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 Kingdom 
 
 "Then shall the King say unto them on his 
 lit hand, Come ye blessed of my Father 
 iheritthe Kingdom prepared fo/ you from the 
 
 undation of the world/* 
 
 By 
 
 H. W. FITH 
 Los Gatos, Cal. 
 
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 LOS GATOS, CAL., August 10, 1910. 
 
 This book was first published in sections in opposition 
 to a prohibition campaign that was; beipg carried on in 
 Los Gatos. 1 do not know how much influence k ft ad. 
 Wine is now bought, sold and served as r believe it : should 
 be. For the past five years 1 have been a diligent student 
 of the Bible, a regular church attendant, and have read 
 from four religious papers. Yet in opposition to what I 
 have heard and to present day writings, I have come to 
 the conclusions presented in this book. When a person 
 says anything after careful preparation, or writes after 
 due consideration, it is provoking to be thought of as not 
 believing what he has said. I do believe what I have 
 written. Actors, hypocrites and liars are not expected to 
 believe what they say, but those who write or tell of the 
 Gospel, should believe what they say. If the words of 
 Jesus are a standard of Truth, many by their inconsistency 
 and lack of fidelity, show that they are believing a mixture 
 of truth and error. Now, I am physically sound. About 
 my body I am not concerned. But is my mind sound? Am 
 I believing the truth or am 1 deluded? Why do I/after 
 reading the Scriptures, come to conclusions so different 
 from anyone else? Why do I stand alone? No one else 
 believes as I do. Now, something is wrong. 1 believe I 
 am believing the truth and I am going to stand by it. 
 Time will tell, and but a short time, too. 
 
 Believe me sincere, 
 
 H. W. FITCH. 
 
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that 
 which is born of the Spirit is Spirit." 
 
 "Except a man be born again he cannot see the 
 Kingdom of God." 
 
 "Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit 
 he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God." 
 
 "God is a Spirit." 
 
 Therefore that which is born of God is a Spirit. 
 
 "The voice said cry and he said, What shall I cry?" 
 
 "All flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is 
 as the flower of the field." 
 
 "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the 
 Word of our God shall stand forever." 
 
 "Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket. 
 and are counted as the small dust of the balance." 
 
 "All nations before him are as nothing, and they 
 are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity." 
 
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 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, 
 that thou mayest be rich ; and white raiment, that thou 
 mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy naked- 
 ness do not appear; and annoint thine eyes with eye- 
 salve that thou mayest see. Rev. 3:18. 
 
 Jesus Christ was the faithful and true Witness of 
 the truth of the Word of God. It was his desire to do 
 all that was written in the L,aw of Moses, the Psalms 
 and the Prophets that the Messiah as the Son of Man 
 was to do. We following in his footsteps should as 
 the opportunity is given us be witnesses to the truth 
 of that Word. "Ye are my witnesses saith the Lord 
 that I am God." A witness in court before the Judge 
 and the Jury states the truth, he does not argue the 
 truth of his statements or urge the Jury to believe him. 
 So here before God as the Judge, and my readers as the 
 Jury I am not arguing the truth of what I say, or urg- 
 ing anyone to believe what I say. If what I say is true 
 and it is believed God will manifest his power in the 
 lives of those who believe it. 
 
 If I state the truth and it is not believed, God will 
 not manifest his power because of unbelief. If what I 
 say is a lie and it is believed God will not manifest his 
 power in our lives. He does not manifest his power in 
 the lives of those who tell and believe a lie and the 
 power manifested by those who do tell and believe a 
 lie is the power of him who is father of lies. 
 
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In ordinary use the word day means a limited 
 period of time or a period of sunlight. In the Bible it 
 is used to mean that and also an unlimited period of 
 time and a perpetual period of Light. With the Lord 
 a thousand years are but as yesterday, and as a watch 
 in the night. Ps. 90 :4. 
 
 A watch in the night would be the 6th part of a 
 day, so that one of the days of creation as a period of 
 time might stand for one year or 6,000 years. 
 
 The Bible is a book of contrasts, for example as 
 high as heaven is above the earth, light and darkness, 
 day and night. God said : "Let there be light and 
 there was light: and God saw the light that it was 
 good : and God divided the light from the darkness and 
 God called the light Day, and the darkness he called 
 Night." Gen. 1 :3,4,5. Paul says in 1 Thes. 5 :5, "Ye 
 are all the children of light and the children of the day. 
 we are not of the night nor of darkness." 
 
 From the words of Paul I am led to believe there 
 was a place, on the earth called Day. There was God's 
 House, there was the Hill of the Lord. There it was 
 called Paradise or Eden. 
 
 There was the illumination of the Glory of God. 
 There was no need of the light of the sun or of the 
 light of the moon. Outside of the place called Day, it 
 was called Night. God caused the earth to bring forth 
 grass and trees. He created the fishes of the seas and 
 the fowls of the air and every living creature where it 
 was called Night. 
 
 One of the grand-divisions of the earth, Africa, has 
 
come down to us through the ages known as the Dark 
 Continent. Egypt was there and was known as the 
 black land, and to be in Egypt was to be in darkness 
 away from God. 
 
 On that continent we find a humanity ignorant, 
 uncivilized and black-skinned, typical of their condi- 
 tion. That Darwin in his theory of evolution was 
 right in regard to this race I have no doubt. That they 
 have lived on this earth for the past fifty thousand 
 years, I would admit. That they formed governments, 
 and kingdoms and that the Pyramids of Egypt were 
 built ten thousand years B. C., I will concede. 
 
 But in the course of time God said, "Let us make 
 man in our image after our likeness," and there was 
 just as great a contrast between the humanity that God 
 created where it was Day and the humanity that was 
 created where it was Night as there was in the places 
 where they were created. 
 
