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The fulfilling of the In the peace of God's home above. men may be deceived, deluded, oc- signs of the times gives evidence cupied, and entranced, until the day that the day of the Lord is near at There are hearts that yearn and hopes that burn of probation shall be ended, and the hand. The daily papers are full of • With a flame that constant glows, door of mercy be forever shut. The indications of a terrible conflict in the To see His face whose boundless grace time is right upon us when there will • future. Bold robberies are of fre- Such wealth of love bestows. be sorrow— quent occurrence. Strikes are com- • How hiaven will ring when they see their King, mon. Thefts and murders are com- And clasp His pierce'd hand ! That No Human Balm • mitted on every hand. Men possessed f demons are taking the lives of men When they see the scar of the crown He wore Can Heal 41tid women and little children. All O In this sin-enshackled land ! Sentinel angels are now restraining these things testify that the coming the four winds, that they shall not of Christ is near at hand. O a day of days and a day of praise blow till the servants of God are The doctrine that men are released Will that glad home-going be, sealed in their foreheads, but when 0 • from obedience to God's requirements When our feet shall stand on the glowing sand God shall bid His angels loose the has weakened the force of moral obli- By the great eternal sea ! winds, there will be a scene of strife gation, and opened the flood-gates of Heaven's harps of gold, attuned of old such as no pen can picture. iniquity upon the world. Lawlessness To sound His praise abroad, The " time of trouble such as never and dissipation and corruption are We'll strike, and sing, till the heavens ring, was " is soon to open upon us; and sweeping upon us like an overwhelm- The glories of our God. we shall need an experience which ing tide. In the family Satan is at 0 many. are too indolent to obtain. It work. His banner waves, even in is often the case that trouble is 0 O heart bowed low with weight of wo ; professedly Christian households. greater in anticipation than in reality, 0 soul oppressed by care ; There is envy, evil-surmising, hypoc- but this is not true of the crisis be- risy, strife, betrayal of sacred trusts, Look up and on toward the redd'ning dawn ; fore us. The most vivid presentation • indulgence of lust. The whole system Be brave to do and dare. can not reach the magnitude of the • of religious principles and doctrines, There's strength for you the whole day through ; ordeal. In that trial every man must *Inch should form the foundation and There's comfort in His grace stand for himself before God. Tho Tho seem His word long, long deferred, framework of social life, seems to be Noah, Daniel, and Job we?e in the a a tottering mass, ready to fall to ruin. We soon shall see His face. land, "as I live, saith the Lord God, Courts of justice are c o r r u p t. they shall deliver neither sons nor Rulers are actuated by desire for e-it, 0 daughters; " " they should deliver but gain, and love of sensual pleasure. their own souls by their righteousness." Intemperance has beclouded •the faculties of exists to-day. By every species of oppression Now, while our great High Priest is making many, so that Satan has almost complete con- and extortion, men are piling up colossal for- the atonement for us, we should seek to be- trol of them. Jurists are perverted, bribed, tunes, while the cries of starving humanity. are come perfect in Christ. Not even by a deluded. Drunkenness and revelry, passion, coming up before God. thought could our Saviour be brought to yield envy, dishonesty of every sort, are represented In accidents and calamities by land and by to the power of temptation. Satan finds in among those who administer the laws. "Jus- sea, in great conflagrations, in fierce tornadoes human hearts some point where he can gain tice standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the and terrific hailstorms, in tempests, floods, a foothold; some sinful desire is cherished, by street, and equity can not enter." Men are cyclones, tidal waves, and earthquakes,—in means of which his temptations assert their rushing on in the mad race for gain and selfish every place and in a thousand forms, Satan is power. But Christ declared of Himself, "The indulgence as if there were no God, no heaven, exercising his power. He 'sweeps away the ri- prince of this world cometh, and bath nothing and no hereafter. pening harvest, and famine aryl distress follow. in Me." Satan could find nothing in the Son a The Scriptures describe the condition of the He imparts to the air a deadly taint, and thou- of God that would enable him to gain the world just before Christ's second coming. sands perish by the pestilence. The visita- victory. He had kept His Father's command- James the apostle pictures the greed and op- tions are to become more and more frequent ments, and there was no sin in Him that Satan pression that will prevail. He says: "Go to and disastrous. Destruction will be upon both could use to his advantage. This is the con- now, ye rich men, . . . ye have heaped man and beast. " The earth mourneth and dition in which those must be found who shah treasure together for the last clays. Behold, fadeth away," " the haughty people of the stand in the time of trouble. the hire of the laborers who have reaped down earth do languish. The earth also is defiled " Our God shall come, and shall not keep your fields, which is of you kept back by under the inhabitants thereof; because they silence; a fire shall devour before Him, and it fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have have transgressed the laws, changed the or- shall be very tempestuous 'round about Him. reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord dinance, broken the everlasting covenant." He shall call to the heavens from above, and • of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the The crisis is stealing gradually upon us. to the earth, that He may judge ,His people. earth, and been wanton. Ye have nourished The sun shines in the heavens, passing over Gather My saints together unto Me; those that your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have its usual round, and the heavens still declare have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. • condemned and killed the just; and he doth the glory of God. Men are still eating and And the heavens shall declare His righteous- not resist you." This- is a picture of what drinking, planting and building, marrying and ness; for God is Judge Himself." 4 ( 644 V oh 31.

By R. A. e have also a mover,' , sure word of proph- • ) Underwood A Threefold cog) whereunto ue Purpose do well that ve of time, reaching into eternity. These HE unfailing Word of prophecy is • heed, as unto o prophecies form a large part of the written given as a beacon light in a dark, Word of God. The church has ever been T sinful world. It is designed to be a guide, tight that shineth called to look for the fulfilment-of prophecy, and a source of comfort, and a faithful warning to all n a Rath place, un- take comfort in its recognition. til upon the sea of time. lbe dew dawn, Good old Simeon had long waited and looked, Never can we prize the Bible as we should, never and the day, star with many others, for the Saviour and the fulfilment can we appreciate God's plan and purpose, never of the-promise made to Adam in Gen. 3 : 15, and to can we meet the assaults of the enemy against the arise in Ijoul>heart Abraham in Gen. 12 : 1-3. When he saw this par- citadel of. truth, till prophecy is given its proper and tial fulfilment he could but say, " Lord, now lettest pre-eminent place in Christian study and teaching. Thou Thy servant depart in peace, according to Thy 0 The purposes God had in giving the prophetic eth let him understand)," or, as Luke records it: word; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which • parts of the Bible are of sufficient importance to " When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with Thou bast prepared before the face of all people; a cause the reverent believer who " trembles " at the armies, then know that the desolation thereof light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of Thy • word, the patient student who has searched the rec- is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to people Israel." Luke 2 :29-32.. Simeon saw but ords of time,- the uncompromising witness who the mountains." The prophet Daniel (chapter 9: the beginning of the fulfilment of these promises. • fears not the faces of men, to lift the fallen lamp, 26) foretold the awful siege of Jerusalem by the The hope of the full realization of this prophec which men have cast down to earth, and give in Romans, during which many of 'the Jewish mothers has been the goal for which the faithful of all age. its place as a kingly radiance shining out from the ate their own offspring. The disciples acted upon have waited with expectancy. The mission of Word of truth, a light indeed to men. . Prophecy is the warning given by their Master, and all escaped Christ to this world has only in part been fulfilled. unerring history given in advance. It has been to places of safety. The promise to Mary was that she should bring forth said that " history unveils prophecy." But a clearer a son whose name should be Jesus. " He shall be statement of truth is that prophecy unveils history A Warning for Our Day great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest; before it is made. Prophecy, fulfilling in our day, has been given by and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of Christ and His apostles to protect ,the church 1. Revealing God His father David; and He shall reign over the against the deceptions of Satan concerning the house of Jacob forever; and of His kingdom there The prophetic part of the Bible is one of the character of Christ's second advent to this world, shall he no end." Luke . ' : 31-33. This prophecy strongest proofs of its divine Authorship. It reveals and the -dream of the world's conversion before the will be fulfilled when Christ shall take the throne of the true God in contrast to the claim of false gods. coming of Christ. Note the warning: David, to reign on this earth forever. Listen: " I am God, and there is none else;* I am " Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Then, and not till then, will the purpose of God as God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end Christ, or. there; believe it not. For there •shall foretold by the lone seer on the Isle of Patmos be from the beginning, and from ancient times the arise false christs, and false prophets, and shall show realized. Then the sad experiences of this world things that are not yet cone." Isa. 46:9, to. " I great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were associated with such expressions as "Failure," am the Lord; that is My name; and My glory will I possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, "Deception," " Disappointment," " Jealousy," not give to another, neither My praise to gra‘;en I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall "Envy," " Bondage," " Hatred," " Oppression," • say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not images. Behold, the former things are come to " Disease," " Sorrow," " War," and " Death" forth; behold, He is in the secret chambers; be- pass, and new things do I - decl are ; before they must give place to the experiences known b lieve it not. For as the lightning cometh out of spring lath I tell you of them." Isa. 42 : 8, 9. the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall " Victory," "Righteousness," " Peace," " Joy," • To the Athenians, in the presence of more than also the coming of the Son of Man be. . . . The "Equity," "Riches," "Love," and " Life"-unending, thirty thousand false gods, the great apostle Paul powers of the heavens shall be shaken; and then shall in the kingdom of Christ and glory. Prophecy un- presents as the climax of his argument the fore- appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaveo; and veils the eternal world, and brings hope, which is an knowledge of the Creator, of time and events, as then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they anchor to the soul both sure and steadfast. the manifest witness of the true and only God. He shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of said: " Him declare I unto you; God that .made heaven with power and great glory." Matt. 24: 23-30. sum of all human longings, all Christian the world and all things therein, . . • . seeing He THE "And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; and hope, all divine promise [is] in the cry, "Come, also in the days of the Son of Man. They did eat, Lord Jesus."—Prof. John Peter Lange. bath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell they drank, they married wives, they were given in on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the THE Christians of the earliest age were always limes before appointed, and the bounds of their habi- ark, and the Flood came, and destroyed them all. looking forward. Christ's coming was the control- tation." Acts 17 : 23-26. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did ling and encouraging thought of their daily life. eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they —Howard Crosby, D.D.,LL.D. 2. Warning of Evils to Come planted, they builded; but the same day that Lot THE conviction that the time is short deepens The unveiling of the future in prophecy is de- went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone in our souls. The sure Word of prophecy leaves signed as messages of warning to the children of from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the flay When the Son of Man is re- little room to dotibt this: The Lord is at hand.— men, who would otherwise be unable to escape Rev. Henry Grattan Guinness. danger and ruin. We have marked examples of vealed." Luke 17 : 26-3o. this all through the Bible. One or two citations "This know also, that in the last days perilous .1 AM afraid we can not hope for much better times times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their will illustrate this object of God in giving to His until the Lord Jesus comes a second time. own selves, covetous,. boasters, proud, blasphemers, I cheer myself with the thought chosen people the events of time in disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, with- of His coming. The shout advance of their fulfilment. out natural affection, trucebreakers, false accu- Christ gave warning of the awful sers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that shall be heard, Allelujah ! destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers et allehijah ! the Lord God 70, as follows: " When ye pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form Omnipotent reig n et li ! therefore shall see the of godliness, but denying the power thereof; from For that day do I look; such turn away. . . . But evil men and seducers ----, abomination of desola- it,is to the bright ho- tion, spoken of by shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being rizon of that second '/ '-‘00...ti .'' deceived." 2 Tim. 3 : 1-13. Daniel the proph- coming that I et, stand in the Heed the warning, and be not deceived. turn my holy place, 3. Comfort to God's People eyes.-Rev. Charles (whose The Bible presents promises and statements of Sp urg- read- unfulfilled events which are the prophetic landmarks e o n . IGNS OF THE TIME No. 41. (645) 5

