Golden Valley chronicle., April 04, 1913, Image 6

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Pastor Russell Gives True Inter
pretation of Scriptural Armageddon
Brooklyn Acmtm
of |1 8 Wll
crowded to the II
It today to bem
Pastor Russell's
discourse ou the
"Battle of Arnm
ixeddou." His test
was: "He gathered
them together unto
nascwsm r, ''nT1
w",led
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VT the Llebrew tongue
A ruiageddo 11.'
(Revelation svl. 16.) The speaker sniil:
Armageddon In the llebrew sigmlie.-.
the "Hill ot Megiddo." or Mount of L»e
•traction. It was famous us a bnttlf
field In Old Testament limes.
The Lord has seen lit to associate the
name Armageddon, with the great con
troversy between Truth and Error,
right and wrong. Cod and Mammon,
with which this Aye will close, perish,
and the New Age ot Messiah's glory
be ushered MI. He lias purposely used
highly symbolical figures of speech in
lile last hook of the Bible, evidently
with a view to hiding certaiu impor
tant truths until the due time for their
revealmcnt. But even in the due time,
the Bible assures us. "None of the
wicked shall understand" (Daniel xtl.
9, 10)—none who are out of limrt har
mony with (iod-liut only the wise of
His people—the "wise virgin" class ot
the Master's parable.
I have long avoided presentation of
my understanding of our text and Its
context. I take it up now by request
and because I believe it is due time to
be understood. I disclaim any special
Inspiration. In some particulars mv
views agree with those of other
Bil!-
students, and in other respects thev
disagree. K.'ieli hearer must use
ivti judgment, do his own Bible stml
and reach his own conclusions.
Kindly reirienilier that I am not re
sponsible lor the figures of speech used
by the Lord. My interpretations do in
deed constitute a terrible arraignment
uf institutions which we have all reve
enced nnd which embrace good people,
of good words and good works. (.Jod
«aintly people in these various instil"
Moris, being comparatively few, are
Ignored when systems as a whole are
(ealt with in prophecy.
The Dragon, Beast, False Prophet.
Our contest tells as that three Im
pure spirits (teachings) will go forth
from the tpoutlis of the Dragon, the
Beast and the False Prophet, and these
three will In accord, and symbolical
ly the doctrines are represented by
"frogs." These three doctrines are to
have a mighty influence throughout the
civilised en th. They* are to gather
the kings and their armies to the great
Battle of Armageddon.
The ecclesiastical kings and princes,
and their retinues of clergy and faith
ful adherents, will be gathered In solid
phalanx—l'rotestant and Catholic. The
Icings and captains of Industry, and as
many as can he influenced by them.
(Till be gathered to the same side. The
political kings and princes, with all
their henchmen and retainers, will fol
low 1u line on the same side. The
Unsocial kings nnd merchant princes,
and all whom thev enn influence by the
most gigantic power ever yet exercis
ed In .he world, will Join the same
Bide, according to this prophecy.
These "doctrines of demons." repre
sented by the "frogs." will lead man*
noble people in this great army to as
sume an attitude quite contrary t
their preference. For a time the
wheels of liberty and progress will ne
turned backward and medieval re
straints will be considered necessary
for self-preservntion—for the mainte
nance of the present order of things.
In giving this interpretation, it it
necessary for us to indicate what If
symbolized by the Dragon, the Beast,
and the False Prophet. Bible student*
of nearly nl denominations agree with
ns that the "Dragon" of Revelatiot
represents he purely Civil Pow -.
Protestant Interpreters generally agree
that the "T1'*ust like a leopard" (Reve
latlon xiii. represents the Papacy
But fewer •••'III. we fear, will lie ready
to support our view that Protestantism
Is the "Image of the Beast" (Revelation
ziii, to) li-. Mir context given another
name, "the 'alse Prophet." We urge
no one to iccepr our interpretation,
nor shall we think hard of anv who
refuse it. A\'e will neither slander nor
otherwise injure them now. nor threat
en tlieni with eternal torture. Taev
have the same nulit to their views tnat
I have, Hsu the same right to make
them known to others. And I. for
one. will !e very slnd to consider any
thing hioh opponents may set torth
•s their interpretations of our text
"Unelean Spirits Like Frogs."
