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A. Spicer + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Our Day + In the Light of Prophecy + +Author: W. A. Spicer + +Release Date: June 5, 2006 [EBook #18503] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR DAY *** + + + + +Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Josephine Paolucci +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + + +<p><a name="Frontispiece" id="Frontispiece"></a></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/p004.jpg" width="300" height="448" alt="JESUS WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM + +"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least +in this thy day, the things which belong +unto thy peace!" Luke 19:42." title="" /> +<span class="caption">JESUS WEEPING OVER JERUSALEM<br /> + +"If thou hadst known, even thou, at least +in this thy day, the things which belong +unto thy peace!" Luke 19:42.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h1>OUR DAY</h1> + +<h2>In the Light of Prophecy</h2> + + +<h3>By W.A. SPICER</h3> + + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Whatsoever things were written aforetime +were written for our learning, that we through +patience and comfort of the Scriptures might +have hope." Rom. 15:4.</p></div> + + +<p class="center"> +SOUTHERN PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION<br /> +NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE<br /> +<span class="smcap">Fort Worth, Texas</span> <span class="smcap">Atlanta, Georgia</span><br /> +</p> + +<p class="center"> +Copyrighted, 1917, by<br /> +<span class="smcap">Review and Herald Publishing Association</span><br /> +<br /> +Copyrighted in London, England<br /> +All Rights Reserved<br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_vii" id="Page_vii">[Pg vii]</a></span></p> +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>The Book That Speaks to Our Day</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_13'>13</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Witness of the Centuries</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_25'>25</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Prophetic Outline of the World's History</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_39'>39</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Second Coming of Christ</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_51'>51</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Signs of the Approaching End</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_65'>65</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Lisbon Earthquake of 1755</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_79'>79</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Dark Day of 1780</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_85'>85</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Falling Stars of 1833</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_93'>93</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Meaning of Present-Day Conditions</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_105'>105</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Historic Prophecy of Daniel 7</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_117'>117</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The 1260 Years of Daniel's Prophecy</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_131'>131</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dawn of a New Era</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_139'>139</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Work of the "Little Horn" Power</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_145'>145</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Bible Sabbath</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_159'>159</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Glimpses of Sabbath Keeping after New Testament Times</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_173'>173</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Law of God</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_183'>183</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Justification by Faith</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_191'>191</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Baptism</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_199'>199</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Prophecy of Daniel 8</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_205'>205</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Cleansing of the Sanctuary in Type And Antitype</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_213'>213</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Great Prophetic Period</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_219'>219</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Prophecy Fulfilled</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_229'>229</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A World-wide Movement</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_239'>239</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Judgment-Hour Message</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_247'>247</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Origin of Evil</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_257'>257</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Spiritualism: Ancient and Modern</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_265'>265</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Life Only in Christ</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_275'>275</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The End of the Wicked</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_287'>287</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Angels: Their Ministry</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_295'>295</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Time of the End</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_303'>303</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Eastern Question</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_321'>321</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Armageddon</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_337'>337</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Millennium</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_351'>351</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Home of the Saved</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_361'>361</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ix" id="Page_ix">[Pg ix]</a></span></p> + +<h2>FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> + + +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='left'>Jesus Weeping over Jerusalem</td><td align='left'><i><a href="#Frontispiece">Frontispiece</a></i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Good Shepherd</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_12'>12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Healing the Centurion's Servant</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_16'>16</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christ's Weapon of Defense—The Word of God</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_19'>19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>On the Way to Emmaus</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_24'>24</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Great Image</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_38'>38</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Babylon in Her Glory</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_40'>40</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Handwriting on the Wall</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_42'>42</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Ascension of Christ</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_50'>50</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christ Coming in Glory</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_58'>58</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christ Answering His Disciples' Questions</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_64'>64</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Siege of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus, A.D. 70</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_68'>68</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Catacombs near Rome</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_72'>72</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lisbon from Across the Bay</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_78'>78</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Midday at Sea, May 19, 1780</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_84'>84</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Great Meteoric Shower, Nov. 13, 1833</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_92'>92</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Sign of Fire</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_98'>98</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Satan Offers Gold, and the World Stampedes to Its Destruction</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_104'>104</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Faithful and Wise Servant</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_108'>108</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Sunset Hour</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_114'>114</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Philip and the Eunuch</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_116'>116</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rome on the Tiber</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_124'>124</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Invasion of the Roman Empire by the Huns</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_128'>128</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Raising the Siege of Rome, A.D. 538</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_130'>130</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Storming of the Bastille Prison in Paris</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_138'>138</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Triple Crown</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_144'>144</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Love of Power—The Power of Love</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_146'>146</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christians in Prison Beneath the Colosseum Awaiting Martyrdom</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_148'>148</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Shame of Religious Wars</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_152'>152</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christ and the Scribes</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_158'>158</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Sabbath from Eden To Eden</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_168'>168</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Christ and His Disciples in the Corn-fields</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_172'>172</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waldenses Hunted by the Armies of Rome</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_176'>176</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Gift of God</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_190'>190</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Baptism of Christ</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_198'>198</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Symbols of Medo-Persia and Grecia</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_204'>204</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Camp of Israel in the Wilderness</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_210'>210</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Our Great High Priest</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_212'>212</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Artaxerxes Sending the Jews to Rebuild Jerusalem, B.C. 457</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_218'>218</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rebuilding Jerusalem</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_224'>224</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Anointing of Jesus at His Baptism</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_228'>228</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Crucifixion of Christ</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_232'>232</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Third Angel's Message</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_238'>238</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A Christian Mother Exhorting Her Daughter To Martyrdom</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_246'>246</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lucifer Plotting Against the Government of God</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_256'>256</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Redemption Price</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_260'>260</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saul and the Witch of Endor</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_264'>264</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Salem Witchcraft</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_270'>270</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>"He Is Risen"</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_274'>274</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lot Fleeing From Sodom</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_286'>286</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peter Delivered from Prison</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_294'>294</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jacob's Dream in Bethel</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_298'>298</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Modern Inventions Fulfilling Prophecy</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_302'>302</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Hoe Double Octuple Press</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_316'>316</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fortifications on the Bosporus</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_320'>320</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Modern Jerusalem</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_329'>329</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Great Battle of Armageddon</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_336'>336</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>United States Battleship "Nevada"</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_340'>340</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Moses Viewing the Promised Land</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_360'>360</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Saints' Eternal Home</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_366'>366</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Master at the Door</td><td align='left'><a href='#Page_369'>369</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p011.jpg" width="448" height="295" alt=""FOUNDED UPON A ROCK" + +"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and +a light unto my path." Ps. 119:105." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"FOUNDED UPON A ROCK"<br /> + +"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet, and +a light unto my path." Ps. 119:105.</span> +</div> + + + +<h2><a name="FOREWORD" id="FOREWORD"></a>FOREWORD</h2> + + +<p>These are eventful times. With history-making changes +passing rapidly before men's eyes, the questions press upon +thoughtful minds in all lands, What do these things mean? +What next in the program of world-shaping events?</p> + +<p>Like a great searchlight shining across the centuries, the +sure Word of Prophecy focuses its bright beams upon Our +Day. In this light we see clearly the trend of events, and +may understand what comes next in the program of history +fulfilling prophecy.</p> + +<p>In the Volume of the Book the living God speaks to Our +Day of events of the past that have a lesson for the present, +and of things to come. Divine prophecy fulfilled before +men's eyes is God's challenge to unbelief. The Word of Holy +Writ has been the guiding light through all the ages. It is +the lamp to our feet today.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Steadfast, serene, unmovable, the same,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Year after year,...<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shines on that inextinguishable light."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p012.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="THE GOOD SHEPHERD + +"The Word was made flesh, and dwelt +among us." John 1:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GOOD SHEPHERD<br /> + +"The Word was made flesh, and dwelt +among us." John 1:14.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p013.jpg" width="448" height="282" alt=""PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE" + +"If any man hear My voice, and open +the door, I will come in to him, and +will sup with him, and he with Me." +Rev. 3:20." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"PEACE BE TO THIS HOUSE"<br /> + +"If any man hear My voice, and open +the door, I will come in to him, and +will sup with him, and he with Me." +Rev. 3:20.</span> +</div> + + + +<h2><a name="THE_BOOK_THAT_SPEAKS_TO_OUR_DAY" id="THE_BOOK_THAT_SPEAKS_TO_OUR_DAY"></a>THE BOOK THAT SPEAKS TO OUR DAY</h2> + + +<p>Man may write a true book, but only God, the source of +life, can write a living book. "The word of God ... liveth +and abideth forever." 1 Peter 1:23. The Bible is the living +word of God. We look at the volume; we hold it in our hands. +It is like other books in form and printer's art. But the +voice of God speaks from these pages, and the word spoken +is alive. It is able to do in the heart that receives it what +can be done only by divine power.</p> + + +<h4>The Book That Talks</h4> + +<p>Far in the heart of Africa a missionary read to the people +in their own language from the translated Word of God. +"See!" they cried; "see! the book talks! The white man +has a book that talks!" With that simplicity of speech so +common to children of nature, they had exactly described it. +This is a book that talks. What the wise man says of its +counsels through parents to children, is true of all the book:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +"When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, +it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with +thee." Prov. 6:22.</p> + +<p>Here is companionship, faithful and true, a blessed guide +and guardian and friend.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Holy Bible! book divine!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Precious treasure, thou art mine!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>God Its Author</h4> + +<p>The sixty-six books of Holy Scripture were written by +many penmen, over a space of fifteen centuries; yet it is one +book, and one voice speaks through all its pages. Spurgeon +once said of his experience with this book:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"When I see it, I seem to hear a voice springing up from it, saying, +'I am the book of God; man, read me. I am God's writing; open my +leaf, for I was penned by God; read it, for He is my author.'"</p></div> + +<p>This book declares of itself: "All scripture is given by +inspiration of God." 2 Tim. 3:16. "The prophecy came +not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God +spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." 2 Peter +1:21. As the rugged verse of the old hymn puts it:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Let all the heathen writers join<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To form one perfect book:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Great God, if once compared with Thine,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">How mean their writings look!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Not the most perfect rules they gave<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Could show one sin forgiven,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor lead a step beyond the grave;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But Thine conducts to heaven."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is the voice of the Almighty. Very different it is from +the sacred books of the non-Christian religions. In those +writings it is man speaking about God; in the Holy Scriptures +it is God speaking to man. The difference is as great +as heaven is higher than earth. Here it is not man groping +in the darkness after God. In this book of God's revelation +we see the divine arm reaching down to save the lost,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> +and hear the voice of the loving Father calling to His children, +every one and everywhere. "Incline your ear," He +calls; "hear, and your soul shall live." Isa. 55:3.</p> + + +<h4>The Word That Creates</h4> + +<p>We must have something more than instruction; we must +have a word of power that is able to tell of sins forgiven, +and to conduct us beyond the grave to heaven. One of the +greatest of China's sages, Mencius, said, "Instruction can impart +information, but not the power to execute." That +touches the crucial point. We must have instruction that +can come with power divine to execute. We have it only +in God's words. Christ said: "It is the spirit that quickeneth; +the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak +unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." John 6:63.</p> + +<p>The words of God are living words. When God spoke +in the beginning, "Let there be light," lo, the light sprang +out of the darkness. There was power in the word spoken +to bring forth. "Let the earth bring forth grass," was the +word of the Lord: and the earth was carpeted with its first +rich greensward. So through all the work of creation, the +creative power was in the word spoken.</p> + +<p>"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all +the host of them by the breath of His mouth." "He spake, +and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast." Ps. +33:6, 9.</p> + +<p>Even so, when this word speaks instruction to man, there +is creative power in the word, if received, to work mightily +in the soul that is dead in trespasses and sins. Man must +be born again, be re-created. That we know; for Christ +says, "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born +again ["from above," margin], he cannot see the kingdom +of God." John 3:3.</p> + +<p>And the word of God—the Bible from heaven—received +by faith, is the agency by which this new birth "from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +above" is wrought. This is the declaration of our text: +"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, +by the word of God, which liveth and abideth forever." +1 Peter 1:23.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/p016.jpg" width="300" height="448" alt="HEALING THE CENTURION'S +SERVANT + +"Speak the word only, and my servant +shall be healed." Matt. 8:8." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HEALING THE CENTURION'S<br /> +SERVANT + +"Speak the word only, and my servant +shall be healed." Matt. 8:8.</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></p> + +<h4><b>The Word That Works Within</b></h4> + +<p>Not only does the word of God give the new birth, making +the believer a new man,—the past forgiven and a new heart +within,—but the word that re-creates abides in the believing +heart that studies it and clings to it, to work in the life with +actual power that is not of the man himself. To the Thessalonians, +who had "turned to God from idols to serve the +living and true God," the apostle wrote:</p> + +<p>"For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, +when ye received the word of God which ye heard of +us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, +the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that +believe." 1 Thess. 2:13.</p> + +<p>The word itself works within, and works effectually. +There is nothing mechanical about it. The mere letter profits +nothing. The Bible on the center table, unstudied and +unloved, has no magic power. But God promises to abide +by His Spirit of power in the heart that listens to His voice +and trembles at His word. Jesus Himself tells us the secret +of this power of the word to work in the believing heart:</p> + +<p>"If a man love Me, he will keep My words: and My Father +will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our +abode with him." John 14:23.</p> + +<p>No wonder, then, that believing and receiving the word +brings divine power into the life, making it possible for transformations +of character to be wrought, for victories to be +won and obedience rendered to every command of God.</p> + +<p>Simply believing God's word touches the current of everlasting +power, even as the trolley arm of the electric car +reaches up and touches the current of power flowing through<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +the wire overhead. The faith that takes the living word +brings the power divine into the heart to move all the spiritual +mechanism of life's service.</p> + + +<h4><b>The Word Our Safety and Defense</b></h4> + +<p>When Christ came to live as our example in the flesh, +and to give His life a sacrifice for sin, He, the divine Son of +God, made Himself like unto His brethren. "I can of Mine +own self do nothing," He said. John 5:30. Tempted and +tried, He found His defense in the Holy Scriptures. When +Satan came to tempt Him to sin, the Saviour said, "It is +written." He clung to the sure defense. Again the tempter +came. He was met with the word, "It is written again." +The third time it was the same weapon of defense, "It is +written." Matt. 4:1-11.</p> + +<p>Christ found safety only in the Scriptures of truth. So +the Bible is the Christian's shield against the enemy's attacks. +As Jesus studied the Scriptures and kept the words +ever in His heart for a defense against temptation, so must +every Christian study and meditate upon God's Holy Word +if its counsels and precepts are to be his defense in the moment +of sudden temptation to sin. "Thy word have I hid in +mine heart," said the psalmist, "that I might not sin against +Thee." Ps. 119:11. It was the only way for Christ, our +Pattern; it is the only way for us.</p> + + +<h4><b>The Bread of Life</b></h4> + +<p>The word of God is the daily food for the soul. "It is +written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word +that proceedeth out of the mouth of God." Matt. 4:4.</p> + +<p>Who has not, in hurried times, missed a meal, working +on through the day, never thinking of the prolonged fast? +But after a time there came a sense of weakening force, a +lack of physical power. What was the trouble? At once +the reason was evident—one had not taken food, and the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span> +system was calling for a renewal of its forces. Just so the +spiritual life must needs be fed by the word of God.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p019.jpg" width="298" height="448" alt="CHRIST'S WEAPON OF DEFENSE—THE +WORD OF GOD + +"Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, +Thou shalt worship the Lord thy +God, and Him only shalt thou serve." +Matt. 4:10." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST'S WEAPON OF DEFENSE—THE +WORD OF GOD<br /> + +"Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, +Thou shalt worship the Lord thy +God, and Him only shalt thou serve." +Matt. 4:10.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></p> + +<p>Do we at times feel a sense of weakening of the spiritual +power, a letting down of the vital forces of the soul? Ah, +in the hurry of life we have neglected to feed upon the living +bread. We can no more sustain spiritual vigor and health +without feeding daily upon God's Holy Word than we can +maintain physical power without eating our daily bread. +Eat of the life-giving word. The taste for it grows with the +partaking.</p> + +<p>There is life in "every word." The psalmist found the +Lord's testimonies "sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb," +or, as the marginal reading has it, than "the dropping +of honeycombs." Ps. 19:10. We get the picture of +the honeycomb inverted, the cell caps broken open, the sweetness +dripping down. Just so every word of the Lord is a +cell full of sweetness and life for the soul that feasts upon +the Holy Scriptures.</p> + + +<h4><b>The Source of All Doctrine</b></h4> + +<p>The Bible is the complete and perfect rule of faith and +doctrine. Here every doctrine of salvation is found. Inspiration +has declared it in the words of the apostle Paul to +Timothy:</p> + +<p>"From a child thou hast known the Holy Scriptures, +which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through +faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by inspiration +of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, +for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man +of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good +works." 2 Tim. 3:15-17.</p> + +<p>The divine command is, "Study." For every generation +there has been a message borne by this living word, making +call to reformation of life, or giving warning and comfort. +"The Bible is not a collection of truths formulated in propositions,"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +said Dr. Samuel Harris, of Yale, "but God's +majestic march through history, redeeming men from sin."</p> + +<p>In every age God has been ruling and overruling, witnessing +by His Spirit through the living word. The experiences +recorded of past ages have their special lesson for the present +time:</p> + +<p>"Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written +for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the +Scriptures might have hope." Rom. 15:4.</p> + +<p>"Let vs therfore all with feruent desyre," as the Old +English of 1549 spelled the exhortation of Erasmus, "thyrste +after these spirituall sprynges.... Let vs kisse these swete +wordes of Christ with a pure affeccion. Let vs be newe +transformed into them, for soche are oure maners as oure +studies be."</p> + + +<h4><b>The Book for All Mankind</b></h4> + +<p>It speaks in every tongue to the human heart. Its power +to transform has been shown through all the centuries in +every clime and among every race. One of the Gospels was +put into the Chiluba tongue of Central Africa. After a time +a Garenganze chief came to Dan Crawford, the missionary, +changed from the spirit of a fierce, wicked barbarian to that +of a teachable child. Explaining his conversion, the chief +said: "I was startled to find that Christ could speak Chiluba. +I heard him speak to me out of the printed page, and what +he said was, 'Follow me!'"</p> + +<p>Of the Bible's universal speech to all mankind, Dr. Henry +van Dyke has said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Born in the East, and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the +Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet, and enters land +after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds +of languages to the heart of man. It comes into the palace to tell +the monarch that he is the servant of the Most High, and into the cottage +to assure the peasant that he is the son of God. Children listen to +its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> +of life. It has a word of peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort +for the day of calamity, a word of light for the hour of darkness. +Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people, and its counsels +whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wise and the proud tremble +at its warnings, but to the wounded and penitent it has a mother's +voice....</p> + +<p>"Its great words grow richer, as pearls do when they are worn near +the heart. No man is poor or desolate who has this treasure for his own. +When the landscape darkens and the trembling pilgrim comes to the +valley named the Shadow, he is not afraid to enter; he takes the rod and +staff of Scripture in his hand; he says to friend and comrade, 'Good-by, +we shall meet again,' and comforted by that support, he goes toward the +lonely pass as one who climbs through darkness into light."—<i>The Century +Magazine.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p022.jpg" width="448" height="291" alt="RAISING JARIUS'S DAUGHTER + +"In Him was life; and the life was the +light of men." John 1:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">RAISING JARIUS'S DAUGHTER<br /> + +"In Him was life; and the life was the +light of men." John 1:4.</span> +</div> + +<p>In the days of His life on earth, Jesus was a welcome +guest in humble homes in Judea and Galilee. "The common +people heard Him gladly." His presence brought peace and +comfort to the home. He is no longer with us in bodily presence; +but He is the same Saviour still—"Jesus Christ the +same yesterday, and today, and forever." Heb. 13:8. By<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> +His Spirit, through the living word of Holy Scripture, He +enters the home where faith receives Him, and speaks again +the gracious salutation, "Peace be to this house."</p> + + +<h4><b>Christ the Central Theme</b></h4> + +<p>All the Bible bears witness of Christ as the Saviour of +the world. He Himself said of the Scriptures, "They are +they which testify of Me." John 5:39. "To Him give all +the prophets witness." Acts 10:43. We see Him as the +coming Messiah in promise and prophecy, in type and shadow. +His is the divine, living personality standing out in every +book that makes up the Sacred Volume. As we read with +loving heart, the Author seems near in every page.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Reading, methinks I bend<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Before the cross<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where died my King, my Friend.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The whole world's loss<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For love of Him is gain."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>And having beheld Him giving His life as the divine sacrifice, +and rising in triumph over death to be our great High +Priest in the heavenly temple, as we read these Sacred Scriptures +yet again, in every book, from Genesis to Revelation, +we see Him as the coming King of kings, coming to take His +children to the eternal home of the saved. The whole book +is a bright window through which we gaze on coming glory.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"And yet again I stand<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where the seer stood,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Gazing across the strand,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Beyond the flood:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The gates of pearl afar,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The streets of gold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The bright and morning Star<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Mine eyes behold."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"The Word of God ... liveth and abideth forever." +1 Peter 1:23. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but +My words shall not pass away." Matt. 24:35.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p024.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS + +"Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, +He expounded unto them in all the +Scriptures the things concerning Himself." +Luke 24:27." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ON THE WAY TO EMMAUS<br /> + +"Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, +He expounded unto them in all the +Scriptures the things concerning Himself." +Luke 24:27.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;"> +<img src="images/p025.jpg" width="446" height="289" alt="THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM + +"I am God,... declaring ... from +ancient times the things that are not +yet done." Isa. 46:9, 10." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM<br /> + +"I am God,... declaring ... from +ancient times the things that are not +yet done." Isa. 46:9, 10.</span> +</div> + + +<h2>THE WITNESS OF THE CENTURIES</h2> + +<h4><b>The Sure Word of Prophecy</b></h4> + + +<p>"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto +ye do well that ye take heed." 2 Peter 1:19.</p> + +<p>The prophetic scriptures afford infallible evidence that +the voice of the living God speaks in Holy Writ. One of +the distinguishing marks of divinity is the power that foretells +and records the course of history long ages before the +events come to pass.</p> + + +<h4><b>God's Challenge</b></h4> + +<p>God's challenge to false religious systems in olden time +was this:</p> + +<p>"Declare us things for to come. Show the things that +are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods." +Isa. 41:22, 23.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<p>And all the gods of the nations were silent; for they are +no gods. The Lord alone, the one who speaks by the Holy +Scriptures, is able to tell the end from the beginning.</p> + +<p>"I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end +from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are +not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand." Isa. 46:9, 10.</p> + +<p>By this means God has borne witness of Himself through +the ages, that it might be known that the Most High rules +above all the kingdoms of men, and that men might recognize +His purpose to put an end to sin and bring eternal salvation +to His people. "I have spoken it," He declares, "I +will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it."</p> + +<p>The fulfilment of the word of prophecy in history is a +fascinating story. To the Lord, the future is an open book, +even as the present. The word is spoken, telling of the +event to come; it is written on the parchment scroll by the +prophet's pen. Time passes; centuries come and go. Then, +when the hour of the prophecy arrives, lo, there appears the +fulfilment. And it is seen in matters pertaining to individuals, +as well as in the affairs of cities and empires.</p> + + +<h4><b>The Word Fulfilled after Long Waiting</b></h4> + +<p>In the dream divinely given to the lad Joseph, it was +plainly foretold that his brothers would one day come as suppliants +before him. His father rebuked him for telling the +dream, saying, "Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren +indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?" +Gen. 37:10. The brothers sold the lad into slavery, to be +well rid of him. Yet twenty years later, all unconscious of +his identity, these same brethren presented themselves before +the prime minister of Egypt, and "fell before him on the +ground." Gen. 44:14.</p> + +<p>Again: the wicked stronghold of Jericho had been utterly +destroyed. Joshua declared:</p> + +<p>"Cursed be the man ... that riseth up and buildeth this +city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his first-born,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it." +Joshua 6:26.</p> + +<p>The hands of angels had thrown down its walls, and its +ruin was to stand as a memorial. More than five hundred +years later, when the apostate Ahab was ruling, and Israel +and Judah had departed from the Lord, Hiel the Bethelite +set out to rebuild Jericho. "He laid the foundation thereof +in Abiram his first-born."</p> + +<p>But accident and death may come at any time. The +work on the walls went on, no one thinking of the neglected +Scriptures with their warning of long ago. So the full account +runs:</p> + +<p>"He laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his first-born, +and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according +to the word of the Lord, which He spake by Joshua +the son of Nun." 1 Kings 16:34.</p> + +<p>The fate of some of the mightiest cities the world ever +saw has borne testimony through the centuries to the fulfilment +of the prophetic word.</p> + + +<h4>The Witness of Nineveh</h4> + +<p>Nineveh was founded by Nimrod. He built not only his +capital here by the Tigris, but other towns round about, +conceiving first of all the idea of grouping the capital and its +suburbs into one great city, the "Greater Nineveh," as we +would say in these days of Greater London and Greater New +York. At the dawn of history Nineveh was "a great city." +Gen. 10:11, 12. In Jonah's day it was an "exceeding great +city."<a name="FNanchor_A_1" id="FNanchor_A_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_A_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> Sennacherib, of the Bible story, was its beautifier. +Rawlinson says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The great palace which he raised at Nineveh surpassed in size and +splendor all earlier edifices."—<i>"Second Monarchy," chap. 9.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>A description is preserved on the clay cylinder in the +king's own words:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"For the wonderment of multitudes of men<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I raised its head—'the palace which has no rival'<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I called its name."—<i>Taylor Cylinder, "Records of the Past." Vol. XII, part 1</i>.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>At the preaching of Jonah the city had repented; but in +later years pride of conquest and luxury and wealth were +filling it with blood. The prophet Nahum warned it of certain +doom, appealing to those who had any fear of God to +turn to Him. The message was:</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p028.jpg" width="448" height="280" alt="THE SITE OF NINEVEH + +"How is she become a desolation!" +Zeph. 2:15." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SITE OF NINEVEH<br /> + +"How is she become a desolation!" +Zeph. 2:15.</span> +</div> + +<p>"The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; +and He knoweth them that trust in Him." Nahum 1:7.</p> + +<p>Some, no doubt, heeded the warning and turned to God +for refuge. But the city's life of sin ran on. Then the prophet +Zephaniah spoke the word, just as the stroke was to fall:</p> + +<p>"Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing +city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> +she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God." +Zeph. 3:1, 2.</p> + +<p>Prophecies uttered against the mighty city had declared:</p> + +<p>"He will make an utter end of the place thereof." "The +palace shall be dissolved ["molten," margin]." "She is +empty, and void, and waste." Nahum 1:8; 2:6, 10. "How +is she become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in!" +Zeph. 2:15.</p> + +<p>The Medes and the Babylonians overthrew Nineveh. The +king immolated himself in his burning ("molten") palace. +Nineveh became a desolation. Describing a battle that took +place there in the seventh century of our era, between the +Romans and the Persians, the historian Gibbon bears testimony +to the fact that it has indeed become "empty, and +void, and waste:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Eastward of the Tigris, at the end of the bridge of Mosul, the great +Nineveh had formerly been erected: the city, and even the ruins of the +city, had long since disappeared; the vacant place afforded a spacious +field for the operations of the two armies."—<i>"The History of the Decline +and Fall of the Roman Empire," chap. 46, par. 24.</i></p></div> + +<p>And to this day, the site of Nineveh is pointed out across +the river from Mosul, only mounds of ruins, these almost +obliterated by the drifting sands of centuries. The word +spoken is fulfilled, though at the time it was spoken it little +seemed to proud and prosperous Nineveh that such a fate +could ever be hers.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Before me rise the walls<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the Titanic city,—brazen gates,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Towers, temples, palaces enormous piled,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Imperial Nineveh, the earthly queen!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In all her golden pomp I see her now,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her swarming streets, her splendid festivals.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"> * * * * *<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Again I look,—and lo!...<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her walls are gone, her palaces are dust,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The desert is around her, and within<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like shadows have the mighty passed away."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>From Nineveh's mounds we seem to hear a voice that +says: "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the +flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof +falleth away: but the word of the Lord endureth forever." +1 Peter 1:24, 25.</p> + + +<h4>The Burden of Tyre</h4> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p030.jpg" width="448" height="298" alt="TYRE BY THE SEA + +"They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and +break down her towers." Eze. 26:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TYRE BY THE SEA<br /> + +"They shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and +break down her towers." Eze. 26:4.</span> +</div> + +<p>Tyre was the greatest maritime city of antiquity. Its inhabitants, +the Phœnicians, traded in the ports of all the known +world. Ezekiel describes the heart of the seas as its borders. +"Thy builders have perfected thy beauty," he says. He +tells how all countries traded in its marts and contributed to +its wealth. And then, obeying the word of the Lord, the +prophet bears a message of rebuke and warning,—"the burden +of Tyre,"—and pronounces the coming judgment:</p> + +<p>"Thus saith the Lord God: Behold, I am against thee, +O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against +thee.... And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, +and make her like the top of a rock. It shall be a place for +the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have +spoken it, saith the Lord God." Eze. 26:3-5.</p> + +<p>The accounts of travelers bear witness that the prophecy +has been fulfilled. As to the site of the island city of +Ezekiel's day, Bruce, nearly a century ago, said that he found +it a "rock whereon fishers dry their nets." (See "Keith on +the Prophecies," p. 329.)</p> + +<p>In more recent times, Dr. W.M. Thomson found the +whole region of Tyre suggestive only of departed glory:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There is nothing here, certainly, of that which led Joshua to call it +'the strong city' more than three thousand years ago (Joshua 19:29),—nothing +of that mighty metropolis which baffled the proud Nebuchadnezzar +and all his power for thirteen years, until 'every head' in his army +'was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled,' in the hard service +against Tyrus (Eze. 29:18),—nothing in this wretched roadstead and +empty harbor to remind one of the times when merry mariners did sing +in her markets—no visible trace of those towering ramparts which so +long resisted the utmost efforts of the great Alexander. All have vanished +utterly like a troubled dream, and Tyre has sunk under the burden +of prophecy.... As she is now, and has long been, Tyre is God's witness; +but great, powerful, and populous, she would be the infidel's boast. This, +however, she cannot be. Tyre will never rise from her dust to falsify +the voice of prophecy.</p></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Dim is her glory, gone her fame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her boasted wealth has fled;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On her proud rock, alas! her shame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The fisher's net is spread.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Tyrian harp has slumbered long,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Tyria's mirth is low;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The timbrel, dulcimer, and song<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are hushed, or wake to woe."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>"The Land and the Book," Vol. II, pp. 626, 627.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>The Desolation of Babylon</h4> + +<p>Yet another city of ancient times there was, the mightiest +of them all, whose fate was a subject of prophecy, and whose +history bears special testimony for us today; for, more than<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +any other, the Lord used that city as a symbol of the pride +of life and the exaltation of the selfish heart against God.</p> + +<p>Let us study briefly the desolations pronounced upon +Babylon of old.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p032.jpg" width="448" height="292" alt="BABYLON IN THE DUST + +"Babylon shall become heaps,... +without an inhabitant." Jer. 51:37." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BABYLON IN THE DUST<br /> + +"Babylon shall become heaps,... +without an inhabitant." Jer. 51:37.</span> +</div> + +<p>While Babylon was still the mightiest city of the world, +with the period of greatest glory yet before it, the Lord revealed +its ignoble end. By the prophet Isaiah He declared:</p> + +<p>"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' +excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and +Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be +dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the +Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make +their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; +and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls +shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the +wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, +and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to +come, and her days shall not be prolonged." Isa. 13:19-22.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>Never could a more doleful future have been pictured +for a city full of splendor, the metropolis of the world. About +one hundred and seventy-five years after this word was written +on the parchment scroll, the Medes and Persians were +at the gates of Babylon. Her time had come, and Chaldea's +rule was ended.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Fallen is the golden city! in the dust,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Spoiled of her crown, dismantled of her state.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">She that hath made the Strength of Towers her trust,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Weeps by her dead, supremely desolate!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"She that beheld the nations at her gate<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thronging in homage, shall be called no more<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Lady of Kingdoms!'—Who shall mourn her fate?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her guilt is full, her march of triumph o'er."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But still, under Medo-Persia, and later under the Greeks, +the city itself was populous and prosperous and beautiful. +The skeptic of the time may have pointed to it as evidence +that here, at least, the Hebrew prophet had missed the mark.</p> + +<p>Apollonius, the sage of Tyana, who lived in the days of +Nero and the apostles, has left an account of Babylon as he +saw it, as late as the first century of our era. Still the Euphrates +swept beneath its walls, dividing the city into halves, +with great palaces on either side. He says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The palaces are roofed with bronze, and a glitter goes off from them; +but the chambers of the women and of the men and the porticoes are +adorned partly with silver, and partly with golden tapestries or curtains, +and partly with solid gold in the form of pictures."</p></div> + +<p>And of the king's judgment hall he reported:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The roof had been carried up in the form of a dome, to resemble +in a manner the heavens, and that it was roofed with sapphire, a stone +that is very blue and like heaven to the eye; and there were images of the +gods, which they worship, fixed aloft, and looking like golden figures +shining out of the ether."—<i>Philostratus, "Life of Apollonius," book 1, +chap. 25.</i></p></div> + +<p>Evidently Babylon was still "the land of graven images," +and the desolation foretold by the prophet had not yet befallen +its palaces. But that prophetic word, written eight<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span> +hundred years before, was still upon the scroll of the Book, +the sure Word of God, who sees the end from the beginning.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p034.jpg" width="448" height="282" alt="EGYPT'S GLORY DEPARTED + +"The idols of Egypt shall be moved." +Isa. 19:1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">EGYPT'S GLORY DEPARTED<br /> + +"The idols of Egypt shall be moved." +Isa. 19:1.</span> +</div> + +<p>The view given us by Apollonius is perhaps the last glimpse +we have of Babylon's passing glory. Even then for centuries +the walls had been a quarry from which stones were +drawn for Babylon's rival, Seleucia, on the Tigris. And +Strabo, the Greek geographer, who also wrote in the first +century, had described Babylon as "in great part deserted," +adding,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"No one would hesitate to apply to it what one of the comic writers +said of Megalopolitæ, in Arcadia, 'The great city is a great +desert.'"—<i>"Geography," book 16, chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>Already pagan writers had begun to describe its condition +in the terms of the prophecy uttered so long before. And +now what is its state? The doom foretold has fallen heavy +upon the city, upon its palaces, and "upon the graven images +of Babylon." For a century and more, travelers' accounts +have frequently borne witness to the exact fulfilment of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +prophecy in the remarkable desolations of that city, once +mistress of the world.</p> + +<p>"Babylon shall become heaps," said the prophecy, "and +owls shall dwell there." This is what Mr. Layard, the English +archeologist, found on his visit in 1845:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Shapeless heaps of rubbish cover for many an acre the face of the +land.... On all sides, fragments of glass, marble, pottery, and inscribed +brick are mingled with that peculiar nitrous and blanched soil, which, +bred from the remains of ancient habitations, checks or destroys vegetation, +and renders the site of Babylon a naked and a hideous waste. +Owls [which are of a large gray kind, and often found in flocks of nearly +a hundred] start from the scanty thickets, and the foul jackal skulks +through the furrows."—<i>"Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and +Babylon," chap. 21, p. 413.</i></p></div> + +<p>The prophecy said, "Neither shall the Arabian pitch tent +there." The words might be construed to mean that the +famous site would never become the place of a Bedouin village. +But it is literally true, say travelers, that the Arabs +avoid the place even for the temporary pitching of their +tents. They consider the spot under a curse. They call +the ruins <i>Mudjelibe</i>, "the Overturned." (See "Encyclopedia +of Islam," art. "Babil.")</p> + +<p>As late as 1913, Missionary W.C. Ising visited the site +where Professor Koldeway was excavating the ruins of Nebuchadnezzar's +palace. He wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Involuntarily one is reminded of the prophecy in the thirteenth of +Isaiah and many other places, which, in course of time, have been fulfilled +to the letter. No one is living on the site of ancient Babylon, and whatever +Arabs are employed by the excavators have built their mud huts +in the bed of the ancient river, which at the present time is shifted half a +mile farther west."—<i>European Division Quarterly, Fourth Quarter, 1913.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Egypt and Edom</h4> + +<p>The massive ruins by the Nile bear witness to prophecy +fulfilled. When Egypt rivaled Babylon, the word was spoken: +"It shall be the basest of the kingdoms; neither shall it +exalt itself any more above the nations." Eze. 29:15. It +was not utterly to pass, as Babylon, but to continue in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span> +inferior state. Thus it came to pass. Once populous Edom, +famed for wisdom and counsel, now lies desolate, according +to the word: "Edom shall be a desolation: every one that +goeth by it shall be astonished." Jer. 49:17.</p> + + +<h4>The Testimony of History</h4> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p036.jpg" width="448" height="293" alt="RUINS OF EDOM + +"Edom shall be a desolate wilderness." +Joel 3:19." title="" /> +<span class="caption">RUINS OF EDOM<br /> + +"Edom shall be a desolate wilderness." +Joel 3:19.</span> +</div> + +<p>Thus the centuries bear testimony to the fulfilment of the +prophetic word. The panorama of all human history moves +before us in these writings of the prophets. Flinging their +"colossal shadows" across the pages of Holy Writ, as Farrar +says, we see—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The giant forms of empires on their way<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To ruin."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is no human book that thus from primitive times forecasts +the march of history through the ages.</p> + +<p>The Lord not only spoke the word in warning and entreaty +for those to whom it first came, but it is written in the +Scriptures of truth as a testimony to all time, that the Bible<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span> +is the word of God, and that all His purposes revealed therein +and all the promises of the blessed Book are certain and sure. +The prophets who bore messages from God to Nineveh, and +Babylon, and Tyre, spoke messages also for our day.</p> + +<p>Fulfilled prophecy is the testimony of the centuries to the +living God. The evidence of prophecy and its fulfilment is +God's challenge and appeal to men to acknowledge Him as +the true God and the Holy Scriptures as His word from heaven.</p> + +<p>"I have declared the former things from the beginning; +and they went forth out of My mouth, and I showed them; +I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. Because I +knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, +and thy brow brass; I have even from the beginning declared +it to thee; before it came to pass I showed it thee.... Thou +hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it?" Isa. +48:3-6.</p> + +<p>Surely no one can look at the evidence in history of the +fulfilment of prophecy without seeing that of a truth the +One who spoke these words knew the end from the beginning; +and finding the living God in the sure word of prophecy, +one must be prepared to listen to His voice in all the +Scriptures, when it speaks of sin and the way of salvation +through Jesus Christ.</p> + +<p>Further, the prophetic word also has much to say of +events yet future, of the course of history in modern times. +It behooves us to give heed to what that word speaks concerning +our own times and the events that are to take place +upon the earth before the end. The apostle Peter exhorts +us to the study in these words:</p> + +<p>"We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto +ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in +a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in +your hearts." 2 Peter 1:19.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p038.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="THE GREAT IMAGE + +"He that revealeth secrets maketh known to +thee what shall come to pass." Dan. 2:29." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GREAT IMAGE<br /> + +"He that revealeth secrets maketh known to +thee what shall come to pass." Dan. 2:29.</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_A_1" id="Footnote_A_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> "In the book of Jonah," says <i>Records of the Past</i>, "Nineveh +is stated +to have been an exceeding great city of three days' journey; and that being +the case, the explanation that Calah on the south and Khorsabad on the +north were included seems very probable. The distance between these two +extreme points is about thirty miles, which, at ten miles a day, would take +the time required."—<i>Vol. XII, part 1, January and February, 1913</i>.</p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p039.jpg" width="448" height="291" alt="DANIEL INTERPRETING +NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM + +"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a +great Image." Dan. 2:31." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DANIEL INTERPRETING +NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S DREAM<br /> + +"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a +great Image." Dan. 2:31.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="PROPHETIC_OUTLINE_OF_THE_WORLDS_HISTORY" id="PROPHETIC_OUTLINE_OF_THE_WORLDS_HISTORY"></a>PROPHETIC OUTLINE OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY</h2> + +<h3>THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 2</h3> + + +<p>"There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and +maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be +in the latter days."</p> + +<p>In a dream by night the Lord gave to Nebuchadnezzar, +king of Babylon, a clear historical outline of the course of +world empire to the end of time and the coming of the eternal +kingdom.</p> + +<p>The king was a thoughtful monarch; and having reached +the height of his power, he was one night meditating upon +"what should come to pass hereafter." Not for his sake +alone, but for the enlightenment and instruction of men in +all time, the Lord answered the wondering question of the +king's meditation by giving him the dream. "He that revealeth +secrets," said Daniel the prophet, "maketh known +to thee what shall come to pass."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p040.jpg" width="442" height="262" alt="BABYLON IN HER GLORY + +"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the +Chaldees' excellency." Isa. 13:19." title="" /> +<span class="caption">BABYLON IN HER GLORY<br /> + +"Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the +Chaldees' excellency." Isa. 13:19.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>And that we may know at the beginning that there is +nothing fanciful and uncertain about this great historic +outline reaching to the end of the world, we note first the +assurance with which the prophet closed his interpretation: +"The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."</p> + +<p>The details of the dream had been taken from the king's +mind, while conviction as to the wondrous import of it remained. +This was in God's providence, to show the folly +of the worldly-wise men of Babylon, and to bring before the +king the prophet of the Lord with a divine message. The +prophet Daniel, under the inspiration of God, brought his +dream again to the king's mind:</p> + +<p>"Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This +great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before +thee; and the form thereof was terrible.</p> + +<p>"This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his +arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, +his feet part of iron and part of clay.</p> + +<p>"Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, +which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and +clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the +clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, +and became like the chaff of the summer threshing +floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was +found for them: and the stone that smote the image became +a great mountain, and filled the whole earth."</p> + +<p>The prophet next declared the interpretation. And now +follows the history of the world in miniature.</p> + + +<h4>Babylon</h4> + +<p>"Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven +hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. +And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the +field and the fowls of the heaven hath He given into thine +hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art +this head of gold."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 302px;"> +<img src="images/p042.jpg" width="302" height="448" alt="THE HANDWRITING +ON THE WALL + +"Thy kingdom is divided, and given to +the Medes and Persians." Dan. 5:28." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE HANDWRITING +ON THE WALL<br /> + +"Thy kingdom is divided, and given to +the Medes and Persians." Dan. 5:28.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<p>The parts of the image, then, of various metals, from +head to feet, represented successive empires, beginning with +Babylon; and the kingdom of Babylon, represented by Nebuchadnezzar, +was the head of gold.</p> + +<p>History shows how fitly the golden head symbolizes the +Babylonian kingdom. Long before, the prophet Isaiah had +described it as "the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the +Chaldees' excellency." Isa. 13:19. And now, in Nebuchadnezzar's +day, it was the golden age of the Babylonian kingdom. +No such gorgeous city as its capital ever before stood +on earth. And Nebuchadnezzar was the great leader of its +conquests, and the beautifier and builder of its walls and +palaces. "For the astonishment of men I have built this +house," one tablet reads; and hundreds repeat the story.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Those portals<br /></span> +<span class="i0">for the astonishment of multitudes of people<br /></span> +<span class="i0">with beauty I adorned.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In order that the battle storm<br /></span> +<span class="i0">to Imgur-Bel<br /></span> +<span class="i0">the wall of Babylon might<br /></span> +<span class="i0">not reach;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">what no king before me<br /></span> +<span class="i0">had done."—<i>East India House Inscription.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Thus Nebuchadnezzar's records of stone today repeat the +proud boast faithfully reported in the Scripture, "Is not this +great Babylon, that I have built?" Dan. 4:30. To the +king it seemed that such a city could never fall. One inscription +reads:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Thus I completely made strong the defenses of Babylon. May it +last forever."—<i>Rawlinson, "Fourth Monarchy," Appendix A.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Medo-Persia</h4> + +<p>But the prophet Daniel, proceeding with the divine interpretation, +interrupted all such proud thoughts with the declaration, +"After thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to +thee."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now the look was forward into the future. And the word +came to pass. Babylon's decline was swift after Nebuchadnezzar's +death. Daniel the prophet himself lived to interpret +the handwriting on the wall at Belshazzar's feast:</p> + +<p>"God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.... +Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.... +Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and +Persians." Dan. 5:26-28.</p> + +<p>The breast and arms of silver, in the great image, represented +the Medo-Persian kingdom, which followed the Babylonian, +"inferior" to it in brilliancy and grandeur, as silver +is inferior to gold. Medo-Persia, however, enlarged the borders +of the world empire; and the names of Cyrus and Darius +are written among the mightiest conquerors of history.</p> + +<p>But the prophet does not stop to dwell upon the grandeur +of fleeting earthly kingdoms. The interpretation hastens +on to reach the setting up of a kingdom that shall not pass +away. Following Medo-Persia, a third power was to rise,</p> + + +<h4>Grecia</h4> + +<p>"And another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear +rule over all the earth."</p> + +<p>The "third kingdom" after Babylon was Grecia, which +overthrew the empire of the Medes and Persians. And +Grecia's dominion fulfilled the specifications of the prophecy, +which indicated a yet wider expansion of empire. Its sway +was to be over "all the earth," said Daniel the prophet, foretelling +its history. Arrian, the Greek historian, writing afterward, +said that Alexander of Greece seemed truly "lord of +all the earth;" and he adds:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"I am persuaded there was no nation, city, nor people then in being +whither his name did not reach; for which reason, whatever origin he +might boast of, or claim to himself, there seems to me to have been some +divine hand presiding both over his birth and actions."—<i>"History of the +Expedition of Alexander the Great," book 7, chap. 30.</i></p></div> + +<p>The sides of brass in the great image represented Grecia, +the brazen metal itself being a fitting symbol of those<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +"brazen-mailed" Greeks, celebrated in ancient poetry and +song,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Among the foremost, armed in glittering brass."</p></div> + + +<h4>A Power Rising in the West</h4> + +<p>While Grecia's supremacy under Alexander was disputed +by none, there was a power rising in the West that was soon +to enter the lists for the prize of world dominion.</p> + +<p>Some of the ancient writers say that at the time of his +death Alexander had in mind to push westward to strike down +the growing power of the city of Rome, of which he had heard. +Plutarch says that this man Alexander,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"who shot like a star, with incredible swiftness, from the rising to the +setting sun, was meditating to bring the luster of his arms into Italy.... +He had heard of the Roman power in Italy."—<i>"Morals," chap. on +"Fortune of the Romans," par. 13.</i></p></div> + +<p>Lucan, the ancient Roman poet, repeats the thought:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Driven headlong on by Fate's resistless force,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through Asia's realms he took his dreadful course:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His ruthless sword laid human nature waste,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And desolation followed where he passed....<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Ev'n to the utmost west he would have gone,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where Tethys' lap receives the setting sun."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—"<i>Pharsalia.</i>"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But in the prime of his years, Alexander was cut down, +and Rome had yet more time in which to develop its strength +preparatory to the deciding contest for the mastery of all the +world. Sure it is that after Grecia, there followed the Roman +Empire, the strongest and mightiest and most crushing of +them all. This fourth universal empire the prophet proceeded +to describe, as represented by the legs of iron in Nebuchadnezzar's +dream of the great image.</p> + + +<h4>Rome</h4> + +<p>"The fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch +as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron +that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + +<p>How appropriately the iron of the image fits the character +of the fourth great empire! Gibbon, the historian, calls it +"the iron monarchy of Rome." It broke in pieces the kingdoms, +subduing all, just as prophecy had declared so long +before. As iron is strongest of the common metals, so according +to the prophecy—"as iron that breaketh all these"—this +fourth kingdom was to be more powerful than any before +it. Strabo, the geographer, who lived in the days of Tiberius +Cæsar, said,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Romans have surpassed (in power) all former rulers of whom +we have any record."—<i>"Geography," book 17, chap. 3.</i></p></div> + +<p>Hippolytus, bishop and martyr, who lived in Rome in +the third century,—under the "iron monarchy,"—wrote thus +of this prophecy:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Already the iron rules; already it subdues and breaks all in pieces; +already it brings all the unwilling into subjection; already we see these +things ourselves."—<i>"Treatise on Christ and Antichrist," sec. 33.</i></p></div> + +<p>Hippolytus also saw clearly from the prophecy that the +empire of his day would be divided, and he wrote of the kingdoms +that were "yet to rise" out of it. For Daniel's interpretation +explained clearly the meaning of the mingling of +clay with the iron in the feet and toes of the great image.</p> + + +<h4>The Kingdoms of Modern Europe</h4> + +<p>"Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' +clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there +shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou +sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.</p> + +<p>"And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of +clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.</p> + +<p>"And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, +they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they +shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed +with clay."</p> + +<p>"The kingdom shall be divided." So declared the prophet +of God. In the height of its power, Rome scouted the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span> +thought that so mighty a fabric could ever be broken up. +Horace sang in his "Odes,"</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"How, added to a conquered world,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Euphrates 'bates his tide,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Huns, beyond our frontiers hurled,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O'er straitened deserts ride.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"> * * * * *<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The Goths beyond the sea may plot,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The warlike Basques may plan;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Friend, never heed them! vex thee not;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For this our mortal span<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of little wants."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Book 2, Marris's Translation.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But the words were written on the ancient parchment in +the days of Babylon, "The kingdom shall be divided;" and +true to the word of the prophet, the Roman Empire fell apart +with the mixture of nations and peoples that swept into it. +The elements did not hold together, even as the mixture of +iron and clay in the image did not cleave together. Broken +up by the invasions of fresh nations from the north, the Western +Empire was divided into lesser kingdoms, out of which +have grown the modern nations of western Europe.</p> + +<p>Not one word in the outline of the prophecy thus far has +failed of fulfilment. These modern kingdoms growing out +of divided Rome have never been reunited. "They shall +mingle themselves with the seed of men," said the prophecy. +Nearly all the reigning houses of Europe today are related by +intermarriage; the prophecy said it would be so; but "they +shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with +clay." So we see it. No statesman, no master of legions, has +been able to join these nations together again in one great +empire. Charles V had the thought in mind, some think. +Napoleon dreamed of doing it. But it was not to be. Nevermore +was there to be one universal monarchy.</p> + +<p>We may know that as surely as the course of world empire +has followed the exact outline of the prophecy put on the inspired +record in the days of Babylon of old, just so surely the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span> +specifications of the closing portion of the outline will be fulfilled.</p> + +<p>The fourth great kingdom was to be divided. Rome was +the fourth empire: it was divided. The kingdoms of the divided +empire are acting their part before our eyes today.</p> + + +<h4>The Next Great Event</h4> + +<p>And what next? That is the question for us. Now the +prophetic outline that began with ancient Babylon touches the +things of our own day. The word spoken before Nebuchadnezzar +so long ago is now spoken especially to us:</p> + +<p>"In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set +up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom +shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in +pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.</p> + +<p>"Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of +the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the +iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great +God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass +hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation +thereof sure."</p> + +<p>"In the days of these kings,"—these kingdoms of our +own time,—the next great world-changing event is to be the +coming of Christ to begin the setting up of his everlasting +kingdom. That is the grand climax toward which all the +course of history has been tending. At last the end is to come.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Down in the feet of iron and of clay,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Weak and divided, soon to pass away;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What will the next great, glorious drama be?—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Christ and His coming, and eternity."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>As the stone, cut out of the mountain "without hands," +smote the image, so that all its parts, representative of earthly +dominion, were ground to dust and blown away, so Christ's +coming kingdom, set up "without hands," by no human +power, but by the power of the eternal God, will end all<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> +earthly dominion and bring the utter destruction of sin and +sinners out of the earth.</p> + +<p>"The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."</p> + +<p>Then may all eyes well be turned toward the next great +step foretold in the prophetic outline—the coming of Christ's +glorious everlasting kingdom, which shall not pass away.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Look for the waymarks as you journey on,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Look for the waymarks, passing one by one,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Down through the ages, past the kingdoms four,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where are we standing? Look the waymarks o'er."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p049.jpg" width="448" height="285" alt="PHOTOGRAPH BY MISSIONARY W.C. ISING + +Ruins of the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, in which was the hall of Belshazzar's +Feast." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PHOTOGRAPH BY MISSIONARY W.C. ISING<br /> + +Ruins of the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar, in which was the hall of Belshazzar's +Feast.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/p050.jpg" width="300" height="448" alt="THE ASCENSION +OF CHRIST + +"This same Jesus ... shall +so come in like manner." Acts +1:11. + +COPYRIGHT STANDARD PUB. CO." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE ASCENSION +OF CHRIST<br /> + +"This same Jesus ... shall +so come in like manner." Acts +1:11. + +COPYRIGHT STANDARD PUB. CO.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[Pg 51]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p051.jpg" width="448" height="274" alt="THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO +JERUSALEM + +"Behold, thy King cometh,... lowly, +and riding upon an ass." Zech. 9:9." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY INTO +JERUSALEM<br /> + +"Behold, thy King cometh,... lowly, +and riding upon an ass." Zech. 9:9.</span> +</div> + + +<h2>THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST</h2> + + +<p>"Unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second +time without sin unto salvation." Heb. 9:28.</p> + +<p>Too often the second coming of Christ is looked upon +simply as a doctrine. It is, however, more than a doctrine +merely to be believed; it is an impending event, something +that is to take place on earth, and the most stupendous, all-transcendent +event for the world since Christ came the first +time to die on Calvary for the sins of men.</p> + +<p>This second coming of Christ, like His first coming, has +been the theme of divine prophecy from the beginning. This +was emphasized by the apostle Peter in his second recorded +sermon. He pressed upon the people of Jerusalem the fact +that the things "which God before had showed by the mouth +of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer" (Acts 3:18), +had been fulfilled to the letter before their eyes. Not a word +had failed. Just so, he said, all that the prophets had spoken +of His second coming would be fulfilled:</p> + +<p>"He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached +unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[Pg 52]</a></span> +restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth +of all His holy prophets since the world began." Acts 3:20, 21.</p> + + +<h4>The Promise of His Coming</h4> + +<p>As iniquity began to abound, God sent a message to the +antediluvian world, declaring that Christ's coming in glory +would end the reign of sin:</p> + +<p>"Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, +saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His +saints, to execute judgment upon all." Jude 14, 15.</p> + +<p>The promise of Christ's coming was the "blessed hope" +in the patriarchal age. In Job's dark hour of trial his heart +clung to the promise, and he was kept from despair:</p> + +<p>"I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall +stand at the latter day upon the earth: ... whom I shall see +for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another." +Job 19:25-27.</p> + +<p>The psalmist sang of it:</p> + +<p>"Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire +shall devour before Him, and it shall be very tempestuous +round about Him." Ps. 50:3.</p> + +<p>And the prophets of later times were unceasingly moved +upon to talk of the glory of that coming, of events preceding +it, and of the preparation for it.</p> + +<p>"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which +shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention +of the Lord, keep not silence." "Behold, the Lord hath +proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter +of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, His reward is +with Him, and His work before Him." Isa. 62:6, 11.</p> + +<p>The message of His coming is to be heralded to the ends +of the earth; for it is "good tidings of great joy" to every +one who will receive it.</p> + +<p>On that last night with His disciples before the crucifixion, +when His heart was sorrowful even unto death, as the burden<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[Pg 53]</a></span> +of all our iniquities was about to be laid upon Him, Christ's +love for His own made precious to Him the thought of His +second coming to gather them home at last, safe from all sin +and trouble; and He said:</p> + +<p>"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe +also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions: +if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a +place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will +come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, +there ye may be also." John 14:1-3.</p> + +<p>In that assurance the heart finds rest. O the preciousness +of the promise, "I will come again"! "I am coming for you," +is the cheering message. "Yes, Lord," we reply, "we will +wait, and watch, and be ready, by Thy grace."</p> + + +<h4>The Manner of His Coming</h4> + +<p>Christ's second coming is to be visible to all the world. +There is to be nothing secret or mystical about it. The revelator +says:</p> + +<p>"Behold, He cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see +Him." Rev. 1:7.</p> + +<p>Christ Himself described the scene to His disciples as it +will appear to the eyes of all:</p> + +<p>"As the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth +even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of +man be." Matt. 24:27. "Then shall they see the Son of +man coming in the clouds with great power and glory." Mark +13:26.</p> + +<p>The day of the Lord—the close of probation, the initial +outpouring of the judgments of God—will come "as a thief +in the night," but Christ's personal appearing will be visible +to all. The heavens will open, the earth quake, the trump +of God resound, and such glory as mortal eye has never seen +will burst upon the world when He comes as King of kings +and Lord of lords.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[Pg 54]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He comes not an infant in Bethlehem born,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He comes not to lie in a manger;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He comes not again to be treated with scorn,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He comes not a shelterless stranger;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He comes not to Gethsemane,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To weep and sweat blood in the garden;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He comes not to die on the tree,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To purchase for rebels a pardon.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oh, no; glory, bright glory,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Environs Him now."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p054.jpg" width="448" height="303" alt="THE TRANSFIGURATION A +TYPE OF HIS COMING + +"Behold, there appeared unto them Moses +and Elias talking with Him." Matt. 17:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE TRANSFIGURATION A +TYPE OF HIS COMING<br /> + +"Behold, there appeared unto them Moses +and Elias talking with Him." Matt. 17:3.</span> +</div> + +<h4>"This Same Jesus"</h4> + +<p>The Lord would have His children understand that this +One who comes in power and glory is the same Saviour of +men who once walked by blue Galilee. As the disciples were +watching their Saviour, and ours, ascending bodily into heaven +from Olivet, until "a cloud received Him out of their sight," +suddenly two angels stood by them, who said:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[Pg 55]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? +this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, +shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into +heaven." Acts 1:9, 11.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p055.jpg" width="448" height="289" alt="CHRIST SET AT NAUGHT +BY THE ROMANS + +"Behold your King!" John 19:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST SET AT NAUGHT +BY THE ROMANS<br /> + +"Behold your King!" John 19:14.</span> +</div> + +<p>"This same Jesus"! It was the loving Friend and Elder +Brother, Son of man as well as Son of God, who was passing +from their sight. He will come back the "same Jesus," +though in glory indescribable, having "all the holy angels +with Him."</p> + +<p>The prophet Habakkuk thus described Christ's glorious +appearing, as it was represented to him in vision:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"His glory covered the heavens,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the earth was full of His praise.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And His brightness was as the light;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He had rays coming forth from His hand;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And there was the hiding of His power."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Hab. 3:3, 4, A.R.V.<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[Pg 56]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Surely it is the "same Jesus," and the mark of the cruel nails +is the shining badge of His power to save.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"I shall know Him<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By the print of the nails in His hands."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>As the redeemed see Him who was crucified for them coming +in glory, they will cry, "Lo, this is our God; we have +waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the Lord; we +have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His +salvation." Isa. 25:9.