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• lessed is he ‘4,0ie id readeth, A Revelation and they that By W. S. Sadler hear the words of HE " sure Word of prophecy " this prophecy, and voice of one crying in the wilderness, is eternity's searchlight illumi- heel Make straight the way of the Lord, T nating the pathway of time. ) those things as said the prophet Isaiah." John 1 : 22, 23. See also verses 26, 27. "We have also a more sure Word of which are written prophecy: whereunto ye do well that ye John the Baptist not only understood take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a therein; for the his own Mission in the world from prophecy dark place." 2 Peter I : 19. (see Isa. 4p : 3-5), but by the revelation of God's The prophecies themselves are declared to be lime is at hand. Word he knew the Messiah, being due, was then in sure, the interpretation thereof is sure (Dan. 2 :45); Rev.1:3 the world; and constantly watching for Him, and we do well to take heed unto their teachings. John could exclaim on the very next day, when he • How could God consistently ask us to take heed to saw Jesus coming, " Behold the Lamb of God, which prophecies which could not he understood? If it i. The Opening of the Judgment, Dan. 8 : 14. taketh away the sin of the world." John I : 29. • were not possible for men to understand prophecy, j. The Second Advent of Christ, Matt. 24 : 3o-33. 9. Christ understood from the prophecy concern- God would not have scattered these prophetic utter- ing His life-cycle as found in Dan. 9: 24-27 that He • 5. The prophecies are not designed for a privi- ' ances throughout His revealed Word. Prophecy is leged few, but are open for even the common people would be baptized in the year A.n. 27, just 69 like unto a light shining in a dark place, pointing weeks (483 years) from the, time of the going forth • to study and understand. out the course of nations, the succession of world of the command to rebuild Jerusalem (s.c. 457); vents, teaching its honest students the things that " So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these He further understood from the prophecy of Daniel things, "must shortly come to pass." know that it is near, even at the doors." Matt. 24 : 33. that the Messiah was to be "cut off," crucified, in 2. The revelation of prophecy belongs to us, and " And the Lord answered me-, and said, Write the the middle of the week. This would give Him just God designs that His children shall understand it. vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may three and a half years of ministry (a day for a year), "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; run that readeth it." Hab. 2 : 2. and would call for His crucifixion in the spring of So this prophecy was exaitly fulfilled, but those things which are revealed belong unto us The prophet was instructed to write the vision, A.D. 31. 29 :29. and to our children forever." Deut and to make it very plain, that it may be easily and is one of the greatest instances in all Inspiration "Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but He of how prophecy may be understood before it is ful- revealeth His secret unto His servants the proph- Understood, so that he who reads it may run with its message. filled, and how truly it will be fulfilled according to ets." Amos 3 : 7. 6. Of all parts of the inspired Word, there is the very letter. God promises His children that He will do noth- none that God desires His children shall know better to. The apostle Paul knew that the second advent ing of importance concerning our world or His and understand more fully than these prophecies of Christ would not take place in his day, because church, without telling them of it in advance. Hav- which He has given for the express purpose of in- he understood. from prophecy concerning the great ing made this gracious promise, who could conceive forming each generation of its whereabouts in the apostasy of Christendom that must precede it. of God giving His prophecies in such a way that world's history, as well as enlightening the people " Let no man deceive you by any means, for that they could not be understood by.those who were concerning the significance of the events taking day shall not come, except there come a falling away concerned in the events attending their fulfilment ? place in their day. Daniel understood beforehand, first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of 3. The revelation of prophecy is designed to perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above • from the prophecies of Jeremiah, the exact time show the inhabitants of earth the .events of the all that is called God, or that is worshiped." 2 when the Babylonian captivity was to end. • "'future. Thess. 2 " I Daniel understood by books the number of the While Paul, in common with all Christians, longed " The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave years, whereof the Word of the Lord came to Jere- for the " glorious appearing," he knew from the 4 unto him, to show unto His servants things which miah the prophet, that He would accomplish seventy must shortly come to pass." " Blessed is he that . years in the desolations of Jerusalem." Dan. 9 : 2. Saviour's utterances (John 17 : 12) that the son of readeth and they that hear the words of this proph- perdition mustifirst be revealed, and the great apos- That prophecy can be definitely understood, and ecy, and keep those things which are written therein; tasy take place before the Master could return; thus that the fulfilment of its specifications in relation to for the time is at hand." Rev. I : I, 3. he was saved from being misled by those who taught time may be relied upon, is shown in the experience The very language used in the opening verse of that Jesus would come in the clouds of heaven in of Daniel, who, by the study of the prophecies of the book of Revelation indicates that God designed his day. Jeremiah, understood in his day that the time was His children to understand its prophecies. A bless- a book almost at hand for the deliverance of His people. zi. Josiah Litch, in the last century, wrote ing is pronounced upon those who " hear the words based upon prophecy, in which he predicted that The prophecy to which he refers is found in Jer. of this prophecy, and keep the things that are written 29 : 10. Turkish rule and power would end on Aug. II, 1840. therein." How could one °lapin a blessing from 7. The wise men understood from prophecy the " Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, reading that which could not be understood, much time when Christ was to be born and were looking Loose the four angels which are bound in the great less be able to obey the admonitions therein con- for His star. river Euphrates And the four angels were loosed, tained. which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a " Behold, there came wise men from the east to month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men." 4. God has foretold in prophecy all the great Jerusalem, saying, Where is He that is born King of" Rev. q : 14, 15. disasters and important events in the history of the the Jews? for we have seen His star in the east, and human race. are come to worship Him." Matt. 2 : I, 2. Mr. Litch, figuring each day for a year (Num. 14: 34; Eze. 4 : 6), calculated that that year, and month, a. The Flood, Gen. 6 : 3, 13-17. While the vast majority of the world was in dark- Gen. 41 : r-33. and day, and hour, equaled 391 years, and 15 days; b. Famine, ness as to the time and manner in which the Messiah c. Captivity of Israel, Jer. 25 : 8-11. so, reckoning from the time when the Sultans began would come, there were scattered throughout the d. Restoration of Israel, Jer. to rule the Ottoman Empire, July 29, East and Palestine students of prophecy, and they 25 : 12-14. 1449, he concluded that something - Downfall of Nations, understood both the time and manner in which the e. would happen to Turkey on August Isa. 13 : 19-22. Son of God should come. The wise men were f. Christ's First Advent, among these, and, having searched out the proph- Ti, 1840. He published his book Isa. 53 : 1-12. ecies in the ninth chapter of Daniel, and found that to the world, taking the posi- g. The Dark Ages the time of the Messiah was at hand, they were tion on the strength of what of Persecution, Rev. watching for the star that should arise out of Jacob. prophecy revealed. And 12 : 3-6, 12-17. See Num. 24 : 17. was Mr. Litch mis- The Spiri- h. 8. John the Baptist not only understood his own taken ?- No; for • tual Decline on that very day of the Last mission in the world, but also understood from the Days, 2 prophecies•of Daniel, that Christ was due in his day. (Continued Tim. 3: " Then said they unto him, Who art thou ? . . . on page 1-5. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said, I am the 13 . ) 6 (646 Vol. 3r.

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page. (2) Site of ancient Babylon. Isa. 13:19-22; Jer. 60 : 3, 39, 40; 61:29, 82. (3) Tyre, the ancient commer- cial metropolis of the world, was to become a place for the spreading of nets. Eze. 27:1-26; 28:4, 5, 14. (4) Capernaum, once a busy, bustling town, Christ's "own city." Matt. II :23. (5) Samaria, the proud capital city of the Ten Tribes. Isa. 28:1-4; Eze. 23:33; Hosea 13: IS. (8) Ancient Memphis, Egypt, In the Bible, Noph. Eze. 30:13, IS; Jer. 48:19. (7) The palace of the Caesars, the representatives of the Roman kingdom of iron. Dan. 2:44, 45. (8) The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen, 18:17. 20-32; 19:24, 26) over the site of which the Dea Sea now lies, and which became an example of all u OBJECT-LESSONS OF PROPHECY godly cities In time to come (2 Peter 2:8). (9) Ruins o Nineveh, capital of Assyria. Nahum 1:1, 8; 2:6, 8-13, Let the reader note, the striking object-lessons of ful- And of all the modern Tyres and Nophs and Babylons It filled prophecy in the pictures above. We give the names may be truly said,— of the ruins, and the Bible reference: (I) Laodlcea, once a " Lo, all our pomp of yesterday great commercial center. Rev. 3 :14-16; see note last Is one with Nineveh and Tyre."

Foretelling and Fulfilling to the glory that should' follow, not only through is a harbinger of the final consummation, when time, but into the never-ending ages of eternity, grace will give place to glory, and prayer to praise. LL Scripture, being given by inspiration of where His praises will ever he sung, and His glory • Just before Christ's passion, He stated to His dis- God, is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for will never wane. ciples that some of them would not taste death till A correction, for instruction in righteousness. Prophecy and History Illustrated they saw the Son of Man coming in His kingdom. 2 Tim. 3 : i6. It is therefore all important. This Matt. i6 :28. A few days subsequently He took being true, one can not justly draw invidious com- It is evident from these scriptures that prophecy, three trusted disciples, Peter, James, and John, and parison between different parts of the Scriptures. when given, relates to the events of the future. led them up into the steeps of a neighboring moun- Some portions are historical, and, as such, deal Thus prophecy is history in advance. To illustrate: tam, and was transfigured before them. In His with the past. Other portions are prophetical, and Should a seer in holy vision be enabled to behold transfiguration they saw Him as we shall see Him, if deal with the future. If one portion of the Scripture some of the future political events of our own be- we are saved in, the kingdom of glory. His face is more important than another, it is the prophetic loved nation, would we not, as citizens, become shone as the sun, and His raiment was white as tl• • portion, as it deals with the future. deeply interested in his predictions ? If, in his fore- light. Suddenly there appeared on the scene t‘‘ k It is not in the wisdom of man to correctly foretell telling of the future, he stated that in clue time we, men. One was Elijah; he had been translated to the events of the future. This wisdom abides only as a nation, would have war declared upon us by a heaven without tasting death. The other was with the Father and His associated Son, Christ foreign power; that our territory would be invaded Moses, who had led Israel's vast army from Egypt Jesus, and with those to whom they have revealed by an alien army; that battle after battle would be to Canaan. it. The all wise Creator declares that He reveals fought; fields would he deluged with blood as the When the kingdom of God is fully established, its Himself to the children of men. He declared this result of booming cannon and mortars, bursting subjects will be . the redeemed of earth. That vast, through Moses. Num. 12 : 6. He says, " If there shells, the whistling of the Minie ball, and clashing numberless multitude will be made up of two claiSes. be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make My- of the saber and bayonet in the hand-to-hand fight One class will be those who have passed through self known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto of the contesting armies. At times victory would death, and through the resurrection of the just; they him in a dream." He communicates by means of grace our heroic maneuvers, and again defeat, sore will shout victory over death and the tomb. Thisclass the Holy Spirit. This is clearly set forth in 2 Peter and dreadful, would sadden the nation, and dampen was represented by Moses in the Transfiguration on I : 21: ' For the prophecy came not 'in old time by our efforts. At last, in a mighty battle, fearful be- the mount. The other class will be translated from the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they cause of its carnage, victory perches upon our earth to heaven without tasting death. These are were moved by the Holy Ghost." It is evident by national banners, the war is ended; and the dove of represented in the mountain scene by Elijah. this declaration that the prophecies of the Scriptures peace spreads her wings over the nation, and pros- This mountain view was a real scene. The did not originate by the ,avill of man, but men were perity greets us on every hand. blessed Master, Moses, Elijah, Peter, James, and moved upon to predict future events by the Spirit of If each individual of the nation could be convinced John were all personally present. The mountain God. that the predictions were true, with what absorbing was a real one, and the bright cloud of glory which Christ in Prophecy interest would he watch every transpiring event, and enshrouded both the earthly and the heavenly beings -The Father and the Son are one in plan and action fully understand that it was merely a blossom which was also a real one. Peter was so enraptured that (John m : 30), and thus Christ is in the foretelling of would ripen only to pave the way for more important he desired to make three dwelling-places, one for future events through the prophets. The apostle events, which would ultimately result ill the defeat his blessed Master, one for Moses, and •one for Peter plainly declares this in his first epistle, first of the alien nation, and the complete victory of our Elijah, exclaiming, in his ecstasy of soul, " Master, chapter. Speaking of the salvation of the soul, he own. it is good to be here ! " says: " Of which- salvation the prophets have en- The foretelling of this scene would be prophecy, As he viewed the scene, he beheld the glory of quired and searched diligently, who prophesied of and the record of its fulfilment would constitute God as it will exist in the soon-coming kingdom. • the grace that should come unto you; searching history. He saw the heavenly King, Jesus, and he looked what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ What We May Know upon the representatives of the heavenly kingdom which was in them [the prophets] did signify, when .The Word of God foretells the rise and fall of as they will exist in the final establishment of that it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and nations from the inception of earthly kingdoms and kingdom. He felt so sure of this that years after- the glory that should follow." Verses to, it. republics,—from the kingdom of Babylon to the ward, when writing to his beloved brethren, he says, Thus the Spirit of Christ not only foretold His wonderful government in, which we l0e. Every in speaking of that kingdom, " We have not followed own sufferings, sad and heart-rending tho they were event which is taking place in the world to-day is cunningly-devised fables, when we made known unto to be, but He carries our minds beyond the suffering full of significance, and, to the student of prophecy, (Continued on page x 3. ) SIGNS OF THE TIMES Nri. 41. (647) 7