The symbolisms of Scripture, right
ly understood, are always forceful
When the Holy Spirit used a "frog"
to symbolically represent certaiu
doctrines or teachings, we may be
6ure the true application will fit well
A frog has a sage look, a wise look
It swells itself up In an apparent en
deavor to Impress the Itebolrter. Its
great mouth well represents its chiel
power, used to croak.
Applying these symbols, we learn
that an evil spirit, influence, teaching
Will come trom the Protestant churches
federated, from the Church of Rome,
and from the Civil authorities, all In
-full agreement. The spirit of all will
be boastful an air ot superior wisdom
and knowledge will be proudly assuni
ed-all will croak in harmony. All will
tell of dire results that would follow
Involving the interests of both the
present and the future life. If theii
counsel be not followed. However con
flicting the creeds, the differences will
be ignored iu the general proposition
that nothing ancient must be disturb
•d. or looked Into, or repudiated.
The Divine authority of the Church
the Divine right of kings, aside
the Church, will not be alloweo
to conflict Any persons or teaching*
to conflict with these boastful and un
•crlpturai claims will be branded at
everything vile, at the mouths
ot
these
speaking from pulfflta and
and through the rellglout
secular press. The nobler sent!
of some will be strangled by th«
Vv
'ii?,
philosophy of the same evr/ spirit
which spoke through Calaphas. th
high priest, respecting .lesus. As Cnln
phas declared It ei|edlent to commit
a crime In violation of Justice, hnmati
and Divine, to be rid of Jesus and III?
teachings, so this "frog" spirit will ap
prove of every violation of principle
necessary to their self-protection.
The croaking of these "frog" spirits oi
doctrines win gather the kings and
princes, flnnuclal. political, religion*
and industrial into one great army.
The spirit of fear. Inspired by the
croaklngs of these "frogs." will scourge
the passions of otherwtse good and
reasonable men to fury, desperation.
!n their blind following of these evil
spirits, evlt doctrines, they will he
ready to sacrifice life and everything
on the altar of what they mistakenly
suppose is Justice, truth and righteous,
ness. under a Divine arrangement.
For a brief time, as we understand
the Scriptures, these combined force*
of Armage'l-ioii will triumph. Free
speech. fre» mails, and other liberties
which have come to be the very breath
of the masses in our day. will be ruth
lessly shut off under the plea of neccs
sity. the glory of God. the commands
of the Church, etc. All will seem to be
serene, until the great social explosion
in our context described as the "great
Earthquake" An "earthquake." in
B.vmbolic uiguage, signifies social
revolution, and the declaration of the
context is that none like unto it ever
before occurred. (Revelation xvl. is,
19.) .lesus described it as a time of
trouble such as never was sincc there
was a nation.—Matthew xxlv. 21.
The Lord Will Gather Them.
The false, frog-like teachings will
gather together into one host the great,
the rich, the wise, the learned and the
kings of the earth, to battle. At this
juncture Divine Power will step for
ward, and our text tells us that llti
shall gather the marshaled hosts to
Armageddon—to the Mountain of De
struction. 'he very thing which the"
sought to n*-»rt by their union, federa
tion. etc.. will be the very thing they
will hasten. Other Scriptures tell us
that God will be represented by the
Great Messiah, and that He will be on
the side of 'he masses. Thus we read
In Daniel *11. 1: "At that time shall
Michael lt'e Godlike One—Messiah]
stand up"- -'ssume authority. He will
take possesion of His Kingdom in a
manner little looked for by many »f
those who erroneously have been
claiming th»t they were His Kingdom,
and authorised by Him to reign In His
name and in His stead.
