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ARMAGEDDON AT
HAND", DECLARES
HEAD OF BIBLE
STUDENTS'ASSOC.
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An
transportation
With street car
swamped, with roads and thorough
fares choked with traffic and hundreds
of people coming from points as far
San Diego to hear the famous lec
ture, "Armageddon," given by Judge!
Rutherford, president of the Interna
tional Bible Students' Association at
the Coliseum, Exposition Park, Sun
day afternoon, a new rescord was es
tablished in Los Angeles for attend
ance at a public gathering.
By 2:30 o'clock, 35,000 people had
fought their way along the traffic
roads and the overcrowded
as
street cars and were gathered in the
giant coliseum.
These were supplemented by the
hundreds that waited in cars out in
Exposition Park, where they were able
to hear every word of the lecture by
means of a speaker's device erected
by the Western Electric Company for
the purpose above Judge Rutherford's
had in the speaking stand.
MUSICAL PROGRAM FIRST
The judge was preceded by a musi
cal program which included flute solos
by William E. Hullinger, followed by
a number of selections by a quartet
composed of Mrs. E. D. Sexton, H. H.
Rehmer, W. R. Mitchell and Mrs. Alice
Ripper, Arthur Hewlett, choir master,
led the singing.
A sabbath quietness hovered over
the great audience as Judge Ruther
ford took the stand. By means of a
radio device, his speech was broad
casted over all parts of the county,
and returns from Kansas City, parts
of Texas and other states today indi
cate that the Judge's audience reached
over the entire United States.
TO REVISIT OLD WORLD
The judge's lecture wsa based upon
actual conditions which he found upon
a recent tour of Europe. Always a
student of world events, the judge
will again visit the nations of the old
world within a few months, where he
expect? to gather material for future
lectures and perhaps resolve his in
formation into book form,
Judge Rutherford is conceded to be
one of the best lectures on public plat
forms today. He succeeded the late
Pastor Russell, not only as president
of the International Bible Student's
association, but in the hearts of his
followers as well.
Outspoken and frank in his opinions
the judge makes all his issues clear,
leaving no doubt in the minds of his
hearers of his sincerity and his wis
dom.
ENDS CONVENTION
Because he left an intensive lecture
campaign to fill the Los Angeles en
gagement ,the judge will retire to his
country home at Monrovia, where he
will rest a few weeks before his next
European venture.
With the Sunday lecture, the con
vention held by the International Bible
Students' association at Trinity Audi
torium comes to an end.
The convention has attracted thou
sands from all parts of the country
and has been pronounced as one of
the most successful ever held by the
association.
Here is a full synopsis of Judge
Rutherford's address:
"And he gathered them together in
to a place called in the Hebrew tongue
Armageddon."—Revelation 16:16.
It becomes the duty of every Chris
tian and every order-loving person to
sound the alarm announcing the day
of God's judgment and vengenance up
on Christendom and pointing the peo
ple to the divine way of peace and sal
vation. The old world has ended and
is in travail and distress. The great
est crisis of the ages is upon the na
tions of earth. Men who think are
alive to the fact that the collapse of
the old order is at hand. From soçne
of these we quote:
"There is no settlement in Europe.
Governments can do nothing. They
are afraid to do anything, and they
stand by and allow things to go from
bad to worse. 1923 is worse than
1914."—Ramsay MacDonald, M. P.
NEW CHAPTER
"A new chapter opens in the history
of Europe and the world, with a cli
max of horror such as mankind has
never yet witnessed."—Lloyd George.
"Airplanes, poison gas and hatred
mixed together are spelling the doom
of civilization. America is preparing
for war on a scale so colossal that it
has no parallel in the history of the
world. Our civilization will perish
unless we strive for international
peace."—Frederick J. Libby.
"No man unless he is drunk with
optimism can deny that the world is
very sick, and it may be a sickness
unto death."—Sir Philip Gibbs.
For this reason fear has taken hold
upon the governing powers and is ex
tending to all classes of people.
WHY FEAR AND DISTRESS?
Whj^do these conditions now exist?
Jehovah, the great God of the universe
answers: It is the day of the Lord's
vengeance. "Come near, ye nations,
to hear, and hearken, ye people; * *
* for the indignation of the Lord is
upon all nations.