</p> + +<p>But that day will be a day of darkness as well as of light. +The unready, the unrepentant, will realize too late that in +rejecting Christ's pardon and love and sacrifice, they have +rejected the only means by which they might have been prepared +to meet the coming King, before whose face no sin can +endure. "Every eye shall see Him," the apostle says, and +he describes the terror of that day to the unprepared:</p> + +<p>"The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich +men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every +bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and +in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and +rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth +on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the +great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to +stand?" Rev. 6:15-17.</p> + +<p>The scenes of that great day are so beyond human comprehension +that it is difficult to realize that such a time is +actually before us.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Then, O my Lord, prepare<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My soul for that great day."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<h4>The Purpose of His Coming</h4> + +<p>The Scriptures make very clear the purpose of Christ's +second coming and the events of that great day. It has been +the hope of the children of God through all the ages. The +apostle Paul calls it the "blessed hope."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span></p> + +<p>"The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared +to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly +lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this +present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious +appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ." +Titus 2:11-13.</p> + +<p>The saints of God have fallen asleep in death with their +faith reaching forward to Christ's glorious appearing. So the +veteran apostle fell, with eyes upon "that day."</p> + +<p>"I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure +is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished +my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is +laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the +righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to +me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing." +2 Tim. 4:6-8.</p> + +<p>Christ's second coming is the grand climax of the plan of +salvation. Not till then are the children of God ushered into +the eternal kingdom. Then the crowns of life are bestowed, +and the saved all go together through the gates into the city—patriarch +and prophet, apostle and reformer, and the child +of God of this last generation. Of the ancient worthies it is +written:</p> + +<p>"These all, having obtained a good report through faith, +received not the promise: God having provided some better +thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." +Heb. 11:39, 40.</p> + +<p>What a glorious day it will be when the ransomed of all +the ages, march in together through the gates into the city!</p> + +<p>It is to take His children to their eternal home that Christ +comes the second time. This was His promise to the disciples:</p> + +<p>"I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare +a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; +that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3.</p> + +<p>Not in detail, but in their general order, let us follow the +events of that great day.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p058.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="CHRIST COMING IN GLORY + +"The Son of man shall come in His glory, +and all the holy angels with Him." Matt. +25:31." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST COMING IN GLORY<br /> + +"The Son of man shall come in His glory, +and all the holy angels with Him." Matt. +25:31.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[Pg 59]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Prelude to His Coming</h4> + +<p>as the revelator saw it and heard it in a vision of the last +day:</p> + +<p>"There came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, +from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, +and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, +such as was not since men were upon the earth,... +and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in +remembrance before God." Rev. 16:17-19.</p> + +<p>"The heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; +and every mountain and island were moved out of +their places." Rev. 6:14.</p> + + +<h4>His Glorious Appearing</h4> + +<p>Then bursts upon the world the glory of our Saviour's +coming:</p> + +<p>"Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: +and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they +shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with +power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with +a great sound of a trumpet." Matt. 24:30, 31.</p> + +<p>"I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud +one sat like unto the Son of man, having on His head a golden +crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. And another angel +came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that +sat on the cloud, Thrust in Thy sickle, and reap: for the +time is come for Thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth +is ripe." Rev. 14:14, 15.</p> + + +<h4>The Resurrection of the Just, and the Translation +of the Living Righteous</h4> + +<p>The time to reap has come, and the wheat is gathered at +last into the garner of the Lord:</p> + +<p>"We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a +moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[Pg 60]</a></span> +trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, +and we shall be changed." 1 Cor. 15:51, 52.</p> + +<p>"He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, +and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, +from one end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24:31.</p> + +<p>"This we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we +which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall +not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself +shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the +Archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ +shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be +caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord +in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore +comfort one another with these words." 1 Thess. 4:15-18.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p060.jpg" width="448" height="293" alt="THE EMPTY TOMB + +"Christ the first fruits; afterward they +that are Christ's at His coming." 1 Cor. 15:23." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE EMPTY TOMB<br /> + +"Christ the first fruits; afterward they +that are Christ's at His coming." 1 Cor. 15:23.</span> +</div> + +<p>The righteous dead are raised to life as the trump of God +sounds and the voice of the Archangel calls to His sleeping +saints, and the living righteous are transformed from mortality<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[Pg 61]</a></span> +to immortality. Then all together, with the escort of the +angels, they follow the Saviour to the heavenly mansions that +He has prepared in the city of God.</p> + + +<h4>The Destruction of the Wicked</h4> + +<p>Before the glorious majesty of the coming King no sin can +endure; for true it is that "our God is a consuming fire"—now, +in the day of His mercy, consuming sin out of the heart +that by faith approaches the throne of grace, but in that +day consuming the unrepentant sinner with his sin.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Where will the sinner hide in that day, in that day?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where will the sinner hide in that day?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It will be in vain to call,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Ye mountains on us fall!'<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For His hand will find out all in that day."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>It is the great day long foretold by seer and prophet.</p> + +<p>Again let us read the description of what it will mean to +the unsaved to see Christ coming in glory; for the terror of +that day must warn us now to keep within the refuge of the +Saviour's loving grace:</p> + +<p>"The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich +men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every +bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and +in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains +and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that +sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for +the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to +stand?" Rev. 6:15-17.</p> + +<p>The same glory that transforms the righteous is a consuming +fire to those who have rejected Christ's salvation:</p> + +<p>"Then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord +shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy +with the brightness of His coming." 2 Thess. 2:8.</p> + +<p>"When the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with +His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</a></span> +that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord +Jesus Christ: who shall be punished with everlasting destruction +from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory +of His power." 2 Thess. 1:7-9.</p> + + +<h4>The Climax of Human History</h4> + +<p>Thus the second coming of Christ brings the resurrection +and translation of the righteous, the death of the wicked, and +the end of the world. The resurrection of the wicked does +not then take place, but only that of the just; save for some +of the wicked dead who had a special part in warring against +Christ,—"they also which pierced Him" (Rev. 1:7). These +are raised to see His coming, necessarily to fall again before +the consuming glory of His presence.</p> + +<p>The righteous are taken to reign with Christ in the heavenly +city for a thousand years, and during the same period +the earth lies in desolation and chaos, uninhabited by man, a +dark abyss, the dreary prison house of Satan. Of the two +resurrections, first of the just and then of the unjust, we +are told:</p> + +<p>"They [the righteous] lived and reigned with Christ a +thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again +until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. +Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first +resurrection: on such the second death hath no power." Rev. +20:4-6.</p> + +<p>It is at the end of the thousand years that the resurrection +of the wicked takes place. Then the city of God descends, +"the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from +God out of heaven," and the wicked come forth to condemnation +and the second death, from which there is no waking.</p> + + +<h4>"Now is the Accepted Time"</h4> + +<p>Now is the day of salvation, when by Christ's grace we +may prepare for that great day. To be found among His +redeemed ones in that day will be of infinitely greater worth<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[Pg 63]</a></span> +than anything this world can give, of pleasure, or possessions, +or honor. Nothing will count then but the blessed hope.</p> + +<p>Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, found the personal Saviour +in the days of the Methodist revival in England. All +her wealth and all her social influence were devoted to Christ, +even though titled friends took umbrage at her close association +with the poor and the humble who gave heed to the +message of the hour, and pressed into the kingdom. She +wrote of her joy in being numbered with the children of God:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"I love to meet among them now,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Before Thy gracious throne to bow,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Though weakest of them all;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor can I bear the piercing thought,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To have my worthless name left out,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When Thou for them shalt call.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Prevent, prevent it by Thy grace.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Be Thou, dear Lord, my hiding place<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In that expected day.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thy pardoning voice, O let me hear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To still each unbelieving fear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor let me fall, I pray."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>One night, at a royal ball, the Prince of Wales asked a +titled lady where the Countess of Huntingdon was. "Oh, I +suppose she is praying with some of her beggars somewhere!" +was the flippant answer. "Ah," said the crown prince, "in +the last day I think I should be glad to hold the hem of Lady +Huntingdon's mantle." True it is that the greatest gift of +grace now, as it will be then, is to be numbered among the +obedient children of God.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Let me among Thy saints be found,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whene'er the Archangel's trump shall sound,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To see Thy smiling face;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then joyfully Thy praise I'll sing,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While heaven's resounding mansions ring<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With shouts of endless grace."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_64" id="Page_64">[Pg 64]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p064.jpg" width="299" height="442" alt="CHRIST ANSWERING HIS +DISCIPLES' QUESTIONS + +"When shall these things be? and what +shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of +the end of the world?" Matt. 24:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST ANSWERING HIS +DISCIPLES' QUESTIONS<br /> + +"When shall these things be? and what +shall be the sign of Thy coming, and of +the end of the world?" Matt. 24:3.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[Pg 65]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p065.jpg" width="448" height="294" alt="THE DESTRUCTION OF THE +TEMPLE FORETOLD + +"There shall not be left here one stone +upon another, that shall not be thrown +down." Matt. 24:2." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE DESTRUCTION OF THE +TEMPLE FORETOLD<br /> + +"There shall not be left here one stone +upon another, that shall not be thrown +down." Matt. 24:2.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="SIGNS_OF_THE_APPROACHING_END" id="SIGNS_OF_THE_APPROACHING_END"></a>SIGNS OF THE APPROACHING END</h2> + + +<h3>OUR SAVIOUR'S GREAT PROPHECY</h3> + +<h4>Part I</h4> + +<p>Christ had spoken of the coming desolation of the sacred +temple at Jerusalem. The disciples were astonished. "Master, +see," said one, "what manner of stones and what buildings +are here!" The Saviour replied:</p> + +<p>"Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left +one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down" +Mark 13:2.</p> + + +<h4>"What Shall be the Sign?"</h4> + +<p>As soon as they were alone on the Mount of Olives overlooking +the city, the disciples came to Jesus, saying:</p> + +<p>"Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be +the sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Matt. +24:3.</p> + +<p>Replying to this question, the Saviour spoke first of the +fall of Jerusalem; He foretold in a sentence the experiences of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> +His church through dark ages to follow; then He described +the events of the latter days, the signs showing His second +advent near at hand; and, finally, He pictured the scenes of +His own glorious appearing in the clouds of heaven. The +fullest record of the discourse is found in the twenty-fourth +chapter of Matthew.</p> + + +<h4>A Striking Parallel</h4> + +<p>The first portion of the prophetic discourse (verses 4-14) +deals with general conditions that were to prevail both in the +last days of the Jewish state, and on a yet larger scale in the +course of history leading to the last days of the world. There +was so close a parallel between these times that Christ, in one +description, answered both questions asked, When shall these +things come upon Jerusalem? and, What shall be the signs +of the end of the world?</p> + +<p>The prophetic word foretold the rise of false Christs, the +coming of wars, famines, and earthquakes in "divers places." +The believers saw these things fulfilled in that generation before +Jerusalem fell; but as we read the prophecy, we see the +wider application and yet larger fulfilment through the course +of history since that day, these calamities increasing in the +earth as the end draws near. Before the end of the Jewish +state, the believers carried the gospel to all the known world +of their day. (See Col. 1:23.) In these latter days we are +seeing the yet wider proclamation of the gospel, as foretold +in the fourteenth verse, "This gospel of the kingdom shall +be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; +and then shall the end come."</p> + + +<h4>The Last Days of Jerusalem</h4> + +<p>We may note briefly some of the events of Jerusalem's +last days. Christ had forewarned the believers:</p> + +<p>"Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall +come in My name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive +many."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</a></span></p> + +<p>Having rejected the true Christ, the nation was open to +deception by the false. We catch just a glimpse of the fulfilment +in the book of Acts; in secular history the full story is +told. Ridpath says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Never was a people so turbulent, so excited with expectation of a +deliverer who should restore the ancient kingdom, so fired with bigotry +and fanaticism, as were the wretched Jews of this period. One Christ +came after another. Revolt was succeeded by revolt, instigated by some +pseudo-prophet or pretended king."—<i>"History of the World," Vol. I, p. 849 +(Part III, chap. 19).</i></p></div> + +<p>During the Saviour's life and ministry a divine hand had +to a great extent held the elements of violence in check, but +as the light was rejected more and more, the spirit of evil +came to hold sway unrestrained. Dr. Mears well describes +the changed conditions in these words:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The narrative of the evangelists presents a tranquil scene, a succession +of attractive pictures, in striking contrast to the bloody and tumultuous +events which crowd each other in the pages of Josephus."—<i>"From +Exile to Overthrow," pp. 256, 257.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus the events led rapidly on toward the day of Jerusalem's +fall, so long foretold by the prophets.</p> + + +<h4>The Sign to the Believers</h4> + +<p>The disciples had asked for a sign, and Christ gave them +a token by which they might know when the time to flee +from Jerusalem had come. Here Luke's Gospel gives the +fullest record:</p> + +<p>"When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then +know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them +which are in Judea flee to the mountains; and let them which +are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are +in the countries enter thereinto. For these be the days of +vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled." +Luke 21:20-22.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p068.jpg" width="448" height="262" alt="THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM BY THE +ROMANS UNDER TITUS, a.d. 70 + +"When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then +know that the desolation thereof is nigh." Luke 21:20." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM BY THE +ROMANS UNDER TITUS, A.D. 70<br /> + +"When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then +know that the desolation thereof is nigh." Luke 21:20.</span> +</div> + +<p>The unbelieving in Jerusalem and Judea could not conceive +that their city, so long protected and favored of God, +could be destroyed. Not even the appearance of the Roman<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[Pg 68]</a></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[Pg 69]</a></span>armies could shake their blind self-confidence. But at the +first sight of the encircling armies, the Christians knew that +the time for flight was at hand. But how to flee was the question, +with the compassing lines drawn close about the city. +Moreover, the Zealots, the furious war party in power, would +be little likely to allow any number to pass out to the Roman +forces.</p> + +<p>Just here God's providence made a way of escape. Cestius, +the Roman commander, after having partially undermined +one of the temple walls, suddenly decided to defer pushing +the attack. "He retired from the city," says Josephus, +"without any reason in the world." (See "Wars," book 2, +chap. 19.) And the Zealots flew out after the retiring Romans, +furiously attacking the rear guards.</p> + +<p>Then those watching Christians knew that the time for +quick flight had come, according to Christ's prophecy uttered +many years before. They fled out of the city and out of the +country round about.</p> + +<p>Through all the years, Christ's prophecy had exhorted +them, "Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither +on the Sabbath day." Matt. 24:20. The prayer was answered, +for it was in the autumn and on a week day that the +flight was made.<a name="FNanchor_B_2" id="FNanchor_B_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_B_2" class="fnanchor">[B]</a> Watching for the sign, and instantly obeying, +they were delivered.</p> + +<p>Thus it was that when the Romans returned later to the +siege, never to give up till the city fell, none of the Christians +were overwhelmed in its destruction. Even so are we to +watch the signs of our own times, that we may escape those +things that are coming upon the earth, and be ready to "stand +before the Son of man."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[Pg 70]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Prophetic Word Fulfilled</h4> + +<p>Christ had declared that the temple, the pride of the nation, +would be utterly destroyed. In the last siege, the Roman +commander tried to spare the magnificent pile. When +the Jews made it their chief fortress, because of its massive +strength, Titus remonstrated with them, saying:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"If you will but change the place whereon you fight, no Roman +shall either come near your sanctuary, or offer any affront to it; nay, I +will endeavor to preserve you your holy house, whether you will or +not."—<i>Josephus, "Wars of the Jews," book 6, chap. 2.</i></p></div> + +<p>But the prophecy was fulfilled to the letter. The people +seemed possessed with fury. The hardened Roman pagans +were astonished at their suicidal rashness. Titus's efforts to +save the temple failed, and it went down in ruin, as Christ +had foretold.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 443px;"> +<img src="images/p070.jpg" width="443" height="288" alt="A PANEL FROM THE +ARCH OF TITUS + +Showing the golden candlestick and other +sacred vessels of the temple being carried +in triumph through the streets of Rome." title="" /> +<span class="caption">A PANEL FROM THE +ARCH OF TITUS<br /> + +Showing the golden candlestick and other +sacred vessels of the temple being carried +in triumph through the streets of Rome.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[Pg 71]</a></span></p> + +<p>The disciples of Christ had called His attention to the immense +blocks of stone that composed the temple walls. "See, +what manner of stones," one said. When Titus examined +these same stones, after the fall of the city, he is said to have +declared:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"We have certainly had God for our assistant in this war, and it was +no other than God who ejected the Jews out of these +fortifications."<a name="FNanchor_C_3" id="FNanchor_C_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_C_3" class="fnanchor">[C]</a>—<i>Id., book 6, chap. 9.</i></p></div> + +<p>Rather, we would say, in the light of Scripture teaching, +the destruction that came upon the city was but the fruit of +its own way. God's guardian care had long protected the +city of David. When His protection was finally thrust aside +and the people put themselves in the power of the great destroyer, +divine justice could no longer save the city from the +judgments that were bound to fall upon persistent transgression +against light.</p> + +<p>The lesson is one of those written "for our admonition +upon whom the ends of the world are come." Jerusalem, in +that generation of great light and high privilege, fell because +it knew not the time of its visitation. Still Christ's sad lament +bears its warning to the ears of men: "If thou hadst +known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which +belong unto thy peace!" Luke 19:42.</p> + + +<h4>Part II</h4> + +<p>Having foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, and given +to the believers signs by which they might find deliverance +in the day of its overthrow, Christ yet more fully answered +the second part of the disciples' question, "What shall be the +sign of Thy coming, and of the end of the world?" Matt. +24:3.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[Pg 72]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 302px;"> +<img src="images/p072.jpg" width="302" height="448" alt="THE CATACOMBS +NEAR ROME + +In these underground passages persecuted +Christians found a hiding place, held their +services, and buried their dead." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE CATACOMBS +NEAR ROME<br /> + +In these underground passages persecuted +Christians found a hiding place, held their +services, and buried their dead.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[Pg 73]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Period of Tribulation</h4> + +<p>Quickly He passed to the events of the latter days. But +first He sketched, in a few words, the tribulations through +which His church was to pass during the intervening centuries. +Daniel the prophet had written of this experience, foretelling +the long period during which the papal power was to +"wear out the saints of the Most High." Dan. 7:25. Of +these times, Christ said in His prophetic discourse:</p> + +<p>"Then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since +the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. +And except those days should be shortened, there should no +flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be +shortened." Matt. 24:21, 22.</p> + +<p>It is evident that Christ referred to the time of tribulation +foretold by Daniel, not to the trials attending the flight of +the Christians from Jerusalem, for their flight was a deliverance +of the elect from trial. However much the weak may +have suffered temporarily in fleeing from their homes, the +great suffering of that time came upon the unbelieving, who +had no shelter.</p> + +<p>This prophecy given by our Saviour presents the picture +of a long-continued persecution of His own elect, and foretells +the shortening of the allotted time. God was to intervene +in some special way to save His people. And it was +even so. The elect did suffer all through the centuries of +intolerance, until the rise of the Reformation and the spreading +abroad of God's Word broke the power of ecclesiasticism, +thus shortening the days of bitter tribulation.</p> + + +<h4>The End Drawing Near</h4> + +<p>According to Daniel's further prophecy, the period of trial +and persecution was to reach "even to the time of the end." +Dan. 11:35. Naturally, then, we should look for the signs +of the latter days to begin to appear following these days of +tribulation. And so we find the next words of Christ's discourse +introducing the topic of His second coming. From<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[Pg 74]</a></span> +now on the prophetic outline deals with events leading down +to the end of the age.</p> + +<p>First the Saviour utters a warning against false ideas concerning +His second coming. That no theories of a secret +coming or of a mystic coming might deceive the unwary, +He says in plain words:</p> + +<p>"If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or +there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and +false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch +that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very +elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they +shall say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: +behold, He is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as +the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto +the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." +Matt. 24:23-27.</p> + +<p>Today we see the need of this warning. Some of the most +subtle deceptions are found in the teaching that Christ has +already come, secretly, or that He comes in the chamber of +death, or in the spiritualistic séance. Against all these errors +we are forewarned, as well as against any agencies that may +come showing marvelous signs and wonders. The close of +human probation, the coming of the day of God, will be as a +thief in the night; and Christ's coming itself will overtake the +unwatchful all unprepared. Nevertheless, when He comes, +"every eye shall see Him," and all the glory of heaven will +burst upon a quaking world.</p> + + +<h4>Signs in the Heavens and the Earth</h4> + +<p>Now the Saviour's outline of prophecy presents the signs +which were to show when the coming of the Lord was near. +Referring again to the days of tribulation foretold by the +prophet Daniel, Christ says:</p> + +<p>"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the +sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and +the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[Pg 75]</a></span> +shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of +man in heaven." Matt. 24:29, 30.</p> + +<p>In Luke's record of the same prophetic discourse, additional +signs are given, describing conditions in the earth as +Christ's coming draws near. His account reads:</p> + +<p>"There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and +in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; +the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing +them for fear, and for looking after those things which are +coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. +And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud +with power and great glory. And when these things begin +to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for +your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21:25-28.</p> + +<p>Yet again, the prophet John, in the Revelation, foretells +these signs in the sun and moon and stars, as they were presented +to him in a vision of the last days. But his record +shows that this series of signs was to be preceded by a great +earthquake. He describes the order of events as follows:</p> + +<p>"I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, +there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as +sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; and the +stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth +her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." +Rev. 6:12, 13.</p> + +<p>In these scriptures four great signs of Christ's approaching +advent are listed for our study, as follows:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">1. The great earthquake.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">2. The darkening of the sun and moon.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">3. The falling of the stars.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">4. Distress of nations, and other signs.<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>The Time When the Signs Begin</h4> + +<p>Christ's prophecy points out approximately the time +when the first of the signs that He gave, the darkening of +the sun, should appear,—"immediately after the tribulation<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[Pg 76]</a></span> +of those days." And the "great earthquake" of John's vision +was to precede this sign in the heavens.</p> + +<p>The Reformation of the sixteenth century began to cut +short the days of tribulation; but some countries shut out +the liberalizing influences of the Word of God, and there the +persecution continued.</p> + +<p>Even as late as near the end of the seventeenth century, +in 1685, France revoked the Edict of Nantes, that had +granted toleration, and persecution raged as of old. The +church was driven again to the desert. Speaking of the early +decades of the eighteenth century, Kurtz says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In France the persecution of the Huguenots continued.... The +'pastors of the desert' performed their duties at the risk of their +lives."—<i>"Church +History," Vol. III, p. 88.</i></p></div> + +<p>There was severe persecution of the Moravians in Austria, +in these times, many of the persecuted finding refuge in Saxony. +It was in 1722 that Christian David led the first band +of Moravian refugees to settle on the estates of Count Zinzendorf, +who organized through them the great pioneer movement +of modern missions.</p> + +<p>But by the middle of the century, the era of enlightenment +and the force of world opinion, in the good providence +of God, had so permeated the Catholic states of Europe that +general violent persecution had ceased. One incident will +suffice as evidence of this.</p> + +<p>The scene was in France, where alone, of all the Catholic +states, there were any great numbers of Protestants. In 1762 +a Huguenot of Toulouse, unjustly charged with crime, was +put to torture and to death, under the pressure of the old +persecuting spirit. Many Huguenots thought the persecutions +of former times were reviving, and prepared to flee to +Switzerland. But Voltaire took up the matter, and so wrought +upon public opinion that the Paris parliament reviewed the +case, and the king paid the man's family a large indemnity.</p> + +<p>This shows that by the middle of that century the days +of any general persecution had ceased. In the nature of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[Pg 77]</a></span> +case, we may not point to the exact year and say, Here the +days of tribulation ended.</p> + +<p>From these times, then, we are to scan the record of history +to learn if the appointed signs began to appear. As we +look, we find the events recorded, following on in the order +predicted:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">1. The Lisbon earthquake, cf 1755.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">2. The dark day, cf 1780.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">3. The falling stars, cf 1833.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">4. General conditions and movements betokening the end.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"There shall be signs," the Saviour said. We are to study +the record of events, watching to catch the signs of the approaching +end as earnestly as the mariner watches the beacon +lights when he nears the longed-for haven on a dark and +stormy night.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 441px;"> +<img src="images/p077.jpg" width="441" height="336" alt="AN ANCIENT FLOUR MILL + +"Two women shall be grinding at the mill; +the one shall be taken, and the other left." +Matt. 24:41." title="" /> +<span class="caption">AN ANCIENT FLOUR MILL<br /> + +"Two women shall be grinding at the mill; +the one shall be taken, and the other left." +Matt. 24:41.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[Pg 78]</a></span></p> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_B_2" id="Footnote_B_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_B_2"><span class="label">[B]</span></a> It was in the autumn that the army of Cestius closed in upon +Jerusalem. +According to the careful record of Graetz, the Jewish historian, it was +evidently +on a Wednesday that the Roman army retired, pursued by all the forces +of the city. This was the instant for the flight of the Christians. Next day +"the Zealots, shouting exultant war songs, returned to Jerusalem (8th +October)."—<i>"History +of the Jews," Vol. II, p. 268.</i> The day before was the time +for unhindered flight.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_C_3" id="Footnote_C_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_C_3"><span class="label">[C]</span></a> Apollonius, the friend and counselor of Titus, left a similar +testimony to +the latter's conviction that there was something supernatural about the forces +of destruction let loose upon Jerusalem: "After Titus had taken Jerusalem, +and when the country all round was filled with corpses, the neighboring races +offered him a crown: but he disclaimed any such honor to himself, saying that +it was not he himself that had accomplished this exploit, but that he had +merely lent his arms to God, who had so manifested His wrath."—<i>Philostratus, +"Life of Apollonius," book 6, chap. 29.</i></p></div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[Pg 79]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p078.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="LISBON FROM ACROSS THE BAY + +The scene of the great earthquake and tidal wave, Nov. 1, 1755, +when in six minutes sixty thousand people perished." title="" /> +<span class="caption">LISBON FROM ACROSS THE BAY<br /> + +The scene of the great earthquake and tidal wave, Nov. 1, 1755, +when in six minutes sixty thousand people perished.</span> +</div> + + + +<h2><a name="THE_LISBON_EARTHQUAKE_OF_1755" id="THE_LISBON_EARTHQUAKE_OF_1755"></a>THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE OF 1755</h2> + + +<h4>"Lo, There Was a Great Earthquake"</h4> + +<p>The first of a series of signs of the approaching end is +thus described by the revelator:</p> + +<p>"I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, +there was a great earthquake." Rev. 6:12.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p079.jpg" width="448" height="285" alt="THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE + +"There shall be famines, and pestilences, and +earthquakes, in divers places." Matt. 24:7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LISBON EARTHQUAKE<br /> + +"There shall be famines, and pestilences, and +earthquakes, in divers places." Matt. 24:7.</span> +</div> + +<p>The verses immediately preceding this scripture plainly +describe the days of persecution of the saints of God, and the +era of protest and reform that cut short that time of tribulation. +Then this first sign appears. This is in harmony with +Christ's statement that the signs of His second coming should +begin to appear following the tribulation of those days.</p> + +<p>Just about the close of the days of tribulation occurred +the Lisbon earthquake, as it is called, though its effects +reached far beyond Portugal. Prof. W.H. Hobbs, geologist, +says of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Among the earth movements which in historic times have affected +the kingdom of Portugal, that of Nov. 1, 1755, takes first rank, as it does, +also, in some respects, among all recorded earthquakes.... In six minutes +sixty thousand people perished."—<i>"Earthquakes," pp. 142, 143.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[Pg 80]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Lo, there was a great earthquake," the revelator said. +It was indeed "a great earthquake," and great was its influence. +In all the world, men's hearts were mightily stirred. +James Parton, an English author, says of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Lisbon earthquake of Nov. 1, 1755, appears to have put both +the theologians and philosophers on the defensive.... At twenty minutes +to ten that morning, Lisbon was firm and magnificent, on one of the most +picturesque and commanding sites in the world,—a city of superb approach, +placed precisely where every circumstance had concurred to say +to the founders, Build here! In six minutes the city was in ruins.... +Half the world felt the convulsion.... For many weeks, as we see in the +letters and memoirs of that time, people in distant parts of Europe went +to bed in alarm, relieved in the morning to find that they had escaped the +fate of Lisbon one night more."—<i>"Life of Voltaire," Vol. II, pp. 208, +209.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>The World Set to Thinking</h4> + +<p>This earthquake set men to thinking of the great day of +God. Voltaire, the French philosopher, was "profoundly +moved" by it, we are told. "It was the last judgment for +that region," he wrote; "nothing was wanting to it except +the trumpet." More than a month afterward, while still the +perturbations of the earth were continuing, this skeptic wrote +a poem upon the problem presented, voicing the sentiment:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"My heart oppress'd demands<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Aid of the God who formed me with his hands.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sons of the God supreme to suffer all<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fated alike, we on our Father call....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sad is the present if no future state,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No blissful retribution mortals wait,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If fate's decrees the thinking being doom<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To lose existence in the silent tomb.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>All may be well</i>; that hope can man sustain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>All now is well</i>; 'tis an illusion vain.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The sages held me forth delusive light,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Divine instructions only can be right.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Humbly I sigh, submissive suffer pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor more the ways of Providence arraign."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—"<i>Poem on the Destruction of Lisbon,</i>"<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i>Smollet's translation; Works, Vol. XXXIII, ed. 1761.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[Pg 81]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Just at the time, plans were under way for the opening +of a theater at Lausanne for the special performance of some +of Voltaire's rationalistic dramas. But the enterprise was +deferred. One writer says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The earthquake had made all men thoughtful. They mistrusted +their love of the drama, and filled the churches instead."—<i>Tallentyre, +"Life of Voltaire," p. 319.</i></p></div> + +<p>So, in an age of rationalism and unbelief, men's thoughts +were turned toward God, and human helplessness and earth's +instability were recognized.</p> + + +<h4>Extent of the Lisbon Earthquake</h4> + +<p>As to the extent of the earthquake, a writer of the period +shows that it was felt in Sweden and in Africa and in the +West Indies, adding:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The effects were distributed over very nearly four millions of +square English miles of the earth's surface, and greatly surpassed anything +of the kind ever recorded in history."—<i>"History and Philosophy +of Earthquakes" (London, 1757), p. 333.</i></p></div> + +<p>The commander of an English ship, lying off Lisbon at +the time, thus described the scene in a letter to the ship's +owners:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Almost all the palaces and large churches were rent down, or part +fallen, and scarce one house of this vast city is left habitable. Everybody +that was not crushed to death ran out into the large places, and those +near the river ran down to save themselves by boats, or any other floating +convenience, running, crying, and calling to the ships for assistance; but +whilst the multitude were gathered near the riverside, the water rose to +such a height that it overflowed the lower part of the city, which so terrified +the miserable and already dismayed inhabitants, who ran to and fro +with dreadful cries, which we heard plainly on board, that it made them +believe the dissolution of the world was at hand; every one falling on his +knees and entreating the Almighty for His assistance.... By two o'clock +the ships' boats began to ply, and took multitudes on board.... The +fear, the sorrow, the cries and lamentations of the poor inhabitants are +unexpressible; every one begging pardon, and embracing each other, crying, +Forgive me, friend, brother, sister! Oh! what will become of us! +neither water nor land will protect us, and the third element, fire, seems<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[Pg 82]</a></span> +now to threaten our total destruction! as in effect it happened. The +conflagration +lasted a whole week."—<i>Thomas Hunter, "Historical Account +of Earthquakes" (Liverpool, 1756), pp. 72-74.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Recognized as a Sign</h4> + +<p>Looking down through the ages, the prophet of the Revelation +saw the coming of the latter days, when signs of the +approaching end were to begin to appear. Just there he beheld +"a great earthquake." The terrible event was noted by +inspiration as a sign of the coming of the final judgment. +Earthquakes there had been before, and increasing earthquakes +were to follow after,—"earthquakes in divers places,"—as +Christ foretold, speaking of the signs of His second coming. +But as befitted this first of the series of signs of the approaching +end, a conviction from God seemed to come into +the hearts of men in that generation, that this was indeed a +token to remind the world of a coming day of doom.</p> + +<p>In the year of the disaster, an English poet, John Biddolf, +published a book of verse, pointing some of the lessons of the +hour, from which we quote a few descriptive stanzas:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Calm was the sky; the sun serenely bright<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shot o'er the sea long dazzling streams of light.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through orange groves soft breathing breezes play'd<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And gathered sweets like bees where'er they stray'd.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In fair relievo stood the lofty town,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Set off by radiant lights and shadows brown.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Ill-fated city! there were revels kept;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Devoid of fear, they ate, they drank, they slept.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No friendly voice like that of ancient Rome<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Was sent to give them warning of their doom:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No airy warriors to each other clung,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Such as 'tis said o'er destin'd Sion hung,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But like a nightly thief their dreadful fate<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Unlooked for came and undermined their state....<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Lo, what a sudden change! On ruin's brink<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The proud turn humble, and the thoughtless think.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dark, gloomy sadness overclouds the gay,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And hypocrites for once sincerely pray....</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[Pg 83]</a></span><br /> +<span class="i0">But let it not be thought their horrid deeds<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Had pulled this dreadful judgment on their heads,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or that for crimes too horrible to tell,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like guilty Sodom, thunderstruck they fell....<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Who can with curious eyes this globe survey,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And not behold it tottering with decay?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All things created, God's designs fulfil,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And natural causes work His destined will.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And that eternal Word, which cannot lie,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To mortals hath revealed in prophecy<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That in these latter days such signs should come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Preludes and prologues to the general doom.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But not the Son of man can tell that day;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then, lest it find you sleeping, watch and pray."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Thus this first of the predicted latter-day signs bore its +message to men. Its immediate scene was set in the Old +World, but its warning was world-wide. The next sign foretold +was to appear in the New World, but like the Lisbon +earthquake, its message of warning was for all men.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p083.jpg" width="448" height="299" alt="THE FLOOD + +"So shall also the coming of the Son +of man be." Matt. 24:39." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FLOOD<br /> + +"So shall also the coming of the Son +of man be." Matt. 24:39.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[Pg 84]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p084.jpg" width="298" height="448" alt="MIDDAY AT SEA +MAY 19, 1780 + +"Between one and two he was obliged to light a +large candle to steer by." See p. 89." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MIDDAY AT SEA +MAY 19, 1780<br /> + +"Between one and two he was obliged to light a +large candle to steer by." See p. 89.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[Pg 85]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p085.jpg" width="448" height="276" alt="SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS + +"Can ye not discern the signs of the +times?" Matt. 16:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS<br /> + +"Can ye not discern the signs of the +times?" Matt. 16:3.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_DARK_DAY_OF_1780" id="THE_DARK_DAY_OF_1780"></a>THE DARK DAY OF 1780</h2> + + +<h4>"The Sun Shall be Darkened"</h4> + +<p>We recall that in the vision of latter-day signs given to the +prophet John, he saw the "great earthquake" followed by +a sign in the heavens:</p> + +<p>"The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon +became as blood." Rev. 6:12.</p> + +<p>Of this event our Saviour spoke, in giving the signs of His +second coming which were to begin to appear following the +cutting short of the days of persecution. We repeat His +words:</p> + +<p>"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the +sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light." +Matt. 24:29.</p> + + +<h4>The Prophecy Fulfilled</h4> + +<p>True to the order of the prophecy, following the great +earthquake of 1755 in Europe, there came, in America, the +second sign of the approaching end, the wonderful darkening +of the sun, known in history as "The Dark Day."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[Pg 86]</a></span></p> + +<p>This sign appeared at the time indicated in the prophecy, +"immediately after the tribulation of those days;" or as Mark +has it, "in those days, after that tribulation." On May 19, +1780, the sun was darkened, and the following night the moon +did not give her light. Whatever explanation men may have +to offer as to the cause of the phenomenon, the fact remains +that when the time of the prophecy came, the sign appeared.</p> + +<p>The first volume of the "Memoirs of the American Academy +of Arts and Sciences," published in Boston in 1785, +contains a paper entitled, "An Account of a Very Uncommon +Darkness in the States of New England, May 19, 1780. By +Samuel Williams, A.M., Hollis Professor of Mathematics +and Philosophy in the University at Cambridge [Massachusetts]."</p> + +<p>Of the extent, duration, and degree of darkness on that +occasion, this scientific observer said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The extent of this darkness was very remarkable.... From the +accounts that have been received, it seems to have extended all over the +New England States. It was observed as far east as Falmouth [Portland, +Maine]. To the westward, we hear of its reaching to the furthest +parts of Connecticut, and Albany. To the southward, it was observed +all along the seacoasts. And to the north as far as our settlements extend....</p> + +<p>"With regard to its duration, it continued in this place at least fourteen +hours: but it is probable this was not exactly the same in different +parts of the country. The appearance and effects were such as tended +to make the prospect extremely dull and gloomy. Candles were lighted +up in the houses; the birds having sung their evening songs, disappeared, +and became silent; the fowls retired to roost; the cocks were crowing all +around as at break of day; objects could not be distinguished but at a +very little distance; and everything bore the appearance and gloom of +night." (See pages 234-246.)</p></div> + +<p>Whittier has commemorated it in the poem, "Abraham +Davenport:"</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"'Twas on a May day of the far old year<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Seventeen hundred eighty, that there fell<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Over the bloom and sweet life of the spring,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Over the fresh earth and the heaven of noon,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A horror of great darkness....<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[Pg 87]</a></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Birds ceased to sing, and all the barnyard fowls<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Roosted; the cattle at the pasture bars<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lowed, and looked homeward; bats on leathern wings<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Flitted abroad; the sounds of labor died;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Men prayed, and women wept; all ears grew sharp<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To hear the doom blast of the trumpet shatter<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The black sky."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The words of the poet are substantiated by the plain prose +of the dictionary maker. In the department explanatory of +"Noted Names," Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (edition +1883) says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<i>The Dark Day</i>, May 19, 1780—so called on account of a remarkable +darkness on that day extending over all New England.... The obscuration +began about ten o'clock in the morning, and continued till the middle +of the next night, but with difference of degree and duration in different +places.... The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is not known."</p></div> + + +<h4>Cause Unknown</h4> + +<p>At the time, some explained the darkness as being due +to smoke from forest fires, others to the exceptional rise of +vapors and atmospheric dust in the warm spring following +the melting of unusually heavy winter snows. But forest +fires were not of extraordinary occurrence in these regions, +and many a springtime since has seen the melting of heavy +winter snows and the rise of vapors; yet May 19, 1780, still +stands unique in the annals of modern times as "the dark +day." However observers and writers disagreed as to the +nature of the mantle of darkness that was drawn over New +England that day, they were <i>one</i> in recognizing the extraordinary +character of the event.</p> + +<p>The facts are fully covered by the statement in the dictionary, +"The true cause of this remarkable phenomenon is +not known."</p> + +<p>What we do know is that the Saviour's prophecy declared, +"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the +sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light." +And when the time for it came, the sign appeared.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[Pg 88]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Contemporary Records</h4> + +<p>Though the comparatively small-sized newspapers of the +day were crowded with news of the progress of the Revolutionary +War, then raging, no little space was given to reports and +discussions of this remarkable darkening of the sun.</p> + +<p>A correspondent of the Boston <i>Gazette and Country Journal</i> +(of May 29, 1780) reported observations made at Ipswich +Hamlet, Mass., "by several gentlemen of liberal education:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"About eleven o'clock the darkness was such as to demand our attention, +and put us upon making observations. At half past eleven, in +a room with three windows, twenty-four panes each, all open toward the +southeast and south, large print could not be read by persons of good eyes.</p> + +<p>"About twelve o'clock, the windows being still open, a candle cast +a shade so well defined on the wall, as that profiles were taken with as +much ease as they could have been in the night.</p> + +<p>"About one o'clock a glint of light which had continued to this time +in the east, shut in, and the darkness was greater than it had been for any +time before.... We dined about two, the windows all open, and two +candles burning on the table.</p> + +<p>"In the time of the greatest darkness some of the ... fowls went +to their roost. Cocks crowed in answer to one another as they commonly +do in the night. Woodcocks, which are night birds, whistled as they do +<i>only</i> in the dark. Frogs peeped. In short, there was the appearance +of midnight at noonday.</p> + +<p>"About three o'clock the light in the west increased, the motion of +the clouds [became] more quick, their color higher and more brassy than +at any time before. There appeared to be quick flashes or coruscations, +not unlike the aurora borealis.... About half past four our company, +which had passed an unexpected night very cheerfully together, +broke up."</p></div> + +<p>Of the night following, this gentleman (then at Salem) +wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Perhaps it never was darker since the children of Israel left the +house of bondage. This gross darkness held till about one o'clock, although +the moon had fulled but the day before."</p></div> + +<p>The Boston <i>Independent Chronicle</i> of June 8 quoted from +Thomas's <i>Massachusetts Spy</i>:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"During the whole time a sickly, melancholy gloom overcast the face +of nature. Nor was the darkness of the night less uncommon and terrifying +than that of the day; notwithstanding there was almost a full<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[Pg 89]</a></span> +moon, no object was discernible, but by the help of some artificial light, +which when seen from the neighboring houses and other places at a distance, +appeared through a kind of Egyptian darkness, which seemed almost +impervious to the rays.</p> + +<p>"This unusual phenomenon excited the fears and apprehensions of +many people. Some considered it as a portentous omen of the wrath of +Heaven in vengeance denounced against the land, others as the immediate +harbinger of the last day, when 'the sun shall be darkened, and the moon +shall not give her light.'"</p></div> + +<p>Not only over the land, but out at sea also, the unnatural +darkness of the day and night of May 19, 1780, was observed. +In the <i>Independent Chronicle</i> of June 15, 1780, a correspondent, +telling of interviews with various observers, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"I have also seen a very sensible captain of a vessel, who was that +morning about forty leagues southeast of Boston. He says the cloud +which appeared at the west was the blackest he ever saw. About eleven +o'clock there was a little rain, and it grew dark. Between one and two +he was obliged to light a large candle to steer by.... Between nine +and ten at night, he ordered his men to take in some of the sails, but it +was so dark that they could not find the way from one mast to the other."</p></div> + + +<h4>Thoughts Turned to the Judgment</h4> + +<p>This writer commented as follows concerning the feelings +awakened by the event:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Various have been the sentiments of people concerning the designs +of Providence in spreading the unusual darkness over us. Some suppose +it portentous of the last scene. I wish it may have some good effect on +the minds of the wicked, and that they may be excited to prepare for that +solemn day."</p></div> + +<p>The <i>Independent Chronicle</i> of June 22, 1780, printed a +letter from Dr. Samuel Stearns, who had been appealed to +because of his knowledge "in philosophy and astronomy." +First, he disposed of one suggestion that had been made:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"That the darkness was not caused by an eclipse is manifest by the +various positions of the planets of our system at that time; for the moon +was more than one hundred and fifty degrees from the sun all that day."</p></div> + +<p>Then, in the rather heavy language of the science of that +period, this writer told how the action of the sun's heat was +continually projecting into the atmosphere particles of earthy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[Pg 90]</a></span> +matter; and in his opinion it was some "vast collection of +such particles that caused the late uncommon darkness." +But as to the real accounting for the phenomenon he wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The primary cause must be imputed to Him that walketh through +the circuit of heaven, who stretcheth out the heaven like a curtain, who +maketh the clouds His chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind. +It was He, at whose voice the stormy winds are obedient, that commanded +these exhalations to be collected and condensed together, that +with them He might darken both the day and the night; which darkness +was, perhaps, not only a token of His indignation against the crying +iniquities and abominations of the people, but an omen of some future +destruction."</p></div> + +<p>Thus men's minds were exercised by this sign "in the sun, +and in the moon."</p> + +<p>The early records of New York City tell of the interest +excited there, though evidently the darkness was not so marked +as it was farther north.</p> + + +<h4>In the Connecticut Legislature</h4> + +<p>President Timothy Dwight, of Yale College, a contemporary, +left the following account of one of the historic incidents +of the day:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The legislature of Connecticut was then in session at Hartford. A +very general opinion prevailed that the day of judgment was at hand. +The house of representatives, being unable to transact their business, +adjourned. A proposal to adjourn the council [a second legislative body +called the Governor's Council] was under consideration. When the opinion +of Colonel Davenport was asked, he answered, 'I am against an +adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching or it is not. +If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be +found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.'"—<i>Barber, +"Connecticut Historical Collections," p. 403.</i></p></div> + +<p>It was this striking incident that Whittier described with +the poet's pen:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Meanwhile in the old Statehouse, dim as ghosts,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sat the lawgivers of Connecticut,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Trembling beneath their legislative robes.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'It is the Lord's great day! Let us adjourn,'<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> +<span class="i0">Some said; and then, as with one accord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All eyes were turned to Abraham Davenport.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He rose, slow cleaving with his steady voice<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The intolerable hush. 'This well may be<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The day of judgment which the world awaits;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But be it so or not, I only know<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My present duty, and my Lord's command<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To occupy till He come. So at the post<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where He hath set me in His providence<br /></span> +<span class="i0">I choose, for one, to meet Him face to face,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No faithless servant, frightened from my task,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But ready when the Lord of the harvest calls;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And therefore, with all reverence, I would say,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Let God do His work, we will see to ours.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Bring in the candles.'"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Thus, in a manner that arrested the attention of men and +put awe and solemnity into their hearts, with thoughts of +the coming of the great day of God, the first of the predicted +signs in the heavens was revealed.</p> + +<p>At a later time, when students of the Bible seemed +moved upon simultaneously, in both Europe and America, +to give attention to the doctrine of Christ's second coming, +it was more generally understood that these signs had come +in fulfilment of prophecy.</p> + +<p>As we look to the past, we see how truly the tokens of the +coming King began to appear as the church of Christ emerged +fully from the long, dark period of tribulation. A new era +was dawning, in which the Lord was to fill the earth with light +before His second appearing, according to His word to Daniel +the prophet:</p> + +<p>"Thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, +even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and +knowledge shall be increased." Dan. 12:4.</p> + +<p>At last the time of the end was at hand, and the signs of +the latter days had begun to appear in the earth and in the +heavens. The Lord was preparing to send to all the world +the closing gospel message of Christ's soon coming in glory.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[Pg 92]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p092.jpg" width="298" height="443" alt="THE GREAT METEORIC SHOWER +NOVEMBER 13, 1833 + +"The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even +as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when +she is shaken of a mighty wind." Rev. 6:13." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GREAT METEORIC SHOWER +NOVEMBER 13, 1833<br /> + +"The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even +as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when +she is shaken of a mighty wind." Rev. 6:13.</span> +</div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[Pg 93]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p093.jpg" width="448" height="282" alt="A STAR HERALDS HIS +FIRST ADVENT + +"We have seen His star in the east, and +are come to worship Him." Matt. 2:2." title="" /> +<span class="caption">A STAR HERALDS HIS +FIRST ADVENT<br /> + +"We have seen His star in the east, and +are come to worship Him." Matt. 2:2.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_FALLING_STARS_OF_1833" id="THE_FALLING_STARS_OF_1833"></a>THE FALLING STARS OF 1833</h2> + + +<h4>"The Stars Shall Fall from Heaven"</h4> + +<p>A great impetus was given to the study of divine prophecy +by the events of the closing years of the eighteenth century. +Observers had seen the papal power receive a "deadly wound" +in the events and effects of the French Revolution; and it was +understood that the world was entering a new era of enlightenment +and liberty.</p> + +<p>Bible students began to see more clearly the lesson of the +great outlines of historic prophecy, and hearts were stirred +with the evidences that the coming of the Lord was drawing +near. In Europe and America, in the early decades of the +nineteenth century, there was the beginning of a revival of +the study and preaching of the advent idea.</p> + + +<h4>Another Sign in the Heavens</h4> + +<p>Just here appeared another great sign in the heavens, +foretold by the word of prophecy. Of the sign that was to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[Pg 94]</a></span> +follow the darkening of the sun and moon, Christ's prophecy +says:</p> + +<p>"The stars shall fall from heaven." Matt. 24:29.</p> + +<p>The prophet John beheld the spectacle in a vision of the +last days, and described it in these words:</p> + +<p>"The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree +casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty +wind." Rev. 6:13.</p> + +<p>On Nov. 13, 1833, came the wondrous celestial exhibition +of falling stars, which is listed as one of the most remarkable +phenomena of the astronomical story.</p> + +<p>Meteoric displays, swarms of shooting stars, have been +observed at various times all through the ages; but this phenomenon, +coming in the order given by the prophecy, that is, +following the darkening of the sun, constituted the sublime +display answering to the pen-picture of the Apocalypse,—as +if all the stars of heaven were falling to the earth.</p> + +<p>The essential thing about a sign is that it shall be seen, +that the circumstances of its appearance shall fasten attention. +Not in America alone, but equally in all the civilized world, +as a topic of study, this sign in the heavens commanded the +attention of men.</p> + +<p>An English scientist, Rev. Thomas Milner, F.R.G.S., +wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The attention of astronomers in Europe, and all over the world, +was, as may be imagined, strongly roused by intelligence of this celestial +display on the Western continent."—<i>"The Gallery of Nature" (London, +1852), p. 141.</i></p></div> + +<p>This writer called it "by far the most splendid display on +record."—<i>Id., p. 139.</i></p> + +<p>Another English astronomical writer of more recent date +says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Once for all, then, as the result of the star fall of 1833, the study of +luminous meteors became an integral part of astronomy."—<i>Clerke, +"History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century," p. 329.</i></p></div> + +<p>This same work describes the extent of the display as follows:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_95" id="Page_95">[Pg 95]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"On the night of Nov. 12-13, 1833, a tempest of falling stars broke +over the earth. North America bore the brunt of its pelting. From the +Gulf of Mexico to Halifax, until daylight with some difficulty put an end +to the display, the sky was scored in every direction with shining tracks +and illuminated with majestic fireballs."—<i>Page 328.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>The Spectacle Described</h4> + +<p>The closest scientific observations were made by Prof. +Denison Olmsted, professor of astronomy at Yale, who wrote +in the <i>American Journal of Science</i>:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The morning of Nov. 13, 1833, was rendered memorable by an +exhibition of the phenomenon called shooting stars, which was probably +more extensive and magnificent than any similar one hitherto recorded.... +Probably no celestial phenomenon has ever occurred in this country, +since its first settlement, which was viewed with so much admiration and +delight by one class of spectators, or with so much astonishment and fear +by another class. For some time after the occurrence, the 'meteoric +phenomenon' was the principal topic of conversation in every circle."—<i>Volume +XXV (1834), pp. 363, 364.</i></p></div> + +<p>Prof. Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, declares this +phenomenal exhibition of falling stars "the most remarkable +one ever observed." (See "Astronomy for Everybody," +p. 280.)</p> + +<p>This was not merely a display of an unusual number of +falling stars, such as Humboldt observed in South America +in 1799, or such as we find recorded of other times before and +since. It was a "shower" of falling stars, just such a spectacle +as one must picture from the words of the prophecy, "And +the stars of heaven fell."</p> + +<p>The French astronomer Flammarion says of the density +of the shower:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Boston observer, Olmsted, compared them, at the moment +of maximum, to half the number of flakes which we perceive in the air +during an ordinary shower of snow."—<i>"Popular Astronomy," p. 536.</i></p></div> + +<p>This affords us a better idea of the scene than the estimate +of 34,640 stars an hour, which was made by Professor Olmsted +after the rain of the stars had greatly abated, so that he was +able to make an attempt at counting.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[Pg 96]</a></span></p> + +<p>Dr. Humphreys, president of St. John's College, Annapolis, +said of the appearance at the Maryland capital:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In the words of most, they fell <i>like flakes of snow</i>."—<i>American +Journal of Science, Vol. XXV (1834), p. 372.</i></p></div> + +<p>Nothing less than this could have presented the counterpart +of the prophetic picture.</p> + +<p>Thoughtful hearts were solemnized by the unwonted spectacle. +Prof. Alexander Twining, civil engineer, "late tutor in +Yale College," giving his views as to the nature of the flaming +visitants from space, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Had they held on their course unabated for three seconds longer, +half a continent must, to all appearance, have been involved in unheard-of +calamity. But that almighty Being who made the world, and knew +its dangers, gave it also its armature—endowing the atmospheric medium +around it with protecting, no less than with life-sustaining, properties....</p> + +<p>"Considered as one of the rare and wonderful displays of the Creator's +preserving care, as well as the terrible magnitude and power of His +agencies, it is not meet that such occurrences as those of November 13 +should leave no more solid and permanent effect upon the human mind +than the impression of a splendid scene."—<i>American Journal of Science, +Vol. XXVI (1834), p. 351.</i></p></div> + +<p>Multitudes felt that the great Creator had spoken to men +in this notable wonder of His heavens. Again and again in +the records and reminiscences of that time, testimony is borne +to the fact that observers were impressed with the likeness +of the scene to that described in the divine prophecy as one of +the signs of the end of the world.</p> + + +<h4>The Prophetic Picture Reproduced</h4> + +<p>The New York <i>Journal of Commerce</i> emphasized the exactness +of detail with which the prophecy described the scene as +it appeared in 1833. This is the apocalyptic picture, as the +ancient prophet saw it in vision:</p> + +<p>"The stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree +casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty +wind." Rev. 6:13.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[Pg 97]</a></span></p> + +<p>A correspondent of the <i>Journal of Commerce</i> draws the +picture as it was seen nearly eighteen centuries later, the likeness +to the prophetic description being emphasized in every +line:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"No philosopher or scholar has told or recorded an event like that +of yesterday morning. A prophet eighteen hundred years ago foretold +it exactly, if we will be at the trouble of understanding stars falling to +mean falling stars."—<i>New York Journal of Commerce, Nov. 14, 1833.</i></p></div> + +<p>In this connection was noted by the same writer the special +appropriateness of the prophet's figure of the fig tree casting +the green figs in a mighty wind:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Here is the exactness of the prophet. The falling stars did not +come as if from <i>several</i> trees shaken, but from <i>one</i>. Those which +appeared +in the east fell toward the east: those which appeared in the north fell +toward the north; those which appeared in the west fell toward the west; +and those which appeared in the south (for I went out of my residence +into the park) fell toward the south; and they fell not as ripe fruit falls; +far from it; but they <i>flew</i>, they were <i>cast</i>, like the unripe fig, +which at first +refuses to leave the branch; and when it does break its hold, flies swiftly, +straight off, descending; and in the multitude falling, some cross the track +of others, as they are thrown with more or less force."</p></div> + +<p>Professor Olmsted's long and carefully elaborated account +in the <i>American Journal of Science</i>, gave a report from +a correspondent in Bowling Green, Mo., as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Though there was no moon, when we first observed them; their +brilliancy was so great that we could, at times, read common-sized print +without much difficulty, and the light which they afforded was much +whiter than that of the moon, in the clearest and coldest night, when the +ground is covered with snow. The air itself, the face of the earth as far +as we could behold it, all the surrounding objects, and the very countenances +of men, wore the aspect and hue of death, occasioned by the continued, +pallid glare of these countless meteors, which in all their grandeur +flamed 'lawless through the sky.'</p> + +<p>"There was a grand and indescribable gloom on all around, an awe-inspiring +sublimity on all above; while—</p></div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"'The sanguine flood<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rolled a broad slaughter o'er the plains of heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And nature's self did seem to totter on the brink of time!'<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>" ... There was scarcely a space in the firmament which was not +filled at every instant with these falling stars, nor on it could you in general +perceive any particular difference in appearance; still at times they +seemed to shower down in groups—calling to mind the fig tree, casting +her untimely figs when shaken by a mighty wind."—<i>Volume XXV (1834), +p. 382.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[Pg 98]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/p098.jpg" width="301" height="448" alt="THE SIGN OF FIRE + +"As this sign of fire in the watchtower was a signal to God's +people anciently to flee from the coming danger (see Jer. +6:1), so the signs appearing now in the heavens and in the +earth are God's signals of warning to the people of our day."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SIGN OF FIRE<br /> + +"As this sign of fire in the watchtower was a signal to God's +people anciently to flee from the coming danger (see Jer. +6:1), so the signs appearing now in the heavens and in the +earth are God's signals of warning to the people of our day."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[Pg 99]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>A Sign to All the World</h4> + +<p>It was not in North America alone, but in all the civilized +world, that the attention of men was called to the prophetic +word by the discussions of this event. Thus the English +scientific writer, Thomas Milner, writing for the British public, +spoke as follows of the profound impression made:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In many districts, the mass of the population were terror-struck, and +the more enlightened were awed at contemplating so vivid a picture of +the apocalyptic image—that of the stars of heaven falling to the earth, +even as a fig tree casting her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty +wind."—<i>"The Gallery of Nature" (London, 1852), p. 140.</i></p></div> + +<p>So the sign in the heavens made its solemn appeal to all +the world. It brought to the multitudes who saw it, thoughts +of God and the last great day. An observer living at the time +in Georgia, wrote, "Everybody felt that it was the judgment, +and that the end of the world had come." Another, in Kentucky, +wrote, "In every direction I could hear men, women, +and children screaming, 'The judgment day is come!'"</p> + +<p>Rather, it was a signal that the hour of God's judgment +was drawing near. The signs so long foretold were appearing, +one by one, to register their enduring mark on the record +of fulfilling prophecy.</p> + +<p>Immediately following these times, there began an awakening +concerning the vital Bible doctrine of the second coming +of Christ, which has grown into the definite advent movement +that is carrying the gospel message of preparation for the coming +of the Lord to every nation and tongue and people.</p> + + +<h4>The Sign of 1833 Emphasized by Other Displays</h4> + +<p>We have mentioned the fact that Humboldt had observed +an extraordinary fall of meteorites in South America, thirty-three +years, before, in 1799. And he reported at the time<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[Pg 100]</a></span> +that the oldest inhabitants there had a recollection of a similar +display in 1766.</p> + +<p>From these reports, scientists deduced the theory that +these showers were to be expected every thirty-three years. +Hence in 1866 they were watching for a repetition of the 1833 +display.</p> + +<p>That there was a measure of truth in the deduction was +made evident by an unusual fall of meteorites Nov. 14, 1866. +This time Europe was the scene of the display. But the event +was not to be compared with that of 1833. This appears +plain from the account of observations made by Sir Robert +Ball and Lord Rosse, the British astronomers.</p> + +<p>Sir Robert Ball says that when the meteorites began to +fall, he and Lord Rosse went out upon the wall of the observatory +housing Lord Rosse's great reflecting telescope:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There, for the next two or three hours, we witnessed a spectacle +which can never fade from my memory. The shooting stars gradually +increased in number until sometimes several were seen at once."—<i>"Story +of the Heavens," p. 380.</i></p></div> + +<p>Grand as the spectacle was, it was but a reminder, apparently, +of the star shower of 1833, when not "several" meteorites +fell at a time, nor many, merely, but, as it appeared, +"the stars of heaven fell unto the earth."</p> + +<p>However, the spectacle of 1866, which was observed over +a great part of the Old World,<a name="FNanchor_D_4" id="FNanchor_D_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_D_4" class="fnanchor">[D]</a> served to direct renewed attention +to the incomparable event of 1833, as well as to the +prophetic descriptions of the "wonders in the heavens" (Joel +2:30) which were to appear as the end drew near.</p> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[Pg 101]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 443px;"> +<img src="images/p101.jpg" width="443" height="290" alt="CHRIST'S PROMISE TO RETURN + +"I will come again, and receive you +unto Myself." John 14:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST'S PROMISE TO RETURN<br /> + +"I will come again, and receive you +unto Myself." John 14:3.</span> +</div> + +<p>Textbooks and astronomical works thereupon began to +count it as fully established that every thirty-three years the +displays would be repeated. It was confidently predicted +that 1899 would witness a repetition, possibly on the scale +of 1833.</p> + +<p>Professor Langley's "New Astronomy" (published in 1888) +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The great November shower, which is coming once more in this +century, and which every reader may hope to see toward 1899, is of particular +interest to us as the first whose movements were subject to analysis."</p></div> + +<p>Chambers's Astronomy, published in 1889, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The meteors of November 13 may be expected to reappear with +great brilliancy in 1899."—-<i>Volume I, p. 635.</i></p></div> + +<p>But the November date passed in 1899, and the years +have passed; and the wondrous scene of 1833 has not been +repeated. Clerke's "History of Astronomy in the Nineteenth +Century" says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[Pg 102]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"We can no longer count upon the Leonids [as the meteorites of 1833 +were called, because they seemed to fall from a point in the constellation of +Leo]. Their glory, for scenic purposes, is departed."—<i>Page 338.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>The Lord's Signal to Watch</h4> + +<p>Thus the wisest astronomical predictions made shortly +before 1899, based upon the apparently recurrent regularity +of the phenomenon, failed; but the predictions of the sure +word of prophecy, set down on the sacred record eighteen +centuries before, were fulfilled to the letter.</p> + +<p>At the close of the days of the predicted tribulation of +the church, the signs began to appear—the sun was darkened, +the moon withheld its light, and the stars of heaven fell.</p> + +<p>The series began at the time specified, the signs came in +the order given in Christ's prophecy. The record of history +bears witness that the prophecy was fulfilled.</p> + +<p>It may be that on a yet more awful and universal scale +these phenomena will be seen again in that last shaking of +the powers of heaven which is to attend the rolling back of +the heavens as a scroll, the immediate prelude to Christ's +glorious appearing. But Christ's prophecy, at this point, was +not giving a description of events at the very end of the +world, but signs by which it might be known when the end +was drawing near.</p> + +<p>As the signs should be recognized, the Saviour intended +that those who loved His appearing should be quickened with +hope, and inspired to hasten to the world with the gospel +message preparing the way of the Lord. The Lord's word +for His children was,</p> + +<p>"When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, +and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." +Luke 21:28.</p> + +<p>Long ago these signs began to come to pass. Now may +the Lord's believing children well look up and rejoice, knowing +that the day of eternal redemption is indeed nigh at hand.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[Pg 103]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>He Will Come for His Own</h4> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">In the glad time of the harvest,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In the grand millennial year,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the King shall take His scepter,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And to judge the world appear,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Earth and sea shall yield their treasure,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All shall stand before the throne;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Just awards will then be given,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the King shall claim His own.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">O the rapture of His people!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Long they've dwelt on earth's low sod,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With their hearts e'er turning homeward,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rich in faith and love to God.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They will share the life immortal,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They will know as they are known,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They will pass the pearly portal,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the King shall claim His own.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Long they've toiled within the harvest,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sown the precious seed with tears;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Soon they'll drop their heavy burdens<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In the glad millennial years;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They will share the bliss of heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nevermore to sigh or moan;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Starry crowns will then be given,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the King shall claim His own.