The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1920-01-17

snail gamer the lamps with His arm, and carry
them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those
that are with young.
There are more than two hundred names
in the Bible ascribed to the Son of God.
Our Heavenly Father has made use of these
two hundred names in this revelation con-
corning His Son, that humanity might be
brought to understand Gods Gift-His
Only Begotten Son, Who left Heaven and
came down to this earth to live, to love. to
suffer, and to die for humanity-for you and
for me-
Of these two hundred names, one of the
most simple is the title, Shepherd; and vet
we cannot appreciate the figure as they could
appreciate it in Bible lands Some of the
highest of royalty attended sheep. Even
princes looked after focks of sheep. The
picture of an oriental sheepfold is very
beautiful very suggestive, and very
simple picture.
The Twenty-third Psaln1-"The Lord is
my Shepherd: shall not want" written by
the sweet singer of Israel, is very simple,
very beautiful description of God, our Shep-
herd the various traits and activities of an
earthly shepherd being ascribed to our
Heavenly Father
The Fourteenth Chapter of ST. John, is a
part of the Holy of Holes. These beautiful
words were spoken by our Lord in private
to His Apostles in the upper room in Jeru-
salem and on His way, under the moon1it
sky, to the Garden of Gethsemane
Jesus had told His Apostles that He was
going to die They did not understand it.
They did not think that it was necessary
for Him to die, but it was.
The Only Begotten Son of God had to
become incarnate in the flesh, take upon
Himself the nature of man, suffer, and die,
or else you and I would perish.
An angel could not have done it; no
human being could have done it: it had to
be done in the very way it was DONE
So, when He told them that He would be
arrested, tried and crucifed, they were very
sad, and He said to them, as recorded in the
Fourteenth Chapter of John, "Let not your
heart be troubled"
He observed that they were troubled but
He did not upbraid them for it. They could
not help it. They were only human beings.
It was beyond them to understand why He
the Son of God, should be put to death upon
the Cross.
Beloved, there never has been a night
since God said, ''Let there be light" when
people were troubled as they are right now
You know that just as well as [ do. There
never has been time when, universally,
men and women were so distressed, so per-
picked, and so sad as they are this night.
need not present any arguments to sub
stantiate this statement, everybody knows it.
The color that strikes terror to the hearts
of kings and rulers all over the world today
is RED, and ere long anarchy will grip this
world with firm grasp, and every govern
ment will fall and rulers will be shaken from
their places like unri pc figs are shaken of
mighty wind.
When we talk of things predicted in the
Word of God, the scoffers scott, the sheer
ers sheer, and the world laughs and says it
is nonsense. Talk about Christ's coming
why, the preachers in the world say He
never is coming. They talk of great world
wide revival, and know not that they are
sitting on top of slumbering volcano that
will burst forth and destroy civilization.
Some day, every volcano on this earth all
of them being connected by subterranean
passages explode and the apocalyptic
judgments will fall.
The paramount sin of the world today is
to accept Jesus Christ as
the Son of God; multitudes today reject
Christ and resist the Holy Spirit
All this new-fangled religion and false
doctrine of salvation by works are from the
pit Their only hope is to be "born again
and become "new creatures" in Christ Jesus
Regeneration
Conversion
You cannot save Yourself. Your relatives
cannot save YOU There is no salvation in
any other name in Heaven or on earth but
in the Name of Jesus.
The General Overseer then prayed as fol-
lows:
Our Father, Who art in the"Heavens, so far
as we know tonight we are ready, and we pray
tonight, Lord Jesus, come!
We dedicate this little building to Thee. 1t
is Thine.
We pray that Thou wilt sanctify it and fill
it with Thy presence, and grant that we may
have many glorious meetings here; that we
may see some saved, some healed, some blessed
and a company, as result of the building of
this tabernacle and the services held, prepared
for the coming of our Lord. God grant it.
And now, Lord, into Thy loving hands, we
commit this congregation, asking Thee to take
them into sacred nearness with Thyself
The Semi Chorus then led in singing,
"When the Roll is Called up Yonder I'll be
There" after which the General Overseer
pronounced the BenediCtion.