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By George B. Thompson and His glory will endure throughout all ages. Its THE LORD'S RETURN luster will not be dimmed by passing cycles. He Will Come Again I. We ought to be looking for it. HERE is no truth of the blessed Gospel which When He Is Coming "Seeing that all these things [this earth and its is more clearly taught than that our Redeemer And now, as in ages in the past, the Lord will works] shall be dissolved, what manner of persons T will return the second time. Before this awful warn the world of the event which is approaching. ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godli- event all others pale. It is the subliniest spectacle He warned the antediluvians; He warned Sodom; ness, looking for and hosting unto [" earnestly dcdr- and most matchless display of transcendent glory He warned Nineveh; and when His first advent was ing," A. R. V.] the coming of the day of God." connected with the scheme of redemption. When impending, He' sent His forerunner with a special 2 Peter 3: II, 12. " For our conversation is in the Lord spoke the eternal principles of His message for the time. And when we reach the heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, own perfection from the flaming top of Sinai, and closing days of the world's history, we read that there the Lord Jesus Christ." Phil. 3 : 20. traced them in stone with His own finger, the whole will be "signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in 2. We should love His return. earth trembled, and the glory of God was revealed the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, " Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of • in mighty majesty. But this divine exhibition of eavenly glory will be surpassed when the Re- O00 040 004 0000.0 000 000 90 0 00 0 .00 000 righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, ceiver comes to take to Himself the people whom 0 shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but 4l 0 unto all them also that love His appearing." He has saved from the terrible thrildom of sin. • ADVENT SONG • 2 Tim. 4:8. At- His first ad-vent He came in weakness. He 0 came as a helpless Babe to show the frailties of our O " Blessed Saviour, Thou art coming ! 3. We should be waiting for it. frame. As a Lamb He came to bear the burdens of We shall meet Thee on Thy way, " I thank my God always on your behalf, for the a weak and degenerate race. But how different the • We shall see Thee, we shall know Thee, grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; scene when He appears the second time to overturn We shall bless Thee, we shall show Thee that in everything ye are enriched by Him, in all the proud and stately empires of earth and scatter All our hearts could never say. utterance, and in all knowledge; even as the testi- them like the chaff driven by the wind. We may What an anthem that will be, mony of Christ was confirmed in you; so that ye think of the glorious event, and it is well to let the Ringing out our love to Thee, come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of picture linger in the mind, yet we'can never take it 0 Pouring out our rapture sweet our Lord Jesus Christ." I Cor. I :4-7. Waiting in. The human mind can never comprehend in its At Thine own all-glorious feet. 0 for an event implies being ready for-it. fulness the hour when, crowned King of all kings, 4: We should be watching for His coming. the Saviour comes to reap the harvest of the earth. " Not a cloud and not a shadow, 0 How He Will Come Not a mist and not a tear, " Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day 0 nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh." Not a sin and not a sorrow, 0 The coming of Christ is a real thing. It is no Not a dim and veiled to-morrow, O Matt. 25 : 13. Watching also implies being ready. phantom. It is the advent of a real personal being. For that sunrise grand and clear! "Therefore be ye also ready; for in such an hour as Jesus left the earth a real person, bearing in His O ye think not the Son of Man cometh." Matt. 24:44. 0 Jesus, Saviour, once with Thee, ai body the marks of His humiliation. "And while 0 Nothing else seems worth a thought! 5. His return should be a subject of prayer. Othey [the disciples] looked steadfastly toward 0 0, how marvelous will be heaven, as He went up behold, two men stood by 0 " He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I 0 All the bliss Thy pain hath bought! them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of 0 come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, LordJestis." 0 Rev. 22 :20. Galilee, why stand ye gazing tip into heaven? This 0 same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, 0 "Thou art coming! We are waiting O 0 0 6. We should firmly believe in His coming again. shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him 0 With a hope that can not fail; 0 go into heaven." Acts I: to, it. 'An angelic cloud Asking not the day or hour, ,Because: (a) He promised it just before His death. 0 0 The promise was repeated at His received Him into glory, and when He appears the 0 Resting on Thy Word of power John 14:1-3. (b) 0 0 ascension. Acts I : 9-11. (c) He describes it. Matt. second time He is seated upon a " white cloud," Anchored safe within the veil. 25 (d) The apostle Paul further describes it. "having on His head a golden crown, and in His 00 Time appointed seemeth long, O 0 Thess. 4 : 15-17. hand a sharp sickle." Rev. 14: 14. 0 But the vision must be sure; 0 0 When He comes He will be escorted, like the vic- 0 Certainty shall make us strong, 0 torious conqueror which He is, by " all the holy 0 Joyful patience can endure.- 0 0 9 ON Luke x8 :8, Dr. Henry remarks: angels." Matt. 25 :31. When one angel came to " In -particular it intimates that He will delay His the sealed tomb to call the Redeemer as He lay 000000000044040040400000000000000 coming so long that wicked people will begin to defy locked in the fixed embrace of death, the glory it, and to say, ' Where is the promise of His com- with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; which attended the celestial messenger struck to the ing?' They will challenge Hint to come; and His earth the guard of Roman soldiers who were watch- men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking delay will harden them. in their wickedness. Even after those things which are coming on the earth; for ing the sepulcher. How much glory, think yoti, will His own people will laegin to despair of it, and con- S the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then be revealed when the unnumbered millions of cludesHe will never come, because He has passed mighty angels come with their 'Redeemer? They shall they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with their reckoning." come as reapers to gather the sheaves into the heav- power and great glory." Luke 21:25-27. enly garner. But this is only a little of the glory Reader, this glorious day draws near; it will soon MANY that are looking at me may never die; we L which is to be seen. The King comes in the most be ushered in. Prepared or unprepared, its stern are near the end of this dispensation. The coming supernal glory, "the glory of His Father." Matt. realities will soon be upon us. For the righteous it of the Lord in the clouds to, take His church to be 16: 27. He will come in " His own glory, and in is a day of the greatest joy, when they can look up with Himself is the Christian's hope. 0, to be His Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:26. and rejoice. For sinners it is a day of gloominess, ready ! In the Master's name, I tell you, be ready. In the past, kings, emperors, and potentates of desolation, and destruction. While the Life-giver is I charge you to prepare for His coming.—Henry earth have sought to show the glory ottheirempires. still on the mercy-seat, offering pardon to the im- Varley. people are greatly frightened when the In triumphant splendor and overweening pride they penitent, shall we not turn to Him with full repent- SOME 9 have exhibited all their regal pomp and glory. But ance, that we may find forgiveness, and ,be num- second coming of Christ is mentioned, or when it is they have perished, and their glory is no more. But bered among those who can look up and say, " Lo, deduced from prophecy that the great event is soon the consuming majesty and glory which attends the this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He to occur. A Christian should be suspicious of him- coming of Jesus overshadows theirs as the sun shin- will save us"? Isa. 25 :9. self if he feels afraid of that glorious day.—Rev. Dr. ing in its zenith power eclipses the rays of a candle, Washington, D. C. Robinson. SIGNS THE ;-; Tim Vol. 31. •

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AS GOD SEES MAN'S VIEW AS MAN SEES GOD'S VIEW GOD'S VIEW OF NATIONS By Abdiel By Abdiel By Francis M. Wilcox Daniel 2 Daniel 3 Daniel 7 THE second chapter of Daniel is preeminently a HEN God revealed to Nebuchadnezzar AN is finite; God is infinite. Man is fallible. disclosure to man of God the Revealer. that the kingdom of Babylon and all that and erring in judgment. The infinite God Babylon.was one of the mightiest empires of W followed it would eventually crumble into A4 knows no mistake. To man is not given to earth. She was great in extent, great in wealth, dust, the mighty king could riot have it so. He saw know the past and future, nor yet the present with great in education, but far greater in her religious Babylon the head of gold, but he saw that head perfect knowledge. The limitations of finite knowl- influence upon all the nations of earth then and covering, controlling, transmuting all the future. It edge and human passions and prejudices do not thereafter. She has "made all the earth drunken; would be all gold; it must be all gold. It was un- permit a faithful record of even current events. Im- the nations have drunk of her wine." Jer. 51:7; patriotic, nay, it was treason, to think that Babylon, partial human history, if such was ever written, can Rev. 18:3. Babylon the rich, the great, the beautiful, the seat of only be written after the actors and participants in She reached the height of her glory under learning and religion, would not stand forever. the scene have passed away, and historians unbiased Nebuchadnezzar, one of earth's greatest rulers, a A Monument to Patriotism by the influences of that age, have come onto the mighty warrior, a great scholar, a wise statesman, a This Babylonian view must be left to posterity. stage of action. But not so with God. To Him the devout religionist. He took pride in the enlarge- Therefore Nebuchadnezzar made a great image, present is known in all its entirety, and in His ment and establishment of the later Chaldean empire. reaching to the height of one hundred and ten feet, knowledge the pist and the future are as the present. He determined it should stand forever, yet ques- all of gold in appearance, and set it up in the plain His vision can traverse again with unerring accuracy tioned as to " what should come to pass hereafter" of Dura where all could see it, as it reflected the the devious windings of the forgotten past, and can (read Daniel 2 carefully). God in answer to his daizling splendor of the sun. It proclaimed Babylon penetrate with equal clearness into the mysteries of longing desire, revealed it to him in a dream, which forever. It was Babylon's fetish of patriotism. the future. - And God judges not as man, by out- none of the wise men could tell or interpret. God Then the king made this proclamation: ward appearances, by parade and pageantry, by the gave through His servant Daniel,—who gave to God gilt and tinsel of outward adornment, but righteous " Then the herald cried aloud, To you it is com- all the glory,—the dream and its true intermetation. judgment, a judgment that penetrates to the under-• manded, 0 peoples, nations, and languages, that at This Is the Dream: what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, working principles, to the motives and purposes of harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of human thought and endeavor. " Thou, 0 king, saviLest, and, behold, a great music, ye fall down and worship the golden image And so God's view of the nations is the one abso- image. This image, which was mighty, and whose that Nebuchadnezzar the king bath set up; and lutely correct view; His delineation of their nature brightness was excellent, stood'before thee; and the whoso falleth not down and worshipeth shall the and characteristics is the one true character sketch aspect thereof was terrible. As for this image, its same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery ever written. Such a delineation and such a char- head was of fine gold, its breast and its arms of furnace." Verses 4-6, A. R. V. silver, its belly and its thighs of brass, its legs of acter sketch we have portrayed by the prophet iron, its feel part of iron, and part of clay. Thou Read the story. There were those in Nebuchad- Daniel under the inseiration of the spirit of proph- rawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, nezzar's dominion who had seen God's view of the ecy. In brief but concise outline is brought to view which smote the image upon its feet that were of nations. They could not fall down to the human or the history of the world from the days of Daniel to iron and clay, and brake them in pieces. Then was the human idea against God's truth, however beau- the end of time. Read carefully the seventh chapter the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, tifully clothed, or howsoever much of earthly power of his prophecy. broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff there might be behind it. They must stand as the The Vision of the summer threshing-floors; and the wind carried representatives of the God of truth and right. Daniel beholds the winds of heaven striving upon them away, so that no place was found for them; And they did stand. The proclamation was the sea. As a 'result of that commotion, four great and the stone that smote the image became a great kindly repeated for their sakes. Nebuchadnezzar beasts rise up out of the water. The first is a lion, mountain, and filled the whole earth." Verses 31- having eagle's wings; the second, a bear which had 35, A. R. V. knew somewhat of their worth, but he divorced it from God, the one thing only which made them the in its mouth three ribs, and which raised itself up on Here Follows the Interpretation: men they were. The great' assembly again bows in one side; the third, a leopard possessing four wings " Thou, 0 king, art king of kings, unto whom the worship; the men of God—Shadrach, Meshach, and and four heads; the fourth, a great and terrible beast God of heaven bath given the kingdom, the power, Abednego—remain erect. with great iron teeth and ten horns upon its head. and the strength, and the glory; and wheresoever They are called before the haughty and enraged He beholds a commotion among the horns; a little the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and monarch. They quail not; they have seen a horn is pushing its way up among the ten, and, in its the birds of the heavens hath He given into thy Greater in His love. They are cast into the fiery determination to find a place for itself, it destroys hand, and bath made thee to rule over them all; thou furnace, and lo, the Greater goes with them and de- and uproots three of its fellows. In this little horn head of gold. knd after thee shall arise an- art the livers them unharmed, while the minions of the pro- are the eyes of a man and a mouth speaking great other kingdom inferior to thee; and another third moter of patriotism against God perish in the fierce things. kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the • The Explanation earth. And the fourth kingdom shall, he strong as flames which would not touch the worshipers of the iron, forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and sub- Most High. Daniel is greatly troubled over this strange revela- dueth all things; and as iron that crusheth all these, Babylonian Still tion, and seeks for instruction from his attending shall it break in pieces and crush. And whereas But the evil principle still continues. This po- angel. This instruction is given so plainly that we thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, tently-evil wine the nations have quaffed. This per- can not mistake its meaning. Listen: " These great and part of iron, it shall be a divided kingdom; but version of vision the nations have inherited. As beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall (Continued next page, rat col.) (Continued next page, 2nd col.) (Continued on next page.)