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">We shall greet the loved and loving,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who have left us lonely here;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Every heartache will be banished<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the Saviour shall appear;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Never grieved with sin or sorrow,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Never weary or alone;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O, we long for that glad morrow<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When the King shall claim His own!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>L.D. Santee.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[Pg 104]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p104.jpg" width="445" height="269" alt="SATAN OFFERS GOLD, AND THE WORLD +STAMPEDES TO ITS DESTRUCTION + +"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for +your miseries that shall come upon you." +James 5:1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SATAN OFFERS GOLD, AND THE WORLD +STAMPEDES TO ITS DESTRUCTION<br /> + +"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for +your miseries that shall come upon you." +James 5:1.</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_D_4" id="Footnote_D_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_D_4"><span class="label">[D]</span></a> +The display was most brilliant, apparently, in Western Asia. The veteran +missionary, Dr. H.H. Jessup, of the Presbyterian Missionary College, of +Beirut, describes the scene in his "Fifty-Three Years in Syria:" "On the +morning of the fourteenth [November], at three o'clock, I was roused from a +deep sleep by the voice of one of the young men calling, 'The stars are all +coming down.' ... The meteors poured down like a rain of fire. Many of +them were large and varicolored, and left behind them a long train of fire. +One immense green meteor came down over Lebanon, seeming as large as the +moon, and exploded with a large noise, leaving a green pillar of light in its +train. It was vain to attempt to count them, and the display continued until +dawn, when their light was obscured by the king of day.... The Mohammedans +gave the call to prayer from the minarets, and the common people +were in terror."—<i>Volume I, pp. 316, 317.</i></p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[Pg 105]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p105.jpg" width="448" height="331" alt="THE MISER + +"Ye have heaped treasure together for +the last days." James 5:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MISER<br /> + +"Ye have heaped treasure together for +the last days." James 5:3.</span> +</div> + + +<h2>THE MEANING OF PRESENT-DAY CONDITIONS</h2> + +<h3>"THERE SHALL BE SIGNS ... UPON THE EARTH"</h3> + + +<p>From the specific signs in the heavens, which were to +herald the coming of the latter days and awaken the church +to look for its coming Lord, our Saviour's prophecy passed +on to designate certain general conditions in the world which +were to continue until the great day of God comes:</p> + +<p>"There shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in +the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; +the sea and the waves roaring; men's hearts failing +them for fear, and for looking after those things which are +coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. +And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud +with power and great glory." Luke 21:25-27.</p> + +<p>Among the developments here foretold, and which contribute +to the "distress of nations, with perplexity," we may +list the following:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[Pg 106]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p106.jpg" width="444" height="336" alt="THE ARMING OF THE NATIONS + +"Prepare war,... beat your plowshares +into swords, and your pruning hooks +into spears." Joel 3: 9, 10." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE ARMING OF THE NATIONS<br /> + +"Prepare war,... beat your plowshares +into swords, and your pruning hooks +into spears." Joel 3: 9, 10.</span> +</div> + + +<h4>1. Political Unrest—the Arming of the Nations</h4> + +<p>Following on closely with the signs in the heavens, there +appears also the awakening to national aspirations and rivalries +in Europe, out of which has grown the arming of the nations. +The beginning of the modern race of armaments may +be dated from those stirring and eventful years of 1830 to +1848. We have seen the resources of the soil and the inventive +genius of man devoted to preparations for war on a scale +never before thought of. The prophet Joel foretold these +conditions in the last days:</p> + +<p>"Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles ["the nations," +R.V.]: Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men +of war draw near; let them come up: beat your plowshares +into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak +say, I am strong.... Let the heathen be wakened....<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[Pg 107]</a></span> +Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision [or "cutting +off"]: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision." +Joel 3: 9-14.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p107.jpg" width="448" height="334" alt="READY FOR THE CONFLICT + +"For the day of the Lord is near." +Joel 3: 14. + +PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y." title="" /> +<span class="caption">READY FOR THE CONFLICT<br /> + +"For the day of the Lord is near." +Joel 3: 14. + +PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y.</span> +</div> + +<p>Another prophecy forewarns of the "peace and safety" +cry that is to be heard as the end draws near. We are told +that many people in the last days will be saying that swords +are to be beaten into plowshares, and that the nations will +cease from war (Isa. 2:3, 4); but the actual conditions are +repeatedly described in prophecy as warlike and perilous. +Thus the revelator saw the closing days:</p> + +<p>"The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come, and +the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that +Thou shouldst give reward unto Thy servants the prophets, +and to the saints, and them that fear Thy name, small and +great; and shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth." +Rev. 11: 18.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/p108.jpg" width="300" height="448" alt="A FAITHFUL AND WISE +SERVANT + +"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour +your Lord doth come." Matt. 24: 42." title="" /> +<span class="caption">A FAITHFUL AND WISE +SERVANT<br /> + +"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour +your Lord doth come." Matt. 24: 42.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[Pg 109]</a></span></p> + +<p>What we see then among the nations proclaims the approaching +end.</p> + + +<h4>2. Signs in the Social World</h4> + +<p>A New Testament prophecy of the latter days says:</p> + +<p>"In the last days perilous times shall come. For men +shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, +blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without +natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, +fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, +high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God." +2 Tim. 3: 1-4.</p> + +<p>The "perilous times" have come, when, as never before, +the world is pleasure mad.</p> + +<p>"Unrestrained passion for pleasure," said M. Comte, +editor of the French <i>Relèvement Social</i>, writing just before the +European war, is bringing a terrible train of evils into modern +society. Along with it he put "the hunt for money without +regard for means," adding:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"This is the theme which manufacturers, business men, men in the +public administration, continually harp on with ever the same conviction +and ever the same wealth of proof.</p> + +<p>"The note is ever the same, and the conclusion identical: <i>Nous sommes +perdus!</i> [We are lost!]"—<i>Quoted in Record of Christian Work, July, +1914.</i></p></div> + +<p>Many agencies for social and temperance reform are rendering +the greatest human service; but for lost humanity the +only hope is Christ, the divine Saviour. With an urgency +born of the last call, His gospel is sounding to a world on the +verge of eternity. Yet with divine love longing to save, the +world sweeps on, less and less mindful of eternal interests. +Christ's prophecy foretold it as it is:</p> + +<p>"As the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the +Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood +they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, +until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and knew +not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall +also the coming of the Son of man be." Matt. 24: 37-39.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[Pg 110]</a></span></p> + +<p>Who can look out upon mankind today without the conviction +that this scripture is being fulfilled? The drift is strong +toward the world and away from God; but we are bidden +to watch and pray, lest the coming day find us unprepared.</p> + + +<h4>3. Signs in the Industrial World</h4> + +<p>Industrial conditions today add their contribution to the +"distress of nations, with perplexity." Through the word +of prophecy the Lord long ago foretold these conditions, with +a warning to the careless rich, and a warning to the laborer +and the poor, not to be drawn into contention over the things +of this world, for the Judge is at the door. The prophecy, +it will be seen, refers specifically to latter-day conditions.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p110.jpg" width="448" height="285" alt=""AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?" + +A night scene on the Thames +embankment, London." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?"<br /> + +A night scene on the Thames +embankment, London.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries +that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and +your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; +and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, +and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure +together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> +who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept +back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have +reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth. Ye +have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; +ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye +have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 429px;"> +<img src="images/p111.jpg" width="429" height="329" alt="THE RICH YOUNG MAN + +"Sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, +and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." +Matt. 19: 21." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE RICH YOUNG MAN<br /> + +"Sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, +and thou shalt have treasure in heaven." +Matt. 19: 21.</span> +</div> + +<p>"Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the +Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious +fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive +the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish +your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. Grudge +not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: +behold, the Judge standeth before the door." James 5: 1-9.</p> + +<p>There is no need to argue that the issues with which the +prophecy deals are pressing upon the world with ever-increasing<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[Pg 112]</a></span> +perplexity. We quote but two statements, by men not +engaged in agitation, but calmly and thoughtfully setting +down the signs of the times.</p> + +<p>The late Lord Avebury (Sir John Lubbock) wrote a few +years ago in the <i>Review of Internationalism</i>:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The religion of Europe is not Christianity, but the worship of the god +of war.... Unless something is done, the condition of the poor in Europe +will grow worse and worse. It is no use shutting our eyes. Revolution +may not come soon, not probably in our time, but come it will, and as +sure as fate there will be an explosion such as the world has never seen."</p></div> + +<p>Of the rapid growth of discontent and its propaganda, +Mr. Frederick Townsend Martin, of New York, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Fifty years ago there was scarcely a voice of protest; indeed, there +was hardly anything to protest against. Twenty-five years ago the protest +was clear and distinct, and we understood it. Ten years ago the +protest found expression in a dozen weekly publications, but today the +protest is circulated not by hundreds or thousands of printed copies of +books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, but actually by the million.</p> + +<p>"This propaganda of protest has its daily papers that are distinctive +and published for that purpose, and that purpose only. It has +its magazines and tens of thousands of weekly papers. Only a fool sneers +at such a volume of publicity as that....</p> + +<p>"The warnings that hundreds of us are uttering may be ignored. +The squandering may go on, the vulgar bacchanalia may be prolonged, +the poor may have to writhe under the iron heel of the iron lord—the +dance of death may go on until society's E string snaps, and then the +Vesuvius of the underworld will belch forth its lava of death and +destruction."—<i>Hearst's Magazine, September, 1913.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus hearts grow faint "for looking after those things +which are coming on the earth." But while the increasing +"distress of nations, with perplexity," abounds, the Lord sends +the steadying, assuring message that soon Christ will come +to end the reign of sin and strife. He would have His children +keep the gospel light glowing, and wait patiently for Him.</p> + + +<h4>4. The Great Missionary Movement</h4> + +<p>The Saviour's prophecy of the signs of His second coming +places the work of world evangelization as the culminating +sign. This in itself is a joyful token of the approaching<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[Pg 113]</a></span> +end, a bright signal of hope in a suffering world. He said:</p> + +<p>"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the +world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end +come." Matt. 24: 14.</p> + +<p>Before the end, the light of the gospel was to shine into +every dark corner of the earth. True to the sure word of +prophecy, when the latter days began,—"the time of the end,"—there +sprang up the great movement of modern missions +which has been one of the leading characteristics of the last +century. Here are a few facts showing the missionary developments +of a single century:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In 1800 the foreign missionary societies numbered seven. In 1900 +they numbered over 500.</p> + +<p>"In 1800 the income of seven societies amounted to about $50,000. +In 1900 the income was over $15,000,000.</p> + +<p>"In 1800 the number of native communicants enrolled in Protestant +mission churches was 7,000. In 1900 there were 1,500,000 native communicants.</p> + +<p>"In 1800 the adherents of Protestant churches in heathen lands were +estimated at 15,000. In 1900 they numbered 3,500,000.</p> + +<p>"In 1800 only one fifth of the human family had the Bible in languages +they could read. In 1900 nine tenths of the people of the world +had the Word of God in languages and dialects known to them."</p></div> + +<p>Since 1900 the missionary movement has remarkably increased +in extent and activity. It is estimated that now there +are about 22,000 foreign missionaries in the fields, with many +thousands of trained native evangelists and helpers.</p> + +<p>The prophecy is fulfilling before our eyes. It is not the +conversion of the world that Christ's words foretold, but the +evangelization of the world; and when all the world has heard +the gospel of the kingdom, "then shall the end come."</p> + +<p>Another prophecy—that of Rev. 14: 6-14—shows that +the closing phase of this world-wide missionary movement is +to be the proclamation of the special gospel message of preparation +for the coming of the Lord, calling all men to worship +God and keep His commandments, and warning them +against following the traditions of men that make void the +Word of God.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[Pg 114]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;"> +<img src="images/p114.jpg" width="296" height="443" alt="THE SUNSET HOUR + +"The work that centuries might have done +Must crowd the hour of setting sun."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SUNSET HOUR<br /> + +"The work that centuries might have done +Must crowd the hour of setting sun."</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[Pg 115]</a></span></p> + +<p>With the coming of this generation there has come just +such a message, in the rise and progress of the advent movement, +the burden of the message being expressed in the very +language of the prophecy—"Fear God, and give glory to +Him; for the hour of His judgment is come." Rev. 14: 7. +And the movement is spreading rapidly "to every nation, +and kindred, and tongue, and people." Thus in vision the +prophet on Patmes heard the message given; and when its +warning cry had reached all nations, he saw Christ coming +in the clouds of heaven to reap the harvest of the earth.</p> + + +<h4>"Even at the Doors"</h4> + +<p>Of the beginning of the special signs of the last days, Christ +said:</p> + +<p>"When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, +and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh." +Luke 21: 28.</p> + +<p>But of the time when these signs should all be seen fulfilled +or in process of fulfilment, the Saviour said:</p> + +<p>"Now learn a parable of the fig tree: When his branch is +yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer +is nigh: so likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, +know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto +you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be +fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words +shall not pass away." Matt. 24: 32-35.</p> + +<p>In this generation we see these things. All about us the +signs have appeared. We know, then, by the word that shall +not pass away, that the generation has at last appeared that +is to see the Saviour coming in power and great glory. "Of +that day and hour knoweth no man," but we may know "that +it is near, even at the doors"—the day for which the saints +of God have hoped through all the ages.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[Pg 116]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 296px;"> +<img src="images/p116.jpg" width="296" height="443" alt="PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH + +"Understandest thou what thou +readest?" Acts 8:30." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PHILIP AND THE EUNUCH<br /> + +"Understandest thou what thou +readest?" Acts 8:30.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[Pg 117]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p117.jpg" width="442" height="301" alt="THE ROYAL PALACE OF +BABYLON + +"The God of heaven hath given thee +a kingdom, power, and strength, and +glory." Dan. 2:37" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE ROYAL PALACE OF +BABYLON<br /> + +"The God of heaven hath given thee +a kingdom, power, and strength, and +glory." Dan. 2:37</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_HISTORIC_PROPHECY_OF_DANIEL_7" id="THE_HISTORIC_PROPHECY_OF_DANIEL_7"></a>THE HISTORIC PROPHECY OF DANIEL 7</h2> + +<h3>FOUR GREAT UNIVERSAL EMPIRES</h3> + + +<h4>Part I</h4> + +<p>So important is it that we understand the events leading +on to the end, that repeatedly the "sure word of prophecy" +outlines the course of this world's history, and sets up waymarks +along the highway to the everlasting kingdom.</p> + +<p>In the light of prophecy we see the hand of God guiding +and overruling through all history, shaping events for the +carrying out of His purpose to end the reign of sin and to bring +in the reign of eternal righteousness. His prophetic word +foretells events of history, that we may know that He is the +living God over all, and that we may understand that the divine +purpose will surely be fulfilled. Above a wicked world +there is a God in heaven, waiting only the appointed time +for the accomplishment of His purposes.</p> + +<p>"I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end +from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[Pg 118]</a></span> +are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will +do all My pleasure.... I have spoken it, I also will bring +it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.... My salvation +shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion." +Isa. 46:9-13.</p> + +<p>In the dream of Nebuchadnezzar, recorded in the second +chapter of Daniel, the Lord revealed in brief but graphic +outline the course of history from the days of Babylon to the +end of the world. The four great universal monarchies,—Babylon, +Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome—were represented +by the various parts of the metallic image. That prophecy +described particularly the division of the Roman Empire into +the kingdoms of western Europe. "In the days of these +kings," declared the word of the Lord, the God of heaven was +to set up His kingdom, bringing an end to all earthly powers.</p> + +<p>In the seventh chapter we are taken over the same course +of history, in Daniel's vision of the four beasts. Here also +chief attention is devoted to the fourth great kingdom; and +especially to its divided state; for the events taking place at +this time are of the deepest eternal interest to all men.</p> + +<p>In this vision Daniel saw four universal empires represented +by great beasts. One after another the symbolic +beasts arose, did their work, and gave place to the next scenes +in the history. The angel clearly explained to Daniel the +meaning of the vision:</p> + +<p>"These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which +shall arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High +shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, +even forever and ever."</p> + +<p>Of necessity, then, it is a repetition of the story of the four +universal monarchies dealt with in the second chapter, and +ending with the setting up of the everlasting kingdom.</p> + +<p>Let us place the view given the prophet in vision alongside +the record of history.</p> + +<p>First, however, a word as to the manner in which the great +beasts appeared to the prophet:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[Pg 119]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds +of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great +beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another."</p> + +<p>Again and again, in the figurative language of Scripture, +winds are used as the symbol for wars; and the sea, or waters, +for nations or peoples. (See Jer. 25:31-33; Rev. 17:15.) The +prophet saw the clashing of the nations in war, and out of +these conflicts arose the kingdoms described in the prophecy.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p119.jpg" width="448" height="297" alt="THE FIRST BEAST + +"The first was like a lion, and had +eagle's wings." Dan. 7:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FIRST BEAST<br /> + +"The first was like a lion, and had +eagle's wings." Dan. 7:4.</span> +</div> + + +<h4>Babylon</h4> + +<p>Note the prophetic picture of the prophecy and the corresponding +representation in history.</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"The first was like a lion, and had eagle's +wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it +was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as +a man, and a man's heart was given to it."</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—As the lion is king of beasts, it was a fitting +symbol of Babylon, "the glory of kingdoms." Isa. 13:19.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[Pg 120]</a></span> +The eagle's wings suggest rapidity of movement and far-reaching +conquest. The prophet Habakkuk said of it, "Their +horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle." +This was the characteristic of Babylon under the earlier kings, +but especially under Nebuchadnezzar. Berosus, the ancient +Chaldean historian, wrote of him:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"This Babylonian king conquered Egypt, and Syria, and Phenicia, +and Arabia; and exceeded in his exploits all that had reigned before him +in Babylon." (See Flavius Josephus "Against Apion," book 1, par. 19.)</p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 443px;"> +<img src="images/p120.jpg" width="443" height="278" alt="THE SECOND BEAST + +"And behold another beast, a second, +like to a bear." Dan. 7:5." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SECOND BEAST<br /> + +"And behold another beast, a second, +like to a bear." Dan. 7:5.</span> +</div> + +<p>But now, at the time of Daniel's vision, degeneracy had +come; the empire was tottering. The lion heart was gone, +the eagle's wings were plucked, and within three years from +the time the vision was given, Babylon was overthrown.</p> + + +<h4>Medo-Persia</h4> + +<p>As the dominion passed from Babylon to the next great +power, the prophet says:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"Behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, +and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span> +mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto +it, Arise, devour much flesh."</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—The Medes and Persians overthrew Babylon. +Medo-Persia was a dual kingdom, lifting itself up on one side, +first the Median branch the stronger, then the Persian, under +Cyrus and his successors, rising higher. This two-sided characteristic, +noted as a distinguishing mark in the prophecy, +was emphasized by the ancient writers also. Æschylus, the +Greek poet, who lived in the time of Persia, wrote:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Asia's brave host,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A Mede first led. The virtues of his son<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fixed firm the empire....<br /></span> +<span class="i0">... Cyrus third, by fortune graced,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Adorned the throne."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—"<i>Persœ.</i>"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The word spoken in the vision, "Arise, devour much flesh," +describes the history from the time when the Persian side +rose uppermost. Rawlinson says, "Cyrus proceeded with +scarcely a pause on a long career of conquest."</p> + +<p>An alliance against Persia was formed by Lydia, Egypt, +and Babylon (Herodotus 1:77); and as these three great +provinces were subdued, they may well be represented by +the three ribs in the mouth of the Medo-Persian bear.</p> + + +<h4>Grecia</h4> + +<p>Yet another kingdom was to follow, and strikingly the +symbol pictures the characteristics of the Greek conquest.</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"After this I beheld, and lo another, like a +leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; +and the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given +to it."</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—The third kingdom was Grecia. Under Alexander +the Great, the Greeks swept into Asia with the quickness +of the leopard's spring. And the four wings on the leopard +must represent astonishing fleetness. Plutarch speaks of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[Pg 122]</a></span> +the "incredible swiftness" of Alexander's conquests. Appian +wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The empire of Alexander was splendid in its magnitude, in its +armies, in the success and rapidity of its conquests, and it wanted little +of being boundless and unexampled, yet in its shortness of duration it +was like a brilliant flash of lightning. Although broken into several +satrapies, even the parts were splendid."—<i>"History of Rome," preface, +par. 10.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p122.jpg" width="442" height="275" alt="THE THIRD BEAST + +"After this I beheld, and lo another, +like a leopard." Dan. 7:6." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE THIRD BEAST<br /> + +"After this I beheld, and lo another, +like a leopard." Dan. 7:6.</span> +</div> + +<p>Thus the ancient Roman writer pictured the career of +Grecia just as represented by the prophetic symbol—the +fleetness, the great dominion given it, the division of the empire +into satrapies, as suggested by the four heads of the leopard. +Out of the conflicts following Alexander's death, there +came the fourfold headship of the empire. Rawlinson says, +"A quadripartite division of Alexander's domain was recognized." +(See "Sixth Monarchy," chap. 3.) The real situation +is best represented, as Dr. Albert Barnes says, by "one +animal with four heads," just as the prophetic symbol described +it centuries before.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[Pg 123]</a></span></p> + +<p>Thus the course of empire followed the outline of the +"sure word of prophecy" from age to age.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Armies were ranged in battle's dread array:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They fought—their glory withered in its bud;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They perished—with them ceased their tyrants' sway;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">New wars, new heroes came—their story passed away."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>There was to be no abiding kingdom till the time came +for God's glorious kingdom to be set up.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p123.jpg" width="448" height="286" alt="THE FOURTH BEAST + +"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold +a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and +strong exceedingly." Dan. 7:7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FOURTH BEAST<br /> + +"After this I saw in the night visions, and behold +a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and +strong exceedingly." Dan. 7:7.</span> +</div> + + +<h4>Rome</h4> + +<p>As the prophet watched the moving panorama of history, +foretold in symbols, he said:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"After this I saw in the night visions, and +behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; +and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake +in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it +was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had +ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came +up among them another little horn, before whom there were +three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and, behold, +in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth +speaking great things."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[Pg 124]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p124.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="ROME ON THE TIBER + +The palace of the Cæsars appears high on the +hill at the left." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ROME ON THE TIBER<br /> + +The palace of the Cæsars appears high on the +hill at the left.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[Pg 125]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—As the iron of the image of Nebuchadnezzar's +dream fitly represented the "iron monarchy of Rome," so +here the dreadful beast, with its iron teeth, can be none other +than Rome, which followed Grecia in world dominion. It was +the most powerful, the most dominating, of all the beasts in +the prophetic series. A Roman Catholic writer, Cardinal +Manning, compresses into a paragraph the correspondence +of history to the likeness of the prophecy:</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;"> +<img src="images/p125.jpg" width="446" height="296" alt="BATTLE OF ZAMA, +B.C. 202 + +By which Rome broke the power of Carthage, its +rival, and "began the conquest of the world."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">BATTLE OF ZAMA, +B.C. 202<br /> + +By which Rome broke the power of Carthage, its +rival, and "began the conquest of the world."</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The legions of Rome occupied the circumference of the world. +The military roads which sprang from Rome traversed all the earth; the +whole world was, as it were, held in peace and in tranquillity by the +universal presence of this mighty heathen empire. It was 'exceedingly +terrible,' according to the prophecies of Daniel; it was as it were of iron, +beating down and subduing the nations."—<i>"The Temporal Power of the +Pope" (London, 1862), p. 122.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a></span></p> + +<p>Thus far every symbol of the prophet's vision finds its +exact and clear counterpart in history. A writer living in +the third century, in the days of imperial Rome, rejoiced to +see how exactly the prophecy was being fulfilled. Hippolytus +(counted a saint by the Catholic Church) wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Rejoice, blessed Daniel! thou hast not been in error! All these +things have come to pass. After this again thou hast told us of the beast, +dreadful and terrible. It has iron teeth and claws of brass; it devoured +and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it. Already +the iron rules; already it subdues and breaks all in pieces; already it +brings all the unwilling into subjection; already we see these things ourselves. +Now we glorify God, being instructed by thee."—<i>"Treatise on +Christ and Antichrist," sec. 33.</i></p></div> + +<p>Now the prophetic outline comes to the time of the division +of the Roman Empire, introducing events of deepest +personal interest to us today.</p> + + +<h4>Part II</h4> + +<h4>The Fourth Kingdom and the "Little Horn"</h4> + +<p>It was the fourth great monarchy, Imperial Rome, and the +events to follow it, that engaged the anxious inquiry of the +prophet. He says:</p> + +<p>"Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which +was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth +were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in +pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet; and of the ten +horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, +and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, +and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was +more stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn +made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; until +the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the +saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints +possessed the kingdom."</p> + +<p>The prophet wanted to know the truth about it; and the +angel told him the truth. First, the angel said:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p> + +<p>"The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, +which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour +the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces."</p> + +<p>The fourth kingdom, as we have seen, was Rome. As +Cardinal Manning said of the empire, "It was 'exceeding +terrible,' according to the prophecies of Daniel; it was as it +were of iron, breaking down and subduing the nations."</p> + +<p>Of the ten horns that arose out of this fourth great empire, +the angel said:</p> + +<p>"The ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that +shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall +be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings."</p> + +<p>We look to the history of the Roman Empire, and what +do we see?—Just the picture of the prophecy. We see the +original Roman Empire of the West divided into lesser kingdoms. +We see the barbarian peoples of the North sweeping +down upon the empire, breaking it up, and establishing within +its boundaries the various kingdoms that are to this day represented +by the kingdoms of western Europe.</p> + +<p>And as we watch the history at this point, we surely see +"another little horn," another land of power, rising among +the horns representing the kingdoms of divided Rome—a +kingdom, yet a kingdom "diverse" from the others. The +work of this power riveted the attention of the prophet; and +it is of the greatest importance that we also should watch +closely to catch the lesson of the divine prophecy.</p> + + +<h4>Prophetic and Historic Pictures of the "Little Horn"</h4> + +<p>This is plainly the picture presented by the prophet, as +we look again, observing details more closely.</p> + +<p>The prophet beheld the division of the Roman Empire +into lesser kingdoms. Then, springing up among these kingdoms, +he saw the little-horn power subduing three of the ten +kingdoms, speaking great words, and making war with the +saints of God. It was to be a religious power, then, ruling +among the kings of the earth, and asserting religious dominion +over the faith and consciences of men. "The same horn made +war with the saints, and prevailed against them."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p128.jpg" width="445" height="269" alt="THE INVASION OF THE ROMAN +EMPIRE BY THE HUNS + +"We see the barbarian peoples of the North sweeping down upon the +empire, breaking it up, and establishing within its boundaries the +various kingdoms that are to this day represented by the kingdoms +of Western Europe."—Page 127." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE INVASION OF THE ROMAN +EMPIRE BY THE HUNS<br /> + +"We see the barbarian peoples of the North sweeping down upon the +empire, breaking it up, and establishing within its boundaries the +various kingdoms that are to this day represented by the kingdoms +of Western Europe."—Page 127.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[Pg 129]</a></span></p> + +<p>We look to history, and this is what plainly appears:</p> + +<p>We see, as described in the prophecy, a time when ten +contemporaneous kingdoms filled the territory of the original +Western Empire. Just there we see an ecclesiastical kingly +power rise to religious supremacy—the Roman Papacy. We +see, through its influence, three of the ten kingdoms overthrown, +"plucked up by the roots"—three Arian or heretical +kingdoms. And as we watch the history, we find this +power making "war with the saints" and prevailing against +them through long ages.</p> + +<p>A Roman Catholic writer describes it in a paragraph:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Long ages ago, when Rome through the neglect of the Western emperors +was left to the mercy of the barbarous hordes, the Romans turned +to one figure for aid and protection, and asked him to rule them; and thus, +in this simple manner, the best title of all to kingly right, commenced the +temporal sovereignty of the popes. And meekly stepping to the throne of +Cæsar, the vicar of Christ took up the scepter to which the emperors and +kings of Europe were to bow in reverence through so many ages."—<i>Rev. +James P. Conroy, in American Catholic Quarterly Review, April, 1911.</i></p></div> + +<p>Yet again we look at the picture presented in prophecy. +Then we turn to history; and precisely where and when the +prophet saw the "little horn" coming up, we see the Roman +Papacy rising to supremacy. We see this ecclesiastical power +wielding a kingly scepter among the kingdoms of divided +Rome, exalting itself above them, with a look "more stout +than his fellows." We hear it speaking great words, and we +see it carrying on warfare against the saints.</p> + +<p>Clearly, there was no other power in history, rising at +that time and in that place, which suggests the slightest correspondence +to the prophecy. In every detail the Roman +Papacy does correspond to it.</p> + +<p>The prophetic outline has brought us to the rise of the +great apostasy, so fully dealt with in the New Testament +prophecy; but there are further specifications in this prophecy +of the seventh of Daniel which demand brief study.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[Pg 130]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p130.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="RAISING THE SIEGE OF ROME, +A.D. 538 + +The crushing defeat of the Goths by the armies of Justinian, +who placed Vigilius in the papal chair under the military +protection of his famous general, Belisarius." title="" /> +<span class="caption">RAISING THE SIEGE OF ROME, +A.D. 538<br /> + +The crushing defeat of the Goths by the armies of Justinian, +who placed Vigilius in the papal chair under the military +protection of his famous general, Belisarius.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[Pg 131]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p131.jpg" width="448" height="278" alt="ST. PETER'S AND THE +VATICAN + +The magnificent headquarters +of the papal system." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ST. PETER'S AND THE +VATICAN<br /> + +The magnificent headquarters +of the papal system.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="THE_1260_YEARS_OF_DANIELS" id="THE_1260_YEARS_OF_DANIELS"></a>THE 1260 YEARS OF DANIEL'S PROPHECY</h2> + + +<p>Compressed into forty-four words, the age-long story of +the workings of the Roman Papacy is thus told by the angel +who interpreted Daniel's vision of the little horn:</p> + +<p>"He shall speak great words against the Most High, and +shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change +times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a +time and times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25.</p> + +<p>The spirit of this apostasy was abroad in apostolic days. +"The mystery of iniquity doth already work," said the apostle +Paul. 2 Thess. 2:7. And this power is to continue to work +until the end, when it will be destroyed by the brightness of +Christ's coming. Verse 8.</p> + + +<h4>A Prophetic Period</h4> + +<p>But according to the word of the angel to Daniel, there +was to be a period during which, in a special sense, the Papacy +was to hold supremacy over the saints and the times and the +laws of the Most High.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[Pg 132]</a></span></p> + +<p>"They shall be given into his hand until a time and times +and the dividing of time." In the Scriptures the word +"time," used in this manner, means a year: "at the end of +times, even years." Dan. 11:13, margin. Therefore a time +(one year) and times (two years) and the dividing of time +(half a year) means three years and a half. The same period +is mentioned twice in the twelfth chapter of Revelation, once +(verse 14) as "a time, and times, and half a time," and again +(verse 6) as "a thousand two hundred and threescore days."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p132.jpg" width="448" height="42" alt="" title="" /> +</div> + +<p>But in the symbolic representations of time in prophecy, +a day stands for a year (see Eze. 4:5, 6, and other scriptures). +Thus the prophecy foretold a long period of 1260 years during +which papal supremacy would continue.</p> + +<p>Now we may ask, When was this supremacy to begin? +what would mark the rise of the Papacy to acknowledged supremacy? +and what events mark the ending of the 1260 years?</p> + + +<h4>A Pivotal Point in History</h4> + +<p>The answer of history to the voice of prophecy is clear.</p> + +<p>The sixth century was a pivotal period in the history of +the world. The bishops of Rome had been asserting the +claims of that seat (or "see") above all others. Justinian was +emperor of the East. Of Justinian and his time Bury says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"He may be likened to a colossal Janus bestriding the way of passage +between the ancient and medieval worlds.... His military achievements +decided the course of the history of Italy, and affected the development +of Western Europe;... and his ecclesiastical authority influenced +the distant future of Christendom."—<i>"History of the Later Roman +Empire," Vol. I, pp. 351-353.</i></p></div> + +<p>Of this turning point in the world's history, Finlay says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The changes of centuries passed in rapid succession before the eyes +of one generation."—<i>"Greece under the Romans," p. 231.</i></p></div> + +<p>Just here we find the Papacy lifted definitely into acknowledged +supremacy. Imperial Rome had already left its ancient<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[Pg 133]</a></span> +seat to the Papacy, the imperial throne being no longer maintained +at Rome. The Bishop of Rome was left the chief +figure in the ancient seat of the Cæsars. The prophecy of +Rev. 13:2 had said of the relation of the old imperial power +to the Papacy, "The dragon gave him his power, and his seat, +and great authority." The seat was given, and now imperial +Rome was to give to papal Rome the definite recognition of +its supreme power and "great authority."</p> + + +<h4>Papal Supremacy Officially Recognized</h4> + +<p>In <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 533 the emperor Justinian promulgated a letter, having +the force of an imperial decree, recognizing the absolute headship +of the Bishop of Rome over the churches. It declared:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"We have been sedulous to subject and unite all the priests of the +Orient throughout its whole extent to the see of Your Holiness.... For +we do not suffer that anything which is mooted, however clear and +unquestionable, +pertaining to the state of the churches, should fail to be made +known to Your Holiness, as being the head of all the churches. For, as we +have said before, we are zealous for the increase of the honor and authority +of your see in all respects."—<i>Cod. Justin., lib. 1, title 1, Baronii +"Annales Ecclesiastici," Tom. VII, an. 533, sec. 12 (Translation as given +in "The Petrine Claims," by R.F. Littledale, p. 293).</i></p></div> + +<p>From this decree (for such it really was) the Roman authorities +date the official recognition of the supremacy of the +Papacy. Some have taken a later decree by Emperor Phocas +(<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 606) as a starting point. But Dr. Croly says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The highest authorities among the civilians and annalists of Rome +spurn the idea that Phocas was the founder of the supremacy of Rome; +they ascend to Justinian as the only legitimate source, and rightly date +the title from the memorable year 533."—<i>"The Apocalypse of St. John," +pp. 172, 173.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>The Sword of Empire Cleaves the Way</h4> + +<p>The "great authority" had been recognized. But at this +time heretical Arian powers compassed the papal seat about. +The Arian Vandals were persecuting Catholics in Africa, +Corsica, and Sardinia, and an Arian Gothic king ruled Italy +from Ravenna, his capital. The imperial arms, however,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[Pg 134]</a></span> +were at the service of orthodoxy. In 533-534 Justinian's +famous general, Belisarius, uprooted the Vandals. The war +for the faith and the empire was carried into Italy also, +against the Arian Goths. In 536 Belisarius, unopposed, entered +Rome at the invitation of the Pope. But the next year +the Goths rallied all their forces to retake the city. It was +a crisis in the struggle for Italy. "If a single post had given +way," says Gibbon, "the Romans, and Rome itself, were +irrecoverably lost." The Goths withdrew, defeated, in 538; +and this defeat, says Hodgkin, dug "the grave of the Gothic +monarchy in Italy."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p134.jpg" width="445" height="336" alt="THE POPE ENTERING ST. PETER'S +FROM THE VATICAN + +The famous statue of St. Peter +may be seen on the right." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE POPE ENTERING ST. PETER'S +FROM THE VATICAN<br /> + +The famous statue of St. Peter +may be seen on the right.</span> +</div> + +<p>Though the conflict went on for years before the Goths +were rooted up, this defeat of 538 was a crucial hour in their +history. Finlay says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"With the conquest of Rome by Belisarius, the history of the ancient +city may be considered as terminating; and with his defense against<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[Pg 135]</a></span> +Witiges [538] commences the history of the Middle Ages."—<i>"Greece +under the Romans," p 295.</i></p></div> + +<p>Roughly speaking, the Middle Ages and the age of papal +supremacy and power were the same.</p> + + +<h4>A New Order of Popes</h4> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p135.jpg" width="448" height="300" alt="THE VATICAN + +A bird's-eye view from the dome of St. Peter's. +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE VATICAN<br /> + +A bird's-eye view from the dome of St. Peter's.<br /> +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y.</span> +</div> + +<p>Not only was there this telling stroke by the imperial +sword in 538, helping to clear the way before the Papacy, but +at this same time the first of a new order of popes was placed +upon the papal throne by the imperial arms. Pope Silverius, +accused of sympathy with the Goths, was deposed by Belisarius +in 537. The emperor intervened, and the question of +the validity of his deposition was held up by the emperor +until 538. In that year, as Schaff says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Vigilius, a pliant creature of Theodora, ascended the papal chair +under the military protection of Belisarius (538-554)."—<i>"History of the +Christian Church," Vol. III, p. 327.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[Pg 136]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 336px;"> +<img src="images/p136.jpg" width="336" height="423" alt="THE FAMOUS SACRED STAIRWAY +IN ROME + +Here Luther, climbing the stairway on +his knees, heard the message, "The +just shall live by faith."" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FAMOUS SACRED STAIRWAY +IN ROME<br /> + +Here Luther, climbing the stairway on +his knees, heard the message, "The +just shall live by faith."</span> +</div> + +<p>With him begins a new order. Though personally he was +humiliated by the emperor's demands, and the Papacy itself +was brought into a state of subjection that it had not known +even under heretical Gothic kings, yet this very arbitrary +use of the papal prerogative by Justinian, strengthened the +idea that the Pope of Rome was the supreme authority in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[Pg 137]</a></span> +religion, to speak for the universal church. In Bemont and +Monod's textbook on "Medieval Europe," page 120, we read:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Down to the sixth century all popes are declared saints in the +martyrologies. Vigilius (537<a name="FNanchor_E_5" id="FNanchor_E_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_E_5" class="fnanchor">[E]</a>-555) is the first of a series of popes who no +longer bear this title, which is henceforth sparingly conferred. From this +time on the popes, more and more involved in worldly events, no longer +belong solely to the church; they are men of the state, and then rulers +of the state."</p></div> + + +<h4>A Persecuting Power</h4> + +<p>Following Vigilius came Pelagius I (556-560), who ascended +the throne by "the military aid of Narses," then the +imperial general in Italy. And Pelagius, who had been set in +the papal see by imperial power, began to demand that the +sword of the empire should be used against bishops or members +in the church who did not give way to the authority of the +Pope. His letters on this subject "are an unqualified defense +of the principles of persecution." (See "Dictionary of Christian +Biography," by Smith and Wace, art. "Pope Pelagius.")</p> + +<p>The prophecy declared that the Papacy would be given +special supremacy during a period of 1260 years.</p> + +<p>In <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 533 came the memorable imperial declaration +recognizing that supremacy, and in <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 538 came the stroke +with the sword of Rome, cleaving the way; and there began +the new order of popes—"men of the state, and then rulers +of the state."</p> + +<p>Thus decisive events clearly mark the beginning of the +prophetic period of the 1260 years. And just 1260 years +from the decree of 533, in recognition of the papal supremacy, +came a decree, in 1793, aimed against that supremacy; and +just 1260 years from that stroke with the sword at Rome in +behalf of the Papacy, came a stroke with the sword at Rome +against the Papacy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[Pg 138]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p138.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="STORMING OF THE BASTILLE +PRISON IN PARIS + +An event in the French Revolution which marked +the ending of the old autocratic order." title="" /> +<span class="caption">STORMING OF THE BASTILLE +PRISON IN PARIS<br /> + +An event in the French Revolution which marked +the ending of the old autocratic order.</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_E_5" id="Footnote_E_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_E_5"><span class="label">[E]</span></a> The exact date should be 538, as given in the quotation from +Schaff's +history. "From the death of Silverius [June, 538] the Roman Catholic writers +date the episcopacy of Vigilius."—<i>Bower, "History of the Popes," under +year 538.</i></p></div></div> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[Pg 139]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p139.jpg" width="448" height="296" alt="TAKING THE POPE PRISONER + +This was accomplished by Berthier, +the French general, in 1798." title="" /> +<span class="caption">TAKING THE POPE PRISONER<br /> + +This was accomplished by Berthier, +the French general, in 1798.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="THE_DAWN_OF_A_NEW_ERA" id="THE_DAWN_OF_A_NEW_ERA"></a>THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA</h2> + +<h3>THE END OF THE 1260 YEARS</h3> + + +<p>As the generation in which the papal power rose to supremacy +was a turning-point in the history of the world, so, +too, was the generation in which the 1260 years of its supremacy +came to an end.</p> + +<p>This measuring line of prophecy does more than run from +date to date. It connects two great crises in human history, +the events of the first tending to establish the papal rule over +men, the events of the second signalizing a breaking of those +bands.</p> + + +<h4>A Crisis in History</h4> + +<p>Papal supremacy came at that time of which Finlay says, +"The changes of centuries passed in rapid succession before +the eyes of one generation." The measuring line of 1260 +years runs on through the centuries till, lo, its end touches +another time of crisis,—Europe in the convulsions of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[Pg 140]</a></span> +French Revolution, when again changes, ordinarily requiring +centuries, were wrought out before the eyes of men within +the space of a few years. Lamartine wrote of that time:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"These five years are five centuries for France."—<i>"History of the +Girondists," book 61, sec. 16 (Vol. III), p. 544.</i></p></div> + +<p>And the events of these times proclaimed the prophetic period +of papal supremacy ended at last.</p> + +<p>Thus, in <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 533 came the notable decree of the Papacy's +powerful supporter, recognizing its supremacy; and then the +decisive stroke by the sword at Rome in <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 538, cleaving +the way for the new order of popes—the rulers of state.</p> + +<p>Exactly 1260 years later, in 1793, came the notable decree +of the Papacy's once powerful supporter, France,—"the eldest +son of the church,"—aiming to abolish church and religion, +followed by a decisive stroke with the sword at Rome against +the Papacy, in 1798.</p> + + +<h4>Significant Events of the French Revolution</h4> + +<p>Of the decree of 1793, W.H. Hutton says:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"On Nov. 26, 1793, the Convention, of which seventeen bishops and +some clergy were members, decreed the abolition of all religion."—<i>"Age +of Revolution," p. 156.</i></p></div> + +<p>The frenzy of the days of the Terror presented the spectacle +of outraged humanity, goaded to desperation by centuries +of oppression in the name of religion and divine right, +rising up and madly breaking every restraint. Because in +the minds of the people the Papacy stood for religion, they +blindly struck at religion itself, and at God, in whose name +the papal church had done its cruel work through the centuries.</p> + +<p>In the prophecy of Rev. 11:3-13 these events of the wild +days of the French Revolution are specifically referred to as +coming at the close of the prophetic period of the 1260 years. +The prophetic picture was so clear that over a hundred years +before the time, Jurieu, an eminent French student of prophecy, +wrote that he could "not doubt that 'tis France," the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[Pg 141]</a></span> +chief supporter of the Papacy, that would give the shock as +of an earthquake to the great spiritual Babylonian city. He +wrote of France, one of the ten parts of divided Rome:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"This tenth part of the city shall fall, with respect to the Papacy; +it shall break with Rome, and the Roman religion."—<i>"The Accomplishment +of the Prophecies" (London, 1687), part 2, p. 265.</i></p></div> + +<p>And so it came to pass. Far beyond France the movement +reached. Canon Trevor says of the wave of revolt against +absolutism that passed over Europe:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It is worthy of observation that only those nations which eschewed +popery were able to resist the tide. Every throne and every church, +without exception, that owned the supremacy of Rome, was prostrated +in the dust."—<i>"Rome and Its Papal Rulers," p. 436.</i></p></div> + +<p>The decree of the French Convention in 1793 was followed +by the stroke with the sword at Rome in 1798. The full +history is told in fewest words by a Roman Catholic writer, +Rev. Joseph Rickaby, of the Jesuit Society:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"When, in 1797, Pope Pius VI fell grievously ill, Napoleon gave +orders that in the event of his death no successor should be elected to his +office, and that the Papacy should be discontinued.</p> + +<p>"But the Pope recovered. The peace was soon broken; Berthier +entered Rome on the tenth of February, 1798, and proclaimed a republic. +The aged pontiff refused to violate his oath by recognizing it, and was +hurried from prison to prison in France. Broken with fatigue and sorrows, +he died on the nineteenth of August, 1799, in the French fortress +of Valence, aged eighty-two years. No wonder that half Europe thought +Napoleon's veto would be obeyed, and that with the Pope the Papacy +was dead."—<i>"The Modern Papacy," p. 1 (Catholic Truth Society, London).</i></p></div> + +<p>These events of the French Revolution marked the ending +of the prophetic period of papal supremacy. A "deadly +wound" had been given the Papacy. And the blow with +the sword at Rome was struck in 1798, just 1260 years from +the year 538, when the sword of empire struck that decisive +blow against the Goths at Rome, and prepared the way for +the new order of popes, the kingly rulers of church and state.</p> + +<p>Of the condition of the Papacy at this time Canon Trevor +says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[Pg 142]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Papacy was extinct: not a vestige of its existence remained; +and among all the Roman Catholic powers not a finger was stirred in its +defense. The Eternal City had no longer prince or pontiff; its bishop +was a dying captive in foreign lands; and the decree was already announced +that no successor would be allowed in his place."—<i>"Rome and +Its Papal Rulers," p. 440.</i></p></div> + +<p>"No wonder that half Europe," the Jesuit writer says, +"thought Napoleon's veto would be obeyed, and that with +the Pope the Papacy was dead." But he adds that "since +then the Papacy has been lifted to a pinnacle of spiritual +power" unreached before.</p> + +<p>The stroke dealt the Papacy by the French Revolution +was not to be the ending of it, by any means, according to +the prophecy. These events proclaimed the ending of the +prophetic period of special supremacy. Another prophecy +distinctly indicates that following the deadly blow there would +come a revival of the Papacy's influence, just as the Catholic +writer describes it. The prophet John, speaking of this same +power, says:</p> + +<p>"I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and +his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered +after the beast.... And they worshiped the beast, saying, +Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with +him?" Rev. 13:3, 4.</p> + +<p>We see the healing process still going on, with evidences +multiplying that the world is more and more wondering after +the papal power.</p> + + +<h4>A New Era of Liberty and Enlightenment</h4> + +<p>With the ending of the 1260 years of papal supremacy, a +new order was ushered in. The Papacy had stood for absolutism +in state as well as church. Now the power of absolutism +was broken. "Absolute monarchy," Edmund Burke +said at the time, "breathed its last without a struggle." There +came the dawn of an era of greater religious liberty and enlightenment, +that has spread blessings over all lands.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span></p> + +<p>The prophecy had said of the Papacy, that the saints +and the times and laws of the Most High were to be "given +into his hand" for 1260 years. As foretold in Christ's prophecy +(Matt. 24:22), these days of the tribulation of God's +saints were "shortened." The power of the Reformation +weakened the oppressing hand, even before the prophetic +period ran out. And when the full 1260 years closed, the +world saw the grip of that papal hand yet further loosened, +and God's providence at work preparing the way for a world-wide +proclamation of His gospel, bearing witness against the +perversions of the papal apostasy, and restoring to men the +Word and laws of the Most High.</p> + +<p>The record of history witnesses that this time prophecy +of the 1260 years of papal supremacy was exactly fulfilled. +The Lord speaks in prophecy that men may know that He is +the living God. In these time prophecies of His Word, He +gives assurance not only that this troubled world has not +escaped from the hand of its Maker, but that its times are in +His hand also; and that when the time of His divine purpose +fully comes, He will surely cut His work short in righteousness, +and end the reign of sin on earth.</p> + +<p>As the prophetic period of Dan. 7:25 meets its fulfilment +in the history of the Papacy, even so, we shall see, the work +of the Roman Church answers to the further specifications +regarding the doings of this "little horn" of Daniel's prophecy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_144" id="Page_144">[Pg 144]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/p144.jpg" width="301" height="444" alt="THE TRIPLE CROWN + +The Pope's Tiara, from a photograph taken +in the Vatican at Rome." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE TRIPLE CROWN<br /> + +The Pope's Tiara, from a photograph taken +in the Vatican at Rome.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[Pg 145]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p145.jpg" width="444" height="293" alt="HUGUENOTS IN PRISON +FOR THEIR FAITH + +"Others had trial ... of bonds and +imprisonment." Heb. 11:36." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HUGUENOTS IN PRISON +FOR THEIR FAITH<br /> + +"Others had trial ... of bonds and +imprisonment." Heb. 11:36.</span> +</div> + + +<h2>THE WORK OF THE "LITTLE HORN" POWER</h2> + + +<p>The prophetic picture of the rise and work of the "little +horn" finds its exact counterpart in the history of the Roman +Papacy:</p> + +<p><i>The Place.</i>—The little horn was seen by the prophet +rising in the field of the Roman Empire. That was the very +place where the great kingdom of the Papacy appeared, taking +the name of Roman.</p> + +<p><i>The Time.</i>—The rise of the ecclesiastical kingdom of +the little-horn power in the prophecy followed the breaking +up of the Roman Empire into the ten kingdoms. Just so the +ecclesiastical kingdom of the Roman Papacy rises to view in +history immediately following the division of the empire.</p> + +<p><i>The Period of Supremacy.</i>—The prophecy allotted 1260 +years to the full supremacy of this power. History responds +that from the beginning of the papal supremacy, in the days +of Justinian, a period of 1260 years brings us into the stirring +events of the last decade of the eighteenth century, that gave +to the Papacy a deadly wound.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[Pg 146]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p146.jpg" width="448" height="269" alt="THE LOVE OF POWER + +"He shall speak great words against +the Most High." Dan. 7:25. + +THE POWER OF LOVE" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LOVE OF POWER THE POWER OF LOVE<br /> + +"He shall speak great words against +the Most High." Dan. 7:25. + +</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[Pg 147]</a></span></p> + +<p>One further set of specifications remains for study:</p> + +<p><i>The Work.</i>—Of the nature and work of the power represented +by the little horn, the prophecy declares:</p> + +<p>"He shall speak great words against the Most High, and +shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to +change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand +until a time and times and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25.</p> + +<p>Do we find in the record that the Church of Rome has +fulfilled these specifications also? The Scripture prophecy +is absolutely a word-photograph of the workings of the papal +church. Look at the main features:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">1. Speaking great words against the Most High.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">2. Wearing out the saints of the Most High.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">3. Thinking to change the times and the laws of the Most High.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Every count in the indictment may be clearly proved, +and that by testimony from Roman Catholic sources</p> + + +<h4>"He Shall Speak Great Words Against the +Most High"</h4> + +<p>As Daniel observed the little-horn power, he heard it +speaking "very great things." The angel declared that these +great swelling words were really against the Most High. And +what could be more against the honor of the Most High than +that to mortal man should be ascribed the titles and attributes +of divinity? Here are some of the "great words:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"All the names which are attributed to Christ in Scripture, implying +His supremacy over the church, are also attributed to the Pope."—<i>Bellarmine, +"On the Authority of Councils," book 2, chap. 17.</i></p></div> + +<p>This ruling has been actually applied through the ages. +Says Elliott:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Look at the Sicilian ambassadors prostrated before him [Pope +Martin IV] with the cry, 'Lamb of God! that takest away the sins of +the world!'"—<i>"Horæ Apocalypticæ," part 4, chap. 5, sec. 2.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[Pg 148]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p148.jpg" width="448" height="273" alt="CHRISTIANS IN PRISON BENEATH THE +COLOSSEUM AWAITING MARTYRDOM + +"And shall wear out the saints of the +Most High." Dan. 7:25." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRISTIANS IN PRISON BENEATH THE +COLOSSEUM AWAITING MARTYRDOM<br /> + +"And shall wear out the saints of the +Most High." Dan. 7:25.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[Pg 149]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Pope is of so great dignity and excellence, that he is not merely +man, but as if God, and the vicar of God (<i>non sit simplex homo, sed +quasi Deus, et Dei vicarius</i>). The Pope alone is called most holy,... +divine monarch, and supreme emperor, and king of kings.... The Pope is +of so great dignity and power that he constitutes one and the same +tribunal with Christ (<i>faciat unum et idem tribunal cum Christo</i>), so +that whatsoever the Pope does seems to proceed from the mouth of God +(<i>abore Dei</i>)."—<i>"Prompta Bibliotheca" (Ferraris), art. "Papa;" +Ferraris's Ecclesiastical Dictionary (Roman Catholic), art. "The Pope." +Quoted in Guinness's "Romanism and the Reformation," p. 16.</i></p></div> + +<p>These are no merely extravagant adulations of the Dark +Ages, to be repudiated by the moderns; these terms express +the unchanging doctrinal claims of the Roman Church, that +put man in the place of God. The modern Pope Leo XIII, +in an encyclical letter dated June 20, 1894, repeated the +claim:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty."—<i>"The Great +Encyclical Letters of Leo XIII" (New York, Benziger Brothers), p. 304.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus does the Papacy "speak great words against the +Most High."</p> + + +<h4>"And Shall Wear Out the Saints of the +Most High"</h4> + +<p>All through the Dark Ages we catch glimpses of the ruthless +hand of Rome laid upon simple believers in God's Holy +Word; but plans for wholesale wearing out of the saints of +God were devised as the Waldenses and others rose to a widespread +work of witnessing, heralds of the dawn of the coming +Reformation,—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"These who gave earliest notice,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As the lark<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Springs from the ground the morn to gratulate;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who, rather, rose the day to antedate,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By striking out a solitary spark,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When all the world with midnight gloom was dark—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The harbingers of good whom bitter hate<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In vain endeavored to exterminate."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Wordsworth.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Pope Innocent III gave orders concerning them as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Therefore by this present apostolical writing, we give you a strict +command that, by whatever means you can, you destroy all these heresies +and expel from your diocese all who are polluted with them. You +shall exercise the rigor of ecclesiastical power against them and all those +who have made themselves suspected by associating with them. They +may not appeal from your judgments, and, if necessary, you may cause +the princes and people to suppress them with the sword."—<i>Quoted from +Migne, 214, col. 71, in Thatcher and McNeal's "Source Book for Medieval +History," p. 210.</i></p></div> + +<p>As the truth spread, so also the papal church redoubled +its efforts by sword and flame. The historian Lecky +says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"That the Church of Rome has shed more innocent blood than any +other institution that has ever existed among mankind, will be questioned +by no Protestant who has a competent knowledge of history. The memorials, +indeed, of many of her persecutions are now so scanty that it is +impossible to form a complete conception of the multitude of her victims, +and it is quite certain that no powers of imagination can adequately +realize their sufferings."—<i>"History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit +of Rationalism in Europe," Vol. II, p. 32.</i></p></div> + +<p>Motley, in his "Rise of the Dutch Republic" (part 3, +chap. 2), tells how Philip II of Spain—who declared that +he would "never consent to be the sovereign of heretics"—sent +the Duke of Alva to take over the Netherlands:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Early in the year the most sublime sentence of death was promulgated +which has ever been pronounced since the creation of the world. +The Roman tyrant [Nero] wished that his enemies' heads were all upon +a single neck, that he might strike them off at a blow; the Inquisition +assisted Philip to place the heads of all his Netherlands subjects upon a +single neck for the same fell purpose. Upon February 16, 1568, a sentence +of the Holy Office condemned all the inhabitants of the Netherlands +to death as heretics. From this universal doom only a few persons, +especially named, were excepted. A proclamation of the king, dated +ten days later, confirmed this decree of the Inquisition, and ordered +it to be carried into instant execution, without regard to age, sex, or +condition. +This is probably the most concise death warrant that was ever +framed. Three millions of people, men, women, and children, were sentenced +to the scaffold in three lines."</p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[Pg 151]</a></span></p> + +<p>Roman Catholic writers admit that the papal church has +sought to exterminate what it calls heresy, by the power of +the sword.</p> + +<p>The <i>Western Watchman</i> (St. Louis), Dec. 24, 1908, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The church has persecuted.... Protestants were persecuted in +France and Spain with the full approval of the church authorities. We +have always defended the persecution of the Huguenots, and the Spanish +Inquisition. Wherever and whenever there is honest Catholicity, there +will be a clear distinction drawn between truth and error, and Catholicity +and all forms of error. When she thinks it good to use physical +force, she will use it."</p></div> + +<p>Prof. Alfred Baudrillart, rector of the Catholic Institute +of Paris, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Catholic Church is a respecter of conscience and of liberty.... +She has, and she loudly proclaims that she has, a 'horror of +blood.' Nevertheless, when confronted by heresy, she does not content +herself with persuasion; arguments of an intellectual and moral order +appear to her insufficient, and she has recourse to force, to corporal +punishment, +to torture. She creates tribunals like those of the Inquisition, +she calls the laws of the state to her aid, if necessary she encourages a +crusade, or a religious war, and all her 'horror of blood' practically +culminates +into urging the secular power to shed it, which proceeding is +almost more odious—for it is less frank—than shedding it herself. +Especially did she act thus in the sixteenth century with regard to Protestants. +Not content to reform morally, to preach by example, to convert +people by eloquent and holy missionaries, she lit in Italy, in the Low +Countries, and above all in Spain, the funeral piles of the Inquisition. +In France under Francis I and Henry II, in England under Mary Tudor, +she tortured the heretics, whilst both in France and Germany during the +second half of the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth century +if she did not actually begin, at any rate she encouraged and +actively aided, the religious wars."—<i>"The Catholic Church, the Renaissance +and Protestantism" (London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., +1908), pp. 182, 183.</i></p></div> + +<p>She has done it—the Church of Rome has worn out the +saints of the Most High. The prophet in vision saw an ecclesiastical +kingly power rise among the kingdoms of the divided +Roman Empire. Its look was more stout than its fellows, +and the prophet heard it speaking "very great things," and +saw it wearing out the saints of the Most High through the +long centuries.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[Pg 152]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p152.jpg" width="448" height="272" alt="THE SHAME OF RELIGIOUS WARS + +Christ viewing the battle fields of history, where millions +of His followers have been slain in His name." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SHAME OF RELIGIOUS WARS<br /> + +Christ viewing the battle fields of history, where millions +of His followers have been slain in His name.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[Pg 153]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Guilty!" is the clear verdict of history, against the +Church of Rome on these two counts of the prophetic indictment.</p> + + +<h4>"And Think to Change Times and Laws"</h4> + +<p>The power that was to speak great words against the +Most High, and to wear out the saints of the Most High, +was further—in its self-exalting opposition to God—to assume +to lay hands upon times and laws, evidently the +times and the laws of the Most High; for to say that such +a power would lay hands on the laws of men, changing or +setting aside human legislation, would signify less than the +preceding counts. This third specification states a climax +in the indictment—the self-exalting, persecuting power was +to lay hands upon the very law of the Most High. It is +clearly the same power that the apostle Paul said would rise +to dominion after his time: "Then shall be revealed the lawless +one." 2 Thess. 2:8, A.R.V.</p> + + +<h4>God's Law Unchangeable</h4> + +<p>Just as the laws of a government express its character, +so the law of God is a reflection of the divine character. "The +law of the Lord is perfect." Ps. 19:7. "Wherefore the law +is holy," said the apostle, "and the commandment holy, and +just, and good." Rom. 7:12.</p> + +<p>Jesus declared, "I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, +Thy law is within My heart." Ps. 40:8. And He maintained +the unchangeable, enduring integrity of that law: "Verily I +say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle +shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Matt. +5:18.</p> + +<p>But in Daniel's prophecy is foretold the rise of this power +that was to <i>think</i> to change the times and the laws of the +Most High.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[Pg 154]</a></span></p> + +<p>Here, again, the evidence points straight to the Church of +Rome; for it is a fact that the Papacy has laid violent hands +on the law of God—upon the precept, too, that deals with +sacred time—and has <i>thought</i> to change it.</p> + +<p>In a volume to be seen in the British Museum, dated 1545, +the following comment on Dan. 7:25 is attributed to Philipp +Melanchthon, the Reformer, associate of Luther (reproduced +with the old English spelling):</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"He changeth the tymes and lawes that any of the sixe worke dayes +commanded of God will make them unholy and idle dayes when he lyste, +or of their owne holy dayes abolished make worke dayes agen, or when +they changed ye Saterday into Sondaye.... They have changed God's +lawes and turned them into their owne tradicions to be kept above God's +precepts."—<i>"Exposition of Daniel the Prophete," Gathered out of Philipp +Melanchthon, Johan Ecolampadius, etc., by George Joye, 1545, p. 119.</i></p></div> + +<p>This is exactly what the power represented by the little +horn was to assume to do. The commandment of God is +plain:</p> + +<p>"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days +shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is +the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any +work.... For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, +the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: +wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed +it." Ex. 20:8-11.</p> + + +<h4>A Change in Practice</h4> + +<p>But in general practice there has been a change—the +first day is commonly observed instead of the seventh day, +which the Lord declares he blessed and made holy. The Roman +Catholic Church points exultingly to the fact that this +change, so universally allowed today, has come about solely +through church tradition without Scriptural authority. For +instance, one Catholic writer says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"You will tell me that Saturday was the <i>Jewish</i> Sabbath, but that +the <i>Christian</i> Sabbath has been changed to Sunday. Changed! but by +whom? Who has authority to change an express commandment of Almighty<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[Pg 155]</a></span> +God? When God has spoken and said, Thou shalt keep holy +the seventh day, who shall dare to say, Nay, thou mayest work and +do all manner of worldly business on the seventh day; but thou shalt +keep holy the first day in its stead? This is a most important question, +which I know not how you can answer.</p> + +<p>"You are a Protestant, and you profess to go by the Bible and the +Bible only; and yet in so important a matter as the observance of one day +in seven as a holy day, you go against the plain letter of the Bible, and put +another day in the place of that day which the Bible has commanded. +The command to keep holy the seventh day is one of the ten commandments; +you believe that the other nine are still binding; who gave you +authority to tamper with the fourth? If you are consistent with your +own principles, if you really follow the Bible and the Bible only, you +ought to be able to produce some portion of the New Testament in which +this fourth commandment is expressly altered."—<i>"Library of Christian +Doctrine: Why Don't You Keep the Holy Sabbath Day?" (Burns and Oates +London), p. 3.</i></p></div> + +<p>Every one who studies the question must recognize the +fact that there is no change authorized in Scripture. As +Canon Eyton, of the Church of England, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There is no word, no hint, in the New Testament about abstaining +from work on Sunday.... Into the rest of Sunday no divine law enters."—<i>"The +Ten Commandments" (Trübner & Co.), London.</i></p></div> + +<p>Dr. Heylyn, of the Church of England, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Take which you will, either the Fathers or the moderns, and we +shall find no Lord's day instituted by any apostolical mandate; no Sabbath +set on foot by them upon the first day of the week."—<i>"History +of the Sabbath," part 2, chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>Authorities, both Protestant and Catholic, freely acknowledge +that there is no divine authority for Sunday keeping. +There has been a change in practice and teaching, but with +no Scriptural authority.</p> + + +<h4>What the Papacy Claims</h4> + +<p>The prophecy of Daniel 7 forewarned all that the ecclesiastical +power that was to rise upon the division of the Roman +Empire would <i>think</i> to change the times and the laws of the +Most High. The Papacy steps forward and claims boldly +that the church has power to set aside Scripture, to institute<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[Pg 156]</a></span> +holy times, and even to change the day made holy and commanded +by the Almighty as the day of rest for His people.</p> + +<p>In a Catholic work, "An Abridgment of the Christian +Doctrine," by Dr. Henry Turberville, page 61, we read:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<i>Question.</i>—By whom was the change [of the Sabbath] made?</p> + +<p>"<i>Answer.</i>—By the rulers of the church, the apostles who kept the +Lord's day....</p> + +<p>"<i>Ques.</i>—How do you prove that the church hath power to establish +feasts and holy days?</p> + +<p>"<i>Ans.</i>—By the very fact of changing the Sabbath to Sunday; this +change Protestants allow; and therefore they contradict themselves by +keeping Sunday strictly and breaking most other feasts commanded by +the same church.</p> + +<p>"<i>Ques.</i>—How prove you that?</p> + +<p>"<i>Ans.</i>—Because by keeping Sunday they acknowledge the church's +power to ordain feasts and to command them under sin; and by not keeping +the rest commanded by her, they deny that she has power."</p></div> + +<p>It is the doctrine taught in the standard catechisms of the +Roman Church:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<i>Question.</i>—Have you any other way of proving that the church +has power to institute festivals of precept?</p> + +<p>"<i>Answer.</i>—Had she not such power, she could not have done that +in which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have +substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for the +observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no +Scriptural authority."—<i>Keenan's "Doctrinal Catechism," p. 174.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus the Papacy proclaims itself the power that has +<i>thought</i> to change the precepts of the Most High.</p> + +<p>On every count, the Roman Church is the counterpart of +the little horn of Daniel 7. Before our eyes—in the common +practice of Christendom—the commandment of God +regarding sacred time is made void by the traditions of men.</p> + +<p>The prophecy indicated that there would come a call for +a reformation in this matter. Speaking of the warfare against +the saints and the times and laws of the Most High, to be +waged by the little-horn power, the angel said:</p> + +<p>"They shall be given into his hand until a time and times +and the dividing of time." Dan. 7:25.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_157" id="Page_157">[Pg 157]</a></span></p> + +<p>In other words, when the 1260 years should expire, we +should expect, according to the prophecy, to see a breaking +of the Papacy's persecuting power over believers, a spreading +abroad of the Holy Scriptures, and a work of reformation +that would lift up the truths of God's Word, and call believers +to keep once again the holy time and the holy law +of the Most High.</p> + +<p>The prophecy of Daniel 7 is one of God's special messages +for all men in these last days, picturing the rise and history +of the Papacy, and warning all against accepting its perversions +of God's truth or recognizing its attempted change in +the law of the Most High. Thank God for the "sure word +of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto +a light that shineth in a dark place." We are to follow the +Lord and obey him, not this power that has risen up in opposition +to him.</p> + +<p>The angel's interpretation in this chapter does not leave +the apostasy triumphant:</p> + +<p>"The judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his +dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."</p> + +<p>Then the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms +of the Most High, "and all dominions shall serve and obey +Him."</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O, how shall we stand that moment of searching,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When all our sins those books reveal?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When from that court, each case decided,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall be granted no appeal?"<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[Pg 158]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;"> +<img src="images/p158.jpg" width="301" height="448" alt="CHRIST AND THE +SCRIBES + +"In vain they do worship Me, teaching +for doctrines the commandments of +men." Matt. 15:9." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST AND THE +SCRIBES<br /> + +"In vain they do worship Me, teaching +for doctrines the commandments of +men." Matt. 15:9.</span> +</div> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[Pg 159]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p159.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="CREATION + +"In six days the Lord made heaven +and earth,... and rested the seventh +day." Ex. 20:11." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CREATION<br /> + +"In six days the Lord made heaven +and earth,... and rested the seventh +day." Ex. 20:11.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_BIBLE_SABBATH" id="THE_BIBLE_SABBATH"></a>THE BIBLE SABBATH</h2> + + +<p>"He answered and said, Every plant, which My heavenly +Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." Matt. 15:13.</p> + +<p>The scribes had come to Jesus with the complaint, "Why +do Thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders?" +Jesus answered them with another question, "Why do ye also +transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?"</p> + +<p>They had thought that Christ was introducing novelties, +preaching new things, contrary to established church custom +and practice. He showed them that He really stood for +the old and established things of God's Word, and that their +own religious customs, however old, were really the novelties, +without divine authority. He said,</p> + +<p>"In vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines the +commandments of men." And finally He added the words +quoted above, "Every plant, which My heavenly Father hath +not planted, shall be rooted up."