Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-07-08

even divided into the eastern and
western divisionS-the two legs. The
stone brushes the 10 toes, but Jesus
was crushed by the Roman empire.
The stone is a rolling stone that gets
greater and greater as it goes until
it becomes a great mountain by.
changing the parts of the image. 1t
becomes a great mountain at once
after it has destroyed the image and
the image is completely removed.
The world kingdoms are not changed
by the stone, but destroyed by it.
Such a view does violence to his
tory, for the world Kingdoms have
moi been changed by the stone. The
beaStly character of the world king
Goms was never more signally EN-
phasized than during the recent war
in the atrocities that were commit
ted by both Germans and Allies; nor
have they ceased since. While there
has been much, Of course, to COM
mend, there has been much more to
condemn; for our boosted civiliza-
ton proved to be but a hollow shell
VIXEN the real test came. The spirit
OF lawlessness, of red-republicanism,
OF revolutionary democracy, of anti.
Christian infidelity, and of fanatical
superstition is growing by leaps and
bounds, even since the World War.
The world kingdoms are essentially
earthly. Degeneration is through
characteristic, and destruction is
their. end.
This is a pessimistic view, you
say. 1t is the truth as presented
by this infallible word of God, and
1t is confirmed by history every day.
But 1t is only pessimistic as re-
CARDS man and mans day. 1t is
glorlously optimistic, for the mans
! day Will give place to the Lord s
| Day, the Day of the Lord The
smItlng stone is the second coming
| OF our Lord and Savior, when He
comes again as the White Horse
Rider Of Rev. 10, to destroy the de-
generate world kingdoms and to set
up IN its place the kingdom Of God.
Wh}ch shall never be replaced by
any other. He comes again, not this
time as He did before, the Suffering
servant in humility, but as the
| Judge or all the earth, as King of
iAlBgs and Lord of Lords, to reign
In righteousness and in peace for.
| ever and forever, after having
destroyed that which offends or
usurps.
When shall that be? do not
KNOW; but the separation of ireland
from England, the Egyptian crisis.
the crisis in India, the return of the
jews to Palestine, the new align.
ments since the World war, the loss
| OF Alsace-Lorraine to France, the
separation of Austria from Hun
gary, the Russo-German pact. the
Genoa conference in the political
fleld; the spirit of lawlessness and
OF red republicanism in the moral
field; the spirit of anti-Christian in
fidelity, of spiritism, of higher
criticism, of denial of duty Of Jesus,
and of the inspiration of the Bible
and SO forth in the spiritual field
all point to the fact that it can not
be far distant, that it is imminent!
When Nebuchadnezzar heard this
he fell on his face and worshipped
the God of this young man to whom
had been revealed this secret. What
is to be the result on you? Will you
not yield your life to Him to do His
| will now? VIII you not kiss the Son
lest He be angry and we perish by
the way? Oh, yield to Him! Work
for Him! Abide in Him! Wait for
Him. Long for, love and look for
| His appearing