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As God Sees Man's View As Man Sees God's View fittingly could God have symbolized the proud, rich, (Continued from page 8, first column.) (Continued from page 8, second column.) haughty kingdom of Babylon than by the king of beasts with the soaring wings of the eagle ! What there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, foras- Nebuchadnezzar saw only Babylon, so with the more fitting symbol of the cruel and blood-thirsty much as thou sawest the iron mixed with the miry earth worshipers, each sees his own kingdom. Medo-Persian nation could have been chosen than clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, The patriots of Medo-Persia felt that that empire and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly the bear. One side of this bear was higher than the was allied with the gods, and would stand forever. other, showing the predominating Persian influence strong, and partly broken: And whereas thou saw- So thought the.Grecian; so thought the Roman. est the iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle in the kingdom. themselves with the seed of men; but they shall not The loyal Chinese.believes the (' Celestial " empire The Grecians, with Alexander at their head, cleave one to another, even as iron doth not mingle is heaven-born and must stand forever. The dev- stealthy, ferocious, swift, and terrible in their move- with clay. And in the days of those kings shall the otee of the "'Sunrise Island Empire" believes that ments, struck terror to their 'foes, and by these ele- God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never it is Japan forever. So also the devotee of Europe's ments of warfare gained easy, but far-reaching vic- be destroyed, nor shall the sovereignty thereof be great northern empire; he believes that the Russian tories, even as the leopard springs unsuspectingly left to another people: but it shall break, in pieces bear will prowl and growl till all the world shall upon its prey. The leopard itself, swift and quick- and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand own his sway. footed,-was not sufficient to represent, the celerity of forever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that .a stone The Briton the movements displayed by the Grecians under was cut out of the mountain without hand, and that believes in "rule it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the Alexander; hence the wings of a fowl were added Brittania," silver, and the gold; - the great God hath made to its back to accelerate its movements. ,These did known unto the king what shall come•to pass here- and that for aye. not represent the soaring pride as did the eagle's after; and the dream is certain, and the interpretation His idea of wings upon the back of the lion. The wings of a thereof sure." Verses 37-45, A R. V. ardent patri- fowl assist in its movements along the face of the It needs but a few words of comment. The head otism i s Eng- earth. of gold represented Babylon, for which Nebuchad- land always, The leopard had four heads: A head, wherr used nezzar then stood, the golden kingdom of a golden whatever her as a symbol, denotes power or government. Alex- age; but which closed its career of glory in B.C. 538, moral right. ander 'enjoyed his victories but for a'brief period. If when it was succeeded by the Medo-Persian empire, And in Eng- great enough to subdue the Persians, he was not the breast and.arms of silver Dan. 5:28, 3o, 31. land's oldest great enough to master his own passions. Falling a The Medo-Persian empire lasted until B.c. 331, child, the great, victim to his excesses, his kingdom was soon Cameo portrait of. Nebuchadnezzar, wealthy, strong, • and was succeeded by Grecia, the " belly and thighs a votive offering dedicated to Moro- divided among four of his leading generals, Cas- of brass." dach. Engraved on a black stone. virile, Co- sander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and Ptolemy, as Grecia was, after years of struggle, in her divided lumbia, it is a represented by the four heads. • state, finally conquered by the imperial iron monarchy popular toast, "Our country; may she always be The Fourth Kingdom of Rome, represented by the legs of iron. The mix- right; but right or wrong, always our country." a ing of the clay with the iron, representing the corn- The ultra patriots of every nation would heartily But now another scene in the drama of human g in of socialistic and republican principles, sym- drink to the same toast. events is about to be enacted. Slowly and silently liolized the breaking up of the Roman empire into But all this is modernized Babylonian worship of upon the banks of the Tiber the kingdom of Rome various divisions. the golden image, the exaltation of the human, the losing sight of the divine. Weakness of Human Government. .--.• _iial All the governments of earth, founded because of IF .4.,ri: - Babylon was a unit. Medo-Persia became one. 1 a -i: aa 011547t.Z3I. lit the selfishness of man, are more and more constant --aa +.•1 ..- II r But Grecia, launched as one under Alexander, be- developments and crystallizations of that selfishness * teni,e.tion li-...r. _;,:r..1,740.--- • *Li. came later divided into four. Rome, beginning as r,dzstrial.„,...,_ , , _ as the nation ages. That selfishness may be checked "iliBil , by the interfusion of some truly religious move- -.0i74:-Ihniii:elni.1' .-inn in 3, _ --,.--L_ .,_., Pe ,4 Ma=1 -kkolEifiN 1.':•,i1 17R•Ask- 21 ;.2.'3. no..2mg..- - -1,:e bdif-WrAirt-,liti .4*.ar, ..1*Iiik e • , , ment from without, but only checked. Sooner 7----UZ•111r,: 7,--riekAlfbgl i ortor Ai I 4W ' ' or later the selfishness which in the beginning ";151:.:13ZaZX-1- 1! i.': I ,Ilf 'ff,C21//a/...1,- , 1 -•Jrr. , •• eire-,x131 5. RT. restrained men becomes a tyranny, and the end larOiFir "iC• FLaggn WANI/12/ 11,11MIE - , 1-1W-.3 is destruction. riC.C.1:21nni,j.T7.7,1 1-=1:...:=. 1...EIN Reader, why not take God's view of earthly - a ESC-1-7.!.•:T.13M.DIUki• -. 171:114%.1(4a powers and build your hope within and upon . • .. 14 - :M.... -N Al _ 5i• - the everlasting kingdom? Fe a 1, 7S•T C lk. . 2-3'i . owc2o- -. s ! : - r Uc 7, WIP t13vIL 11. .flty.X 3 IIMINCJINNiAlg7,109Fahr-Iff;,.31-1` • ..' =...._ ,_;,,c....(-1 1. .1._;_a_LII =IallEiIE1.1:mI-7,__ ,irift&.317..,.._ 1z., ai.E•EF/ '2.12 i'Mrfr!fir_i • 0 e17.11176, menti. 0 IIIK _ I I ff :2i I ,... - • - . God's View of the Nations 1- .- - I-- •,-2..'-i= - IF LIAIE-1;: ....,,114, .... ' I : ,,-11..".7W-4 I. (Continued from page 8, third column.) Ir"2... - I tiEl. -_ . ,;IU I 1.iiii/L,.,. arise out of the earth." Verse 17. And to show -JR ,....- • 1, ti el th '1 1811-11141- : ^ -1 that he means kingdoms instead of individual I TER7.X.rli:ni • kings, he says of the fourth beast that it shall be ear '- II Back of tablet with account of Deluge. the "fourth kingdom upon earth." Verse 23. But if 1. (From "Chaldean Genesis " by Smith.) these beasts are four kingdoms, the question natu- c.1,14 r .1.4v, 1 "" , Ili:v.. , - •. _._-- *.T:Wr.:3 rally suggests itself, What kingdoms are represented 1 .ttit../=.- .ig, one, represented by the strongest of metals, crum- by them ? To this there is furnished an answer in bled into numerous divisions, so to remain till the the words of the angel.- " Thus he said, The fourth end of all earthly power. beast shall be the fourth kingdom upoli earth, That great image of a man represented the king- which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall dom of man in this world. It tells us in a simple devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and way, just what all history demonstrates, that man break it in pieces." Verse 23. In other words, the has not within himself, however great or wise, die A black basalt book of Nebuchadnezzar, in the beautiful fourth beast is a symbol of the fourth great world- Cuneiform text. cohesive power, the principle of integrity, to hold kingdom. Reasoning from analogy, we must there- together for long any kind of rule or government. fore conclude that, if the fourth beast is a symbol of is growing into the strength of maturity. It reaches Charlemagne tried to unite the discordant elements the fourth world-power, the third 'beast must be a out toward the south and toward the, east, making of Western Rome, but he failed. Napoleon tried it, symbol of the third world-power, the second beast a tributary 'the surrounding nations and kingdoms. and failed. It has since been tried by intermarriage symbol of the second world-power, and the first The possessions of Ptolemy fell under its power in and diplomacy, but all its union and peace are as beast a symbol of the first world-power from Daniel's A.D. 30.- The kingdom of Seleucus became a part of fragile as a spider's web. God's prophecy declares time. the Roman possessions in A.D. 65. Other provinces that so it will continue till He sets up His everlast• Have there been in the history of this world four became tributary in their turn, and soon we find the ing kingdom on the thither side of all the wreck of great world-powers which answer to these symbols? kingdom represented by the great and terrible beast nations, at the glorious coming of the King of Kings For answer we have only to refer the student of his- holding the entire world in its grasp. It waxes and Lord of Lords. tory to the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, strong and becomes great. The Augustan age is " And the dream is certain, and the interpretation Grecia, and Rome, which, in their day, have occu- ushered in, the golden and glorious age of Roman thereof is sure." pied this exalted situation, sovereigns of the earth. history. In this age Christ the Lord was born, a This view is 'but confirmatory of the dream of most propitious time, when, freed from wars, ru- IN the Scriptures the constant note, the one re- Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2, set forth on this page. mors, and conquests, the whole world could give its curring exhortation, is to be prepared for the Lord's To King Nebuchadnezzar, a worshiper of images, attention to the gracious work of the Pririce of coming.—Dean Henry Alford. but a seeker after the truth, these kingdoms are Peace. Divisions of Rome THE Scriptures teach the church to look to the symbolized by the metals making up the image. To coming of the Lord as the day of her completeness the prophet Daniel, wild beasts are chosen more But the greatness of Rome,,her wealth and opu- and triumph. It will be our jtsbilee year.—Rev. fitly to represent the character of these same king- lence, prove her undoing. Her decadence sets in John Hall, D.D. doms. And how aptly this is done. How more (Continued on, page r3.) SIGNS OF THE TIN 10 (650) Vol. 31.

By B. Franklin Richards, M. D. What It Means to the Righteous ness, but it is too late to reform. The politician who has been so successful in the past in gaining It means the beginning of happiness that will last His Promise notoriety and office, loses all interest in such things for eternity, with the full enjoyment and complete EARLY nineteen hundred years ago, when now, for the King of Glory has called for a reckon- possession of immortality and eternal life, the end of Jesus was living among men, He taught the ing. Earthly governments, with their gigantic ar- sickness, pain, poverty, suffering, and death, the N people on several occasions that He was not mies must now give way to the true Commander and complete victory over the devil and his angels. to remain long with them. He had work to do that His army. "And then shall all the tribes of the • Cor. 15 : 51-57; r Thess. 4 : 15-17. must be accomplished when away from them, before earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man It will be the day when the millions of saved will He would be ready to receive them unto Himself. coming in the clouds of heaven with power and " I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and meet and see their Saviour face to face. r John great glory." " When the Son of Man shall 2. prepare a place for you, I WILL COME AGAIN, AND 3 : 0 ! wonderful day, when this frail body, so come in His glory, and all the holy angels with RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF." John 14: 2, 3. The subject to dkease and suffering, will give way to Him, THEN shall He sit upon the throne of His coining of Christ means the literal fulfilment of that an incorruptible one, fashioned to bear close re- glory; and before Him shall be gathered all nations.". promise. semblance to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords! Matt. 24 : 3o; 25 :31, 32. It will be a terrible day to Now such an important event can not be ushered Phil. 3: 20, 21. the wicked. No way of escape. They have been in noislessly, or secretly, as when some large travel- It will mean the deliverance from captivity and weighed on the faultless scales of Heaven and like ing circus visits the city, without wakening the in- the power of the grave. 0 captives, you who have the king of Babylon, have been found wanting. been held for decades, yea, centuries, in the prison- habitants. When Jesus comes, the event will be What It Means to the Old Earth accompanied with great commotion. Mighty peals house of the enemy, will go free, free, then. Listen: We have found by the Scriptures that when the of thunder will roll through the sky. Heaving, " I will ransom them from the power of the grave; Lord comes again, all the righteous will be re- moving mountains, falling rocks, twisted trees, I will redeem them from death; 0 death, I will be thy moved.,from this earth, and while they are being crushed buildings, and fleeing islands, will answer plagues; 0 grave, I will be thy destruction." Hosea carried to meet the Lord in the air (r Thess. 4: to His presence. There will be an earthquake, : 14. " The hour is coming, in the which all that 16, 17), the living wicked will be destroyed with the " such as was not since men were upon the earth, are in the graves shall hear His voice, and shall brightness of His coming (2 Thess. 2 :8). Conse- so mighty an earthquake, and so great." Rev. 16: come forth.' ' John 5:28, 29. quently there will not be a living human being left 18, 20; 6: 14. Heaven's trumpet will sound on that It will be the great " pay-day," when the faithful - upon the earth after the righteous are removed. occasion long, loud, and clear, till every soul is fully employees will be rewarded with the coin from the The prophet Isaiah tells us about this in chapter awake, and every grave, holding the remains of a royal bank of heaven. Jesus the great Redeemer 24 " Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, believer in Christ, has opened and given forth its will be the Paymaster. Every righteous soul will and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, treasure. I Thess. 4 : 15-17, I Cor. 15 : 51-57. receive an honest wage. " Behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man ac- and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. . . . Cessation of Business cording as his work shall be." Rev. 22: 12, The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly The coming of our Lord means the end of every It will be the day Christians have long waited and spoiled; for the Lord hath spoken this word." kind of business on this earth. Buying, selling, or looked for, when all tears will be wiped away and " There were voices, and thunders, and light- bartering in articles of necessity or luxury will eter- the Lord in person will meet and ever be present nings; and there was a GREAT earthquake, such nally cease. Manufacturing will stop. Great mills with His people. " He will swallow up death in vic- as was not since men were upon the earth. . . . and factories will at once shut down, never more to tory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off And every island FLED AWAY, and the mountains resume operations. The millions of busy toilers, all faces. . . . And it shall be said in that day, were not found." Rev. 16 : 18-2o. Such an earth- who will be employed in office, factory, mine, or Lo, this is ouit GOD; we have waited for Him, and quake as is here described will so shake the earth store, or on farm or railway, on that day stop work, He will save us; this is the Lord; we have waited that mountains, buildings, trees, and everything an everlasting suspension. Great railroad trains for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salva- standing will be thrown down. The earth will reel will he in transit on that day the same as now. tion. Isa. 25 : 8, 9. to and fro like a drunkard. " The earth is utterly Some will be carrying living freight, eager to reach How can they help being glad ? Everything broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth home or stopping-place. But each train will stop, changed, loved ones, separated by death for many is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and for the earth will reel with fearful commotion, so years, meet. 0 most delightful meeting, never- fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cot- that no wheel can hold to the rail. Joel 3:16. more to part! Every person given a perfect body tage." Isa. 24:19, 20. Pastures are spoiled, grain Wherever it stops, there it will remain forever. free from every unpleasant thing that distresses us will not grow, trees, vines, and shrubbery are with- ered, streams are dried up. Freight trains will be creaking under the weight of here, and, every sin and tendency that has brought Such will be the condition of this old earth when costly cargoes while moving toward, or departing us so much sorrow. No more crutches, or canes, Jesus comes. Joel 1 : 10-20. Its surface will show from, seaport towns or railway centers; but the wheel-chairs, eye-glasses, ear trumpets, or anything merchandise, costly tho it be, will never be received. artificial. At last, at last, perfection finally reached. the marks of the fearful storm till a thousand years Letters by thousands, containing important news, have passed away, then another change will take will be stored away in mail pouches, or pigeonholes What It Means to the Wicked place. "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; in mail cars, never to be opened or read. for the first heaven and the first earth were passed It means death, sudden death. It means a day of This, greatest of all events, means the end of all away; and the sea is no more. And I saw the holy earthly trusts, combines, and monopoly. Every awful, indescribable fear that death only can shake city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven off, a time when all will pray. "And the kings of holder of stock, bond, or deed, will on that day, from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and tho owner of millions, be as helpless as those husband. And I heard a great voice out of the accustomed to poverty. Eze. 7 : 19. chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bond- throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is All earthly possessions will, with one gigantic man, and every freeman, hid themselves in the with men, and He shall dwell with them, and they sweep, extending from One end of the earth to the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall he with other, be swept from the control of man on that the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us them, and be their God; and He shall wipe away from the face of Him that sitteth on the throne, and day. every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no The farm will not save the farmer, nor the man- from the wrath of the Lamb; for the great day of more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, sion or castle save the capitalist, neither will the but His wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand ?" nor pain, any more; the first things are passed or tenement-house save their dwellers; for God will Rev. 6:15-17. away. And He that sitteth on the throne said, Be- empty the earth of its contents. " The land shall All earthly powers will cease then. Political and hold, I make all things new. And He saith, Write; be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for the Lord financial rule suddenly comes to an end. The mil- for these words are faithful and true." Rev. 21 :1-5, bath spoken this word." Isa. 24 : 3. lionaire with his boasted power beholds his weak- A. R. V. No. 41. (650 11