</p> + +<p>Let the principles be applied to the question of Sabbath +observance. Sometimes in our day those who preach the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[Pg 160]</a></span> +word of God regarding the abiding holiness of the seventh-day +Sabbath are accused of preaching new doctrines, contrary +to the traditions and customs of the church. But really, +the observance of Sunday, the first day, is the innovation; +the seventh-day Sabbath is of ancient foundation.</p> + +<h4>Is the Seventh-day Sabbath a Plant of Our Heavenly +Father's Planting?</h4> + +<p>Which of these two institutions has our heavenly Father +planted? It is possible to ascertain to a surety; for every +plant of His planting, every doctrine of His truth, will be +found rooted in the Holy Scriptures. 2 Tim. 3:16, 17.</p> + + +<h4>The Old Testament Record</h4> + +<p><i>From the Beginning.</i>—When the Creator made the earth +and man upon it, He made the seventh day of the weekly +cycle His holy Sabbath.</p> + +<p>"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all +the host of them.... And God blessed the seventh day, and +sanctified it: because that in it He had rested from all His +work which God created and made." Gen. 2:1-3.</p> + +<p>To sanctify is "to set apart," and so the day made holy +and blessed by God was set apart for man. Then it was, as +Jesus said, that "the Sabbath was made for man." Mark +2:27. Here the Sabbath institution was planted at the beginning +of the world.</p> + +<p><i>At the Exodus.</i>—The people of Israel, in their bondage in +Egypt, had fallen away from the knowledge of God and become +corrupted by the idolatrous worship of Egypt, Hence, +as the Lord called them out to be His people, He tested their +loyalty to His law by observing how they regarded His holy +Sabbath:</p> + +<p>"Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain +bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and +gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, +whether they will walk in My law, or no." Ex. 16:4.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[Pg 161]</a></span></p> + +<p>So through the forty years the Lord sent the manna for +them to gather on the six working days, withholding it on the +Sabbath. (This scripture shows also that the Sabbath was a +part of God's law before He spoke it from Sinai.)</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p161.jpg" width="442" height="293" alt="HOREB, THE SACRED MOUNT + +A modern view of the summit +of Mt. Sinai." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HOREB, THE SACRED MOUNT<br /> + +A modern view of the summit +of Mt. Sinai.</span> +</div> + +<p><i>At Sinai.</i>—When the time came that the Lord would +speak His holy law from heaven, the eternal foundation of +His moral government, the Sabbath precept was enshrined in +the heart of it:</p> + +<p>"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days +shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day +is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do +any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, +nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger +that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven +and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the +seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, +and hallowed it." Ex. 20:8-11.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[Pg 162]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>Through Israel's History.</i>—Sabbath keeping was the great +mark of loyalty to God. When Israel fell into idolatry, they +"observed times" (see 2 Kings 21:6),—doubtless such heathen +festivals to the sun god and other deities as were common +among the idolatrous nations. These observances of +other days meant Sabbath breaking. "Neither shall ye ... +observe times.... Ye shall keep My Sabbaths." Lev. 19:26-30. +The Lord had promised concerning Jerusalem:</p> + +<p>"If ye diligently hearken unto Me, saith the Lord, to +bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath +day, but hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein; +then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and +princes sitting upon the throne of David,... and this city +shall remain forever." Jer. 17:24, 25.</p> + +<p>The divine pleading was slighted, and Jerusalem's fall and +the Babylonian captivity came as the result of the Israelites' +disregard of God's holy day.</p> + +<p>Thus throughout the inspired record of the Old Testament +the seventh-day Sabbath appears as a plant of the +heavenly Father's own planting.</p> + + +<h4>The New Testament Record</h4> + +<p><i>The Example and Teaching of Jesus.</i>—It was Christ's +"custom" to worship on the seventh day. Luke 4:16.</p> + +<p>Jesus, who Himself made the Sabbath at creation (John +1:3), taught that it was "made for man,"—for the human +race,—and declared, "The Son of man is Lord also of the +Sabbath." Mark 2:27, 28. It is, therefore, "the Lord's +day." Rev. 1:10.</p> + +<p>He did on the Sabbath only that which was "lawful," +or according to the law of God's holy day. Matt. 12:12.</p> + +<p>He kept His Father's commandments throughout His +earthly life. John 15:10.</p> + +<p>And giving instruction regarding events to take place +many years after His ascension, He showed that He recognized<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[Pg 163]</a></span> +the continued existence of the Sabbath in the command, +"Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on +the Sabbath day." Matt. 24:20.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p163.jpg" width="448" height="334" alt="CHRIST HEALING THE MAN +WITH A WITHERED HAND + +"It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath +days." Matt. 12:12." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST HEALING THE MAN +WITH A WITHERED HAND<br /> + +"It is lawful to do well on the Sabbath +days." Matt. 12:12.</span> +</div> + +<p><i>Among New Testament Disciples.</i>—The women, after the +crucifixion, "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." +Luke 23:56.</p> + +<p>Inspiration says that the apostle Paul's custom was to +preach the gospel publicly Sabbath after Sabbath. Acts +13:14; 16:13; 17:1, 2; 18:4. When the Gentiles of Antioch +heard the gospel preached by the apostle one Sabbath, they +"besought that these words might be preached to them the +next Sabbath." Acts 13:42.</p> + +<p>Throughout the New Testament, written years after Christ's +ascension, the Holy Spirit, speaking of the seventh day, calls +it "the Sabbath" upwards of fifty times. "Sabbath" means<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[Pg 164]</a></span> +rest; therefore when the Holy Spirit, in the Christian age, +calls the seventh day the rest day, it must infallibly be the +day of rest for Christians, the Christian Sabbath.</p> + +<p>In the Levitical or sacrificial ordinances of the sanctuary +services there were annual sabbaths and feasts, associated +with meats and drinks and ceremonial observances. But in +appointing these the Lord specifically distinguished between +them and the one and only weekly Sabbath, which was from +the beginning. "These are the feasts of the Lord," He said, +"beside the Sabbaths of the Lord." Lev. 23:37, 38.</p> + +<p>The annual festivals and sabbaths, like all the ordinances +of the Levitical service, were shadows of things to come, and +found their fulfilment in the great sacrifice of Calvary. Col. +2:16, 17.</p> + +<p>But the Sabbath of the Lord was made blessed and holy +by God at the creation, before sin had entered the world, +before any sacrificial or shadowy service was instituted to +point to a coming Redeemer. It is a fundamental and primary +institution, a part of the moral order of God's government +for man, the same as the obligations set forth in each +of the other commandments.</p> + +<p>And Inspiration declares the eternal perpetuity of the +blessed Sabbath day in the future home of the saved, when the +prophet describes the felicity of the redeemed, as from month +to month, and "from one Sabbath to another," all flesh shall +come to worship before the Lord. Isa. 66:23.</p> + +<p>Thus we find the seventh-day Sabbath a plant of the +heavenly Father's planting, rooted deep in all Holy Scripture, +and abiding eternally in the world to come.</p> + + +<h4>Is the First-day Rest an Institution of God's +Planting?</h4> + +<p>In the beginning, the first day was employed by God in +the work of creation. Gen. 1:1-5.</p> + +<p>Throughout all the Old Testament history it was one of +"the six working days." Eze. 46:1.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[Pg 165]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was the day of Christ's resurrection; but Inspiration says +specifically that "the Sabbath was past" when that "first +day of the week" came. Mark 16:1, 2. Inspiration called +this first day merely by the ordinary secular name in common +business use, with never a suggestion of attaching any sacredness +to the day. For some of the disciples it was a day of +journeying, in which the risen Christ joined them. Luke +24:13-29. Later He appeared to the other disciples in Jerusalem, +gathered not in meeting, but at supper in their common +dwelling house. Mark 16:14.</p> + +<p>The only religious meeting recorded as occurring on the +first day of the week was that held at Troas. (See Acts 20:6-13.) +The context shows that it was an evening meeting, +after the Sabbath,—Saturday night, as we would call it, +for the Bible reckoning is from evening to evening. It was +the last time the believers were ever to see the apostle's face, +and as they lingered after the close of the Sabbath, he held +an all-night farewell meeting, breaking bread with the believers, +and leaving at daybreak Sunday morning for the +eighteen- or twenty-mile journey afoot, across country to +Assos. And while he spent the first day traveling afoot, +his companions were journeying by boat.</p> + +<p>Conybeare and Howson (of the Church of England), in that +standard work, "Life and Epistles of St. Paul," tell the plain +fact of the inspired record, save that manifestly they should not +have applied the title "Jewish" to God's Sabbath; for it was +not the Sabbath of the Jews, but "the Sabbath of the Lord +thy God:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It was the evening which succeeded the Jewish Sabbath. On the +Sunday morning the vessel was about to sail."—<i>Chapter 20, p. 520.</i></p></div> + +<p>Describing the road between Troas and Assos, they add:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Strength and peace were surely sought and obtained by the apostle +from the Redeemer as he pursued his lonely road that Sunday afternoon +in spring among the oak woods and the streams of Ida."—<i>Id., p. 522.</i></p></div> + +<p>Once again the "first day of the week" is mentioned, in +1 Cor. 16:2. But that scripture says no word of any sacredness<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[Pg 166]</a></span> +of the day or of any religious observance of it. The +apostle was gathering a fund for the poor at Jerusalem, and +asked every believer to "lay by" something every first day +of the week, so that the money would be ready when he came. +As Dean Stanley (Church of England) comments:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There is nothing to prove public assemblies, inasmuch as the phrase παρ εαυτω ('by himself, at his own house') implies that the collection was +to be made individually and in private."</p></div> + +<p>And Neander's Church History says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"All mentioned here is easily explained, if one simply thinks of the +ordinary beginning of the week in secular life."—<i>Vol. I, p. 339 (German +ed.).</i></p></div> + +<p>To meet the emergency of need in Judea, these believers +were asked to look over their business affairs at the beginning +of each week, until Paul should come, laying aside a gift as +God had prospered them.</p> + + +<h4>No Sunday Sacredness in the New Testament</h4> + +<p>This is the record—not one suggestion in all the New +Testament of Sunday sacredness, to say nothing of precept +or commandment of the Lord. The late R.W. Dale, D.D., +a leading Congregationalist of England, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It is quite clear that, however rigidly or devotedly we may spend +Sunday, we are not keeping the Sabbath.... The Sabbath was founded +on a specific, divine command. We can plead no such command for the +observance of Sunday.... There is not a single line in the New Testament +to suggest that we incur any penalty by violating the supposed +sanctity of Sunday."—<i>"The Ten Commandments," pp. 106, 107.</i></p></div> + +<p>That religious classic, Smith and Cheetham's "Dictionary +of Christian Antiquities," says that the "notion of a formal +substitution" of the first day for the seventh,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"and the transference to it, perhaps in a spiritualized form, of the +Sabbatical obligation established by the promulgation of the fourth +commandment, has no basis whatever, either in Holy Scripture or in +Christian antiquity."—<i>Article "Sabbath."</i></p></div> + +<p>Dr. E.F. Hiscox, author of "The Baptist Manual," says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There was and is a commandment to 'keep holy the Sabbath day,' +but that Sabbath was not Sunday. It will, however, be readily said,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[Pg 167]</a></span> +and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was transferred from +the seventh to the first day of the week.... Where can the record of +such a transaction be found? Not in the New Testament—absolutely +not."—<i>The New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.</i></p></div> + +<p>Such declarations by well-known scholars might be multiplied, +but it is not necessary. The record is open—any +one may see it. There is not a word in the Holy Scripture +of any first-day sacredness. The Sunday institution is not +a plant of our heavenly Father's planting.</p> + + +<h4>How the Change Came About</h4> + +<p>There has been no change of the Sabbath by divine authority. +Men may choose to rest on any other day, but that cannot +make such a day God's rest day, His holy Sabbath. One +cannot change one's birthday by celebrating another day as +such. It is a fact of history that on a certain day of the month +one was born. That fact cannot be changed by choosing to +celebrate another day as the birthday. Just so it is a fact +of divine history that God rested on a given day of the week, +and on no other. That made the seventh day His rest day.</p> + +<p>It is different from other days in character also, for He +blessed it and made it holy. To deny the difference between +common days and the holy day is to say that when the great +Creator blesses and makes holy, it is a vain performance. +That cannot be. It would take away all hope of holiness +or salvation for men. The blessing is upon the day, as every +soul finds who keeps it by faith.</p> + +<p>When men choose to set apart another day than that +blessed and sanctified of God, it is plainly a setting up of +the humanly appointed time against the divinely appointed +time. It is exalting man's sabbath against God's Sabbath. +It is man exalting himself "above all that is called God." +2 Thess. 2:4.</p> + +<p>This was what made the Roman Papacy. The apostle +Paul wrote that in his day the spirit of lawlessness was already +working. He said it would lead to a "falling away" from the +truth of God, and the full exaltation of the man of sin. +2 Thessalonians 2. The falling away came. As Dr. Killen +(Presbyterian), of Ireland, says in the preface to his "Ancient +Church:"<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p168.jpg" width="448" height="284" alt="THE SABBATH FROM +EDEN TO EDEN + +Blessed and sanctified in Eden. Gen. 2:3. +Christ the Lord of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28. + +Written by God in His law. Ex. 20:8-11. +To be observed in the new earth. Isa. 66:23." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SABBATH FROM +EDEN TO EDEN<br /> + +Blessed and sanctified in Eden. Gen. 2:3. +Christ the Lord of the Sabbath. Mark 2:28. + +Written by God in His law. Ex. 20:8-11. +To be observed in the new earth. Isa. 66:23.</span> +</div> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In the interval between the days of the apostles and the conversion +of Constantine, the Christian commonwealth changed its aspect.... +Rites and ceremonies, of which neither Paul nor Peter ever heard, crept +into use, and then claimed the rank of divine institutions."</p></div> + +<p>In his "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine," +Cardinal Newman (Roman Catholic) tells how rites and ceremonies +were borrowed from paganism:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Confiding then in the power of Christianity to resist the infection +of evil, and to transmute the very instruments and appendages of demon +worship to an evangelical use,... the rulers of the church from early +times were prepared, should the occasion arise, to adopt, or imitate, or +sanction the existing rites and customs of the populace, as well as the +philosophy of the educated class."—<i>Pages 371, 372.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus along with other adaptations came "the venerable +day of the sun" (Sunday). It was by gradual process that +it supplanted the Sabbath. Sir William Domville wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Centuries of the Christian era passed away before Sunday was +observed by the Christian church as a Sabbath. History does not furnish +us with a single proof or indication that it was at any time so observed +previous to the Sabbatical edict of Constantine in <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> +321."—<i>"Examination +of Six Texts," p. 291.</i></p></div> + +<p>This law of Constantine's was as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"On the venerable day of the sun let the magistrates and people +residing in cities rest, and let all workshops be closed. In the country, +however, persons engaged in agriculture may freely and lawfully continue +their pursuits; because it often happens that another day is not so suitable +for grain sowing or for vine planting; lest by neglecting the proper +moment for such operations, the bounty of heaven should be lost. (Given +the 7th day of March, Crispus and Constantine being consuls each of them +for the second time.)"—<i>Schaff, "History of the Christian Church," Vol. +III, chap. 5, sec. 75.</i></p></div> + +<p>Commenting on this law, Prof. Hutton Webster, of the +University of Nebraska, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"This legislation by Constantine probably bore no relation to Christianity; +it appears, on the contrary, that the emperor, in his capacity of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[Pg 170]</a></span> +Pontifex Maximus, was only adding the day of the sun, the worship of +which was then firmly established in the Roman Empire, to the other +ferial days of the sacred calendar."</p> + +<p>"What began, however, as a pagan ordinance, ended as a Christian +regulation; and a long series of imperial decrees, during the fourth, fifth, +and sixth centuries, enjoined with increasing stringency abstinence from +labor on Sunday."—<i>"Rest Days," pp. 122, 270.</i></p></div> + +<p>Dean Stanley (Church of England) writes:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The retention of the old pagan name <i>Dies Solis</i>, or Sunday, for the +weekly Christian festival, is, in a great measure, owing to the union of +pagan and Christian sentiment with which the first day of the week was +recommended by Constantine to his subjects, pagan and Christian alike, +as the 'venerable day of the sun.'"—<i>"History of the Eastern Church," +lecture 6, par. 15.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus the Sunday institution comes in, marked by its +pagan origin, and adapted to ecclesiastical purposes by the +church of the "falling away" that grew into the Roman Papacy. +To quote again from the Baptist author, Dr. Hiscox:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Of course, I quite well know that Sunday did come into use in early +Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the Christian Fathers +and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark +of paganism, and christened with the name of the sun god, when adopted +and sanctioned by the papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy +to Protestantism."—<i>New York Examiner, Nov. 16, 1893.</i></p></div> + +<p>No wonder that with the coming of the latter days, and +the proclamation of the message of preparation for Christ's +second coming, there should come a call to Christians to follow +Christ and Holy Scripture in keeping God's holy Sabbath.</p> + +<p>Again the voice of Jesus is heard in protest against traditions +that make void the commandment of God.</p> + +<p>"Every plant," He says, "which My heavenly Father hath +not planted, shall be rooted up." Matt. 15:13.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[Pg 171]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2"><b>Made for Man</b><br /></span> +<span class="i0"> <br /></span> +<span class="i0">The God that made the earth,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And all the worlds on high,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who gave all creatures birth,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In earth, and sea, and sky,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">After six days in work employed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Upon the seventh a rest enjoyed.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The Sabbath day was blessed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hallowed, and sanctified;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It was Jehovah's rest,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And so it must abide;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Twas set apart before the fall,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Twas made for man, 'twas made for all.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when from Sinai's mount,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Amidst the fire and smoke,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Jehovah did recount,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And all His precepts spoke,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He claimed the rest day as His own,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And wrote it with His law on stone.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">The Son of God appeared<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With tidings of great joy;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">God's precepts He revered,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He came not to destroy;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">None of the law was set aside,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But every tittle ratified.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Our Saviour did not die<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To render null and void<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The law of the Most High,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Which cannot be destroyed;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But, bruised for us, our stripes He bore,—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We'll go in peace and sin no more.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>R.F. Cottrell.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[Pg 172]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p172.jpg" width="448" height="269" alt="CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES IN +THE CORN-FIELDS + +"The Son of man is Lord even of the +Sabbath day." Matt. 12:8." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES IN +THE CORN-FIELDS<br /> + +"The Son of man is Lord even of the +Sabbath day." Matt. 12:8.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[Pg 173]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p173.jpg" width="448" height="326" alt="RETURNING FROM THE +SAVIOUR'S TOMB + +"They returned,... and rested the +Sabbath day according to the commandment." +Luke 23:56." title="" /> +<span class="caption">RETURNING FROM THE +SAVIOUR'S TOMB<br /> + +"They returned,... and rested the +Sabbath day according to the commandment." +Luke 23:56.</span> +</div> + +<h2>GLIMPSES OF SABBATH KEEPING AFTER NEW TESTAMENT TIMES</h2> + + +<p>Not at once did the innovation of Sunday observance +set aside the Sabbath of the Lord in the practice of even the +general church. And through history, when the general +church had fallen away, we catch glimpses here and there of +faithful witnesses to God's holy Sabbath truth.</p> + + +<h4>First Centuries</h4> + +<p>An old English writer, Professor Brerewood, of Gresham +College, London, put in shortest phrase what many writers say:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"They know little who do not know that the ancient Sabbath did +remain and was observed by the Eastern churches three hundred years +after our Saviour's passion."—<i>"Treatise on the Sabbath," p. 77.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Fourth Century</h4> + +<p>Canon 29, of the Council of Laodicea (<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 364), shows +that the ecclesiastical system was laboring to put an end to +Sabbath keeping:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[Pg 174]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Christians shall not Judaize and be idle on Saturday [the Sabbath], +but shall work on that day; but the Lord's day [as they called Sunday] +they shall especially honor, and, as being Christians, shall, if possible, +do no work on that day. If, however, they be found Judaizing, they +shall be shut out from Christ."—<i>Hefele, "History of the Councils of the +Church," Vol. II, book 6, sec. 93, canon 29.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Fifth Century</h4> + +<p>Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History shows Rome evidently +leading in the effort to abolish any recognition whatever of +the Sabbath:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The people of Constantinople, and of several other cities, assemble +together on the Sabbath, as well as on the next day; which custom is +never observed at Rome, or at Alexandria."—<i>Book 7, chap. 19.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Seventh Century</h4> + +<p>There were true Sabbath keepers in Rome itself, teaching +the truth of God among the people, and bringing upon +themselves the denunciation of Pope Gregory the Great, who +wrote "to his most beloved sons the Roman citizens:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It has come to my ears that certain men of perverse spirit have sown +among you some things that are wrong and opposed to the holy faith, +so as to forbid any work being done on the Sabbath day. What else +can I call these but preachers of Antichrist?"—<i>"History of the Councils" +(Labbe and Cossart), Vol. V, col. 1511; see also "Nicene and Post-Nicene +Fathers," Vol. XIII, book 13, epistle 1.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Eleventh Century</h4> + +<p>The Pope's legates at Constantinople (<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 1054) were +called to discuss with Nicetas, "one of the most learned men +at that time in the East," says Bower, whose position was "that +the Sabbath ought to be kept holy, and that priests should +be allowed to marry."—<i>"History of the Popes," Vol. II, p. 358.</i></p> + +<p>The people of north Scotland, the ancient Culdee church +founded by Columba and his followers, far removed from +direct papal influence, was still keeping the seventh-day Sabbath +in the eleventh century. Of this church Andrew Lang +says in his "History of Scotland:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"They worked on Sunday, but kept Saturday in a Sabbatical manner."—<i>Volume +I, p. 96.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[Pg 175]</a></span></p> + +<p>Skene, in his classic work, "Celtic Scotland," says of these +Sabbath keepers:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"They seemed to have followed a custom of which we find traces in +the early monastic church of Ireland, by which they held Saturday to be +the Sabbath, on which they rested from all their labors."—<i>Book 2, chap. +8.</i></p></div> + +<p>Margaret, of England, married Malcolm the Great, the +Scottish king, in 1069. An ardent Catholic, Queen Margaret +at once set about Romanizing the Celtic church. She called +in the church leaders, and held long discussions with them. +At last, with the help and authority of her royal husband, and +quoting the instructions of "the blessed Pope Gregory," she +succeeded in turning the ancient Culdee church in Scotland +away from the Sabbath. (See "Life of St. Margaret," by +Turgot, her confessor.)</p> + + +<h4>Twelfth to Fourteenth Century</h4> + +<p>Among the numerous sects of southern Europe and the +Alpine valleys, that were pursued and persecuted by Rome, +were at least some who saw and obeyed the Sabbath truth. +Thus, of one of these bodies, the historian Goldastus says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"They were called Insabbatati, not because they were circumcised, +but because they kept the Sabbath according to the Jewish law."—<i>"Deutsche +Biographie," Vol. IX, art. "Goldast.," p. 327.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Fifteenth Century</h4> + +<p>Sabbath keepers in Norway drew the condemnation of a +church council held in 1435:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The archbishop and the clergy assembled in this provincial council +at Bergen do decide that the keeping of Saturday must never be permitted +to exist, except as granted in the church law."—<i>Keyser's "Norske Kirkes +Historie," Vol. II, p. 488.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Sixteenth Century</h4> + +<p>With the setting free of the Word of God by the Reformation, +and the protest against the doctrine of papal tradition, +multitudes saw that the Sunday institution was not of divine +origin; while not a few went farther, recognizing the claims +of God's Sabbath. Moravia was a refuge, in those early Reformation days, for +many believers in the Reformed doctrines, +and among these were Sabbath-keeping Christians:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[Pg 176]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p176.jpg" width="448" height="269" alt="WALDENSES HUNTED BY THE +ARMIES OF ROME + +"Destitute, afflicted, tormented;... they wandered in +deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the +earth." Heb. 11:37, 38." title="" /> +<span class="caption">WALDENSES HUNTED BY THE +ARMIES OF ROME<br /> + +"Destitute, afflicted, tormented;... they wandered in +deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the +earth." Heb. 11:37, 38.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[Pg 177]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Even most prominent men, as the princes of Lichtenstein, held to +the observance of the true Sabbath. When persecution finally scattered +them, the seeds of truth must have been sown by them in the different +portions of the Continent which they visited.... We have found them +[Sabbath keepers] in Bohemia. They were also known in Silesia and +Poland. Likewise they were in Holland and northern Germany.... +There were at this time Sabbath keepers in France,... 'among whom +were M. de la Roque, who wrote in defense of the Sabbath against Bossuet, +Catholic bishop of Meaux.' That Sabbatarians again appeared in +England by the time of the Reformation, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth +(<span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 1533-1603), Dr. Chambers testifies in his Cyclopedia [art. +'Sabbath']."—<i>Andrews and Conradi, "History of the Sabbath," pp. 649, +650.</i></p></div> + +<p>In this century also, Sabbath keepers appeared in Norway, +Sweden, and Finland. In 1554 King Gustavus Vasa, of +Sweden, addressed a letter of remonstrance "to the common +people in Finland," because so many were turning to keep +the seventh day.</p> + + +<h4>Seventeenth Century</h4> + +<p>There was much discussion in England over the authority +for Sunday observance. When other church festivals were +ignored, as Easter, King Charles I wanted to know why Sunday +should be kept. He wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It will not be found in Scripture where Saturday is discharged to be +kept, or turned into the Sunday; wherefore it must be the church's authority +that changed the one and instituted the other; therefore my opinion +is that those who will not keep this feast [Easter] may as well return +to the observation of Saturday, and refuse the weekly Sunday."—<i>Cox, +"Sabbath Laws," p. 333.</i></p></div> + +<p>It was during this time that the idea first obtained of enforcing +Sunday obligation by the fourth commandment and +calling it the Sabbath. It was argued that any "one day in +seven" was what the commandment meant. Of this argument, +John Milton, the statesman-poet, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It is impossible to extort such a sense from the words of the commandment; +seeing that the reason for which the command itself was +originally given, namely, as a memorial of God's having rested from<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[Pg 178]</a></span> +the creation of the world, cannot be transferred from the seventh day to +the first; nor can any new motive be substituted in its place, whether the +resurrection of our Lord or any other, without the sanction of a divine +commandment."—<i>"Prose Works" (Bohn), pp. 70, 71.</i></p></div> + +<p>Again Milton wrote, in a manuscript which his publishers +at the time feared to print:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"If we under the gospel are to regulate the time of our public worship +by the prescriptions of the decalogue, it will surely be far safer to observe +the seventh day, according to the express commandment of God, than on +the authority of mere human conjecture to adopt the first."—<i>Cox, "Sabbath +Literature," Vol. II, p. 54.</i></p></div> + +<p>While kings and poets and ecclesiastics discussed, here +and there believers began to follow the plain Word of God +and Christ's example in Sabbath keeping.</p> + + +<h4>"Loved Not Their Lives unto the Death"</h4> + +<p>In 1618 John Traske and his wife, of London, were condemned +for keeping the Sabbath of the Lord, the man being +whipped from Westminster to the old Fleet Prison, near Ludgate +Circus. Both were imprisoned. Mr. Traske recanted +under the pressure, after a year, but Mrs. Traske, a gifted +school-teacher, was given grace to hold out for sixteen years,—for +a time in Maiden Lane prison, and then in the Gate House, +by Westminster,—dying in prison for the word of the Lord. +An estimable woman she was, says one old chronicler, save +for this "whimsy" of hers, that she would keep the seventh +day. All that she asked of men, on her prison deathbed, +was that she might be buried "in the fields."</p> + +<p>By 1661 Sabbath keepers in London had further increased. +In that year John James was minister to a considerable congregation, +meeting in East London, off the Whitechapel Road. +As part of the stern proceedings against dissenting sects +after the restoration of the monarchy, he was arrested and +condemned to death on "Tyburn Tree." His wife knelt at +the feet of King Charles II as he came out of St. James's +Palace one day, and pleaded for her husband's life; but the +king scornfully rejected her plea, and said that the man should +hang. Bogue says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[Pg 179]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"For once the king remembered his promise, and Mr. James was +sent to join the noble army of martyrs."—<i>"History of Dissenters," Vol. +I, p. 155.</i></p></div> + +<p>Nothing daunted, the number of Sabbath keepers increased. +In a letter by Edward Stennet (between 1668 and +1670), it is stated.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Here in England are about nine or ten churches that keep the +Sabbath, besides many scattered disciples, who have been eminently +preserved in this tottering day, when many once eminent churches have +been shattered in pieces."—<i>Cox, "Sabbath Literature," Vol. I, p. 268.</i></p></div> + +<p>Francis Bampfield was formerly an influential minister of +the Church of England, and prebendary of Exeter Cathedral, +but later pastor of a Sabbath-keeping congregation meeting +in the Pinners Hall, off Broad Street, near the Bank of England. +Calamy said of him:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"He was one of the most celebrated preachers in the west of England, +and extremely admired by his hearers, till he fell into the Sabbatarian +notion, of which he was a zealous asserter."—<i>"Non-Conformist Memorial," +Vol. II, p. 152.</i></p></div> + +<p>He was arrested while in the pulpit preaching, and in 1683 +died of hardships in Newgate prison, for the Sabbath of the +Lord. An old writer says that his body was followed to +burial by "a very great company of factious and schismatical +people;" in other words, dissenters from the state church.</p> + +<p>Thomas Bampfield, his brother, Speaker of the House of +Parliament at one time, under Cromwell, published a book +in defense of the Sabbath of the Lord. In fact, many published +the truth in this manner, and doctors of divinity and +even bishops wrote replies.</p> + +<p>"Sabbatarian Baptists," these English witnesses to God's +Sabbath were first called in those times, and then "Seventh +Day Baptists." In 1664 Stephen Mumford, from one of these +London congregations, was sent over to New England. He +settled in Rhode Island, where the Baptist pioneer of religious +liberty, Roger Williams, had founded his colony. In 1671 +the first Sabbatarian church in America was formed in Rhode +Island. Evidently this movement created a stir; for the report<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[Pg 180]</a></span> +went over to England that the Rhode Island colony did +not keep the "Sabbath"—meaning Sunday. Roger Williams +wrote to his friends in England denying the report, but +calling attention to the fact that there was no Scripture for +"abolishing the seventh day," and adding:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"You know yourselves do not keep the Sabbath, that is the seventh +day."—<i>"Letters of Roger Williams," Vol. VI, p. 346 (Narragansett Club +Publications).</i></p></div> + +<p>Through the following century numbers of Seventh Day +Baptist churches were founded in America.<a name="FNanchor_F_6" id="FNanchor_F_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_F_6" class="fnanchor">[F]</a></p> + +<p>Sabbath keepers were springing up also on the continent +of Europe, in Bohemia, Moravia, Transylvania, and Russia, +where here and there Bible believers saw that tradition had +made void one of the commandments of God. Then, as the +events at the end of the long period of papal supremacy had +moved Bible students to the earnest study of the prophecies, +and as the predicted signs of the near approach of Christ's +coming began to appear, there arose the great advent awakening +in the earlier decades of the nineteenth century.</p> + +<p>The prophecies regarding the work of the Papacy in seeking +to change the law of God began to be understood, and it +was seen that the last message of the everlasting gospel was +a call to turn from human traditions to the New Testament +standard—"the commandments of God, and the faith of +Jesus." Rev. 14:12. Then began the great movement for +Sabbath reform and the proclamation of Christ's second coming, +which has given rise to the Seventh-day Adventist people,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[Pg 181]</a></span> +with a work spreading through all lands, leading thousands +every year to keep the Lord's blessed Sabbath day.</p> + +<p>Soon Christ is to be revealed in righteousness and judgment. +One burden of God's message for the last days is:</p> + +<p>"Thus saith the Lord, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: +for My salvation is near to come, and My righteousness to +be revealed. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the +son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath +from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil." +Isa. 56:1, 2.</p> + +<p>Through all the dark centuries, the Lord had somewhere +a little remnant keeping the light of the Sabbath truth glowing. +They, too, overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the +word of their testimony, loving not their lives unto the death. +Now, with the clear light shining from the open Book, it is +for Christians everywhere to turn from tradition to the way +of God's commandments and the example of Jesus Christ.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 447px;"> +<img src="images/p181.jpg" width="447" height="264" alt=""Closing Sabbath! Ah, how soon +Have thy sacred moments passed!"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">"Closing Sabbath! Ah, how soon<br /> +Have thy sacred moments passed!"</span> +</div> + + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_F_6" id="Footnote_F_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_F_6"><span class="label">[F]</span></a> In connection with this topic of Sabbath observance in colonial +America, +it is of interest to note that Count Zinzendorf, the leader of the Moravian +missionary movement, was a believer in the sanctity of the Sabbath of God's +appointment. In his life, by Bishop Spangenberg, it is stated that the Sabbath +question was discussed by Zinzendorf with the Moravians, on his visit to +Pennsylvania in 1741. The record states:— +</p><p> +"As a special circumstance it is to be remarked that he determined, with +the church in Bethlehem, to celebrate the seventh day as a rest day. The matter +was previously fully gone over in the church council, with consideration +of all the reasons for and against it, when the unanimous agreement was +reached to observe the day Sabbatically.... The Count had already long +held the seventh day of the week in special honor."—<i>Zinzendorfs "Leben," +band 5, pp. 1421, 1422.</i> +</p><p> +The Bethlehem congregation evidently did not follow the practice long. +"But as for himself," says Spangenberg, "with his house, he adhered firmly +to this aforementioned practice until his end."—<i>Id., p. 1437.</i></p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[Pg 182]</a></span></p> + +<h2><a name="THE_LAW_OF_GOD" id="THE_LAW_OF_GOD"></a>THE LAW OF GOD</h2> + + +<h4>I</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt have no other gods before me.</p> + +<h4>II</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or +any likeness of anything: that is in heaven above, or that +is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the +earth: thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve +them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting +the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third +and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing +mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep +my commandments.</p> + +<h4>III</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in +vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh +his name in vain.</p> + +<h4>IV</h4> + +<p>Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days +shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day +is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not +do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy +manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy +stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the +Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them +is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed +the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.</p> + +<h4>V</h4> + +<p>Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may +be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.</p> + +<h4>VI</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not kill.</p> + +<h4>VII</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not commit adultery.</p> + +<h4>VIII</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not steal.</p> + +<h4>IX</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.</p> + +<h4>X</h4> + +<p>Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt +not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his +maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is +thy neighbor's.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p183.jpg" width="448" height="291" alt="CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE +MOUNT + +"Whosoever shall do and teach them ... +shall be called great in the kingdom of +heaven." Matt. 5:19." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE +MOUNT<br /> + +"Whosoever shall do and teach them ... +shall be called great in the kingdom of +heaven." Matt. 5:19.</span> +</div> + + +<h4>THE LAW OF GOD</h4> + +<p>It is a common saying, "The majesty of the law." It +means that the character and genius of a government are embodied +and expressed in its laws. The words of Inspiration +declare to us the majesty of the law of the Most High.</p> + + +<h4>The Character of God's Law</h4> + +<p>The infinite perfection of the divine character is reflected +in it.</p> + +<p>"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." +Ps. 19:7.</p> + +<p>As God is holiness and justice and goodness, so also is +His law.</p> + +<p>"Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, +and just, and good." Rom. 7:12.</p> + + +<h4>Its Office</h4> + +<p>The law of God gives knowledge of the righteousness +of its great Author.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Hearken unto Me, ye that know righteousness, the +people in whose heart is My law." Isa. 51:7.</p> + +<p>It marks every departure from righteousness as sin.</p> + +<p>"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: +for sin is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4.</p> + +<p>It is not a code merely for the regulation of outward conduct. +It is the moral law—the primal standard of righteousness +established by the Creator for His creatures. There +is not an impulse of the inmost soul that is not reached by it. +It is the word which, living and powerful, is "sharper than +any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder +of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a +discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." Heb. +4:12.</p> + +<p>Face to face with this holy law, we hear in it the voice of +God saying, "Be ye holy; for I am holy." Every soul +must confess its guilt before the searching power of God's +law. All things are naked and open to the eyes of Him with +whom we have to do. "Guilty!" we confess. Left alone +with our guilt, there could be no ray of hope.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The threatenings of the broken law<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Impress the soul with dread;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If God His sword of vengeance draw,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It strikes the spirit dead."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Thank God, we are not left alone; help is laid upon One +mighty to save.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"But Thine illustrious sacrifice<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hath answered these demands,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And peace and pardon from the skies<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are offered by Thy hands."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>God's Law from the Beginning</h4> + +<p>The law of God existed from the beginning. When Adam +sinned, he transgressed this holy law; for "sin is the transgression +of the law." God's law was not committed to writing +until the days of Moses, when the Lord began to make +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[Pg 185]</a></span>His written revelations to the children of men. But from +Adam to Moses the precepts of the law of God were teaching +righteousness and convicting of sin.</p> + +<p>"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, +and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that +all have sinned: (for until the law [the giving of it at Sinai] +sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no +law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses.)" +Rom. 5:12-14.</p> + +<p>The declaration of this scripture is: Without the law there +can be no sin. But sin and death were from Adam to Moses, +in whose day the law was spoken on Sinai; therefore the law +of God was in force from the beginning. Its precepts were +witnessed to by every preacher of righteousness raised up by +God in the days before the deluge and in the patriarchal age +following. Of Abraham the Lord says,</p> + +<p>"Abraham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My +commandments, My statutes, and My laws." Gen. 26:5.</p> + +<p>The Lord called His people out of Egypt, that they might +keep his law. His message to Pharaoh was, "Let my people +go, that they may serve Me." Ex. 9:1. He delivered them +from bondage by His mighty arm, and cleft the Red Sea to +lead them forth to obedience, as the psalmist said,</p> + +<p>"He brought forth His people with joy, and His chosen +with gladness:... that they might observe His statutes, +and keep His laws." Ps. 105:43-45.</p> + +<p>In Egyptian bondage the children of Abraham must have +lost much of the purity of God's truth; yet the Lord held +them under obligation to know His law—the Sabbath precept +particularly—before they came to Sinai, or ever He +had proclaimed the law in their hearing. He tested them in +the matter by the giving of the manna, as He said,</p> + +<p>"That I may prove them, whether they will walk in My +law, or no." Ex. 16:4.</p> + +<p>From the beginning, God's holy law demanded the loyal +obedience of every human being.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[Pg 186]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Proclaimed Anew at Sinai</h4> + +<p>The Lord had delivered the people of Israel from Egyptian +bondage that they might serve Him and make His ways +known to the nations. This was according to the promise +made to Abraham. To them was committed the written +revelation of God, and through them was to come in the fulness +of time the promised Messiah.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 336px;"> +<img src="images/p186.jpg" width="336" height="347" alt="MOSES BREAKING THE TABLES +OF THE LAW + +"He wrote them upon two tables of +stone." Deut. 4:13." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MOSES BREAKING THE TABLES +OF THE LAW<br /> + +"He wrote them upon two tables of +stone." Deut. 4:13.</span> +</div> + +<p>While the Lord at this time "made known His ways unto +Moses," and there was begun the written revelation which<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span> +grew into "the volume of the book," the Holy Scriptures, +one portion of revelation was not left for the prophet of God +to speak or for the inspired pen to write. The Lord proclaimed +His holy law with His own voice, and gave to men a +copy "written with the finger of God." Moses said of this:</p> + +<p>"The Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: +ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only +ye heard a voice. And He declared unto you His covenant, +which He commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; +and He wrote them upon two tables of stone." Deut. +4:12, 13.</p> + +<p>This display of majesty and glory indescribable was designed +to teach how sacred and holy is the law, and to cause +men to fear to transgress its precepts. Ex. 20:20.</p> + +<p>It was not for themselves alone that the law was committed +to Israel. They were to teach the truth to others. +As the New Testament says, it was greatly to their advantage +that "unto them were committed the oracles of God." +Rom. 3:2. But they "received the lively oracles to give +unto us." Through obedience to the divine law, they were +to be a light to the nations.</p> + +<p>"Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom +and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which +shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation +is a wise and understanding people. For what nation +is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them?" Deut. +4:6, 7.</p> + +<p>An interesting comment upon these words is supplied by +a speech of Phalerius, librarian to Ptolemy Philadelphus, king +of Egypt. Urging the king by all means to secure copies of +the sacred books of the Jews for his great library in Alexandria, +Phalerius said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Now it is necessary that thou shouldst have accurate copies of them. +And indeed this legislation is full of hidden wisdom, and entirely blameless, +as being the legislation of God; for which cause it is, as Hecateus +of Abdera says, that the poets and historians make no mention of it, nor<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> +of those men who lead their lives according to it, since it is a holy law, and +ought not to be published by profane mouths."—<i>Josephus, "Antiquities," +book 12, chap. 2, sec. 4.</i></p></div> + +<p>Unfaithful as the Jewish people oftentimes were, yet +through their testimony and the dealings of God with them, +the fame of the living oracles was spread abroad among the +ancient nations.</p> + + +<h4>One God—One Moral Standard</h4> + +<p>"There is one Lawgiver." James 4:12. He is ever the +same, and His law is the standard of righteousness for all +mankind. There was not one moral standard before Christ +and another after. Christ's death upon the cross because +man had broken the law, is the divine testimony to all the +universe that God's law can never be set aside nor its force +suspended. Jesus opened His public teaching with the declaration:</p> + +<p>"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the +prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily +I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one +tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. +Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, +and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in +the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach +them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." +Matt. 5:17-19.</p> + +<p>The moral law of ten commandments is one code, every +precept equally sacred and equally binding:</p> + +<p>"Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in +one point, he is guilty of all. For He that said, Do not commit +adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no +adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of +the law. So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged +by the law of liberty." James 2:10-12.</p> + +<p>The law of God still speaks with all the force of that voice +from Sinai, and it speaks to every soul on earth:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Now we know that what things soever the law saith, +it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth +may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before +God." Rom. 3:19.</p> + +<p>Thus the law of God convicts all men of sin, and would +drive every one to Christ for pardon and for the divine gift of +the grace and power of obedience.</p> + +<p>The ceremonial law—the precepts and ordinances commanded +for the sacrificial system—ceased with the sacrifice +of Calvary, as all these ceremonial observances pointed forward +to the cross. There can be no confounding of the moral +law and the ceremonial law. The ceremonial law of types +and shadows showed in itself that a primary or higher law—the +moral law—had been violated, making necessary a divine +sacrifice if transgressors were to be saved from death and restored +to obedience.</p> + + +<h4>The Standard in the Judgment</h4> + +<p>The law of God's moral government, which is the rule of +life for every creature, must necessarily be the standard in +the great judgment day. The Scripture states the sum of all +human obligation and responsibility in the words:</p> + +<p>"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear +God, and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty +of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, +with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be +evil." Eccl. 12:13, 14.</p> + +<p>Every son and daughter of Adam's lost race is judgment +bound, to answer before the bar of God the demands of the +perfect law. Divine justice cannot abate one jot or tittle +of the requirements of the holy law, nor by any means clear +the guilty. But divine mercy has provided the way by which +God can "be just, and the justifier of him which believeth +in Jesus."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 302px;"> +<img src="images/p190.jpg" width="302" height="448" alt="THE GIFT OF GOD + +"God so loved the world, that He gave +His only begotten Son." John 3:16." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GIFT OF GOD<br /> + +"God so loved the world, that He gave +His only begotten Son." John 3:16.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p191.jpg" width="448" height="293" alt="CHILDLIKE FAITH + +"Except ye be converted, and become as +little children, ye shall not enter into +the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 18:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHILDLIKE FAITH<br /> + +"Except ye be converted, and become as +little children, ye shall not enter into +the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 18:3.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="JUSTIFICATION_BY_FAITH" id="JUSTIFICATION_BY_FAITH"></a>JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH</h2> + + +<p>"How should man be just [righteous] with God?" asked +the patriarch Job. It has been the vital question ever since +Adam sinned, and lost his righteousness and forfeited his +life. The answer of Scripture is:—</p> + +<p>"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with +God through our Lord Jesus Christ." Rom 5:1 "By +grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: +it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man +should boast." Eph. 2:8, 9.</p> + +<p>In the beginning, life and righteousness were the gift of +God to man. Only the Creator could bestow the gift at the +first; when lost, only creative power can restore it.</p> + + +<h4>Man Cannot Justify Himself</h4> + +<p>The law of God declares all men sinners. Not only did +Adam's posterity inherit of necessity a sinful nature, but +every soul of man has wrought sin as the fruit of that nature.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p> + +<p>"As by one man sin entered into the world, and death +by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have +sinned." Rom. 5:12.</p> + +<p>"There is no difference," Jew or Gentile, bond or free, +they are in the same lost condition; "for all have sinned, and +come short of the glory of God." Rom. 10:12; 3:23.</p> + +<p>The sinner finds himself a transgressor, condemned to +death by a holy law. He turns to it with the thought, "I +will do what it says, and become righteous and win life." +But he cannot undo the fact that he has sinned. A holy law +can only cry, "Guilty! guilty!" to one who has transgressed +it. The law declares righteousness; it cannot give it. As +the Scripture says:</p> + +<p>"We know that what things soever the law saith, it saith +to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be +stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. +Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified +in His sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." +Rom. 3:19, 20.</p> + +<p>The guilt exists. No deeds that man can do can undo it +or cover it from a righteous law. Not only that, but as soon +as the law declares what righteousness is, the sinner finds +that its demands are altogether beyond the power of his flesh +to meet. It calls for a kind of work that fallen human nature +cannot so much as approach. Paul cried out, when struggling +under conviction, "We know that the law is spiritual: +but I am carnal, sold under sin." Rom. 7:14.</p> + +<p>The carnal cannot bring forth the spiritual. But the law +demands a spiritual work of righteousness. It is impossible +for the carnal mind to undertake it. The Scripture says:</p> + +<p>"The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not +subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then +they that are in the flesh cannot please God." Rom. 8:7, 8.</p> + +<p>But the awakened sinner is yet in the flesh. He finds the +law thundering his guilt and condemning him to death. He +cannot wash away the past, nor hide it; he cannot obey God's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> +law with a carnal mind, and that is all the mind he has. He +is lost, and helpless of himself, but longs for a way of escape. +Paul's cry in the same position is the cry of the despairing +heart that has not found the Saviour, "O wretched man that +I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?" +Rom. 7:24. Thank God, there is an answer to that cry, for +every sinner.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We wretched sinners lay,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Without one cheering beam of hope,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or spark of glimmering day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"With pitying eyes the Prince of grace<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Beheld our helpless grief:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He saw, and, O amazing love!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He came to our relief."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>The Free Gift of Christ</h4> + +<p>Following that despairing cry of human helplessness, "Who +shall deliver me?" there came the believer's shout of praise, +"I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." He is the +deliverer; for He "gave Himself for our sins, that He might +deliver us." Rom. 7:25; Gal. 1:4.</p> + +<p>The way of escape and salvation is the gift of God's love. +"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but +have everlasting life." John 3:16.</p> + +<p>No sinner has need to plead that God may be willing to +forgive him; the Lord's infinite love that gave His Son to die, +is pleading with the sinner to believe and accept salvation.</p> + +<p>In order to be the sinner's Saviour, the divine Son of God +must take man's place before the broken law. He came in +human flesh, with all its weakness. "I can of Mine own +self," He said, "do nothing." He trusted the Father, and +lived a life of perfect righteousness in human flesh. He who +knew no sin, bore man's sin in His body on the cross. "The +Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all." For man's<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> +sin He died, "that He by the grace of God should taste death +for every man." In Him was met the penalty of the law. +But it was a sinless sacrifice. He "through the eternal Spirit +offered Himself without spot to God." Heb. 9:14. Therefore +death could not hold Him. He rose in the power of an +endless life to be man's advocate and priest and savior, +ministering His grace and righteousness and life to every one +who will receive them.</p> + +<p>The righteousness that He wrought out for man in human +flesh He longs to put into every human heart. As in +His own flesh in Judea He walked and lived the life of righteousness, +so now, by the Holy Spirit, He walks in human lives +today. That means forgiveness, and deliverance from the +power of the flesh, and a new life of power, and righteousness +and justification wrought within by the divine indwelling +Saviour. How may we receive Him with all this great salvation?—By +faith; by believing His promises; "that Christ +may dwell in your hearts by faith." Eph. 3:17.</p> + +<p>Christ in all His fulness abiding within,—this is the wonder +and mystery of the gospel, "which is Christ in you, the +hope of glory." It means an ever-present, ever-living Saviour, +able to save to the uttermost.</p> + +<p>What abundance of grace is received with His indwelling +presence!</p> + +<p><i>Forgiveness.</i>—"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and +just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." +1 John 1:9.</p> + +<p><i>Deliverance from the Flesh.</i>—The cleansing by Christ's indwelling +power means that the old life of self is subdued. +"Our old man is crucified with Him." Rom. 6:6. "Ye are +not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God +dwell in you.... And if Christ be in you, the body is dead +because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." +Rom. 8:9, 10.</p> + +<p><i>A New Heart.</i>—"A new heart also will I give you, and a +new spirit will I put within you." Eze. 36:26.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>A New Life.</i>—"Be renewed in the spirit of your mind; +and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created +in righteousness and true holiness." Eph. 4:23, 24. It is in +blessed fact Christ Jesus living the life in the believer by +faith, as the apostle Paul says:</p> + +<p>"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not +I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the +flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and +gave Himself for me." Gal. 2:20.</p> + +<p><i>Righteousness and Justification.</i>—"This is His name +whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." +Jer. 23:6. Well does the King James Version print +the blessed name in capital letters. It is the great name of +salvation to every believer. By faith we receive Him, and by +faith His righteousness is imputed unto us. His life of obedience +covers all the believer's surrendered life, past and continuous, +and in God's sight the life of the believer in Jesus is +justified from all sin. It is the triumph of Him who was not +only "delivered for our offenses," but was also "raised again +for our justification:"</p> + +<p>"Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon +all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one +the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For +as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by +the obedience of one shall many be made righteous." Rom. +5:18, 19.</p> + +<p>Christ died and rose again to bring this experience to sinners +who have struggled helplessly under condemnation. As +Christ Jesus with all His righteousness is received by faith, +"there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are +in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the +Spirit." Rom. 8:1.</p> + +<p>Praise the Lord! It is all of Christ, and not of any works +that we have done. Therefore it is as sure as the oath and +promise of God. We can lose the experience only as we let<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> +Christ go out of the life by unbelief. God forbid that we +should do this; and help us to be quick to repent and again +lay hold of Him by faith if ever we find we have let Him go +and have lost the covering of His righteousness.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Jesus, Thy blood and righteousness<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My beauty are, my glorious dress;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Mid hosts of sin, in these arrayed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My soul shall never be afraid."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p196.jpg" width="448" height="296" alt="THE LAST PRAYER + +"That whosoever believeth in Him +should not perish, but have everlasting +life." John 3:16." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE LAST PRAYER<br /> + +"That whosoever believeth in Him +should not perish, but have everlasting +life." John 3:16.</span> +</div> + +<p>Christ's righteousness is, of necessity, the righteousness +demanded by the law of God. He lives that law in the believer. +This is what justification is. "Not the hearers of +the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall +be justified." Rom. 2:13. Justification by faith makes the +man a doer of the law by faith, Christ living every one of its +sacred precepts in the believer's life. This is what He died +to accomplish, to bring the righteousness of the law to the +sinner who could never attain to it himself.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span></p> + +<p>"What the law could not do, in that it was weak through +the flesh, God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful +flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness +of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not +after the flesh, but after the Spirit." Rom. 8:3, 4.</p> + +<p>Christ writes God's law in the new heart: "I will put +My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts." +Heb. 8:10. It is the rule of His own righteousness. For +before He came into the world to work out perfect righteousness +for us in human flesh, He said, through the psalmist, +"I delight to do Thy will, O My God: yea, Thy law is within +My heart." Ps. 40:8.</p> + +<p>It is a perfect righteousness and a full salvation that Christ +brings into every believer's heart. In Him all fulness dwells, +"and ye are complete in Him."</p> + +<p>The wondrous plan of salvation is so deep that only "in +the ages to come" will God be able to "show the exceeding +riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ +Jesus." Eph. 2:7. But thank God, even here below sinners +saved by grace may "know the love of Christ, which passeth +knowledge."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The wonders of redeeming love<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our highest thoughts exceed;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Son of God comes from above,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For sinful man to bleed.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He knows the frailties of our frame,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For He has borne our grief;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our great High Priest once felt the same,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And He can send relief.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"His love will not be satisfied<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till He in glory see<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The faithful ones for whom He died<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From sin forever free."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>R.F. Cottrell.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p198.jpg" width="297" height="443" alt="THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST + +"Thus it becometh us to fulfil all +righteousness." Matt. 3:15." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST<br /> + +"Thus it becometh us to fulfil all +righteousness." Matt. 3:15.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p199.jpg" width="448" height="289" alt="THE FORD OF JORDAN + +"John also was baptizing in Ænon near to +Salim, because there was much water +there." John 3:23." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FORD OF JORDAN<br /> + +"John also was baptizing in Ænon near to +Salim, because there was much water +there." John 3:23.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="BAPTISM" id="BAPTISM"></a>BAPTISM</h2> + +<h3>THE MEMORIAL OF THE RESURRECTION</h3> + + +<p>Baptism is the divinely appointed memorial of the resurrection +of Christ. The great fact of the gospel is that "Christ +died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He +was buried, and that He rose again the third day according +to the Scriptures" (1 Cor. 15:3, 4), to be our great High +Priest and Saviour.</p> + +<p>Baptism is a profession of faith in the Saviour, who went +into the grave for us, and rose again to life. It is the great +object-lesson to teach the truth that the sinner must die to +sin and the world, and have a resurrection by the power of +divine grace to a new life of obedience. The ordinance is the +sign of an actual experience, the means by which the believer +confesses the work of grace in the soul.</p> + +<p>The Scriptures teach the essential conditions necessary +to baptism:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every +creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." +Mark 16:15, 16.</p> + +<p>"What doth hinder me to be baptized? And Philip said, +If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest." Acts +8:36, 37.</p> + +<p>"Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized +every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission +of sins." Acts 2:38.</p> + +<p>Thus it is seen that instruction in the gospel, belief in +Christ, and repentance are conditions to precede baptism.</p> + + +<h4>Baptism for Believers</h4> + +<p>The experience of which baptism is the sign is thus +stated:</p> + +<p>"We are buried with Him by baptism into death: that +like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of +the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." +Rom. 6:4.</p> + +<p>"As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have +put on Christ." Gal. 3:27.</p> + +<p>"Buried with Him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen +with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who +hath raised Him from the dead." Col. 2:12.</p> + +<p>In this ordinance, commanded of God, the believer is following +the example of Christ, who, when baptized by John in +Jordan, said, "Thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Thus through the emblematic grave<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The glorious suffering Saviour trod;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou art our Pattern, through the wave<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We follow Thee, blest Son of God."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>The Form of Baptism</h4> + +<p>The Scriptural form of baptism is shown in these texts:</p> + +<p>"Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out +of the water." Matt. 3:16.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p> + +<p>"They went down both into the water, both Philip and +the eunuch; and he baptized him." Acts 8:38.</p> + +<p>"Buried with Him by baptism.... For if we have been +planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall be also +in the likeness of His resurrection." Rom. 6:4, 5.</p> + +<p>While the outward form of a religious service, without +the spirit and the experience which the form professes, must +ever be unacceptable to God, yet when the Lord prescribes +a form, it is imperative that His instruction should be followed. +The form of the ordinance as commanded by God +emphasizes the divine meaning of the service.</p> + +<p>Scriptural baptism is a burial "in the likeness" of Christ's +burial, as the lifting up of the believer from the watery grave +is a likeness of the resurrection of Christ. Of the meaning +of the word "baptism," Luther wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Baptism is a Greek word; in Latin it can be translated immersion, +as when we plunge something into water that it may be completely covered +with water."—<i>Opera Lutheri, De Sac. Bap. 1, p. 319 (Baptist Encyclopedia, +art. "Baptism").</i></p></div> + +<p>Calvin, after arguing that the form is an indifferent matter, +says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The very word 'baptize,' however, signifies to immerse; and it is +certain that immersion was observed by the ancient church."—<i>"Institutes," +lib. 4, cap. 15 (Baptist Encyclopedia, art. "Baptism").</i></p></div> + +<p>Of the practice in primitive times, Neander, the church +historian, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In respect to the manner of baptizing, in conformity with the original +institution and the original import of the symbol, it was generally +administered by immersion."—<i>"History of the Christian Church," Torrey's +translation (London edition), Vol. I, p. 429.</i></p></div> + +<p>The perversion of the ordinance into sprinkling, and that +in infancy, takes away the divinely ordained object-lesson; +and in the case of the infant must of necessity substitute +mere ceremonialism for experience, for the child of unaccountable +years can have had no experience of believing and +repenting, which are the necessary conditions to fulfil the +meaning of baptism. The change in the ordinance, like<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> +most of the changes that came about in the days of the "falling +away" from the primitive faith and practice, was by +gradual process.</p> + +<p>Dean Stanley, in his "Christian Institutions," page 24, +says that it is not till the third century that "we find one +case of the baptism of infants." Of the change from immersion +to sprinkling, he says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"What is the justification of this almost universal departure from the +primitive usage? There may have been many reasons, some bad, some +good. One, no doubt, was the superstitious feeling already mentioned +which regarded baptism as a charm, indispensable to salvation, and which +insisted on imparting it to every human being who could be touched with +water, however unconscious."</p></div> + +<p>The common practice as late as the twelfth century is thus +described by a Roman Catholic cardinal of that time, named +Pullus:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Whilst the candidate for baptism in water is immersed, the death +of Christ is suggested; whilst immersed and covered with water, the burial +of Christ is shown forth; whilst he is raised from the waters, the resurrection +of Christ is proclaimed."—<i>Patrol. Lat., Vol. CXXX, p. 315 (Baptist +Encyclopedia, art. "Baptism").</i></p></div> + +<p>Dean Stanley, of Westminster, one of the first scholars +of the Church of England, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"For the first thirteen centuries the almost universal practice of baptism +was that of which we read in the New Testament, and which is the +very meaning of the word 'baptize,'—that those who were baptized +were plunged, submerged, immersed into the water. That practice is +still, as we have seen, continued in Eastern churches. In the Western +church it still lingers among Roman Catholics in the solitary instance +of the Cathedral of Milan; among Protestants in the numerous sects of +the Baptists. It lasted long into the Middle Ages.... But since the +beginning of the seventeenth century, the practice has become exceedingly +rare. With the few exceptions just mentioned, the whole of the Western +churches have now substituted for the ancient bath the ceremony of letting +fall a few drops of water on the face. The reason of the change is +obvious. The practice of immersion, though peculiarly suitable to the +Southern and Eastern countries for which it was designed, was not found +seasonable in the countries of the North and West. Not by any decree +of council or parliament, but by the general sentiment of Christian liberty,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> +this remarkable change was effected. Beginning in the thirteenth century, +it has gradually driven the ancient catholic usage out of the whole +of Europe."—<i>"Christian Institutions," pp. 21, 22.</i></p></div> + +<p>The facts are undeniable, and emphasize the importance +of reformation and return in practice to the plain instructions +of the Word of God. As the record shows, it was not the +spirit of the New Testament church that made this change +in the divine ordinance; rather it is the spirit of the church +of the "falling away," against which the Lord warns all believers, +"because they have transgressed the laws, changed the +ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant."</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i4"><b>The Path He Trod</b><br /></span> +<span class="i0"> <br /></span> +<span class="i0">Our Saviour bowed beneath the wave,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And meekly sought a watery grave;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Come, see the sacred path He trod—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A path well pleasing to our God.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">His voice we hear, His footsteps trace.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And hither come to seek His face,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To do His will, to feel His love,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And join our songs with those above.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Adoniram Judson.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p204.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="SYMBOLS OF MEDO-PERSIA +AND GRECIA + +"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings +of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of +Grecia." Dan. 8:20, 21." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SYMBOLS OF MEDO-PERSIA +AND GRECIA<br /> + +"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings +of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of +Grecia." Dan. 8:20, 21.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p205.jpg" width="448" height="168" alt="COINS OF THE MEDO-PERSIAN +AND GRECIAN EMPIRES + +The ram, symbol of Persia; and the +goat, symbol of Grecia." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COINS OF THE MEDO-PERSIAN +AND GRECIAN EMPIRES<br /> + +The ram, symbol of Persia; and the +goat, symbol of Grecia.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="THE_PROPHECY_OF_DANIEL_8" id="THE_PROPHECY_OF_DANIEL_8"></a>THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 8</h2> + +<h3>A HISTORIC OUTLINE AND A VITAL QUESTION</h3> + + +<p>Another view of the history of empires and kingdoms +was brought before the prophet Daniel in the vision of the +eighth chapter. In this vision a great prophetic period is +given, the end of which reaches to the latter days, touching +events of our own times that are of direct interest and importance +to every one today.</p> + +<p>The vision was given in the third year of Belshazzar, the +last king of Babylon. Again, as in moving panorama, there +passed before the prophet's vision the scenes of history. +Earthly kingdoms were represented under the symbols of +beasts.</p> + +<p>We shall find the prophecy and the history corresponding +in every detail, revealing the overruling hand of God, who +knows the end from the beginning, and whose living Word of +truth bears its witness through all the ages.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Truth never dies. The ages come and go;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The mountains wear away; the seas retire;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Destruction lays earth's mighty cities low,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And empires, states, and dynasties expire;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">But caught and handed onward by the wise,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Truth never dies."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The opening scene of this vision, given by the river Ulai, +in Persia, is thus described:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, +behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two +horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than +the other, and the higher came up last. I saw the ram pushing +westward, and northward, and southward; so that no +beast might stand before him, neither was there any that +could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his +will, and became great." Verses 3, 4.</p> + +<p>In the angel's interpretation of the vision Daniel was told: +"The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings +of Media and Persia." Verse 20. "The higher came up +last."</p> + +<p>The two horns represented the dual character of the empire: +first the Medes in ascendancy, then the Persians rising +to yet greater power. "So that no beast might stand before +him," says the prophecy.</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—Xenophon says of Cyrus the Persian:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"He was able to extend the fear of himself over so great a part of the +world that he astonished all, and no one attempted anything against +him."—<i>"The Cyropædia," book 1, chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>The line of Medo-Persian conquest was "westward, and +northward, and southward," just as the prophet saw the ram +pushing its way. As one pen wrote in the days of Persia's +supremacy:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He [Darius] showed the world arms glory-crowned."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Towns untold before him fell."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Burgs over sea ... heard from his lips their fate."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>"The Persians," by Æschylus.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But the ram pushing westward stirred up an antagonist +that was eventually to overcome him. The prophet continues:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"As I was considering, behold, a he goat came +from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not +the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes. +And he came to the ram that had two horns,... and ran<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span> +unto him in the fury of his power.... And there was no +power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down +to the ground, and stamped upon him: and there was none +that could deliver the ram out of his hand." Verses 5-7.</p> + +<p>The angel's interpretation continued: "The rough goat is +the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his +eyes is the first king." Verse 21.</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—This "first king" of united Grecia was Alexander +the Great.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"With Alexander the New Greece begins."—<i>Harrison, "Story of +Greece," p. 499.</i></p> + +<p>"And it happened, after that Alexander ... had smitten Darius +king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first +over Greece." 1 Maccabees 1:1.</p></div> + +<p>Under Alexander, the Grecian goat ran upon the Persian +ram "in the fury of his power." At Arbela, wrote Arrian, the +Macedonians charged "with great fury." None was able to +deliver the Persian ram. "Wherever you fly," wrote Alexander +to the retreating Darius, "thither I will surely pursue +you." (See "Anabasis of Alexander the Great," by Arrian, +book 2, chap. 14.) Medo-Persia fell before Grecia, as this +sure word of prophecy had foretold two hundred years before +Alexander's day.</p> + +<p>Grecia's expansion and its later history were next unfolded +before the prophet's vision:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and +when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it +came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." +Verse 8.</p> + +<p>Of the ram (Persia) it was said it became "great;" of the +goat (Grecia); that it became "very great."</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—Justin, the Roman, wrote of Alexander:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"So much was the whole world awed by the terror of his name, that +all nations came to pay their obedience to him."—<i>"History of the World," +book 12, chap. 13.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span></p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Vain in his hopes, the youth had grasped at all,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And his vast thought took in the vanquished ball."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Lucan's "Pharsalia" (Nicholas Rowe's translation), book 3.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But the unerring prophecy had said that "when he was +strong, the great horn was broken." Suddenly the youthful +conqueror was cut down by death, just as he was preparing to +celebrate at Babylon a "convention of the whole universe,"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"being thus taken off in the flower of his age, and in the height of his +victories."—<i>Justin, "History of the World," book 13, chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>The ancient pagan writers, in telling the story, make use +of language very similar to that used by divine prophecy in +foretelling it. Following Alexander's death the empire was +divided "toward the four winds of heaven." Myers says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Four well-defined and important monarchies arose out of the +ruins.... The great horn was broken; and instead of it came up four +notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."—<i>"History of Greece" +(edition 1902), p. 457.</i></p></div> + +<p>As the prophet watched these four kingdoms of divided +Greece, he beheld another power coming into the field of his +vision through one of the four kingdoms, and extending its +authority more than any before it:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"Out of one of them [one of the four kingdoms] +came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, +toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant +land." Verse 9.</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—Medo-Persia was "great," Grecia was "very +great," but this power was to be "exceeding great." Rome +followed Grecia. Polybius, the Roman, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Almost the whole inhabited world was conquered, and brought under +the dominion of the single city of Rome."