Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-10-15
Religious Notices.

Religious Notices.
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greed. avarice. envy. lust of the flesh
Ind pride Of human power: until all
Who pay obeisance to "the divin,
light Of kings, and persist in endeav.
'rtn0 to serve two gods; until al
Who live in the Adam-dream of lif.
md intelligence in so-called matter
with its pains and pleasures: unit
Ill these shall be expelled from tn,
and of the redeemed, or Christ's do
main.
War will continue, until the fina
Of all tares will be mani
lest. At length every knee through
,ut the world will bend to the OH
nipotent creator, eternal Life ant
Love, and Christ, the King of king
and Lord Of lords" will rule al
nations under the law of righteous
ness. John the Revelator gives full
description of this imminent cata
,lysm, the final confiagration, tn
consuming fire" of God, or the burn
Ing prophesied throughout the Bible
Babylon the great is fallen. is
Come out of her, my people.
that We be not partakers Of her
sins. that ye receive not of her
plaques.
And the kings of the earth,
who have committed fornication
and lived deliciously with her,
shall bewail her, and lament for
her, when they shall see the
smoke of her burning.
And the merchants Of the earth
shall weep and mourn over her;
for no man buyeth their mer-
chandise 1.-THE phenomena of NOR
tai thought any more.
Rejoice over her, thou heaven,
and ye holy apostles and proph-
cts; for God hath avenged you on
her.
And a mighty angel took up a
stone like great milestone 1.-THE
stone, Christ, which the builders
Of Babylon rejected, and cast it
into the sea [of human conceptsI,
saying. Thus with violence shall
that great city Babylon be thrown
down, and shall be found no
more at all.
And the voice Of harpers, and
musicians, and Of pipers, and
trumpeters, shall be heard no
more at all in thee; and no
craftsman, of whatsoever craft
he be, shall be found any more
in thee; and the sound OF a mill
stone shall be heard no more at
all in thee;
And the light of a candle shall
shine no more at all in thee;
and the voice of the bridegroom
and the bride shall be heard no
more at all in thee: for thy mer-
chants we're the great men of the
earth; for by thy sorceries were
all nations deceived. Revelation
xviii, 2, 4, Q, II. 1929
Babylon typifies the. multitudes Q
the worshippers Of antichrist. al
who ere without understanding, VIII
deny, or rebel against the law of Lit
and Love, which Christ. the Son G
God, executes.
The meekness which gave Chris
hA mighty power was attained B,
Mary Baker Eddy, when Throughout
her writings she condemned carnalit.
and sensuality and rebuked it unde
every mask; and the followers o
Christ in this age are striving to pos
sess that Mind which was in him
that they may continue to fulfill tn
law Of love for God and man and FIRE
our nation from those whom Chris
denounced when he declared:
Woe unto you, scribes and
Pharisees. hypocrites! for We are
like unto whited sepulchres.
which indeed appear beautiful
outward, but are within full of
dead mems bones, and Of all I'M
cleanness
Ye serpents, ye generation Of
vipers. how can We escape the
damnation of hell?
(Matthew xiii, ~. 33.)
On the cross Christ triumphed owe
the dream,-death. History record
but one death grapple "twixt oil
systems and the word; but histor
will record another. A second deaf
grapple between human autocracy
pagan philosophy. and Christ. o
the Word of God, is strikingly ap
parent, even to those who posses
but in a small degree the Mind O
Christ. The power of the Son Q
God over the. mythical so-calle
man and his claim to life an
in matter is near fina
demonstration.
Pagan nations and all who ar
under "the divine right Of kings.
human autocracy; all who ar
swayed by the evil mental qualities
hate, malice, greed, lust, revenge
avarice, personal ambition, arrogan
human pride, human will; all people
who oppose the will Of God an
Ris Christ-these tares famed them
selves into fury In 1914 to preserv
The reign of antichrist, and to wag
further war with Christ and wit