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By William Covert. from the horrible pit has been provided. God is what Satan wants men to believe, because it robs through His love created man, and God's love is Christ of His glory as man's Redeemer. Christ Conditions of Life the greatest and the strongest power in the universe. came to bring life and immortality to light through AN formed from the dust of the ground was The Sinning and the dying of deluded men can not the Gospel. 2 Tim. 1 : to. But if man possessed told that perpetuity of life depended on obe- satisfy that love, therefore man must be given an- immortality apart from the Gospel, then it was not M dience to His Creator. If his conduct har- other opportunity for life. The way and the work- brought to light through the Gospel. If man in his monized with the law that governed his life, he ing of this love in providing this way of life is made own nature had that which Christ came to bestow would continue to live; but if lie took a contrary known in that wonderful announcement•of Jesus, upon him, then were the offering of Christ in vain, course, he would separate himself from life and die. where He said, " God so loved the world, that He yea, superfluous and null. He was permitted to choose for himself, and the gave His only-begotten Son, that whosoever be- But the blessed One in whom were hid all the choice lie made brought him death. Having taken lieveth in Him should not perish, but have everlast- treasures of wisdom and knowledge, most fully un- the evil course, the Lord pronounced penalty upon ing life:" John 3 :16. derstood man's need, and in His offering and minis- him, saying, " Cursed is the ground for thy sake; Since man failed to fully comprehend and to carry tration has made just such provision for it as exactly . . . thorns . . . and thistles shall it bring out the Father's purpose in the creation of man, it meets the case. Nothing superfluous was done, forth to thee, . . . for out of it vast thou taken, became necessary to make substitutionary provision nor is anything lacking to make it perfect. Com- for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." for him. To accomplish this, the Son of God came plete obedience has been rendered, and this covers Gen. 3 : 17-19. to our world, and in human form and in human flesh with a robe of righteousness the sinner who be- His relation to life as it now stands is pathetically took man's place, and in 'that relation lived a life lieves. The vital power of God's Spirit takes hold told by the ancient patriarch in the land of Uz: perfectly conformed to the will of God. When He. of his heart and transforms him into " a new crea- " Man that is born of woman is of few days, and had accomplished this most fully, He gave His life ture [creation]; old things are passed away; behold, full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower, and M an ofkring to pay the penalty of man's transgres- all things are become new." 2 Cor. 5 : 17. The sin- is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow, and contin- sion. Thus, through the living and the dying of ner can by faith unite with Christ in His crucifixion p ueth not." Job 14 : I, 2. A few days of sunshine, Jesus, atonement was provided for the sinner. and thus pass through the ordeal of death. He is a few nights of storm, and his race is over. A little The obedience rendered in humanity by Jesus is then buried with Him in baptism. By faith a new springtime of budding and blooming, a short pe- imputed to all who believe in Him. Not this only, man comes forth to live with Him. No condemna- riod of summer in which to build up and grow but the blood of the Son of God, upon whom no tion rests upon the new man. The penalty of death 0 strong, a fleeting while of autumn life for ripening, condemnation rested, can atone for the forfeited which held the old man was met in Christ, and in his

• an hour of snowy cold in December,—and then • life of the transgressor who trustingly accepts of the stead is a free man living through the life of his comes the funeral procession to the tomb. reconciliation. Lord. Gal. 2 : 20. Having sinned he must die. 1 Cor. 15:12. Being The apostle tells how the Father hath set forth Christ Our Life. Our All Christ, " to he a propitiation through faith in His of the earth, he is earthy (1 Cor. 15 :47), and must Because he died with Christ he can, and does, live return to his dwelling in the dust (Isa. 26:19). blood, to declare His righteousness for the re- with Christ. By letting go of his old sinful life, he mission of sins that are past, through the forbear- "Alienated from the Life of God " can, and does, take hold upon the life of Christ and ance of God; . . . that He might be just, and live by and through Him. He has passed from the Following Satan in transgression darkened man's the Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus." Rom. state of death where sin placed him, into a state of Understanding, and in so doing he was alienated 3:25, 26. life where Christ's righteousness has raised him. from the life of God through ignorance and blind_ The Son of God, having lived for man, and having There is no other name under heaven by which ness of heart. Eph. 4 : 18. Having been alienated •also died for man, has the right to impart His life the sinner can be saved except the name of Jesus. from the life of God, he can not live. Thus situa- to all who are willing to be transformed into His There is no other road by which heaven can be ted, the apostle declares he has " no hope," and is image. " without God in the world." reached than by the way of the cross. The sinner's This is a lamentable state for one to reach, who, a Necessity of the New Birth own name will not do. The name of no friend ex- cept that of Jesus, who is the sinner's true Friend, little while before; was created in the image of his There is safety for the kingdom of God in doing Maker, and crowned ruler of the world. But he this since the person must be born again in order to will avail to save. No plea except the plea that could riglitly reproach none but himself for bringing get this new life. The new birth is of incorruptible Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life will be about the sad change. Through open transgression parentage, and has in it the germ of eternal life. acceptable. You, friendly sinner, must make the he connected himself with the Father of lies, the Thus the beauty of the scripture which says," God plea yourself. Plead the efficacy of the life, the author of corruption, the rebel against God, and sent His only-begotten Son into the world, that we power of the blood, and all in the name of Jesus, the source of death. If he still abides in such con- might live through Him." r John 4: 9. This state- who joins you in this plea for your salvation. Fear nection he will most certainly be consumed root ment agrees with the scripture where it is written, not to make the plea, for Jesus Himself will present and branch, with all other refuse of the earth and " He that )lath the Son hath life; and he that hath it to the Father 'in His own name for you. He is the universe, in the fires of Gehenna, which are not the Son of God bath not life." r John 5: 12. your life. Because He lives, you can live also. prepared for the devil and his angels. Matt. 25: 41; The teaching in much of the current theology of Claim your life in Him. He pleads for you to do it. Rev. 20 : 9. The immutable law that governs sow- to-day which declares that man has a deathless soul Bethel, Wis. ing and reaping calls upon man to gather his har- or spirit which survives the decease of the body, vest. " Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he and that every son and daughter of Adam's race I WOULD as soon relinquish all hope of salvation also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of must therefore live eternally, contradicts the plain and of heaven and immortality, as give up the ex- the flesh reap corruption." Gal. 6 : 7, 8. Word of God set forth in this article. It is based pectation of seeing the Saviour in person on the upon the proposition of the tempter in Eden, who earth, just as His disciples last saw Him near Beth- A Way of Escape said death would not come to man even tho he did any. Surrender the second advent of the Messiah? But notwithstanding the deep, dark gulf into sin. Gen. 3.:4. Were such teaching true, then the —Never. It is the one sublime event.—Rev. G. W. which fallen man has been plunged, a way to escape Gospel of Christ could not be true. This, of course, Bosworth, D.D. 12 (652) Vol. 31

