Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-03
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Light of Divine Prophecy in Church
 Federation.

Mir. Editor: It is encouraging to know there are others who see the hand writing on the wall" approaching the great confederacy that is springing up in so-called christendom. The book of Tsa. SIP, tells us: Say ye not, con- federacy, to all them to whom this peo- pie shall say, a confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid" Sure ly we are living in a time when the di- vine word of God is being fulfilled be- fore our eyes, and our ministers and shepherds know it not It says in Isa. 56:10-11, His watchmen are Blind ; they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs c'they call themselves D. D's"), they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand; they all look to their own way, every one for his gain. from his quarter At time when the world at this present day is full of sei- fishness, money mad, full of unrest. and discontent, can anyone say where it will all end? Mems hearts failing them for fear, for looking after these things which are coming on the earth. Luke T :26). The great nominal church sys- tems of christendom have failed, and are fast falling. and are making one last mighty effort to stand in fedora tion. begging large sums of money. , leaving God out of the matter, crying peace and safety; then sudden destruc- 1 tion cometh upon them I Thess. 3. National churches honeycombefl with 1 infidelity, even when not relapsing back to popery under another name, and non- l confornnist churches fast admitting the same deadly leayen. where can we find d 1 Christianity worthy of Christ? Where e i church., like chaste virgin. fit to be l His Bride? The Christian church as a
 witness for God ia the world has failed
 like the Jewish nation. and became apos- t; tats. There is a little flock there is a 1 true chuch, but it's members are scatter ] ed abroad and almost invisible in the great Babylon (christendoml they are | the seven thousand who have not bowed l the knee to Baal They are the called
 and chosen and faithful who follow the l Lamb. they are those who have turned i to God from idols to serve the living and 1 true God. and to wait for His Son from ] heaven they are those who have no l the form only. but the power of godliness ] those who keep themselves unspottet from the world, and overcome througf faith. They are found in every sectior of the protesting church and the Lord ] knoweth them that are His. ''TlneJ i shall he mine" saith the Lord, lin tha ! day when I make up My Jewels" "Bu for the rest, for the vast professins body which bears His name, it has no continued in the goodness of God. it Ina. turned His grace into licentiousness, it
 sentence has gone forth. it must be GU off. The protesting church ha.
 long been unworthy of the sacred nam it bears"
 | Instead of being the instrument O spreading the truth Of the gospel anon; men. 1t is the worst hindrance to thei
 attaining that knowledge of God and c
 Jesus Christ, whom He has sent il
 which life eternal lies; like the Pharisee of old it stands as a great obstruction
 neither entering itself into the Kingdom
 nor suffering itself into the kingdom, no 1 suffering those who would to enter ir The church is confounded with til world, and the true saints are stranger
 in its society: it is no longer the pilia
 and ground of the truth, it is the hotbe
 of heresy, false doctrine and corruptio l of every kind An end mus, ' come to all this Not only does the wer of God predict it, not only does our ow
 sense of righteousness demand it. but tn 1 solemn a1alogies of history distinctly in timate it. Let the undeniable fact tha past apostasies brought down the jude ment they deserved, forwarn men wils
 must be the end of existing apostacy C
 the people of God. Babylon must fall Great Babylon must come in remen 3 brance before God, Who will give unt
 her the cup of the ierceness of Hi
 wrath, for her sins have reached unt : heaven, and God hath remembered he iniquties The testimony of the Ap<
 calypso is full and fearful as to u,
 doom that is now impending owe 7 ChFiStendom.
 WILLIAM SCOTT.