Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-10-22
THE TRIUMPH OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS


At the home of John F. Blum at
800 o'clock Sunday afternoon, Mr..
E. S. Mason, of Indianapolis, Ind,
one of the speakers of The Interna-
tional Bible Students, lectured on
the above topic, taking as basis
for his discourse the words of the
Apostle in l Corinthians 1925, 26,
"For he must reign, till he hath put
all enemies under his feet. The last
enemy that shall be destroyed is
death" The speaker said, in part:
every person who is acquainted
with the Bible knows that over and
over again it bears testimony to the
fact that sometime there will prevail
on the earth an era of absolute right
tousness. We give some Scripture
testimony on this point.
"The Prophet Isaiah says: Judg-
ment also will l. lay to the line, and
righteousness to the plummet; and
the hail shall sweep away the refuge
of lies, and the waters shall overflow
the hiding place. And your covenant
with death shall be disannulled, and
your agreement with hell shall not
stand Isaiah 28:17, 1877 It is on
" in our earth that there are lies to
be swept ayaw: it is only here that
there is general misunderstanding
regarding the meaning of death and
hell, which needs to be corrected.
"The same Prophet also declares
that in the last days the Lords king
dom shall be established above all
earthly Kingdoms, and that all ma
tons shall flow into it to learn of
His ways, and that at that time the
nations will beat their swords into
plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks and will learn war no
more. Isaiah 2:24.) 1t is also
written that of the increase of the
new Government and of peace there
shall be no end isaiah 9:7): that
nothing in the kingdom will be per-
mitted to hurt OF to destroy, that all
evil dispositions of me nand of ami
mails will be done away with, and
that the poor and the meek will lift
ed up, and the earth filled with the
of the Lord as the waters
cover the sea.-Isaiah 11:4-9.
isaiah declares that Christ will
set up standard for the people; that
His rest will be glorious; and that
highway will there be provided for
the remnant of the people Isaiah
11:12, 16) that the whole earth shall
be at rest and quiet and shall break
forth into singing Isaiah 14:7) that
the world will return to the Lord
and He will be entreated of them and
will heal them Isaiah 10 :22): that
the Lord will make to all people a
feast of fat things, doctrines of joy,I
well refined, will destroy ignorance
and superstition, swallow up death
in victory and wipe away tears from
all faces: it will cease to be rebuke
to a person to admit that he belongs
to the Lord, and all the people will
say, 'Lo. this is our God; we have
waited for Him, and He will save u.s.
Then, also shall the Lord cause all
the high fortresses to crumble into
25:6-12.
Moreover, Isaiah tells us that
when the Lords judgments are in
the earth the inhabitants OF the world
will learn <righteousness;a thato then
the trusts shall perish utterly, the
dead shall live Isaiah 1853, IL, ID,
1877, the spiritually deaf have their
ears opened to understand the hor-
monies Of Gods word, the eyes of
the blind see out of obscurity and
out of darkness, and the crops in
the field shall be large that they will
look like forest. isaiah 29:17, 49,.
It is also written that the eyes of
them that that see shall not be dim;
and the ears of them that hear shall
of the stammerers shall be ready to
hearken. and the tongue
speak plainly The people shall
dwell in righteousness, quietness and
assurance. forever. isaiah 1913, a,
1919. "The inhabitants shall not
say, I am sick; the people that dwell
therein shall be forgiven their ini-
ouity.-Isaiah 33 "a.
Furthermore, Isaiah declared that
the wilderness and solitary place
shall blossom as the rose, the weak
hands and feeble knees shall be
strengthened, the fearful be encour-
aged, the blind have their eyes open
ed, the deaf have their ears unstop-
ped, the lame made to leap as an
hart the tongue Of the dumb to
sing; in the wilderness shall waters
break out and streams in the desert !: