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Vol. XVI., No. 14 APRIL 5, 1935 Fridays, Twopence Were Prophecies as to Ancient Babylon Fulfilled? By R. V. BINGHAM " ART Thou He that should come, or look we Thus this nameless '' gazetteer '' is accepted as for another? '' was the pathetic query ad­ authority against all the travellers who, for centuries, dressed by John the Baptist to the Messiah. have visited the site and borne witness to the mar­ It was a question of tremendous import. vellous fulfilment of all that the prophets have written Very little less important is the question raised in concerning the Babylon of history. recent times by a school of prophetk interpreters, When we " Were the prophecies concerning ancient Babylon PROPOUNDED THE QUESTION fulfilled, or look we for another Babylon? " nearly forty years ago as to whether Hillah was These interpreters, whose views are set forth in an Babylon re-built to America's greatest anti-infidel esteemed' contemporary, state emphatically, " The lecturer, the late Dr. H. L. Hastings, he affirmed that prophecies concerning the overthrow of Babylon have Hillah was four miles outside the ruins of the old not been completely fulfilled. Isaiah xiii. 20 says : city. y.l e little thought in our youth that we should ' It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt have the privilege of visiting and verifying the state­ in from generation to generation: neither shall the ment of this great Christian apologist. But when we Arabian pitch tent there.' But to-day a thriving city were in Hillah we found it convenient to rent an old exists amid the ruins of ancient Babylon." And then Ford car to run us out from that modern town to it quotes without giving its authority-" A gazetteer see the ruins of the old city. Nobody proposed to tells us, ' Hillah, situated amid the ruins of Babylon show us the ruins of Babylon in the town of Hillah. on both sides of the Euphrates. Population 30,000 The dwellers in Hillah have helped to make the pro­ mainly Arabs and Persians.' Thus it will be seen," phecies more sure by robbing the old city of some of argues this interpreter, " that the site of ancient the bricks dug up from its buried ruins. Babylon is inhabited at the present time." But let us consider some of the prophecies of Scripture as related to this greatest metropolis of the ancient world. '' Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them who shall not regard silver, and as for gold they shall not delight in it. . . . And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans' pride, shall be as when God, overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there: neither shall shepherds make their flocks to lie down there : and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures : and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there and wolves shall cry in their castles, and jackals in their pleasant palaces : and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged " (Isaiah xiii. 17-22). When this prophecy was written by Isaiah it was the mightiest city of earth, and was yet to move on to greater glory under NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S MARVELLOUS REIGN. For its safety he built walls that we are told were Reputed ruins of the Belshazzar Hall, 300 feet high and so broad that six chariots could 209 210 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 1935. ride side by side on the top of these impregnable ing places are set on fire : her bars are broken. One bulwarks. On either side of the river which ran post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to through the city walls of equal strength made the meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his defence from that direction just as secure. The city is taken on every quarter : and the passages are great brazen gates which guarded all entrances were seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and regarded when closed as strong as the walls them­ the men of war are affrighted " (Jer. li. 30-32). selves. So utterly impossible was its capture thought If Jeremiah had been a modern war correspondent to be that it is recorded that the inhabitants stood instead of a prophet writing long years before the on the walls and scoffed and mocked at the armies events, he could not have written a more accurate outside attempting to besiege it. description as the record of Herodotus abundantly And yet the prophecy given above not only fore­ proves. tells the nation by which it was to be subdued, but But while Babylon was . conquered it was not des­ the same prophet gave the name of the conqueror troyed'. Again and again, with the rise and wane before he was born, and declared that before Cyrus of empires, it changed hands, but its battlements Babylon should fall. It indicated the very method still stood and its vast walls remained, and on their by which he should succeed in his otherwise impos­ outstanding hills the great temples to heathen deities sible task. It was the prophet Isaiah who declared : still reared their pyramidal points. Will Babylon '' Thus saith Jehovah to His anointed, to Cyrus whose ever be as Sodom and Gomorrah? right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before Centuries rolled on, but what are centuries to God? him, and I will loose the loins of kings : to open And then the divine jud'gments expended themselves doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut. upon Babylon and so completely buried it that modern I will go before thee and make the rough places archreologists have had to dig trenches as deep as sm9oth : I will break in pieces the doors of brass, the subways of New York to get down into its ruins. and cut in sunder the bars of iron : and I will give For centuries now its vast walls have been literally thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of obliterated. Keith quotes a whole list of reputable secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, travellers and explorers who give their testimony of Jehovah, who call thee by thy name " (Isaiah xiv. what they saw and of what they failed to find at old 1-3). Babylon. THE SACRED SCRIPTURES He cites Captain Frederick, of whose journey it tell the story of how the glory of the great city was the '' principal object to search for the remains turned the head of its builder as in pride he stood of the wall and' ditch that and said, '' Is not this great Babylon which I have HAS COMPASSED BABYLON," built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of but who avows that neither of these had been seen my power, and, for the glory of my majesty?" Daniel by any modern traveller. '' All my inquiries among · records how this great man became a drivelling the Arabs on this subject completely failed in pro­ lunatic, and how for seven years according to his ducing the smallest effect. Within the space of prophecy ate grass like the ox until his pride was twenty-one miles in length, along the banks of the humbled before God and with a repentant heart he Euphrates, and twelve miles across it in breadth, I had bowed before the Most High, when, true to the was unable to perceive anything that could admit of prophetic forecast, he was restored to his throne and my imagining that either a wall or a ditch had existed honour. within this extensive area. If any remains of the walls It is the Word of God too, which tells the story do exist, they must have been of greater circum­ of his successor, who flouted this humbling experience ference than is allowed by modern geographers. I of his great forebear, and who, while the armies were may possibly have been deceived, but I spared no encamped against the city, gave himself up to volup­ pains to prevent it. I never was employed in riding tuous feasting. While his drunken banquet was in and walking less than eight hours for six successive progress the handwriting appeared on the wall which days and upwards of twelve on the seventh." struck terror to the heart of the profligate monarch Still another, Major Keppel, narrates that he and and his lordly retainers, as it declared that the king­ his party '' in common with other travellers, had dom was departed from him, and then adds the brief totally failed in discovering any trace of the city historic sentence, " In that night was Belshazzar the walls." He continues " the divine predictions against Chaldean king slain." Babylon have been so literally fulfilled in the appear­ It is Herodotus and Berosus, the profane historians, ance of the ruins, that I am disposed' to give the who fill in the picture and tell how the Persian king fullest signification to the words of Jeremiah-' the that day, after long preparation, deflected the waters broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken.• of the Euphrates into another channel and marched ' Babylon shall become an astonishment ' (J er. li. his victorious. army up the dry river bed' and under 58; 37)." And then he concludes, " It is impossible the brazen gates. In their artless way they describe to think on what Babylon was, and to be an eye­ how they entered from both sides of the city and witness of what it is, without astonishment." literally fulfilled the word spoken before by And it is on eye-witnesses Keith, in his great chap­ ter on Babylon, relies for his evidence. He him­ JEREMIAH THE PROPHET1 self says: '' The mighty men of Babylon have forborne to Truth ever scorns the discordant and encumber­ fight, they remain in their strongholds : their might ing aid of error : but to diverge in the least from the bath failed : they are become as women. Her dwell- (continued on page 219) April 5th, 13!:15. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 211