Jesus declared. "His servants ye are
unto whom ye render service." Some
may be rer '^ring service to Satan and
to error. ~vho claim to be rendering
service to '?od and to righteousness:
and some or these may be serving Ig
norantly. a" did Saul of Tarsus, who
"verily thought that he did God a sen'
Ice" In persecuting the Church. The
same principle holds true reversely.
As an earthly king does nut hold bim
self responsible for the moral character
of each soldier who fights in Ilia ba'
ties, so the i-ord does not vouch for the
moral character of all who will enlist
and light His side of any question
"His servants they are to whom the.v
render service," whatever the motive
or obfect prompting them.
The same principles will apply In the
coming Ba*'ie of Armageddon. God's
side of that battle will be the people's
side, and the very nondescript host
the people, will be pitted at the begin
ning of the battle. Anarchists, Social
ists. and hot-beaded radicals of every
school of reason and unreason, will b»
in the forefront of that battle. The
majority of the poor and the middle
class prefer peace at almost any price.
A comparatively small number. God's
consecrated people, will at heart be
longing for Messiah's Kingdom. These
will bide the Lord's time and watt pa
tiently for It they will be of good
courage, knowing the outcome outlined
In the "more s^ire word of prophecy."
to which tbey have done well to take
heed, "as unto a light shining In a
dark place until the Day dawn."—II
Peter I. 1ft.
The masses will be restless of their
restraints, but will be conscious of
their own weakness as compared to the
kings and princes, financial, religious
and political, which will then hold
sway. Besides, the masses have no
sympathy with anarchy. They realize
truly that the worst form of govern
ment is better than none. The masses
will seek relief- through the ballot and
peaceful ro-ad,|ustment of earth's af
fairs for the elimination of evil, for
the placing of monopolies and utilities
and the supplies of nature In the hands
ot the people for the public gMd. The
crisis will tie reached when the hither
to upholders of law shall become vio
lators of the law and resisters of the
will ot the majority as expressed by
the ballot. Fear for the future will
lead the well-ineiiniug masses to desper
ation: and anarchy will result when
Socialism fails.
The Cloud's Silver Lining.
Horrible would be this outlook fof
the future did we not have the infalli
ble Word of God assuring us of a
glorious outcome! Divine Wisdom has
withheld until-our day the great knowl
edge and skill which is at the same
time breeding millionaires and discon
tents. Had God lifted the veil a thou
sand years sooner, the world would
have lined up for Its Armageddon a
thousand years sooner. But that
would have been too soon for the Di
vine purpose. Iiecause Messiah's King
dom Is to le the great Thousand
year-Sabbath of the world's history.
God in kindness veiled our eyes until
the time "-hen the gathering to Ar
mageddon ?ould immediately precede
Messiah's tsklng to Himself His great
power, and lieglnning His reign.—Reve
lation zl. 17. IS.
"8end Them Strong Delusions."
St. l'nul wrote prophetically of our
tfme, that it would be one of serious
trial nnd testing to many professing to
be. Christians. The reason for this h«
states—they received not the Truth In
the love of It (II Thessalonlans U. 10.
11.) They preferred their own errone
ous theories, the Apostle explains, and
therefore God will give them over to a
"strong delusion." and let tb£m believe
the Ue which they preferred, and let
them suffer for missing the Truth
which they did- not love. Thus they
will be In the condemned host "fight
ing against God." because of their lack
ot love for the Truth.
It Is sad to say that we all as Chris
tiana have been laboring under a thor
ough delusion respecting God'a Plan.
