life is spared, |
will be Fifty years Of age ust half cen
fury. And while | believe that the Coming
of the Lord is near-and | would rather see
that event than any other event in the
world-still, if it should be longer than l
think, what a glorious period of my life is
yet before me!
1 feel as though my ministry has not
really begun, and often think Of ten years
from fifty to sixty-what a wonderful
period, under the blessing of God, it could
be and will bel
To me, the passing out of year is a
tragic event; and | pray that God will drive
home, by the Holy Spirit, to your minds and
spirits and hearts and lives, something of
what the passing out of year means-some-
thing of what the birth of new year means.
A minute means a great deal to mean
hour means more; a day is Of tremendous
Importance, and week, and month. Then
when we come to a whole year of three
hundred sixty-hve days-twelve months
l cannot begin to tell you what year means
to me.
Get Away to a Quiet Place and Review
Your Record
Ny inclination, as | stand here tonight
and am about to say Farewell to 1919, is
to get away to a quiet place-away from
everybody, and in my mind go back to
January First, 1919 and make a careful
review of my record.
We sometimes say-perhaps to some it
sounds more like poetry than fact-that the
book which we have written during this
year, 1919, has three hundred sixty-fve
pages in it, and that in this book is COM
plete record of all our thoughts, of all Our
words, of all our deeds; that tonight the
book is to be sealed and [ have often heard
it said, and said it myself, that you cannot
roll the wheels of Time backward. | would
not if | could.
Some people say, Il wish I could live my
life over"
That is very foolish wish I would not
live my life over for any consideration
do not want to live it over-I want to live
in the future.
The passing out of a year is a solemn
thing to a serious minded man. To some
people, perhaps, it does not mean anything.
Not Single Moment to Lose
The other Lords Day when I was re
ceiving members here, | received little boy.
His name was Horace Mann. You will re-
member [ made some comments and spoke
of the great educator, Horace Mann, Presi-
dent of Antioch College, and that on his
monument, on the Campus at Yellow
Springs, Ohio, you will find the words: "Be
ashamed to die until you have done at least
one good deed for humanity" And l re-
ferred particularly to one of his aphorisms
which is one of the most celebrated of
maxims. | have seen thousands of these
scattered over the Campus of Antioch Col
lege. | was a student there in 1888 and
1889:
Lost Somewhere between Sunrise and
Sunset-Two Golden Hours, each set with
Sixty Sparkling Diamond Minutes! No Re
ward is offered for they are lost forever p
I believe that Almighty God created me
that He created me in His Own Image; that
He put me here on this earth for a specific
purpose, and that He has given to me just
enough time to fulfill that purpose but not a
single moment to lose Therefore, | ap-
precate time. And as stand here tonight,
in this, the Twenty-hfth All-Night Meeting
in Zion that has been held, and say Fare
well' to the Old Year-"Welcome" to the
New Year, it is with mingled feelings
sadness and gladness.
How Does Your Record for the Past Year
Look?
[ would ask each one in this Church, in
this congregation, to lay hold of and con-
slider what | have already said, and right
now, go back to January First, 1919, and,
before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and
the Holy Spirit and the Angels, and your
brothers and sisters in the Church. in the
light of Gods Word, review your life for
the three hundred sixty-fve days; and as
you make this review, I would have you
think of Gods Word-have you neglected
it? l would have you think of Secret
Prayer-have you practiced it? Of the
Family Altar-how does the record look ?
Of ffty-two Lords Days-how have you
spent them, and have you gotten the most
out of them? Of ffty-two Wednesday
Nights when Prayer Meetings have been
held in this Tabernacle have you
looked upon then1-as great opportunity
from God for spiritual instruction and dew
elopment? Make review of your thoughts,
of your words, of your deeds.
AS you look at that record, do you see
any profanity there? Have you taken the
Name of God in vain?
Do you see any vulgarity there amy
thing that you would not be willing for your
wife, or your daughter, or your sister to
hear?
Do Won see ANYTHING there that YOU have