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HE description of the image in Daniel ii. 31-35 select symbols of the governments that have charac­ provides at once justification of, and gives terised the last fifteen centuries to choose more sig­ T direction to, what we shall say concerning nificantly than is recorded in this Scripture? Gold, " the doom of world governments." The study of silver, brass, iron-these substantial minerals were the subject, as it is borne out by this text, seems to selected to symbolise the monarchial forms of govern-· fall into three divisions~The Prophetic Scriptures, ment, while clay was chosen to suggest those softer The Perils of Science, and The Plan of Salvation. methods of administration known as republican and democratic forms. I. THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES. There is even in the clay some strength and a cer­ Only unbelievers dispute the divine inspiration of tain consistency, while in gold', silver, brass, and Daniel ; and if history ever justified and scientifically iron you have strength in an ascending scale ; and demonstrated prophecy, if has surveying the last fifteen centuries done so in the instance of Daniel. THE WRITER :::::::===:;'ii with the field glasses of historic inquiry, we discover the whole Reviewing the past and g1vmg has, in our es'timation, world divided among a host of careful attention to the present, pro'llided the reader with governments that were a mixture there are certain inevitable con­ a thought-provoking survey of strength and weakness - clusions. Among them are these : of present wo-rld conditions, monarchy and' democracy. Daniel was correct on the four pointing out in clearest lan­ Beyond all question, the nine­ world kingdoms ; Daniel is being guage the import of much teenth century has passed from proven a prophet concerning the that is taking place amongst feet to toes, for it is a time when foot period'; and already the toes the nations. The article iron, the strongest of all the of this image are in increasing certainly shows whither the minerals, is being mixed with the evidence. wo-rld is drifting, and what " miry clay," the softest, most Daniel was correct on the four the climax which 7f!e may slippery, and uncertain of sub­ world kingdoms. He interpreted expect. We are happy tu stances. While the mixture con­ Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the note that we are led to and tinues, and we still have some image as follows : The head of left with a vision of a King- substantial monarchies and. even gold symbolised' the Babylonish dom that shall not pass a few dictators, the "miry clay" Empire; the shoulders of silver away.-EDIT. element seems to increase and the empire that should succeed the iron to decrease. Babylon, namely the Merlo-Per- A survey of the world at pre- ' sian ; the belly and thighs of brass sent, so far as permanence of the third empire, namely, Greece ; the legs of iron government is concerned, produces only despair in the the fourth and last world empire, Rome. mind of the capable student. It is most amazing how history ran into that pro­ There are kings yet on thrones, and' despots still in phetic mould ! Babylon perished while Daniel was saddles, and dictators standing sword in hand ; but yet alive. Medo-Persia existed for a few hundred there is not a stable government on earth. There is years and then went down before the rising power not one of them that could assuredly claim the re-' of Greece. And' while Breece was the most brilliant mainder of this century or boast itself of even to- · and intellectual, the most advanced of all ancient ·morrow. ' kingdoms, 300 years in round numbers suf­ Look at England-one of the oldest and in the past· ficed for her supremacy, and the world succumbed one of the most stable of governments-shaking to-· to Rome, which, in literal accord with Daniel's pro­ day as she has not been shaking in hundred's of years, phecy, divided, as do the legs of a man, establishing internal conditions seething, her rulers wondering·. the Constantinople capital in the East and the Roman what to do and asking, " What next? " · capital in the West. Look at Germany-that stolid people, that govern­ Almost concurrently with the coming of Christ, ment that at the beginning of the century stood for· Rome began to crumble, and since its break-up, the all that was stable-it is a political maelstrom now: world has not seen another world monarchy, nor will Turn your eyes to the Orient and wonder at the­ it, until the King of Glory shall come, barring that Japanese-Chinese situation, a situation that embroils, brief reign of the Antichrist. both these great nations and renders the future as. Daniel is being proved a prophet concerning the uncertain for one as for the other. foot period. He saw a strange mixture of govern­ South American republics are in a whirl even ex­ ment, for the feet were part of iron and part of clay. ceeding that which has commonly characterised them. Would it be possible if one sat down to deliberately Think of Russia-long the most imperial of go:vern~ 212 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 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mental forms, now under the dominance of a success­ The United States can present but little better . fol mob! report. Here the rate dropped from 24.3 per 1,000 Turn your eyes to the south of Europe and look in 1921 to 19.9 per 1,000 in 1930. upon the black-shirted crowd of Mussolini, but do The only city in the United States with a birth-rate not imagine for one moment that Mussolini has made of over 20 per cent per 1,000 was Pittsburg, and there a discovery that will prove a valuable asset to govern­ the decline was more than 6 per cent in the year. mental stability. He is only walking again in the ways Professor Albert E. Wiggam, the noted American of the Cresars, but the Cresars of the early centuries biologist, recently said : " Morons are multiplying are all in their graves, and the governments that they faster than college professors, or business men, or created crumbled before the hands that formed them skilled workmen. If you take 1,000 Harvard or Yale had perished. graduates, at the present birth-rate there will be only Who then will say that we are not now in the toe fifty descendents of theirs left within six generations. period, that we do not approach the end of this age? But 1,000 unskilled workmen, at the present rate, This leads me to my second suggestion. would have 100,000 descendants within the same period. Civilisation is making this world safe for I I. THE PERILS OF SCIENCE. Strange, is it not, that the one term that we have stupidity .... At the present rate American intelli­ glorified, the world around, for the last fifty or one gence declines, moral character sinks with it. Society hundred years is now looming as the very one that is dying at the top, and democracy cannot continue, may hold all conceivable disasters-yea, even the nor can civilisation of any kind, unless its leaders destruction of society itself ! actually lead in intelligence and character. The truth is that culture and wealth refuse to bring Science has been the word with which men have <:0njured. In its knowledge they have boasted them­ babies to the birth, and the children of the future selves; in its name they have put over many false will come from the lowest stratum of society, and be delivered in tax-supported hospitals by state-paid philosophies ; and by its magic they have promised doctors! the world all conceivable good. But, alas, we look to-day ,on a world that is sick unto death, and not­ THE WIDE-SPREAD UNEMPLOYMENT SITUATION. withstanding all the pretensions and boasts of modern Here again we deal with a situation that is not science, the earth grows more sick daily, till it seems local, but world~wide. The only nation that boasts to some of us time for men to call a halt and attempt itself without this problem is Russia, where to make a diagnosis. 150,000,000 people are slaves to Soviet taskmasters, What is wrong with the world, and what is working and slaves in all countries at all times are always busy. the wrong? Astounding as it may sound, we answer, The problem is not the problem of work. There is ·" The Wl)Jrld is dying of an overdose of science." plenty of that to be done. The problem is the prob­ Th.e,re are hundreds of points at which one can prove lem of pay, and when none is received, as in Russia, this contention. a slave can be driven to any job day after day; but in those more civilised countries and under those more THE SCIENTIFIC ATTAINMENT OF BIRTH CONTROL. intelligent governments where men are supposed to The time is ,on when scarcely a single convention, be somewhat equitably rewarded for their labours, whether it be legal, medical, scientific, or religious, not thousands, but millions are without employment. ignores this subject. Resolution has succeeded reso­ The marvel of all of this is. in the circumstance that lution, some of them applauding the practice, approv­ we are but seventeen years removed from the close of ing the philosophy that lies back of it, others vigorous­ the World War which wiped out a generation of men, ly condemning both. and it was the young labour-producing crowd that Thoughtful men, therefore, should consider the sub­ went to its grave. ject in its re1ation to race continuance. When the war closed, we vainly imagined that this Recently the Literary Digest called our attention to shortage in man power would not be recovered in a the fact that, for the first quarter of the year 1933 hundred years; and now, only seventeen years later­ in England and' Wales, the death-rate was higher millions of men for whom there is not profitable than the birth-rate. employment! France has long led in this matter of birth control Philosophers and statesmen are asking, " Why? " and, in the same quarter to which I call attention, the To us the very question indicates superficial think­ birth-rate in Paris was lower than that in London. ing. The answer is easy and instant. Science, so­ A Paris correspondent, writing on this subject and called, has so shaken the whole social foundation as ,expressing grave concern for his country, said: to leave labour prostrate. "Whereas, in 1930 the number of youths called to the Your old tallow candle has been succeeded by the colours was 258,000, the contingent for 1935 will, it is electric light ; your stentorian orator by the mechani­ estimated, be only 136,000.'' He further contends : cal loud-speaker; your old-time horse and buggy by " In 1835, the average French family raised four the automobile ; your old-fashioned horses and plough children. In 1896, they raised only three, and to-day by the Ford tractor; your old-time wooden bridge by the average number is only 2.2. If the decrease in the modern concrete and steel structure ; your old­ the birth-rate continues at the present rate, it is esti­ time hack by the modern 'bus ; your old-time well­ mated that in seventy-five years the population will nigh bottomless mud roads by the cement highways ; have decreased by nearly one-half." and your old-time hot-air balloon by the flying Germany gives us no better report. In 1931, the machine. " Behold what inv~mtion bath wrought ! " birth-rate was the lowest on record. Yes, but is not unemployment of men a definite April 5th, 1395. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 213