We have claimed that Christ set up
His Church In Kingdom power, and
that the Church has been reigning on
the earth as His representative. On
the strength of this delusion. Jews and
heretics have been persecuted to death
as opponents to Christ's Kingdom. All
the while we thoughtlessly repeated
the Lord's prayer: "Thy Kingdom
come: Thy will be done on earth, ns 'n
Heaven." We knew that the Redeemer
said that He would come again to
make us His Bride and joint-heirs but
we ignored the Scriptures. We were
drunk, as the Scriptures symbolically
say. "all nations were drunk" with the
false doctrine. It is this false doctrine
that will constitute the "frog" spirit
which soon will begin to croak and to
prepare for Armageddon
The Bible presentation Is that the
world is a section of the universe In
rebellion against Divine authority, un
4er the captainey of Satan and Ills as
sociated fallen angels. By Divine grace
Jesus has alrcadv "tasted death for
every man." and the merit of that sac
rifice tnust. eventually, grant Adam and
his posterity a full, fair opportunity
for the at'
:nmcnt
of everlasting life.
All who tl- see the Divine program
and are walking in the light may kno^
something at least respecting the "times
and seasons." These brethren "are
not In darkness, that that day (and
that bnttl of Armageddon] should
overtake" them "as a tiller* —un
awares.
Armageddon Not Yet but Soon.
For forty years the Armageddon
forces have been mustering for both
sides of tbi conflict Strikes, lockouts
and riots, great and small, have been
merely incidental skirmishes as the
belligerent parties crossed each other's
paths. Court and Army scandals in
Europe. Insurance. Trust nnd Court
scandals in Vmerica. have shaken pub
lic confidence. Dynamite plots, charg
ed by turns on employees and on em
ployers. have further shaken confi
dence and tended to make each dis
trustful of the other. Bitter and angry
feelings on both sides are more and
more manifest. The lines of battle are
daily becoming more distinctly marked
Nevertheless Armageddon cannot yet
oe fought. Other matters Intervene,
according to prophecy.
Gentile times have still two years to
run. The "Image of the Benst" of our
context must yet receive life—power.
The Image must be transformed from
a mere mechanism to a living force.
Protestant federation realizes that Its
organization will still be futile unless
It receive *-ltiillzntlon—unless Its clergy
directly or Indirectly shall be recog
nized as possessed of apostolic ordlna
tlon and authority to teach. This the
prophecy indicates will come from the
two horned beast, which, we believe,
symbolically represents the Church of
England. High-banded activities
Protestantism and Catholicism, opera
Ing in conjunction for the suppression
of human liberties, await this vivifying
of the image. This may come soon,
tint Armageddon cannot precede it, but
must follow—perhaps a yenr after 1t.
according to our view of the Prophecy
Still another thing intervenes: Al
though the .lews are gradually flowing
Into Palestine, gradually obtaining con
trol of the land uf Canaan, and al
though reports say that already nine
teen millionaires are there, neverthe
less prophecy requires an evidently
larger number of wealthy Hebrews to
be there before the Armageddon crisis
be reached Indeed we understand
that "Jacob's trouble" in Ihe Holy
Laud will come at the very close of
Armageddon. Then Messiah's King
dom will begin to be manifested.
Thenceforth Israel In the land of prom
ise will gradually rtse from the ashes
of the past to the grandeur of proph
ecy. Through Its Divinely appointed
princes Messiah's Kingdom, all-power
ful but Invisible, will begin to roll
away the curse and to lift up mankind.
Young Couple
Happily Married
Perry McHenry and Miss Florence
Andreas Married at Stoddard
Home Easter.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Stoddard was the scene of a
joyous event on Easter Sunday
when Mrs. Stoddard's sister, Miss
Florence Andress, and Perry Phil
ip McHenry were united in mar
riage, Rev. Pollard of Sentinel
Butte, officiating. The wedding
was a quite one, only the immed
iate relatives of the bride and
groom being present, and owing
to the stormy weather it was im
possible for the newlyweds to get
to town and go on the trip that
they had planned—so they were
present at the Easter ball on Mon
day night, going west on No. 5
from here that night.