think that the modern church has departed from some of the-forms and ceremonies sanctified by the ancient church. It is true of all these sects that the mujik looks upon his religion as the most important .thing in life, and is ready to die for it. With all his ignorance, with all his faults, he is worthy of our sympathy, and I believe he is destined to play an important part in the development of. European civilization. No one can foresee, at the present time, what changes are to take place in Russia. We have no evidence, as yet, that this great peasant population CHINA'S CURSE It is called foreign opium by the Chinese, and is has been moved at all by the existing crisis, and no BY A. C. SELMON, M.D. looked upon as a foreign curse. It was first im- one can predict what would happen, if they were ported into China from India, and the trade was en- suddenly aroused to shake off their chains, and stand s one passes along the narrows dirty streets of couraged by England, because of the great revenue. for their rights. It is probable that any sudden and a Chinese city, in addition to the various The Chinese soon awoke to the danger of the trade, violent changes would result in general anarchy. A other odors, is the sickening odor that comes as they saw the havoc that was being caused by it; It is' by no means clear what the czar means by his from the opium-smoking. If compelled to.lodge for and they declared its importation illegal, but it was promise of religious liberty;' it is very doubtful the night in a Chiffese inn, the opium fumes are very still imported from India in spite of protests from the whether it implies any change in the relation of the stupefying. It is well called "China's curse," for Chinese Government. The difficulty arising from church and the state; very doubtful whether it will the enormity of the evil can hardly be exaggerated. the opium trade was one of the important causes of lead to any change in the policy of the government It is alarming that the heaviest users of the vile poi- the Opium War of 1840-1843, between England and as to the toleration of foreign missionaries in the son are the young men, the educated, and those in China. empire. We may be thankful if it puts an end to the charge of the affairs of the government England being successful .in the war, the trade, bitter persecution of native Russians who are dis- It is a very rare thing- to finil a mandarin who is grew to immense proportions, and, at the conclusidn senters from the Orthodox Church. This vast peas- not an opium user, and it is almost impossible to of the second war between China and Great Britain, ant population needs instruction, religious as well as secure a well-educated man for a teacher, who is not 1856-186o, the opium trade was legalized by treaty, secular. an habitue. and from that day until the present opium has been Russia and Missions • In a promiscuous crowd of the people there will be a great factor working against the prosperity of the seen a number who are- greatly emaciated, the face Chinese people. The difficulty of reaching the other races in the expressionless and sallow, and features pinched; the Hsiang Cheng Hsien, Honan, China. empire in the past has been that there is a law which eyes bleary, and eyesight very poor.. The body is forbids any man gatint from poor nutrition. The hand is unsteady, changing his re- and on the fingers will be seen the black stain that ligion, except t comes from rolling the opium. The man's gait is join the Ortho uncertain, and the whole appearance is that of a dox Church, and worn-out, useless body. And useless and worse there has been a than useless the man really is, smoking his drug certain amount of until midnight or later, and sleeping until noon the genuine mission- next day. His business, if he has any, does not re- ary effort on the ceive attention, and his only desire and care is to part of the church satisfy his craving. to win converts Not only will there he seen men in this condition, from the heathen but many boys, of twelve years old and upward, tribes, but none, have followed the example of their elders, and are so far as I know, inveterate users at this early age. Among the well- from the Moham- to-do the percentage of women who are addicted to medans. Central its use is by no means small. The same is true, to a Asia was once certain degree, of opium as of tobacco and alcohol, Christian, and that many use it who have a very strong constitution, long resisted the and so do not show the ravages of the poison in so inroads of Mo- marked a degree. hamtnedanism. 4 The farmers are led to cultivate the poppy, be- Poppy Field, with Graves Beyond. It might be a fair cause it is more profitable than any other crop they field for Protes-0 can raise. In the province of Si-Chuen, in the west THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA tant missionary enterprise now, but I suppose that of China, there has been a very rapid extension of this law is still in force, and we do not know that it • E must seek the real Russia, not among the poppy cultivation. The principal crop formerly was will be repealed. The Russian Government is not enlightened classes, but in the 70,000,000 wheat. An acre of wheat was made to yield twenty likely to repeal it for the benefit of Protestant mis- W mujiks. The Russian peasant is not at- dollars or more. The same acre planted with pop- sionaries. tractive in appearance. He looks dull and heavy. pies,-while it would require considerable more work, The great Protestant nations have sympathized He is very ignorant, generally dirty, often half- would yield over thirty dollars. with Japan rather than with Russia in the present starved, and too often drunk. He is suspicious of The effect of this is seen in the increase in the war, England has been her ally, and the people of strangers, and not easily approached, even by price of wheat and rice. By rsoisoning the best talent America have been almost unanimous on the same Russians of the upper class. But his appearance of the nation, and by depriving the poor people of side. They have rejoiced over the destruction of belies him. He is no fool; he has ideas of his own: their necessary food, opium proves to be a double the Russian navy and the defeat of her armies, and 1-le is willing to work, and he makes an admirable curse. the Russian autocracy never forgets. There was a soldier. He is intensely religious. Superstitious?— Below are a few figures from the English Consul time when no foreigner had such a welcome in General's report on the province of Si-Chuen: Yes; but with a firm faith in the Gospels as the Russia as the American, whoever he might be; but Word of God and in Jesus Christ as the only Saviour. "The province has a population of 40,000,000. this is true no longer. Perhaps in time it will be Of this population three-tenths are urban, and seven- The saints?—Yes; he believes' in them, too, and understood that, while we can not sympathize with often seeks their aid. Dishonest and immoral?— tenths rural. Out of this number about 2,400,000 the Russian Government, such as it has been for the Yes, too often; but he is possessed of a greater fund adult males, and the same number of adult females, last twenty-five years, we have the deepest interest inhabit the cities; and 5,600,000 adult males, and the of kindness and good-will than is common to peas- in the Russian people and the Slavic race. There is same number of adult females, inhabit the country. ants in other countries. no reason why this race should not rise to play as In the city at least 5o per cent. of the males and 20 The very essence of the mujiks' religion is the important a part in the history of Europe and Asia per cent of the females smoke opium, and in the idea that it finds its truest expression in voluntary as the Latin or the Teutonic races whiCh have pre- country not less than 15 per cent. of the males and 5 suffering for others or for the Lord, such as is illus- ceded it, and it is for the interest of all the world per cent. of the females use it. This makes a little trated in the suffering and death of Christ for the re- that they escape from the crushing despotism which over 17 per cent, of the adults and 7 per cent. of the demption of the world. The real character of the keeps them in darkness, and have the opportunity to whole population of the province opium users. mujik comes out most clearly in those dissenting give the world an example of that higher civilization " The average daily consumption of an habitue is sects which take their start directly from the study of and purer faith of which the mujik dreams now in about two-tenths of a Chinese ounce. This- would the Gospels, and there are many such. There is the niidst of his misery and suffering.—/Ifissiondry give a yearly consumption of 127,750 piculs (about always an attempt to bring the life into harmony Review. 17,000,000 English pounds). with the teaching of Christ. Many of these much- " In one city, Chen-tu, it was found that there were persecuted communities are models of -simple and 7,500 opium saloons, or one saloon to every 34 of virtuous social life. Other sects are based upon WE are living in the very age toward which all the population of 306,423. The dens are open to strange misconceptions of the teaching of the eyekhave been directed as those of the closing days men only; and the women have to smoke in their Gospel. of the church's conflict, as long ago as the time of own homes." The so-called " Old Believers" are those who Luther.—.Rev. Samuel Carnal. No. 41. (653) 13

Prophecy May Be Understood Empire, through the professed conversion of Con- ing obstacle to the supremacy of the Roman bishop. stantine, had become nominally Christian. Chris- The Work of the Little Horn • (Continued from page 5.) tian institutions and doctrines were fostered. Little the action was taken by the powers of Europe which- by little the bishop of Rome had come to reason Further, in his explanation of the work of this left the Turkish Empire what it has continued to that, as the city of Rome had so long been the head little horn, the•angel says, " He shall speak great be, the " Sick Man of the East." of the civil world, in' matters ecclesiastical the words against the Most High, and shall wear out and think to change •12. The prophecies of the Bible, which are inspired Roman Church shotild receive the same deference the saints of the Most High, of God (see 2 Peter z : 21), are to be understood and and respect from its fellow churches. Gradually times and laws; and they shall be given into his comprehended by careful study in the light of other these assumptions were admitted and recognized; hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." Verse 25. That the Papacy has spoken great words scriptures. but some there were who dared to dispute these against the Most High, reference need only be made . lordly prelentions. Arius,. a parish prieSt of Alex- "Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the to his boastful assumptions of " Lord God the scriptUre is of any private interpretation." 2 Peter andria; advocated views which were pronounced by Pope," " Christ's Vicegerent upon Earth," his claim : 20. (The Syriac Version - renders this: " No the bishop of Rome heretical, and Arius was cut off prophecy is an exposition of its own text.") from his communion. The emperor was appealed to infallibility, and pretended power to forgive sins, as well as many other blasphemous titles and pre- The key to prophecy is found, not in the commen- to, and, for political reasons if none other, Arius was banished to the East. But the doctrines of Arius rogatives belonging only to God, which he has ar- taries of learned men, nor the writings of great Bible rogated to himself. That he has worn out the saints students, but rather in comparing scripture with spread, and three of the ten kings—the Heruli, the Vandals, and the Ostrogoths—imbibed generally of the Most High, let the records of history testify scripture after the method described in r Cor. 2 : 13: in the relentless warfare which for centuries was "Which things also we speak, not in the words the views held by the Alexandrian' priest. In the later claims of the Bishop of Rome to the chief carried on against dissenting Christians, resulting in• which man's wisdom teacheth; but which the Holy the putting to death of fifty million of the followers Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with bishopric and the head over all the churches, these of the Lord Jesus Christ. spiritual." three Arian powers strenuously disputed and op- posed his supremacy. Before he could assume his As further evidence that this little horn represents lordly titles, it was necessary that these three oppo- the papal power of Rome, we may compute the sing powers should be destroyed. This was finally exact time of the continuance of his persecuting Importance of Prophecy accomplished in the year 538 A.D. , when the Ostro- power. Said the angel, "They [the people of God (Continued from page 6 ) goths, the last of the opposing three, were driven out and laws of God] shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time." A time you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the city of Rome, thus setting aside the last oppos- is one year. In prophetic reckoning a day stands but were eye-witnesses of His majesty, . . . for a year. Eze. 4 :4-6. Hence we have three when there came such a voice to Him from the ex- times and a half time, or three and a half years, cellent glory; . . . and this voice which came equaling twelve hundred and sixty days. A day from heaven we heard, when we were with Him in representing a year would give us twelve hundred the holy mount." 2 Peter z :16-18, NOT GOLD, BUT BLOOD. and sixty years, the time of continuance of this A More Sure Word BY FRANCES EUGENIA BOLTON. power. Beginning with 538, the year marking the .Peter was an eye-witness of that glorious scene. This we call gold, this tide of circulation beginning of papal domination, twelve hundred and But the eye may mislead. It does not always cor- That fills the veins and arteries of trade, sixty years would bring us down to 1798, and this rectly view the object looked upon. To illustrate: This life-flood flowing, ebbing 'mid the nations, year witnessed the downfall of the Papacy as a per- The two rails of a railroad track run parallel the What is it ? Of what bubstance is it made ? secuting power. By the French power the pope entire length of the line, being the •same distance Is it mere metal, hard, unfeeling, witless, was taken prisoner and carried into exile. Never apart all the way; but in appearance, a short dis- Unthrobbing ? Nay, made of pulse and mood, since have his successors enjoyed the same preroga- tance from the beholder they seem to be approach- And has unnumbered voices that bear witness, tives and privileges. ing each other, and, if one were not aware of the This is not gold, but blood. The Everlasting Kingdom, fact that they do not, he would declare to the Once again the scene changes, and this time it is contrary. Men poured this rifer into marts.by dying not the ushering in of another earthly power, but Notwithstanding the fact that Peter had actually Beside their picks down in the bowels of earth; the setting up of the everlasting kingdom of our seen the glory of the coming kingdom, he declares And women gave it up in tears and sighing Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Says the record: we have a more sure Word of prophecy. And to And throes of hard child-birth. " The judgment shall sit, and they shall take away emphasize its importance he asserts that we do well 'Twas oozed out in the sweat of luckless toilers his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the to take heed unto it as unto a light that shineth in a Whose wage was held by fraud to swell the flood; end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the dark place; and it is to continue to shine until the And wanton Pleasure dipped in gory boilers, greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, arising of the Day-star. When a person is in a dark, And dyed her robes in blood. shall be given to the people of the saints of the • dismal cave, enshrouded with darkness which has Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting king- never been Penetrated with the rays of the sun, he Behold in all the earth the way it goeth dom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him." uards carefully and cautiously the lamp on whose Through calloused hands that harden for its mold; Thus, like a rapidly-changing kaleidoscopic view, ay depends his safety. Should that light be extin- And men are broken for the tide that floweth the mind of the prophet-is carried down through • guished, a false step might plunge him into the To feed the " frenzied finance " scheme with gold. the successive stages of earth's history, from the abyss below, to be dashed to pieces on the rocks. Heart-break and brains awreck must give it motion; glory and splendor of the Babylonian kingdom, He is wholly dependent en its beams for his guid- Its substance must be stamped with human dole. through the vicissitudes of Medo-Persia and Grecia, ance back to the brilliant entrance, where he It draws the nation's armies for its ocean, and the breaking of Rome, to the setting up of the emerges into the blazing sunlight, freed from the And blots out hope and soul. everlasting kingdofn of our Lord and Saviour Jesus dangers of the dismal dungeon. Christ. Its establishment is the next great, grand, As we would guard the light which shines in an It swells in heartless centers all congested, and glorious event in this chain of prophecy. dueon, thus should we conscientiously With blood of millions starved of food and breath. dungeon, And what a kingdom will be the kingdom of our guard the light of prophecy which, step by step, Its odor rises like a thing infested— God, glorious in majesty and enduring in might. leads us through the wilderness of sin and wo in this A dreaded plague foreboding blight and death. Righteousness shall reign supreme; peace shall be world, and, step by step, points out the way to the Playing about these vats of corporation, its banner. Every citizen shall be a prince, every better land. Think to escape, 0 Trusts, that stay this-flood? Nay, in it is your own soul's sure damnation, inhabitant a triumphant victor. And joy and glad- 'Ye feed it, too, with blood. ness and song and praise shall shine forth from every face and speak from every tongue. "And the God's View of the Nations Lo, Calvary's cross! Behold the spotless Victim ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion (Continued from page g.) 'Twas thirty pieces Judas set for cost. with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and swift and sure. Surrounding tribes, termed by her This was the price men gave for Love's eviction; sighing shall flee away." barbarians, which the skill and prowess of her arms Yet Christ poured blood for every soul that's lost. had held in check in the past, now turn, and make This tide of gold, so fed by man and woman-, her their prey. Whole tribes sweep in upon Roman Is Christ's own life that ye have so abhorred; territory, settle upon vast areas, and establish their And in the wreckage of the soul of human ' I BELIEVE He is yonder, getting His guest cham- tribal governments independent of Rome. Thus, in Ye crucify the Lord. ber ready, and the moment it is ready, those clouds a few years, Rome is parceled out among these in- shall roll away, and He come, and we shall be vaders, and between the years 351 and 476 the divi- Stop I Hold a moment from this frenzied action; caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. So sion of Western Rome into ten parts is completed, He comes whose right it is to keep and hold. there maybe some in this audience who may never as indicated by the ten horns on the head of the Turn now these tides-to earthly benefaction; taste death.—Dwight L. Moody. beast. These kingdoms were the Allemani, Franks, Restore the wage; be just to young and old. Burgundians, Vandals, Suevi, Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Think not to buy earth's honor, God's salvation; THE. Lord Himself is corning personally the Lombards, Heruli, Anglo Saxons. Come to the cross and feel its crimson flood; second time to earth—not at death, but at the har- Or answer to the Judge for souls of nations vest time, the end of the world. This is the good The Little Horn Drowned in the golden blood hope, the blessed hope, the hope that purifies, the But now a new actor is introduced into the scene. hope of the -chuich, the Scripture hope, and the The little horn arises to do its work. The Roman 440440404 040404414ci4614• great incentive to holy watching.—Rev.S. J. Austin. 14 (654) Vol. 3 I.