According to the Bible chronology
Gentile times began 606 B. C., were to
endure for 2520 years, and ended Au
gust 1, 1914. During that period Sa
tan has been the God of this world
order of society. The end of the world
marks the beginning of the exercise of
kingly authority by the Lord Jesus,
the King of kings.
His disciples propounded to him the
question: "How may we know when
these things shall come to pass, and
what will be the proof of thy presence
and of the end of the world?" Jesus
answered: "The nations w T ill become
angry and God's wrath is come.
"Nation shall rise against nation, and
kingdom against kingdom, (quickly
followed by) famines, pestilences and
revolutions; and these things shall
mark the beginning of sorrow upon
the old order." Every person must
bear witness that these things began
to happen in 1914.
He further said that there would be
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a great falling away from the faith
among his professed follower's. Today
we see this fulfillment in the denom
inational churches. The fundamental
ists are making a desperate fight
against the modernists, who deny the
origin of man's fall, the great ransom
sacrifice and the second coming of our
Lord; and insist on teaching a man
made creed and rewriting the Bible,
and scoff at the second coming of our
Lord. "As it was in the days of
Noah," so shall it be at the end of the
world.
Further the Master said: "Upon
the earth distress of nations with per
plexity, men's hearts failing them for
fear of what they see coming upon the
world." Such are the conditions today
to which every one must bear witness.
ARMAGEDDON NEXT
Armageddon was the great battle
field of Palestine. There Gideon and
his army put to flight the Midianites,
who in their distress and excitement
destroyed each other. Gideon and his
little band typified Christ the Messiah.
That fight at Armageddon typified the
great and final conflict between truth
and error, between right and wrong.
It foreshadowed the complete downfall
of Satan's empire and the establish
ment of the kingdom of peace and
righteousness under Christ our Lord.
Jehovah through his holy prophet
referred to this final conflict as the
day of his vengeance: "Wait ye upon
me, until the day that I rise up to the
prey; for my determination is to gath
er the nations, that I may assemble
the kingdoms, to pour upon them
mine indignation, even all my fierce
anger; for all the earth shall be de
voured with the fire of my jealousy."
(Zephaniah 3:8). The nations are now
assembled and bound together by com
pact and leagues; and yet all nations
are making the most gigantic prepara
tions for war that have ever been
made.
HASTENS WAR PREPARATIONS
France, although bankrupt, plunges
further into debt in producing the
most formidable aircraft, with the
deadliest explosive bombs that have
ever been known. Feverishly she hur
ries on in the building of submarines
and filling her storehouses with muni
tions and war supplies. Britain is
putting forth her greatest effort in
preparation for war; while the United
States is preparing for war on the
most colossal scale in its history.
Other nations are following the same
course; in fact, all the nation are rap
idly marching to the great and final
conflict, in w'hich they will destroy
each other, as foreshadowed by the de
struction of the Midianites.
Sir John Foster of England, speak
ing of this coming conflict, says:
is enough to make the angels weep,
that after the greatest tragedy the
w'orld has ever known the nations
should be showing their teeth more in
1923 than they did in 1913. By the
ordinary standards of judging, inter
national affairs are in a worse condi
tion today than 10 years ago. The in
ternational agreement for disarma
ment made at Washington has not
been carried out. Dread is the motive
behind all the actions of France at
the present time. Though Germany is
supposed to be unarmed, all evidence
is that the martial flame is burning
fiercely on the banks of the Rhine.
From Smyrna, to Yokohama the fire
is not only smoldering but frequently
leaping into flame."
Having a vision of this time, the
Revelator wrote :
clean spirits like frogs come out of
the mouth of the dragon, and out of
the mouth of the beast, and out of the
mouth of the false prophet; for they
are the spirits of devils w'orking mir
acles, which go forth unto the kings
of the earth and of the w'hole world,
to gather them to the battle of the
great day of God almighty." Revela
tion 16: 13,14), "Dragon" is one of
the names assigned to Satan. It sym
bolically represents the devil's organ
ization as a whole, arrayed against the
Lord and his anointed. (Psalm 2: 1,
3) "Beast" is a symbol of world pow
ers, the ruling factors, made up of big
business, big politicians and an apos
tate clergy; while the "false prophet
is a symbol of a system of religion
claiming to represent the Lord, falsely
representing him, and in fact repre
senting the evil spirits, of whom Satan
is the chief. Each one of these holds
before the minds of the people false
doctrines and false hopes.