The ceremony was performed
at high noon and immediately aft
erward the party sat down to a
wedding dinner that was sump
tous—such a dinner as only Mrs.
Stoddard knows how to prepare.
The bride, as before stated, is
a sister of Mrs- Stoddard and has
made her home there for sevear
years. She is a young lady of high
character and has many friends
who wish her well in her new life.
The groom is a young man well
and favorably known throughout
Golden Valley county. He was
among the first settlers in the
Golden Valley county and is a
prosperous young man—and
one who will make a good home
for the lady of his choice.—Sen
tinel Butte Republican.
Plant Trees
(Continued from page three)
planted, the dirt must be packed
(irmly with the foot around the
roots. If desired the furrow may
be partially filled with a corn cul
tivator- It is well to leave some
thing of a furrow along the row
as water from rains will tend to
run in and irrigate the trees. At
the end of the first season it is
well to prune the young trees up
to a single whip. If this is not done
they tend to acquire a bushy
MATERIALS AND WORKMANSHIP.
The K-R-I-T Company not only design the md
tor—they make it cast the cylinders in one piece to
give rigidity and preserve alignment equip it with
ball bearings and with connecting rod bearings 50 per
cent larger than usual, to promote smooth running,
silence and the greater development of power.
They make the clutch of multiple discs—a clutch
that holds, and holds, and holds in sand and mud and
on the hills and yet starts the car as smoothly and
easily as an electric glides away.
They make the transmission and real axle, cut
the gears from chrome nickel steel—the hardest and
costliest metal known— and mount them on ball
bearings.
They drop forge the front axle, thus assuring
strength and stability in a most important member.
They make the transmission drive shaft of
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Model "K-R" Roadster—Same equipment, also trunk and rear tire holders ... $900.00
Model "K-D" Delivery Car, enclosed body—conpletely equipped 900.00
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form. This method of prun
should be repeated for
"The
ing
two or three years.
trees should finally be made to
head at a height of 5 or 6 feet or
perhaps more. It is best to prune
ash and cottonwoods when the
leaves have fallen. Prunning
these trees while the leaves are
on has a weakening effect. The
food that is in the leaf generally
goes back into the tree before
falling in the autumn. It should
be remembered that after receiv
ing trees from the nursery the
roots should be well protected.
MUSEUS & JENSEN, Local Agents, Beach, N. D.
chrome vanadium steel, and specially heat-treat it for
toughness and strength.
K-R-I-T Service.
The K-R-I-T has never, in two years lost a hill
climbing contest in which it participated and has been
a prominent figure in all the big endurance runs, in
cluding the Glidden tour and others.
But overshadowing these achievements is the
K-R-I-T reputation for service and economy and abil­
ity to travel any road under the most adverse condi
tions—the supreme satisfaction of K-R-I-T owners
in every section.
Comfort and Easy Riding
The big elliptical springs—made of vanadium
steel to insure easy riding and prevent the possibility
of breakage—and the deep rich upholstering fulfill the
final requisite of riding comfort in an automobile.
If one desires to start in with
evergreens, probably the bull pine
will prove more satisfactory in
the long run. The evergreens
start slowly, but after once be
coming established the bull pine
will make reasonably rapid
growth. Seedlings are not very
expensive, but it will be several
years before seedling evergreens
attain a height of 1 to 2 feet In
handling evergreens great care
should be taken in keeping the
roots away from the air.
If the resinous sap of the ever
green roots once becomes dry the
Minneapolis, Mmnesota
tree is dead. When exposed to
the air such drying will often take
place in a few minutes.
Wanted—Plowing and seeding
or double discing and seeding, to
do. Have power outfit. Chris
G. Johnson, Phone Spruce 71.—
Adv. 20tf.
For Sale 3 O-horse Colean
steam engine and 36-56 Aultman
Taylor separator, complete with
belts and drive belt $850. Bank
able paper, at two years time,
takes the outfit. Chris G. John
son.—'Adv. 13tf.
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