—<i>"Histories of Polybius" (Evelyn +Shuckburgh's translation), book 1, chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>One of the odes of Horace tells how the name of Rome +grew to might:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Till her superb dominion spread<br /></span> +<span class="i0">East, where the sun comes forth in light,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And west to where he lays his head."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Ode 15, "To Augustus," book 4.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Lucan's lines measured its exceeding greatness from the +other points of the compass:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Though from the frozen pole our empire run,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Far as the journeys of the southern sun."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>"Pharsalia," book 10.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"The empire of the Romans filled the world," says Gibbon. +It was "exceeding great," according to the prophecy. +In the vision the little horn that grew so great came into the +prophet's view as proceeding out of one of the four horns that +he had been watching. Rome rose to unquestioned supremacy +out of its conquest of Macedonia, one of the four notable +kingdoms into which Grecia was divided. It spread forth +toward the south, and toward the east, and "toward the +pleasant land," Palestine becoming a province of the empire +in the century before Christ. And it was a Roman force that +destroyed Jerusalem and devastated the pleasant land.</p> + +<p>Thus the "sure word of prophecy," with exactness in +detail, carries the history through the centuries to the last +great universal monarchy, Rome.</p> + +<p>But this prophecy does not deal so much with the earlier +history of Rome as with the developments of later times. It +was the same in the prophetic outline of Daniel 7. After +briefly identifying Rome as the last universal monarchy, the +vision of the seventh chapter dealt with the rise of papal Rome, +described its exaltation of itself against God, and its warfare +against the truth and the saints of God. And here again, +in the eighth chapter, the same persecuting power is seen developing, +exalting itself, and persecuting the saints of God. +The prophecy says that "it cast down the truth to the ground; +and it practiced, and prospered." Dan. 8:12. The papal history, +as given in the study on Daniel 7, need not be repeated +here.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p210.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="THE CAMP OF ISRAEL IN THE +WILDERNESS + +"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall +the sanctuary be cleansed." Dan. 8:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE CAMP OF ISRAEL IN THE +WILDERNESS<br /> + +"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall +the sanctuary be cleansed." Dan. 8:14.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span></p> + +<p>As the prophet watched the work of this lawless power, +his heart must have cried out to know how long it was to be +allowed to prosper in its evil way; for next he heard the voice +of a holy one asking the question for him,</p> + +<p>"How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, +and the transgression of desolation, to give both the +sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?" Dan. 8:13.</p> + +<p>The answer was,</p> + +<p>"Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall +the sanctuary be cleansed." Verse 14.</p> + +<p>In symbolic prophecy a day stands for a year. Eze. 4:6. +This is a long period, therefore, of 2300 years. It reaches to +the latter days; for the angel said of it, "At the time of the +end shall be the vision." Dan. 8:17.</p> + +<p>The question was, "How long?" or literally, "Until when?" +and the answer was, "Until two thousand and three hundred +days." Then what was to come to deal with the great apostasy?—"Then +shall the sanctuary be cleansed." The cleansing +of the sanctuary, therefore, must have something to do +with meeting the great apostasy, lifting up God's truth that +has been trampled underfoot, and cutting short the reign of +evil. The cleansing of the sanctuary, with all that is involved +in it, must be God's answer to this lawless power.</p> + +<p>Error may prosper for a time; but the just balances of +the sanctuary will at last pronounce righteous judgment, and +the prosperity of evil will be cut short. "I was envious ... +when I saw the prosperity of the wicked," said the psalmist, +"until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood +I their end." Ps. 73:3, 17.</p> + +<p>What, then, is involved in the cleansing of the sanctuary, +the time of which is marked by the long prophetic period? +It is for us to understand; for it is a work pertaining to the +latter days.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p212.jpg" width="297" height="440" alt="OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST + +"We have such a high priest, who is set on +the right hand of the throne of the Majesty +in the heavens." Heb. 8:1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST<br /> + +"We have such a high priest, who is set on +the right hand of the throne of the Majesty +in the heavens." Heb. 8:1.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_213" id="Page_213">[Pg 213]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 447px;"> +<img src="images/p213.jpg" width="447" height="288" alt="THE INTERIOR OF THE +SANCTUARY + +"A figure for time then present, in +which were offered both gifts and sacrifices." +Heb. 9:9." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE INTERIOR OF THE +SANCTUARY<br /> + +"A figure for time then present, in +which were offered both gifts and sacrifices." +Heb. 9:9.</span> +</div> + + +<h2>THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY IN TYPE AND ANTITYPE</h2> + + +<p>The Bible teaching concerning the sanctuary of the Levitical +service shows clearly that the cleansing of the sanctuary +is God's answer to error and apostasy.</p> + +<p>The priestly service of the earthly sanctuary, or temple, +in the days of Israel, was typical of the work of Christ, our +High Priest, in the heavenly temple. The earthly priests +served after "the example and shadow of heavenly things." +Heb. 8:5. And of Christ's ministry in the heavenly temple +we are told:</p> + +<p>"Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: +We have such a high priest, who is set on the right hand of +the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; a minister of the +sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, +and not man." Heb. 8:1, 2.</p> + +<p>In the earthly service, the cleansing of the sanctuary was +the closing work of the high priest, marking the end of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_214" id="Page_214">[Pg 214]</a></span> +yearly round of mediatory ministry. The cleansing of the +sanctuary in the time of the end must, therefore, according +to the sure teaching of the type, be the closing ministry of +our great High Priest in the heavenly temple, before He lays +aside His priestly work to come in glory.</p> + + +<h4>The Service of the Earthly Tabernacle</h4> + +<p>There were two distinct phases in the priestly ministry +of the tabernacle in Israel. The sanctuary was built with +two apartments, the holy place and the most holy.</p> + +<p>In the holy place were the candlestick with its seven lights, +the table with its ever-renewed "bread of the presence," and +the altar of incense, on which sweet incense, symbol of Christ's +continual intercession, was burned morning and night.</p> + +<p>Within the inner veil was the most holy place, where was +the ark containing the tables of the law, written with the +finger of God. The cover of the ark was the golden mercy-seat, +above which, at either end, stood two cherubim of gold, +their wings meeting on high, their faces looking ever toward +the mercy-seat. It was a type of the throne of God—the +angels about the throne, the law the foundation of His government, +the mercy-seat typifying the interposition of mercy +and pardon for the sinner; and above it the visible glory of +the Lord, the Shekinah.</p> + +<p>"There I will meet with thee, and I will commune with +thee from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim +which are upon the ark of the testimony." Ex. 25:22.</p> + +<p>Of the service in the first apartment it is stated:</p> + +<p>"When these things were thus ordained, the priests went +always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of +God." Heb. 9:6.</p> + +<p>"Day by day the sacrificial victims were slain at the altar +before the outer veil, and the blood was 'brought into the +sanctuary' by the priest." This was an acknowledgment +of transgression of God's law, meriting death, and a confession +of faith in the Lamb of God who was to suffer death in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_215" id="Page_215">[Pg 215]</a></span> +the sinner's stead, and whose atoning blood would plead for +him before the righteous law.</p> + +<p>Thus day by day, either by the sprinkling of the blood +"before the Lord" or by eating a portion of the flesh of the +burnt offering in the holy place, the ministry of the priests +transferred the sin in type to the sanctuary, and the sinner +was pardoned.</p> + +<p>For a full year, lacking one day, the ministry was in the +first apartment, or holy place only. But on that last day +of the yearly round of service—"the tenth day of the seventh +month"—the high priest entered the second apartment, or +most holy place.</p> + +<p>"Into the second went the high priest alone once every +year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for +the errors of the people." Heb. 9:7.</p> + +<p>In this service the high priest sprinkled the blood upon +the mercy-seat and in the holy place, "because of the uncleanness +of the children of Israel." The sanctuary was to +be reconciled or cleansed from all the sins registered there +in type through the blood of the offerings brought day by +day during the year.</p> + +<p>As the high priest came out, bearing the sins, he transferred +them all to the head of the scapegoat, which was sent +away into the wilderness; and thus "all their iniquities" +were borne away from the camp into the wilderness, and the +sanctuary was cleansed. See Leviticus 16.</p> + +<p>This was a solemn time of judgment in Israel. Every +man's life came in review that day. Was every sin confessed? +Whosoever was not found right with God, when that service +was performed, was cut off from having a part with God's +people.</p> + +<p>"It is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you +before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be that +shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off +from among his people." Lev. 23:28, 29.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_216" id="Page_216">[Pg 216]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was indeed an annual day of judgment in Israel. And +all this was an "example and shadow of heavenly things." +Heb. 8:5.</p> + + +<h4>Christ's Closing Work in Heaven</h4> + +<p>Therefore the last phase of Christ's ministry as our high +priest in the sanctuary of God above, must be a work of judgment, +a review of the heavenly record, corresponding to the +final ministry in the second apartment of the earthly tabernacle, +when that sanctuary was cleansed.</p> + +<hr style="width: 95%;" /><div class="figcenter" style="width: 447px;"> +<img src="images/p216.jpg" width="447" height="323" alt="THE MEMORIAL OF HIS SACRIFICE + +"As often as ye eat this bread, and drink +this cup, ye do show the Lord's death +till He come." 1 Cor. 11:26." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MEMORIAL OF HIS SACRIFICE<br /> + +"As often as ye eat this bread, and drink +this cup, ye do show the Lord's death +till He come." 1 Cor. 11:26.</span> +</div> + +<p>Daniel the prophet was shown in vision this change in +the ministry of our High Priest, namely, from the first to +the second apartment of the heavenly temple. He describes +the wondrous scene, as God's living throne, with its wheels +flaming with glory, moved into the most holy place of the +heavenly sanctuary, for the closing work of Christ's ministry:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_217" id="Page_217">[Pg 217]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I beheld till the thrones were cast down ["placed," +R.V.], and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was +white as snow, and the hair of His head like the pure wool: +His throne was like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning +fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before Him: +thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand +times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, +and the books were opened." Dan. 7:9, 10.</p> + +<p>This scene, as the next verse shows, opens while still on +earth the apostasy is exalting itself. But during this same +time a solemn judgment work is going forward in heaven +above, the finishing of which will give God's answer to the +apostasy, and bring the second coming of Christ in glory to +end the reign of sin. It is the cleansing of the sanctuary,—the +time when in reality and not in type every case registered +in the sanctuary comes in final review before God. When +that work closes, according to the type, whosoever is not +found right with God will be cut off from having any part +with His redeemed people.</p> + +<p>Then the priestly ministry of Christ will close, and the +destiny of every soul will be fixed for all eternity. To that +time must apply the words spoken by Jesus:</p> + +<p>"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: ... and he +that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is +holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly." +Rev. 22:11, 12.</p> + +<p>But now the Saviour, from His place of ministry on high, +speaks to all the encouraging exhortation and assurance:</p> + +<p>"He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white +raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of +life, but I will confess his name before My Father, and before +His angels." Rev. 3:5.</p> + +<p>To let men on earth know when this judgment work, the +cleansing of the sanctuary, began in heaven, the prophetic +period of 2300 years was given. It is of most solemn importance +that we know when that period begins and ends.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_218" id="Page_218">[Pg 218]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 289px;"> +<img src="images/p218.jpg" width="289" height="440" alt="ARTAXERXES SENDING +THE JEWS TO REBUILD +JERUSALEM, b.c. 457 + +"From the going forth of the commandment to restore +and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the +Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and +two weeks." Dan. 9:25." title="" /> +<span class="caption">ARTAXERXES SENDING +THE JEWS TO REBUILD +JERUSALEM, B.C. 457<br /> + +"From the going forth of the commandment to restore +and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the +Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and +two weeks." Dan. 9:25.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_219" id="Page_219">[Pg 219]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p219.jpg" width="448" height="279" alt="NEHEMIAH, THE KING'S +CUPBEARER + +"Send me unto Judah, unto the city of +my fathers' sepulchers, that I may +build it." Neh. 2:5." title="" /> +<span class="caption">NEHEMIAH, THE KING'S +CUPBEARER<br /> + +"Send me unto Judah, unto the city of +my fathers' sepulchers, that I may +build it." Neh. 2:5.</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="A_GREAT_PROPHETIC_PERIOD" id="A_GREAT_PROPHETIC_PERIOD"></a>A GREAT PROPHETIC PERIOD</h2> + + +<h3>THE 2300 YEARS OF DANIEL 8:14</h3> + +<p>The commission to the angel Gabriel was, "Make this +man to understand the vision" (Dan. 8:16); therefore in the +angel's explanation of the vision of Daniel 8, we must assuredly +find the interpretation of the prophetic period of 2300 +years, the close of which marks the opening of the judgment +work in heaven, or the cleansing of the sanctuary.</p> + +<p>The eighth chapter closes, however, with no reference to +the beginning of this period of time, a most important measuring +line of prophecy. The angel had explained the symbols +representing Medo-Persia, Grecia, and Rome, and had dwelt +upon the antichristian work of the apostasy that was to develop; +but he left the time of the prophetic period unexplained, +save to say that it was "true," and that it would +be "for many days"—far in the future. Here the angel +stopped, for Daniel fainted. In spirit the prophet had been +gazing upon the warfare of the great apostasy against God's +truth through the ages, and evidently it took all strength +from him. Daniel closes the account of this vision with the +words, "I was astonished at the vision, but none understood +it." Verse 27.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_220" id="Page_220">[Pg 220]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p220.jpg" width="448" height="133" alt="THE 2300 DAYS" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE 2300 DAYS</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The heavy line represents the full 2300 year-day period, the longest prophetic +period in the Bible. Beginning in <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> 457 +when the decree was given to restore and build Jerusalem (Ezra 7:11-26; Dan. +9:25), seven weeks (49 years) are measured off +to indicate the time occupied in this work of restoration. These, however, are a +part of the sixty-nine weeks (483 years) that +were to reach to Messiah, the Anointed One. Christ was anointed in 27 +<span class="smcap">a.d.</span>, at His baptism. Matt. 3:13-17; Acts 10:38. +In the midst of the seventieth week (31 <span class="smcap">a.d.</span>), Christ was crucified or +"cut off," which marked the time when the sacrifices and +oblations of the earthly sanctuary were to cease. Dan. 9:25, 27. The remaining +three and one-half years of this week reach +to 34 <span class="smcap">a.d.</span>, or to the stoning of Stephen, and the great persecution of +the church at Jerusalem which followed. Acts 7:59; +8:1. This marked the close of the seventy weeks, or 490 years, allotted to the +Jewish people.</p></div> + +<p>But the seventy weeks are a part of the 2300 days; and as they (the seventy +weeks) reach to 34 <span class="smcap">A.D.</span>, the remaining +1810 years of the 2300-day period must reach to 1844, when the work of judgment, +or cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary, +was to begin. Rev. 14:6, 7. Then special light began to shine upon the whole +sanctuary subject, and Christ's mediatorial +or priestly work in it.</p> + +<p>Four great events, therefore, are located by this great prophetic period,—the +first advent, the crucifixion, the rejection of +the Jewish people as a nation, and the beginning of the work of final judgment.]<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_221" id="Page_221">[Pg 221]</a></span></p> + +<p>But the angel had been commanded, "Make this man to +understand the vision;" and soon after, as recorded in the +next chapter,—possibly within a year,<a name="FNanchor_G_7" id="FNanchor_G_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_G_7" class="fnanchor">[G]</a>—Gabriel appeared +to the prophet with the words:</p> + +<p>"O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and +understanding.... Therefore understand the matter, and +consider the vision." Dan. 9:22, 23.</p> + +<p>Thereupon the angel began to deal with the matter of +time in the prophecy, the very feature of the vision of the +eighth chapter that he had not yet made Daniel understand. +Therefore the vision of the 2300 years must be the topic.</p> + + +<h4>The Starting-Point</h4> + +<p>First of all, the angel said that a short period was to be +cut off from the long period, and allotted to the Jewish people; +this short period was to reach to the coming of the promised +Messiah and the filling up of the measure of Jerusalem's +transgressions. The angel's own words are:</p> + +<p>"Seventy weeks [490 days, prophetic time, or 490 literal +years] are determined [cut off, as the word means] upon thy +people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, +and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for +iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_222" id="Page_222">[Pg 222]</a></span> +up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy." +Verse 24.</p> + +<p>This 490-year period "cut off" was to cover the history +of the people of Jerusalem until that city had filled out the +measure of its transgression. The only prophetic period +from which this 490 years can properly be said to be "cut +off" is, assuredly, the longer period of 2300 years, which +stretches far onward to "the time of the end." The 490 +years and the 2300 years, then, must begin at the same time.</p> + +<p>It was the time period that the angel Gabriel was yet to +explain; and he begins the explanation by showing that the +first 490 years of it would reach to the days of the Messiah. +Then he gives the event that marks the beginning of the 490 +years, which event must necessarily mark the beginning of +the 2300 years as well.</p> + +<p>This is what he was commissioned to make Daniel "understand" +when first the vision of the 2300 years was given. +Now he tells him to "understand" it:</p> + +<p>"Know therefore and understand, that from the going +forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem +unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore +and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the +wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two +weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself: and the +people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city +and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, +and unto the end of the war desolations are determined." +Dan. 9:25, 26.</p> + +<p>The date of the going forth of the commandment to restore +and rebuild Jerusalem is the date, therefore, from which +the great prophetic measuring line runs; the first 490 years of +it to reach to the time and work of the Messiah, at the first +advent, the full 2300 years running on to mark the time when +the judgment hour in heaven opens. Once the starting-point +is fixed, all the events of the long period must follow +exactly as scheduled in the time-table of divine prophecy.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_223" id="Page_223">[Pg 223]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Date of the Commencement to Restore Jerusalem</h4> + +<p>There were several commands issued concerning the restoration +of Jerusalem after the Babylonish captivity. Cyrus, +and Darius, and Artaxerxes Longimanus each issued such a +decree. Which one answers to the language of the prophecy +as "the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem"?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p223.jpg" width="448" height="335" alt="THE JEWS MOURNING OVER +THE RUINS OF JERUSALEM + +"I went out by night,... and viewed +the walls of Jerusalem, which were +broken down." Neh. 2:13." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE JEWS MOURNING OVER +THE RUINS OF JERUSALEM<br /> + +"I went out by night,... and viewed +the walls of Jerusalem, which were +broken down." Neh. 2:13.</span> +</div> + +<p>The decree of Artaxerxes was most comprehensive (Ezra +7), authorizing the full restoration of the civil and religious +administration of Jerusalem and Judea. And Inspiration +specifically sums up all the decrees as completed only in that +of Artaxerxes, which thus constituted "the commandment:"</p> + +<p>"They builded, and finished it, according to the commandment +of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment +of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of +Persia." Ezra 6:14.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_224" id="Page_224">[Pg 224]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p224.jpg" width="298" height="448" alt="REBUILDING JERUSALEM + +"They builded, and finished it, according +to the commandment of the God of Israel, +and according to the commandment of +Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king +of Persia." Ezra 6:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">REBUILDING JERUSALEM<br /> + +"They builded, and finished it, according +to the commandment of the God of Israel, +and according to the commandment of +Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king +of Persia." Ezra 6:14.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[Pg 225]</a></span></p> + +<p>According to this scripture, the full "going forth of the +commandment to restore and to build," dates from this decree +of Artaxerxes. And this decree went forth "in the seventh +year of Artaxerxes the king." Ezra 7:7.</p> + +<p>What year was this seventh year of Artaxerxes—a date +so important to fix to a certainty?</p> + +<p>The great chronological standard for the kings of the +ancient empires is the canon, or historical rule, of Ptolemy. +Ptolemy was a Greek historian, geographer, and astronomer, +who lived in the temple of Serapis, near Alexandria, Egypt. +From ancient records he prepared a chronological table of +the kings of Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome (carrying +the Roman list to his own time, which was the second century +after Christ). Along with his list of kings and the years of +their succession, Ptolemy compiled a record of ancient observations +of eclipses. In such and such a year of a king, +for instance, on a given day of the month, an eclipse of the +sun or moon would be recorded. Astronomers have worked +out these observations, and verified them. The learned Dr. +William Hales said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"To the authenticity of these copies of Ptolemy's canon, the strongest +testimony is given by their exact agreement throughout, with above +twenty dates and computations of eclipses in Ptolemy's +Almagest."—<i>"Chronology," +Vol. I, p. 166.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus, says James B. Lindsay, an English chronologist, +"a foundation is laid for chronology sure as the stars." So +the sun and the stars, the divinely appointed timekeepers, +bear their witness to the accuracy of the historical record.</p> + +<p>We thank God for this, as we desire to know if we may +depend upon Ptolemy's canon to help us fix to a certainty +the seventh year of Artaxerxes.</p> + +<p>According to Ptolemy, Artaxerxes succeeded to the throne +in the two hundred and eighty-fourth year of the canon. In +modern reckoning, this two hundred and eighty-fourth year +runs from Dec. 17, 465 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, to Dec. 17, 464 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> The canon +does not tell at what part of the year a king succeeded to the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> +throne; it only deals with whole years. The question is, to +be exact, Did Artaxerxes come to the throne in December, +465 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, or at some time in the year 464 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>? At what +season of the year did the king take the throne? Some historians, +dealing with the matter roughly, date the succession +from the year 465. But in dealing with divine prophecy, we +require certainty upon which to base the reckoning of the seventh +year of Artaxerxes, from which date the prophetic period +runs.</p> + +<p>And in God's providence we do have certainty. Of all +the kings of Assyria, Babylon, and Medo-Persia, in Ptolemy's +long list, there is but one concerning whose succession the +Scriptures give us the very time of the year—and that one +is Artaxerxes. The one case in which we need to know to a +certainty the season of the year, in order to fix an important +date in prophecy, is the one case in which Inspiration gives +exactly the particulars. Who cannot see the hand of God in +this?</p> + +<p>The combined record of Neh. 1:1; 2:1 and Ezra 7:7-9,<a name="FNanchor_H_8" id="FNanchor_H_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_H_8" class="fnanchor">[H]</a> +shows that Artaxerxes came to the throne between the fifth +month of the Jewish year and the ninth month,—roughly, +between August and December,—or in the autumn. The +Bible gives one part of the record, and Ptolemy's canon gives<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> +another part; and by the combined record we know that +Artaxerxes came to the throne late in the year 464 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, and +thus the seventh year of his reign would be 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> This is +the date fixed by other sources of reliable chronology also, Sir +Isaac Newton having worked out several lines of evidence +from ancient authorities, in each case reaching the year 464 +<span class="smcap">b.c.</span> as the first of Artaxerxes, which makes the seventh to +be 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span></p> + +<p>In the seventh year of Artaxerxes the commandment went +forth to restore and to build Jerusalem, and this event fixes +the beginning of the 2300 years, as also of the 490 years cut +off from it upon the Jewish people.</p> + +<p>That year, 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, therefore, is a date of profound importance. +It stands like the golden milestone in the ancient +Forum at Rome, from which ran out all the measurements +of distance to the ends of the empire. From this date, 457 +<span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, run out the golden threads of time prophecy that touch +events in the earthly life and the heavenly ministry of Jesus +that are of deepest eternal interest to all mankind today.</p> + + + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2"><b>The Ransom Paid</b><br /></span> +<span class="i0"> <br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lord, I believe Thy precious blood,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Which, at the mercy-seat of God,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Forever doth for sinners plead,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Can cleanse my guilty soul indeed.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Lord, I believe were sinners more<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than sands upon the ocean shore,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou hast for all a ransom paid,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For all a full provision made.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">—<i>Nikolaus Zinzendorf.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_228" id="Page_228">[Pg 228]</a></span></div></div> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 303px;"> +<img src="images/p228.jpg" width="303" height="448" alt="THE ANOINTING OF JESUS +AT HIS BAPTISM + +"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the +Holy Ghost and with power." Acts 10:38. +(See Matt. 3:16.)" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE ANOINTING OF JESUS +AT HIS BAPTISM<br /> + +"God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the +Holy Ghost and with power." Acts 10:38. +(See Matt. 3:16.)</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_G_7" id="Footnote_G_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_G_7"><span class="label">[G]</span></a> The dates placed in the margin of the King James Version indicate a +period of fifteen years between the eighth and ninth chapters of Daniel. This +was because in former days it was thought that Belshazzar was the Bible +name of Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, who reigned seventeen years. +In that case, from "the third year" of his reign, when the prophecy of Daniel +8 was given, to the "first year of Darius," who succeeded him, when the +angel appeared again to Daniel, would be fifteen years. But the unearthing +of the buried records of Babylonia during the last half century, reveals the +fact that Belshazzar was the son of Nabonidus, associated with him on the +throne as king for a few years before the fall of Babylon. The third year of +his reign may very likely have been the last year; and Darius immediately +followed Belshazzar. The explanation of the ninth chapter might have been +within a few weeks or months following the vision of chapter 8, and probably +was.</p></div> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_H_8" id="Footnote_H_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_H_8"><span class="label">[H]</span></a> These texts show that the king came to the throne in the autumn, so +that the actual years of his reign would run from autumn to autumn. Neh. +1:1 begins the record: "In the month Chisleu, in the <i>twentieth year</i>." +Neh. +2:1 continues: "It came to pass in the month Nisan, in the <i>twentieth year</i> +of Artaxerxes." Thus it is plain that in the monthly calendar of the king's +actual reign the month Chisleu came first in order, and then Nisan. Chisleu +was the ninth month of the Jewish sacred year, roughly, December. Nisan +is the first month, April. And these months, December, April,—in that +order,—came +in the first year of the king, of course, the same as in his twentieth +year. And in the same year also came the fifth month, August; for Ezra +7:7-9 shows that the first and fifth months—in that order—also fell in the +same year of his reign. Then we know of a certainty that his reign began +somewhere between August and December, that is, in the autumn. The first +year of Artaxerxes was from the latter part of 464 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> to the latter +part of +463, and the seventh year, as readily counted off, would be from near the end +of 458 to near the end of 457. Under the commission to Ezra, the people +began to go up to Jerusalem in the spring of that year, 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> (in +the first +month, or April), and they "came to Jerusalem in the fifth month" (August). +Ezra 7:8, 9. Ezra and his associates soon thereafter "delivered the kings +commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the +river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God." Ezra 8:36. +With this delivery of the commissions to the king's officers, the commandment +to restore and to build had, most certainly, fully gone forth. And from this +date, 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, extends the great prophetic period.</p></div></div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p229.jpg" width="448" height="336" alt="DANIEL'S PRAYER ANSWERED + +"I am now come forth to give thee skill +and understanding." Dan. 9:22." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DANIEL'S PRAYER ANSWERED<br /> + +"I am now come forth to give thee skill +and understanding." Dan. 9:22.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_PROPHECY_FULFILLED" id="THE_PROPHECY_FULFILLED"></a>THE PROPHECY FULFILLED</h2> + +<h3>EVENTS OF THE "SEVENTY WEEKS" AND END OF THE +2300 YEARS</h3> + + +<p>The angel explained to Daniel the events of the seventy +weeks allotted to Jerusalem and its people "to finish the +transgression." Seven weeks and threescore and two weeks +(69 weeks) of the seventy were to reach to the Messiah. The +angel's words were:</p> + +<p>"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and +upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression.... Know +therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the +commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the +Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and +two weeks [69 weeks, or 483 days]." Dan. 9:24, 25.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span></p> + +<p>The sixty-nine weeks, symbolic time, are 483 years, which +were to reach from the commandment to restore and build +Jerusalem to Messiah the Prince.</p> + + +<h4>The Time of the Messiah's Coming</h4> + +<p>The commandment of Artaxerxes to restore and build +Jerusalem, as we have seen, went forth in 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span> Reckoning +from that date, 483 full years bring us to <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 27, when, +according to the prophecy, the Messiah should appear.</p> + +<p>Messiah means "anointed." The anointing of Jesus, and +His manifestation as the Anointed One, was at His baptism:</p> + +<p>"Jesus, when He was baptized, went up straightway out +of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto Him, +and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting +upon Him: and lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is +My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." Matt. 3:16, 17.</p> + +<p>Thus Jesus was anointed as the Messiah (see Acts 10:38), +and John proclaimed: "Behold the Lamb of God, which +taketh away the sin of the world." John 1:29.</p> + +<p>When did this baptism and anointing take place? The +Gospel of Luke supplies the historical facts for fixing the +year:</p> + +<p>"In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, +Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea," etc. Luke 3:1-3.</p> + +<p>Tiberius followed Augustus, who died in <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 14. But +before the latter's death, Tiberius was associated with him +on the throne. Some modern historians date this appointment +of Tiberius as Cæsar from <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 13; but the "History of +Rome," by Dion Cassius, a Roman senator, born in the second +century, shows, under events of <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 12, that Augustus recognized +Tiberius as holding the imperial dignity at that time. +(Book 56, chap. 26.) Again, Dr. Philip Schaff says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"There are coins from Antioch in Syria of the date A.U. 765 [<span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 12], +with the head of Tiberius and the inscription, <i>Kaisar, Sebastos +(Augustus)."</i>—<i>"History +of the Christian Church," Vol. I, p. 120, footnote.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p> + +<p>These coins from Syria bear certain witness that the first +year of Tiberius should be counted from <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 12. Therefore +"the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar" would be +<span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 27, just 483 years from the going forth of the commandment +to restore Jerusalem. The prophecy of the sixty-nine +weeks was fulfilled—the Messiah had come.</p> + + +<h4>Confirming the Covenant</h4> + +<p>But "one week" of the seventy remained—seven years. +Of the Messiah's work during this time the angel said:</p> + +<p>"He shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: +and in the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and +the oblation to cease." Dan. 9:27.</p> + +<p>Christ's death upon the cross made "the sacrifice and the +oblation to cease," so far as their appointed force was concerned. +After three years and a half of ministry, "in the +midst" of this seven-year period, the prophetic week, the Messiah +was lifted up on Calvary. For centuries the sure word +of prophecy had pointed to this supreme hour in the working +out of the plan of salvation. When the time was fulfilled, +the promise of God was fulfilled also, and the divine +Sacrifice was offered.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Paschal Lamb, by God appointed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All our sins on Thee were laid;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">By Almighty Love anointed,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thou redemption's price hast paid.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">All Thy people are forgiven<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through the virtue of Thy blood;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Opened is the gate of heaven,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Peace is made 'twixt man and God."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>With the offering of the great Sacrifice, all the typical +offerings ceased to have significance. The veil of the temple +was rent when the Lamb of God expired upon the cross,—sign +to all that He had caused "the sacrifice and the oblation +to cease."<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p232.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="THE CRUCIFIXION +OF CHRIST + +"In the midst of the week He shall cause +the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." +Dan. 9:27." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE CRUCIFIXION +OF CHRIST<br /> + +"In the midst of the week He shall cause +the sacrifice and the oblation to cease." +Dan. 9:27.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 329px;"> +<img src="images/p233.jpg" width="329" height="409" alt="THE RENT VEIL + +"The veil of the temple was rent in +twain from the top to the bottom." +Mark 15:38." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE RENT VEIL<br /> + +"The veil of the temple was rent in +twain from the top to the bottom." +Mark 15:38.</span> +</div> + +<p>The Messiah was to "confirm the covenant with many for +one week," filling out the seventy weeks allotted in God's +merciful patience especially to the people of the Jews. Three +and a half years of Christ's personal ministry on earth had<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> +been devoted to the chosen people. Now, after His ascension, +He was still, in the persons of His disciples, to press +the gospel of the new covenant especially upon the Jewish +people—"to the Jew first," and "beginning at Jerusalem."</p> + + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 399px;"> +<img src="images/p234.jpg" width="399" height="336" alt="PETER PREACHING IN THE +HOUSE OF CORNELIUS + +"They that were scattered abroad went +everywhere preaching the word." Acts +8:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PETER PREACHING IN THE +HOUSE OF CORNELIUS<br /> + +"They that were scattered abroad went +everywhere preaching the word." Acts +8:4.</span> +</div> + +<p>This last seven-year period, beginning in <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 27, ended +in <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 34. By that time the opposition of the Jews was becoming +exceedingly bitter. As a people they were rejecting +again the divine invitation extended by the risen Christ +through His witnesses. About <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 34 Stephen was martyred. +The same council that, against all evidence, had rejected +the Messiah, again rejected the appeal of the Holy +Ghost shining visibly on Stephen's countenance.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span></p> + +<p>The believers in Jerusalem were driven out by persecution; +and "they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching +the word." Acts 8:4. The Gentiles gave heed in Samaria, +and the Ethiopian received the gospel on the road to +Gaza. The gospel message had fairly passed the boundaries +of Jerusalem and was on its way to the "uttermost parts of +the earth."</p> + +<p>Though the seventy weeks cut off upon the Jewish people +and upon the holy city had ended, to the world's end the +gospel of Christ's salvation is for that people as well as for +all other nations.</p> + + +<h4>The Ending of the 2300 Years</h4> + +<p>It must not be forgotten that the angel was explaining +to Daniel the vision and prophecy of the long prophetic period +that was to reach to the cleansing of the sanctuary at the +time of the end.</p> + +<p>These events of the first seventy weeks of that period +were "to seal up the vision and prophecy." Dan. 9:24. The +shedding of the blood of the divine Sacrifice "to make reconciliation +for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness," +set Heaven's seal to the vision. As surely as the great +Offering had been made, so surely the cleansing of the sanctuary +would be accomplished by the ministry of our High +Priest in heaven.</p> + +<p>And the exact fulfilment of the time schedule for this +first portion of the prophetic period, set seal to the declaration +that when the full 2300 years should run out, the closing ministry +of Christ would surely begin in the heavenly sanctuary.</p> + +<p>From 457 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>, when the commandment of Artaxerxes +to restore Jerusalem went forth, the measuring line of the +2300 years reaches to the year <span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 1844. In that year the +time of the prophecy came. Then the cleansing of the sanctuary +was to begin.</p> + +<p>The prophet John, in the Revelation, beheld the opening +of this last phase of the ministry of Christ in the most holy<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> +place of the temple of God. "The temple of God was +opened in heaven," he says, "and there was seen in His +temple the ark of His testament." Rev. 11:19. The +prophet heard voices saying, "The nations were angry, and +Thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they +should be judged." Verse 18.</p> + +<p>Again we must quote Daniel's description of the opening +of this ministry in the most holy place of the heavenly temple. +He saw thrones of judgment set up. He saw the moving +throne of the Almighty, with its wheels of naming glory, take +its position for the final work of our High Priest in the holy +of holies above:</p> + +<p>"I beheld till the thrones were cast down [placed], and +the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, +and the hair of His head like the pure wool: His throne was +like the fiery flame, and His wheels as burning fire. A fiery +stream issued and came forth from before Him: thousand +thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand times ten +thousand stood before Him: the judgment was set, and the +books were opened." Dan. 7:9, 10.</p> + +<p>This was the scene enacted in the heavenly temple when +the year 1844 brought the judgment hour. Then began in +heaven the work of the investigative judgment, or the cleansing +of the heavenly sanctuary, during which the case of every +individual will come in review before God.</p> + +<p>When that work of investigation is finished, the ministry +of Christ for sin will end, human probation will close, and our +Lord will quickly come as King of kings and Lord of lords, to +gather His redeemed, while all sinners will be destroyed by +"the brightness of His coming." 2 Thess. 2:8.</p> + +<p>In the vision of Daniel 8, as the great apostasy was seen +warring against God's truth, the question was asked, "How +long shall be the vision,... to give both the sanctuary and +the host to be trodden underfoot?" The answer was, in +effect, In 1844 the cleansing of the sanctuary will begin in<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span> +heaven,—the hour of God's judgment, that will give God's +answer to sin and apostasy.</p> + +<p>We are living in the great antitypical day of atonement, +for which all heaven has been waiting. The end is at hand. +And while that work is proceeding in heaven above, the Lord +proclaims a special message on earth, lifting up again truths +long trodden underfoot, and calling men to prepare for the +coming of the Lord.</p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2"><b>How Shall We Stand?</b><br /></span> +<span class="i0"><i><b>"For the hour of His judgment is come."</b></i><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The judgment is set, the books have been opened;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">How shall we stand in that great day<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When every thought, and word, and action,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">God, the righteous Judge, shall weigh?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The work is begun with those who are sleeping,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Soon will the living here be tried,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Out of the books of God's remembrance,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">His decision to abide.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O, how shall we stand that moment of searching,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When all our sins those books reveal?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When from that court, each case decided,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shall be granted no appeal?"<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p238.jpg" width="297" height="448" alt="THE THIRD ANGEL'S +MESSAGE + +"Here is the patience of the saints: here are +they that keep the commandments of God, +and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE THIRD ANGEL'S +MESSAGE<br /> + +"Here is the patience of the saints: here are +they that keep the commandments of God, +and the faith of Jesus." Rev. 14:12.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p239.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="THE GOSPEL COMMISSION + +"Go ye into all the world, and preach +the gospel to every creature." Mark +16:15." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GOSPEL COMMISSION<br /> + +"Go ye into all the world, and preach +the gospel to every creature." Mark +16:15.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="A_WORLD-WIDE_MOVEMENT" id="A_WORLD-WIDE_MOVEMENT"></a>A WORLD-WIDE MOVEMENT</h2> + +<h3>FORETOLD IN THE PROPHECY OF REVELATION 14</h3> + + +<p>While the work of the judgment hour, or period,—the +cleansing of the sanctuary,—is proceeding in the heavenly +temple above, the Lord sends to the world a special message +of preparation for the coming of the Lord.</p> + +<p>It would not be the divine way to let this solemn judgment +in heaven come unheralded to men. Daniel's prophecy +had fixed the time of its beginning; and the question asked +in the prophet's hearing, "How long shall be the vision ... +to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?" +suggested that when the time came, the truths of God +that had been trodden underfoot through the ages would be +lifted up and proclaimed anew to all the world.</p> + +<p>With the coming of the judgment hour, in the year 1844, +there arose just such a work, a definite gospel movement, +that has ever since been carrying the message for the hour +to the ends of the earth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Way Prepared for the Rise of the Movement</h4> + +<p>But there was a preliminary work to be done, to prepare +the way for the definite advent movement and message.</p> + +<p>In the days of Israel of old, as the time for the cleansing +of the sanctuary drew near, the people were forewarned of +the approach of the solemn hour. The day of atonement—"the +tenth day of the seventh month"—was a typical +hour of judgment. All the people were to prepare their +hearts for that great day.</p> + +<p>To this end, the Lord appointed the first day of the seventh +month a day of sounding of the trumpets. Lev. 23:24. The +silver trumpets, pealing forth on that day, proclaimed to all +that the day of atonement was near at hand, when every case +would be brought in review before the mercy-seat by the +ministry of the high priest in the most holy place of the +earthly sanctuary.</p> + +<p>True to the type, as the year 1844 drew near, when the +great antitypical day of atonement was to open and the closing +work of Christ to begin in the most holy place of the +heavenly temple, the trumpet call of the approaching judgment +hour was set pealing through all Christendom.</p> + +<p>Events of the closing years of the eighteenth century and +the early decades of the nineteenth, had stirred up Bible +students to give greater attention to the study of the prophetic +scriptures. It was seen that signs of the latter days were appearing, +and that every line of historic prophecy pointed to +the near approach of Christ's second coming.</p> + +<p>Here and there students of the Word saw that the 2300-year +period of Dan. 8:14, as explained in the ninth chapter, +would end soon; and some arrived at the correct date, and +looked to the year 1844 as the time when the judgment hour +would come.</p> + +<p>Witnesses were raised up in Europe—in Holland, Germany, +Russia, and the Scandinavian countries. Joseph Wolff, +the missionary to the Levant, preached in Greece, Palestine,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span> +Turkey, Afghanistan, and other regions the coming of the +judgment hour. William Miller and many associates preached +the message throughout America.</p> + +<p>Writing in the days just before 1844, Mourant Brock, a +clergyman of the Church of England, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It is not merely in Great Britain that the expectation of the near +return of the Redeemer is entertained, and the voice of warning raised, +but also in America, India, and on the continent of Europe. In America, +about three hundred ministers of the word are thus preaching 'this gospel +of the kingdom;' whilst in this country, about seven hundred of the +Church of England are raising the same cry."—<i>"Advent Tracts</i>," <i>Vol. +II, p. 135 (1844).</i></p></div> + +<p>Not all who joined in the awakening cry at this time explained +the prophecies alike, or emphasized the definite year +1844 as the beginning of the hour of God's judgment; though +in America, Europe, and Asia the clear message of the ending +of the prophetic time in 1844 was proclaimed with power by +many voices. And as the time came, the world was ringing +with the call to prepare to meet the judgment hour, even as +the hosts of Israel were called by trumpet peals to prepare +for the typical day of atonement.</p> + +<p>The nature of the event to come at the end of the 2300 +years was not understood by these early heralds of the advent +hope. The general expectation was that the judgment hour +meant the end of the world and the coming of the Lord. +Though the word of prophecy indicated clearly that there +was a special work to be done on earth while the judgment +hour was proceeding in heaven, this was not clear to Bible +students at the time. So when the prophetic period ended +and the Lord did not come, believers in the prophetic truths +were disappointed and unbelievers scoffed. But the call to +prepare for the judgment hour was the message due to the +world at that time, and the awakening cry was raised on +every continent.</p> + +<p>In the days of the Saviour's first advent, the disciples +and the populace had proclaimed the triumphal entry of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> +Christ into Jerusalem. They were at once disappointed; instead +of enthroning Him as king, they witnessed His crucifixion. +But in proclaiming the coming of Zion's King to +Jerusalem, they were fulfilling the prophecy that had been +uttered, and were giving the message for that day, notwithstanding +their mistaken view as to the events that would +follow.</p> + +<p>Just so the trumpet call of the coming judgment hour was +the message for the days of 1844; and the message was given, +attended by the power of God. When the hour was at hand, +the providence of God raised up faithful witnesses to proclaim +it.</p> + +<p>All this was preparatory to the rise of the definite advent +movement of the prophecy, when the hour of God's judgment +should begin.</p> + + +<h4>The Closing Work</h4> + +<p>In vision, on the Isle of Patmos, the prophet John was +given a view of the closing work of the gospel on earth, while +the closing ministry of Christ was proceeding in heaven above. +The prophet wrote:</p> + +<p>"I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having +the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the +earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and +people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory +to Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship +Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains +of waters." Rev. 14:6, 7.</p> + +<p>The message further warned against following the ways +of the great apostasy; and in the vision the prophet was shown +people in all lands taking their stand at the call of the message. +The angel described them in these words:</p> + +<p>"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that +keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." +Verse 12.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span></p> + +<p>Much as pictures appear to us when thrown in succession +upon a screen, these scenes must have passed before the vision +of the prophet. He saw the coming of the hour, the rise of +the movement, and its extension into all lands; he heard the +message sounding, and saw the kind of people doing the work—a +people keeping "the commandments of God, and the +faith of Jesus."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p243.jpg" width="448" height="297" alt="PAUL WRITING TO TIMOTHY +FROM ROME + +"There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, +which the Lord ... shall give me at that +day: and ... unto all them also that love His +appearing." 2 Tim. 4:8." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PAUL WRITING TO TIMOTHY +FROM ROME<br /> + +"There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, +which the Lord ... shall give me at that +day: and ... unto all them also that love His +appearing." 2 Tim. 4:8.</span> +</div> + +<p>Centuries had passed, after this word was written in the +Book, when the flight of time at last brought the hour of +the prophecy—the year 1844. That very year witnessed +the rise of the definite advent movement which is still proclaiming +the very message of the prophecy to the world.</p> + +<p>It was in the year 1844, in New England, that a little +group of believers in the blessed hope of Christ's soon coming, +saw clearly, from their study of the Bible, that the New Testament +platform of "the commandments of God, and the faith<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> +of Jesus," emphasized in this prophecy of the judgment hour, +meant the keeping of the fourth commandment as well as the +other nine. Thereupon they began to keep and to teach the +Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day of the week, made holy +and blessed and commanded by God.</p> + +<p>One member of this group of commandment-keeping Adventists +was Frederick Wheeler, from whose dictation the +following statement was prepared, fixing exactly the facts as +to the time:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"As a Methodist minister he was convinced of the advent truth by +reading William Miller's works in 1842, and joined in preaching the first +message [that of the judgment hour]. In March, 1844, he began to keep +the true Sabbath, in Washington, N.H."—<i>Review and Herald (Washington, +D.C.), Oct. 4, 1906.</i></p></div> + +<p>They were but a little band, those believers in New Hampshire, +but the time of the prophecy had come, and with the +coming of the hour there was the nucleus of the movement +forming, believers in the near coming of the Lord, preaching +the message of the prophecy, "The hour of His judgment +is come," and keeping "the commandments of God, and the +faith of Jesus."</p> + +<p>From that small beginning has grown the movement that +Seventh-day Adventists stand for, spreading through all the +world today.</p> + +<p>It was in the year following 1844 that Joseph Bates, of +Massachusetts, a retired sea captain, and a preacher of the +advent hope, began to keep the Sabbath. Captain Bates +wrote and published, and soon others, following his example, +embraced the Bible Sabbath.</p> + +<p>As the Scripture teaching concerning the sanctuary was +studied, light came flooding in. It was seen that the great +prophetic period of Daniel 8, which ended in 1844, marked +the opening of Christ's ministry in the most holy place of the +heavenly sanctuary, the work of the judgment hour in heaven; +and there, plainly revealed in Revelation 14, was a special<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> +gospel message to be carried to all the world while the judgment +hour still continued.</p> + +<p>The little company that began to keep the commandments +of God as Adventist believers in 1844, did not understand +that they were beginning the definite movement foretold +by the prophecy. They only determined to turn from +traditions that had made void God's law, and to obey the law +of the Most High, whose servants they were.</p> + +<p>But in the light of the Scripture prophecy and of events, +we can see clearly the hand of God leading that little baud +into the right pathway when the year of 1844 came; and the +work there begun has grown into the world-wide movement +of today.</p> + +<p>Nearly two thousand years before, it had been written in +the "sure word of prophecy" that when the hour of God's +judgment came, a people keeping God's commandments +would arise and spread forth into all the world with the last +gospel message. The long prophetic period of Daniel 8 had +fixed the year 1844 as the time when the judgment hour would +begin and when the people of the prophecy must appear.</p> + +<p>When the year came, that people appeared, keeping "the +commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." When the +hour struck, the work began. This advent movement was +born of God in fulfilment of prophecy. And the mission of +the movement is to lift up again the standard of truths obscured +by tradition and trodden underfoot, and to call all men +to the New Testament platform of the "commandments +of God, and the faith of Jesus," where every believing soul +may find safe refuge in these closing moments of the judgment +hour in the courts above.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p246.jpg" width="448" height="269" alt="A CHRISTIAN MOTHER EXHORTING HER +DAUGHTER TO MARTYRDOM + +"Choose you this day whom ye will serve;... as for me +and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15." title="" /> +<span class="caption">A CHRISTIAN MOTHER EXHORTING HER +DAUGHTER TO MARTYRDOM<br /> + +"Choose you this day whom ye will serve;... as for me +and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p247.jpg" width="445" height="282" alt="THE TWO BEASTS OF +REVELATION 13 + +"Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour +of His judgment is come." Rev. 14:7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE TWO BEASTS OF +REVELATION 13<br /> + +"Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour +of His judgment is come." Rev. 14:7.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_JUDGMENT-HOUR_MESSAGE" id="THE_JUDGMENT-HOUR_MESSAGE"></a>THE JUDGMENT-HOUR MESSAGE</h2> + +<h3>THE GOSPEL FOR OUR DAY</h3> + + +<p>The gospel message for this time of the judgment hour +is set forth in the vision of Revelation 14:</p> + +<p>"I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having +the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the +earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and +people, saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to +Him; for the hour of His judgment is come: and worship Him +that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains +of waters.</p> + +<p>"And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is +fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations +drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.</p> + +<p>"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud +voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive +his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall +drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span> +without mixture into the cup of His indignation; and he shall +be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the +holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: and the smoke +of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever: and they have +no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, +and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.</p> + +<p>"Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that +keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus." +Rev. 14:6-12.</p> + +<p>When this message has been heralded to all nations, according +to prophecy the end will come, for the next scene +brought before the prophet's vision was the coming of Christ +to reap the harvest of the earth:</p> + +<p>"I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud +one sat like unto the Son of man, having on His head a golden +crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle." Verse 14.</p> + +<p>The outline of the message given here reveals certain main +features:</p> + + +<h4>1. A Gospel Message</h4> + +<p>It is not a new or another gospel. There is but one gospel. +This message is "the everlasting gospel" in terms that meet +the situation in the time of the judgment hour. The advent +movement carries the blessed message of full salvation from +sin by faith in Jesus Christ.</p> + + +<h4>2. A Solemn Warning</h4> + +<p>The message is God's final answer to the age-long perversions +of His truth. Even the warnings uttered vibrate with +the saving grace and winning power of God's love in Christ +Jesus our Lord.</p> + +<p>In the vision of Daniel 8, the prophet was shown the +working of apostasy in the latter times, as it "cast down the +truth to the ground" and "practiced and prospered." But +in answer to the question, "How long?" the great prophetic +period of the 2300 years was given, at the end of which (in +1844) the judgment work in heaven was to begin. When that<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> +work is finished, Christ's glorious appearing will end the reign +of sin and error.</p> + +<p>And while the closing judgment work is proceeding in +heaven, this message of the judgment hour lifts up on earth +the standard of truths trodden underfoot, and the Lord utters +His last warning against sin and apostasy. It is a terrible +word that He speaks. Bengelius described it as—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"that threatening pronounced which is the greatest in all the Scriptures, +and which shall resound powerfully from the mouth of the third +angel."—<i>"Introduction +to Apocalypse," Preface xxix (London, 1757).</i></p></div> + +<p>The Lord is in earnest with men in this hour when the +judgment, now passing on the dead, must also soon seal the +eternal destiny of all the living. Hence the message challenges +every soul to a decision.</p> + +<p>Looking forward to the time when this message should +be due, John Wesley wrote:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Happy are they who make the right use of these divine messages."—<i>"Notes +on New Testament," on Revelation 14.</i></p></div> + +<p>These warnings are part of the "everlasting gospel." +Whosoever, therefore, preaches the full gospel of Christ in +these last days must sound this solemn call.</p> + + +<h4>3. A Call to Loyalty to God</h4> + +<p>"Fear God," is the call, "Worship Him." In the preceding +vision of the thirteenth chapter, the Lord had shown +the prophet the work of an ecclesiastical power, symbolized +by a leopardlike beast, that was to speak great things, and +that was to persecute believers through long centuries, warring +against God's truth and His sanctuary. "All the world +wondered after the beast." The prophet said,</p> + +<p>"All that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose +names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb." Rev. +13:8.</p> + +<p>While worldly influence and the voice of popular religion +exalt this ecclesiastical power and give glory to it, the gospel +message calls all men to worship God.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His +judgment is come: and worship Him.... If any man worship +the beast and his image, and receive his mark,<a name="FNanchor_I_9" id="FNanchor_I_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_I_9" class="fnanchor">[I]</a> ... +the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God."</p> + +<p>The issue, it is clear, involves the question of authority. +Shall God be recognized as supreme? or shall this ecclesiastical +power, whose rise and work were foretold in the prophecy, +be recognized as the great authority?</p> + + +<h4>The Work of the Papal Power</h4> + +<p>Any comparison between this leopard beast of Revelation +13 and the "little horn" of the fourth beast of Daniel 7, shows +plainly that the same power is represented in each. The same +voice is heard "speaking great things," the same persecuting +spirit is shown, the same warfare against God's truth. It is the +Roman Papacy, in its exaltation of human authority above the +divine, that "lawless one" of Paul's prophecy, setting itself +forth as God in the temple of God, treading underfoot the word +and the law of the Most High, as foretold by Daniel:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span></p> + +<p>"He shall speak great words against the Most High, and +shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to +change times and laws." Dan. 7:25.</p> + +<p>Against the recognition of the assumed authority of this +power, the gospel message of Revelation 14 sounds its solemn +warning: "If any man worship the beast and his image, and +receive his mark."</p> + + +<h4>The Image to the Papacy</h4> + +<p>What is this image? Plainly an image to the Papacy +must be some religious authority or federation not organically +of the Papacy itself, but adopting papal principles and +seeking to enforce these principles by civil power, just as the +Papacy has ever done, where possible. This development in +likeness of the Papacy was shown the prophet in the latter +part of the vision of Revelation 13. He saw the image formed, +and in vision witnessed its determined efforts to enforce upon +men the mark, or sign, of the Papacy:</p> + +<p>"He exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, +and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship +the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.... +And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free +and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their +foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that +had the mark, or the name of the beast." Rev. 13:12-17.</p> + + +<h4>The Mark, or Sign, of Papal Authority</h4> + +<p>The Roman Papacy sets forth the Sunday institution as +the mark of the authority of the church to substitute ecclesiastical +tradition and custom for the Word of God. Thus, +Monsignor Ségur, in "Plain Talks about the Protestantism of +Today," says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The observance of Sunday by Protestants is an homage they pay, in +spite of themselves, to the authority of the church."—<i>Page 213.</i></p></div> + +<p>It was to this change in the Sabbath by tradition, contrary +to the plain command of God to keep holy the seventh<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span> +day, that the famous Council of Trent appealed when it gave +Rome's answer to the Reformation cry of "The Bible and +the Bible only." The council had long debated the ground +of its answer. The historian says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Finally, at the last opening on the eighteenth of January, 1562, +their last scruple was set aside; the archbishop of Rheggio made a speech +in which he openly declared that tradition stood above Scripture. The +authority of the church could therefore not be bound to the authority of +the Scriptures, because the church had changed Sabbath into Sunday, +not by the command of Christ, but by its own authority. With this, to +be sure, the last illusion was destroyed, and it was declared that tradition +does not signify antiquity, but continual inspiration."—<i>Dr. J.H. Holtzman, +"Canon and Tradition," p. 263.</i></p></div> + +<p>Ever since this memorable council, the Sunday institution +has been held forth as the mark of the power of the church to +command religious observances. Thus, again, Keenan's "Doctrinal +Catechism" says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"<i>Question.</i>—Have you any other way of proving that the church has +power to institute festivals of precept?"</p> + +<p>"<i>Answer.</i>—Had she not such power, she could not have done that in +which all modern religionists agree with her,—she could not have substituted +the observance of Sunday, the first day of the week, for the observance +of Saturday, the seventh day, a change for which there is no +Scriptural authority."—<i>Page 174.</i></p></div> + +<p>The prophecy of Daniel declared that this power would +"think" to change the times and laws of the Most High; and +the change of the Sabbath commandment is set forth as the +mark of the church's authority above the written law of the +Most High.</p> + +<p>Most remarkable of all, Protestant organizations are defending +the unscriptural observance of the humanly established +first-day sabbath in contradiction to the law of God, +which declares that "the seventh day is the Sabbath of the +Lord thy God." And these organizations, in denial of the +Protestant principle of religious liberty, are seeking power +to enforce Sunday observance by civil law. But this is to +make a very image to the Roman Papacy—a church using +the power of the state to enforce religious observance.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was all foretold in the prophetic word. The prophet +was shown (Rev. 13:11-17) this likeness or image to the +Papacy—ecclesiastical organizations not of the Papacy itself, +but following papal principles in this matter—seeking +to compel men to receive the mark of the papal apostasy.</p> + +<p>Against the workings of both the Papacy and this image +to the Papacy, the last message of the "everlasting gospel" +lifts its warning cry:</p> + +<p>"If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive +his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink +of the wine of the wrath of God."</p> + +<p>It is the time of the judgment hour, when God was to lift +up the standard of truths long trodden underfoot. In the +heavenly sanctuary Christ's closing judgment work is going +forward, preparatory to His coming in consuming glory to end +the reign of sin. On earth the Lord is sending the last gospel +message to men, warning against sin and error, and calling +all men to worship God, and to keep "the commandments of +God, and the faith of Jesus."</p> + + +<h4>The Sign of Jehovah's Authority</h4> + +<p>God also has His sign, or mark, of authority. He bases +His claims to supreme authority upon the fact of His creative +power. As Creator, His is the authority and the power.</p> + +<p>"The Lord is the true God.... He hath made the +earth by His power." Jer. 10:10-12.</p> + +<p>And the divinely established memorial of this creative +power is the holy Sabbath. The Sabbath is the mark, or sign, +of the true God:</p> + +<p>"Hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between +Me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your +God." Eze. 20:20.</p> + +<p>On one side is the mark, or sign, of apostasy from God; +on the other the mark, or sign, of loyalty to God. Which +mark will men receive, as the issue is pressed upon every soul<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span> +for decision? On which side shall we stand? Under whose +banner shall we be found when the judgment hour closes?</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p254.jpg" width="444" height="305" alt="PILATE'S FATAL DECISION IN +THE HOUR OF TRIAL + +"Pilate saith unto them, What shall I +do then with Jesus which is called +Christ?" Matt. 27:22." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PILATE'S FATAL DECISION IN +THE HOUR OF TRIAL<br /> + +"Pilate saith unto them, What shall I +do then with Jesus which is called +Christ?" Matt. 27:22.</span> +</div> + +<p>The test that came to Pilate comes anew to men as Christ's +message presses for acceptance. "What shall I do then with +Jesus?" asked the Roman governor—and yielded to popular +clamor. His fatal decision in the time of testing warns us +to decide for Christ and for the word of his salvation now, in +this hour of God's judgment.</p> + +<p>The message of Rev. 14:6-14 is going to all the world now. +Every year thousands of new voices join in telling it. Printing +presses are printing it in many languages. Schools and +colleges in every continent are educating thousands of Seventh-day +Adventist youth, keeping before them, as the highest +aim of life, the hastening of the advent message to the world. +Sanitariums in many lands, while training medical missionary +evangelists, are at the same time ministering to the sick,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span> +and teaching the principles of Bible health and temperance. +The movement necessarily emphasizes every principle of "the +everlasting gospel," while pressing upon all the solemn issue +that loyalty to Christ now means to turn from unscriptural +tradition and custom to the commandments of God and the +faith of Jesus. However ancient the custom of observing Sunday, +it is but an innovation, setting aside the Word of God and +the example of Jesus Christ. As St. Cyprian said: "Usage +without truth is only an antiquated error." The clear light +of Holy Scripture now calls the believer away from the path +of error to the way of light.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The older error is, it is the worse,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Continuation may provoke a curse;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If the Dark Age obscured our fathers' sight,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Must their sons shut their eyes against the light?"<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Bishop Ken.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>In times past Christian believers have been unwittingly +following the lead of the Papacy in this matter. The Lord +holds no man accountable for light that he did not have. +Reformation is a progressive work. Of the past we may +say with Paul:</p> + +<p>"The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now +commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because He hath +appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in +righteousness." Acts 17:30, 31.</p> + +<p>Now, with this "hour of God's judgment" already come, +the entire covering of papal tradition is to be torn aside, and +when Jesus comes in glory, in every land will be found believers +having the faith and keeping the commandments of +God.</p> + +<p>All this was shown to John on the Isle of Patmos,—the +coming of the judgment hour, the rise of the advent movement, +and the heralding of the last message to the nations.</p> + +<p>What John saw in vision nearly two thousand years ago, +we see fulfilling before our eyes today. But it is not enough +to see it; we must have a part in it, be a part of it.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 304px;"> +<img src="images/p256.jpg" width="304" height="448" alt="LUCIFER PLOTTING AGAINST +THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD + +"I will exalt my throne above the stars +of God;... I will be like the Most +High." Isa. 14:13, 14" title="" /> +<span class="caption">LUCIFER PLOTTING AGAINST +THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD<br /> + +"I will exalt my throne above the stars +of God;... I will be like the Most +High." Isa. 14:13, 14</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_I_9" id="Footnote_I_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_I_9"><span class="label">[I]</span></a> +The use of a mark, or sign, to designate the divinity worshiped, is common +in non-Christian religions. One may see the Hindu returning from the +temple with the mark of Vishnu or other deity freshly painted upon the forehead. +Of the ancient usage, from which this Bible symbol of the "mark" is +taken, Dr. John Potter says, in his "Antiquities of Greece:" +</p><p> +"Slaves were not only branded with stigmata for a punishment of their +offenses, but (which was the common end of these marks) to distinguish them, +in case they should desert their masters; for which purpose it was common +to brand their soldiers; only with this difference, that whereas slaves were +commonly stigmatized in their forehead, and with the name or some peculiar +character belonging to their masters, soldiers were branded in the hand, and +with the name or character of their general. After the same manner, it was +likewise customary to stigmatize the worshipers and votaries of some of the +gods: whence Lucian, speaking of the votaries of the Syrian goddess, affirms, +'They were all branded with certain marks, some in the palms of their hands, +and others in their necks: whence it became customary for all the Assyrians +thus to stigmatize themselves.' And Theodoret is of opinion that the Jews +were forbidden to brand themselves with stigmata [Lev. 19:28], because the +idolaters by that ceremony used to consecrate themselves to their false deities. +</p><p> +"The marks used on these occasions were various. Sometimes they contained +the name of the god, sometimes his particular ensign; such were the +thunderbolt of Jupiter, the trident of Neptune, the ivy of Bacchus: whence +Ptolemy Philopater was by some nicknamed Gallus, because his body was +marked with the figures of ivy leaves. Or, lastly, they marked themselves +with some mystical number, whereby the god's name was described. Thus +the sun, which was signified by the number DCVIII, is said to have been +represented +by these two numeral letters XH (Conf. Martianus Capello). These +three ways of stigmatizing are all expressed by St. John in the book of +Revelation: +'And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and +bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that +no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, +or the number of his name.'"—<i>Vol. I, pp. 65, 66 (London, 1728).</i></p></div></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_257" id="Page_257">[Pg 257]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p257.jpg" width="448" height="282" alt="SATAN ENTERS THE GARDEN OF EDEN + +"The wages of sin is death." +Rom. 6:23." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SATAN ENTERS THE GARDEN OF EDEN<br /> + +"The wages of sin is death." +Rom. 6:23.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_ORIGIN_OF_EVIL" id="THE_ORIGIN_OF_EVIL"></a>THE ORIGIN OF EVIL</h2> + + +<p>The Beginning of the Great Controversy Between +Christ and Satan</p> + +<p>The great controversy between good and evil, that has +been waged on earth ever since man's fall, had its origin in +heaven. Certain angels rebelled against God and His government.</p> + +<p>"There was war in heaven: Michael and His angels fought +against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, +and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more +in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, +called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole +world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were +cast out with him." Rev. 12:7-9.</p> + +<p>Thus came the forces of evil into this world, which have +been working through all the ages to draw men from allegiance +to God, and to infuse into human hearts the same spirit of +disobedience which wrought the ruin of Satan and his angels.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_258" id="Page_258">[Pg 258]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Cause of the Downfall</h4> + +<p>Christ stated the principle: "If therefore the light that is +in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" Matt. 6:23.</p> + +<p>The principle finds its utmost application in the great +reversal, by which Lucifer, the light bearer in heaven, became +Satan, the adversary, the prince of darkness.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p258.jpg" width="448" height="335" alt="CHRIST AND NICODEMUS + +"Except a man be born again, he cannot see +the kingdom of God." John 3:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST AND NICODEMUS<br /> + +"Except a man be born again, he cannot see +the kingdom of God." John 3:3.</span> +</div> + +<p>In the pride and self-exaltation of Tyre, of old, the Lord +saw manifested the spirit of the god of this world; so, in declaring +His message of rebuke to the prince of Tyre, the Lord +describes the cause and history of Satan's fall:</p> + +<p>"Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God.... Thou +art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee +so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast +walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. Thou +wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_259" id="Page_259">[Pg 259]</a></span> +till iniquity was found in thee.... Thine heart was lifted +up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom +by reason of thy brightness." Eze. 28:13-17.</p> + +<p>Likewise, in the swelling pride of Babylon the Lord recognized +the spirit of the leader of the rebellious angels. In +one of the messages to Babylon is this reference to the vaulting +ambition of Lucifer in heaven:</p> + +<p>"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer ["day-star," +margin], son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the +ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said +in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne +above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the +congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above +the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High." +Isa. 14:12-14.</p> + +<p>Lucifer, his powers now perverted to evil, deceived many +of the angels, persuading them to join him in rebellion against +the government of God; with the result that Satan and all +his host were cast out. Christ said, "I beheld Satan as lightning +fall from heaven." Luke 10:18.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Him the Almighty Power<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + +<h4>The Earth as the Battle Ground</h4> + +<p>Then the great controversy which began in heaven was +transferred to this earth, and now centers around man. For +"that old serpent," the leader of the fallen angels, deceived +man, and persuaded him to distrust God and to choose his +own way in preference to God's way. Thus came sin and +death into the world. And Satan, who had overcome man +at the forbidden tree, became by his own usurpation and by +man's perfidy, "the prince of this world."</p> + +<p>But Christ gave himself to save man, to deliver him from +the bondage of sin, and to restore him to the glorious liberty +of the sons of God. The same mighty power that overcame +Satan and his angels in heaven is able to overcome his power +in human hearts and lives. The controversy is still between +Christ and Satan, and man's salvation or destruction is the +aim of the contending forces.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_260" id="Page_260">[Pg 260]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p260.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="THE REDEMPTION PRICE + +"That through death He might destroy him that had the +power of death, that is, the devil." Heb. 2:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE REDEMPTION PRICE<br /> + +"That through death He might destroy him that had the +power of death, that is, the devil." Heb. 2:14.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_261" id="Page_261">[Pg 261]</a></span></p> + +<p>There is no neutral ground. Every soul must choose as +to which side he will yield allegiance. In this choice lies +his eternal destiny.</p> + +<p>"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants +to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin +unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Rom. 6:16.</p> + +<p>Therefore the Lord pleads with men, "Choose life." +Every soul that chooses life has the promise of it, for Christ +"is able ... to save them to the uttermost that come unto +God by Him." Heb. 7:25.</p> + + +<h4>The Judgment upon Satan</h4> + +<p>From the time of Satan's rebellion it was assured, by the +very omnipotence of God, that there would come a last +judgment when evil would be destroyed from the universe. +This execution of judgment upon the fallen angels is thus referred +to by Jude:</p> + +<p>"The angels which kept not their first estate, but left +their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains +under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Verse 6.</p> + +<p>The evil spirits themselves know that this day is coming. +When Christ was about to cast certain of them out of one who +was possessed, they cried out, "Art Thou come hither to +torment us before the time?" Matt. 8:29.</p> + +<p>Though the judgment of that last day was originally set +for Satan and his angels, unrepentant men will have a part +in it, because they have joined Satan in his lawless rebellion. +To the wicked it will be said:</p> + +<p>"Depart from Me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared +for the devil and his angels." Matt. 25:41.</p> + +<p>Satan sees that the day is hastening; and the shorter the +time in which to work, the greater his fury in seeking to draw +souls to perdition.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_262" id="Page_262">[Pg 262]</a></span></p> + +<p>The warning comes to us in these last days:</p> + +<p>"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for +the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because +he knoweth that he hath but a short time." Rev. 12:12.</p> + +<p>Christ's second coming ends the reign of Satan in this +world. The wicked are slain by the consuming glory of +Christ's coming (2 Thess. 2:8); and the righteous are taken +to heaven, beyond the reach of Satan's arts (1 Thess. 4:16, +17). The archenemy and his angels are thus left upon an +earth devoid of human beings. Here he is chained for a +thousand years, in this pit of desolation (Rev. 20:2, 5), his +only companions the angels who fell with him, his only occupation +the contemplation of the ruin he has wrought and the +destruction that still awaits him.