PREPARE WAR
They boast of the only ability and
wisdom to bring the desire of
kind, of peace and prosperity; while
at the same time they evolve schemes
to rob the people. They prepare
and appeal to the patiriotism of the
war; while the false religionist
rank and file to induce them to go to
preaches the young men into the
trenches. The people are learning
that they have been robbed, deceived,
misled and ill-reated, and they
growing desperate. The Lord
present, the antitpyical Gideon, is
turning on the light, that the people
may see the true situation.
In their desperation, the pow'ers,
the ruling factors, are plunging man
kind into the great conflict in the
hopes of saving the present evil order
of society. Had the big business men
refrained from exploiting the people,
had big politicians faithfully repre
sented them, had the ministers of the
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preached the messages of truth, had
all of these refrained from deceit and
hypocrisy, this great conflict would
have been avoided. In this they have
failed, and God's day of judgment has
11-16.
and quickly burn itself out. The
prophets then indicate that those who
have faith will cry unto the Lord and
he will bring them out of the trouble
and into their desired haven of rest.
(Psalm 107: 25-30). The prophet
Haggai states that following this
great trouble the desire of the peoples
will be realized. (Haggai 2:7) That
desire is for life, liberty and happi
ness.
This great conflict will awaken the
people to the fact that the Lord is
here; that the kingdom of heaven liai»
been established, for which he taught
His followers to pray. Then shall fol
low times of restoration (Acts 3: 19-24
many will come through the time of
trouble, and these shall be the first
ones that will have the oportunity for
life. He says further that then they
shall keep His sayings shall not see
death, and he that lives and believes
in Him shall never die.—John 8:51, 11
come.
Speaking of the day now at hand,
Jehovah said through his prophet Joel:
Assemble yourselves, and all ye na
tions, and gather yourselves together
round about.Let the nations be
awakened, and up to the valley of Je
hosophat
of Zion, and the heavens (eedesiasti
cism) and the earth (organized so
be the hope of his people."—Joel 3:
ciety) shall shake; but the Lord will
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The Lord shall roar out
TROUBLE PREDICTED
Again trough Jeremiah he said:
"Behold, evil shall go forth from na
tion to nation, and a great whirlwind
(time of trouble) shall be raised up
from the coasts of the earth. And the
slain of the Lord shall be at that day
from one end of the earth even unto
the other end of the earth; they shull
not be lamented, neither gathered nor
buried."—Jeremiah 25: 32, 3 ö.
The present order of things caiTtot
survive the conflict for which the na
tions are preparing and to which they
are rapidly rushing, because of the
terrible instruments of destruction.
W. L. Warden, of the London Mail,
The next war will last but a
I mean it literally. And
says:
a few days,
in those few days, with the new air
and gas attacks which have been
planned by headquarters' staffs, Lon
don and Paris will be wiped out in a
night,
thus :
tion, such as was not since the begin
ning of the world to this time, nor
ever shall be. And except those days
should be shortened, there should no
flesh be saved."—Matthew 24: 21,22.
Jesus described that conflict
Then shall be great tribula
THEN WHAT?
The tangible eviednee indicates that
the great conflict will be within the
next two or three years and ot short
duration. The Scriptures indicate that
the trouble will reach a climax in 1925
26.
Let the people take hope. The day
of deliverance is at hand. The Lord
is present and will bring order out of
chaos, and grant life, liberty and hgip
piness to those who love and obey
righteousness.
WHAT TO DO
Many will ask, Now what shall
do? God's prophet answers: "Before
the fierce anger of the Lord come up-1
on you, seek ye the Lord, all ye meek
(teachable) of the
righteousness, seek meekness; it may
be ye shall be hid in the day of the
Lord's anger."—Zephania 2:2,3.
The church was organized in purity
to represent the Lord. But under the
leadership of selfish and ambitious
men, influenced by the great adver
sary, ecclesiasticism has degenerated,
as now evidenced by the open fight
between the fundamentalists and the
Our sym
pathies are with the fundamentalists.