would you truly think was the writer's hope, front this language?" Mrs. Wilbur awaited the reply of Mrs. Jones with great eagerness. " Why, it actually seems to me that his hope is in the fact that he expects in his flesh to see God,—and not in his disembodied spirit." " Well, then, that looks as if it must be brought about by a resurrection from the dead," said Mrs. Wilbur musingly. Mr. Gray smiled, while Brother Hartman said quietly: EDUCATION IN THE HOME,. NO. 22 hut he made me promise long agothat I would not. " It is the only way he can ever see his God,—and But Walter will read the verse:" BY MRS. L. D. AVERY-STUTTLE it is the only way any of us will ever see Him, except " ' But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the those who are translated at Christ's coming. When [This series of articles began in our issue of May 17, and has maimed, the lame, the blind; and thou shalt be we see Him, it will be in our flesh,—purified and been growing in interest with each number. Brother and Sister Hartman, loyal and fervent Christian parents, had come to real- blessed; for they can not recompense thee; for thou immortalized, and made like our Redeemer after ize the terrible influence of the infidelity daily taught in schools, shalt be recompensed at the reSurrection of the His resurrection." and elsewhere, and so decided to begin evening classes in Bible just.' " " All this sounds very strange to me, Mr. Hart- for the benefit of their children. Each evening some new friend " Are you sure it does not say at death, Walter?" - man," said Mrs. Gray, "but I must say it looks or neighbor was added to the circle until a goodly number were asked Mattie, roguishly. reasonable, only—" coming regularly, and manifesting deep interest in the different — " ' At the resurrection •of the just,' " repeated " But I'd like to ask Mr. Hartman how he knows topics considered. Up to the present time they have studied the inspiration of the Bible, the second coming of Christ, the proph- Walter, solemnly. Mr. Gray, who had said nothing we are to be like Christ, in the resurrection," inter- ecies concerning the great kingdoms of earth, the unchanging for some time, now exclaimed earnestly: rupted Mrs. Wilbur. nature of the law of God, the Sabbath question, baptism, and the " Yes, yes, my son; I believe, myself, on evidence " If you will turn to Psalms 17 :15, I think you condition of man in death, the last of which is now under con- which has already been produced, that people do will see very plainly that we have good reason for sideration.] not receive either their reward or their punishment our hope. Josie, will you read the verse ? " HAT is my opinion ?" repeated Billy at death. But I think," he continued, "our friend " ' As for me, I will behold. Thy face in righteous- slowly. " May be my opinion ain't worth Mrs. Wilbur said something about our dying like ness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with Thy W anything; but it seems to me that a body the beasts. Now I believe there is something said likeness.' " doesn't need the Bible to tell him that dead folks "Yes, yes, praise the Lord," murmured grandma, don't know anything any more,—I should suppose " yes, I shall be satisfied THEN." e'-^fro4lre-e-o-IrA.tro4r"...<11.411411-411.411411.41110 they ought to know that without telling! " (To be continued.) It was a long speech for poor Billy to make,— awkward, bashful, uneducated Billy; and by the CHANGE time he had ceased speaking, his face was very red, BY L. D. SANTEE and he glanced appealingly first at Brother Hartman Change is the common lot of all, HOW MARY GOT AN OUTING and then at grandma—whom he instinctively recog- As through the earth we roam, [Susan Teall Perry, in New York Evangelist.] nized as a friend. The lips may smile, or tear-drops start, Mrs. Wilbur's eyes were blazing indignantly. As joys or sorrows come, " You ought to have an outing, Mary," said one " Why," she exclaimed hastily; " the lad would To friends we often say good-by, of the members of the society organized to lighten have us believe that when we die, we must die like Kind friends, so tried and true, the cares and labors of the working-girls. the brutes ! " • As the star fades out of the summer sky, The pale-faced young girl, whose appearance Grandma Hartman was a very tactful woman, and And only leaves the bide. plainly showed that physically and mentally she had • this most happy faculty stood her in good stead now. been overworked, looked up with a smile. " 0, if While she had seen and noted poor Billy's appealing g But, ah, thank Cod, there is a home, I only could have an outing, miss! " site said. glance, it would never do to allow their pleasant, Just on the other side, " Yes, Mary, you are sadly in need of one; we cozy study to be marred by a shadow of ill-feeling Where tears or pain can never come, will try to arrange to get you off next week." on the part of any. Already Sister Hartman was And loved ones e'er abide. Mary went home with a lighter heart, and when looking uneasy, and Elsie was fidgeting with her That home of rest is drawing nigh, she slept she dreamed of green fields, of daisies, handkerchief. Mrs. Gray and Mrs. Jones exchanged And in the earth made new, and of singing birds. But the next day when she glances, and Brother Hartman did not forget to send No star shall fade from the summer sky, spoke to her employer of the happiness in store for up a silent prayer to heaven. And only leave the blue. her, a frown came on his face, and he said: " If you " Why, Billy ! " exclaimed grandma, " Surely you Dixon, Ill. go away, you must get some one in your place, and. are too intelligent a boy to believe that God cares no if your substitute does the work well, and wants th • cyqi„.L. &ye., Ly• more for us than for the brutes, when He made us in situation, I shall not turn her off when you come His own blessed image. And still, my friend,"— back. You understand ?" turning to Mrs. Wilbur, whose expressive eyes had somewhere in the Book to the effect that as one Yes, Mary did understand, and she sat down to already lost their fire, " we can hardly blame the died" so dieth the other. I don't remember just her machine and stitched up the long seams of the poor boy for forgetting to say anything about the where it is—" heavy pantaloons with the weight of a terrible dis- glorious resurrection. It all delienlis on that, you " Here is the text, Mr. Gray," said John, " Let me appointment lying on her heart. What would the know. If it were not for the resurrection, I'm read Eccl. 3: 19, 20: For that which befalleth the loved ones do at home if her work were taken from afraid Billy's diagnosis of the state of the dead wduld sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befall- her? How would the mother get on, and Tommy, be correct to all eternity. Thank God, thank God eth them; as the one died], so dietit the other; yea, the crippled brother who was always so grateful for for a certain hope of a resurrection from the dead;" they have all one breath. . . . All go unto one the evening's offering of fruit, which she had been and grandma's mild, blue eyes shone with happy place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust enabled to bring him during the heated summer tears. again.' " • weeks ? Mary was well used to giving up anticipated " Have you any scripture to prove that particular Mrs. Wilbur looked very serious, as John read the pleasures, and site did not tug at the weight long. point?" asked Mrs. Gray anxiously. words of Inspiration slowly and deliberately. " I The outing was an impossibility, and she dismissed "0 certainly; Elsie, can't you find the verse you never supposed there were such words in the Bible. the thought of it entirely from her mind. The light and I were studying to-day? " . I am much surprised, to say .the least," and the of a loving sacrifice, for the sake of those nearest " Here it is, grandma, and its right to the point. I good lady looked full into Sister Hartman's eyes, and dearest to her, came upon her face—a beautiful am sure it will answer Mrs. Gray's question; it is the questioningly. light, but the mercenary employer who walked by thirty-second verse of r Corinthians 15. May be " I understand somewhat how you feel, my her machine an. hour later did not see it. He only Mrs. Gray would like to read it herself. You see," friend," said Sister Hartman. " But we must not saw the stitches his employee was putting in the continued ' Elsie, as Mrs. Gray turned to find the forget that it is only in death that we lie as low as garments. They passed his closest scrutiny. Mary's place indicated, "you see, Paul had a pretty se- the animal creation. Of course, we as well as they, work always did. rious time of it, because he tried to follow Christ, must turn to dust. But as the prophet Isaiah ex- That evening the good young lady who had her and he says plainly that were it not for the resurrec- claimed victoriously, even so may we: interest at heart came to see Mary. "It is all ar- tion, he would not be profited at all; and he couldn't " ' Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead ranged for you," she said. " You are to go next say that, if he expected to get his reward at death, body shall they. arise. Awake and sing, ye that Monday morning, Mary, with the party who are to —now could he, Mrs. Gray ?" dwell in dust.' Now, Mrs. Jones, I would like spend a fortnight at the cottage." But Mrs. Gray made no reply, and began to read: you to turn to Job r9 : 25, 26, and read what Job says -Then Mary told the young lady that it was impos- " ' If after the mariner of men I have fought with about his hope:" sible for her to go, and gave her reasons. beasts at Ephesus, what advantaged' it me, if the " For I' know that my Redeemer liveth, and that t` I will see your employer myself. You must go, dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. Mary. You need the change more than any of the we die.' " . And tho after my skin worms destroy this body, yet girls. Keep up good courage, dear, I am sure I can " Here is another text equally stronk," said John. in my flesh shall I see God.'" make arrangements for you," her benefactor said. " It is Luke r4: 13, 14. I would ask Billy to read, " Now, Mrs. Jones," said Mrs. Gray, " what The employer was quite polite to this young lady No. 41. (655) 15

when she called, altho he would not promise to give A/L DELICATE FABRICS N N i Mary her place when she returned. • . PEARLINE RINSES " But if I get a substitute for Mary who will do her even Silks and Laces are most easily and safely washed with more quickly —easily — work and be willing to give her the situation again, perfectly than bar soap what then?" —leaving no trace of Of course under that consideration Mary could go, PEARLINE Soap,Alkali3OdororDirt but it was very plain to he seen that the clothes THE DIRT disappears in the dealer would not give her a pleasant "good-by," RINSING. Can't you imagine and say cheery words about her prospective outing. all kinds of SAVINGS when Early Monday morning Mary took the train with THERE'S NO RUBBING a large party of other working girls, as happy as 6 herself, and was soon outside of the city's limits, outside of the dust and noise, into the quiet and grass-covered country, Which seemed fresh from God's hand. Meantime her good friend presented herself at the clothing manufactory, and was taken to Mary's machine, and the usual number of garments piled on the chair. The Blau in charge looked at her • quite critically, and said, " You do not look as if you had been used to this kind of work. I'm afraid- you won't be able to du it." But the new substitute did do it, and to the em- ployer's satisfaction, and every day during that fort- night she was in her place at seven o'clock in the morning, and worked the required number of hours. The heat was extreme during that period, 'but she the number engaged in it can ever think of that •• • ••••• •• •••••••• •• ••••••••••••0 had grace and strength given her to persevere and • night without a pang, for it made the youth insane. • finish the work she had taken upon herself to do. • • —Harper's Yining People. SUNSET MAGAZINE • a The new-corner always bad a smile and helpful word far the girls who worked with her, but They DESCRIBES it soon said to each other, " She is different from us; she is not one of us;" but they added oftentimes COMPANY IN THE SICK-ROOM California ahe words, "She is like a sunbeam:here; she does • MANY people have a morbid curiosity to see the ood; I wish I was like her." sick, especially if they are very sick. But if ii pa- tillrfortnight outing was over, and Mary came tient is very sick, it is best that visitors be entirely home with a brightness in her eye and a pink in her Not only California, but all the excluded. A considerate person seldom visits cheeks never seen there before. When her substi- great West, is truthfully described in sick-room unless he can benf use to the patient al tute left her work at the end of her stay, the em- • to the family. the beautifully illustrated pages of this ployer said: " You have done your work well. I But if the patient is not very sick, agreeable virile Western monthly. Its fine half- p am sure you can easily get a place somewhere when company may be of benefit to cheer and encourage. tones make you SEE the country, you want one." She passed out, with a " thank But (1) visitors should not 'wear a gloomy counte- you" ancLa "good-evening." Imagine that man's while its descriptive and industrial ar- O nance. (2) They should hot talk concerning sick- • chagrin and surprise to hear on thefollowing Monday. ticles TELL YOU EXACTLY what ness, but endeavor to turn the attention of the pa- 0 that Mary's substitute was the daughter of one of • tient away from himself and his disease. (3) Some is to be found there. It is the wealthiest and most prominent men in the city.. who visit the sick-room love to relate their own ail- She had been educated in the most accomplished ments, and tell how much they suffer in almost every "Opportunity" manner, bad been abroad twice, and traveled all O imaginable manner. Banish such from the room over her own country. O without ceremony.. (4) If religion or religious ex- in visible form, for it shows the This incident will be all the more appreciated ercises are introduced, let the scriptures read, the when it is known to our readers that every word of wonderful chances for success now word spoken, and the prayers offered, be trustful. it is literally true, and took place in a Western city open in the new West for wide-awake The Psalms of David are always appropriate, as O *luring the extreme heat, of the early part of July. people. • they breathe The spirit of penitence, of submission, • and of trust. They are especially comforting to the • • • H your news dealer doesn't carry SUNSET, • * • sick and afflicted.—Pacific Heath Journal. send us his name and address and write for • sample copy. •O PRACTICAL JOKES rtnns 6Th TriC15-6-6-r-6-6-6--nrcrtnns- 6Th 625 66D • A PRACTICAL joke is a sort of trick played by one • HOME OFFICE: 431 California St. • person upon another, in the hope of making him KEEP TRYING • San Francisco, California. • uncomfortable and ridiculous. To ptrt one's friend • • in au absurd situation, to interfere with his rights, IF 140y.S.S1101.1.1d get discouraged t•••••••••• •••••se e ••• ••••• • 0 A ••• to do something which will hurt him in body or At lessoas and at work, not very deeply perhaps, yet really, is The And say, "Ther's no use trying," object of the practical joker. I have never in my And all hard tasks should shirk , And keep on al-Hiking, shirking, life been able to see the least good, the least inno- THE NORTHWESTERN LINE cent fun, in practical jokes, but I have seen a great Till the boy became a man, RUSSIA-JAPAN ATLAS. deal of evil and mischief resulting from them. . I wonder what the world would do Some years ago, jest at dusk, a maid-servant in a To carry out its plan ! Send ten cents in stamps to R. R. Ritchie, certain beautiful home took it 'into her head that it No. 617 Market Street, San Francisco, for Russo- would be rare fun to dress herself in a sheet and The coward in the conflict Japanese War Atlas, issued by the Chicago & frighten another of the servants. So she slipped Gives up at first defeat; Northwestern Railway, three fine colored maps into the grounds and hid herself behind a tree, and If mice repulsed, his courage each 14x2o, bound in convenient form for refer- waited for her opportunity. Dancing merrily along Lies shattered at his feet. ence. . The Eastern Situation shown in detail and singing with a voice like a bird, came a sweet The brave heart wins the battle, with tables showing relative military and naval little daughter of the house, who had 'been -sent on Because, through thick and thin, strength and financial resources of Russia and an errand to the lodge alt the end of the green lien not give rip as -conquered— Japan. avenue. The merry child, sensitive to her finger- He fights, and fights to win. tips, canght a glimpse of the straight, stark 'figure skulking behind 'the oaks, and was so frightened So, boys, don't get disheartened that .a few months afterward she died—of nervous Because at first you fail; TEN DOLLARS A WEEK. shock, the physicians said, which then began its If you but keep on trying, SOME agents are making as high as Stn a week selling E-Z fatal work. At last you will prevail; Washing Table:s. Why rot you? Sample liar sufficient for a Be stubborn against iaiiane; month's washing for to cents pos:-paid. TERMS FREE. In one of our New England-colleges a youth who Address, Alfred Mallets, Elkridge Sta., Baltimore, Mc). had been studying hard that he might enter the Try, try., and try again; , Freshman class was startled from his sleep at The boys who kept on tryitig midnight by it party of fellows in masks, who pro- Have made the world's best men. and dia- ceeded to make spurt for themselves by that 'stupid —Advance. BROWN'S MILLENNIAL TEXT-BOWL-5o° ,hexts gram. Aid to ministers, workers,cver3bady. Quick seller for process called " hazing " their .companion. They agents. Copy prepaid, one dime. Eugene A. BroWit, Plirenix, had their silty fun, but it is to be hoped that none of 2_9 R9 9-52.9.12.1.144417.29122222.0 Ariz. 16 (656) Vol. 31, No. 41.