</p> + +<p>By the second resurrection—that of the wicked dead, +after the thousand years—Satan is again set free to ply his +arts upon his subjects. As the holy city comes down out of +heaven from God, with all the saints, Satan gathers his angels +and all the forces of the lost of all the ages, to make an +assault upon the city. The result was shown to the prophet +in vision:</p> + +<p>"They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: +and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured +them. And the devil that deceiveth them was cast into the +lake of fire." Rev. 20:9, 10.</p> + +<p>That is the fate awaiting the author of sin. In the account +of Satan's pride and self-exaltation, uttered by the +prophet in the message to Tyre, there occurs also this prophecy +of the utter destruction that awaits him, when he shall +bring his forces against the city of God in that last conflict:</p> + +<p>"I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of +all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among +the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, +and never shalt thou be any more." Eze. 28:18, 19.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_263" id="Page_263">[Pg 263]</a></span></p> + +<p>This is the final victory of Christ over evil, in the great +controversy that began in heaven. Satan exalted himself—and +lost. Christ humbled Himself, even unto the death—and +won the eternal triumph.</p> + +<p>"Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh +and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; +that through death He might destroy him that had the power +of death, that is, the devil." Heb. 2:14.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p263.jpg" width="444" height="331" alt="JESUS BY THE SEA + + +"O Galilee, sweet Galilee, +What mem'ries rise at thought of thee!"" title="" /> +<span class="caption">JESUS BY THE SEA<br /> + + +"O Galilee, sweet Galilee, +What mem'ries rise at thought of thee!"</span> +</div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_264" id="Page_264">[Pg 264]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p264.jpg" width="297" height="448" alt="SAUL AND THE WITCH +OF ENDOR + +"When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them +that have familiar spirits,... should not a +people seek unto their God?" Isa. 8:19." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SAUL AND THE WITCH +OF ENDOR<br /> + +"When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them +that have familiar spirits,... should not a +people seek unto their God?" Isa. 8:19.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_265" id="Page_265">[Pg 265]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p265.jpg" width="448" height="295" alt="SATAN'S FIRST LIE + +"Ye shall not surely die." Gen. 3:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">SATAN'S FIRST LIE<br /> + +"Ye shall not surely die." Gen. 3:4.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="SPIRITUALISM_ANCIENT_AND_MODERN" id="SPIRITUALISM_ANCIENT_AND_MODERN"></a>SPIRITUALISM: ANCIENT AND MODERN</h2> + + +<p>The essential claim of Spiritualism is its assertion of +power to hold communication with the spirits of the dead; or +rather, it claims to have demonstrated that really there is +no death.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"There is no death;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">What seems so is transition."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The late Prof. Alfred Russel Wallace, the English scientist, +said of Spiritualism:—</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It demonstrates, as completely as the fact can be demonstrated, +that the so-called dead are still alive."—<i>"On Miracles and Modern +Spiritualism" +(London, 1875), p. 212.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>First Declaration of the Doctrine</h4> + +<p>In the very first book of the Bible is a similar claim: "Ye +shall not surely die." Gen. 3:4.</p> + +<p>But this declaration, while recorded in the Scriptures, is +not the word of God. The Lord had declared to man that +disobedience would bring death. But Satan, as the tempter +in Eden, caused the woman to doubt the word of God: "The<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_266" id="Page_266">[Pg 266]</a></span> +serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die." And +the woman believed the tempter rather than God, and so +sinned against the Creator.</p> + +<p>Having tempted man to disobedience, so bringing death +into the world, what more natural, in the course of deception, +than to endeavor to persuade the human family that, after +all, there is no death; that what appears so is only an introduction +to fuller life and activity? "Ye shall not surely die."</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p266.jpg" width="445" height="283" alt="PHARAOH'S SORCERERS COUNTERFEITING +THE WORK OF GOD + +"Now the magicians of Egypt, they also +did in like manner with their enchantments." +Ex. 7:11." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PHARAOH'S SORCERERS COUNTERFEITING +THE WORK OF GOD<br /> + +"Now the magicians of Egypt, they also +did in like manner with their enchantments." +Ex. 7:11.</span> +</div> + +<p>As mankind departed from right and lost the knowledge +of God, dead heroes were deified as gods, and much of the +pagan worship consisted in sacrifices to the spirits of the dead, +supposed to be living still and concerned with affairs in the +land of the living. When Israel fell away from God and +joined the Moabites in the worship of Baal-peor, the record +says of the nature of the service:</p> + +<p>"They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate +the sacrifices of the dead." "Yea, they sacrificed their sons +and their daughters unto devils." Ps. 106:28, 37.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_267" id="Page_267">[Pg 267]</a></span></p> + +<p>Instead of dealing with the spirits of the dead, the idolatrous +worshipers were really putting themselves in direct +touch with the agencies of Satan, the fallen angels.</p> + + +<h4>Divine Warnings</h4> + +<p>This explains the severity of the divine warnings against the +ancient practice of necromancy, or mediumship. The Lord said:</p> + +<p>"Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek +after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your +God." Lev. 19:31.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p267.jpg" width="448" height="329" alt="DEMONISM IN THE DAYS +OF CHRIST + +"He said unto him, Come out of the man, +thou unclean spirit." Mark 5:8." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DEMONISM IN THE DAYS +OF CHRIST<br /> + +"He said unto him, Come out of the man, +thou unclean spirit." Mark 5:8.</span> +</div> + +<p>"When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy +God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations +of those nations. There shall not be found among you +any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through +the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or +an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_268" id="Page_268">[Pg 268]</a></span> +familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do +these things are an abomination unto the Lord." Deut. 18:9-12.</p> + +<p>The ancient séance, where the living sought unto the dead +for knowledge, was denounced by the prophet Isaiah:</p> + +<p>"When they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that +have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and +that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on +behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead?" Isa. +8:19, A.R.V.</p> + +<p>"To the law and to the testimony!" the prophet cries. +To seek unto the dead for knowledge is to turn from the law +and the testimony, and to take the counsel of the direct agencies +of Satan, the great deceiver.</p> + + +<h4>Modern Spiritualism</h4> + +<p>What Spiritualism is may best be understood by the prophetic +warnings concerning the revival of this great deception +in the last days. The apostle spoke of these days as a time +when seducing spirits would lead many away from the faith:</p> + +<p>"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter +times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing +spirits, and doctrines of devils." 1 Tim. 4:1.</p> + +<p>This deceptive working is an indication of the nearness +of Christ's second coming:</p> + +<p>"Whose coming is according to the working of Satan +with all power and signs and lying wonders." 2 Thess. 2:9, +A.R.V.</p> + +<p>True to the sure word, now that the last days have come, +there has arisen the movement of modern Spiritualism, with +its signs and wonders, purporting to be wrought by the spirits +of the dead. Professor Wallace says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Modern Spiritualism dates from March, 1848; it being then that, +for the first time, intelligent communications were held with the unknown +cause of the mysterious knockings and other sounds similar to those which +had disturbed the Mompesson and Wesley families in the seventeenth +and eighteenth centuries."—<i>"On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism" +(London, 1875), p. 146.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_269" id="Page_269">[Pg 269]</a></span></p> + +<p>It was in Hydeville, N.Y., in the family of Mr. Fox, that +the modern cult originated, it being found that by mysterious +but clear sounds of knocking, unseen intelligences were +able to communicate answers to questions asked. The rapidity +of the spread of the great deception was remarkable. +One of the Fox sisters, Mrs. A. Leah Underhill, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Since that day, starting from a small country village of western +New York, Spiritualism has made its way—against tremendous obstacles +and resistance, but under an impulse and a guidance from higher spheres—round +the civilized globe. Starting from three sisters, two of them +children, and the eldest a little beyond that age,... its ranks of believers, +privately or publicly avowed, have grown within thirty-six years to +millions."—<i>"The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism," Introduction.</i></p></div> + +<p>Many at the time thought, as have many since, that the +"rappings" with which the manifestations began were caused +by some trickery on the part of the Fox sisters, but men of +unimpeachable standing and intelligence certified to the contrary. +Horace Greeley, famous editor of the New York <i>Tribune</i>, +wrote in his paper that the sisters had visited him in his +home and courted the fullest investigation as to "the alleged +manifestations from the spirit world." As the result of his +observations, he wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Whatever may be the origin or the cause of the 'rappings,' the ladies +in whose presence they occur do not make them. We tested this thoroughly +and to our entire satisfaction."—<i>Id., pp. 160, 161.</i></p></div> + +<p>It was no mere sleight of hand that launched this cult +upon the world as the last days came. Beyond all the physical +manifestations, the religious idea in Spiritualism has leavened +the religious thought of millions. No one can deny that the +basic idea is the one that the serpent promulgated in Eden, +"Ye shall not surely die."</p> + +<p>Mrs. Emma Hardinge Britten, another of the Fox sisters, +says of the discovery of 1848:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"On the night of the thirty-first of March, 1848, we found beyond +a shadow of a doubt or peradventure, that death had no power over the +spirit.... In a word, we found our so-called dead were all living."—<i>"Nineteenth +Century Miracles" (Manchester, England), p. 554.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_270" id="Page_270">[Pg 270]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p270.jpg" width="448" height="268" alt="THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT + +One of the historical settings of Spiritualism. A poor woman +accused by her neighbors of practicing witchcraft." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT<br /> + +One of the historical settings of Spiritualism. A poor woman +accused by her neighbors of practicing witchcraft.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271">[Pg 271]</a></span></p> + +<p>Now the Scriptures teach plainly what these agencies in +Spiritualism are not, and what they are.</p> + + +<h4>What They Are Not</h4> + +<p>They are not the spirits of the dead communicating messages +to the living.</p> + +<p>In one of the earliest written portions of Holy Scripture, +the Lord declared plainly that the dead have no knowledge +of the living:</p> + +<p>"He passeth: Thou changest his countenance, and sendest +him away. His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it +not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of +them." Job 14:20, 21.</p> + +<p>The dead have no part in any communications with the +living on earth:</p> + +<p>"Neither have they any more a portion forever in anything +that is done under the sun." Eccl. 9:6</p> + + +<h4>What They Are</h4> + +<p>Already we have told what they are in quoting the warnings +of prophecy concerning the special deceptions of Satan +in the last days.</p> + +<p>"The working of Satan with all power and signs and lying +wonders." 2 Thess. 2:9.</p> + +<p>"Seducing spirits." 1 Tim. 4:1.</p> + +<p>And as they were shown to the prophet John in a vision +of the very end, he declared:</p> + +<p>"They are the spirits of devils, working miracles." Rev. +16:14.</p> + +<p>These are the agencies through which come the supernatural +manifestations of Spiritualism. It is a terrible deception +that leads men and women to seek to satanic agencies, +supposing that they are communicating with the spirits of +their dead friends. Satan and his angels can readily simulate +the personality of the dead, and so deceive those who +disobey God in seeking to the dead for knowledge.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272">[Pg 272]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Climax of Deception</h4> + +<p>That the marvels of Spiritualism would increase as the +end nears, was plainly taught by our Saviour in describing +the workings of Satan just before the second advent. He left +us the warning:</p> + +<p>"Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, +or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, +and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; +insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very +elect." Matt. 24:23, 24.</p> + +<p>Evidently, then, by the miracle-working power that he +possesses, Satan will work mighty deceptions through both +human and supernatural agencies. And the crowning deception +will be his own manifestation as the Promised One, +simulating Christ's second coming. But the power and glory +that will fill all earth and the heavens at Christ's coming, +cannot be copied by Satan, with all his miracle-working skill. +That is why it is so important that we understand the Bible +teaching as to the nature and manner of Christ's second advent. +The doctrine of the silent, secret, mystical coming is +all abroad in the world, the teaching exactly calculated to +prepare the way for Satan's purposes of deception. Therefore +Christ forewarns us:</p> + +<p>"Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall +say unto you, Behold, He is in the desert; go not forth: behold, +He is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as +the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto +the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." +Matt. 24:25-27.</p> + +<p>The teachings of ancient theosophy and spiritualism—the +mysticism of the East—have been permeating Christendom +in recent years. Mme. Jean Delaire, writing in a London +review, said some years ago:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"India has apparently still a mission to fulfil, for her thought is slowly +beginning to mold the thought of Europe and of America; our keenest<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273">[Pg 273]</a></span> +minds are today studying her philosophy; our New Theology is founded +upon the old, old Vedanta."—<i>National Review, September, 1908, p. 131.</i></p></div> + +<p>This flood of ancient spiritualism from the East has come +about according to Isaiah's prophecy of things that were to +"come to pass in the latter days:"</p> + +<p>"Thou hast forsaken Thy people the house of Jacob, because +they are filled with customs from the East, and are +soothsayers like the Philistines." Isa. 2:6, A.R.V.</p> + +<p>In 1909 one of the leading representatives of theosophical +thought, Mrs. Annie Besant, of India, toured America with +the message of a coming messiah. She announced:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"My message is very simple: 'Prepare for the coming Christ.' We +stand at the cradle of a new subrace, and each race or subrace has its +own messiah. Hermes is followed by Zoroaster; Zoroaster by Orpheus; +Orpheus by Buddha; Buddha by Christ. We now await with confidence +a manifestation of the Supreme Teacher of the world, who was last manifested +in Palestine. Everywhere in the West, not less than in the East, +the heart of man is throbbing with the glad expectation of the new avatar."</p></div> + +<p>The leaven of the spiritualistic philosophy has been working +its way through Christendom during this generation. We +see clearly that the evil one is preparing the way for his final +work of deception.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p273.jpg" width="448" height="237" alt="HOME OF THE FOX FAMILY, +HYDESVILLE, N.Y. + +Spiritualism originated in this house +March 31, 1848." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HOME OF THE FOX FAMILY, +HYDESVILLE, N.Y.<br /> + +Spiritualism originated in this house +March 31, 1848.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274">[Pg 274]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 294px;"> +<img src="images/p274.jpg" width="294" height="443" alt=""HE IS RISEN" + +"Because I live, ye shall live +also." John 14:19. + +COPYRIGHT, STANDARD PUB. CO." title="" /> +<span class="caption">"HE IS RISEN"<br /> + +"Because I live, ye shall live +also." John 14:19.<br /> + +COPYRIGHT, STANDARD PUB. CO.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275">[Pg 275]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p275.jpg" width="442" height="279" alt="MARY MEETS HER RISEN LORD + +"He that believeth in Me, though he +were dead, yet shall he live." John +11:25." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MARY MEETS HER RISEN LORD<br /> + +"He that believeth in Me, though he +were dead, yet shall he live." John +11:25.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="LIFE_ONLY_IN_CHRIST" id="LIFE_ONLY_IN_CHRIST"></a>LIFE ONLY IN CHRIST</h2> + +<h3>MAN'S NATURE AND STATE IN DEATH</h3> + + +<p>A wide-open door for Spiritualism is afforded by the +teaching that man has life in himself—immortality by nature; +and that death is not really death, but another form +of life.</p> + +<p>The Scriptures close this door of false hope, teaching us +that man is mortal, that death is really death, and that +immortality is the gift of God through Christ by the resurrection +from the dead.</p> + +<p>Clearly and definitely the Bible teaches that God only +has immortality, styling Him "the blessed and only Potentate, +the King of kings, and Lord of lords; who only hath +immortality." 1 Tim. 6:15, 16.</p> + +<p>This scripture disposes of every idea that man is immortal +by nature, and opens the way for a consideration of the +Scripture teaching concerning man's nature, his state in +death, and the promise of life and immortality in Christ.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276">[Pg 276]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Man by Nature Mortal</h4> + +<p>The word "mortal," as used in that ancient question by +Eliphaz, describes man's nature:</p> + +<p>"Shall mortal man be more just than God?" Job 4:17.</p> + +<p>In the creation, life was conditional upon the creature's +relation to Christ the Creator, in whom all things consist:</p> + +<p>"All things were made by Him; and without Him was not +anything made that was made. In Him was life." John 1:3,4.</p> + +<p>He was, and is, as the psalmist says, "the fountain of life." +Cut off from vital connection with Him, there could be no continuance +of life. The Lord warned Adam that his life was +conditional upon obedience. "In the day that thou eatest +thereof," He said of the forbidden tree, "thou shalt surely +die." Gen. 2:17. It was a declaration that man was not +immortal, but was dependent upon God for life.</p> + +<p>When by unbelief and sin man rejected God, the sentence—death +eternal—must have been executed had not the plan +of salvation intervened. But as the stroke of divine justice +was falling upon the sinner, the Son of God interposed Himself +and received the blow. "He was bruised for our iniquities." +In the divine plan, the great sacrifice for man was +as sure then as when, later, it was actually made on Calvary. +Christ was "the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."</p> + +<p>And there Adam, the sinner, now with a fallen human +nature, which would be perpetuated in his descendants in +all subsequent time, was granted an extension of life, every +moment of which, whether for him or for his posterity, was +the purchase of Christ by His own death, in order that in +this time of probation man might find forgiveness of sin +and assurance of life to come. Adam was not created immortal, +but was placed on probation, and had he continued +faithful, the gift of immortality must have been given him +at some later time, after he had passed the test. As the +original plan is carried out through Christ, "the second Adam," +the gift of immortality is bestowed finally upon all who pass<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277">[Pg 277]</a></span> +the test of the judgment and are found in Christ, in whom +alone is life.</p> + +<p>Having fallen, Adam, now possessed of a sinful nature, must +die. "The wages of sin is death." Rom. 6:23. It was impossible +that sin or sinners should be immortalized in God's +universe. So, inasmuch as the tree of life in Eden had been +made the channel of continuance of life to man, the Lord said:</p> + +<p>"Now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the +tree of life, and eat, and live forever: therefore the Lord God +sent him forth from the garden of Eden." Gen. 3:22, 23.</p> + +<p>This negatives the idea that there could ever be an immortal +sinner, who should mar God's creation forever. Sin +works out nothing but death. "Sin, when it is finished, bringeth +forth death." James 1:15. Fallen himself, Adam could +bequeath to his posterity only a fallen, mortal nature. So +began the sad history summed up in the text:</p> + +<p>"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, +and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that +all have sinned." Rom. 5:12.</p> + + +<h4>Mortality Universal</h4> + +<p>Mortality is written upon all creation. Ages ago the wise +man wrote, "There is one event unto all: ... they go to the +dead." Eccl. 9:3. Human hearts everywhere and in all +time have cried out against the remorselessness of the great +enemy. "Do people die with you?" was the question met by +Livingstone in the untraveled wilds of Africa. "Have you no +charm against death?" The Greek as well as the barbarian +confessed to the helplessness of man before the great enemy. +Centuries before Christ, Sophocles the Athenian wrote:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Wonders are many! and none is there greater than man, who<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Steers his ship over the sea, driven on by the south wind,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Cleaving the threatening swell of the waters around him.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He captures the gay-hearted birds; he entangles adroitly<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Creatures that live on the land and the brood of the ocean,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Spreading his well-woven nets. Man full of devices!<br /></span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278">[Pg 278]</a></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Speech and swift thought free as wind, the building of cities;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Shelters to ward off the arrows of rain, and to temper<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Sharp-biting frost—all these hath he taught himself. Surely<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Stratagem hath he for all that comes! Never the future<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Finds him resourceless! Deftly he combats grievous diseases,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Oft from their grip doth he free himself. Death alone vainly—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Vainly he seeks to escape; 'gainst death he is helpless."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Chorus from Antigone.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>What unspeakable pathos in the cry of humanity's helplessness +before death, the great enemy! But when Adam +went out of Eden, it was with the assurance of life from the +dead through the promised Seed, if faithful. It is the message +of the one gospel for all time—everlasting life in Christ.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p278.jpg" width="448" height="285" alt="JESUS RAISING THE SON OF +THE WIDOW OF NAIN + +"The gift of God is eternal life through +Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:23." title="" /> +<span class="caption">JESUS RAISING THE SON OF +THE WIDOW OF NAIN<br /> + +"The gift of God is eternal life through +Jesus Christ our Lord." Rom. 6:23.</span> +</div> + +<p>"God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten +Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but +have everlasting life." John 3:16.</p> + +<p>As there is none other name under heaven by which men +can be saved, so there is no other way of everlasting life or +immortality, save in Christ Jesus our Lord.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279">[Pg 279]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>When Immortality is Bestowed</h4> + +<p>Christ said, "I am the resurrection, and the life: he that +believeth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." +John 11:25.</p> + +<p>He has turned death, that would have been eternal, into a +little time of sleep, from which he will awaken the believer. +In the resurrection of the last day immortality is bestowed, +"in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last +trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be +raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this +corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must +put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have +put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, +then shall be brought to pass the saying that is +written, Death is swallowed up in victory." 1 Cor. 15:52-54.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"There is a blessed hope,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">More precious and more bright<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Than all the joyless mockery<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The world esteems delight.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"There is a lovely star<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That lights the darkest gloom,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And sheds a peaceful radiance o'er<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The prospects of the tomb."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Not until the resurrection, "at the last trump," is immortality +conferred upon the redeemed. Note that it is not +something immortal putting on immortality; but this "mortal" +puts on immortality. Mark this: there is no life after +death, save by the resurrection. "If there be no resurrection +of the dead,... then they also which are fallen asleep in +Christ are perished." 1 Cor. 15:13-18.</p> + +<p>This resurrection, as stated by the apostle Paul, is not at +death, but in the last day, when Christ shall come, and all +His children that are in their graves shall hear His voice. +Jesus says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280">[Pg 280]</a></span></p> + +<p>"This is the will of Him that sent Me, that every one +which seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting +life: and I will raise him up at the last day." John 6:40.</p> + +<p>That is why the coming of Christ has been the "blessed +hope" of all the ages.</p> + + +<h4>Man's State in Death</h4> + +<p>Between death and the resurrection, the dead sleep. Jesus +declares that death is a sleep. Lazarus was dead, but Jesus +said, "Our friend Lazarus sleepeth." John 11:11. It is the +language of Inspiration throughout. The patriarch Job said:</p> + +<p>"Man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the +ghost, and where is he? As the waters fail from the sea, +and the flood decayeth and drieth up: so man lieth down, +and riseth not: till the heavens be no more [the heavens will +be rolled back as a scroll at Christ's coming], they shall not +awake, nor be raised out of their sleep." Job 14:10-12.</p> + +<p>This hope of the resurrection at the last day was no indistinct +hope to the believer in God's promises. The patriarch +continued:</p> + +<p>"If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed +time will I wait, till my change come. Thou shalt +call, and I will answer thee: Thou wilt have a desire to the +work of Thine hands." Verses 14, 15.</p> + +<p>Job tells us of the place of his waiting for the Life-giver's +call: "If I wait, the grave is mine house." Job 17:13. It is +thence that Christ will call His own when He comes. "The +hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves +shall hear His voice, and shall come forth." John 5:28, 29.</p> + +<p>Death is an unconscious sleep. It must of necessity be +so; for death is the opposite of life. Therefore there is no consciousness +of the passing of time to those who sleep in the +grave. It is as if the eyes closed in death one instant, and +the next instant, to the believer's consciousness, he awakens +to hear the animating voice of Jesus calling him to glad immortality, +and to see the angels catching up his loved ones +to meet Jesus in the air.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281">[Pg 281]</a></span></p> + +<p>These scriptures, out of many, will suffice to show that +man is not conscious in death:</p> + +<p>"His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in +that very day his thoughts perish." Ps. 146:4.</p> + +<p>"The living know that they shall die: but the dead know +not anything.... Also their love, and their hatred, and their +envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion +forever in anything that is done under the sun." Eccl. 9:5, 6.</p> + +<p>Death is a sleep, which will continue until the resurrection. +Then the Lord will bring forth from the dust the same +person who was laid away in death.</p> + +<p>Some have said that this Bible doctrine of the sleep of the +dead until the resurrection is a gloomy one. Popular tradition +thinks of the blessed dead as going at once to heaven, +which, say some, is a beautiful thought. But they forget +that the same teaching consigns their unbelieving friends to +immediate torment—and that, too, while awaiting the judgment +of the last day.</p> + +<p>No; the Bible teaching is the cheering doctrine, the "blessed +hope." All the faithful of all the ages are going into the +kingdom together. This blessed truth appeals to the spirit +that loves to wait and share joys and good things with loved +ones. Of the faithful of past ages the apostle says:</p> + +<p>"These all, having obtained a good report through faith, +received not the promise: God having provided some better +thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect." +Heb. 11:39, 40.</p> + +<p>They are waiting, that all together the saved may enter +in. And the time of waiting is but an instant to those who +"sleep in Jesus."</p> + +<p>David was a man of God, but the apostle Peter, speaking +by the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, declared to the people +of the city of David: "He is both dead and buried, and his +sepulcher is with us unto this day.... For David is not +ascended into the heavens." Acts 2:29-34. They without +us have not been made perfect. They are all awaiting<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282">[Pg 282]</a></span> +that glad day toward which the apostle Paul turned the last +look of his mortal vision:</p> + +<p>"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, +I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a +crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, +shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all +them also that love his appearing." 2 Tim. 4:7, 8.</p> + +<p>What joy in that day to march in through the gates into +the eternal city, with Adam, and Abel, and Noah, and Abraham, +and Paul, and all the faithful, and the loved ones of our +own home circles, and dear comrades in service, every one +clothed with immortality, the gift of God in Christ Jesus our +Redeemer! Horatius Bonar's hymn sings the joyful hope as +the loved are laid away to "sleep in Jesus:"</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Softly within that peaceful resting place<br /></span> +<span class="i0">We lay their wearied limbs, and bid the clay<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Press lightly on them till the night be past,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the far east give note of coming day.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The shout is heard, the Archangel's voice goes forth;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The trumpet sounds, the dead awake and sing;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The living put on glory; one glad band,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They hasten up to meet their coming King."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>In a word, the Scripture teaches that God alone has immortality, +that man is mortal, that death is a sleep, that life +after death comes only by the resurrection of the last day, +that the righteous are then given immortality. Further, the +Scripture teaches that later there will be a resurrection of the +unjust, not unto life, but unto death, the second death, from +which there is no release.</p> + +<p>Every doctrine of Scripture and of the gospel is in accord +with this Bible teaching as to man's nature and his state in +death. But the traditional view of the natural immortality +of the soul and of life in death, nullifies the Bible doctrines +of life only in Christ, and the resurrection, and the judgment, +and the giving of rewards at Christ's coming, and the final +judgment upon the wicked and its execution.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283">[Pg 283]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>A Few Questions Briefly Considered</h4> + +<p><i>1. The "Living Soul"</i></p> + +<p>Says one, "Did not the Lord put into man an immortal +soul?"</p> + +<p>No; the Scripture says:</p> + +<p>"The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, +and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became +a living soul." Gen. 2:7.</p> + +<p>The soul was not put into the man, but when the life-giving +breath was breathed into his nostrils, the man himself +became a living soul, a living being. The ordinary version +(King James) gives "a living soul" in the margin of Gen. 1:30, +showing that the same expression is used of all the animal +creation in the Hebrew text. The famous Methodist commentator, +Dr. Adam Clarke, says on this phrase, "living +soul:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"A general term to express all creatures endued with animal life, in +any of its infinitely varied gradations."</p></div> + +<p><i>2. Are "Soul" and "Spirit" Deathless?</i></p> + +<p>"Are not the soul and spirit said to be deathless?" questions +another.</p> + +<p>No. One writer says of the Scriptural use of the words +"soul" and "spirit:"</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Hebrew and Greek words from which they are translated, occur +in the Bible, as we have seen, seventeen hundred times. Surely, once at +least in that long list we shall be told that the soul is immortal, if this is +its high prerogative. Seventeen hundred times we inquire if the soul is +once said to be immortal, or the spirit deathless. And the invariable +and overwhelming response we meet is, <i>Not once!"</i>—<i>"Here and Hereafter" +by U. Smith, p. 65.</i></p></div> + +<p>On the contrary, the Lord declares, "The soul that sinneth, +it shall die." Eze. 18:20. It means that the person +who sins shall die; for the words "soul," "mind," "heart," +and "spirit" are used to express life or the seat of the affections +or of the intellect. One may commend his soul to God, or his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284">[Pg 284]</a></span> +spirit to God (really his life into the keeping of God), until +the great day of the resurrection. The word "soul" is used +of all animal life in New Testament usage, as well as in the +Old; as, "Every living soul died in the sea." Rev. 16:3.</p> + +<p><i>3. The Thief on the Cross</i></p> + +<p>"Did not Christ promise the thief on the cross that he +would be with Him that day in Paradise?"</p> + +<p>No; for Paradise is where God's throne is, and the tree of +life, and the city of God, the capital of Christ's kingdom; +and three days later Christ had not yet ascended to the Father. +"Touch Me not," He said to Mary after His resurrection; +"for I am not yet ascended to My Father." John 20:17. +The dying thief, therefore, was not with Him in Paradise +three days before.</p> + +<p>Nor did the thief's question suggest such a thought. His +faith grasped Christ's resurrection, the resurrection of His children, +and the coming kingdom; and that day on the cross, +in the moment of the deepest humiliation of the Son of God, +the repentant sinner cried, "Lord, remember me when Thou +comest into Thy kingdom." And the Saviour replied, "Verily +I say unto thee today"—this day, when the world scoffs and +the darkness presses upon Me, this day I say it—"shalt thou +be with Me in Paradise." Luke 23:42, 43.</p> + +<p>The punctuation that makes it read, "Today shalt thou +be with Me in Paradise," is not a part of the sacred text, and +puts the Saviour's promise in contradiction with the facts +of the whole narrative and the teaching of Scripture.</p> + +<p><i>4. The Rich Man and Lazarus</i></p> + +<p>"Then there is the parable of the rich man and Lazarus," +one says, "where Lazarus and Dives are talking, though dead—Lazarus +in Abraham's bosom and the rich man in torment."</p> + +<p>But that is a parable; and no one can set the figures of a +parable against the facts of positive Scripture. In parables, +lessons are often taught by figurative language and imaginary<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285">[Pg 285]</a></span> +scenes which could never be real, though the lesson is emphasized +the more forcefully.</p> + +<p>In the parable of Judges 9, the trees are represented as +holding a council and talking with one another. No one +mistakes the lesson of the parable, or supposes that the trees +actually talked. So in the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, +the lesson is taught that uprightness in this life, even +though under deepest poverty, will be rewarded in the future +life; while uncharitable selfishness will surely bring one to +ruin and destruction.</p> + +<p>In the face of the Bible teaching, no one can turn this +parable into actual narrative, representing that the saved +in glory are now looking over the battlements of heaven and +talking with the lost writhing before their eyes in agony amid +the flames of unending torment. This is not the picture +that the Scriptures give us of heaven, nor of the state of the +dead, nor of the time and circumstances of the final rewards +or punishments.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p285.jpg" width="448" height="203" alt="From an inscription on an Egyptian monument, representing the +weighing +of a soul after death." title="" /> +<span class="caption">From an inscription on an Egyptian monument, representing the +weighing +of a soul after death.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286">[Pg 286]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p286.jpg" width="448" height="271" alt="LOT FLEEING FROM +SODOM + +"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about +them ... are set forth for an example, suffering the +vengeance of eternal fire." Jude 7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">LOT FLEEING FROM +SODOM<br /> + +"Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about +them ... are set forth for an example, suffering the +vengeance of eternal fire." Jude 7.</span> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287">[Pg 287]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p287.jpg" width="448" height="330" alt="SATAN'S FINAL ASSAULT UPON +THE KINGDOM OF GOD + +"They went up on the breadth of the +earth, and compassed the camp of the +saints about." Rev. 20:9" title="" /> +<span class="caption">SATAN'S FINAL ASSAULT UPON +THE KINGDOM OF GOD<br /> + +"They went up on the breadth of the +earth, and compassed the camp of the +saints about." Rev. 20:9</span> +</div> + + +<h2><a name="THE_END_OF_THE_WICKED" id="THE_END_OF_THE_WICKED"></a><b>THE END OF THE WICKED</b></h2> + + +<p>So soon as ever Lucifer introduced sin into heaven, it was +certain, in the righteousness and omnipotence of God, that +the day would come when sin would be blotted out of the +perfect creation. Inspiration tells us that a time of final +reckoning with sin was assured when Satan and a host of the +angels with him lifted up the standard of mysterious rebellion +against the law and harmony of heaven:</p> + +<p>"The angels which kept not their first estate, but left their +own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under +darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Jude 6.</p> + +<p>Punishment for sin is assured. By listening to Satan's +temptation, man became involved in sin. Then a divine +Saviour was provided, through whom every soul might escape +from the kingdom of darkness, and find salvation and +life. But it is inevitable that those who refuse the way of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288">[Pg 288]</a></span> +life and reject the salvation of God, must finally be involved +with Satan and sin in the day when sin is visited.</p> + +<p>By Adam's sin, all his posterity inherited a sinful, dying +nature. "In Adam all die," the Scripture says. But not a +soul in the last day can plead Adam's sin and the inheritance +of a fallen nature as an excuse for his own transgressions. By +Christ's gift of His life for us, the sinner, with all his weaknesses, +may become a partaker of the divine nature, and escape +the power of the fleshly nature. By virtue of Christ's +death for all, all recover from the death they die in Adam—the +first death. All have a resurrection, the unjust as well as +the just; and then every one gives account of himself to God, +according to his own life and the use he has made of the light +given him of God.</p> + + +<h4>The Two Resurrections</h4> + +<p>The Scriptures emphasize the fact that there are to be +two resurrections. Paul, before Felix, declared his belief the +same as that of all the prophets,—"that there shall be a resurrection +of the dead, both of the just and unjust." Acts 24:15.</p> + +<p>Jesus declared it in these words:</p> + +<p>"The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the +graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth; they that +have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that +have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation." John +5:28, 29.</p> + +<p>The first resurrection is that of the just, at Christ's second +coming. It is written of this:</p> + +<p>"Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: +on such the second death hath no power, but they +shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with +Him a thousand years." Rev. 20:6.</p> + +<p>After this, the righteous return with Christ to heaven, +and remain there during the thousand years. The wicked +living at the time of His coming are slain by the consuming +glory of His presence; and they, with all the unjust of all the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span> +ages, await in the grave the second resurrection, at the end +of the thousand years.</p> + +<p>"The rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand +years were finished." Rev. 20:5.</p> + +<p>At the end of the thousand years the city of God, with +the saved, comes down out of heaven and settles upon the +earth.</p> + +<p>Then the wicked are raised—the second resurrection. +Under Satan's leadership they march up to attack the city +of God. How naturally, we infer, may Satan persuade the +lost that, after all, he was right when he declared to Adam, +"Ye shall not surely die." Here are all his servants of all +the ages—living. Why may they not be immortal, beyond +the power of God to destroy? The old battle that began in +heaven is on again. Satan, the archrebel, marshals his hosts +of fallen angels and the myriads of fallen men, his legions +stretching wide over the earth.</p> + +<p>"They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire +came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them." +Rev. 20:9.</p> + +<p>"This is the second death," the Scripture says. Verse 14. +The great day has come when the sinner receives his wages—death—and +sin is destroyed.</p> + + +<h4>The Punishment Everlasting</h4> + +<p>"The wages of sin is death." And the second death is +everlasting. There is no resurrection from this death. The +Scriptures describe it in terms that affirm utter destruction, +resulting in nonexistence.</p> + +<p>"Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from +the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power." +2 Thess. 1:9.</p> + +<p>"Behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and +all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: +and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> +of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." +Mal. 4:1.</p> + +<p>"They shall be ashes," the third verse of this chapter +says. Every expression possible to language is employed to +denote utter destruction, everlasting death. That means nonexistence. +Sin and sinners are blotted out. The prophet +Obadiah, speaking of the visitation upon the heathen—the +unbelieving—in "the day of the Lord," says:</p> + +<p>"They shall drink, and they shall swallow down, and they +shall be as though they had not been." Verse 16.</p> + +<p>This is the utter end of sin and all sinners, and of the author +of sin. Root and branch they are gone, "as though +they had not been." All this is in the description of the last +judgment, so fully set forth in the twentieth chapter of Revelation.</p> + +<p>"Death and hell [<i>hades</i>, the grave] were cast into the lake +of fire. This is the second death." Rev. 20:14. Death and +the prison house of death are gone forever. Sin is wiped +out of a perfect universe, and not even a trace will remain of +the place of the fiery judgment.</p> + +<p>"Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, +thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be." +Ps. 37:10.</p> + +<p>The fires of the last day purify the earth, which comes +forth in Eden-like beauty. In the whole creation of God +there is no sin, no sinner, but all is harmonious again, as before +sin entered the universe. The prophet was given a view +of this glorious consummation, and the triumph of the Son +of God over sin.</p> + +<p>"Every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, +and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that +are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, +and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto +the Lamb forever and ever." Rev. 5:13.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Some Opinions Briefly Considered</h4> + +<p>The doctrine of the immortality, the indestructibility, of +the soul is responsible for the traditional view that the wicked +are kept alive in unending misery through all eternity. How +different this picture from that which Holy Scripture gives +of the second death! Terrible and awful it is, but it results +in the utter destruction of sin and sinners, leaving a clean +universe. The doctrine of the immortality of the soul came +in from pagan philosophy. Herodotus, "the father of history," +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Egyptians ... were also the first to broach the opinion, that +the soul of man is immortal."—<i>Book 2, par. 123.</i></p></div> + +<p>Evidently, they passed the doctrine on to the Greeks. Its +origin was in the words of Satan in Eden, "Ye shall not surely +die." The pagans had their nether world of spirits, or their +transmigration of souls with its ceaseless round from body to +body, and the Roman Catholics their purgatory with its purifying +fires. From these sources and not from the Word of +God, the traditional view has come into modern Christendom, +representing the Lord as unable or unwilling to end sin, +but keeping the sinner alive throughout eternity, to suffer +torture that can bring no remedy. The Scripture teaching +is far otherwise. However, there are certain Scripture phrases +that emphasize the severity of the punishment of sin, which +are often taken as supporting the doctrine of never-ending +conscious torment.</p> + +<p><i>1. "Forever and Ever."</i>—In Rev. 20:10 it is said that +the devil and his chief agencies "shall be tormented day and +night forever and ever." The phrase emphasizes the surety +of their utter destruction.</p> + +<p>"Forever" means age-lasting, or life-lasting—so long as a +thing exists by its nature. Thus in Ex. 21:6 the servant who +loved his master and did not wish to leave his service was to +have his ear pierced, "and he shall serve him forever," that +is, without release as long as he lives. So the fiery judgment<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span> +of that last day holds the wicked until life ends; there is no +release until life is consumed.</p> + +<p><i>2. "Everlasting Punishment."</i>—"These shall go away into +everlasting punishment." Matt. 25:46. It is everlasting +punishment, not everlasting punishing. The punishment is +everlasting death—"who shall be punished with everlasting +destruction." 2 Thess. 1:9.</p> + +<p>The truth of the utter destruction of sinners is awful +enough, but it commends itself to every thought of justice +and mercy; for sin must be cleansed from a perfect universe. +But the unscriptural view of everlasting conscious torment +that never reaches the point of full punishment, is unthinkable. +Yet it is urged as a doctrine, and contended for as +vital to Christianity.</p> + +<p>The following description is taken from a book written +for children, entitled "The Sight of Hell." It is printed in +Dublin—for children.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Little child, if you go to hell, there will be a devil at your side to +strike you. He will go on striking you every day, forever and ever, without +ever stopping. The first stroke will make your body as bad as Job's, +covered from head to foot with sores and ulcers. The second stroke will +make your body twice as bad as the body of Job.... How then will +your body be after the devil has been striking it every moment for a hundred +million years without stopping?"—<i>Quoted in the London Present +Truth, April 30, 1914.</i></p></div> + +<p>What a relief to turn from this to the Bible doctrine of +the "everlasting destruction" of the second death, terrible +though it be!</p> + +<p><i>3. "Everlasting Fire," "Eternal Fire," "Unquenchable Fire."</i>—All +these expressions are used in describing the fiery judgment +upon sin and sinners. The effect of the fire is everlasting +and eternal, and by a common usage in language the +adjective that describes the effect is applied to the agent by +which the effect is wrought.</p> + +<p>A specific example of everlasting fire in the punishment of +evil is given in Scripture. Sodom and Gomorrah, those wicked<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> +"cities of the plain," were destroyed by a rain of fire from +heaven. These cities, Inspiration says, "are set forth for an +example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire." Jude 7. The +fire was everlasting, eternal, in its effects. The cities of the +plain were everlastingly consumed. But the fire went out +when the destruction was complete. Unquenchable fire is +fire that cannot be quenched. It consumes utterly, until nothing +is left; then it goes out of its own accord.</p> + +<p><i>4. "Where Their Worm Dieth Not."</i>—Jesus warned of the +certain destruction of sin and sinners in the fire of Gehenna; +for this is the word translated "hell" in Mark 9:43.</p> + +<p>Hades, which is often translated "hell," is the grave, +not the place of punishment. Gehenna, here used of the +place of punishment, was the name of the valley where the +refuse of Jerusalem was cast for burning. The map of Jerusalem, +in any ordinary Bible with maps, shows just outside +the southern wall a gorge marked "Valley of Hinnom" (Gehenna). +It was here that the people, in the olden times, had +sacrificed their children to Moloch.</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In order to put an end to these abominations, Josiah polluted it with +human bones and other corruptions. 2 Kings 23:10, 13, 14."—<i>Hastings's +"Dictionary of the Bible."</i></p></div> + +<p>Here the fires consumed the refuse, and the fire and worms +utterly destroyed the carcasses of beasts flung into the place +of destruction. It was regarded as a place accursed, and the +smoldering fires became symbolical of the fires of the judgment.</p> + +<p>The use of this illustration, instead of arguing that the +wicked are never destroyed but always live, conveys the opposite +idea. What went into the fires of Gehenna was utterly +consumed, nothing being left. This was used by Christ as a +figure illustrative of the utter destruction of the unrepentant +sinner in the day of visitation.</p> + +<p>This must suffice. The positive teaching of Holy Scripture +is that sin and sinners will be blotted out of existence. +There will be a clean universe again when the great controversy +between Christ and Satan is ended.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p294.jpg" width="297" height="439" alt="PETER DELIVERED +FROM PRISON + +"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about +them that fear Him, and delivereth them." +Ps. 34:7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">PETER DELIVERED +FROM PRISON<br /> + +"The angel of the Lord encampeth round about +them that fear Him, and delivereth them." +Ps. 34:7.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 440px;"> +<img src="images/p295.jpg" width="440" height="331" alt="DANIEL IN THE DEN OF +LIONS + +"My God hath sent His angel, and hath +shut the lions' mouths, that they have +not hurt me." Dan. 6:22." title="" /> +<span class="caption">DANIEL IN THE DEN OF +LIONS<br /> + +"My God hath sent His angel, and hath +shut the lions' mouths, that they have +not hurt me." Dan. 6:22.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="ANGELS_THEIR_MINISTRY" id="ANGELS_THEIR_MINISTRY"></a>ANGELS: THEIR MINISTRY</h2> + + +<p>The one verse of Scripture which, perhaps, most comprehensively +sums up the ministry of the angels of God, is +this:</p> + +<p>"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister +for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Heb. 1:14.</p> + +<p>This scripture shows us how truly all heaven is engaged +in working for the salvation of this poor world, which has +wandered from the fold of God. It will surely be a time of +rejoicing among all the angelic host when Christ, the Good +Shepherd, brings back this lost world, cleansed from sin, once +more to the fold of God's perfect creation.</p> + +<p>The angels rejoiced when this world was created. The +Lord said to Job:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the +earth?... when the morning stars sang together, and all +the sons of God shouted for joy?" Job 38:4-7.</p> + +<p>Before ever this world was created, or man upon it, the +angels had been created by the eternal Son, in whom all things +consist. For angels are not redeemed men, neither will the +redeemed in the world to come ever become angels. Angels +are a different order of beings from men, a higher order in +creation. We read:</p> + +<p>"What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? or the son +of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou madest him a little +lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and +honor." Heb. 2:6, 7.</p> + +<p>In the life to come, by the wondrous power of Christ's +transforming grace, redeemed men are to be made equal to +the angels, as Christ stated:</p> + +<p>"Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto +the angels; and are the children of God, being the children +of the resurrection." Luke 20:36.</p> + +<p>This lifting of sinful man to an equality with the angels, +at least in the possession of life and immortality, is an illustration +of the gospel principle, "Where sin abounded, grace +did much more abound." Rom. 5:20. But the declaration +of equality with angels is a denial of identity with angels. +Angels existed before man, and redeemed man will still be +man, distinct from the angelic order, though the associate +of angels in the service of God.</p> + + +<h4>Attendants at the Throne of God</h4> + +<p>When the prophet Isaiah was given a view of the heavenly +temple, he saw different orders of angels attending the throne +of God:</p> + +<p>"I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted +up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim: +each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, +and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span> +And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is +the Lord of hosts." Isa. 6:1-3.</p> + +<p>Ezekiel beheld them in glory, attending the moving throne +of the Almighty. "The living creatures ran and returned as +the appearance of a flash of lightning." Eze. 1:14.</p> + +<p>Daniel beheld the angelic host gathered in the most holy +place of the temple above, as the time came for the opening +of the work of the investigative judgment, the cleansing of +the sanctuary. Seeing the throne of God set for this final +work of Christ's ministry, the prophet says:</p> + +<p>"Thousand thousands ministered unto Him, and ten thousand +times ten thousand stood before Him: the judgment +was set, and the books were opened." Dan. 7:10.</p> + + +<h4>God's Messengers</h4> + +<p>The word "angel" means messenger. To and fro these +angelic messengers have gone in the service of their Creator. +A view of their ever-watchful service is given in the words +of the psalmist:</p> + +<p>"Bless the Lord, ye His angels, that excel in strength, +that do His commandments, hearkening unto the voice of +His word." Ps. 103:20.</p> + + +<h4>Bearers of Tidings</h4> + +<p>They visited Abraham's tent with warning of Sodom's +overthrow. Genesis 18.</p> + +<p>They visited Lot in the city, and urged him to get his +family out. Genesis 19.</p> + +<p>As Jacob, in fear but repentance, was about to meet Esau, +whom he had deceived, "the angels of God met him." Genesis +32. "This is God's host," he said, and he knew that the +God of Abraham and Isaac, and his God, also, had not forsaken +him.</p> + +<p>At a discouraging time in the history of Israel, an angel +appeared to Gideon, bringing the message, "The Lord is with +thee," and calling him to the work of delivering his people. +Judges 6.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 292px;"> +<img src="images/p298.jpg" width="292" height="441" alt="JACOB'S DREAM +IN BETHEL + +"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent +forth to minister for them who shall be +heirs of salvation?" Heb. 1:14." title="" /> +<span class="caption">JACOB'S DREAM +IN BETHEL<br /> + +"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent +forth to minister for them who shall be +heirs of salvation?" Heb. 1:14.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span></p> + +<p>As Daniel's prayer reached heaven, even while he still +prayed, the angel Gabriel "being caused to fly swiftly," +touched him, and said:</p> + +<p>"O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and +understanding. At the beginning of thy supplications the +commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee." +Dan. 9:21-23.</p> + +<p>So close is the communication between heaven and earth.</p> + +<p>The gladdest tidings ever brought from heaven to earth +since the promise of the Deliverer to Adam in Eden, were +brought by angels to the shepherds of Bethlehem. First, one +angel appeared, saying:</p> + +<p>"I bring you good tidings of great joy.... For unto you +is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ +the Lord."</p> + +<p>Such tidings to earth could never be the mission of one +lone angel, when all heaven longed to cry the news to a lost +world.</p> + +<p>"And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of +the heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God +in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men." +Luke 2:13, 14.</p> + + +<h4>Unseen in Halls of Government</h4> + +<p>One incident related in the book of Daniel draws aside the +curtain, and shows how angels doubtless often have worked +unseen in kingly courts or halls of legislation. Daniel had +prayed for three weeks for light in certain matters that the +angel Gabriel had begun to unfold to him. When at last +the angel came, overpowering the prophet with the glory of +his presence, it was with a statement, first, of the reason for +the delay in responding to his prayer. The angel said:</p> + +<p>"From the first day that thou didst set thine heart to +understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words +were heard, and I am come for thy words. But the prince +of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> +but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; +and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am +come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people +in the latter days." Dan. 10:12-14.</p> + + +<h4>Messengers of Deliverance</h4> + +<p>The story of deliverance wrought by angels is too long to +tell. One need only think of the angels' taking slow-moving +Lot by the arms and setting him out of Sodom (Genesis 19); +of the angel finding Elijah under a bush in the desert, and +first baking a cake for the hungry man before speaking the +word to his discouraged heart (1 Kings 19); of Elisha praying +that the young man's eyes might be opened to see that there +were more angels with them round about than all the Syrians +encamped against them:</p> + +<p>"The Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he +saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots +of fire round about Elisha." 2 Kings 6:17.</p> + +<p>An angel shut the mouths of the lions when Daniel was +cast into their den. Daniel 6. An angel smote off Peter's +irons in the prison at Jerusalem, opened the doors, and led him +forth. Acts 12. Amid the angry waves sweeping over the +foundering ship in the Adriatic, Paul the apostle bade the +despairing crew be of good courage, "for there stood by me +this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, +saying, Fear not." Acts 27:23, 24.</p> + +<p>All through the ages, the angels of God have been standing +by. Daniel, and Peter, and Paul are dead; but the angels +still live. "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to +minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" Heb. 1:14.</p> + + +<h4>Guardian Angels</h4> + +<p>That means that every child of God is under the guardianship +of the angels. "The angel of the Lord encampeth +round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them." +Ps. 34:7.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span></p> + +<p>Thank God, we are never left alone. Every child of God +has a guardian angel commissioned by the loving Father to +watch over him. Christ said:</p> + +<p>"Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; +for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold +the face of My Father which is in heaven." Matt. 18:10.</p> + +<p>This does not mean that trials never will come, or troubles. +In the midst of the trial, the angel of the Lord will stand by +to strengthen and to bring help from the God of all comfort. +It was in the midst of the fiery furnace that the "form of +the Fourth" appeared, walking with the three Hebrew children—Jesus +Himself treading the fiery way with them. And +when Jesus, in the days of His flesh, was sinking under the +crushing burden in Gethsemane, "there appeared an angel +unto Him from heaven, strengthening Him." Luke 22:43.</p> + +<p>Our Saviour, who knows the comforting power of angel +ministry, is the Captain of the heavenly host, and has commissioned +them all as ministering spirits to the heirs of salvation.</p> + +<p>When He comes in glory for His people, Christ will have +"all the holy angels with Him." As the voice of Jesus +awakens His sleeping saints and they rise immortal from the +opened graves, "He shall send His angels,... and they +shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one +end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24:31.</p> + +<p>The angels who have watched over the heirs of salvation +through all the ages, know where they are, and they know +how to gather them, with their loved ones, to meet the Lord.</p> + +<p>The angels who rejoiced when the Lord laid the foundations +of the earth, who mourned when man fell, who have +all along been working with Christ, their leader, to rescue +the lost, will yet rejoice when the Lord brings home His own. +What a day will that be in heaven!<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 293px;"> +<img src="images/p302.jpg" width="293" height="444" alt="MODERN INVENTIONS FULFILLING +PROPHECY + +"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge +shall be increased." Dan. 12:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MODERN INVENTIONS FULFILLING +PROPHECY<br /> + +"Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge +shall be increased." Dan. 12:4.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 443px;"> +<img src="images/p303.jpg" width="443" height="298" alt="CAREY IN INDIA TRANSLATING +THE BIBLE + +"So mightily grew the word of God +and prevailed." Acts 19:20." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CAREY IN INDIA TRANSLATING +THE BIBLE<br /> + +"So mightily grew the word of God +and prevailed." Acts 19:20.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_TIME_OF_THE_END" id="THE_TIME_OF_THE_END"></a>THE TIME OF THE END</h2> + + +<p>"Thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, +even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and +knowledge shall be increased." Dan. 12:4.</p> + +<p>Thus the words of the angel, spoken nearly twenty-five +hundred years ago, announced the opening of a new era of +enlightenment when the latter days should come.</p> + + +<h4>The Time</h4> + +<p>At the end of the long period of predicted tribulation of +the church—the twelve hundred and sixty years of Daniel's +prophecy—the world entered upon this era of "the time of +the end."</p> + +<p>"They shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, +and by spoil, many days.... And some of them of understanding +shall fall, to try them, and to purge, and to make +them white, even to the time of the end: because it is yet for +a time appointed." Dan. 11:33-35.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span></p> + +<p>In practically every outline of prophecy touching this +time, the events of the last days are represented as following +the end of the prophetic period of tribulation. Christ's prophecy +of Matthew 24 so declares. Our Saviour showed that +this period of tribulation, would be shortened, "for the elect's +sake," and that "immediately after the tribulation of those +days" the signs of the end would begin to appear.</p> + +<p>Thus, while the full period of the twelve hundred and +sixty years ended amid the scenes of the French Revolution, +which gave the papal power a deadly wound in the last decade +of the eighteenth century, the shortening of the days of tribulation +had begun even earlier to spread increasing knowledge +and enlightenment over the earth.</p> + + +<h4>The Prophecy Unsealed</h4> + +<p>The angel's words to Daniel were,</p> + +<p>"Shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time +of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be +increased." Dan. 12:4.</p> + +<p>"The words are closed up and sealed till the time of the +end." Verse 9.</p> + +<p>This means that as the time of the end came, men would +be impelled to search diligently for light in the prophetic word. +Events taking place in fulfilment of the prophecy would be +recognized, and with the coming of the time there would come +the opening up, or unsealing, of the prophetic scriptures, with +their message for men in the last days.</p> + +<p>As the time drew near, Bible students were led more and +more to search the word of prophecy. Sir Isaac Newton, +called "the greatest of philosophers," wrote of prophetic +study:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The giving ear to the prophets is a fundamental character of the +true church. For God has so ordered the prophecies, that in the latter +days 'the wise may understand, but the wicked shall do wickedly, and +none of the wicked shall understand.' Dan. 12:9, 10."—<i>"Observations +on the Prophecies of Daniel" (London, 1733), part 1, chap. 1.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span></p> + +<p>Again, this man who had delved so deeply into the laws of +nature, but who bowed his heart in childlike faith to listen +to the voice of Inspiration, declared his hope that the time of +the end was near at hand in his day (he died in 1727). Of +this prophecy of the unsealing of the book he wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"'Tis therefore a part of this prophecy, that it should not be understood +before the last age of the world; and therefore it makes for the credit +of the prophecy that it is not yet understood. But if the last age, the age +of opening these things, be now approaching, as by the great successes of +late interpreters it seems to be, we have more encouragement than ever +to look into these things. If the general preaching of the gospel be +approaching, +it is to us and to our posterity that those words mainly belong: +In the time of the end the wise shall understand, but none of the wicked +shall understand.... 'Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear +the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written +therein.'"—<i>"Observations on the Apocalypse" (London, 1733), chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>True to the word of the angel, the events of the ending +of the twelve hundred and sixty years of papal supremacy, +amid the scenes of the French Revolution, drew the attention +of Bible students everywhere. It was seen that prophecy was +being fulfilled before men's eyes. It gave great impetus to +the study of the prophetic scriptures. The great historic +prophecies began to be opened up—unsealed—to the understanding. +An English historian of that period, John Adolphus, +though writing a secular history, remarks upon this awakening +interest in prophetic study:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The downfall of the papal government [in 1798], by whatever means +effected, excited perhaps less sympathy than that of any other in Europe: +the errors, the oppressions, the tyranny of Rome over the whole Christian +world, were remembered with bitterness; many rejoiced, through religious +antipathy, in the overthrow of a church which they considered as idolatrous, +though attended with the immediate triumph of infidelity; and +many saw in these events the accomplishment of prophecies, and the +exhibition of signs promised in the most mystical parts of the Holy +Scriptures."—<i>"History +of France from 1790 to 1802" (London, 1803), +Vol. II, p. 379.</i></p></div> + +<p>From those tunes of fulfilling prophecy, there arose a +distinct movement, reviving the teaching of the doctrine of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span> +Christ's second coming, and directly preparing the way for +the advent movement that was to come with the days of 1844, +when yet fuller light was to break forth from the unsealed +prophecies of the book of Daniel. Of the angel that symbolizes +the special gospel work for these last days, it is written, +"He had in his hand a little book open." Rev. 10:2. The +"time of the end" came, and with it has come the opening of +the sealed book. The "sure word of prophecy" speaks its +message full and clear to the ears of all mankind today.</p> + + +<h4>Increase of Knowledge</h4> + +<p>"Many shall run to and fro," the prophecy said, "and +knowledge shall be increased." It is knowledge of the prophecy +and of the things of God that is primarily the topic; but +the era that we are discussing has been one of general enlightenment +and extension of knowledge.<a name="FNanchor_J_10" id="FNanchor_J_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_J_10" class="fnanchor">[J]</a> "The entrance of Thy +words giveth light," says the psalmist: and when the Reformation +of the sixteenth century broke the bands of age-long superstition +and error, and set free the Word of God, the way was +preparing for the coming of this wonderful era of the diffusion +of general knowledge.</p> + +<p>The era of reform movement was an era of world exploration +and discovery. Diaz had founded the south African +cape, and Columbus had given to future generations the New +World. The result was voyage after voyage of discovery, +and then awakening, colonization, and expansion.</p> + +<p>The famous and learned Francis Bacon, who died in 1626, +felt in his day that the time spoken of by Daniel's prophecy +was drawing near. He wrote:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Nor should the prophecy of Daniel be forgotten, touching the last +ages of the world: 'Many shall go to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased;' +clearly intimating that the thorough passage of the world (which +now by so many distant voyages seems to be accomplished, or in course +of accomplishment), and the advancement of the sciences, are destined +by fate, that is, by divine Providence, to meet in the same age."—<i>"Novum +Organum," book 1, xciii. (Bacon's Works, Spedding and Ellis, Vol. IV, +p. 92.)</i></p></div> + +<p>When the time indicated in the prophecy fully came, +with the last decade of the eighteenth century, there was +witnessed the upspringing of movements that have wrought +mightily for the enlightenment and evangelization of the +world. As the events of the French Revolution announced +the closing of the long era of papal supremacy, so also another +series of events at the same time announced the opening of the +era of increasing knowledge. Speaking of these developments, +Lorimer, a Scottish writer, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"At the very time when Satan is hoping for, and the timid are fearing, +an utter overturn of true religion, there is a revival, and the gospel +expands its wings and prepares for a new flight. It is worthy of remembrance +that the year 1792, the very year of the French Revolution, was +also the year when the Baptist Missionary Society was formed, a society +which was followed during the succeeding, and they the worst, years of +the Revolution, with new societies of unwonted energy and union, all +aiming, and aiming successfully, at the propagation of the gospel of Christ, +both at home and abroad. What withering contempt did the great Head +of the church thus pour upon the schemes of infidels! And how did He +arouse the careless and instruct His own people, by alarming providences, +at a season when they greatly needed such a stimulus."—<i>"Historical +Sketches of the Protestant Church in France," p. 522.</i></p></div> + +<p>Another writer, Dr. D.L. Leonard, historian of the century +of missions, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The closing years of the eighteenth century constitute in the history +of Protestant missions an epoch indeed, since they witnessed nothing less +than a revolution, a renaissance, an effectual and manifold ending of the +old, a substantial inauguration of the new. It was then that for the first +time since the apostolic period, occurred an outburst of general missionary +zeal and activity. Beginning in Great Britain, it soon spread to the +Continent and across the Atlantic. It was no mere push of fervor, but a<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span> +mighty tide set in, which from that day to this has been steadily rising +and spreading."—<i>"A Hundred Years of Missions," p. 69.</i></p></div> + +<p>The time of the prophecy had come, and the hand of providence +was bringing into being agencies that have spread +light and knowledge over all lands.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Look where the missionary's feet have trod—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Flowers in the desert bloom; and fields, for God,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Are white to harvest. Skeptics may ignore;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Yet on the conquering Word, from shore to shore,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Like flaming chariot, rolls. Ask ocean isles,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And plains of Ind, where ceaseless summer smiles;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Speak to far frozen wastes, where winter's blight<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Remains;—they tell the love, attest the might<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of Him whose messengers across the wave<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To them salvation bore, hope, freedom gave."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Horace D. Woolley.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The organization of foreign missionary enterprise was +quickly accompanied by the establishment of Bible societies +for a systematic work of translating and world-wide distribution +of the Scriptures. In 1804 the British and Foreign Bible +Society was organized. Students of the prophetic word felt +at the time that these agencies were coming in fulfilment of +the prophecy. One writer of those times said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The stupendous endeavors of one gigantic community to convey the +Scriptures in every language to every part of the globe may well deserve +to be considered as an eminent sign even of these eventful times. Unless +I be much mistaken, such endeavors are preparatory to the final grand +diffusion of Christianity, which is the theme of so many inspired prophets, +and which cannot be very far distant in the present day."—<i>G.S. Faber, +D.D., "Dissertation on the Prophecies," Vol. II, p. 406 (1844).</i></p></div> + +<p>Now the Word of God, in whole or in part, is speaking in +more than five hundred languages, and it is estimated that +these tongues, at least in their spoken form, can make the +divine message comprehensible to ninety-five per cent of the +inhabitants of the earth.</p> + +<p>The work of modern missions, that had its birth as the +time of the end came, is one of the great world factors today.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> +Nearly thirty million dollars a year are given for Protestant +missions, and a force of more than twenty thousand foreign +missionaries is in the field, not counting the many thousands +of native missionaries and helpers. Truly the time of the end +is proving to be an era of increasing light and knowledge.</p> + + +<h4>The Opening of All Lands</h4> + +<p>As the time came for knowledge to be increased, it was +necessary that all lands should be open to receive the enlightening +agencies. Thus, as the time of the end came, we see distinctly +the hand of Providence swinging open the doors into +all countries. It has been an era of world survey and development. +Particularly is this true of the last sixty or seventy +years. It was in 1844 that the time referred to in the prophecy +came for the special advent movement, bearing the judgment-hour +message to the world. The range of the movement +is thus described in the prophecy:</p> + +<p>"I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having +the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the +earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and +people." Rev. 14:6.</p> + +<p>This was a declaration that as the time came for the closing +gospel work to be done, the doors of access to every nation +and tongue and people would be thrown open. In 1844, or +but a few years before, much of the world was closed to missionary +endeavor; but as the prophecy indicates, the years +following have witnessed the swift and systematic opening +of all lands to the gospel message.</p> + +<p>It was in 1842 that five treaty ports in China were opened +to commerce and to missions,—advance steps in the opening +of all China to the gospel. In 1844 Turkey was prevailed +upon to recognize the right of Moslems to become Christians, +reversing all Moslem tradition. In 1844 Allen Gardiner +established the South American Mission. In 1845 Livingstone's +determination was formed to open up the African interior.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span></p> + +<p>Dr. A.T. Pierson, speaking of the wonderful way in which +Providence opened the doors of access in those times, wrote +as follows:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Most countries shut out Christian missions by organized opposition, +so that to attempt to bear the good tidings was simply to dare death for +Christ's sake; the only welcome awaiting God's messengers was that of +cannibal ovens, merciless prisons, or martyr graves. But, as the little +band advanced, on every hand the walls of Jericho fell, and the iron gates +opened of their own accord. India, Siam, Burma, China, Japan, Turkey, +Africa, Mexico, South America, the Papal States, and Korea were successively +and successfully entered. Within five years, from 1853 to 1858, +new facilities were given to the entrance and occupation of seven different +countries, together embracing half the world's population."—<i>"Modern +Mission Century," p. 25.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p310.jpg" width="448" height="267" alt="INTO THE HEART OF +AFRICA + +The Victoria Falls railroad bridge +over the Zambezi." title="" /> +<span class="caption">INTO THE HEART OF +AFRICA<br /> + +The Victoria Falls railroad bridge +over the Zambezi.</span> +</div> + +<p>God's providence has laid under tribute every force and +every resource for the opening of all lands—missionary endeavor, +love of adventure, commercial enterprise, and scientific +interest. Railways have been built through regions that +were undiscovered seventy years ago, and among the passengers +traveling now over the iron trail are men and women of +tribes unknown fifty years ago. But the gospel message was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> +to go to every tribe and tongue before the end; and wonderfully +Providence has been opening the doors throughout all +this "time of the end," and particularly in our generation.</p> + + +<h4>Material Agencies for the Work</h4> + +<p>The prophecy represents not only a world-wide work, but +a quick work in proclaiming the gospel message in the last +days. The movement is symbolized in the Revelation by an +angel flying in the midst of heaven, from land to land. And +as to the closing work, when the end is near at hand, the +Scripture says:</p> + +<p>"He will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: +because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth." +Rom. 9:28.</p> + +<p>"Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, saith +the Lord of hosts." This is the hope for a quickly finished +work in all the earth in our time. Yet the Lord lays hold +of material things for service; and wonderfully the hand of +Providence has wrought in bringing into existence material +agencies for a quick work in carrying the gospel to the world—such +agencies as no generation before ours ever had.</p> + +<p>Consider the marvelous facilities for world-travel. They +are the product of this time of the end. "Many shall run +to and fro," said the prophecy. Some interpreters have restricted +the Hebrew phrase to a "searching" to and fro for +knowledge. Even this would include a literal running to and +fro; for the light of increasing knowledge was to be diffused +over all the earth. But the best authority on the Hebrew +declares for the plain meaning of our English translation: +"Many shall run to and fro." In two recent works, Dr. +C.H.H. Wright, the English scholar, says of this text:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The natural meaning must be upheld, i.e., wandering to and fro."—<i>"Critical +Commentary on Daniel," p. 209.</i></p> + +<p>"Why should not that expression be used in the sense in which it +is employed in Jeremiah 5:1, namely, of rapid movement hither and +thither?"—<i>"Daniel and His Prophecies," p. 321.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span></p> + +<p>At the time when the first foreign missionary movement +was being launched in America, Robert Fulton's steamship, +the "Clermont," was making its first trip on the Hudson.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;"> +<img src="images/p312a.jpg" width="446" height="127" alt="HIEROGLYPHICS + +The "Ox Song" of the Egyptian threshing-floor." title="" /> +<span class="caption">HIEROGLYPHICS<br /> + +The "Ox Song" of the Egyptian threshing-floor.</span> +</div> + +<p>In 1838 the first ships to cross the Atlantic under steam power +alone—the "Sirius" and the "Great Western"—came into +New York from Liverpool, a few hours apart, forerunners of +the fleets that furrow all the seas today, making quick pathways +for the gospel messengers to all lands. Verily, they are +a gift of God's providence to this generation, when all the +world is to hear the gospel message.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p312b.jpg" width="442" height="239" alt="CUNEIFORM WRITING + +An account of the capture of Babylon, +b.c. 538. From the cylinder of Cyrus." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CUNEIFORM WRITING<br /> + +An account of the capture of Babylon, +b.c. 538. From the cylinder of Cyrus.</span> +</div> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He hath made the deep as dry,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He hath smote for us a pathway to the ends of all the earth."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>In 1825 Stephenson built his first railway passenger locomotive, +which may still be seen in the Darlington railway +station, in England. It was the beginning of the great revolution +in land travel. The late Prof. Alfred Russel Wallace, +scientist, wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"From the earliest historic and even prehistoric times till the construction +of our great railways in the second quarter of the present century +[the nineteenth], there had been absolutely no change in the methods of +human locomotion."—<i>"The Wonderful Century," p. 7.</i></p></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p313.jpg" width="442" height="286" alt="MANUSCRIPT WRITING + +The process by which the books of the great +library of Alexandria, Egypt, were made." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MANUSCRIPT WRITING<br /> + +The process by which the books of the great +library of Alexandria, Egypt, were made.</span> +</div> + +<p>For nearly six thousand years men had traveled in the +old way. Why should these revolutionary changes in travel +by sea and land come abruptly just at this time?—Because +the time foretold in the prophecy was at hand, when the last +gospel message was to be carried quickly to all the world—"to +every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people." +We see the hand of the living God opening the doors into all +lands, and His wonderful providence laying at the feet of +this generation agencies for quickly covering the whole earth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 446px;"> +<img src="images/p314a.jpg" width="446" height="158" alt="GUTENBERG'S FIRST +TYPES + +Reproduced from the first edition of the famous +forty-two-line Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg." title="" /> +<span class="caption">GUTENBERG'S FIRST +TYPES<br /> + +Reproduced from the first edition of the famous +forty-two-line Latin Bible, printed by Gutenberg.</span> +</div> + +<p>Later came the electric telegraph, for the quick transmission +of news. It was in 1837 that Cooke and Wheatstone +in England, and Morse in the United States, made their application +for patents on the electric telegraph. It was in 1844 +that the first long-distance system was successfully demonstrated—when +the historic message was sent from Baltimore +to Washington, "What hath God wrought!" Now news of +events fulfilling prophecy, and news of progress and conditions +in all lands, are daily spread before the world by this +agency of our wonderful time.