In the denominational churches, how
ever, are multitudes of good, honest,
order-loving people, who have hope
for a better day. They have
faith in Jesus Christ as the Redeemer
of mankind. They believe that he is
the Son of God. They believe in the
resurrection, and that the salvation of
man depends upon the merit of Christ.
They are sheep amongst wolves in the
ecclesiastical system. The Lord loves
them and is calling to them through
his word: "Come out from amongst
the wicked systems, that ye be not
partakers of their sins and receive not
of their plagues.
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earth,
seek
modernists. (John 8:44).
some
Revelation 18:4.
FIGHT IS ON
The time has come for truth to
triumph. The fight is on to the end.
It is a battle betw'een right and
wrong, between truth and error. The
forces of error are led by Satan, the
god of this w'orld, acting through his
visible governing factors, an apostate
clergy and the principal of the flock,
made up of big business men and big
politicians W'ho hold religion as a
cloak for selfish uses. The forces of
truth are led by Jesus Christ, the
Messiah, now here.
In the name of Jesus Christ, the
King of kings, we sound the alarm.
We appeal to all those w'ho have faith
in God and his Word, who believe that
Jesus Christ is his beloved Son and
the Savior of mankind, to separate
themselves from the wicked systems,
dominated by selfish men, and to take
their stand upon the Lord's side, and
doing this, receive the blessings of this
kingdom which God has prepared for
them. These are the millions now
living that, becoming obedient
righteousness, shall never die, but live
forever in happiness.
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AROUND THE COUNTY
Taken From Our Exchanges.
WESTBY
Kristine Jensen is staying at Dit
marson's attending high school.
Hulgar Peterson and Arnold Ander
son returned from Canada Tuesday.
Lizie Kettleson is staying at the
Nesten home and attending high
school.
Palmer Jensen moved into the Un
ion house last Thursday.
Father Wilhelm of Crossroads, Sask.
has been visiting friends in Westby
thisNweek.
Geo. Larson is assisting his brother,
B. Larson in the store and will remain
for the winter.
Tom Riddick and brother Ed Fargu
son of Alkabo were visitors in Westby
last Saturday. Tom was at one time
a printer on the News.
Mrs. Skeels who has been in the
cook car at Sig Nelson's is home now
on account of the rain but will return
and finish as soon as they start thresh
ing again.
Mrs. W. W. Hollister came up from
Ambrose Monday and arranged to
have her things taken to that place.
Mr. Hollister was buried at Ambrose
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Paulson visited
friends and relatives at Crosby Sun
day and Monday also attended to some
business matters and plowed home
thru the mud Tuesday.
P. G. Anderson, Henry Reuter and
Gust Erkey wei-e busy Wednesday fix
ing up the street past the school house
and the one between O. O. Nesten's
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and Soren Thompson's places.
Andy Jensen began high school last
Monday.
The State Bank examiner called on
the local bank last Friday.
Maurice Johnson and Soren Simon
sen finished threshing last Monday.
Otto and Emil Jepsen and Peter
Johnson will attend high school at
Crosby, N. Dak.
Erhart Petersen made a business
trip to Plentywood Monday evening.
Miss Dagna Johnson anti Roy John
son of this community were married
at Plentywood, Saturday, Sept. 22nd.
Soren Simonsen and John P. John
son were entertained at the A. T. Ole
sen home Monday evening.
Miss Linde from Minnesota who has
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Geo. On
stad, left Monday for her home.
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O. D. Johnson left Wednesday for
California where he j will spend the
winter at different points.
Mrs. Chas Hubbard left Wednesday
for Glasgow where she will visit with
her daughters.
Mrs. Jas. McGowan went to Plen
tywood Wednesday to visit with her
daughter. _
Thos, Harrington was a county cap
itol visitor Thursday.
Auctioneer H. B. Hyde was up from
Plentywood Saturday and while in
town made dates for a couple of sales.
Chas. Garner «brought some fine
looking young pigs from Plentywood,
and while here sold a number to A.
E. Lecy.
Mrs. Blase, mother of Art Blase,
and Miss Amelia Blase returned to her
home at North St. Paul Thrusday af
ter a visit here of a couple of months.
Great Northern Railway announces
virtual completion of $30,000,000 im
provement program for 1923, includ
ing new double tracks, automactic
block signals, larger terminal yards
and laying of heavier steel.
Dillon-Contract for construction of
two steel bridges in Beaverhead coun
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