 God made a covenant of life with the humanity 
 that he created in his own likeness. But through un- 
 belief that humanity did not keep that covenant, and 
 forfeited the right to live and to live where it was Day. 
 So were thrust out into the Night. If any one wants 
 to know where Cain got his wife, why he married a 
 black woman. And so we have these two distinct cre- 
 ations of humanity on the earth. The children of the 
 Night and the children of the Day. The brown race 
 or the yellow race is some mixture of the white and 
 the black race. Now after the white race was cast out 
 into the Night they were no better in God's sight than 
 
the black race. So all flesh became one blood. But 
 God gave them the promise of another Word that if 
 they would believe that Word they might live. Now 
 an unbelieving white man is no better than an unbe- 
 lieving black man in God's sight. A converted black 
 man is just as good as a converted white man in Gods 
 sight. 
 
 I have nothing against the black man. He may 
 be physically my superior; he may be my equal ment- 
 ally, but he is not my equal in color. A white man who 
 cherishes any love for the children he might have 
 would not marry a black woman because of the 
 disadvantage it would be to his children. God has had 
 a wonderful love for the white race. He has been to 
 work all these years reconciling a people to himself 
 He has been kind to the black race for He will receive 
 them just as quickly as the white race and has sent out 
 missionaries to all parts of the world for their salva 
 tion. 
 
 The Lord said unto Abraham, "I am the Lord that 
 brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee 
 this land to inherit it." And to Jacob he said, "The 
 land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to 
 thy seed." Yet Abraham did not possess it, and Jacob 
 died in Egypt, and the land that God promised them 
 was where it once had been Day. Now by faith we are 
 the seed of Abraham. We are the house of Jacob, the 
 Israel of God. By that covenant God intends to restore 
 the Day here on the earth. And to have an inheritance 
 there will be to have an inheritance in the Kingdom of 
 
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 God "And in the days of these kings shall the God of 
 heaven set up a Kingdom which shall never be de- 
 stroyed," Dan. 2:44. Now God seems to be doing at 
 present a strange work, a strange act. 
 
 There are people who study the Bible who believe 
 that the best gift of God is physical health and comfort. 
 Others believe the great purpose of God is to make the 
 present evil world a better and more comfortable 
 place to live in. They pray and work for it and ap- 
 parently get what they pray for. 
 
 But to ask for and receive a vain thing is not an 
 evidence of Divine favor. Jesus said, "Seek ye first 
 the Kingdom of God and his rightousness." His 
 charge to St. Paul making him an Apostle to the Gen- 
 tiles was, "I send thee to open their eyes and to turn 
 them from darkness to light and from the power of 
 Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of 
 sin and inheritance among them which are sanctified 
 by faith that is in me," Acts 26:18. And he said again. 
 "Except a man be born again he cannot see the King- 
 dom of God." And that is true. For worldly people 
 do not now see the Kingdom of God. We pray "Thy 
 Kingdom come," and come it will. We will yet get 
 what we ask for. That Kingdom is described in the 
 Psalms, in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and the House 
 of that Kingdom is described in Revelation 21. 
 
 When our Lord Jesus Christ comes with all his 
 saints and God gathers his chosen people from the 
 East and the West, "He will say to the North, give up. 
 and to the South, keep not back, bring my sons from 
 
far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth ; even 
 every one that is called by my name," Is. 43 :6. To be 
 left here in this part of the earth where we are now 
 will be to be left in outer Darkness, where there will be 
 weeping and gnashing of teeth. For with God's Spirit 
 withdrawn that strives with man, every man's hand 
 will be lifted against his neighbor. For an account of 
 the coming of the Day of the Lord read the words of 
 the Prophet Joel. Salvation is the greatest and highest 
 gift of Christ, and the cry will yet be heard, What 
 shall we do to be saved? and the answer from the 
 Thione of Heaven is, Only believe, the Words of Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
And he had in his right hand seven stars. Rev. 
 1:16. 
 
 Remember the days of old, consider the years of 
 many generations. Deut. 32 :7. 
 
 "Known unto God are all his works from the be- 
 ginning of the world." "For though thy people Israel 
 be as the sands of the sea yet a remnants of them shall 
 return; the consumption decreed shall overflow with 
 righteousness." Isaiah 10 :22. 
 
 God is the great Architect. He plans his work 
 and his plans are carried out regardless of the conse- 
 quences upon man. If man will yield to God's plan and 
 work with God and be his servant it will fare well with 
 that man. But woe to that man that will not submit to 
 the ways of God. God is a Great King and he is ter- 
 rible. It is interesting to observe the progress of the 
 plans of Providence and the growth of evil. If the 
 growth of evil in this world is the plan of God then it is 
 interesting to note its growth. The Christian dispen- 
 sation is a development from the Mosaic dispensation. 
 Then God was calling and choosing a people for the 
 world to come. God is doing the same now. As that 
 dispensation came to end so will this. 
 
 Jesus said, "This Gospel of the Kingdom shall be 
 
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 preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations 
 and then shall the end come." Matt. 24:14. In the 
 days of Noah the earth was corrupt and full of vio- 
 lence. Jesus said, "And as it was in the days of Noah 
 * * * Even thus shall it be in the day when the 
 Son of Man is revealed." St. Paul says, "In the latter 
 times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to 
 seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils. Speaking lies 
 in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot 
 iron." 1 Timothy 4:1, 2. The Apostle Peter says 
 "That there shall come in the last days scoffers walk- 
 ing after their own lusts and saying Where is the 
 promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep 
 all things continue as they were from the beginning of 
 the creation." 2 Peter 3 :3, 4. 
 
 In the Mosaic dispensation God said, "Behold I 
 send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way, and 
 to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Be 
 ware of him and obey his voice ; provoke him not for 
 he will not pardon your transgressions for my name is 
 in him. But if thou shall indeed obey his voice and do 
 all I speak then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies 
 and an adversary unto thine adversaries." Ex. 23 :20. 
 21, 22. Such were Samuel, Elijah, Isaiah, Jeremiah 
 Zechariah and. the Prophets. They did not forgive 
 sins ; only God does that. Has not God had the same 
 care for his people in this dispensation? The Mosaic 
 dispensation was literal; this dispensation is Spiritual. 
 