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 441px;"> +<img src="images/p314b.jpg" width="441" height="261" alt="THE GUTENBERG +PRINTING PRESS + +On which was produced the first +printed Bible, in 1456 a.d." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GUTENBERG +PRINTING PRESS<br /> + +On which was produced the first +printed Bible, in 1456 A.D.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 336px;"> +<img src="images/p315.jpg" width="336" height="374" alt="THE FRANKLIN PRESS + +Operated by two men, it has a maximum +speed of 250 impressions per hour." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE FRANKLIN PRESS<br /> + +Operated by two men, it has a maximum +speed of 250 impressions per hour.</span> +</div> + +<p>As the closing events take place, the Lord has in His +providence so ordered it that no one need be ignorant of the +signs of the times fulfilling before the eyes of men.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Speak the word and think the thought,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Quick 'tis as with lightning caught—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Over, under, lands or seas<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To the far antipodes."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Here is an incident illustrating the way in which the +electric telegraph may multiply and spread abroad the witness +borne to the truth of God in some obscure corner of +the earth:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p316.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="THE HOE DOUBLE +OCTUPLE PRESS" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE HOE DOUBLE +OCTUPLE PRESS</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The largest printing press in the world. Length, 48 feet; height, 19-1/2 feet; +weight, 175 tons; number +of parts, 65,000; revolutions, 300 per minute; paper used per hour, 18 tons, or +216 miles of paper +three feet wide; production per hour, 300,000 eight-page folded newspapers.</p></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span></p> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i2"><b>The Mighty Press</b><br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"When old Gutenberg, inventor<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the printing press, and mentor<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the clumsy-fingered typos<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In a sleepy German town,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Used to spread the sheets of vellum<br /></span> +<span class="i0">On the form, and plainly tell them<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That the art was then perfected,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">As he pressed the platen down,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">He had not the faintest notion<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the rhythmical commotion,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the brabble and the clamor<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the unremitting roar<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the mighty triple decker,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">While the steel rods flicker,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And the papers, ready folded,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fall in thousands to the floor."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Some years ago a young man in Europe—a Seventh-day +Adventist—was giving answer for his faith. His conscience +would not allow him to do ordinary labor on God's holy Sabbath. +He had declared to the court that the oath of loyalty +which had been required of him forbade his breaking the +Sabbath. "How is that?" asked the judge. The young +man replied:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"I was sworn in with a Christian oath, and therefore cannot be under +an obligation to violate the commandments of God and work on the Sabbath. +One must regard God as the highest authority, and obey Him +in the first place."</p></div> + +<p>This witness was borne in a little courtroom, before a +small group of men; but the press dispatches took it up, and +the description of the scene and report of the words spoken +were carried by electric telegraph to the press of at least four +continents, and millions read the testimony of the young +man to the faith that was in him.</p> + +<p>In the days to come, with great events taking place and +solemn issues calling upon men to make decision for God and +His truth, how quickly, in some great crisis, all the world +may be warned, and the last individual decisions be made +for eternity!</p> + + +<h4>Modern Printing</h4> + +<p>The invention of the printer's art had come just in time +to give wings to Reformation truth. Luther said of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Printing is the latest and greatest gift by which God enables us to +advance the things of the gospel. It is the last bright flame, manifesting +itself just previous to the extinction of the world. Thanks be to God, +it came before the last day came."—<i>Michelet's "Life of Luther," p. 291.</i></p></div> + +<p>While improvements in the art were made through the +centuries, it was a slow process, even up to the opening of +our generation. During our day, however, inventions have +revolutionized the printing process.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span></p> + +<p>In this, as in other things, the methods have been speeded +up to meet the necessities of this time of rapid accomplishment. +The printing press is one of the chief of the marvelous +enlightening agencies of this time of the end. By it the +printed pages of truth are set falling over the earth "like +the leaves of autumn."</p> + +<p>Time fails us to speak of all the wonderful material developments +of our day, when knowledge has been increased, and +when men are not only searching to and fro, but literally running +to and fro. The whole earth is brought within the range +of human knowledge, and the light of saving truth is streaming +out toward every dark place where the children of men +dwell.</p> + +<p>Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago it was written upon +the prophetic page,</p> + +<p>"Shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time +of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall +be increased."</p> + +<p>There the word stood on the scroll of prophecy through +more than two millenniums. Then, as the time of the end +came, lo, the book of prophecy was unsealed, and the new era +of increasing knowledge began to spread in wondrous blessing +over the earth.</p> + +<p>So surely, also, the prophecies of the last events will be +accomplished. In the occurrences taking place before our +eyes, we see that God is indeed finishing His work in the +earth, and cutting it short in righteousness.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_320" id="Page_320">[Pg 320]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p320.jpg" width="448" height="270" alt="FORTIFICATIONS ON THE +BOSPORUS + +The strategic waterway involved in the Eastern Question." title="" /> +<span class="caption">FORTIFICATIONS ON THE +BOSPORUS<br /> + +The strategic waterway involved in the Eastern Question.</span> +</div> + +<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> + +<div class="footnote"><p><a name="Footnote_J_10" id="Footnote_J_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_J_10"><span class="label">[J]</span></a> It is not designed to give the reader the idea that this running +"to and fro" +refers wholly to turning to and fro through the pages of a book. The times in +which we live have been characterized by a great increase in Bible study, and +consequently in knowledge of the Scriptures; but it is equally true that this +has +been due in large measure to the fact that there are no longer any "hermit" +kingdoms. Travel, a real physical running "to and fro" through the earth, has +contributed mightily to the modern increase of knowledge, and in no other field +of investigation has this been more true than in the study of the Bible. By +increased facilities for travel, all nations have been brought close together +physically. +Different races and nationalities have become acquainted, missionary zeal +has been quickened, and peoples formerly beyond the reach of missionary +operations +have become easily accessible. In this sense, as well as by private searching +of the Scriptures, knowledge has increased.</p></div> +</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_321" id="Page_321">[Pg 321]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p321.jpg" width="448" height="261" alt="THE MOSQUE OF ST. SOPHIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE + +The most famous of all Mohammedan +temples. + +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MOSQUE OF ST. SOPHIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE<br /> + +The most famous of all Mohammedan +temples.<br /> + +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y.</span> +</div> +<h2><a name="THE_EASTERN_QUESTION" id="THE_EASTERN_QUESTION"></a>THE EASTERN QUESTION</h2> + +<h3>MODERN HISTORY IN THE LIGHT OF ANCIENT PROPHECY</h3> + + +<p>Not alone of the history of ancient nations does the "sure +word of prophecy" bear witness. Political events of our own +and coming days are described.</p> + +<p>The nations of the latter day are pictured as preparing +war, gathering their forces for the great Armageddon, the +battle of the day of God.</p> + +<p>As a signal of the last great struggle, the fall, or "drying +up," of the power ruling the territory watered by the river +Euphrates is foretold. Rev. 16:12. The Euphrates in all +modern history has been suggestive of the dominions of the +Turkish or Ottoman Empire. And Armageddon, designated +as the meeting place of armies in the last clash of nations, is +in Palestine, which, through all modern times, has been in +possession of the Turkish power.</p> + +<p>The index finger of prophecy points, therefore, to this +region of the eastern Mediterranean as the pivotal point in +the closing history of nations; and with Turkey's fate is +wrapped up the fate of all the nations of the world.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_322" id="Page_322">[Pg 322]</a></span></p> + +<p>All this adds deepest and most solemn import to the study +of what is known as the Eastern Question, a question that +has been to the fore in international politics much of the time +throughout this generation. Wars have been fought over it, +cabinets have wrestled with it, and still it holds its place +in the first rank of living issues of today.</p> + +<p>As every one knows, the Eastern Question involves the +dominion or supremacy in the Near East. This region was +a pivotal point in the struggles of the nations in ancient times—the +meeting place of East and West. Maspero, historian +of ancient empires, says of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Some countries seem destined from their origin to become the +battle fields of the contending nations.... The nations around are +eager for the possession of a country thus situated.... From remote +antiquity Syria was in the condition just described. By its position it +formed a kind of meeting place, where most of the military nations of +the ancient world were bound sooner or later to come violently into +collision."—<i>"Struggle of the Nations," chap. 1.</i></p></div> + +<p>It is not strange, therefore, that one of the great outlines +of historic prophecy should deal with events centering around +this pivotal region. The prophecy of Daniel 11 does so, +outlining the course of history from ancient times to the +final solution of the Eastern Question amid the scenes of +the end.</p> + + +<h4>Rise and Fall of Ancient Empires</h4> + +<p>The prophetic outline of Daniel 11 begins with Persia, +in the third year of Cyrus, the conqueror of Babylon. (See +Dan. 10:1.) The angel of God appeared to Daniel, and in +the longest and most detailed single prophecy in all the Bible, +told the story of events connected with this region of the +Near East for the centuries to come, until the end. Putting +the word of prophecy and the record of history side by side, +we see how exactly history has fulfilled prophecy; and we may +know certainly that the brief portion of the prophecy yet unfulfilled +will surely come to pass.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_323" id="Page_323">[Pg 323]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>Persia</h4> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"Now will I show thee the truth. Behold, +there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth +shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through +his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia." +Dan. 11:2</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—The three kings following Cyrus were (1) Cambyses, +(2) Smerdis, (3) Darius; the fourth, Xerxes, was "far +richer than they all." He had the treasures of his father, Darius, +who was called the "merchant" or "hoarder" by his +own people, and Xerxes gathered stores of wealth in addition. +When Xerxes was on his way to invade Grecia, a Lydian +named Pythius entertained the whole Persian army with +feasts, and offered to aid in bearing the expense of the campaign. +Xerxes asked who this man of such wealth was. He +was answered:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"This is the man, O king! who gave thy father Darius the golden +plane tree, and likewise the golden vine; and he is still the wealthiest +man we know of in all the world, excepting thee."—<i>Herodotus, book 7, +par. 27.</i></p></div> + +<p>"Richer than they all," Xerxes, "through his riches," was +able, as the prophecy had foretold, to "stir up all against the +realm of Grecia." Forty-nine nations marched under his banners +to the attack. The Greek poet, Æschylus, who himself +fought against the Persians, wrote of Xerxes' mighty host,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"And myriad-peopled Asia's king, a battle-eager lord,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From utmost east to utmost west sped on his countless horde,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In unnumbered squadrons marching, in fleets of keels untold,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Knowing none dared disobey,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">For stern overseers were they<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Of the godlike king begotten of the ancient race of Gold."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>"Persæ," Way's translation.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Xerxes boasted that he was leading "the whole race of +mankind to the destruction of Greece." But his invasion +ended in the total rout of his forces by land and by sea. It +was an advertisement to the world that Persia's might was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_324" id="Page_324">[Pg 324]</a></span> +broken. The prophecy treats it so, and deals no further with +Persian history.</p> + +<p>Æschylus at the time celebrated the passing of Persia's +prestige in the lines,—</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"With sacred awe<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The Persian law<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No more shall Asia's realms revere;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To their lord's hand<br /></span> +<span class="i0">At his command,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">No more the exacted tribute bear.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0"> * * * * *<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Before the Ionian squadrons Persia flies,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or sinks engulfed beneath the main;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Fallen! fallen! is her imperial power,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And conquest on her banners waits no more."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>"Persæ," Potter's translation.</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The next great world change was to be the rise of Grecia +to dominion. So, although a number of kings followed +Xerxes in Persia, the prophecy passes from his disastrous +invasion directly to the coming of Grecia under its "mighty +king," Alexander the Great.</p> + + +<h4>Grecia</h4> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"A mighty king shall stand up, that shall +rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And +when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and +shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to +his posterity." Dan. 11:3, 4.</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—Alexander the Great stood up and ruled with +great dominion, over a kingdom stretching from India to +Grecia, with kings yet farther west sending embassies to +Babylon to make submission. But in the height of his power, +as the prophecy suggests, he was suddenly cut down by death. +All his posterity perished, and out of the struggles of his +generals for supremacy came (301 <span class="smcap">b.c.</span>) the division of +the empire toward "the four winds," as the prophecy had +declared so long before. Rawlinson, the historian, says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_325" id="Page_325">[Pg 325]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"A quadripartite division of Alexander's dominion was recognized: +Macedonia [west], Egypt [south], Asia Minor [north], and Syria [stretching +eastward beyond the Euphrates]."—<i>"Sixth Monarchy," chap. 3.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>The Kings of the North and South</h4> + +<p>Next, a rearrangement of these powers is noted; and it +is this that gives us the key to the study of the closing portion +of the long prophetic outline dealing with events of our own +day. The narrative continues:</p> + +<p><i>Prophecy.</i>—"The king of the south shall be strong, and +one of his princes ... shall be strong above him;... his +dominion shall be a great dominion." Verse 5.</p> + +<p><i>History.</i>—The history testifies that the king of the south +(Egypt, under Ptolemy) was strong; but one of the four +princes was "strong above him." Seleucus, of Syria and the +east, pushed his dominion northward, subduing most of Asia +Minor, and extending his boundary into Thrace, on the European +side, beyond the Dardanelles. Henceforward, as Mahaffy +says,</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"there were three great kingdoms—Macedonia, Egypt, Syria—which +lasted, each under its own dynasty, till Rome swallowed them up."—<i>"Alexander's +Empire," p. 89.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus Seleucus took the territory of the north, and the +Syrian power became king of the north, its empire extending +from Thrace, in Europe, through Asia Minor to Syria and the +Euphrates. The seat of empire was removed from the east, +and Antioch, in northern Syria, "once the third city of the +world," became the famous capital.</p> + +<p>The prophecy next foretold in remarkable detail the contests +between these two strong powers, the king of the north +(Syria and Asia Minor) and the king of the south (Egypt). +The conflict raged back and forth till the coming of the Romans. +The Holy Land was the frequent meeting place of +the contending armies. The Encyclopedia Britannica describes +it:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_326" id="Page_326">[Pg 326]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Palestine was as of old the battle field for the king of the north and +the king of the south.... The history of these times is lost in its +details."—<i>Ninth +edition, Vol. XV, art. "Macedonian Empire," p. 144.</i></p></div> + +<p>We shall not follow the details of this contest as foretold +in the prophecy, nor yet the outline of events after the coming +of the Roman power ended the rivalry between Syria and +Egypt. It is necessary only that we fix the events and geographic +terms of this early portion of the prophecy. Then +we shall have the key to the closing portion, dealing with +events of the last days, when the king of the north again +appears.</p> + + +<h4>The Modern King of the North</h4> + +<p>In the last verses of the chapter we find the king of the +north a chief actor in this same region, "at the time of the +end." Verse 40. And we are told that when this power +comes to its end, it is the signal that the great day of God is +at hand. (See Dan. 12:1.)</p> + +<p>It becomes a vital question, therefore, what power in these +last days is the king of the north, whose end is the signal of +the swift ending of the world. Inspiration gives the basis +for the answer. The king of the north in the early portion of +the prophecy was the power that ruled in Syria and Asia +Minor, from the Euphrates to the shores of the Dardanelles. +The king of the north, then, of the later portion of the prophecy, +must be the power that has been ruling in this same +region during the time of the end.</p> + +<p>What power has held dominion over this territory in +modern times?—The Turkish or Ottoman Empire. At this +time Turkey holds almost the identical dominion of the ancient +king of the north—from the Euphrates to the sea, and +northward over Asia Minor and the shores of the Dardanelles.</p> + +<p>Then today Turkey is certainly the king of the north, +according to the prophecy of Daniel 11.</p> + +<p>Of the later history of the king of the north and his end +and the events following it, the prophecy says:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_327" id="Page_327">[Pg 327]</a></span></p> + +<p>"Tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble +him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, +and utterly to make away many.</p> + +<p>"And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between +the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to +his end, and none shall help him.</p> + +<p>"And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great +Prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and +there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there +was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy +people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written +in the book." Dan. 11:44, 45; 12:1.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p327.jpg" width="448" height="311" alt="CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE + +The capital of the Turkish government. + +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N, Y." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CITY OF CONSTANTINOPLE<br /> + +The capital of the Turkish government.<br /> + +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N, Y.</span> +</div> + +<p>The opening verse of this scripture describes exactly the +history of Turkey in modern times. Turkey's disquietude +has come because of tidings out of the east and out of the +north. In both these directions there has been a pushing +back of the Turkish frontier, particularly in the north. Again<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_328" id="Page_328">[Pg 328]</a></span> +and again, during this time of the end, Turkey has gone forth +with fury to resist these encroachments and prevent the loss +of territory.</p> + +<p>The prophecy indicates that in some of these struggles +the king of the north will yet transfer his capital:</p> + +<p>"He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between +the seas in the glorious holy mountain."</p> + + +<h4>Removal to Jerusalem</h4> + +<p>This prophecy can mean nothing else than that the king +of the north will eventually set up his headquarters in Jerusalem; +for Jerusalem is "the holy mountain" of the Scriptures. +Zech. 8:3.</p> + +<p>It is a wise counsel that says, "Tread lightly in the details +of unfulfilled prophecy." Just how events are to turn, by +what route or processes the steps are to be taken, it is useless +to conjecture. But there the prophecy stands. Every +word of the early portion of the prophetic outline has been +fulfilled to the letter in the history of the ancient empires +battling century after century over this region. Every word +spoken of the final scenes will as certainly be fulfilled.</p> + +<p>In view of this prophecy,—that Jerusalem is yet to be +made the headquarters of the king of the north,—it becomes +highly significant that the Mohammedans regard Jerusalem +as a sacred city. According to Mohammedan tradition, Jerusalem +is to play a leading part in the closing history of that +people. Hughes, in his "Dictionary of Islam," article "Jerusalem," +summarizes the teaching:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"In the last days there will be a general flight to Jerusalem."</p></div> + +<p>Speaking of Jerusalem, an old Arab commentator on the +Koran, Mukaddasi (<span class="smcap">A.D.</span> 985), said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"As to the excellence of the city. Why, is not this to be the place +of marshaling on the day of judgment, where the gathering together and +the appointment will take place? Verily Makkah [Mecca] and Al Madina +have their superiority by reason of the Ka'abah and the prophet,—the +blessing of Allah be upon him and his family!—but, in truth, on the +day of judgment both cities will come to Jerusalem, and the excellencies +of them all will then be united."—<i>Le Strange, "Palestine under the Moslems," +p. 85.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_329" id="Page_329">[Pg 329]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 297px;"> +<img src="images/p329.jpg" width="297" height="439" alt="MODERN JERUSALEM + +"He shall plant the tabernacles of his +palace between the seas in the glorious +holy mountain." Dan. 11:45." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MODERN JERUSALEM<br /> + +"He shall plant the tabernacles of his +palace between the seas in the glorious +holy mountain." Dan. 11:45.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_330" id="Page_330">[Pg 330]</a></span></p> + +<p>Thus Moslem doctrinal teaching and tradition both point +out Jerusalem as the rallying place of Moslems before the end. +Again and again in recent years, as the pressure has threatened +the Turkish hold on Constantinople, the thoughts of +Moslems have turned toward Jerusalem as a possible capital. +A few years ago a Seventh-day Adventist missionary in Constantinople +wrote to his home board:</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p330.jpg" width="444" height="278" alt="THE MOSQUE OF OMAR + +Situated in Jerusalem, on Mt. Moriah, +the site of Solomon's Temple." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MOSQUE OF OMAR<br /> + +Situated in Jerusalem, on Mt. Moriah, +the site of Solomon's Temple.</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Within the past few months quite a company of people from the +Transcaucasus district have come to Ismid,—old Nicodemia,—bringing +all they possess with them. Some of them possess considerable wealth. +When asked if they were going to settle in Ismid, they replied that they +would settle nowhere permanently at present. They stated that they +had come to be prepared to go with their leader when he left Constantinople +to go to Jerusalem."</p></div> + +<p>Wherever the capital may first be set up following the +forsaking of Constantinople,—and Turkish authorities, we are<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331">[Pg 331]</a></span> +told, have discussed a number of possible locations in Asia +Minor,—there stands the ancient prophecy as to the eventual +seat of the king of the north,</p> + +<p>"He shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the +seas in the glorious holy mountain."</p> + +<p>Following that, what comes? The prophecy declares,</p> + +<p>"Yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him."</p> + + +<h4>What Comes When Turkey Falls</h4> + +<p>The fury of his goings forth "utterly to make away many," +the moving of his capital from one place to another, avail +nothing in the end. "He shall come to his end, and none +shall help him."</p> + +<p>The suggestion of the prophecy is that this power has +hitherto been helped to stand. Here again every suggestion +of the prophetic language finds its response in history. +Through these later years of the time of the end the Ottoman +Empire has been helped to stand, by either one power or +another, or by some combination of powers. The late Lord +Salisbury, while premier of Britain, thus stated the reasons for +this policy of helping Turkey:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Turkey is in that remarkable condition in which it has now stood for +half a century, mainly because the great powers of the world have resolved +that for the peace of Christendom it is necessary that the Ottoman Empire +should stand. They came to that conclusion nearly half a century ago. +I do not think they have altered it now. The danger, if the Ottoman +Empire should fall, would not merely be the danger that would threaten +the territories of which that empire consists; it would be the danger that +the fire there lit should spread to other nations, and should involve all +that is most powerful and civilized in Europe in a dangerous and calamitous +contest. That was the danger that was present to the minds of our +fathers when they resolved to make the integrity and independence of +the Ottoman Empire a matter of European treaty, and that is a danger +which has not passed away."—<i>Mansion House speech, Nov. 9, 1895.</i></p></div> + +<p>The veteran premier stated the fear of modern statesmen +that Turkey's fall would involve all civilization in a calamitous +conflict. The prophecy pictures just such a catastrophe, +in these words:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332">[Pg 332]</a></span></p> + +<p>"He shall come to his end, and none shall help him. And +at that time shall Michael stand up, the great Prince which +standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a +time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation +even to that same time."</p> + +<p>What modern statesmen have seen impending and have +sought to ward off, the ancient prophecy says will surely come +to pass when the king of the north comes to his end,—a time +of trouble for the nations such as never was.</p> + + +<h4>In the New Testament</h4> + +<p>In the prophecy of Revelation 16, the last great clash of +the nations is represented as following the fall of the power +that rules the territory drained by the Euphrates. Describing +the last events in human history, under the pouring out +of the vials of judgment upon the world, the prophet says:</p> + +<p>"The sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river +Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way +of the kings of the east might be prepared." Rev. 16:12.</p> + +<p>The water of the Euphrates represents the people or power +ruling by it. When anciently the Assyrians dwelt by that +river and were about to invade Israel, the prophet said, "The +Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong +and many, even the king of Assyria." Isa. 8:7. The waters +of the Euphrates meant the Assyrian power.</p> + +<p>Just so in this prophecy, the river stands for the people. +As the Nile stood for Egypt, and the Tiber for Rome, so in +all modern times the Euphrates has stood for Turkey. The +"drying up" of the Euphrates must mean the ending of the +Turkish power. And in the verses immediately following, +Revelation pictures the gathering of the nations of the whole +world to Armageddon—"the battle of that great day of +God Almighty." Following Turkey's end comes the final +clash of nations. The earth quakes, the cities of the nations +fall, and the last judgments of God come upon a warring +world.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333">[Pg 333]</a></span></p> + +<p>Here, as in Daniel 12, is pictured a time of trouble for +the nations such as never was, and the end of the world, +when the power ruling in Syria, by the Euphrates, comes to +its end.</p> + + +<h4>The Approaching End</h4> + +<p>For years statesmen and observers have discussed the approaching +dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. Travelers +in Turkey have reported that thoughtful Turkish people +held the conviction that the crisis of their nation was near +at hand. Years ago Mr. Charles MacFarlane wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The Turks themselves seem generally to be convinced that their +final hour is approaching. 'We are no longer Mussulmans,—the Mussulman +saber is broken,—the Osmanlis will be driven out of Europe by the +<i>gaiours</i>, and driven through Asia to the regions from which they first +sprang. It is Kismet! We cannot resist destiny!' I heard words to +this effect from many Turks, as well in Asia as in Europe."—<i>"Kismet; +or the Doom of Turkey" (London, 1853), p. 409.</i></p></div> + +<p>A later Turkish traveler, Mr. Wilfred Scawen Blunt, says:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Ancient prophecy and modern superstition alike point to the return +of the Crescent into Asia as an event at hand, and to the doom of the +Turks.... A well-known prediction to this effect, which has for ages +exercised its influence on the vulgar and even on the learned Mohammedan +mind,... places the scene of the last struggle in northern Syria, +at Homs, on the Orontes. Islam is then finally to retire from the north, +and the Turkish rule to cease. Such prophecies often work their own +fulfilment."—<i>"Future of Islam," p. 95.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus native tradition and human forebodings have contemplated +the break-up of the Turkish power, as the course +of the years has witnessed the shrinkage of its territory and +the ever-increasing difficulty of its position.</p> + +<p>Now and then there has been a renewal of Turkey's vigor +and prestige; then again its situation has been rendered yet +more precarious. It has been a buffer between the clashing +interests of the great powers. Speaking of Turkey's difficult +position in this respect, the London <i>Fortnightly Review</i>, May, +1915, expressed a common view thus:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334">[Pg 334]</a></span></p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"When once the nations of Europe set foot in Asia Minor, the pace of +Turkey's further downfall will be set not so much by Turkey's strength +or weakness as by the mutual jealousies of the occupying powers."</p></div> + +<p>The storm clouds hang ever low over the Near East; while +above all the din of wars and rumors of wars, the voice of +divine prophecy declares that when this power comes to its +end, the closing events in human history will quickly follow.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p334.jpg" width="448" height="336" alt="CONSTANTINOPLE THE KEY CITY OF THE WORLD + +The cross on which the peace of the +world has been crucified." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CONSTANTINOPLE THE KEY CITY OF THE WORLD<br /> + +The cross on which the peace of the +world has been crucified.</span> +</div> + +<p>The solemn truth rings in our ears like a trumpet peal; +the age-long Eastern Question is hastening on to its final solution, +and its solution brings the end of the world.</p> + +<p>In the light of the "sure word of prophecy" the developments +of our day in the East become more than matters of +grave political concern to statesmen and observers of affairs +generally; they are matters of deepest personal, eternal interest +to every soul. In watching the trend of international +affairs, we are watching the doing of the last things among +the nations.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335">[Pg 335]</a></span></p> + +<p>As these things are seen coming to pass exactly as the +prophecy foretold, we recognize them as God's call to men in +the last generation to turn to Him and prepare their hearts +to meet the coming Lord. Let no one think to wait until +he sees Turkey come to its end before making his peace with +God. The end of this power, as described in Revelation 16, +comes during the falling of the seven last plagues. And the +last verse of the preceding chapter shows that Christ's ministry +for sinners in the heavenly temple has ended before +the plagues begin to fall. Human probation will already have +closed. The solemn decree will then have been issued in +heaven:</p> + +<p>"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is +filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him +be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. +And, behold, I come quickly." Rev. 22:11, 12.</p> + +<p>"Now is the accepted time," calls the Spirit; "now is the +day of salvation." 2 Cor. 6:2. We have not to make ourselves +ready. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just +to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." +1 John 1:9. Our part is to believe and confess; +His part is to forgive and cleanse and make us ready for +the coming kingdom.</p> + + +<p>The Sinner's Plea</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">With broken heart and contrite sigh,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">A trembling sinner, Lord, I cry;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Thy pardoning grace is rich and free:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O God, be merciful to me!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">Nor alms, nor deeds that I have done,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Can for a single sin atone;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To Calvary alone I flee:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O God, be merciful to me!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">And when, redeemed from sin and hell,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With all the ransomed throng I dwell,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">My raptured song shall ever be,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"God has been merciful to me!"<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Cornelius Elven.</i><br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336">[Pg 336]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p336.jpg" width="448" height="284" alt="THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON + +The whole world involved in the last great clash of nations. +"The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come." Rev. 11:18." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE GREAT BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON<br /> + +The whole world involved in the last great clash of nations. +"The nations were angry, and Thy wrath is come." Rev. 11:18.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337">[Pg 337]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 448px;"> +<img src="images/p337.jpg" width="448" height="281" alt="THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON +AND MT. MEGIDDO + +"He gathered them together into a place +called ... Armageddon." Rev. 16:16." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON +AND MT. MEGIDDO<br /> + +"He gathered them together into a place +called ... Armageddon." Rev. 16:16.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="ARMAGEDDON" id="ARMAGEDDON"></a>ARMAGEDDON</h2> + +<h3>THE FINAL CLASH OF EARTHLY EMPIRES</h3> + + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"We are living, we are dwelling,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In a grand and awful time,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">In an age on ages telling,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To be living is sublime.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hark! the waking up of nations,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Gog and Magog to the fray;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Hark! what soundeth? Is creation<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Groaning for her latter day?"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The sure word of prophecy that foretold the rise and fall +of ancient empires, and outlined the general course of world +history through the ages, describes also the last great struggle +of the nations.</p> + +<p>The proverb says, "Peace is the dream of the wise, but +war is the history of man." And divine prophecy assures us +that the history of this present world will end amid scenes +of conflict.</p> + +<p>Many in our time have come to think that civilization must +reach a better way of composing the rivalries of the nations.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338">[Pg 338]</a></span> +The prophecy forewarns us otherwise. In fact, the prophetic +word points to the talk of peace and safety amid +preparations for war, as a distinct sign of the latter days.</p> + +<p>"In the last days," Isaiah says, "many people shall go +and say:"</p> + +<p>"They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their +spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword +against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Isa. +2:2-4.</p> + +<p>This is what "many people" were to be saying. But the +real conditions in the last days are described as exactly +the opposite. The prophet Joel describes the real spirit of +the world in these times:</p> + +<p>"Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles [the nations]: Prepare +war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war +draw near; let them come up: beat your plowshares into +swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, +I am strong." Joel 3:9, 10.</p> + +<p>The context shows that the prophet is speaking of the +last times, when "the day of the Lord is near." Verse 14.</p> + + +<h4>The Prophecy Fulfilling</h4> + +<p>This is what we have seen in our time, as never before +in the history of man,—the product of the plowshare and the +pruning hook being turned into instruments of war.</p> + +<p>About twenty-five years ago the late Marquis of Salisbury, +speaking as a man grown gray in the service of the +state, asked a London audience the question, "What is the +great change that marks this time as different from the times +when most of us were young men?" The aged statesman +answered his own question, saying that it was the arming of +the nations, the swift race upon which the powers had then +recently entered, to increase their naval and military armaments. +It is a sign of our times, answering to the prophetic +forecast.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339">[Pg 339]</a></span></p> + +<p>Throughout the present generation the thoughtful have +watched with grave forebodings the preparations of the nations +for war. Queen Alexandra, of Britain, once said of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"I was educated in the school of a king who was, before all things, +just; and I have tried, like him, always to preach love and charity, I have +always mistrusted warlike preparations, of which nations seem never to +tire. Some day this accumulated material of soldiers and guns will +burst into flames in a frightful war that will throw humanity into mourning +on earth and grieve our universal Father in heaven."</p></div> + +<p>As the race of armaments went forward on a scale never +before thought of, statesmen and writers began to make use +of the word "Armageddon" to describe the conflict that they +saw was inevitable. Years ago the London <i>Contemporary +Review</i> said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Odd things are happening everywhere.... Russia, Germany, England—these +are great names; they palpitate with great ideas; they have +vast destinies before them, and millions of armed men in their pay, all +awaiting Armageddon."</p></div> + +<p>In June, 1909, Lord Rosebery, in a speech before a press +convention in London, commented gravely upon the significance +of the feverish haste with which the nations were arming +themselves, "as if for some great Armageddon, and that +in a time of the profoundest peace."</p> + +<p>To quote from a popular American magazine, of the same +year:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Today all Europe is divided into two armed camps, waiting breathlessly +for the morrow with its Armageddon."—<i>Everybody's Magazine, +November, 1909.</i></p></div> + +<p>Thus, everywhere, observers saw that the rivalry of interests +among the nations was leading to a conflict so +overwhelmingly vast that only the Scriptural word "Armageddon," +with its appeal to the imagination, seemed adequately +suggestive of its proportions.</p> + +<p>Every passing year added to the intensity of feeling and +the antagonism of interests. In 1911 the London <i>Nineteenth +Century and After</i> said:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340">[Pg 340]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p340.jpg" width="299" height="448" alt="UNITED STATES +BATTLESHIP "NEVADA" + +Photograph taken from the Manhattan +Bridge. New York." title="" /> +<span class="caption">UNITED STATES +BATTLESHIP "NEVADA"<br /> + +Photograph taken from the Manhattan +Bridge. New York.<br /> +COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD. N.Y. +</span></div> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341">[Pg 341]</a></span></p> +<p>"Never was national and racial feeling stronger upon earth than it +is now. Never was preparation for war so tremendous and so sustained. +Never was striking power so swift and so terribly formidable.... The +shadow of conflict and of displacement greater than any which mankind +has known since Attila and his Huns were stayed at Châlons, is visibly +impending over the world. Almost can the ear of imagination hear the +gathering of the legions for the fiery trial of peoples, a sound vast as the +trumpet of the Lord of hosts."—<i>Quoted in the Literary Digest, May 6, +1911.</i></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 410px;"> +<img src="images/p341.jpg" width="410" height="336" alt="COMRADES AFTER +THE BATTLE + +Soldiers bringing in two wounded captives. + +PHOTO BY CENTRAL PHOTO SERVICE. N.Y." title="" /> +<span class="caption">COMRADES AFTER +THE BATTLE<br /> + +Soldiers bringing in two wounded captives. + +PHOTO BY CENTRAL PHOTO SERVICE. N.Y.</span> +</div> + +<p>What the ancient prophecy foretold—the preparing of +war in the last days, the waking up and arming of the nations—we +have seen fulfilling before our eyes in this generation.</p> + + +<h4>Satanic Agencies at Work</h4> + +<p>In prophecies of the gathering of the nations for the last +great struggle, Inspiration draws aside the veil, and allows +us to see the agencies that have been stirring up the world<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342">[Pg 342]</a></span> +for the war. As the prophet John was shown in vision the +scenes of the last days, he saw the invisible powers of Satan, +"the spirits of devils," going forth "unto the kings of the +earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle +of that great day of God Almighty." Rev. 16:14.</p> + +<p>Earnest-minded statesmen have lamented their helplessness +to combat the forces and influences pressing the world +on toward conflict. In one of his last speeches as premier +of Great Britain, the late Marquis of Salisbury was defending +yet further calls for army and navy appropriations. He +said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"For years public opinion was in favor of a pacific policy, but now +that state of opinion has passed away. The tide has turned, and who +am I, and who are we, that we should attempt to stem the tide? If the +tide has turned, we shall have to go with it. We are in the presence of +forces far larger than we can wield."</p></div> + +<p>What those forces were, the aged statesman did not recognize, +but the prophecy tells us. The prophet was shown +the evil spirits from Satan going forth everywhere as the end +nears, to stir up the whole world to the last great conflict.</p> + +<p>Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, described these +agencies very accurately. Speaking in the House of Commons, +Nov. 27, 1911, he said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It is really as if in the atmosphere of the world there were some +mischievous influence at work, which troubles and excites every part of it."</p></div> + +<p>It is all coming to pass exactly as the sure word of prophecy +foretold.</p> + +<p>The conviction that great and decisive events are at hand +has taken possession of many hearts in all the world. When +the European war broke out in 1914, on a scale unprecedented +in human history, it was no wonder that the question sprang +to many lips, "Is it Armageddon?"</p> + +<p>The question was not lightly asked. The committee of +the Church Missionary Society (Church of England), one of +the greatest missionary organizations in the world, sent a +message to its missionaries in all lands at the outbreak of the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343">[Pg 343]</a></span> +war. In this message was a call to prepare for the coming +of the Lord:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"It may be that these events will quickly usher in the return of Christ +to gather His saints together from the four quarters of the earth.... +Many see in the events preceding and accompanying this terrible cataclysm +of war the signs of our Lord's near return. If so, blessed will that +servant be whom his Lord when He cometh shall find giving 'their food +in due season' to those fellow servants who have been put in his +charge."—<i>Church Missionary Review, November, 1914.</i></p></div> + +<p>Timely as this call was, it was evident, from the prophetic +scriptures, that the conflict then opening could not be the +Armageddon of the Apocalypse, for the prelude to that final +clash of nations is an event yet in the future—the downfall +of a nation whose part in the closing scenes is clearly described +in the prophecy of the coming Armageddon.</p> + +<p>The end of the power which rules over the territory through +which the river Euphrates flows, is the prelude to Armageddon. +The prophecy says:</p> + +<p>"The sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river +Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the +way of the kings of the East might be prepared." Rev. 16:12.</p> + +<p>Next follows the gathering of "the whole world" to "the +battle of that great day of God Almighty." Verse 14.</p> + +<p>Through all modern times Turkey has been identified +with the Euphrates. The region of Syria and Asia Minor, +long held by Turkey, has been the historic meeting place of +the East and the West. In the London <i>Fortnightly Review</i>, +May, 1915, Mr. J.B. Firth wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"When, with the fall of Ottoman sovereignty at Constantinople, +the Turk is driven out of Europe, there will arise once more the eternal +question of the possession of Asia Minor. That land is the corridor between +Europe and Asia, along which have passed most of the European +conquerors—the Russians alone excepted—who have invaded Asia, +and most of the Asiatic conquerors who have invaded Europe."</p></div> + +<p>The fall of the Turkish power in this Euphrates region +will, in some manner, prepare the way for "the kings of the +East" to come up to the final conflict.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344">[Pg 344]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Awakening of the East</h4> + +<p>The same spirit that has been stirring up the West in preparation +for the contest has been working in the East also. +Year after year observers have pointed out the great changes +taking place in Asia. September, 1909, the London <i>Contemporary +Review</i> said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The whole of Asia is in the throes of rebirth. At last we may see +these three—the yellow race, the Indian race, and the Arab-Persian +Mohammedan race. And all that is making for the Armageddon."</p></div> + +<p>A writer in the May, 1913, issue of the London <i>Nineteenth +Century and After</i>, reviewing the situation at the close of the +Balkan War, said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"A new spirit is abroad in the East. It arose on the shores of the +Pacific when Japan proved that the great powers of Europe are not invulnerable. +North and south and west it has spread, rousing China out +of centuries of slumber, stirring India into ominous questioning, reviving +memories of past glory in Persia, breeding discontent in Egypt, and luring +Turkey onto the rocks."</p></div> + +<p>With all the nations stirred up by the spirit agencies of +the god of this world, the prophet next saw the armies of earth +gathering to the last great battle. The prophecy continues:</p> + +<p>"And he gathered them together into a place called in +the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." Rev. 16:16.</p> + +<p>Armageddon means the hill, or mount, of Megiddo, which +overlooks the plain of Esdraelon, the historic battle ground +of northern Palestine. Carmack says of it:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Megiddo was the military key of Syria; it commanded at once +the highway northward to Phœnicia and Cœle-Syria and the road across +Galilee to Damascus and the valley of the Euphrates. It was moreover +the chief town in a district of great fertility, the contested possession of +many races. The vale of Kishon and the region of Megiddo were inevitable +battle fields. Through all history they retained that qualification; +there many of the great contests of southwestern Asia have been decided. +In the history of Israel it was the scene of frequent battles. From such +association the district achieved a dark nobility; it was regarded as a pre-destined +place of blood and strife; the poet of the Apocalypse has clothed +it with awe as the ground of the final conflict between the powers of light +and darkness."—<i>"Pre-Biblical Syria and Palestine," p. 82.</i></p></div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345">[Pg 345]</a></span></p> + +<p>Thus Armageddon, as the "military key of Syria," marks +Palestine and the Near East as the great international storm +center in the final conflict.</p> + + +<h4>The Political Storm Center</h4> + +<p>In vision, nearly two thousand years ago, the prophet +saw the forces of the last days gathering around this pivotal +region. Today observers recognize the eastern Mediterranean +as indeed the pivotal point around which international +interests involving East and West naturally revolve.</p> + +<p>Some years ago, in discussing railway development in Asia +and Africa, and the great highways of sea transportation, +the London <i>Fortnightly Review</i> said:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Palestine is the great center, the meeting of the roads. Whoever +holds Palestine, commands the great lines of communication, not only +by land, but also by sea."</p></div> + +<p>Again, the Manchester <i>Guardian</i>, emphasizing the importance +attaching to this strategic center, said during the great +war:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"Egypt, as things are,—and the fact cannot be too often emphasized,—is +the weak spot in our system of imperial defense by sea power. +Not until Palestine is in our possession can Egypt be regarded as safe."—<i>Quoted +in Literary Digest, Feb. 12, 1916, p. 369.</i></p></div> + +<p>Other nations have recognized the strategic value of a +territory so situated. Thus political considerations make this +region pointed out by the prophecy a center of conflicting +interests. Hogarth, in his book, "The Near East," calls it +"the time-honored storm center of the eastern Mediterranean."</p> + + +<h4>The Religious Storm Center</h4> + +<p>To the conflict of political interests is added the rivalry +of religious sentiment. Commenting on the religious associations +of Palestine in relation to the international political +situation, the London <i>Spectator</i> some years ago stated the +matter thus:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"People often ask how it is that the future of Palestine presents such +difficulties. The reason is simply that Jerusalem—you cannot separate<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346">[Pg 346]</a></span> +Jerusalem from Palestine—is the sacred city of so many creeds and warring +faiths. Not only is it the holy place of all the Christian churches,—and +two of them quarrel bitterly over it, the Greeks and the Latins,—but +it is also one of the most sacred places in the Mohammedan world. +Mecca and Medina are hardly more sacred than the Mosque of Omar. +That is a fact which is often ignored by Europeans, who forget that to +turn the Mohammedans out of the temple inclosure would disturb the +whole Moslem world, from the Straits Settlements to Albania. We must +never forget that Mohammedan pilgrims from India visit Jerusalem, just +as Christian pilgrims visit it from Europe. Lastly, Jerusalem is profoundly +sacred to the Jews, and the Jews are beginning to be locally +numerous and important. Most certainly there are no elements of difficulty +wanting in the problem of the future of Palestine."</p></div> + +<p>History records the fact that rivalry over the care of the +traditional holy places helped to precipitate one European +war—that of the Crimea.</p> + +<p>In the study of the Eastern Question, we have seen that +the prophecy of Daniel 11 marks Jerusalem as still a storm +center in the closing scenes. A British consul in Jerusalem, +in the days following the Crimean War, set forth suggestively +his view of one of the factors in the Eastern Question. He +wrote:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>"The very heart and kernel of the Eastern Question can only be +reached in the Holy City, Jerusalem, where the Eastern and Western +churches are still wrestling as of old for the mastery.... Now as heretofore, +disguise the object as they may, they are striving for a prize which +has not been destined by divine Providence for either; and this prize is +no less than a virtual dominion over the Christian world, from a throne +of government within the sanctuaries of the Holy City; and the possession +of that throne would involve possession of the key to universal +dominion."—<i>"Stirring +Times: Records from Jerusalem Consulate Chronicles," by +James Finn, introductory note by editor, p. xxiii.</i></p></div> + + +<h4>Foretold in Prophecy</h4> + +<p>By every consideration—political, racial, and religious—the +Near East supplies all the elements for involving the +whole world when once the sweeping displacements begin +which the prophecy foretold, and for which statesmen in our +day have sought to prepare.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347">[Pg 347]</a></span></p> + +<p>Long ages ago the prophet of God, in vision on the Isle +of Patmos, was shown the clash of interests and the gathering +of the nations around this historic center. Before our eyes +today we see events tending to give to this region the very +character assigned to it by the prophecy. It was written in +the sure word of prophecy in order that, as the events foretold +are seen approaching, men may believe and turn to God, +and find salvation from the things coming upon the earth.</p> + +<p>Into the prophecy of this sixteenth chapter of Revelation, +describing the gathering of forces to Armageddon, our Saviour +interjects the warning and the appeal:</p> + +<p>"Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, +and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see +his shame." Verse 15.</p> + +<p>The last earthly events that the prophecy is dealing with—the +pouring out of the seven last plagues, and the clash of +Armageddon—come after probation closes. The close of probation, +the passing of the ministry of Christ in the heavenly +temple, will come as a thief, unannounced. Our only safety +is in yielding heart and life to him now for cleansing, and +accepting from his hand the garments of his own righteousness, +freely offered to every one.</p> + + +<h4>What Comes with Armageddon</h4> + +<p>Whatever ambitions or aims may be the impelling motives +when the gathering to the great conflict comes, one +thing is certain: Armageddon is to bring triumph and world +dominion to no earthly power. As the nations gather, the +Lord intervenes from heaven, and the history of the kingdoms +of this world is closed at last. The prophet tells the sequel +to Armageddon:</p> + +<p>"He gathered them together into a place called in the +Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured +out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out +of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. +And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348">[Pg 348]</a></span> +there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were +upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And +the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of +the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance +before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness +of His wrath. And every island fled away, and the +mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great +hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: +and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; +for the plague thereof was exceeding great." Rev. 16:16-21.</p> + +<p>The fall of the Turkish power is the prelude to the gathering +of the nations to the battle of Armageddon. And Armageddon +is the prelude to the end of the world and Christ's +glorious coming as King of kings and Lord of lords. The +armies gathered to battle for supremacy find themselves +suddenly arrayed against the armies of heaven. Another +prophecy describes the scene when Christ is revealed:</p> + +<p>"The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich +men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every +bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and +in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains +and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of Him that +sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for +the great day of His wrath is come; and who shall be able to +stand?" Rev. 6:15-17.</p> + +<p>Again, as the great searchlight of divine prophecy lights +up the way before us, we see by the course of present-day +events that the end is drawing very near. By what sudden +turn of affairs the last things to be done in history may be +set in motion, none can foresee. The Saviour admonishes +every soul, "Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour +as ye think not the Son of man cometh." Matt. 24:44.</p> + +<p>It is for this time of waiting, especially, that Christ spoke +the parable of the ten virgins who waited for the bridegroom. +All sincerely wanted to meet him; all expected to be ready. +But when the cry was raised, "Behold, the bridegroom cometh;<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349">[Pg 349]</a></span> +go ye out to meet him!" only five were ready. The +others lacked the oil that was to give them light. We know +what the oil represents—the genuine heart experience of the +grace and love of Christ.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 372px;"> +<img src="images/p349.jpg" width="372" height="336" alt="THE TEN VIRGINS + +"They that were ready went in with him to the +marriage: and the door was shut." Matt. 25:10." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE TEN VIRGINS<br /> + +"They that were ready went in with him to the +marriage: and the door was shut." Matt. 25:10.</span> +</div> + +<p>Those overtaken unready, hastened away to get oil. "And +while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and <i>they that +were ready</i> went in with him to the marriage: and the door +was shut." Matt. 25:10. Those that were ready went in; +those that were getting ready were too late. How came some +to be ready?—They were ready all the time; they kept ready. +This lesson is for us now. Our only safety is in being ready +every day, keeping sins forgiven, the life surrendered to God.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350">[Pg 350]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;"> +<img src="images/p350.jpg" width="450" height="124" alt="THE MILLENNIUM" title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MILLENNIUM</span> +</div> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>The millennium is the closing period of God's great week of time—a great +sabbath of rest to the earth and to the people +of God.</p> + +<p>It follows the close of the gospel age, and precedes the setting up of the +everlasting kingdom of God on earth.</p> + +<p>It comprehends what in the Scriptures is frequently spoken of as "the day of the +Lord."</p> + +<p>It is bounded at each end by a resurrection.</p> + +<p>Its beginning is marked by the pouring out of the seven last plagues, the second +coming of Christ, the resurrection of +the righteous dead, the binding of Satan, and the translation of the saints to +heaven; and its close, by the descent of the New +Jerusalem, with Christ and the saints, from heaven, the resurrection of the +wicked dead, the loosing of Satan, and the final +destruction of the wicked.</p> + +<p>During the one thousand years the earth lies desolate; Satan and his angels are +confined here; and the saints, with Christ, +sit in judgment on the wicked, preparatory to their final punishment.</p> + +<p>The wicked dead are then raised; Satan is loosed for a little season, and he and +the host of the wicked encompass the +camp of the saints and the holy city, when fire comes down from God out of +heaven and devours them. The earth is cleansed +by the same fire that destroys the wicked, and, renewed, becomes the eternal +abode of the saints.</p> + +<p>The millennium is one of "the ages to come." Its close will mark the beginning +of the new earth state.</p></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351">[Pg 351]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 442px;"> +<img src="images/p351.jpg" width="442" height="309" alt="CHRIST COMING FOR +HIS OWN + +"They lived and reigned with Christ a +thousand years," Rev. 20:4." title="" /> +<span class="caption">CHRIST COMING FOR +HIS OWN<br /> + +"They lived and reigned with Christ a +thousand years," Rev. 20:4.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_MILLENNIUM" id="THE_MILLENNIUM"></a><b>THE MILLENNIUM</b></h2> + + +<p>The word "millennium" means "a thousand years." +This definite period is referred to specifically in but one chapter +of the Bible, the twentieth of Revelation; and in that +chapter it is spoken of repeatedly. We find it to be:</p> + +<p>The period during which the saints reign with Christ in +judgment.</p> + +<p>The period during which Satan is bound.</p> + +<p>The measure of time between the two resurrections, that +of the just and that of the unjust.</p> + +<p>An examination of the scriptures bearing upon the millennium +will show:</p> + +<p>1. The events that mark its beginning.</p> + +<p>2. The events that occur during the thousand years.</p> + +<p>3. The events that come at the end of the period.</p> + +<p>We shall find it clearly taught in these scriptures:</p> + +<p>That the millennium begins at the second coming of Christ.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352">[Pg 352]</a></span></p> + +<p>That the reign of the saints with Him in judgment is not +on this earth, but in heaven.</p> + +<p>That this earth, void of human inhabitants, is Satan's +prison house during the thousand years.</p> + +<p>That at the end of the thousand years the judgment determined +is executed upon Satan and all the wicked.</p> + +<p>That this earth, purified by the fires of the last judgment, +and renewed, becomes the eternal home of the saved.</p> + + +<h4>1. Events at the Beginning of the Thousand Years</h4> + +<p>The key to the time is furnished by the declaration that +the millennium begins with—</p> + + +<h4>The Resurrection of the Just</h4> + +<p>Speaking of the risen saints, the Scripture says:</p> + +<p>"They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. +But the rest of the dead [the wicked] lived not again until +the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. +Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection." +Rev. 20:4-6.</p> + +<p>There are to be two resurrections. The apostle Paul said +that this was the teaching of all Scripture: "There shall be +a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust." +Acts 24:15. The first resurrection, that of the just, marks +the beginning of the thousand years.</p> + + +<h4>Christ's Second Coming</h4> + +<p>When is this first resurrection, in the order of events in +this "day of the Lord"? It is at the second advent of Christ. +One scripture, out of many, will suffice to state it:</p> + +<p>"The Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a +shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump +of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first." 1 Thess. 4:16.</p> + +<p>As the Saviour comes in glory, with all the holy angels, +the graves are opened, and His voice awakens His children +who sleep in the dust.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[Pg 353]</a></span></p> + +<p>"He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, +and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, +from one end of heaven to the other." Matt. 24:31.</p> + +<p>The time of Christ's second coming, therefore, is the beginning +of the millennium.</p> + + +<h4>The Righteous Taken to Heaven</h4> + +<p>The living righteous are translated, and, together with +the risen saints, are taken to heaven, as the apostle says:</p> + +<p>"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up +together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: +and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thess. 4:17.</p> + +<p>This was the Saviour's promise:</p> + +<p>"In My Father's house are many mansions.... I go to +prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place +for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; +that where I am, there ye may be also." John 14:2, 3.</p> + + +<h4>The Destruction of the Wicked</h4> + +<p>At Christ's second coming the wicked are slain. The unbelieving +left without shelter in that day, cannot endure the +presence of such glory as will burst upon the world:</p> + +<p>"The Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His +mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that +know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus +Christ." 2 Thess. 1:7, 8.</p> + + +<h4>The Binding of Satan</h4> + +<p>With the saints in heaven, beyond the reach of Satan's +wiles, and with the wicked dead, not to live again till the +thousand years are finished, Satan is "bound"—confined by +divine power to this earth, which becomes his prison house, +there being neither saint nor sinner upon whom to ply his arts +of deception. No prisoner was ever more effectually chained. +The symbolical language of the prophet pictures the scene:</p> + +<p>"I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key +of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[Pg 354]</a></span> +he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the +Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast +him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal +upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till +the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must +be loosed a little season." Rev. 20:1-3.</p> + +<p>These are the events that mark the beginning of the thousand +years: Christ's second coming, the resurrection of the +just, the ascent of all the redeemed to the city of God, the +death of the wicked, and, in consequence, the binding of Satan.</p> + + +<h4>2. Events During the Thousand Years</h4> + + +<h4>In Heaven</h4> + +<p>Scene after scene of glory is spread before us in the visions +the prophets were given of the redeemed in the city of God. +The prophet John says:</p> + +<p>"After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which +no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, +and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, +clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.... +Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve Him +day and night in His temple." Rev. 7:9-15.</p> + +<p>They "serve" in the temple of the Lord, the prophet says; +while the poet sings:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Whence came the armies of the sky,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">John saw in vision bright?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whence came their crowns, their robes, their palms,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Too pure for mortal sight?<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"From desert waste, and cities full,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">From dungeons dark, they've come,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And now they claim their mansion fair,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They've found their long-sought home."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>One service in which the saved have part during the thousand +years is the work of judgment that still remains, preparatory +to the final visitation of sin and the destruction of +Satan and all his works. The prophet saw this work going<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[Pg 355]</a></span> +forward in the heavenly courts, the redeemed associated with +Christ in the service:</p> + +<p>"I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment +was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were +beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, +and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, +neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in +their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand +years." Rev. 20:4.</p> + +<p>It was to this work of judging the wicked and the evil +angels, that the apostle Paul referred in the counsel to the +Corinthians: "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge +the world?... Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" +1 Cor. 6:2, 3.</p> + + +<h4>On Earth</h4> + +<p>While in heaven above the saved are with Christ and the +holy angels before the throne, and follow the Lamb whithersoever +He goeth, it is to be remembered that on earth all is +desolation and emptiness. The wicked have been slain by +the glory of Christ's coming. By the quaking of the earth +the cities of the nations have fallen in ruin, islands have been +removed, and mountains cast into the depths of the sea. The +condition of the earth during this time of desolation is thus +described by the prophet:</p> + +<p>"I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and +void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the +mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved +lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the +birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful +place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken +down at the presence of the Lord, and by His fierce anger." +Jer. 4:23-26.</p> + +<p>"Without form, and void," said the prophet. This is the +same phrase that is used in the opening verses of Genesis to +describe the chaotic state of the earth in the beginning. At +the beginning of creation week the earth was in a state of<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[Pg 356]</a></span> +emptiness and chaos—an "abyss," as it is called in the +Greek translation of Genesis. Again, during this thousand-year +period, the earth is an "abyss," or a desolate waste. +"Abyss" is the meaning of the word translated "bottomless +pit" in the text telling of the binding of Satan by the mighty +angel of God:</p> + +<p>"He laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is +the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and +cast him into the bottomless pit." Rev. 20:2, 3. The Revised +Version says, "And cast him into the abyss."</p> + +<p>Confined to this pit or abyss of desolation, as a prisoner +in a prison house, with none to tempt, the author of sin has +a thousand years in which to view the ruin that sin has wrought +in the earth that once left its Maker's hand beautiful and +perfect, unmarred by any curse.</p> + + +<h4>3. Events at the End of the Thousand Years</h4> + +<p>At the end of the millennium, this earth becomes the +scene of events that close the great controversy between +Christ and Satan.</p> + + +<h4>The Descent of the Holy City</h4> + +<p>The judgment work in heaven having been accomplished, +the hour has come for the execution of the judgment upon +sin and sinners. The holy city comes down out of heaven. +The prophet saw its descent in vision:</p> + +<p>"I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down +from God out of heaven." Rev. 21:2.</p> + + +<h4>The Loosing of Satan</h4> + +<p>"When the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be +loosed out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations." +Rev. 20:7, 8.</p> + +<p>With all the wicked destroyed by the glory of Christ's +second coming, Satan had been effectually bound; but now, +as the city descends, the voice of Christ calls forth the wicked +dead, and Satan is thus loosed, and assumes control again of +those who have chosen him as their master.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[Pg 357]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is the time of which the Scripture speaks: "The rest of +the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished." +Verse 5. The prophet saw the hosts of the lost called forth. +"The sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and +hell [the "grave," margin] delivered up the dead which were +in them." Verse 13.</p> + +<p>Thus Satan's subjects come forth to the last judgment. +The resurrection of the wicked of all the ages is the loosing +of Satan. Here again is his kingdom, and again he plies his +deceptions and takes up anew his fight against God. How +very natural that Satan should persuade the wicked that he +has raised them to life, that his word in the beginning was +true, "Ye shall not surely die"! If they are immortal, why +may they not yet prevail against God? Satan rallies his +angels and the hosts of the wicked, in numbers "as the sand +of the sea," to make an attack upon the city of God.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"How vast the concourse! not in number more<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The waves that break on the resounding shore,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The leaves that tremble in the shady grove,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The lamps that gild the spangled vaults above;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Those overwhelming armies, whose command<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Said to one empire, Fall; another, Stand;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Whose rear lay wrap't in night, while breaking dawn<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rous'd the broad front, and called the battle on;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Great Xerxes' world in arms, proud Cannæ's field,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where Carthage taught victorious Rome to yield,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Immortal Blenheim, fam'd Ramillia's host;—<br /></span> +<span class="i0">They all are here, and here they all are lost;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Their millions swell, to be discerned in vain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lost as a billow in th' unbounded main."<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">—<i>Edward Young's "Last Day."</i><br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city." Verse 9.</p> + +<h4>The Wicked Before the Bar of God</h4> + +<p>But as the hosts of evil compass the city, they are halted +by the glory and majesty of the Redeemer's presence, enthroned +as eternal victor over sin. Just here must apply +the prophet's words:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[Pg 358]</a></span></p> + +<p>"I saw a great white throne, and Him that sat on it, from +whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there +was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small +and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: +and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and +the dead were judged out of those things which were written +in the books, according to their works." Rev. 20:11, 12.</p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p358.jpg" width="445" height="298" alt="THE HOLY CITY DESCENDS + +"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with +men." Rev 21:3." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE HOLY CITY DESCENDS<br /> + +"Behold, the tabernacle of God is with +men." Rev 21:3.</span> +</div> + +<p>During the thousand years the records in heaven have +been reviewed, and the degrees of guilt established. Now the +judgment is to be pronounced and executed. But first the +record of the books and the eternal righteousness of God's +holy law are flashed by divine power upon the consciences +of all the lost—"their conscience also bearing witness" (Rom. +2:15) that they are without excuse.</p> + +<h4>The Destruction of Sin</h4> + +<p>Sin is now to be blotted from the universe of God; and +those who have chosen to be identified with sin perish with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span> +it. All that Infinite Love can do has been done in the gift +of Christ to save men from the transgression of the holy law +of God. That salvation rejected, there is nothing remaining +that heaven can offer. There is no further sacrifice that can +be made. "There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins." +Heb. 10:26.</p> + +<p>Then follows the last scene in the conflict with evil:</p> + +<p>"They went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed +the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: +and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured +them. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the +lake of fire.... And death and hell [the grave] were cast into +the lake of fire. This is the second death." Rev. 20:9-14.</p> + +<p>The second death ends sin and the author of sin, and +death itself. The controversy is ended. Christ's death has +purged sin from the universe of God.</p> + + +<h4>The Earth Purified and Made New</h4> + +<p>The fires that consume the wicked melt the earth and +purify it from all trace of the curse. It is the day of which +Peter wrote:</p> + +<p>"Wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and +the elements shall melt with fervent heat." But after this +cleansing of every element of this sin-cursed earth, the promise +of God will be fulfilled in the earth made new, as the eternal +home of the saved. As Peter says, after telling of the day +of burning, "Nevertheless we, according to His promise, +look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." +2 Peter 3:12, 13.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O sweet and blessed country,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The home of God's elect!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">O sweet and blessed country,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That eager hearts expect!<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Jesus, in mercy bring us<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To that dear land of rest;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Who art, with God the Father,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And Spirit, ever blest."<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[Pg 360]</a></span></div></div> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p360.jpg" width="298" height="439" alt="MOSES VIEWING THE +PROMISED LAND + +"Blessed are the meek: for they shall +inherit the earth." Matt. 5:5." title="" /> +<span class="caption">MOSES VIEWING THE +PROMISED LAND<br /> + +"Blessed are the meek: for they shall +inherit the earth." Matt. 5:5.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[Pg 361]</a></span></p> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 445px;"> +<img src="images/p361.jpg" width="445" height="323" alt="THE SPIES' RETURN + +"The land, which we passed through to search +it, is an exceeding good land." Num. 14:7." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SPIES' RETURN<br /> + +"The land, which we passed through to search +it, is an exceeding good land." Num. 14:7.</span> +</div> + +<h2><a name="THE_HOME_OF_THE_SAVED" id="THE_HOME_OF_THE_SAVED"></a>THE HOME OF THE SAVED</h2> + + +<h4>The Land of Peace</h4> + +<p>The Bible opens with a new heaven and a new earth, +perfect from the Creator's hand; with man sinless and having +access to the tree of life in the midst of the Eden paradise, +out of which flowed a river that spread its life-giving waters +through the earth.</p> + +<p>The Bible closes with a new heaven and a new earth; +with man upright and sinless, having right to the tree of +life growing in the midst of Eden; with the river of life flowing +out from the garden of God, clear as crystal.</p> + +<p>Between the two scenes spreads out the panorama of six +thousand years of conflict with sin. It is a story of the fall +of man, of the loss of his Eden home, of the curse that marred +the earth, of sin and sorrow and death overspreading all.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[Pg 362]</a></span></p> + + +<h4>The Restorer</h4> + +<p>But from the hour when the shadow of sin fell upon the +earth, there has been a light shining in the darkness. Amid +the ruin that sin had wrought, there appeared the great Restorer.</p> + +<p>The inspired record gives a word-picture of Jesus taking +man's place to win back the lost dominion:</p> + +<p>"Unto the angels hath He not put in subjection the world +to come, whereof we speak. But one in a certain place testified, +saying, What is man, that Thou art mindful of him? +or the son of man, that Thou visitest him? Thou madest +him a little lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with +glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of Thy +hands: Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. +For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing +that is not put under Him. But now we see not yet all +things put under him. But we see Jesus." Heb. 2:5-9.</p> + +<p>Just where Adam fell and lost his dominion over the earth, +we see Jesus, the second Adam, taking man's place and winning +back the lost inheritance. That is why the picture of +the new earth and man's sinless state depicted in the first +two chapters of the Bible is repeated in the last two chapters +with even greater fulness of glory. God's original plan and +purpose will be carried out, and this earth, renewed, will be +the eternal home of sinless men and women, redeemed by +grace.</p> + +<p>Sin will be found not to have frustrated, but only to have +delayed, the purpose of God. And what is six thousand +years in working out the divine plan? In our brief span we +may divide human history into ancient, medieval, and modern; +but in heaven's life a thousand years are but as "a watch +in the night;" and these six watches are to heaven but as one +night of grief and of loving ministry in rescuing the lost.</p> + +<p>It has cost all that heaven had to give. But the infinite +Gift was made, and all heaven has wrought at the work. Of +the angels it is written, "Are they not all ministering spirits,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[Pg 363]</a></span> +sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?" +Heb. 1:14.</p> + + +<h4>Bringing Back the Lost Dominion</h4> + +<p>Of all the worlds that shine in the heavens, declaring the +glory of God, this earth is the one that was lost. Its light +went out in darkness. It wandered from the fold of God's +perfect creation.</p> + +<p>Then the divine Shepherd came to find it and bring it +back. And the angels that rejoiced when they saw this earth +created,—"when the morning stars sang together, and all +the sons of God shouted for joy,"—will again rejoice as the +Lord brings back His own,—this earth, redeemed from +the curse, shining in the bright universe again with the perfection +of the glory of God.</p> + +<p>Christ not only redeems lost men, but He is to redeem +this lost earth. "The Son of man," He said, "is come to seek +and to save that which was lost." Luke 19:10.</p> + +<p>By sinning, man lost not only his righteousness and his +life, but his dominion as well. Originally man had dominion +"over all the earth." Gen. 1:26. As the psalmist says, +"Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy +hands." Ps. 8:6. He was prince and ruler of the earth. +But when he yielded to Satan's temptation, he yielded up that +dominion to the enemy, thus placing himself in the power +of his foe. Satan thus became the "prince of this world," +exercising the dominion wrested from man.</p> + +<p>But through Christ, this dominion is to be restored. The +prophet of old said:</p> + +<p>"Thou, O tower of the flock, the stronghold of the daughter +of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; +the kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem." +Micah 4:8.</p> + + +<h4>The Hope of the Promise</h4> + +<p>The promise of the gospel of salvation is the promise not +only of life eternal through faith, but of an eternal inheritance<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[Pg 364]</a></span> +in the earth made new, the fulfilment of the Creator's +plan when He made this world to be the home of man. This +was the star of hope that shone before Adam and Eve as they +stepped forth from Eden into a dying world. It was the +promise to Abraham, "the promise, that he should be the +heir of the world." Rom. 4:13.