by-product of that so-called development, and have we other words, that will fulfil Daniel's prophecy of not forced the question, " Is a machine better than society and government ground to powder. a man? '' When I was a lad, fifty years ago, such a thing FUTURE WARFARE. as a man without a job was unknown, except in the Peter, in his epistle, referring to the Flood, tells us instance of mental or physical incapacity or down­ that '' the world that then was, being overflowed right indolence. The world was smaller than it is with water, perished. But the heavens and the earth, now, and its luxury demands almost infinitely less, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, but those demands always exceeded the possible reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and supply. To-day that whole feature of life is reversed, perdition of ungodly ,men '' (II. Peter iii. 6, 7). and machinery accounts for the reversal. The supply The wars of the early centuries, yea, even of the exceeds the buying ability ! middle ages, were, speaking comparatively, minor in vVhen I was a lad it took six of us to gather corn their effects upon the world population or world --one driver, two men on either side of the waggon, governments. But modern science has created such and one for the down row. Now this is done by destructive implements of warfare as to give pith and a corn gatherer in the form of a Ford tractor, one point to Peter's prophecy, for in them all, "fire " is man driving, the machine accomplishing the rest. the chief element. It drives the ships of all navies; Some time ago I saw an immense caterpillar engine it speeds the submarines through the darkness of the so slowly pulling its way up a hill that I suspected deep, and sends the flying machine through the space it would stall. Turning my car into a side road that of the heavens; it drives the caterpillar engine over ran by where this engine was working, I found to every conceivable obstacle; it voices itself in the dis­ my amazement that as that engine pulled up that charge of every gun; and still further, it was the hill it was cutting a channel in the hill fifteen or chief element in the creation of those deadly gases twenty feet deep and about two and one-half feet that asphyxiated men by the tens of thousands in the wide. It would do that Saturday afternoon what it late World War. would take 500 men to accomplish-and two men Winston Churchill has said : '' Let it not be thought only were managing it. for a moment that the danger of another explosion in One Sunday morning I was waiting beside my car Europe is past. . . . A German recently said to me, for my wife to come out of my son's home. ' Some think the next war will be fought with elec~ Hearing a roar and looking up, I saw a flying tricity,' and on this a vista opens out of electrical machine sweeping so low that I feared it was falling rays which would paralyse engines of a motor car, and might strike my son's house. Excitedly, I called could claw down airplanes from the sky, and con~ the family outside and asked, " What is the matter ceivably be made destructive of human life or human with this fellow? Has he lost control? " vision. . . . As for poison gas and chemical warfare My son gfanced at him and smilingly answered, in all its forms, only the first chapter has been Written " No ! He is bugging potatoes." of a terrible book." By the time the answer was made, he had dropped Does it not occur to us that all of this looks to the to within three feet of the ground and slid like a speedy fulfilment of that prophecy in the Apocalypse swallow over a fifty-acre patch of potatoes, followed when the breastplates of the horses are to be of fire every inch of the way by a cloud of bug powder that and brimstone, and their heads as the heads of lions, was being mechanically released and doing ten rows and out of their mouths shall issue fire and smoke, on a side. and by them one-third part of the men on the earth Almost within the time it takes me to tell it, he shall be killed by the fire, and by the smoke, and by had bugged the fifty-acre patch, raised on wing, and the brimstone? was off for the next fifty-acre patch. He would bug more potatoes that Sunday morning-when he had III. THE PLAN OF SALVATION. no right to work-than 1,000 men could bug on work The king in his dream saw a stone cut out of the days and do it better. What are you going to do mountain without hands, and it brake in pieces the with the 999 men thus flung out of a job? iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; Coblentz, commenting on modern machinery, says: and Daniel says, " The great God bath made known, " The factory system positively tends to place a to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and premium upon mental limitation; it tends to encourage the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof those of blunted mentality as the ones best adapted sure." to the simple motions required' of the average un­ What was the interpretation? " The stone that skilled labourer. Imagine a man standing for eight smote the image became a great mountain, and filled hours before a rapidly rotating machine, required to the whole earth." perform no task other than to pull a lever at mechani­ Mark these facts in passing : First, this stone· that cal intervals-surely, here is an occupation in which the king saw " was cut out without hands." Through­ intelligence is apt to be in one's way." out the Bible, the Old Testament and the New alike, We have glorified mechanical inventions. the stone is a symbol of the Son of God. This, then, Now we are being rudely awakened to the fact that, is a prophecy concerning the coming Christ-the at the very point at which our progress has been stone "cut out without hands." What is the signifi­ most boasted and lauded, we approach a social and cance? Man had nothing to do with His appearance. economic explosion that will leave the world filled He " came down from above " ; He was not even with the fragments of human minds and bodies; in the child of a man, but " the seed of the· woman,',. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 1935.

-instead, and the Son of God. In His second appear­ its first righteous ruler since the day when Saul dis­ . ance, He comes indepenaently of all flesh, and '' the pleased the King of Glory. When one remembers ,stone that smote tne image became a great mountain.'' that His kingdom is to be universal; when he recalls Read further and hear : '' And in the days of these that it is to be a kingdom administered in justice :'kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, and righteousness; when he remembers that it is to be --which shall never be destroyed : and the kingdom shall a kingdom of plenty, every man sitting under his not be left to other people,'' World governments own vine and fig tree ; when he is reminded that even then, as at present constituted, when they have come the implt ments of butchery shall be beaten into those to their final ends and have affected their own destruc­ of husbandry; and above all, when he looks afresh tion, shall be succeeded by a divine government with into the Word of God and sees that God's Son, man's God's Son on the throne; and in the millennial reign Saviour, is to sit upon its throne, his heart may be that kingdom shall bring to men the realisation of at rest, for he reads the promise : '' Of that king­ their most Utopian dreams, and present .to the world dom shall be no end."

Steadily the "Mark" Draws'Nearer HE Fascists evidently have found tihe Nazi practice The Sure Word of Prophecy of substituting " Heil Hitler " for good morning ROPHECY is the mould in which history is T or other greetings to have its uses and value in a dictatorial regime and they are going to adopt it in cast ; and no violence of man, no convulsions Italy. P of nations, can either break that mould or con­ Secretary Achile Starace of the Fascist party, Premier strain the course of history, that the one should not Mussolini's major-domo, recently ordered al] members of answer to the other point by point, feature by feature. the party to end their letters with the words: " Viva II Duce." It is for the Christian interpreter to note such cor­ Steadily the Mark (Rev. xiii. 16) draws nearer. A respondences as they occur, counting each conforma­ " young Italian " write.s in the "Contemporary Review" tion as a confirmation for establishing the sure word (June, 1934) :-" There is no possibility of any career of prophecy. A system of exposition which withdraws for young Italians who refuse to bow before tihe Dictator; for nobody in Italy can live above the general level unless our attention from these coincidences, and sets us he possesses the Fascist tessera (membership card). If gazing into blank space for something to emerge, of men are not possessed of independent means they are which not even the shadow is in sight, we cannot reduced to starvation, for Fascism means bread for its think profitable. There are things to come which partisans and hunger for its enemies. The barrister who has not joined the party receives no briefs, the anti­ ought powerfully to attract our attention, but our Fascist doctor has no patients, the engineer no jobs; eyes should not be so holden thereby that we can­ no one is eligible for State employment unless he is a not see what is passing and what has already come Fascist." to pass upon the earth. Such correspondences of Some day world citizens will end their letters with the name of the Beast--or the number 666.-"Prophecy." history with prophecy, of fact with prediction, as these cannot occur by chance.