There seems to be a literal and a spiritual fulfillment of 
 most prophecies. In the second and third chapters of 
 Revelations we have a prophecy for the Christian 
 Church. I believe it was literally fulfilled. To be 
 spiritually fulfilled it would symbolize seven periods 
 of time in the Christian dispensation. "The seven stars 
 are the seven angels of the seven churches." 
 
 St. Paul was called to be an apostle. He was not 
 one of the twelve for there were twelve without him. 
 But he might have been the first of the seven the 
 angel of the Church of Ephesus. The Apostolic 
 Church and his epistle to the Ephesians seems to be 
 the most spiritual of all his letters. That period may 
 have extended for more than 100 years. 
 
 We have in Justin Martyr one who seems to have 
 fulfilled the work of the angel of the church of Smyr- 
 na. He sets forth clearly the doctrine of the Logos 
 the divinity of Christ. He says, God (who had from 
 eternity wisdom in himself) before his works and as 
 the beginning of the same begat of himself by an act 
 of his will, a Son who was another God numerically 
 distinct and yet not separate from himself. By this 
 Son God created the worlds, revealed himself in the 
 Prophets and in the Scriptures, appeared unto the Pa- 
 triarchs and others. At last this Son was miraculously 
 born of a virgin and as a Saviour lived and died in our 
 behalf. Justin Martyr was born a heathen, received a 
 heathen education, died a martyr in 166. He surely 
 was one who overcame. 
 
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 St. Augustine was born in Numidia, North Africa, in 
 354. When we consider his early life, his conversion 
 to Christianity and what he had to contend with and 
 what a great work he did for the cause of Christ we 
 can not help saying he was an overcomer. 
 
 Read in Bryan's World-Famous Orations, Vol. 
 VII St. Augustine on the Lord's Prayer and think 
 about it. I would chose him to be the angel of the 
 church of Pergamos. There was an apostacy that was 
 according to God's plan. We do not know why he 
 planned it so. Then it was vice, ignorance and super- 
 stition reigned. But out of that Egyptian darkness. 
 God raised up deliverers, prominent among whom was 
 John Calvin. He seems to have accomplished the work 
 of the angel of the church of Thyatira. His "Law and 
 Logic" though not perfect has had power over the na- 
 tions and if the nations of the world are to be ruled 
 with a rod of iron John Calvin can do it. 
 
 John Bunyan was in the gutter of filth and vice 
 but he overcame and put on robes of white and wrote 
 a book that is preaching yet and many followed him to 
 the Saviour and their names have been confessed be- 
 fore God. It seems to me, he, more than any one else. 
 did the work of the angel of the church of Sardis. 
 
 The Philadelphia church, the period of brotherly 
 love, the great missionary church in which the gospel 
 has gone to the uttermost parts of the earth. Who 
 was the angel of that church? I would say David 
 Brainerd. It was his example of going out and con- 
 
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 verting the savages, reforming them by the power of 
 preaching divine truth, that started the great mission- 
 ary movement. Brainerd says, "I have found that 
 close address, and solemn application of divine truth 
 to the conscience strikes at the root of all vice ; while 
 smooth and plausible harangues upon moral virtues 
 and external duties at best are like to do no more than 
 lop off the branches of corruption while the root of all 
 vice remains untouched. * * * That the reforma- 
 tion, the sobriety, and the external compliance with 
 the rules and duties of Christianity appearing among 
 my people, are not the effect of any mere doctrinal in- 
 struction, or merely rational view of the beauty of mo- 
 rality, but from the internal power and influence 
 which the soul-humbling doctrines of grace have had 
 upon their hearts." And of Brainerd we can say, "By 
 faith, he being dead, yet speaketh." 
 
 These great characters that I have named all be- 
 lieved in the divine Sovereignty of God. That God 
 was good, holy, just and wise and perfect in all his 
 ways. The earth is the Lord's and he can do with it as 
 he pleases. When God makes a f covenant he keeps it. 
 The angel of the church of the Laodiceans must be a 
 descendant of David. See 2 Samuel. 7 Ps. 132. Jer. 
 33. Zech. 12:7, 8. He will be the one God chooses to 
 do the work, deliver the message and he will follow 
 the instructions given him. "For his God doth instruct 
 him to discretion and doth teach him." To be one of 
 those seven in the Kingdom of God is the greatest gift 
 conceivable. St. Paul says, "For he will finish the 
 
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 work and cut it short in righteousness because a short 
 work will the Lord make upon the earth." Rom. 
 9:28. Again, "For yet a little while and he that shall 
 come will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall 
 live by faith." 
 
 A false prophecy is one that does not come to pass. 
 A false prophet is one that makes a false prophecy. 
 Jesus Christ was the true Prophet of God. Deut, 
 18:18, 22. The glory of Christianity has been that it 
 made people strong to do right and not to do wrong 
 when it was easy to do wrong. Now people are say- 
 ing WE must make it easy to do right and hard to do 
 wrong. Read Ezekiel 13. A false prophecy is a lie. 
 Some are saying this gospel of the Kingdom will be, 
 preached in the world until every human being be- 
 comes a Christian. That is a false prophecy, therefore 
 a lie. Of the New Jerusalem it is said, "And there 
 shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth. 
 neither whatsoever that worketh abomination or mak- 
 eth a lie, but they which are written in the Lamb's 
 book of life." Rev. 21 :27. 
 