</p> + +<p>It was not the promise of the world in its present state. +For the Lord gave Abraham "none inheritance in it, no, not +so much as to set his foot on." Acts 7:5. Abraham himself +did not look for the promise to be fulfilled in this sinful +earth, but in the earth made new, redeemed from sin. The +Scripture says of his hope:</p> + +<p>"By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a +strange country: ... for he looked for a city which hath +foundations, whose builder and maker is God." Heb. 11:9, 10.</p> + +<p>It was in the new earth and the New Jerusalem that Abraham, +the father of the faithful, expected to receive the eternal +inheritance promised to him and to his seed. And there all +the faithful will find their inheritance.</p> + +<p>"If ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs +according to the promise." Gal. 3:29.</p> + +<p>The psalmist said, "The meek shall inherit the earth." +Ps. 37:11. Christ repeated it: "Blessed are the meek: for +they shall inherit the earth." Matt. 5:5.</p> + +<h4>The New Earth and the New Jerusalem</h4> + +<p>Through the prophet Isaiah the Lord described the re-creation +of this earth to be the home of the saved:</p> + +<p>"Behold, I create a new heavens and a new earth: and +the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. +But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: +for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a +joy. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in My people: +and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, +nor the voice of crying." Isa. 65:17-19.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[Pg 365]</a></span></p> + +<p>It is not of old Jerusalem that the prophet is speaking, +but of the New Jerusalem, which John saw coming down, +with the saints, from God out of heaven. He saw it descending +upon the earth at the end of the thousand years, and saw +the wicked come forth from their graves to judgment. Then +he saw the fires of the last day falling upon the lost, consuming +sin and sinners, and purifying the earth itself from every +trace of the curse. It is the day of which Peter wrote, "Wherein +the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements +shall melt with fervent heat." But he adds, "Nevertheless +we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a +new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 2 Peter 3:12, 13.</p> + +<p>Out from the dissolved elements of the earth and the atmospheric +heavens the Creator's power again calls forth new +heavens and a new earth, the old creation cleansed and renewed +in the perfection of the original Eden paradise. It +is coming; for John saw it in vision. "I saw," he says, "a +new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the +first earth were passed away." Rev. 21:1.</p> + +<p>He saw the city which had come down from heaven—those +mansions that Christ is now gone to prepare—the +New Jerusalem, the holy capital of the eternal kingdom of +the saints, where Christ's own throne is set.</p> + +<p>"I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the +tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, +and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with +them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears +from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither +sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for +the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon +the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And He +said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." +Rev. 21:3-5.</p> + +<p>It passes comprehension; but it is true. And the life of +the saved in their eternal inheritance will be just as real as +is life upon this present earth.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[Pg 366]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 298px;"> +<img src="images/p366.jpg" width="298" height="443" alt="THE SAINTS' ETERNAL +HOME + +"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: +for the first heaven and the first earth +were passed away." Rev. 21:1." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE SAINTS' ETERNAL +HOME<br /> + +"I saw a new heaven and a new earth: +for the first heaven and the first earth +were passed away." Rev. 21:1.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[Pg 367]</a></span></p> + +<p>"They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they +shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." "The +wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat +straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. +They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, +saith the Lord." Isa. 65:21, 25.</p> + +<p>The whole earth will be as the Eden paradise planted by +God in the beginning. And from week to week and from +month to month the saved will gather to worship before the +glorious throne in the holy city.</p> + +<p>"As the new heavens and the new earth, which I will +make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed +and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from +one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, +shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord." +Isa. 66:22, 23.</p> + + +<h4>The Glories of the Saints' Eternal Home</h4> + +<p>As the first two chapters of the Bible tell of earth's original +perfection, so the last two chapters constitute one psalm of +ecstasy over the indescribable glories of the earth made new, +with its city of light, the walls of jasper, the gates of pearl, +the river of life flowing from the throne of the Lamb, clear as +crystal, with the widespreading tree of life on either side of +the river. And supreme above all, Jesus Himself, "the King +in His beauty," without whom there would be no glory even +in that city foursquare; "for the glory of God did lighten it, +and the Lamb is the light thereof."</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"Oh, heaven without my Saviour<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Would be no heaven to me;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Dim were the walls of jasper,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Rayless the crystal sea!<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"He gilds earth's darkest valleys<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With light and joy and peace;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Then what must be the radiance<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where sin and death shall cease?"<br /></span> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[Pg 368]</a></span></div></div> + +<p>Next to the loveliness and grace of Christ our Saviour, +the glories of this world to come have inspired the sweetest +hymns of hope for longing hearts. How often has the spirit +been lifted above earth's trials as we have sung,</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O that home of the soul! in my visions and dreams<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Its bright, jasper walls I can see<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Till I fancy but thinly the veil intervenes<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Between the fair city and me.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"That unchangeable home is for you and for me,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Where Jesus of Nazareth stands;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The King of all kingdoms forever is He,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And He holdeth our crowns in His hands.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"O how sweet it will be in that beautiful land,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">So free from all sorrow and pain,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With songs on our lips and with harps in our hands,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">To meet one another again!"<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>"But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, +neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which +God hath prepared for them that love Him."</p> + +<p>Through the ages, the children of the promise have been +journeying toward the city which hath foundations, whose +builder and maker is God, and they have confessed themselves +pilgrims and strangers in this present world. As they +have followed the way of righteousness,—oftentimes a thorny +path,—it has been with the shining city ever before their +vision. As they have fallen in death, it has been with closing +eyes fixed upon "that day" when Christ shall come to take +His people to the New Jerusalem preparing above</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i0">"The Lamb there in His beauty<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Without a veil is seen.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It were a well-spent journey<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Though seven deaths lay between."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>Now earth's course is nearly run. It is but a little way to +the holy city, where the water of life flows clear as crystal +from the midst of the throne. The water of life is really there; +for the Lord showed it to the prophet John in vision, that +he might tell us that he saw it. "I John saw the holy city," +he says, "and he showed me a pure river of water of life, +clear as crystal." Rev. 21:2; 22:1.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[Pg 369]</a></span></p> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 299px;"> +<img src="images/p369.jpg" width="299" height="443" alt="THE MASTER AT +THE DOOR + +"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear +My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, +and will sup with him, and he with Me." Rev 3:20." title="" /> +<span class="caption">THE MASTER AT +THE DOOR<br /> + +"Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear +My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, +and will sup with him, and he with Me." Rev 3:20.</span> +</div><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[Pg 370]</a></span></p> + +<p>Christ invites every one to share the eternal inheritance, +giving assurance of His power to save to the uttermost all +that come unto God by Him. He is knocking at the door of +every heart, asking admittance, in order that He may take +away all sin, and prepare the soul for the heavenly home.</p> + +<p>And the glories of the holy city invite us to come:</p> + +<p>"The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that +heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And +whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev. +22:17.</p> + +<h4>"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come +quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus."</h4> + +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 444px;"> +<img src="images/p370.jpg" width="444" height="292" alt="EVENTIDE + +Home to the fold." title="" /> +<span class="caption">EVENTIDE<br /> + +Home to the fold.</span> +</div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[Pg 371]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="INDEX_OF_SUBJECTS_AND_AUTHORITIES" id="INDEX_OF_SUBJECTS_AND_AUTHORITIES"></a>INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND AUTHORITIES</h2> + + +<p> +Abraham, parable of rich man and Lazarus, <a href='#Page_284'>284</a><br /> +<br /> +"Abridgment of Christian Doctrine," on change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +Adolphus, on study of prophecy, <a href='#Page_305'>305</a><br /> +<br /> +Advent message, Bates as advocate of, <a href='#Page_244'>244</a><br /> +<br /> +Advent movement, extent of, Brock on, <a href='#Page_241'>241</a><br /> +<br /> +Advent movement of 1844, <a href='#Page_240'>240</a><br /> +<br /> +Æschylus, on Medo-Persia, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a><br /> +<br /> +Æschylus, on Xerxes' host, <a href='#Page_323'>323</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, conquests of, Plutarch on, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, dominion of, Rawlinson on, <a href='#Page_324'>324</a>, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, empire of, Appian on, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, first king of Greece, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, greatness of, Arrian on, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, Justin on, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexander, Lucan on, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexandra, Queen, on preparations for war, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Alexandria, library at, sacred books of Jews in, <a href='#Page_187'>187</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels attending throne of God, <a href='#Page_296'>296</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels, God's messengers, <a href='#Page_297'>297</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels, guardian, <a href='#Page_300'>300</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels in kingly courts, <a href='#Page_299'>299</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels, messengers of deliverance, <a href='#Page_300'>300</a><br /> +<br /> +Angels, their ministry, <a href='#Page_295'>295</a>-301<br /> +<br /> +Antitypical day of atonement, <a href='#Page_237'>237</a>, <a href='#Page_240'>240</a>, <a href='#Page_241'>241</a><br /> +<br /> +Apollonius, description of Babylon by, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a><br /> +<br /> +Apostasy in last days, Daniel 8, <a href='#Page_248'>248</a><br /> +<br /> +Appearing of Christ, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a><br /> +<br /> +Appian, on Alexander's empire, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Arian kingdoms plucked up, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Arian powers uprooted by Belisarius, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, "Contemporary Review" on, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, "Everybody's Magazine" on, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, final clash of empires, <a href='#Page_337'>337</a>-349<br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, foretold in prophecy, <a href='#Page_346'>346</a>, <a href='#Page_347'>347</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, Lord Rosebery on, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, or Mt. Megiddo, Carmack, on <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, prelude to, <a href='#Page_343'>343</a><br /> +<br /> +Armageddon, sequel of, <a href='#Page_347'>347</a>, <a href='#Page_348'>348</a><br /> +<br /> +Arming of the nations, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a><br /> +<br /> +Arrian, on Alexander's greatness, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a><br /> +<br /> +Artaxerxes, date of decree to rebuild Jerusalem, <a href='#Page_223'>223</a><br /> +<br /> +Artaxerxes, date of reign of, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a>-227<br /> +<br /> +"Astronomy," Chambers, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a><br /> +<br /> +Atonement, antitypical day of, <a href='#Page_237'>237</a>, <a href='#Page_240'>240</a>, <a href='#Page_241'>241</a><br /> +<br /> +Avebury, Lord, on war, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Babylon, description of, by Apollonius, <a href='#Page_33'>33</a>, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a><br /> +<br /> +Babylon, desolation of, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>-35<br /> +<br /> +Babylon, desolation of, Layard on, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +Babylon, "Encyclopedia of Islam" on, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +Babylon in prophecy and history, <a href='#Page_119'>119</a>, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a><br /> +<br /> +Babylon, prophecy concerning, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>-41<br /> +<br /> +Babylon, prophecy of, confirmed by history, <a href='#Page_41'>41</a>-43<br /> +<br /> +Babylon, Strabo on, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a><br /> +<br /> +Bacon, Francis, on increase of knowledge, <a href='#Page_306'>306</a>, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +Ball, Sir Robert, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +Bampfield, died in prison for Sabbath keeping, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism, conditions necessary to, <a href='#Page_199'>199</a>, <a href='#Page_200'>200</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism for believers, <a href='#Page_200'>200</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism, form of, <a href='#Page_200'>200</a>-203<br /> +<br /> +Baptism, manner of, Dean Stanley on, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism, manner of, Neander on, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism, manner of, Pullus on, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +"Baptism," meaning of word, Calvin on, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +"Baptism," meaning of word, Luther on, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism, memorial of resurrection, <a href='#Page_199'>199</a>-203<br /> +<br /> +Baptism of infants, Dean Stanley on, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptism of Jesus, time of, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a>, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptists, Sabbatarian, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Baptists, Seventh Day, in America, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a>, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Barnes, Dr. Albert, on division of Grecia, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Bates, as a Sabbath keeper, <a href='#Page_244'>244</a><br /> +<br /> +Baudrillart, on papal persecution, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Beast, the fourth, of Daniel 7, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>-129<br /> +<br /> +Beasts, empires represented by, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a><br /> +<br /> +Belisarius, Arian powers uprooted by, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a><br /> +<br /> +Bellarmine, on great words of little horn, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Bemont and Monod, "Medieval Europe", <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Bengelius, on judgment-hour warning, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +Berosus, on exploits of Nebuchadnezzar, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[Pg 372]</a></span>Berthier enters Rome, Rickaby on, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Besant, Mrs. Annie, on spiritualism of the East, <a href='#Page_273'>273</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, agency in the new birth, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a>, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible and tradition, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a>, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, Christ the central theme of, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, Dr. Harris on, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, Erasmus on, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible for all mankind, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, given to the world, Faber on, <a href='#Page_308'>308</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, God its author, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, language of, Van Dyke on, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, our safety and defense, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible societies, organization of, <a href='#Page_308'>308</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, source of all doctrine, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, speaks to our day, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, Spurgeon on authorship of, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, Spurgeon's experience with, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the book that talks, <a href='#Page_13'>13</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the bread of life, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the Christian's shield, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the living word, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the word that creates, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a><br /> +<br /> +Bible, the word that works within, <a href='#Page_17'>17</a><br /> +<br /> +Biddolf, on lessons from Lisbon earthquake, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a><br /> +<br /> +Bishop of Rome as head of church, Justinian on, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Blunt, on doom of Turks, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a><br /> +<br /> +Bogue, on persecution for Sabbath keeping, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a>, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Bonar's hymn, on state of dead, <a href='#Page_282'>282</a><br /> +<br /> +Bower, on Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Bread of life, Bible as the, <a href='#Page_18'>18</a><br /> +<br /> +Brerewood, on Sabbath in first centuries, <a href='#Page_173'>173</a><br /> +<br /> +Britten, Mrs. Emma, on Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Brock, on extent of the advent movement, <a href='#Page_241'>241</a><br /> +<br /> +Bruce, on desolation of Tyre, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Bury, on achievements of Justinian, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Calamy, on Bampfield as a Sabbatarian, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Calvin, on meaning of word "baptism", <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +Canon, Ptolemy's, Lindsay on, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a><br /> +<br /> +Carmack, on Armageddon, or Mt. Megiddo, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +Chambers, Dr., on Sabbath in England, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a><br /> +<br /> +Chambers, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a><br /> +<br /> +Change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a>-167<br /> +<br /> +Charles I, on Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a><br /> +<br /> +China open to the gospel, <a href='#Page_309'>309</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ and Satan, controversy between, <a href='#Page_257'>257</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +Christ, central theme of Bible, <a href='#Page_23'>23</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, closing work of, in heaven, <a href='#Page_216'>216</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, death of, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, glorious appearing of, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, lost dominion redeemed by, <a href='#Page_363'>363</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, second coming of, <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>-63, <a href='#Page_352'>352</a><br /> +<br /> +Christ, the restorer, <a href='#Page_362'>362</a><br /> +<br /> +Christian work of Countess of Huntingdon, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a><br /> +<br /> +Christs, false, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a><br /> +<br /> +"Church Missionary Review," on war a sign of end, <a href='#Page_343'>343</a><br /> +<br /> +Clarke, Dr. Adam, on "living soul", <a href='#Page_283'>283</a><br /> +<br /> +Cleansing of the sanctuary, <a href='#Page_211'>211</a>, <a href='#Page_213'>213</a>-217<br /> +<br /> +Clerke, on glory of falling stars, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a><br /> +<br /> +Clerke, on star shower of 1833, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a>, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ at the door, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, beginning of signs of, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a>-77<br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, love of pleasure a sign of, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, manner of, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a>-55<br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, political unrest a sign of, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, prelude to, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, promise of, <a href='#Page_52'>52</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, purpose of, <a href='#Page_56'>56</a>, <a href='#Page_57'>57</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, signs of, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>, <a href='#Page_75'>75</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, signs of, in industrial world, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, signs of, in Matthew 24, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a>, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a>, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, signs of, in the social world, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, signs of, upon the earth, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, the Saviour's prophecy of, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>-77<br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, to be as in days of Noah, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Coming of Christ, world evangelization a sign of, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +Commandments, the ten, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a><br /> +<br /> +Comte, M., on passion for pleasure, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Connecticut Legislature, Dark Day in, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Conroy, on temporal sovereignty of popes, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Constantine, Sunday law of, <a href='#Page_16'>16</a><br /> +<br /> +"Contemporary Review," on Armageddon, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +"Contemporary Review," on awakening of East, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +Controversy between Christ and Satan, <a href='#Page_257'>257</a><br /> +<br /> +Controversy, earth the battle-ground of, <a href='#Page_259'>259</a><br /> +<br /> +Conybeare and Howson, on the Sabbath, <a href='#Page_165'>165</a><br /> +<br /> +Cottrell, R.F., poem by, <a href='#Page_171'>171</a><br /> +<br /> +Countess of Huntingdon, Christian work of, <a href='#Page_63'>63</a><br /> +<br /> +Covenant, confirming of the, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a><br /> +<br /> +Creative power of the Word, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a><br /> +<br /> +Croly, on Justinian as founder of papal supremacy, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Cuneiform writing, <a href='#Page_312'>312</a><br /> +<br /> +Cyrus, conquests of, Rawlinson on, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[Pg 373]</a></span>Cyrus, Xenophon on, <a href='#Page_206'>206</a><br /> +<br /> +Dale, on non-sacredness of Sunday, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Daniel, book of, unsealed, <a href='#Page_304'>304</a><br /> +<br /> +Daniel 2, prophecy of, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>-49<br /> +<br /> +Daniel 7, prophecy of, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>-129<br /> +<br /> +Daniel 8, prophecy of, <a href='#Page_205'>205</a>-211<br /> +<br /> +Daniel, prophecy of 1260 years, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +Daniel, vision of great beasts, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, Boston "Gazette" on, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, cause of unknown, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, contemporary records of, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, Dr. Samuel Stearns on, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, effect on Connecticut Legislature, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, "Independent Chronicle" on, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day in New England, Williams on, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, prophecy of, fulfilled, <a href='#Page_85'>85</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, Timothy Dwight on, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, Webster on, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a><br /> +<br /> +Dark Day, Whittier on, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a>, <a href='#Page_91'>91</a><br /> +<br /> +Darkening of the sun, <a href='#Page_85'>85</a><br /> +<br /> +Dead, not agencies of Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_271'>271</a><br /> +<br /> +Dead, sleep of, <a href='#Page_280'>280</a>-282<br /> +<br /> +Dead, righteous, raised to life, <a href='#Page_60'>60</a><br /> +<br /> +Death, man's state in, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a>, <a href='#Page_280'>280</a>-282<br /> +<br /> +Delaire, Mme. Jean, on Theosophy and Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_272'>272</a>, <a href='#Page_273'>273</a><br /> +<br /> +Desolation of Babylon, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Destruction of the wicked, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_353'>353</a><br /> +<br /> +"Dictionary of Christian Antiquities," on Change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Discontent, F.T. Martin on growth of, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +Doctrinal Catechism, on change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +Doctrinal Catechism, on power of church, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Doctrine, Bible the source of, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a><br /> +<br /> +Dominion, bring back the lost, <a href='#Page_363'>363</a><br /> +<br /> +Dream of Nebuchadnezzar, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a><br /> +<br /> +Dwight, on Dark Day, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Earth, cleansed and renewed, <a href='#Page_364'>364</a>-367<br /> +<br /> +Earth, purified, <a href='#Page_359'>359</a><br /> +<br /> +East, awakening of, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +East, "Nineteenth Century and After," on new spirit in, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +Eastern Question, Jerusalem heart of, Finn on, <a href='#Page_346'>346</a><br /> +<br /> +Eastern Question, Maspero on, <a href='#Page_322'>322</a><br /> +<br /> +Eastern Question, relation to end of world, <a href='#Page_334'>334</a><br /> +<br /> +Eastern Question, the, <a href='#Page_321'>321</a>-335<br /> +<br /> +Eighteen forty-four, Advent movement in, <a href='#Page_240'>240</a>-244<br /> +<br /> +Elliott, on great words of little horn, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Elven, Cornelius, poem by, <a href='#Page_335'>335</a><br /> +<br /> +Empires, four great universal, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>-129<br /> +<br /> +Encyclopedia Britannica, on Palestine as battle field, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a>, <a href='#Page_326'>326</a><br /> +<br /> +Encyclopedia of Islam, on Babylon, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +End of the wicked, <a href='#Page_287'>287</a>-293<br /> +<br /> +End, time of the, <a href='#Page_303'>303</a>-317<br /> +<br /> +Erasmus, on the Bible, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a><br /> +<br /> +Eternal fire, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a>, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +Euphrates dried up, <a href='#Page_332'>332</a><br /> +<br /> +Europe, kingdoms of modern, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>-48<br /> +<br /> +Everlasting fire, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a><br /> +<br /> +Everlasting punishment, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a>-293<br /> +<br /> +"Everybody's Magazine," on Armageddon, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Evil, origin of, <a href='#Page_257'>257</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +Executive judgment, <a href='#Page_261'>261</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Faber, G.S., on Bible given to the world, <a href='#Page_308'>308</a><br /> +<br /> +Faith, justification by, <a href='#Page_191'>191</a>-197<br /> +<br /> +Falling stars, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a><br /> +<br /> +Falling stars, sign to world, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a><br /> +<br /> +False Christs, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a><br /> +<br /> +Farrar, on prophecy fulfilled, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a><br /> +<br /> +Ferraris, on titles assumed by Pope, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Fig tree, parable of, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a><br /> +<br /> +Finlay, on beginning of history of Middle Ages, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a><br /> +<br /> +Finlay, on rapid changes in sixth century, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +Fire, everlasting, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a>, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +Fire, lake of, <a href='#Page_290'>290</a><br /> +<br /> +Fire, unquenchable, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a>, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +First angel's message, <a href='#Page_239'>239</a><br /> +<br /> +First day rest, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a>-166<br /> +<br /> +Firth, on fall of Ottoman power, <a href='#Page_343'>343</a><br /> +<br /> +Flammarion, on density of star shower, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +"Forever and ever," meaning of, <a href='#Page_291'>291</a>, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a><br /> +<br /> +"Fortnightly Review," on Turkey's position, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a>, <a href='#Page_334'>334</a><br /> +<br /> +Fox family, origin of modern Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +France, decree of, to abolish religion, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +French Revolution, Lamartine on, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +French Revolution, significant events of, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +"Gazette and Country Journal" on dark day, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a><br /> +<br /> +Gehenna, a valley near Jerusalem, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +Gentiles, gospel carried to, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a>, <a href='#Page_235'>235</a><br /> +<br /> +Gibbon, on power of Rome, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Gibbon, on Roman Empire, <a href='#Page_209'>209</a><br /> +<br /> +Gibbon, on site of Nineveh, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a><br /> +<br /> +Gibbon, on struggle for Italy, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a><br /> +<br /> +God's challenge to false religious systems, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a><br /> +<br /> +Goldastus, on Sabbath keepers in Alpine valleys, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, agencies for work of, <a href='#Page_311'>311</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, China, opened to the, <a href='#Page_309'>309</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[Pg 374]</a></span>Gospel, doors open to, in all world, <a href='#Page_309'>309</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel for our day, the, <a href='#Page_247'>247</a>, <a href='#Page_248'>248</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel message, solemn warning in, <a href='#Page_248'>248</a>, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, open doors for, Dr. Pierson on, <a href='#Page_310'>310</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, printing press an agency of, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, telegraph used in carrying, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel, the everlasting, <a href='#Page_248'>248</a><br /> +<br /> +Gospel to the Gentiles, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a>, <a href='#Page_235'>235</a><br /> +<br /> +Goths, defeat of, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a><br /> +<br /> +Great controversy, earth the battle ground of, <a href='#Page_259'>259</a><br /> +<br /> +Grecia, Alexander first king of, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a><br /> +<br /> +Grecia, conquests of, under Alexander, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Grecia, division of, Dr. Albert Barnes on, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Grecia, prophecy and history of, <a href='#Page_206'>206</a>, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_324'>324</a><br /> +<br /> +Grecia, prophecy concerning, in Daniel, <a href='#Page_244'>244</a><br /> +<br /> +Greece, division of, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Greeley, Spiritualism tested by, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Grey, Sir Edward, on Satanic agencies, <a href='#Page_342'>342</a><br /> +<br /> +Guardian angels, <a href='#Page_300'>300</a><br /> +<br /> +Gutenberg's first types, <a href='#Page_314'>314</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Hales, on authenticity of Ptolemy's canon, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a><br /> +<br /> +Harris, on the Bible, <a href='#Page_20'>20</a>-21<br /> +<br /> +Hastings, on Valley of Hinnom, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +"Hearst's Magazine," on growth of discontent, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +Heresies, papal order against, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Herodotus, on doctrine of immortality, <a href='#Page_291'>291</a><br /> +<br /> +Herodotus, on Pythius, the Lydian, <a href='#Page_323'>323</a><br /> +<br /> +Hieroglyphics, the "Ox Song", <a href='#Page_312'>312</a><br /> +<br /> +Hinnom, Valley of, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +Hippolytus, on power of Rome, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Hippolytus, on prophecy of Rome fulfilled, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a><br /> +<br /> +Hiscox, on change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a>, <a href='#Page_167'>167</a><br /> +<br /> +Hiscox, on Sunday mark of paganism, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +History, prophecy confirmed by, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>-37<br /> +<br /> +Hobbs, Professor, on Lisbon earthquake, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a><br /> +<br /> +Holtzman, on Bible and tradition, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Home of the saved, <a href='#Page_361'>361</a>-370<br /> +<br /> +Horace, ode on Rome, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a><br /> +<br /> +Horace, on might of Rome, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Hughes, on Jerusalem's part in closing history, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Huguenots, persecution of, Kurtz on, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a><br /> +<br /> +Humboldt, on other displays of falling stars, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a><br /> +<br /> +Humphreys, on appearance of falling stars, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a><br /> +<br /> +Hutton, on abolition of religion in France, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +Hymn on state of dead, by Horatius Bonar, <a href='#Page_282'>282</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Image of Daniel 2, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a><br /> +<br /> +Image to the Papacy, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Immortality, doctrine of, <a href='#Page_291'>291</a><br /> +<br /> +Immortality, doctrine of, Herodotus on, <a href='#Page_291'>291</a><br /> +<br /> +Immortality, God only has, <a href='#Page_282'>282</a><br /> +<br /> +Immortality of the soul, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a>-285<br /> +<br /> +Immortality, the gift of God, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a>, <a href='#Page_282'>282</a><br /> +<br /> +Immortality, when bestowed, <a href='#Page_279'>279</a><br /> +<br /> +Increase of knowledge, <a href='#Page_306'>306</a>-317<br /> +<br /> +"Independent Chronicle," on Dark Day, <a href='#Page_88'>88</a>, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a><br /> +<br /> +Infant baptism, Dean Stanley on, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Ising, visit of, to site of Nebuchadnezzar's palace, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +Italy, struggle for, Gibbon on, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, Artaxerxes' decree to rebuild, <a href='#Page_223'>223</a>-225<br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, date of decree to restore, <a href='#Page_223'>223</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, destruction of temple at, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, headquarters of king of the North, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, heart of Eastern Question, Finn on, <a href='#Page_346'>346</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, last days of, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, last gathering place, Mukaddasi on, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, Moslems turn toward, <a href='#Page_330'>330</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, part of, in closing history, Hughes on, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Jerusalem, signs of approaching doom of, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a>-69<br /> +<br /> +Jessup on falling stars, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +Jesus, the restorer, <a href='#Page_362'>362</a><br /> +<br /> +Jesus, time of baptism of, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a><br /> +<br /> +Jews, fanaticism of, Ridpath on, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a><br /> +<br /> +Joseph, prophecy fulfilled to, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a><br /> +<br /> +Josephus, on destruction of temple, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment, Christ's work in sanctuary, <a href='#Page_216'>216</a>, <a href='#Page_217'>217</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment hour, many witnesses proclaim, <a href='#Page_240'>240</a>, <a href='#Page_241'>241</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment-hour message, <a href='#Page_247'>247</a>-255<br /> +<br /> +Judgment-hour message, a call to loyalty, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment-hour message, John Wesley on, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment-hour warning, Bengelius on, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment, law of God the standard in, <a href='#Page_189'>189</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment, message of, in 1844, <a href='#Page_239'>239</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment, the hour of God's, <a href='#Page_237'>237</a><br /> +<br /> +Judgment, time of the investigative, <a href='#Page_235'>235</a>-237<br /> +<br /> +Judgment upon Satan, <a href='#Page_261'>261</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +Jurieu, on fall of the Papacy, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Justification and righteousness, <a href='#Page_195'>195</a><br /> +<br /> +Justification by faith, <a href='#Page_191'>191</a><br /> +<br /> +Justification not by works, <a href='#Page_192'>192</a><br /> +<br /> +Justification, what it is, <a href='#Page_196'>196</a>, <a href='#Page_197'>197</a><br /> +<br /> +Justinian, achievements of, Bury on, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[Pg 375]</a></span>Justinian as source of papal power, Croly on, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Justinian, decree of, in <span class="smcap">a.d.</span> 533, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Justin, on Alexander, <a href='#Page_207'>207</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Keyser, on Sabbath keeping in Norway, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Killen, on change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Kingdom of God, when to be set up, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a><br /> +<br /> +Kingdoms of modern Europe, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +King of the North, the modern, <a href='#Page_326'>326</a><br /> +<br /> +King of the North, removal of, to Jerusalem, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Kings of the North and South, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a><br /> +<br /> +Knowledge, increase of, <a href='#Page_306'>306</a><br /> +<br /> +Knowledge, increase of, Francis Bacon on, <a href='#Page_306'>306</a>, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +Knowledge, increase of, Lorimer on, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +Kurtz, on persecution of Huguenots, <a href='#Page_76'>76</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Lake of fire, the, <a href='#Page_290'>290</a><br /> +<br /> +Lamartine, on French Revolution, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +Langley, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a><br /> +<br /> +Lang, on Sabbath in Scotland, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Laodicea, Council of, on Sabbath keeping, <a href='#Page_173'>173</a>, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Lawgiver, only one, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God changed by Papacy, Melanchthon on, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, character of, <a href='#Page_183'>183</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, existed from the beginning, <a href='#Page_184'>184</a>, <a href='#Page_185'>185</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, given anew at Sinai, <a href='#Page_186'>186</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, given with his own voice, <a href='#Page_187'>187</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, office of, <a href='#Page_183'>183</a>, <a href='#Page_184'>184</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, relation of, to justification, <a href='#Page_191'>191</a>, <a href='#Page_193'>193</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, standard in the judgment, <a href='#Page_189'>189</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, standard of righteousness, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a><br /> +<br /> +Law of God, the, <a href='#Page_182'>182</a>-189<br /> +<br /> +Law of God unchangeable, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a><br /> +<br /> +Layard, on the desolation of Babylon, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +Lazarus, parable of rich man and, <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>, <a href='#Page_285'>285</a><br /> +<br /> +Lecky, on papal persecution, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Leo XIII, encyclical letter of, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Leonard, Dr., on missionary activity, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +"Library of Christian Doctrine," on change of Sabbath, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a><br /> +<br /> +Life only in Christ, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a>-285<br /> +<br /> +Lindsay, on Ptolemy's Canon, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, extent of, <a href='#Page_81'>81</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, James Parton on, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, lessons from, John Biddolf on, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, Professor Hobbs on, <a href='#Page_79'>79</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake recognized as a sign, <a href='#Page_82'>82</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, Voltaire on, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a><br /> +<br /> +Lisbon earthquake, world set to thinking by, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn and fourth kingdom, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, great words of, Bellarmine on, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, great words of, Elliott on, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn in prophecy and history, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, period of supremacy of, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, time of rise of, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a><br /> +<br /> +Little horn, work of, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a>-147<br /> +<br /> +Lorimer, on increase of knowledge, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +Lucan, on Alexander, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a><br /> +<br /> +Lucan, on greatness of Rome, <a href='#Page_209'>209</a><br /> +<br /> +Lucifer, the light-bearer, <a href='#Page_258'>258</a><br /> +<br /> +Luther, on meaning of word "baptism", <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +Luther, on use of printing art, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +MacFarlane, on approaching end of Turks, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a><br /> +<br /> +Mahaffy, on kingdoms of north and south, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a><br /> +<br /> +Man, nature of, and state in death, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a>-285<br /> +<br /> +Manner of Christ's coming, <a href='#Page_53'>53</a><br /> +<br /> +Manning, Cardinal, on power of Rome, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a><br /> +<br /> +Mark, or sign, of papal authority, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a>-253<br /> +<br /> +Mark, or sign, use of, Potter on, <a href='#Page_250'>250</a><br /> +<br /> +Martin, on growth of discontent, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +Maspero, on Eastern Question, <a href='#Page_322'>322</a><br /> +<br /> +Matthew 24, prophecy of, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>-77<br /> +<br /> +Mears, Dr., on conditions after Christ, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a><br /> +<br /> +"Medieval Europe," Bemont and Monod, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Medo-Persia, Æschylus on, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a><br /> +<br /> +Medo-Persia in prophecy and history, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a>, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_206'>206</a><br /> +<br /> +Medo-Persia, prophecy of, Daniel 2, <a href='#Page_43'>43</a>, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a><br /> +<br /> +Megiddo, or Armageddon, Carmack on, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +Melanchthon, on change of law by Papacy, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a><br /> +<br /> +Message of the judgment hour, <a href='#Page_247'>247</a>-255<br /> +<br /> +Messengers of deliverance, angels as, <a href='#Page_300'>300</a><br /> +<br /> +Messiah, covenant confirmed by, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a>-235<br /> +<br /> +Messiah, time of baptism of, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a><br /> +<br /> +Michael, standing up of, <a href='#Page_327'>327</a><br /> +<br /> +Middle Ages, beginning of history of, Finlay on, <a href='#Page_134'>134</a>, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, beginning of, <a href='#Page_351'>351</a>, <a href='#Page_352'>352</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, diagram of, <a href='#Page_350'>350</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, events at beginning of, <a href='#Page_352'>352</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, events at end of, <a href='#Page_356'>356</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span>Millennium, events in heaven during, <a href='#Page_354'>354</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, events on earth during, <a href='#Page_355'>355</a><br /> +<br /> +Millennium, the, <a href='#Page_351'>351</a>-359<br /> +<br /> +Milner, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a><br /> +<br /> +Milton, on Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a>, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a><br /> +<br /> +Missionary activity, Dr. Leonard on, <a href='#Page_307'>307</a><br /> +<br /> +Missionary developments of century, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a><br /> +<br /> +Missionary movement, a sign of Christ's coming, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +Missionary movement, increased activity of, <a href='#Page_113'>113</a><br /> +<br /> +Missions, open doors for, <a href='#Page_309'>309</a><br /> +<br /> +Missions, Pierson on open doors for, <a href='#Page_310'>310</a><br /> +<br /> +Monarchies, the four universal, <a href='#Page_118'>118</a><br /> +<br /> +Monod, Bemont and, "Medieval Europe", <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Mortal, the natural state of man, <a href='#Page_276'>276</a><br /> +<br /> +Mortality, universal, <a href='#Page_277'>277</a><br /> +<br /> +Moslems, Jerusalem as capital for, <a href='#Page_330'>330</a><br /> +<br /> +Motley, on persecution in Netherlands, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Mukaddasi, on Jerusalem as last gathering place of nations, <a href='#Page_328'>328</a><br /> +<br /> +Myers, on history of Greece, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Nations, anger of, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a><br /> +<br /> +Neander, on first-day collections, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Neander, on manner of baptism, <a href='#Page_201'>201</a><br /> +<br /> +Nebuchadnezzar, dream of, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>-41<br /> +<br /> +Nebuchadnezzar, exploits of, Berosus on, <a href='#Page_120'>120</a><br /> +<br /> +Nebuchadnezzar, palace of, Ising on, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a><br /> +<br /> +Nebuchadnezzar, stone records of, <a href='#Page_43'>43</a><br /> +<br /> +Necromancy, divine warnings against, <a href='#Page_267'>267</a><br /> +<br /> +Netherlands, persecution in, Motley on, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +New birth, Bible an agency of, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a><br /> +<br /> +Newcomb, on falling stars, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +New earth, the, <a href='#Page_364'>364</a>-370<br /> +<br /> +New Jerusalem, descent of, <a href='#Page_356'>356</a><br /> +<br /> +New Jerusalem, the, <a href='#Page_364'>364</a>-367<br /> +<br /> +Newman, Cardinal, on rites borrowed from paganism, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Newton, Sir Isaac, on prophetic study, <a href='#Page_304'>304</a>, <a href='#Page_305'>305</a><br /> +<br /> +"Nineteenth Century and After," on new spirit in East, <a href='#Page_344'>344</a><br /> +<br /> +"Nineteenth Century and After," on preparation for war, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a>, <a href='#Page_341'>341</a><br /> +<br /> +Nineveh, Rawlinson on, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a><br /> +<br /> +Nineveh, site of, Gibbon on, <a href='#Page_29'>29</a><br /> +<br /> +Nineveh, the witness of, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Olmsted, on brilliancy of falling stars, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a><br /> +<br /> +Olmsted, on shooting stars, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +Origin of evil, <a href='#Page_257'>257</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +Ottoman empire, <a href='#Page_326'>326</a><br /> +<br /> +Ottoman power, fall of, Firth on, <a href='#Page_343'>343</a><br /> +<br /> +Our day, gospel for, <a href='#Page_247'>247</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Paganism, rites borrowed from, Cardinal Newman on <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Palestine as battle field, Encyclopedia Britannica on, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a>, <a href='#Page_326'>326</a><br /> +<br /> +Palestine as great center, "Fortnightly Review" on, <a href='#Page_345'>345</a><br /> +<br /> +Palestine, as political storm center, <a href='#Page_345'>345</a><br /> +<br /> +Palestine, as religious storm center, "Spectator" on, <a href='#Page_345'>345</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, a persecuting power, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, change of times and laws by, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, claims of, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a>, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, counterpart of little horn, <a href='#Page_145'>145</a>, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, end of supremacy of, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, extinction of, Canon Trevor on, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a>, <a href='#Page_142'>142</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, fall of, Jurieu on, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a>, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, France strikes against, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, great words of, Elliott on, <a href='#Page_147'>147</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, image to the, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, law changed by, Melanchthon on, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, orders of, to destroy heresy, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, persecution by, Lecky on, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy plucked up Arian kingdoms, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, power of, Leo XIII on, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy shall wear out saints, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, sign of authority of, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, supremacy of, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, supremacy of acknowledged, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a>, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Papacy, time of its supremacy, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal authority, mark of, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal claims in encyclical letter of Leo XIII, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal persecution, Baudrillart on, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal persecution, Lecky on, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal persecutions, "Western Watchman" on, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal power, Sunday the mark of, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal power, work of the, <a href='#Page_250'>250</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal supremacy, beginning of, <a href='#Page_132'>132</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal supremacy, end of, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a><br /> +<br /> +Papal supremacy officially recognized, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Parable of the fig tree, <a href='#Page_115'>115</a><br /> +<br /> +Parable of the rich man and Lazarus, <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>, <a href='#Page_285'>285</a><br /> +<br /> +Parable of the ten virgins, <a href='#Page_348'>348</a>, <a href='#Page_349'>349</a><br /> +<br /> +Parton, on Lisbon earthquake, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a><br /> +<br /> +Peace and safety, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a><br /> +<br /> +Peace prophecies, <a href='#Page_338'>338</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution after Christ's death, <a href='#Page_235'>235</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution for Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution in Netherlands, Motley on, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution in time of the end <a href='#Page_73'>73</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution, papal, Baudrillart, on <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution, papal, Lecky on <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Persecution, signs of end follow, <a href='#Page_73'>73</a>-75<br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[Pg 377]</a></span>Persecution under Papacy, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a>-153<br /> +<br /> +Persecutions, papal, "Western Watchman" on, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Persia, rise and fall of, <a href='#Page_322'>322</a>-324<br /> +<br /> +Phalerius, king urged by, to secure Jewish sacred books, <a href='#Page_187'>187</a>, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a><br /> +<br /> +Pierson, Dr., on open doors for gospel, <a href='#Page_310'>310</a><br /> +<br /> +"Plain Talks," on Sunday observance, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Pleasure, passion for, M. Comte on, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Pleasure, passion for, sign of Christ's coming, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Plutarch, on Alexander, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a><br /> +<br /> +Plutarch, on Alexander's conquests, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Political unrest, <a href='#Page_106'>106</a>, <a href='#Page_107'>107</a><br /> +<br /> +Polybius, on dominion of Rome, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope Gregory, on Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope Innocent II, orders of, to destroy heresies, <a href='#Page_150'>150</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope Leo XIII, encyclical letter of, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope Leo XIII, on power of Papacy, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope taken prisoner, Joseph Rickaby on, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope, titles assumed by, Ferraris on, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Pope Vigilius, date of reign of, Schaff on, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Popes, a new order of, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a><br /> +<br /> +Popes declared saints, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Popes no longer declared saints, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Popes, temporal power of, Conroy on, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Potter, on use of a mark, or sign, <a href='#Page_250'>250</a><br /> +<br /> +Present-day conditions, meaning of, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a>-115<br /> +<br /> +Press, the Mighty (poem), <a href='#Page_317'>317</a><br /> +<br /> +Pride, cause of Satan's fall, <a href='#Page_258'>258</a><br /> +<br /> +Prince of Tyre, <a href='#Page_258'>258</a><br /> +<br /> +Printing, Gutenberg's first types, <a href='#Page_314'>314</a><br /> +<br /> +Printing, Luther on art of, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +Printing press, a gospel agency, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +Printing press, illustrations of, <a href='#Page_315'>315</a>, <a href='#Page_316'>316</a><br /> +<br /> +Printing press, the mighty, <a href='#Page_317'>317</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecies of Christ's coming, <a href='#Page_52'>52</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy, Armageddon foretold in, <a href='#Page_346'>346</a>, <a href='#Page_347'>347</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy concerning Babylon, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a>-33, <a href='#Page_40'>40</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy fulfilled, Farrar on, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy fulfilled to Joseph, <a href='#Page_26'>26</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy fulfilling, Marquis of Salisbury on, <a href='#Page_338'>338</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of Daniel 7, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a>-129<br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of Daniel 8, <a href='#Page_205'>205</a>-211<br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of Daniel unsealed, <a href='#Page_304'>304</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy, of increase of knowledge, <a href='#Page_306'>306</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of Matthew 24, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>-77<br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of the judgment, Revelation 14, <a href='#Page_239'>239</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of Tyre, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy of 2300 years fulfilled, <a href='#Page_229'>229</a>-237<br /> +<br /> +Prophecy, study of, John Adolphus on, <a href='#Page_305'>305</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy, the sure word of, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophecy, witness of the centuries to, <a href='#Page_25'>25</a>-37<br /> +<br /> +Prophetic outline of world's history, <a href='#Page_39'>39</a>-49<br /> +<br /> +Prophetic period, a great, <a href='#Page_219'>219</a>-227<br /> +<br /> +Prophetic study, Sir Isaac Newton on, <a href='#Page_304'>304</a>, <a href='#Page_305'>305</a><br /> +<br /> +Prophetic word, testimony of history to, <a href='#Page_35'>35</a>-37<br /> +<br /> +Protestants, persecution of, the "Western Watchman" on, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Ptolemy's canon, authenticity of, Hales on, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a><br /> +<br /> +Ptolemy's canon, Lindsay on, <a href='#Page_225'>225</a><br /> +<br /> +Pullus, on manner of baptism, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Punishment, everlasting, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a>, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a><br /> +<br /> +Purification of the earth, <a href='#Page_359'>359</a><br /> +<br /> +Pythius, the Lydian, Herodotus on, <a href='#Page_323'>323</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Railroads, construction of, Wallace on, <a href='#Page_313'>313</a><br /> +<br /> +Rawlinson, on Alexander's dominion, <a href='#Page_324'>324</a>, <a href='#Page_325'>325</a><br /> +<br /> +Rawlinson, on Cyrus's conquests, <a href='#Page_121'>121</a><br /> +<br /> +Rawlinson, on division of Alexander's kingdom, <a href='#Page_122'>122</a><br /> +<br /> +Rawlinson, on Nineveh, <a href='#Page_27'>27</a><br /> +<br /> +Reformation a progressive work, <a href='#Page_255'>255</a><br /> +<br /> +Religion, abolition of, by French, Hutton on, <a href='#Page_140'>140</a><br /> +<br /> +Resurrection, baptism the memorial of, <a href='#Page_199'>199</a><br /> +<br /> +Resurrection of the just, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_352'>352</a><br /> +<br /> +Resurrection of the wicked, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a><br /> +<br /> +Resurrection, the second, Satan freed at, <a href='#Page_262'>262</a><br /> +<br /> +Resurrections, the two, <a href='#Page_288'>288</a>, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a><br /> +<br /> +Rich man and Lazarus, parable of, <a href='#Page_284'>284</a>, <a href='#Page_285'>285</a><br /> +<br /> +Rickaby, on Berthier entering Rome, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Ridpath, on fanaticism of Jews, <a href='#Page_67'>67</a><br /> +<br /> +Righteousness and justification, <a href='#Page_195'>195</a>-197<br /> +<br /> +Righteousness, God's law the standard of, <a href='#Page_188'>188</a><br /> +<br /> +Righteousness, the gift of Christ, <a href='#Page_193'>193</a>, <a href='#Page_194'>194</a><br /> +<br /> +Righteous taken to heaven, <a href='#Page_353'>353</a><br /> +<br /> +Righteous, translation of living, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>-61<br /> +<br /> +Righteous, with Christ a thousand years, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a><br /> +<br /> +Roman Empire divided, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a>, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a><br /> +<br /> +Roman Empire, Gibbon on, <a href='#Page_209'>209</a><br /> +<br /> +Roman Papacy, rise of, to supremacy, <a href='#Page_129'>129</a><br /> +<br /> +Romans, power of, Strabo on, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, Alexander's plans for conquest of, Plutarch on, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, Bishop of, head of church, <a href='#Page_133'>133</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome divided, <a href='#Page_48'>48</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, dominion of, Polybius on, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, greatness of, Lucan on, <a href='#Page_209'>209</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[Pg 378]</a></span>Rome, in prophecy and history, <a href='#Page_123'>123</a>-125, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, might of, Horace on, <a href='#Page_208'>208</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, ode of Horace on, <a href='#Page_47'>47</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, power of, Cardinal Manning on, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, power of, Gibbon on, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, power of, Hippolytus on, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, prophecy of, in Daniel 2, <a href='#Page_45'>45</a>, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, prophecy of, fulfilled, <a href='#Page_125'>125</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, prophecy of, fulfilled, Hippolytus on, <a href='#Page_126'>126</a><br /> +<br /> +Rome, rise of, in West, <a href='#Page_44'>44</a><br /> +<br /> +Rosebery, Lord, on Armageddon, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +Rosse, astronomical observations by, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +"Run to and fro," Wright on meaning of, <a href='#Page_311'>311</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Sabbatarian Baptists, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, and the first day, <a href='#Page_164'>164</a>-166<br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, at time of exodus, <a href='#Page_160'>160</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, change of, "Abridgment of the Christian Doctrine" on, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, change of, "Dictionary of Christian Antiquities" on, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, change of, Hiscox on, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a>, <a href='#Page_167'>167</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, change of, "Library of Christian Doctrine" on, <a href='#Page_154'>154</a>, <a href='#Page_155'>155</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, Conybeare and Howson on, <a href='#Page_165'>165</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, example and teaching of Jesus regarding, <a href='#Page_162'>162</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, given at Sinai, <a href='#Page_161'>161</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, how changed, <a href='#Page_167'>167</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath in Alpine valleys, Goldastus on, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath in England, Stennet on, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath in Europe, Dr. Chambers on, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, in time of disciples, <a href='#Page_163'>163</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keepers in Norway, Keyser on, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keepers in Scotland, Lang on, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keepers in Scotland, Skene on, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping, action of Council of Laodicea on, <a href='#Page_173'>173</a>, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping after New Testament times, <a href='#Page_173'>173</a>-181<br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping among Moravians, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping, Bampfield died for, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping, persecution for, Bogue on, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a>, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath keeping, Roger Williams on, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, Killen on change of, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, Bower on, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, Brerewood on, <a href='#Page_173'>173</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, Charles I on, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, John Milton on, <a href='#Page_177'>177</a>, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, Pope Gregory on, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath observance, Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History on, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, persecution for keeping, <a href='#Page_178'>178</a><br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, seventh-day, record of, <a href='#Page_160'>160</a>-164<br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, the sign of God's authority,253<br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, the Bible,159-170<br /> +<br /> +Sabbath, through Israel's history, <a href='#Page_162'>162</a><br /> +<br /> +Saints, eternal home of, <a href='#Page_361'>361</a>, <a href='#Page_367'>367</a><br /> +<br /> +Saints, Papacy to wear out, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +Saints, time of resurrection of, <a href='#Page_352'>352</a><br /> +<br /> +Salisbury, Lord, on policy of helping Turkey, <a href='#Page_331'>331</a><br /> +<br /> +Salisbury, Marquis of, on preparation for war, <a href='#Page_342'>342</a><br /> +<br /> +Salisbury, Marquis of, on prophecy fulfilling, <a href='#Page_338'>338</a><br /> +<br /> +Sanctuary, Christ's ministry in, <a href='#Page_216'>216</a><br /> +<br /> +Sanctuary, cleansing of, <a href='#Page_211'>211</a>, <a href='#Page_213'>213</a>-217<br /> +<br /> +Santee, L.D., poem by, <a href='#Page_103'>103</a><br /> +<br /> +Satan, binding of, <a href='#Page_353'>353</a><br /> +<br /> +Satan, cause of fall of, <a href='#Page_258'>258</a><br /> +<br /> +Satan, end of reign of, <a href='#Page_262'>262</a><br /> +<br /> +Satan, judgment upon, <a href='#Page_261'>261</a>-263<br /> +<br /> +Satan, the loosing of, <a href='#Page_356'>356</a><br /> +<br /> +Satanic agencies at work, <a href='#Page_341'>341</a>-343<br /> +<br /> +Satanic agencies, Sir Edward Grey on, <a href='#Page_342'>342</a><br /> +<br /> +Saved, home of the, <a href='#Page_361'>361</a>-370<br /> +<br /> +Schaff, on date of Tiberius's reign, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a><br /> +<br /> +Schaff, on Vigilius made Pope, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a><br /> +<br /> +Second coming of Christ, <a href='#Page_51'>51</a>-63<br /> +<br /> +Second coming of Christ, see Coming of Christ.<br /> +<br /> +Ségur, on observance of Sunday by Protestants, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Seventh-day Adventists, origin of, <a href='#Page_243'>243</a>, <a href='#Page_244'>244</a><br /> +<br /> +Seventh-day Baptists in America, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a>, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Seventh-day Sabbath, Bible record of, <a href='#Page_160'>160</a>-164<br /> +<br /> +Seventy weeks, events of, <a href='#Page_229'>229</a><br /> +<br /> +Seventy weeks, starting point of, <a href='#Page_221'>221</a>, <a href='#Page_222'>222</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs in the heavens, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of Christ's coming, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>-77<br /> +<br /> +Signs of Christ's coming, given in Matthew <a href='#Page_24'>24</a>, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a>, <a href='#Page_66'>66</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of Christ's coming, in industrial world, <a href='#Page_110'>110</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of Christ's coming, in social world, <a href='#Page_109'>109</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of the end, <a href='#Page_65'>65</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of the end, signal to watch, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs of the last days, <a href='#Page_73'>73</a>, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a><br /> +<br /> +Signs upon the earth, <a href='#Page_74'>74</a>, <a href='#Page_105'>105</a><br /> +<br /> +Sinai, law of God given anew at, <a href='#Page_186'>186</a><br /> +<br /> +Sinai, Sabbath given at, <a href='#Page_161'>161</a><br /> +<br /> +Sin, the end of, <a href='#Page_358'>358</a><br /> +<br /> +Sin, the origin of, <a href='#Page_257'>257</a><br /> +<br /> +Sin, the wages of, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a><br /> +<br /> +Skene, on Sabbath in Scotland, <a href='#Page_175'>175</a><br /> +<br /> +Sleep of the dead, <a href='#Page_280'>280</a>-282<br /> +<br /> +Sophocles, on universal mortality, <a href='#Page_277'>277</a>, <a href='#Page_278'>278</a><br /> +<br /> +"Soul" and "spirit," Scriptural use of, <a href='#Page_283'>283</a><br /> +<br /> +Soul, immortality of, <a href='#Page_275'>275</a><br /> +<br /> +Soul, living, Dr. Clarke on, <a href='#Page_283'>283</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[Pg 379]</a></span>Soul, the "living," comments on, <a href='#Page_283'>283</a><br /> +<br /> +Sozomen's Ecclesiastical History, on Sabbath observance, <a href='#Page_174'>174</a><br /> +<br /> +Spangenberg, on Sabbath-keeping Moravians, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +"Spirit" and "soul," Scriptural use of, <a href='#Page_283'>283</a><br /> +<br /> +Spirit, death declared to have no power over, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Spirits, angels as ministering, <a href='#Page_295'>295</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, ancient and modern, <a href='#Page_265'>265</a>-273<br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism and theosophy, Mme. Jean Delaire on, <a href='#Page_272'>272</a>, <a href='#Page_273'>273</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, first declaration of, <a href='#Page_265'>265</a>-267<br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, modern, originated in Fox family, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, modern, Prof. Wallace on, <a href='#Page_265'>265</a>, <a href='#Page_268'>268</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism of East, taught by Mrs. Besant, <a href='#Page_273'>273</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, progress of, Mrs. Underhill on, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, satanic agencies of, <a href='#Page_271'>271</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism tested by Greeley, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, the climax of deception, <a href='#Page_272'>272</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, the dead not agencies of, <a href='#Page_271'>271</a><br /> +<br /> +Spiritualism, warnings against, <a href='#Page_267'>267</a><br /> +<br /> +Spurgeon, on authorship of Bible, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a><br /> +<br /> +Spurgeon's experience with Bible, <a href='#Page_14'>14</a><br /> +<br /> +Stanley, Dean, on baptism of infants, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Stanley, Dean, on collection on first day, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Stanley, Dean, on manner of baptism, <a href='#Page_202'>202</a><br /> +<br /> +Stanley, Dean, on Sunday, day of the sun, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +Star shower, density of, Flammarion on, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, a sign to the world, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, brilliancy of, Olmsted on, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, Chambers's Astronomy on, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, described by Jessup, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, glory of, Clerke on, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a>, <a href='#Page_102'>102</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, Humphreys on, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, impression made by, Milner on, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, "Journal of Commerce" on, <a href='#Page_97'>97</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, nature of, Twining on, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, other displays of, Humboldt on, <a href='#Page_99'>99</a>, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, Professor Langley on, <a href='#Page_101'>101</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, Sir Robert Ball on, <a href='#Page_100'>100</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, falling, Thomas Milner on, <a href='#Page_94'>94</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, shooting, Olmsted on, <a href='#Page_95'>95</a><br /> +<br /> +Stars, the falling, <a href='#Page_93'>93</a>-102<br /> +<br /> +Stearns, Dr. Samuel, on dark day, <a href='#Page_89'>89</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Stennet, on Sabbath in England, <a href='#Page_179'>179</a><br /> +<br /> +Stephen, stoning of, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a><br /> +<br /> +Stoning of Stephen, <a href='#Page_234'>234</a><br /> +<br /> +Strabo, on desolation of Babylon, <a href='#Page_34'>34</a><br /> +<br /> +Strabo, on power of Romans, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a><br /> +<br /> +Sun, darkening of, <a href='#Page_85'>85</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, day of the sun, Dean Stanley on, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, Dean Stanley on collection on, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday law, Constantine's, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday law, Constantine's, Webster on, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a>, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, mark of paganism, Hiscox on, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, mark of papal power, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, Neander on collection on, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, not sacred, Dale on, <a href='#Page_166'>166</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday observance by Protestants, Ségur on, <a href='#Page_251'>251</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday observance, "Doctrinal Catechism" on, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday previous to Constantine, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday rest, not of God, <a href='#Page_165'>165</a><br /> +<br /> +Sunday, sign of papal authority, <a href='#Page_156'>156</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Tabernacle, service of earthly, <a href='#Page_214'>214</a><br /> +<br /> +Telegraph, first demonstrated, <a href='#Page_314'>314</a><br /> +<br /> +Telegraph, used in carrying gospel, <a href='#Page_318'>318</a><br /> +<br /> +Temple at Jerusalem, destruction of, as predicted, <a href='#Page_70'>70</a><br /> +<br /> +Ten horns of beast, Daniel 7, <a href='#Page_127'>127</a><br /> +<br /> +Ten kingdoms, Daniel 2, <a href='#Page_46'>46</a>-48<br /> +<br /> +Ten virgins, parable of, <a href='#Page_348'>348</a>, <a href='#Page_349'>349</a><br /> +<br /> +Testimony of history to fulfilment of prophecy, <a href='#Page_36'>36</a><br /> +<br /> +Theosophy and Spiritualism, Mme. Delaire on, <a href='#Page_272'>272</a><br /> +<br /> +Thief on the cross, the, <a href='#Page_284'>284</a><br /> +<br /> +This Same Jesus, <a href='#Page_54'>54</a>-56<br /> +<br /> +Thomson, on Tyre's departed glory, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Thousand years, diagram of, <a href='#Page_350'>350</a><br /> +<br /> +Thousand years, end of, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a><br /> +<br /> +Thousand years, righteous with Christ, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a><br /> +<br /> +Thwaites, Clara, "The Last Hour," poem, <a href='#Page_114'>114</a><br /> +<br /> +Tiberius Cæsar, time of reign of, <a href='#Page_230'>230</a>, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a><br /> +<br /> +Time of the end, <a href='#Page_303'>303</a>-317<br /> +<br /> +Times and laws, Papacy to think to change, <a href='#Page_153'>153</a><br /> +<br /> +Tradition and the Bible, Council of Trent on, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Translation of the righteous, <a href='#Page_59'>59</a>-61<br /> +<br /> +Travel, revolution in, <a href='#Page_313'>313</a><br /> +<br /> +Trent, Council of, on tradition and the Bible, <a href='#Page_252'>252</a><br /> +<br /> +Trevor, Canon, on revolt against absolutism, <a href='#Page_141'>141</a><br /> +<br /> +Tribulation, the period of, <a href='#Page_73'>73</a><br /> +<br /> +Turkey, Lord Salisbury on helping of, <a href='#Page_331'>331</a><br /> +<br /> +Turkey, position of, "Fortnightly Review" on, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a>, <a href='#Page_334'>334</a><br /> +<br /> +Turkish power, fall of, prelude to Armageddon, <a href='#Page_348'>348</a><br /> +<br /> +Turks, doom of, Blunt on, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a><br /> +<br /> +<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[Pg 380]</a></span>Turks, end of, near, MacFarlane on, <a href='#Page_333'>333</a><br /> +<br /> +Twelve hundred and sixty years, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>-137<br /> +<br /> +Twelve hundred and sixty years, end of, <a href='#Page_139'>139</a><br /> +<br /> +Twenty-three hundred days, diagram of, <a href='#Page_220'>220</a><br /> +<br /> +Twenty-three hundred years, ending of, <a href='#Page_235'>235</a><br /> +<br /> +Twenty-three hundred years of Daniel 8, <a href='#Page_219'>219</a><br /> +<br /> +Twenty-three hundred years, prophecy fulfilled, <a href='#Page_229'>229</a>-237<br /> +<br /> +Twining, on nature of falling stars, <a href='#Page_96'>96</a><br /> +<br /> +Two resurrections, the, <a href='#Page_288'>288</a>, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a><br /> +<br /> +Tyre, desolation of, Bruce on, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Tyre, glory departed, Thomson on, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +Tyre, prophecy concerning, <a href='#Page_30'>30</a>, <a href='#Page_31'>31</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Underhill, Mrs. A.L., on progress of Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_269'>269</a><br /> +<br /> +Universal empires, four great, <a href='#Page_117'>117</a><br /> +<br /> +Unquenchable fire, <a href='#Page_292'>292</a>, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Valley of Hinnom, Hastings on, <a href='#Page_293'>293</a><br /> +<br /> +Van Dyke, Dr. Henry, on language of Bible, <a href='#Page_21'>21</a>, <a href='#Page_22'>22</a><br /> +<br /> +Veil, rending of, <a href='#Page_231'>231</a><br /> +<br /> +Vigilius, Pope, date of reign, Schaff on, <a href='#Page_135'>135</a>, <a href='#Page_137'>137</a><br /> +<br /> +Voltaire, on Lisbon earthquake, <a href='#Page_80'>80</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Wages of sin, <a href='#Page_289'>289</a><br /> +<br /> +Wallace, Alfred Russel, on revolution in travel, <a href='#Page_313'>313</a><br /> +<br /> +Wallace, Alfred Russel, on Spiritualism, <a href='#Page_265'>265</a>, <a href='#Page_268'>268</a><br /> +<br /> +War, god of, Lord Avebury on, <a href='#Page_112'>112</a><br /> +<br /> +War, preparation for, Marquis of Salisbury on, <a href='#Page_342'>342</a><br /> +<br /> +War, preparation for, "Nineteenth Century and After", <a href='#Page_339'>339</a>-341<br /> +<br /> +War, preparation for, Queen Alexandra on, <a href='#Page_339'>339</a><br /> +<br /> +War, sign of end, "Church Missionary Review" on, <a href='#Page_343'>343</a><br /> +<br /> +Webster, Noah, on dark day, <a href='#Page_87'>87</a><br /> +<br /> +Webster, Prof. Hutton, on Constantine's Sunday law, <a href='#Page_169'>169</a>, <a href='#Page_170'>170</a><br /> +<br /> +Weeks, the seventy, starting point of, <a href='#Page_221'>221</a>, <a href='#Page_222'>222</a><br /> +<br /> +Wesley, John, on judgment-hour message, <a href='#Page_249'>249</a><br /> +<br /> +"Western Watchman," on persecution of Protestants, <a href='#Page_151'>151</a><br /> +<br /> +Whittier, on dark day, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a>, <a href='#Page_90'>90</a><br /> +<br /> +Wicked, before bar of God, <a href='#Page_357'>357</a><br /> +<br /> +Wicked, destruction of, <a href='#Page_61'>61</a>, <a href='#Page_353'>353</a><br /> +<br /> +Wicked, end of, <a href='#Page_287'>287</a>-293<br /> +<br /> +Wicked, final destruction of, <a href='#Page_356'>356</a>-359<br /> +<br /> +Wicked, resurrection of, <a href='#Page_62'>62</a><br /> +<br /> +Williams, on dark day in New England, <a href='#Page_86'>86</a><br /> +<br /> +Williams, Roger, on Sabbath keeping, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Word, see Bible.<br /> +<br /> +Word that creates, the, <a href='#Page_15'>15</a><br /> +<br /> +Wordsworth, on dawn of Reformation, <a href='#Page_149'>149</a><br /> +<br /> +World-wide movement, a, <a href='#Page_239'>239</a>-245<br /> +<br /> +Wright, on meaning of "run to and fro", <a href='#Page_311'>311</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Xenophon, on Cyrus, <a href='#Page_206'>206</a><br /> +<br /> +Xerxes' host, Æschylus on, <a href='#Page_323'>323</a><br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Years, the 1260, of Daniel's prophecy, <a href='#Page_131'>131</a>-137<br /> +<br /> +<br /> +Zinzendorf, a Sabbath keeper, <a href='#Page_180'>180</a><br /> +<br /> +Zinzendorf, Nikolaus, poem by, <a href='#Page_227'>227</a><br /> +</p> + + + + + + + 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