The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-02-05

and the ancient throne of David is NOT a
dim thing in history but is in existence TO-
day and is occupied by the royal heir,
according to the promise of God.
II is a wonderful fact, TO my mind, that
while the present king of England bears
the name of George, his oldest SON. the
Prince of Wales at present, the heir appar,
ent to the throne of England, the man who
viii succeed the present king when he
passes away the present heir 10 the throne
OF the ancient David bears himself the
name of his ancient father, and is named
David himself, 50 that from David yo9der
in Jerusalem down through the thousands
Of years down to the David Of today. the
heir Of the throne of Israel We have here
the unbrollcn line of descent. traced with
out a break and showing beyond a question
that God does keep His promises and that
David has never wanted for man to sit
upon the throne of the llous. Of Israel
Praise Codl
And now what does this mean for today :?
Does this mean anything 10 us? II means
everything to US. II means. rs | have indi-
Gated before. that we have not merely his
tory and tradition but we have visible. tan
NiDlC tNiutllCt lbudl III tAlStCllCt 10 prove
beyond the shadow of a doubt that the
Old Book of God is true, that the promises
and prophecies of God are certain Of full
fllmenl. just as certain as He said Him
self, in talking to Jeremiah. as the success
i've coming of day and night, and lie said
to him that until the law Of the night
following the day shall be broken moi until
then would He break His promise to The
House of David. He has kept that promise
beloved. Just as He Keeps every pormisa
that He makes to the children of men.
Now. remember. through all these years
before we came to understand this marvel
lous development, we have been spiritual
izing these promises and we have been
saying thai since Jesus came that Jesus
fulfilled the promises to David, and since
Jesus, Himself, according to the flesh, was
a lineal heir to David and the heir to his
throne that He fulfilled the promise and
that was very well as far as ii goes and it is
all true in u spiritual sense, but what | am
telling you today is that we do not have to
spiriiualize any more. for now we know
that the, literal fuhllment has come to
pass and in these last days of this sixth age
of the worlds history, the evidence that
was necessary has come TO light and You
and ] today may rest with calm assur.
ance thai maybe has been lacking in our
hearts before of the absolute certainty of
the Old, Old Book of Cod, the Book that
not only reaches back to the dim yisias OF
antiquity. but links mp those ancient his
tories with the very facts of everyday life
today. and then pulls aside the curtain
and gives us glory glimpse Of the coming
tomorrow.
I will try to go into what is going to
happen in the coming day, next Sunday,
but just this little glimpse and | am done.
Since the British nation, the Anglo-SaXon
race. the direct descendants of the throne
of David and the House of Israel are today
in possession of the promised land of Pal
estine it becomes perfectly clear that not
only the promise of the throne has been
verified. but the promise of the land being
given to the descendants of David has
likewise been verified and so has the way
been prepared for the coming of the King.
Did you hear that beautiful song that our
shoir sang 10 us while ago? Beautiful
in its strange simplicity and power, Jesus
is coming to earth again, Coming in power