 Wherever divine truths are received there vice 
 and crime disappear. Where the Word of God is not 
 there vice and crime abound. Sin is the rejection of 
 divine truth. It is a vice, a pleasure, it is a sin of the 
 soul and the soul that sinneth it shall die. If it were 
 not for God's determination to save some, who would 
 be saved? Not one. For who at the present time is 
 not rejecting divine truths? I know what people be- 
 
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 lieve by what they are trying to do. God was wise and 
 just when he made faith the terms of salvation and he 
 will not come down from those terms. Again, only 
 believe, believe only the words and sayings of Jesus 
 Christ. God's last call to an unbelieving, faithless, 
 drunken (but not with wine), staggering (but not 
 with strong drink) world is, "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." Who will hear that voice, who 
 will God be gracious to, who will find grace in his 
 sight? "By grace ye are saved." Those who believe 
 the words and sayings of the Lord Jesus Christ. "He 
 that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he 
 that believeth not shall be condemned." "And to 
 whom sware he that they should not enter into his 
 rest, but to them that believed not." 
 
 David knew God's plan so he wrote us the 80th 
 psalm as a prayer. Not to be a Christian is to be wick- 
 ed. There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked, 
 If you are a Christian, I am only seeking your peace 
 and happiness. If you are not, I can truthfully say 
 that you cannot control your own fears. Fear and. 
 fright, regret and remorse, shame and sorrow, are not 
 physical torments, but I would rather be delivered 
 from them than to be delivered from being burned at 
 the stake. William Cowper, in 1774, wrote the fol- 
 lowing beautiful lines. He wrote them for me, so now 
 they are mine. I present them to you : 
 
God moves in a mysterious way 
 
 His wonders to perform; 
 He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
 
 And rides upon the storm. 
 
 Deep in unfathomable mines 
 
 Of never-failing skill 
 He treasures up His bright designs, 
 
 And works His sovereign will. 
 
 Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, 
 The clouds ye so much dread 
 
 Are big with mercy and shall break 
 In blessings on thy head. 
 
 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense 
 But trust Him for His grace; 
 
 Behind a frowning providence 
 He hides a smiling face. 
 
 His purposes will ripen fast, 
 
 Unfolding every hour; 
 The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 
 But sweet will be the flower. 
 
 Blind unbelief is sure to err, 
 And scan His works in vain; 
 
 God is His own Interpreter, 
 And He will make it plain. 
 
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 "I pray God your whole Spirit soul and body be 
 preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord 
 Jesus Christ." 1 Thes. 5 :23. 
 
 "For the Word of God is quick, and powerful, and 
 sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to 
 the dividing asunder of soul and Spirit." Heb. 4:12. 
 
 To one who studies God's plans and who rever- 
 ently believes in the fulfillment of Revelation, the 
 present age is one of wonderful interest. There has 
 been much written abount Drunkeness, Psychic Phe- 
 nomena, Subconscious mind, etc., etc. Now a drunk- 
 ard is an over drinker, just as a glutton is an over eat- 
 er. I have been among drunken people, have drank 
 with them and have observed the effect of strong drink 
 When I was quite a young man, and had been away 
 from home about two years, I was working in a mill in 
 this state about three miles from a town. Among the 
 thirty or more men that worked there, was one young 
 man, about my own age, healthy, well built and good 
 looking. He and I were friends. There was no liquor 
 sold about the mill. One Saturday evening four of us 
 went into town. When we arrived in town we all went 
 into a saloon to have a drink. Before we came out we 
 each of us had about four drinks of whisky. We went 
 around town and did what trading we had to do. It 
 was then about ten o'clock, my friend and I were going 
 
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 back to the mill. The other fellows were going to stay 
 longer ; they said "let's have another drink," so we had 
 a couple more drinks of whisky. Now I was not afraid 
 of becoming intoxicated for though there had been oc- 
 casions when I had been intemperate, I never became 
 intoxicated. I always knew what I was doing, and 
 what I was saying, and could always say and do what I 
 wanted to. But when we came to go home this friend 
 of mine suddenly thought he saw an enemy out in the 
 street and he wanted to go out and fight. There wasn't 
 any one in the street; he just thought there was. I 
 saw that he was intoxicated so I took hold of his arm 
 and said, come on home, he came along, he could walk 
 all right, and he kept up a continual cursing of that fel- 
 low that wasn't there. If he had been there, I have no 
 doubt he would have gone for him. A couple of times 
 on the way home I let go of him to see what he would 
 do, and he started off the side of the road. He did not 
 know where he was. When we got home he seemed to 
 come to himself, undressed, and went to bed. The 
 next day I asked him if he knew how he got home. 
 He said he did not remember anything after that last 
 drink. 
 
 Now what was the matter with that fellow. Some 
 will say he was under the influence of liquor. No. 
 That which we eat or drink only affects us, it may nour- 
 ish, stimulate, or stupefy. Now this man's mind had 
 evidently become stupefied by the liquor. But as his 
 mind became stupefied there came to the surface an- 
 other mind that he possessed that he did not know any- 
 
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 thing about, or any one else know that he possessed, 
 and controlled his words and actions, and this subcon- 
 scious mind would be manifested when he used strong 
 drink. Now I believe this man was possessed of an 
 unclean spirit or demon. 
 
 It vvas not very long after this that we separated 
 and I did not hear about him for about two years, 
 when I heard that he had got into a fight, stabbed and 
 nearly killed another man, and that he was intoxicated 
 at the time, but when he became sober he knew noth- 
 ing about it. If he had not been possessed of an evil 
 spirit he would not have become intoxicated, he might 
 have become stupefied and laid down and gone to 
 sleep. The crime should be charged to the evil spirit 
 or demon in the man and not to the strong drink. 
 