Bible Study Helps SALVATION, Ill Tilus ii, 11-14, 1, The Source of Salvation-" The grace of God " as focused and, found in Christ. 2. The Teaching of Salvation.-" Teach­ ing us " to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts. 3. The Outlook of Salvation.-" Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appear­ ing of our great God and Saviour " (R.V.). 4. TJIB Price of Salvation.-" Who gave Himself for us." s. The Purpose of Salvation.-" That He might redeem us from all iniquity "; that is, everything that is crooked, and not found in the will of God,. 6. The End Of Salvation.-" Purify unto Himself a peculiar people "; that is, a people for Himself, as His treasure, and for every­ thing that He desires. 7. The Employment of Salvation.- " Zealous of good works." " Good works " mean a heart of love, a hand of help, and a benediction to the undeserving. April 5th, 1395. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 215

themselves-has a like effect upon the Ohristian who yearns for Cnrist's com­ ing. We are living in troublous times. The altars of hate have been built in every land. And men now wait for the word of command. When that word is r~111~._1~- given human flesh .will be piled high on these altars-men sacrificing their fel­ lows in their greed. Take courage, child of God. Know that the kingdom is at The :scripture Union Daily Portions : Meditations by Pastor H. A. COUR!T hand. Sunday, April 7th. Luke xx. 19-26. Things that may be of small local sig;ni­ Fri,day, April 12th. Luke xxii. 1-13. ficance threaten to assume gigantic pro­ " Render therefore unto Cresar the " A large upper room furnished : There things which be Cresar '.s " (verse 25). portions that may embroil the nations of the world. And our Saviour foresaw all make ready " (verse 12). Our Christian discipleship must not be this, and bequeathed us the consoling Do you use the upper room? It is the considered by us as an excuse to avoid words written above. They are not words place of communion-that place to which the obligations of daily life. Our desire of mere passive utterance. They were the world has ho access. It is the place to help in the mission field does not ex­ spoken to convey to us His interest in where the soul is closed in witih God. cuse us from paying our debts. The un­ our welfare-to remind us that wh~. all No other room can take its place. The quenchable thir.st for spiritual fellowship around is unsettling that He lha.s not for­ service room is good, but it is no substi­ must not lead to neglect of her child­ gotten His own. Why should we be ter­ tute for the upper room. Service can ren on the part of the mother. Her very rified? Nothing can take. place without crush out communion. Let us watch entry into motherhood has imposed ob­ His knowledge. Upheavals of the against soul starvation. The upper room ligations which must be met. Ohristian­ nations will not take Him by surprise. is the appointed place. It was chosen ity is not an interpolation. It was not Therefore let us trust to His all-wisdom by our blessed Lord as a place where intended to stem the flow of happy home and fear not when other hearts are fail­ He might meet with His disciples and life. It does n,ot create neglectfulness. ing. reveal something to them. To miss com­ The coming of Christ into the life has munion with Christ is to miss revela­ a very different effect. True it acts as Wednesday, April 10th, Luke xxi. 10- 28. tion. The world can give us knowledge, a great separator, dividing saved from but only Christ can give• us revela­ unsaved. By that it causes a break. But " Men's hearts failing them for fear " (verse 26). tion. The upper room was furnished. A it does not make a wife less a wife or little preparation was left to th!! dis­ the husband less a husband. It does not Yesterday we considered our reaction ciples. We shall find that He has fur­ cause a man to be less efficient in his to tihe events of our day. Now let us nished the place of communion. It is busi'ness, or a woman le.ss industrious see the effect upon men who know not not waiting for a contribution from us. in her tasks. It does not produce a dis­ our Lord. If it be remembered that every Our task is to make ourselves ready. dain for commonplace affairs, but elevates happening whether small or great is un­ Heart preparation results in a perfect them that they become holy tihings done dermining all world systems, the effect communion. Let us enter this room and in the light and presence of the Lord can be imagined. The banker views with make ready. God. alarm the effect on the monetary system, Monday, April 8th, Luke xx. 27-47. the economist sees the effect on trade Saturday, _April 13th, Luke xxii. 14-23. markets, and the politician sees the pos­ "With desire I have desired to eat " And after that they durst not ask sibility of grave clhanges in, the realm Him any question at all " (verse 40). this passover with you before I suffer " that captures his interest. And these (verse 15). Christianity can be very convincing­ are not the only people who tremble at Here is an insight in to tlhe feelings of because Christ is convincing. The men every spark that threatens a universal who were sent to trap our blessed Lord conflagration, Thinking men in all walks the Master. The word " desire, " in had met more than their match. His an­ of life• view the newspaper man's our English version is altogether too weak. swer reduced them to silence. One can " scoop " of international intrigue with In the original the word means " a long­ almost see their blush of slhame and de­ fearful trepidation. They are as those ing, passionate, vehement de-sire." Just feat. And yet it is not with exulting whose cottages are built on the edge of ahead loomed the Cross. One thing re• mien that He presses home truths that a volcano. Every thin wisp of smoke mained to be done before He should em­ discomfit them. His exceedingly clever speaks of danger, destruction and deatlh. brace it: the introduction of a new form handling of truth is not that He might of service. Once the passover feast was An assas.sination sends a quiver through over the new service would be intro­ have the laugh of them. They ask ques­ civilisation, and everywhere there is a tions. As a Teacher He an.swers them. national palpitation. A vote of extra duced. Hence His desire to eat the pa55- But what effective replies are His. They money for armaments on the part of one over. Once that had passed· the way to satisfy the honest enquirer, but hopelessly nation produces armament fever every­ the Cross would be straight with no bar­ rout the man with dishonest motive. where. Men's hearts are failing them for rier before Him. All had been fulfilled, This Christ has not changed. Dwelling fear. and in the Master's heart blazed that love w!hich was to take Him as a will­ in our hearts He can through us make Thuirsday, April 11th, Luke xxi. 29- our beliefs so powerful that the seeker ing victim to the brow of Calvary, His 38. task was all but complete. His public after truth will be convinced. This can­ " When ye see these tJhings come to not be accomplished by platitudes and ministry had ended, His entry into the pass know ye that the kingdom of God homes and villages of the people had meaningless jargons. Hence tihe failure of is nigh at hand" (verse 31). formalism. The world scorns to be led come to an end. But these had only by empty show. The Christ-controlled The blessed hope of Christ's coming been a prelude to the great terminal act life can never be tihat, and all questioners removes from present-day portents all of His earthly walk. His death was His will be answered. tendency to fearfulness. Without mini­ greatest moment. And because of what mising their horror the child of God sees it was to accomplish He longed to per­ Tuesday, April 9th. Luke xxi. 1-9. in the affairs of to-day an announcement form it. What boundless love I " Be not terrified " (verse 9). of His advent. Military manceuvres that ----•--- Were it not for the consolation to be were once matters of ordinary interest ANONYMOUS GIFTS, found in Christ the happenings of the are now regarded as signs tlhat Christ is To those who have anonymously con­ end-time would inspire terror in all hearts. coming. But it is because they are linked tributed to the work of tlhe Lord as un­ " When ye shall hear of wars an.d com­ up with the fearfulness of the times. Let der, we say " Thank you " in His name: motions," said Jesus. To-day those a nation decl.ire some new step in its Foreign Mi.ssionary Fund: Hampstead rumours are more prevalent than at any aggressive programme and the believer (K.M.), designated £1; East Ham sister, other period of the world's history. Hard­ gazes heavenward with expectancy. The 10/-; East Ham sister (per Miss Paint), £1. ly a week passes without some disturb­ apathy of the world towards religion­ Palestine Tour: Transjordan, 8/-. ing news from some part of this globe. indeed the apathy of religious poople Prison Work: Transjordan, 8/-. 216 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 19.35.