and its broken condition, all to be succeeded by the article clearly shows that God has such a preparation c everlasting kingdom of Christ Jesus, symbolized by for to-day. M the Stone cut out of the mountain without hand. in. The Only Power That Can Save, by Mrs. E. G. SI • sz • . ithe.EN This is God's declaration of the lasting power of earthly empire. Nebuchadnezzar, a type of all White, a revelation of Christ as Saviour. MOUNTAIN VIEW. CAL., OCTOBER II, 1905. other worldly patriotic rulers, believed that his em- What a wealth of information is given above ! pire should stand forever, and he imaged forth his The illustrations are, we believe, in every way Efir"We send no papers from this office to individuals without idea in a figure all of gold, in appearance, at least, equal, if not superior, to those in our first Special. pay in advance. When persons receive copies without ordering as represented in the image on the other side. Its them, they are sent by other parties, and we can give no infor- mation in regard to them. Persons thus receiving copies of the the four corners are God's symbols of the nations as "Signs" are not indebted to the office, and will not be called upon set forth in Daniel 7. Below the prophet is the Read the little note on page 6 in connection with to pay for them. Please read the papers you may receive, and hand them to your friends to read, open Bible, emphatically made so by the light of the heading. Read the scriptures cited in that prophecy, while above, mirrored in the clouds, is note. Is it not of remarkable interest for you to tal-Our authority is the Bible, the Holy Scriptures of the everlasting city of God prepared for His chil- know that from a score of years to a century God the Old and New Testaments. When the Common dren. Heb. II : 16; 13 : 14. To get a full under- foretold the doom of these cities? And He told it (King James) Version, the Revised Version, or the standing of what that first page means read the in particular. Read of the doom of Tyre. The American Standard Revised Version is used, quotations whole paper. merchant city of earth was to be made a place for will not be designated in reference. Any Bible quota- tion in this paper, therefore, differing from the Com- the spreading of nets. With a few miserable huts, mon Version, unless otherwise indicated, will be from that is all there is now, a place to spread fish nets. 4 OUR NEXT SPECIAL NUMBER New Tyre is not built on the spot of the old city. one of the two revised versions, usually the American Standard. THE general subject of our next Special is one of Babylorf and Nineveh How mightily their ruins speak for God and His word! Well has Knowles the most important Bible topics which it is possible phrased it: to set before our readers. CONTAINED IN TDB NUMBER. "Stately empires wax and wane,— Babylon, Poetry. The term " sanctuary " to many may mean noth- Barbary, and Spain; Only one thing, undefaced, The Great Home-Coming, C. M. SNOW 3 ing; to many it may recall simply the ancient, ritual Lasts, Um all the worlds lie waste, Advent Song 7 service of the Jews. But to the enlightened student And the heavens are overturned." Not Gold, but Blood, FRANCES EUGENIA BOLTON 13 Christ has told us what that is: " It is easier for Change, L. D. SANTEE 14 of the Bible the sanctuary stands for the very center • Keep Trying 55 and care of the plan of salvation. Upon it and heaven and earth to pass than for one tittle of the law to fail." " Heaven and earth shall pass away, General. within it is focused every great truth of Christianity. Nearness of the End, MRS, E. G. WHITE . ...... 3 but My Word shall not pass away." God's prophe- Object of Prophecy, R. A. UNDERWOOD 4 It is the one view-point which harmonizes all others, cies concerning the things of to-day are as impor- Prophecy May Be Understood, W. S. SADLER and lightens up with divine radiance many passages tant as those of the cities of centuries agone. Importance of Prophecy, S. H. LANE 6 • Christ Will Come Again. How? When? GEO. B. THOMPSON 7 of scripture which otherwise seem dark. Three Visions of Earth's Dominion— Our next Special is on As God Sees Man's View, ABDIEL The Only Blessed Hope.—The resurrection of Chris As Man Sees God's View, ABDIEL S " The Sanctuary; the Gospel in Type and His second coming are the hope, the only hope, God's View of Nations, F.M. Wri.cox • "the blessed hope " (Titus 2 : 13) of the children of What His Coming Means, B. FRANKLIN RICHARDS, M.D.. rt. and Antitype " God. If these great events do not occur man is Christ Our Life, WM. COVERT II What was the meaning of all the ancient sacri- forever lost. But they will take place. The Soft of Missions.—China's Curse, A. C. SELMON, M.D.—The Peo- fices ?—Our next Special will answer it. ple of Russia Is God will come with all the shining angelic host; the The Home.—Education in the Home, No. 22, MRS. L. D. What is the meaning of the priestly service, the dead shall hear His voice, and those who sleep in AVERV-STUTTLE—How Mary Got an Outing—Practical offering of incense-, the Day of Atonement, the two Him shall come forth to everlasting life and immor- Jokes—Company in the Sick-Room 14, Is goats, the solemn services, which to-day have a tality. This was the hope of the promise made by Publishers. 2 God unto the Fathers that God should raise the stronger hold upon even the liberal Jew than any dead. Acts 26:6-8. It was the hope of the patient other holy day of the year?—Our next Special will patriarch (Job 19 : 25-27; 14 :35); it was the hbpe of Do you love Jesus Christ? Then, of course, you answer the question. David (Ps. 17: 15); it was the hope of the prophets love His appearing, and you will be glad to know What about that wonderful prophetic period (Isa. 26 : 19; Jer. 31: 15-17; Ezekiel 37; Dan. 12 : I; He is coming again, and coming soon. spoken direct to Daniel as the representative of Hosea 13 : 14),. Christ taught it, and the same promise and hope and comfort were set before the God's people: "Unto two thousand and three hun- church by His inspired apostles. Why, then, will In our next week's issue (not our next Special) will 4 dred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed " so many Christians reject the plain teachings of the be found our first " experience meeting." We are (Dan. 8 : 14)?—The next special issue of the SIGNS Word on so important and vital a subject, and acce -• sure the testimonies will cheer and comfort other hearts. OF THE TIMES will tell you. a pagan theory of which the pagans were not ce And it will tell you much more than this. Here tain. The Bible theory—eternal life only through a our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming and the resur- Laodicea.—On page 6 is a combination of pictures is a list of the chief articles it will contain: in one heading. One of those is the ruins of Lao- rection, through faith in Him—it is true, does not I. The Gospel in Type, by Prof. J. A. L. Derby. dicea, once an important and wealthy city in glorify or exalt man, but it does glorify our God and Western Asia. It was not an ancient city, hence is a strikingly-interesting article. Christ Jesus our Lord. not named by any of the older prophets. There was 2. The Sanctuary and Its Lessons, by Mrs. S. N. a Christian church in the city, and that church is Haskell. Its worth is not measured by its brevity. Days of Deception.—That the last days are noted used as a type of the backslidden state of the church - 3. The Priesthood in Type and Antitype, by E J. in the last days. The city itself is not denounced in in the Scriptures as days of deception is not surpri- Hibbard, a Bible teacher and preacher for years. prophecy, but the Laodicean church is denounced. sing to those who discern " the signs of the times." The Lord tells her that because of her utter indiffer- 4. Before the Supreme Court, by F. C. Gilbert, an When we see a newspaper that, makes a speCial ence to holy things He is about to spew her out of " Israelite indeed," author of " Practical Lessons boast of cleanness and morality making note of " the latest new novel " as a " great book," we His mouth. Rev. 3 : 14-16. He designs that His from the Experiences of Israel." In this article he may conclude that the days of deception are fairly church shall be the salt of the earth; but if the salt presents the meaning of the great Day of Atone- has lost its keeping power, there is nothing to pre- on. 'A novel is fiction, and fiction is falsehood, and ment. vent both the salt and that which it is designed to falsehood is deception. So a person who loves preserve from going to destruction. So God's de- 5. A Wonderful Book, an exposition of the great fiction loves falsehood—loves to be deceived. The nunciation of the church, and the failure of that prophecy of the Seven Seals of Revelation 6 and 7. reader of fiction is deceived by the thought that he is learning something, when he is only poisoning church, meant denunciation against the city and the 6. The Closing Work of Our High Priest, by W. N. and weakening his mind. The lover of falsehood failure of the city. When Lot's family failed, Sodom Glenn. This is an exposition of the 2,300 days of went down. When the church of Judah failed, Jeru- can not be trusted; for he is liable to become ad- Dan. 8: 14, of which a diagram is given. salem was ruined. dicted to deception, averse to the truth. He is put- 7. The Great Apostate Powers of Revelation 12 ting up a barrier that will shut hint out of the eternal and 13, by Alonzo T. Jones, is an exposition of these city. "Blessed are they that do His commandments, Our Cover Page.—Study our cover page by Mr. that they may have right to the tree of life, and may wonderful prophecies. Mente, of New York. In the center is a type of a enter in through the gates into the city. For with- strong prophet of God, with scroll and pen. Upon 8. Signs in the Heavens, by Prof. G. W. Rine. out are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, him shines the light of God. " Holy men of God This continues the subject of our Lord's coming and murderers and idolators, and whosoever lovelh spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." from the first Special, and shows the fulfilment of the and makeih a lie." The predominance of fiction in On the left side of the picture is a symbol found in signs predicted by Jesus. present-day literature, and the predominant lust for 4 Daniel 2, a great metallic image, composed of vari- that kind of reading, which creates the demand, is 9. A Message of Preparation, by L. A. Phippeny. ous metals, gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay, evidence of the awful deception which ensnares the For every great step in God's plan for saving men symbolizing respectively the empires of Babylon, people of the world to-day. See 2 Thess. 2 : 7-12, • Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome in its imperial form He has sent a special message to the world. This and take warning.