 I have worked on the wine press and have made 
 wine, and have worked in the still, and made strong 
 drink. They made wine and strong drink in Palestine. 
 By suspending wine in the skin of an animal in a warm 
 place the skin allows much of the water to pass 
 through and evaporates but little of the alcohol. When 
 we consider that the grapes from one acre of ground 
 will sometimes produce over 1500 gallons of wine, they 
 must have produced and consumed a great amount of 
 wine in that country. But in the 1400 years that the 
 Jews occupied that country there was no law that in- 
 terfered with the making and using of wine and strong 
 drink. It was true that many became drunkards. 
 \Yhen Jesus Christ was on the earth there must have 
 been a good many drunkards, yet he apparently never 
 
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 came in contact with an intoxicated person, yet a part 
 of his work was to cast out devils. Speaking to the 
 Pharisees and lawyers Jesus said, "J onn the Baptist 
 came neither eating bread or drinking wine and ye say 
 he hath a devil. The Son of Man is come eating and 
 drinking and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man and a 
 wine bibber." Why did the Pharisees say John the 
 Baptist had a devil? Because he would not drink any 
 wine. It was the will of God that he should not. Luke 
 1 :15. He was afraid to drink, they would say it would 
 show that he had a devil. They could not say that of 
 Jesus, however, for he did drink wine, but it would not 
 intoxicate him. It was the will of God that he should 
 drink. Gen. 49:11, 12. On the day of Pentecost why 
 did they say "These men are full of new wine ?" Why 
 they don't know what they are saying. Perhaps they 
 did not understand all they said. But the Spirit they 
 possessed was a Spirit of truth and love, and was from 
 above, just the contrast to what a devil would be. 
 
 Socrates was a heathen and an idolater, yet he 
 was a man that obeyed his conscience to a remarkable 
 degree and lived a simple and temperate life. But upon 
 some religious festival he would drink more wine than 
 any one else, yet would not become intoxicated. Evi- 
 dently he was not possessed of a devil. Hard has 
 been the fate of a people that would reject God ana his 
 offer of Salvation. Those people in Western Asia had 
 the gospel preached and churches established by the 
 great Apostle St. Paul. On the whole it was rejected 
 by them. They preferred their Philosophy, the wor- 
 
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 shiping of idols, sacrificing to devils, and in time they 
 got a devil to worship. Any one who has read a sketch 
 of Mohammed can very easily believe that he was in- 
 spired, and if he was and Rev. 9:1-11 is a prophecy of 
 him, the spirit in him was the angel of the bottomless 
 pit, and if that is true, to make Mohammedanism a 
 success or to maintain government among them he 
 must put away wine and strong drink, which was the 
 very thing he proceeded to do. They could not stand 
 it. They would destroy themselves. So these people, 
 the flower of the Caucasian race, were brought down 
 to the level of the savages of North America, the South 
 Sea Islands or of Africa, for liquor will intoxicate all of 
 these people. It will stupefy their minds and the 
 demon will have control of them. 
 
 The Puritans did not teach temperance by prohibi- 
 tion or total abstinence, but as the fruit of the Spirit. 
 There are not many communities that will license a 
 public gambling house, because it is a place where they 
 make an unnatural use of money. I never heard of 
 people petitioning the government to stop the issuing 
 of money, because some make an unnatural use of it 
 Some communities will not license public drinking 
 houses, for it is a place where they make an unnatural 
 use of strong drink. But to deprive a man of the pri- 
 vilege of having wine or beer with his meals is not lib- 
 erty. A man has a moral right to plant a vineyard to 
 make wine, and to sell the same, and to teach that the 
 temperate use of wine is unhealthy and debilitating is 
 to teach a lie. The use of wine and strong drink should 
 
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 be controlled by the soul or intellect and not by the lust 
 of the body. See Deut. 14:26. 
 
 In Luke 11 :14 there is an account of Jesus casting 
 out a devil, and it was dumb. When the devil was 
 gone out the man spoke. I have seen men in that con- 
 dition, but we say they are in a state of intoxication 
 Remove the demon and the man is in his normal state 
 of mind. A drunken man may reel and stumble in his 
 walk, yet his mind remains clear. Such a man does not 
 commit crime any more when he is drunken than when 
 he is sober, but a crime may be committed on him, for 
 he is not in a condition to defend himself. 
 
 In the fall of 1907, without any warning or appar- 
 ent cause people began to fear, to doubt and to lose 
 faith in the financial institutions of this country, and 
 the result was a financial panic or shock, and the insti- 
 tutions that were not sound went down. 
 
 No human being can start or stop a panic of that 
 kind. Let us say, God did these things. Now if the 
 Mohammedans should have a religious panic it could 
 be caused by a fear that they were not going to enter 
 Paradise or by a desire to do the will of Mohammed 
 their prophet. A Christian to them is an infidel, and to 
 kill an infidel is an assurance of an entrance into Para- 
 dise and it is doing the will of Mohammed, for his will 
 is that his religion should be set up by the sword. The 
 Mohammedans live and move and have their being by 
 the power of God just as much as we do, and God can 
 put into their hearts to do the will of Mohammed 
 They have just had a revival over there, for they have 
 
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 recently put to death thirty thousand Christians, and if 
 that revival continues they will kill more Christians. 
 Just as God can put into the heart of those people to 
 do the will of Mohammed, so God can put into the 
 heart of his people to do his will. "By this shall all 
 men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one 
 for another." If God should put his Spirit into his 
 people of the two great divisions of Christianity, the 
 Catholic and Protestant churches, they will have love 
 one for another. They will love their enemies, do good 
 to them that persecute them. They will believe the 
 words of Jesus Christ. They will not kill their enemies 
 by the sword, but would rather be killed by the sword. 
 And hardest of all, they would be willing that God's 
 will should be done. If that should come to pass no 
 human being could say he brought it about, he could 
 only say "this is the Lord's doing and it is marvelous 
 in our eyes." Yet it is just what God has promised to 
 do. We have his Word for it in the 37th of Ezekiel. 
 When we have reached that condition, mentioned in 
 the last clause of the second verse, and I think we have 
 reached it, God will begin his work. God has always 
 done what he has promised to do, and I am fully per- 
 suaded that he is able to do anything he has promised. 
 Thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for your sake, O 
 house of Israel, but for my holy name's sake. If it is 
 the will of God that the nations of the world should 
 drink wine, and they refuse, He will say "Ye shall cer- 
 tainly drink." Jer. 25 :28. If it is the will of God that 
 I should drink wine I will drink it, whether it is bene- 
 
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 ficial or detrimental to my health matters not. I had 
 certainly rather drink the wine that is the fruit of the 
 vine than to drink from the wine cup of his fury. 
 