the prophets, by angelic messengers, as well as through the apostles of the Nf;w Testament Church, the Holy Spirit has through the ages given glimpses A Peep of the purposes of God yet to be unfolded' to future generations, until in this era we have the completed canon of the sacred Scriptures, the accumulated revelation of the mind of God through the past cen­ turies, containing the synopsis of the future history into the Future of this old world By Pastor of ours and its more or Jes fortu­ nate inhabitants. F all the thmgs that have attracted the mind W. G. Hathaway of man right from the earliest ages, the desire Now to the 0 Lo look into the future-to lift the veil which thoughtful mind it will be obvious that only with has separated him from the unknown to-morrow_:_has the aid of the Holy Spirit can the indications been the most fascinating. Rightly pursued this given in the Word of God be rightly discerned. desire has led men into intimate contact with the Even with the sacred text-book before us we need unseen God, prostituted it has led' to some of the the Spirit's illumination to enable us to see aright. worst forms of error and has produced false cults \Vithout this men have stumbled blindly or have pre­ in abundance. Witches, necromancers, astrologers, sumed to declare more than the text-book reveals, spintists, crystal-gazers, fortune-tellers and many thus becoming blind leaders of the blind. The en­ others have thrived upon this desire in the heart and trance gate to the sacred Scriptures is open only to mind of man, as well as a host of modern doctrinalists the humble. True wisdom is to be found among the whose prognostications have led into darkness multi­ lowly ones, for these things are hidden from the wise tudes of unstable souls who have not been anchored and prudent and revealed unto babes-the babes in in God. Christ who have renounced the earthly wisdom for Man can only be held secure in the midst of these the heavenly. Only those can enter into the ex­ seductions by the one true stabilising force in the perience of Paul, who said : " But we have the mind universe-the force that flung the stars into space, of Christ." that holds this world of ours in its momentary pre­ Scanning the past in the light of sacred history we carious poise, the force that holds buried life until see how marvellously the future was disclosed to those it releases it to become resurrection life, the force patriarchs who walked with God in the midst of that holds those who will to be held by its omnipotence AN UNBELIEVING WORLD, -the Word of God. Yet, strange to say, search through the universe where you will, you can discover Nations as yet at the zenith of their power were pre­ nothing which will illuminate the dicted to become mere memories of the past. Cities impregnable in their fortressed might were to become DARKNESS OF THE UNKNOWN BEYOND desolate and their turreted, towers the habitation of like that same Word of God. Like a brilliant star four-footed wilderness wanderers. Flourishing sea­ lighting up the impenetrable gloom it shines with ports, the gateways to the ends of the earth, were to a guiding light to direct the feet of the faithful. be wiped out of existence as by a giant hand. On Man is essentially a finite creature, bound by the the other hand, obscure personalities were destined to limits of time, of space. His span of years is short. become household words throughout the whole world. How can his narrow, finite mind grasp the millenniums Townships hidden in the halo of nearby cities were in its span and unfold their mysteries? He may to suddenly flash into fame-and all these predictions speculate-and sometimes his speculations may come have come to pass to thl:! finest detail. Full accounts near the mark-but this planet of ours sees such of these predictions and their astonishing fulfilments rapid developments that it is impossible to say with can be found in the sacred records by those who care certainty what to-morrow will bring. He may search to take the trouble to search them out. the hoary past, may uncover the treasured knowledge Yet most wonderful of all is the manner in which of bygone centuries, may scan with his prism the the predictions concerning the coming of the Saviour panoply of the skies-but to tell what shall be is the into the world were fulfi!led to the most minute de­ Divine prerogative. God alone can unfold the future. tail. His virgin birth, His wonderful life, His mar­ Although man in spite of his curiosity is unable vellous ministry, His death, resurrection, and ascen­ to pierce with his sin-bedimmed eye the darkness of sion into heaven; yes, in many cases the very words the future, yet from the earliest dawn of history God which fell from His gracious lips were foretold and has been continually, to the eye of faith, lifting the pre-written. It is not within the scope of this article veil. By His voice, by the inspired seers, through to discuss in detail the marvels of these fulfilments. April 5th, 1395. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 217

Let the reader search these out for himself and his traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more own heart will be thrilled with the wonder of them, than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but his faith will expand under the inspiring process. denying- the power thereof." Was there ever such But what of the future? Can we peer into the years a pleasure-loving., sabbath-breaking generation as ahead? Does the Bible give us any clear outline of this? How accurately the cold formal religion of the the distant scenes? Or has prophecy outworn itself present day is described; " a form of godliness " and and do all things continue as they were without hope in the midst of this professed godliness we find' the of any intervention from above? Will the world­ struggling upward mentally, socially, and scientifically, STRONGEST DENIAL OF ITS POWER. and all the while rapidly degenerating morally, physi­ " Denying the Lord that bought them " probes yet cally, and spiritually-blunder on in its crime-fever, deeper into the doctrinal denial of the deity of the its war-lust, its crises, its madness until its civilisa­ Lord Jesus by the Modernist and the Higher Critic tion ends in self-death? Or has God something to to-day in their explaining away the virgin birth and say about the trend of affairs and the the miraculous from the New Testament-denying ULTIMAT.E END OF THIS ERA'l His divinity and divine authority. In considering the future in the light of the pro­ The answer is decidedly in the affirmative. phetic Scriptures we are faced in orthodox circles If we analyse for a moment the conditions prevail­ with two main lines of prophetic exposition- the ing at the present time we shall see that the predic­ Historicist and the Futurist, These two divergent tions of the inspired prophets are remarkable in their lines of thought and interpretation bring us face to allusions to the state of our modern world. Re­ face with the main outlines of pre-written history. ferring to the end of the age Daniel says : '' There Let us summarise : The Historicist traces the seven shall be a time of trouble such as never was since phases of the Church in the letters to the seven there was a nation . . . many shall run to and Churches of Asia, making them to correspond with fro, and knowledge shall be increased." Was there the seven prophetic periods of the Christian Church ever such a time of record-breaking speed as there is to-day? Knowledge has increased at a tre!Ilendous pace. Within the last quarter of a cf.ntury or so we have seen the advent of the modern self-propelling vehicle, the aeroplane, CHRIST RETURNETH wi·:eless telephony and telegraphy-including It may be at morn, when the day is awaking, ni.dio broadcasting and television-not to men- When sunlight thro' darkness and shadow is breaking, tion the multitude of revolutionary methods and That Jesus will come in the fulness of glory, machines introduced into the commercial world. To receive from the world "His own." Nahum says: "The chariots shall rage in the It may be at midday, it may be at twilight, streets, they shall jostle one against the other It may be, perchance, that the blackness of midnight ., Will burst into light in the blaze of His glory, in the broad ways; they shall seem like torches, When Jesus receives "His own." they shall run like the lightnings." An apt description of the traffic problems in our great While hosts cry Hosanna from heav'n descending, With glorified saints and the angels attending, t, cities. A night drive on a main arterial road With grace on His brow, like a halo of glory, will in itself be a sufficient commentary on the Will Jesus receive "His own." 1 " flaming' torches " of the headlights of on­ coming vehicles. Our Lord Himself predicted Oh, joy ! oh, delight! should we go without dying; No sickness, no sadness, no dread, and no crying; " wars and rumours of wars . . . famines, pesti­ Caught up thro' the clouds with our Lord into glory, lences, and earthquakes, in divers places.'' He When Jesus receives "His own." foretold "distress of nations with perplexity." What better word picture than this could we get of the disastrous earthquakes which have shaken this old planet of ours as if it were in its death­ throes, of the world-wide pestilences which have from the day of Pentecost down to the end of the decimated the populations of cities and' countries, of Church age. The beast of revelation is shown as the battle flames which have swept through the whole the Papacy and the antichrist as the Pope, Babylon world even in this present generation? Looking at as the false church which will be destroyed at the the religious world we see the prevailing conditions coming of Christ, the great tribulation as the period outlined in the sacred pages ; " Men shall be lovers of fierce tribulation under the persecution of the of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blas­ Papacy, ending with the glorious advent of the Lord phemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Himself from heaven. The prophetic times are inter- without natural affection, truce-breakers (continued on page 222) 218 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 1935.

