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husbands that the word of God be
not blasphemed.
It is said that day shall not come
execept there be first a falling
away, and judging by the falling
away we see now in Christian ma
t;ons and in the church the great
and terrible day when God shall
Judge the world in righteousness IS
not far away. Indeed there is no ma
ton now that deserves to be called
Christian for open sin abounds IN
them all and willful sin is seen IN
the highest places even in the White
House of the United States. Ger
manv is fallen away, Great Britain
is fallen away, the United States is
fallen away, all christian nations are
fallen away from the integrity they
once had and their judgment ling
ereth not and their dam nation
slumbereth not. Never did kings and
Judges and rulers of nations need to
hear and heed the Lord more than
thew dc new. When the Lord says,
"Be Still and know that l am God,
will be exalted among the heather, l
will be exalted among the earth.
"Now therefore Kings be wise, be
taught
Ye judges of the earth
In holy fear, Jehovah serve,
And tremble in your mirth."
AT the beginning of the late world
war some persons in the North saw
the extent of the German Propagan-
da and professed themselves great
Iy alarmed for the safety of the
land and that is not the only danger
that threatened the United States
and still threatens it. Mommonism
once the folly and madness of a few
is now a power that may wreck the
institutions political and religious.
They are especially numerous west
of the Mississippi River and it is
said a man could travel from North
ern Canada across the western por-
ton of the United States and far
down into Mexico and spend every
night under the roof of a Mormon
home. They hold the balance OF
power in eleven western states and
thew have come into the Eastern
states with their propaganda. They
claim that Adam is the God of this
world and that woman can be saved
only by marrying men. Now how did
this abominable thing get its start!
1t was not from the State and it was
not from the church. 1t seems to be
purely a work of Satan and wicked
men that no government ought to
tolerate and our government did
make some effort to stop its poliga-
my but with doubtful success. 1t is
certainly still practicing poligamy in
Mexico and it may get strong
enough to produce it in the United
States and Germany and Great Bri-
tain and Sweden and Norway and
the Scandinavian Peninsula where
its propogada is now being pressed.
Now are you ready to join them? If
not, why not? Not because they are
not respectable for some of them
are respectable enough to place in
the United States senate. The true
and the only reason that you do not
join them is because they are break
ing the law of the Lord. Say every
man to his neighbor and every man
to his brother, what hath the Lord
answered and what hath the Lord
spoken? To the law and to the tes-
timQny,if they speak rot according
to this word it is because there is no
light in them.
When Jercboam, The son of Nebat
took the ten tribes away from Reho-
boam and set up a separate govern
meNt in Israel, he was afraid to let
the ten tribes go back to Jerusalem
and worship there as their fathers
had done because he thought they
. might go back to their allegiance to
Rehoboam and to prevent this he set
up two golden calves, one at Bethia
and the Ot her AT Dan and said thacn