 It is written, "Cursed be he that doeth the work of 
 the Lord deceitfully." So if you say anything about 
 wine and strong drink you had better tell the truth 
 about it. It is written, "All thy works shall praise 
 thee." 
 
 It seems like an act of mercy to take liquor away 
 from a drunkard. But if God says to the drunkard 
 "Let him take hold of my strength that he make peace 
 with me and he shall make peace with me." Isa. 27:5. 
 Why we had better let the liquor alone. "Not by 
 might, nor by power but by my Spirit, saith the Lord 
 of hosts." 
 
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 And this is the condemnation, that light is come 
 into the world, and men loved darkness rather than 
 light. John 3:19. 
 
 Men have loved darkness rather than light. In 
 this assertion light stands for truth and the word dark- 
 ness means falsehood. It does not seem to anyone that 
 they prefer falsehood to the truth, still it is true that 
 one small cunningly devised falsehood will influence a 
 person furher than a number of plain and forcible ar- 
 guments in favor of Revelation. A God according to 
 the Bible they do not love ; one conformed to their own 
 imagination they do not hate. My grandfather and 
 my great-grandfather were Presbyterian ministers and 
 according to geneology I am a descendant of Elder 
 William Brewster of the Mayflower. Probably that is 
 why I have convictions of my own. Probably that is 
 why I do my own thinking, and a person who does 
 that must expect to be obnoxious to some people and 
 offensive to others. But the truth is the strongest 
 thing in the world, and the man that will not submit to 
 it will perish. Jesus Christ was identified with his 
 word. He was the Word of God. You can not sepa- 
 rate him from his words. "He that rejecteth me and 
 receiveth not my words hath one that judgeth him : 
 the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him 
 in the last day." John 12:48. "And whosoever shall 
 
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 fall on this stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever 
 it shall fall, it will grind him to powder." Matt 21 :44 
 
 He spake, saying, "All power is given unto me in 
 heaven and in earth." "No man can come to me ex- 
 cept the Father which hath sent me draw him." "Enter 
 ye in at the straight gate." "Because straight is the 
 gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and 
 few there be that find it," "Not everyone that say- 
 eth unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdom 
 of Heaven ; but he that doeth the will of my Father 
 which is in Heaven." 
 
 I can show my fidelity to Jesus Christ by insisting 
 that these words and sayings are true and should be 
 believed, and my unworthiness to be called a Christian 
 would be shown by trying to prove they are not true. 
 The human or finite will is that faculty of the mind by 
 which we make a choice and adhere to that choice. It 
 is a gift of God. Memory is that faculty of the mind 
 by which ideas or notions of things past are real and 
 present to the individual consciousness. It is a gift of 
 God, and that gift of God is not to all alike. A horse 
 has a will, a dog has a memory, therefore has a mind. 
 A church building is called a sanctuary or holy place, 
 In past days Mohammedanism was the worst enemy 
 Christianity ever had. During the reign of Omar, A 
 D. 634-644, the Saracens reduced 3600 cities and vil- 
 lages, demolished 4000 Christian churches and erected 
 1500 Mohammedan mosques. On the site of the tem- 
 ple at Jerusalem stands the mosque of Omar. He was 
 literally an abomination of desolation. Dan. 11:36. 
 
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 Let us contrast the words of Jesus Christ with the 
 words of Mohammed for the sake of making a choice 
 Jesus said, "Put up again thy sword into its place for 
 all they that take the cword shall perish with the 
 sword." Matt. 26:52. Mohammed said, Koran (trans- 
 lation by Sale) page 355. "Verily if God pleased he 
 could take vengeance on them without your assistance 
 but he commands you to fight his battles that he may 
 prove the one of you by the other ; and as to those 
 who fight in defence of God's true religion God will 
 not suffer their works to perish. He will guide and 
 will dispose their hearts aright and he will lead them 
 into paradise of which he hath told them. O, true be- 
 liever, if ye assist God by fighting for his religion he 
 will assist you against your enemies ; and he will set 
 your feet fast ; but as for the infidels let them perish." 
 
 Just to the extent that the faith of Christianity has 
 been set up by force or violence just to that extent was 
 the words of Mohammed hearkened to instead of the 
 words of Jesus Christ. "It pleased God by the foolish- 
 ness of preaching to save them that believe." 
 
 Xow, in regard to the use of wine, I must make a 
 choice. I must exercise the mind. I might use wine to 
 excess and be a drunkard ; I might use wine and be 
 temperate, or I might be a total abstainer. I must 
 make a choice. I choose to follow the example of Jesus 
 Christ. He was neither a drunkard nor a total ab- 
 stainer. God chooses the hard things. Jer. 32:17. If 
 I walk with one class of worldly people, they urge me 
 to drink to excess, and I offend them if I do not; and 
 
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 there is another class scarcely less worldly that I of- 
 fend if I am not a total abstainer. If I maintain my 
 fidelity to Jesus Christ I must oppose one party as 
 much as the other for the following reasons: Jesus 
 Christ taught by example as well as by precept. He 
 said, "No man also having drunk old wine straight- 
 way desireth new, for he saith the old is better." Luke 
 5 :39. That is true. He speaks of wine as if it were a 
 blessing. Mohammed says (Koran, page 23), "They 
 will ask thee concerning wine and lots. Answer, In 
 both there is great sin and also some things of use 
 unto men, but their sinfulness is greater than their 
 use." If I see the example and words of Jesus Christ 
 set aside and the example and words of Mohammed in 
 their place, I will point to Matthew 24:15 "When ye 
 therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spok- 
 en of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place 
 (whoso readeth let him understand)." When I see the 
 example of Jesus Christ repudiated, his words rejected, 
 and the example and words of Mohammed extolled and 
 praised from the Sanctuary, I am going to look for 
 trouble. For Dan. 12:1, "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." 
 