BLESSING IN TRANSJORDAN By Pastor P. N. CORRY. visit of the Principal and Party to TranaJordan 'THEled to fresh experiences of spiritual blessing. In Amman the capital, we were greeted by Influential Christians and taken to a meeting that had been ar­ ranged, The place was crowded-men of the Royal Air THE PROFIT OF PROPHECY Force, Arabs, ~hrlstians, Moha!'lmedans, as well as pro­ By the Editor fessional men, were packed hke herrings In a box. Mr. Edsor could not play the organ beoause of lack of ROPHECY has so many phases and so many room. varying and conflicting interpretations that From the start the Spirit of God gripped every heart, P numbers of the Lord's people have ceased to and over fifty yielded to Christ. Many remarkable heal­ concern themselves to any great extent with the pro­ ing& took place of which particulars will follow later. phetical sections of the Divine Word. some conversions which resulted from this meeting make the oost of this tour of the Holy Land not only worth Furthermore the objection is sometimes raised by while, but also make it a lucrative Investment for the believers that the study of prophecy becomes an ob­ kingdom of God. session and completely monopolises the time and the The meeting at Es Salt on our return Journey was attention of those who take it up. It is contended not only attended by a large variety of different faiths that imch a study often leads God's people to entire but by the Churoh ll'f England minister and all his flook indifference to the salvation of the lost. And on as well as the Bishop of Palestine, TransJordan, and 1rak. At first there was plenty of noise but once the these grounds many Christians carefully avoid any Principal began to speak It was quite orderly and many serious consideration of the prophetical aspect of truth. souls were saved, It was so difficult to make room for Whilst we are prepared to admit that there is the those desiring prayer that the Principe! had to pray for danger of the prophetical student becoming un­ them as they left the bullding, balanced in his outlook, and utterly absorbed in his The Party had travelled many miles that day, and It examination of prophecy, yet at the same time we was a tired band that retired to rest; yet at 8,1& a.m. the first of many sick folk were knocking at the door must not overlook the fact that prophecy does offer desiring prayer. Some had gathered in another house tremendous spiritual wealth to the diligent and for prayer and as the Principal and Party walked devoted seeker after truth. through this Eastern town of. ,Es Salt it seemed as t110ugh It remains to be said that however much others may the Acts of the Apostles had come to life again. Sick folk stood in doorways, sat on the wayside or outside . have erred in their interpretation of prophecy, or thej,r homes and begged to have hands laid on them neglected their duty in respect to the perishing, yet as we passed along. It seemed as though we could not this cannot relieve the Christian of the responsibility get away and our departure timed for 10 a.'!1• oo_uld of looking into these things. not be effected until midday and then only with diffi­ culty. As the result of two meetings over 100 souls The study of prophecy must result in a strengthened were saved a.nd many remarkable healings are already faith in God. Amid all the eddying currents of inter­ known. To Him be all the glory! national life there is a sovereign power at work, a hand that holds the reins. It serves to confirm the believer's confidence in the inspiration of the Book, and to reveal that Jehovah is not the indifferent deity The Great Demonstration. that some would make Him appear. Prophecy is seen ONCE again the great annual Foursquare Gospel anticipating history, and history is shown fulfilling Demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall is at hand, prophecy. What the mouth of the Lord hath spoken and many hearts will turn towards the place which the history of the nations through the long centuries now holds such sacred memories for thousands of the has been and is still fulfilling. Lord's people in the British Isles. Each year _wit­ We question whether the Church of God has a nesses the rising tide of holy enthusiasm, and bnngs mightier or weightier argument in her conflict with increasing evidences of divine power and g~ory. atheism, agnosticism and modern criticism, than that What a trail of triumph the past ten years provides. of fulfilled prophecy. The remarkable predictions of Scenes of indescribable blessing has characterised the Bible which have been so wonderfully fulfilled' these great gatherings. We know of no .1:1~re effec­ provide the most convincing proofs of the Divine tive answer to the challenge of modern cr1tlc1sm than Source from which they emanated. Therefore the that which this annual demonstration supplies. The people of God do well to make careful and prayerful source from which all this splendid evangelism gathers investigation into the foretelling of Scripture, and its inspiration is the Word of God' ministered in the ar,m themselves with the keen weapon which must power of the Holy Ghost. This is the supreme at­ thus come into their hands. traction of these great days with God. It is expected tt~--~-~--~--~·-----··~ ••4--••~.. ~ ...... ~ ...... ~~ that this year's gatherings on Easter Monday will i Wonderful Blessing! Rapturous Praises! 1 once more be the occasion of remarkable results ; • Inspired Ministry ! ;• there are indications that encourage us to believe for l Where ? When ? O'reat things from the hand of God. Let the Lord's people"' pray that these vast meetmgs. may expenence. l, Royal Albert Hall, Easter Monday .l the divine overshadowing in some new and mighty ~~-~~~--~--~-~~ ...... ~ ...... -~~ &Ii manner. April 5th, 1395. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 219 .Were Prophecies as to Ancient Babylon Fulfilled ? (Continued from page 210) most precise facts, would here wc<1ken and destroy . . . and I will stretch out My hand upon thee, and the argument; for roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee THE PREDICTIONS CORRESPOND a burnt mountain. And they shall not take of thee not closely with anything, except alone with the a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations: but express and literal reality. To swerve tlu!TI it is, in thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith Jehovah " the same degree, to vary from them : and ar,y mis­ (Jer. li. 25, 26). representation would be no less hurtful than iniqui­ This temple was five to six hundred feet high, its tous. But the actual fact renders any exaggeration successive eight stories being erected in :impossible, and any fiction poor. Fancy could not THE FORM OF A PYRAMID, have feigned a contrast more complete, nor a des­ and by the lowest computation higher than the :truction greater than that which has come from the highest of the monumental pyramids of Egypt. Almighty upon Babylon, And though the greatest History records how it was stripped of its idols. city on which the sun ever shone is now a desolate But how its great buildings were rolled down no one wilderness, there is scarcely any spot on earth more knows. dearly defined-and none could be more accurately But everyone bears testimony that in some strange ,delineated by the hands of a draftsman-than the manner it was made a " burnt mountain." Great scene of Babylon's desolation as set before us in the masses of bricks lie around as though like glass they very words of the prophets ; and no words could now be chosen like unto those, which for two thousand five hundred years have been its " burden "-the burden which now it bears. Such is the multiplicity of prophecies and the ac­ cumulation of facts, that the very abundance of evidence increases the difficulty of arranging them, in a condensed form, and thus appropriating its specific fulfilment to each precise and separate pre­ diction; and many of them may be viewed con­ nectedly. All who have visited Babylon concur in acknowledging or testifying that the desolation is exactly such as was foretold. They, in general, apply the more prominent predictions; and, in minute de­ tails, they sometimes unconsciously adopt, without any allusion or reference, the words of inspiration. Babylon is wholly desolate. It has become heaps; Nebuchadnezzar's Lion-over prostrate form of man. it is cut down to the ground; brought down to the The Lion is the Bible emblem of the Babylonian Kingdom. grave; trodden on; uninhabited; its foundations fallen; had been vitri5ed in a furnace. The appearance of 1TS WALLS THROWN DOWN, the shaft that crowns the summit is such that one might suppose that it had been cleft by a lightning and utterly broken; its loftiest edifices rolled down bolt which melted the whole great mass with the from the rocks; the golden city has c~ased; the intensity of its heat and left it to cool in its preser:t worms are spread under it, and the worms cover it, form. So hard are the bricks thus subjected to this etc. There the Arabian pitches not his tent; there intense heat that they have been unaffected by weather the shepherds make not their folds; but wild beasts erosion and the binding mortar rings when struck of the desert lie there, and their houses are full of with a hammer. Sir Robert Ker Porter, after examin­ doleful creatures, and owls dwell there, etc. It is a ing it long years ago, wrote : " I draw the con­ possession for the bittern, and a dwelling-place for clusion that the consuming power acted from above, dragons ; a wilderness, a dry land and a desert ; a and that the scattered ruin fell from some higher burnt mountain; pools of water; spoiled; empty; point than from the summit of the present standing nothing left ; utterly destroyed ; every one that gocth fragment. The heat of the fire which produced such by it is astonished, etc., etc., etc. amazing effects must have burned with the force of And now may the Editor of the Evangelical the strongest furnace.'' We snapped the two ac­ Christian. conclude as a later eye-witness? companying photos, the one at a distance and then We went out from Hillah first to see the ruins of the other close enough to reveal the what is often mistakenlv called " The Tower of Babel,'' or Birs