The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-02-04
THE PROPHECIES
OF THE SCRIPTURES
AN INTERESTING AND ABLE
SERMON
Pastor of Trinity Church Gives an
Instructive Review of The
Events of Today as Portray
ed in the Bible
Sumter Herald.

audience at Trinity church have been
listening to for the past three Sun
day evenings on the authenticity of
the scriptures and their place-the
first place among all the literature
now extant-the one living book IN
the world today. Sunday evening
he spoke on "The Master Ship Build
er," showing how God in His wisdom
had given plans for the ark, which
: had ample accommodations in Us
three stories for two of all of the ar
'inlals, birds, serpents and the creep,
ing things, and with plenty Of space
to-, store enough food to last them
during the time they were TO be IN
this refuge. AID more, the best built
: ships of today are patterns cf tha5
first ship, and although man has tied
to improve ~on Gods plan Of SHIP
building, each time he has tried to DO
so he has brought upon himself GiS-
. aster.
,zrnLast Sunday evening after :eac-
ing as scripture lesson the 6th ca1p-
te- of Exodus, he based his sermon
or the S.h land 10Th verses Of the
first chapter of Ephesians, and more
especially the 10th verse. He stated
shat sfhen he was young n.a.a n the
old brick church that stood where
Trinity now stands. Bishop Wilson
laid his hands upon his head and or
dained him an elder il the church,
and gave him authority to expound
the scriptures. The word expound had
lived in his mind throughout the
years he has been preaching, and this
- IS, what he. has ever tried to do.
TIE ancients divided the circle in
to $50 degrees, and this\had been
known to them as "tirhe.Ip In the
scripture lesson God had pronounced
His curse upon the Children cf Israel
if they forsook Him aed did not keep
His covenant, reiterating the phrase
"seven times" making the figure sew
eli, conspicuous. In the rituaiistic ser
vices of the Jews at that time the
figure seven was made prominent. II
the instance, among others, the
sprinkling of the altar and The peo-
pie with the blood Of the sacrifice,
which was to be dore seven times. #
one takes the ancient idea of time"
or $50 multiplied by seven, and the
result will be 1920. The suferings OF
the Jews commenced al the fall of
Jerusaiem,> when they were scattered
into every part of the world COM
menced $50 years before Christ. Sub
tract this from q, the $500, the full
number of years Of their suferings
and we have A. D. 1880, the time Of
the Millennium. There are no prcpne-
sizes in the Bible to transpire after
the year 1881. Christ is coming and
the world shall be redeemed through
Him: He shall come and sit upon tire
throne of His ancient servant, David.
In several places in the Scriptures
it speaks of the end of the world. We
will not be destroyed by fire but will
become new earth under the reign of
tn Prince of Peace. This Should read
'tthe end of the age" The world is
roand, without end. We have first the
Adamic age, which extends from the
beginning until Adam and Eve were
drizen from the garden. The next
age extends from the time they were
driven from thef garden tntil the
food. which is the' age of freedom.
The third age from the food until
the destruction of Sodom, the age Of
government, government after the
ideals of man. The next age from the
destruction OF Sodom until the de-
livery at the Red Sea, was the age of
the Pilgrims. The fifth age was the
development Of Israel and extended
from the delivery al the Red Sea un-
til the destruction Of Jerusalem. 1t
will be noticed, that each of these
ages or aions as it is in the original
language of Greek, ended with some
terrible disaster. -
Then came the age of the church,
and after the erucifxion of Christ
the Sabbatic age. He called the at
tention of his, hearers to sermon
delivered in the old brick church wben
he was pastor here several years ago,
in which he predicted the great war
with Germany and said that there
were yet to come more gigantic
struggle between the kingdoms OF the
earth, which would shake it from CEN
ter TO circumference.
The scriptures say that the coming