 "In interpreting Scripture the viewpoint is all-im- 
 partant." By the words of Jesus Christ, the Prophets 
 and the Apostles this Dispensation will end in disaster 
 and final catastrophe. The Socialist will tell you he 
 
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 expects a revolution ; that there will be a great loss of 
 life and property, but up out of those ruins will rise a 
 new nation based upon equality. But that will not be 
 the Kingdom of God for in the Kingdom of God there 
 are some that are the least and some that are great, but 
 to be the least is far better than to be a king in this 
 present world. 
 
 There is another contrast between the teaching of 
 Jesus and Mohammed that I will mention. Jesus 
 Christ said, "Have ye not read that he which made 
 them at the beginning made them male and female and 
 said For this cause shall a man leave father and mother 
 and shall cleave unto his wife and they twain shall be 
 one flesh." Matt. 19:4, 5. Mohammed said (Koran, 
 page 53), "Take in marriage such other woman as 
 please you, two or three or four and not more." Any 
 person or organization that would advocate polygamy 
 would be under the power of the angel of the bottom- 
 less pit. Now, to the minds of some, one of the ways 
 to prevent a revolution would be by the introduction 
 of polygamy. And as the least of two evils they would 
 choose the least. 
 
 We hear a good deal about good citizenship. As 
 if it was a sin not to obey the laws of the land, no mat- 
 ter what those laws were. For diosbeying an act of 
 Parliament, John Rogers, in 1555, was burned at the 
 stake. Did God impute that disobedience as a sin? 
 For disobeying a civil law, John Bunyan was impris- 
 oned for nearly 13 years in Bedford jail. Was his dis- 
 obedience a sin? In 1860, good, praying people in this 
 
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 country, contrary to law, helped escaped slaves to gain 
 their liberty. St. Paul would not have done so. Was 
 their disregard of civil law imputed as sin? Calvin's 
 opinion was, Obey in the Lord. A man has the God- 
 given right to sell the product of the soil he tills, and 
 wine is the natural product of the soil. A man has a 
 God-given right to drink wine with his meals whether 
 he eats in a hotel or in his own home. Will God im- 
 pute it a sin if he violates a civil law that would de- 
 prive him of that privilege. I say that a law that casts 
 a reflection on the conduct and life of Jesus Christ is 
 an abomination to God. And such a law is odious to 
 any man that has that love of liberty that made this 
 country possible and then made it an independent na- 
 tion. It is a darkened mind that can not discern be- 
 tween a man that sells and buys wine and has it on his 
 table, and a man that sells and buys human beings and 
 holds them in bondage. 
 
 Martin Luther said, "1 rejoice exceedingly to see 
 the Gospel this day, as of old, a cause of disturbance 
 and disagreement. It is the character and destiny of 
 God's word." "I came not to send peace unto the 
 earth but a sword," said Jesus Christ. "God is wonder- 
 ful and awful in his counsels. Let us have a care, lest 
 in our efforts to arrest discords, we be bound to fight 
 against the holy Word of God and bring down upon 
 our heads a frightful deluge of inextricable dangers, 
 present disaster, and everlasting desolation." 
 
 Isaiah says, "As for my people children are their 
 oppressors and women rule over them. O, my people. 
 
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 they which lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the, 
 way of thy paths." Isa. 3:12. Jeremiah says, "For 
 my people have committed two evils, they have for- 
 saken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed 
 them out cisterns, broken cisterns that can hold no 
 water. Yet I had planted thee a noble vine wholly a 
 right seed: how then art.thou turned into the degener- 
 ate plant of a strange vine unto me." Jer. 2:13, 21. 
 
 Will God desert his people. Hear the word of the 
 Lord, O, ye nations and declare it in the isles afar off. 
 and say He that scattereth Israel will gather him and 
 ke'ep him as a Shepherd doth his flock. For the Lord 
 hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand 
 of him that was stronger than he." Jer. 31 :10. 
 
 Creation is so great an act of power that we can 
 imagine nothing impossible to that Being who has per- 
 formed it, but must ascribe to him infinite power. 
 Therefore his power to choose is infinite, and his fidel- 
 ity to those whom he has chosen is infinite. Deut. 
 32:9, 14. And that is a very comforting thought to 
 those who put their trust in the Mighty God of Jacob. 
 It is absurd to think that a Being that has the power of 
 creation, has not the power to control the objects of his 
 creation. I can convert no one nor can I convince any 
 one. God alone does that. If I present the truth such 
 as the Lord chooses will believe it. St. Paul says, "One 
 star differeth from another star in glory" (or illumina- 
 tion). Astronomers tell us about the planet Mars and 
 photograph it. But about Venus, a larger and a planet 
 nearer to us, they say nothing about. The illumination 
 
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 of Mars is undoubtedly the reflection of the sun. But 
 we look on the night side of Venus but there is no 
 night there. The illumination of Venus must be the 
 glory of God, and where that is it is Paradise. 
 
 Venus is a Day Star. Earth is in darkness. If 
 the Lord Jesus Christ with his mighty angels should 
 visit that world he would be very welcome and greatly 
 honored. Perhaps he is there now. If he is we may 
 expect manifestations of great Spiritual power on this 
 planet. Zech. 8th chapter. How would he be received 
 in this world at the present time? It is a law of the 
 mind that what we prophesy we in time look for. It 
 was one of the commands of Jesus Christ that his peo- 
 ple should prophesy and look for his return to this 
 earth. It would not be a calamity to his people. 
 
 "The whole world is ripe for a revival. God is 
 marching through the world calling out a people for 
 his name. God will certainly prepare a people for his 
 appearing and his Kingdom. They will not be drunk- 
 ards. 1 Cor. 6:10. Nor will they be total abstainers. 
 Isa. 25:6; Matt. 22:11. Before you declare this irrev- 
 erent and un-Scriptural please read the 63rd chapter 
 of Isaiah. Those prophets of old were true servants of 
 God, and God confirms the words of his servants. If 
 it had not been for those words of Isaiah I had not 
 written these. 
 
