The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-11-25
PREPARE TO LIVE. NOT TO DIE,
Forebodings of Worlds End No Aid
to Humanity.

Editor OF the Banner--I have reat
with interest, the very facetious ar
ticle, by A. NJ. Torrance in your is
sue OF Oct. &c. For fear some OF ,.ie
readers of the Banner may take the
matter seriously, let me say few
words to them.
In Matt. 1928, Christ says, "Yaril,
i say unto YOU There be some stand
ing here, which shall not taste Of
death, till they see the Son OF mar
coming in his Kingdom" That would
indicate that Christ was speaking oi
an event TO occur, almost immediate
"; and not an event some two thous
and years away.
TIE late William Newton Clarke
y. D., very level headed Christian
theologian, Of Colgate University
says, after going carefully over the
scripture which bears upon the End
oming OF Christ: These facts GER
'ainly seem to Justify us in saying
that God has not by revelation given
as map of the future
Star showers and dark days serve
as excellent whips, in the hands OF
Sol. 'istry TO round up the unsophlstl
Gated. Let no one be frightened by
this line OF argument. II is, to those
Who have looked into 1t, only a
burned-out chimney.
From time immemor'al people have
been predicting the end OF the world;
and Il was always, just around the
corner, waiting to jump out at you,
Yet the good cd world seems to be
spinning along; and science tells us
we are as far from the end as we are
from the beginning-and that is
many millions of years.
was talking with Bennington
man, few months nee, and he told
me re was swept into the church,
years ago, when he was made to be-
ieve the end was not far off. For
some time he faithfully attended the
services; and then, when nothing
happened. he decided the people
we're deceived, regarding all their
teaching. so he gracefully retired
And who can blame him? TIE doc
trine is false, We are not. as a
whole on the border of eternity. II
A. VI. Torrance claims that those,
who saw the siar-shower So years
ago, are on the border OF eternity I
viii agree. II We can find anyone
alive who remembers the Diary day
Of 1880, | am forced TO admit they are
even closor to the ragged edge. But
let everyone recall that star-showers
and dark days are only Illustrations
OF natural phenomena; and iNe heap
Big Indian will dissolve into the air.
We are not living in the closing
scenes OF this worlds history Yet.
| too wish that people might wake
up and heed what God says to us in
his sacred message--the Bible
when correctly interpreted.
There is but one way to get ready
to die; and tNat is to get ready to
I've. The man or woman who learns
to live, according to the teaching OF
Jesus Christ, need have no worry
about dying, or the end OF the world.
The end will come soon enough for
most of us but it is not for us to
know the times or the seasons, Waich
the Father hath put in his own pow.
err. 1t is far better that we do not
and cannot know these things. There.
fore, II we win use all our energy
toward doing away with evil and un.
and building up a
Kingdom OF justice, purity and truth,
on the earth, we will have little time
left for useless speculation, as touch
ing the future.
Lynn p. Armstrong.