Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-01
Coming Year is Filled
With Hope
BY VIM. l.. pettingill
Pastor of North Baptist Church


Nine Hundred and Twenty davns upon
n condition of things unprecedented.
The world, which for the four years OF
the great war OF nations wa world ON
fire. has now become seething chaos, and
its rulers are almost literally holding their
breath mems hearts failing them for
fear, and for looking after those things
which are coming on the car h
The protesting church. which ought 10
have testimony for such time as this
is split into thousand fragments and its
testimony il a janglo Of voices.
The predicted time has come when
men will not endure sound doctrine- but
after their own itists ahall they heap TO
themselves teachers, having itching ears;
and they shall turn away their ears from
tho truth, and shall be turned unto
fables
"Th, Gospel of CHRIST is stall "the
power of God unto salvation 10 every one
that belicveth, 10 the Jew trat nd lso
to the Greek, mt, sine the prea
Of the cross Is tn them that perish foolish
ncsa the churches have very generally
turned from the gospel Of salvation
through the blood of Christ. and arc pro
posing 10 convert thor meeting houses
into community service plants, to
nlnuae the people while they totter to the
slaughter.
There Is. however, much reason to
thank God for the presence IN the world
ol the true church which il the hody of
Christ and which Includes all thoso, and
only those. who have been born again.
These, arc the salt of tho earth and the
light Of the world preserving the maze
from utter corruption and showing the
way 70 Cod m tho world Tut not II #.
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forth the Word ri life
The wear before he Il hir with hape
| The indications arr many that the Hihlleal
period Of the Times ~ the Gentle u
approaching It's end and that the Nau at
God night hand la about f. appear
the second time without sin unto sal
vation This may we'll ~ tire year n
om Lord g return. for vet . little while,
and be that shal come will come and
will not tarry
Among the sign- af tho iilnna perhaps
tho mnet interesting from the viewpoint
I ot a student II the Scriptures y the
/ rpgtoratlon ol the Irwq to their own land
"a thing long deemed I'm possible hy many
but Which Is now going on before aur very
i eyes The Rale always connects the
/ second coming IT tho Messiah with the
/ repatriation u lerael Ter example IN
T Jeremiah 5+S, - - Is written
Rchold. The days come. saith the
Lard. that | will raian unto David
righteous branch. and = hing shall
! rrign and prosper. and shall execute
i Judgment and uisticn IN the enrth
/ In his da,a Judah shall 30 sayed
/ and Israel shall dwell safely, and
/ this is hrs name whereby he shall hr
+ called IN, Lord our Righteousness
lhercforr. l,chold. th.' days come.
saith fhc ord. that they shall no
I norc aay. the Lord Iivefh winch
/ brought w tho children u Israel ont
/ ot the land of Egypt
+ Tut tho Lord hvoth. winch
/ brought ~ and which led the eeed
OF the hauac II Israel nut of the
north country doubtless reference
to Rursla whore one haif IL MI the
Icws arr ~ thIs tnnr1 and frafn MI
countries whittier had driven them,
and they shall dwell IN their own land
An Official bnllctiu of the American
i 2ionists. recently lsaurd from their hcad-
/. quarters IN New York city. tella u the
worldwide preparations for i WaridWidr
exodus to Palestine Is saau rs the Pc
htlcal status If that country Is settlcd
III least a million .lsws from RUSSIA will
bcElu their migration hemeNntd In
cluded among these arc laIslnCss aud pro
fcSslonal men farmers ard artisans and
III short representatives Of every walk ut
hfc MAnN groups of Young Jews have
already started across Europe OH foot.
headed Tor the promised land In Hun
gary there are about 70 GOO Jews. IN
clutinp fr,u Of scientific md technical
training ready L. start for Canaan Dls.
ttnru'shed medical men. engineers, rail
IA. IN
and farmers are hqudating property III
Clscho-Slavakla for transfer t. Palestine.
The Bugarlan Jews have litst established
a Bugarlan- Pa.eslIne bank capitalized
81 l0000 600 ,cNa. one half for the pur-
chase % land III Palestine, the rest for
commercial purposes connected with ZION
Great numbers oi university students are
going from Germany IN immense
exodus from GalIcia, i3ukowlna, Iransvi.
wanna and Poland, IS III sight Five
Thousand families III Warsaw alone regis
tered for migration before April 1 1919
The ghcttoS everywhere are IN commotion
Even those klnd~ with small jewish popu-
lation, such rs Central America, Mexico
Brazil, Chile Egypt and Venezuela, viii
send their contlngenis To the homeward
sWarulnR
In commenting on the above recital
The Record Of Christian Work calls at-
tention to the query of i~aiah 60 .'Who
are these that iiy as a cloud and rs doves
to their windows" and says "Iht
promise Of the land TO abraham vas made
according to the chronology Of I'll,
Authorized Version Genesis 81, N 1926
3 c Is it not 4 strange coincidence thai
the fulhllment Of this promise bids fan
to take place in 1920 A ID ~
Gods " ord Is true Whether men be
heve it or forget It, lie never forgcts ant
lie never repudlates promise 'rhougI
it tATry, walt for it.
have said the year Just beginning Il
big with hope | repeat 1t Ii IS big viii
the blessed hope Of orr Lord returning
May it please God to quicken His peopl,
in this hope as revealed III His Word 81
that We may al be found in cur appointed
places. ever serving the living and tru,
God and waiting for Ills Son from heaven