Nimrooci', generally conceded to be LAYERS OF BRICKS. the temple of Belus, Bel, or Baal. Of it Isaiah wrote Then we motored some miles across the desolate when he said-" Bel boweth down, ... their idols are country to the place where German archreologists un­ upon the beasts " (Isaiah xlvi. 1). And to it earthed what they believe was the Ishtar Gate, and Jeremiah referred when he said· " Behold I am the entrance by the very palace of Nebuchadnezzar against thee, 0 destroying mountain, saith Jehovah which they believe they unearthed, so that one could 220 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 1935. stand in the very hall in which the' handwriting on images of her gods, that are broken unto the ground the wall declared the beginning of those judgments and mingled with the dust ; from the splendid and which were to leave the city as an heap. luxuriant festivals of Babylonian monarchs, the noise Our photos here reveal a little of the depth to of the viols, the pomp of Belshazzar's feast, and the which the city had been covered when deep excava­ godless revelry of a thousand lords drinking out of tions had to be made before the tops of these great the golden vessels that had been taken from Zion, buildings were revealed. to the cry of wild beasts, the creeping of doleful In view of the use of figurative '' beasts '' as the creatures, of which their desolate houses and pleasant prophetic representatives of kingdoms in the Book of palaces are full, the nestling of owls in cavities, the Daniel, written in Babylon, it is significant that the dancing of wild goats on the ruinous mound as on a figures of animals stand out in a kind of terra-cotta rock, and the dwelling-place of dragons and venomous facing on the walls of these unearthed palaces. And reptiles; from arch upon arch, and terrace upon ter­ significant too, is the fact that the one discovered race, till the hanging gardens of Babylon rose like image is that of a great carved lion standing over a mountain, down to the stones of the pit, now dis­ the form of a prostrate man, generally known to-day closed to view ; from the palaces of princes as Nebuchadnezzar's lion, when we remember that in WHO SAT ON THE MOUNT Daniel's prophecy the figure used to represent the of the congregation, and thought in the pride of their dynasty of this great monarch is that of this "King heart to exalt themselves above the stars of God, of beasts " (Dan. vii. 4). to heaps cut down to the ground, perforated as the As one views the whole scene of raiment of those that are slain, and as a carcass. BABYLON'S DESOLATION trodden under feet ; from the broad walls of Baby­ no words can more fittingly sum up the whole matter lon, in all their height, as Cyrus camped against than those with which Dr. Keith concluded his great them round about, seeking in vain a single point work a century ago. where congregated nations could scale the walls or " From palaces converted into broken hills ; from force an opening, to the untraceable spot on which streets to long lines of heaps ; from the throne of the they stood', where there is nothing left to turn aside, world to sitting in the dust; from the hum of mighty or impede in their course, the worms that cover it; Babylon to the death-like silence that rests upon the and finally, from Babylon the great, the wonder of the grave to which it is broug·ht down; from the great world, to fallen Babylon, the astonishment of all who. storehouse of the world, where treasures were go by it; in extremes like these, whatever changes gathered from every quarter; and the prison-house they involve, and by whatever instrumentality they of the captive Jews, where, not loosed to return home­ may have been wrought out, there is not to this wards, they served in a hard bondage, to Babylon hour, in this most marvellous history of Babylon, a the spoil of many nations, itsel~ taken from thence, single fact that may not most appropriately be ranked and nothing left ; from a vast metropolis, the place under a prediction, and that does not tally entirely of palaces, and the glory of kingdoms, whither mul­ with its express and precise fulfilment, while at the titudes ever flowed, to a dreaded and shunned spot, same time they all united show, as may now be seen not inhabited nor dwelt in from generation to genera­ -reading the judgments to the very letter, and look­ tion, where even the Arabian, though the son of the ing to the facts as they are-the destruction which· desert, pitches not his tent, and where the shepherds has come from the Almighty upon Babylon." make not their folds; from the treasures of dark­ Has not every purpose of the Lord' been performed· ness, and hidden riches of secret places, to the taking against Babylon? And having such clear away of bricks, and to an uncovered nakedness, from ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE FACTS making the earth to tremble, and shaking kingdoms, before us, what mortal shall give a negative answer to being cast out of the grave like an abominable to the question, subjoined by their omniscient Author branch ; from the many nations and great kings from to these very prophecies?-'' \Vho hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that THE COASTS OF THE EARTH, time? Have not I the Lord? and there is no God that have so often come up against Babylon, to the beside Me ;-declaring the end from the beginning, workmen that still cast her up as heaps, and add to and from ancient times the things that are not yet the number of pools in her ruins; from the immense done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do. artificial lake, many miles in circumference, by means all My pleasure." Is it possible that there can be of which the annual rising of the Euphrates was any attestation of the truth of prophecy if it be not regulated and restrained, to these pools of water, a witnessed' here? Is there any spot on earth which few yards round, dug by the workmen and filled has undergone a more complete transformation? by the river; from the first and greatest of temples, " The records of the human race," it has been said to a burnt mountain desolate for ever; from the with 'truth, " do not present a contrast more striking golden image, forty feet in height, which stood on than that between the primeval magnificence of Baby­ the top of the temple of Belus, to all the graven lon, and its long desolation."

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1/;FOR/ / F CONTENDING .:~-=~i·-. :- ~ '.= ,~THE,,,,, _i:~i:_ ~H ~--~~t-- Fruitful Fellowship in the Faith-Deepened Desire for the Word of God NEWS FROM MANCHESTER. The meeting proved a time of great On Sunday mornings hallowed times By Alderman c. E. Dearden, J.P. joy. It opened with choruses and are spent in the presence of the Master, prayer, followed by tea and refreshments in prayer and breaking of bread, result­ Manchester (Pastor R. Tweed). Tihe in superabundaJ')ce, evidence of the grati­ ing in God's power to save being made Elim Foursquare Gospel Movement un­ tude of the members who had provided manifest in the evening Gospel service. der Principal George Jeffreys is to be it. Last Sunday evening five souls re­ felicitated upon another triumph won in The Pastor delivered himself of an ,sponded to the appeal. the name of the Lord, in the north. addre~s which as a charge of respon­ In September of last year the Prin­ sible and faithful membership was ex­ CONVENTION BLESSINGS. cipal and the Revival Party held a cam­ ceptional, and might well have proceeded paign in Manchester which proved a frorr, much older lips, yet hardly ',Vith Joyous gatherings, spiritual victory. Many souls were greater propriety. Following this St. Leonards (Evangelist F. Shad­ Mr. Leech very suitably and with lock). This Church recently held its excellent humour and appropriate first Fellowship tea. A goodly company appeal presented the financial gathered and after enjoying a time of statement, which he considered a ihappy fellowship, the real business of very satisfactory one. Mr. Tweed the evening commenced ; hearts glowed then addressed the assembly, ex­ with joy as the various officers reported horting to a pure and holy life as on the progress made in their particu­ an acceptable offering to God. lar departments. The Church at St. The work of grace is continuing Leonards has much cause to praise God and fruits are seen week by for His watchful care, and continual week. A healthy, virile and pro­ blessing. gressive Church is e.stablished. Following the Fellowship tea a nine The usual Elim Foursquare atmo• days' convention was held, whiclh proved sphere is pre.sent, Fervent, devo­ a " feast of fat things," as evehing after tional and intercessional prayer, evening the Lord's people gathered to preaching with the genuine and hear the messages which were delivered. Pastor and Mrs, R. Tweed, effective concern of a faithful Pastor Brambleby was present on the workman, rightly dividing the opening day of the convention. On Mon­ saved, many healings witnessed and, as word of truth ; rich, ready and help­ day the speakers were Pastor Ostler it has since proved, many lives gloriously ful testimony of salvation and heal­ Steward of Eastbourne, and Pastor W. L. reclaimed. ing, and withal a palpable and in­ Kemp of · Kensington. Times of much The building taken for the original fectious joy pervading every gathering blessing- were again experienced on Tues­ effort was a closed-down church in are clear evidences of a sound and day when both Pastor Brambleby and Grosvenor Street. It was decorated for vigorous spiritual life. Over two hun­ Pastor Kemp broke the Bread of Life the purpose and is now the home of a dred .souls are joined in holy fellowship to hungry souls. On the Wednesday new communion. On the departure of and aggressive evangelism, and all bless afternoon a divine healing meeting was the Revival Party the work was left in tihe day whe~ Principal Jeffreys and his held, and many experienced a touch from the hands of Pastor and Mrs. R. Tweed, Party were guided b'y the Holy Spirit to the hand of the Master. whose consecrated lives and energies are visit Manchester. Our prayers go ever In the evening Pastor Kemp again proving a great power in consolidatini,, with them and our concern is that simi­ ministered the Word with much power. and building up tlhe new-born Church. lar blessing and victory may come to On Thursday Pastor Brambleby again Grosvenor Street E.lim Church is for­ many, many towns and cities by their ministered. On the Friday he was again tunate indeed in having Pastor and Mrs. ministry. on the platform, this time accompanied by Pastor H. 0. Bale of Worthing. Tweed to preside over its activities, for SIGNS FOLLOWING. in them it has truly a double pastorate. Mr. W. H. Petersen of Ilford was In the ministry of the Word both are The Word of Pnphecy. responsible for ~he ministry of the Word exceedingly capable and both are effi­ Barnsley (Pastor J. R. Knight). In on the Sunday, and brought a great cient orgahisers, while Mrs. Tweed ad­ spite of opposition, the inclemency of blessing to all. ministers the Word also in moving gos­ the weather and much sickness amongst Many testimonies were given of bless­ pel song. Recently they have had the the people, the blessing of God is rest• ings received during the convention, advantage also of the ministry of Pastor ing upon His work in Barnsley. The Joihnson. Foursquare Gospel faithfully preached is ---•---- There has been no haste to create a being confirmed with signs following. membership unde,r the direct momentum God has honoured the special prayer God challenges all men to search His of the Principal's campaigning. No meeting,s by giving the victory over ad­ Book, to read and examine, to see fruits have been sought from emotional verse circumstances. Souls are beiing whether His forecasts .stand alone, un­ impetus. Four and a half months of saved and sick ones restored to health. accompanied by fulfilment; to observe solidifying and constructive work have The Tuesday evening devotional meet­ how prophecy finds its mate in history, been allowed to pass before anyohe was ings are times of refreshing and its counterpart in subsequent events; invited to join in membership. None strengthening", and on Thursday even­ and so learn that it is because both the can say there has been little opportunity ings, the Bible studies are edifying to utterances of prophecy and the occur­ for deliberation or that they ihave been all, Pastor Knight opening up the Word rences of history emanate from the same pres.sed into membership. However, re­ of Prophecy under divine unction. The Divine Mind, and obey the .same decree cently a rr.embership meeting was held, Second Advent of our Lord i.s the of His inspiring Spirit, that the predic­ when many received the right hand of present subject under consideration, tive Word of God, and the providen.tial fellowship from the Pastor and Mrs. simplified by the aid of an illustrative work of God, move together in such Tweed. chart. mystic, eternal harmony. 222 THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. April 5th, 1935. A PEEP INTO THE FUTURE (Continued from page 217) preted on the " day for a year " system, thus bring­ to overthrow existing world systems and to set up ing out many remarkable fulfilments of the Scrip­ His kingdom. tures in the years leading up to the present time and Whatever details remain to be filled up, either by pointing out the nearness of the great consummation, more light being given to students of the prophetic evidenced so clearly by the many indications in the Scriptures or by unfolding world events providing world around us. the key, the vision of the future in its main outline On the other hand the Futurist school believe in is as clear as the noonday sun. Man has had his a literal interpretation of the prophetic periods in the day-it is almost done-and the Lord is about to books of Daniel and Revelation and, by means of a step in upon the scene and take over the control of prophetic gap from the destruction of Jerusalem in this world's affairs. The divine programme is to be A. D. 70 to the rehabilitation of the Jew in Palestine carried out as outlined in the sacred pages. Faith's and the inauguration again of the final period of peep into the future is to rapidly enlarge and unfold THE "SEVENTY WEEKS" until it becomes a triumphant reality upon the of Daniel's prophecy somewhere in the immediate scenes of time. future, claims to be able to show clearly in the final What of our part in this programme? In con­ seventieth week a period of seven literal years clusion let us remind ourselves that the evidences all divided into two phases of three and a half years around us point to the nearing consummation. The each. The great consummation of the Church-the return of the Lord Jesus Christ as a coming world glorious coming of the Lord into the air to catch event is already casting its shadows before. While away the true children of God-is expected to take others whose eyes are not opened by the Spirit of place at the beginning of the seven years. The world God to see these things may look with growing during those years will be under the rule of the anxiety amounting to despair, let those of us who antichrist, a person who will be Satan's incarnation are of the light and in the light lift up our heads and of evil. His rule of terror will be broken by the rejoice because the day of our redemption is at hand. coming of Christ. The toil and persecution of the true Church shall turn Although these diverging lines of thought take us t.o a glorious through varied phases of prophetic fulfilment we can harmonise them and show that the historical inter­ REIGNING WITH CHRIST pretation of a " day to a year " is borne out in a wide fulfilment, and the Futurist in a final detailed in the golden age which is yet to be, which man with and literal fulfilment during the period immediately his strivings is yearning for, but which will only be prior to the second advent. A remarkable fact ushered in by the advent of the Lord's Christ-the emerges from a study of these two lines of thought; Prince of Peace. The earliest chapters of this old both agree in the general details as to the end of world's history were marked by the Divine hand and the age, and the diverging lines of interpretation the closing chapters which are now upon us have been converge again in the great event of the second indicated by that same finger of destiny. That which is coming of Christ to earth. The present era is to clearly revealed is given to us to rejoice in but those close in an alarming growth of crime and evil, in a lesser details which He has not yet seen fit to make great clash of armies in mortal combat, in a time of so clear should never cause us consternation. Let bitter persecution of the true children of God and our attitude be one of constant' service to Christ and world-wide attention to His commands-meanwhile " Looking APOSTASY FROM THE FAITH, for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of all this leading up to the immediate coming of Christ the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." 'THE COMING OF HIS FEET In the crimson of the morning, in the wlhiteness of the noon, But white-winged and shod with glory in the Tabor light of In the amber glory of the day's retreat- old- In the midnight robed in darkness or the gleaming of the The glory of the coming of His feet. moon, He is coming, 0 my spirit, with His everlasting peace, I listen for the coming of His feet. \Vith His blessedness immortal and complete. He is coming, 0 my spirit, and His coming brings release- have heard His weary footsteps by the Galilean sea, ! li.sten for the coming· of His feet.-L.W.A. On the Temple's marble pavement, on the street- Worn with weight of sorrow, faltr'ing up tihe slopes of Calvary- □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□ The sorrow of the coming of His feet. B ROYAL ALBERT HALL. B D A supply of posters (20 x 30 inches), window bills D Down the misted aisles of splendour, from betwixt the cherubim, D (11 x 17½ inches), and folders will be obtainable this D Through the wondering throng with motion strong and fleet, D week in most Elim churches. Friends are asked D Sounds His victor tread resounding o'er redemption's choral D to make use of these as much as possible. Those D hymn- D who cannot obtain t!hem from Elim churches should D The music of the coming of His feet. D write without delay to the Convention Secretary, D Comes He sandled not with silver, girdled not with woven D 20, Claren.ce Road, Clapham Park, London, S.W.4, D gold- D stating quantity of each required. D \Veighted not with shimmering gems and odours .sweet, □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□D□□□□□□□□□□□□□ April 6th, 1396. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. 223 Spriogbourne Crusader Activities Solemn Talks on Serious Subjects This branch is still progressing, the

Saved from the "Hell Club " WIDOWED mother in Edinburgh had lain on her face all night long, crying, " 0 God, my boy! Save him! I plead the Blood!" A During the same night the boy, a medical student in the University, ancL a member of the " Hell Club," was assisting in a mock celebration of the Lord's Supper. He took up a glass of wine and held it up and said, " The Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ!" Then, trembling and pale, he put it down and seized his hat and fled the place. It had seemec1 to turn to literal blood, and as he walked he knew not where, at every step he moaned, " I am guilty of the Blood of Christ!" At dawn he came home and went to his room, and his mother hearcL him crying there and praying for mercy, and went in and threw her arms about his n_eck, saying, " You are really praying, my son?" As the sun came up over the hills that morning, a mother's prayers were answered, and her son was saved. He went to his classes and asked leave to testify to the students of his eitperience; then he was excused for the day that he might go out on the streets and witness. One day at a conference a man was callecL upon to pray. He said, "We praise Thee, 0 God, for the Son of Thy love-for Jesus who died, OTHER and has now gone ab'ove !" It was William P. Mackay, once the president 0 HIM THERli: of the Hell Club, who breathed this prayeT which became a hymn, and RAYING who became a minister of the Gospel. ERCY April 5th, 1395. THE ELIM EVANGEL AND FOURSQUARE REVIVALIST. Cover ill.

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