Hani, ICou? atrfi Qfortlj 
 
 Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto 
 the Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a man that is an 
 householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure 
 things new and old. Matt. 13 :52. 
 
 Law, Love and Truth are the three immutable at- 
 tributes of God. His Law is perfect, His Love is in- 
 finite, and His Word is the Truth, and the wisdom of 
 his Word is wonderful. One of the commonest forms 
 of disobeying God's Law has been idolatry, substitut- 
 ing material for spiritual worshiping that which is 
 not. God, who is everywhere in power, and nowhere 
 in appearance, is hard to be conceived. "No man hath 
 seen God at any time." 
 
 God's Law relative to idolatry reads as follows: 
 "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or 
 any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above or 
 that is in the earth beneath." Some of us believe the 
 cause of disobedience to a large extent, to be the influ- 
 ence of Satan, a fallen spirit. If Satan could be put 
 away it would be an easy matter to present the Gospel 
 and reconcile humanity to God. To take some article 
 and say that it is the cause of sin and put that article 
 away would be idolatry. Wine and strong drink have 
 been in use since the days of Moses but it has only 
 been in the last 100 years that Satan has been denied 
 and strong drink put in his place. To worship that 
 which is not is idolatry. If Jesus Christ is not God 
 
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 then it is idolatry to worship him. Jesus revealed to 
 us that there are two Spirits that are Gods. The Father 
 and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, numerically dis- 
 tinct yet not separate from the Father. The Son wor- 
 ships the Father, and all the heavenly host worships 
 the Son. The early church worshiped the Father and 
 the Son through the Holy Ghost. The Spirit they re- 
 ceived through faith in Jesus Christ. That Spirit made 
 God their Father and Jesus Christ their elder brother. 
 For God is the Father of Spirits. Heb. 12:9. "See 
 how that our Creator has condescended to be our 
 Father." (St. Augustine). The Holy Spirit that 
 moved Jesus and spake by him was God. The body 
 that died on the cross was God's body. St. Paul spake 
 by the Holy Ghost but that did not make St. Paul an- 
 other God. Of the early Christians, St. Paul said ; 
 "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy 
 Ghost." 1 Cor. 6:19. It was not until the council at 
 Nice 325 A. D. that it was declared that there was a 
 third God by the name of Holy Ghost that shared with 
 the Father and the Son the honor of being worshipped. 
 Now if Satan can have his work ascribed as the work 
 of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost worshipped as 
 a third God, why that is just what Satan wants. Mo- 
 hammed declared that there was but one God ; that 
 God never begat a Son that was another God. Jesus 
 said "Before Abraham was I am." John 8:58, and 
 "God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must wor- 
 ship him in Spirit and in Truth." John 4:24. I wor- 
 ship the Father and the Son I know of no more. To 
 
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 worship that which is not is idolatry. No idolater has 
 an inheritance in the Kingdom of God. 1 Cor. 6:9. 
 
 No law is above its Maker. God changes time and 
 seasons. Dan. 2:21. And Jesus Christ was Lord of 
 the Sabbath day. Matt. 12 :8. If it is the will of God 
 and I believe it is, that I should observe the Sabbath 
 on the first day of the week, I am going to do it. It 
 is not written that no Sabbath breaker shall enter the 
 Kingdom of God, so I am going to say, if you think the 
 fourth commandment is not good, go and work a year 
 with only one day off a month, as I did, and you will be 
 convinced of the truth of the words "The Sabbath was 
 made for man and not man for the Sabbath." Mark 
 2:27. I do not need a civil law to make me keep the 
 Sabbath. Violation of the marriage vow is sometimes 
 a violation of civil law. But all nations tolerate forni- 
 cation. But it is written that "No adulterer or fornica- 
 tor shall inherit the Kingdom of God." Gal. 5 :21. Cov- 
 etousness is a condition not an act. No civil law can 
 change that condition. Yet it is written "No covetous 
 man hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ 
 and of God." Eph. 5 :5. 
 
 Moses, the man by whom the Law was given and 
 who saw the awful judgments of God, and felt them, 
 too, loved God and was loved and honored by a great 
 people. His name has the honor of being associated 
 with the name of Jesus Christ as no other name ever 
 was for it is written, "The Law was given by Moses 
 but Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ." John 
 1:17. And again, "For had ye believed Moses ye 
 
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 would have believed me, for he wrote of me. But if ye 
 believe not his writings how shall ye believe my 
 words." John 5 :46, 47. 
 
 Commonly speaking, love is to have an affection 
 for that which we esteem and admire, whether it be a 
 person or things. Je'sus said, "Greater love hath no 
 man than this that a man lay down his life for his 
 friends. Ye are my friends if ye do whatsoever I com- 
 mand you." Jesus did lay down his life for his friends. 
 God's love is commended toward us in that while we 
 were yet sinners Christ died for us. Rom. 5 :8. In 
 God's sight a sinner must be 1 repulsive. Some are 
 claiming God's Love supersedes His Justice and Truth. 
 They say, "God is love," therefore all love is from God. 
 The more love there is in the world the more happiness 
 there will be. In regard to Truth, anything which they 
 happen to say is the Truth if it breathes of Love. They 
 will say Christ destroyed sin, sickness and sorrow by 
 love. Suppose a man has a wife and children. He 
 loves them and provides for them but he loves other 
 women, too. Is that right? A woman says, "I love my 
 husband but I love other men, too, and want to be loved 
 by them." The more love the more happiness. God 
 is love. All love is from God, then all love is right. 
 King David loved Bath-sheba as much as any man 
 could love a woman, but it was unlawful love. Herod 
 loved Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, but it was 
 unlawful love. The doctrine that Love supersedes Law 
 and Truth would in one century put a people in the 
 moral condition of Sodom and Gomorrah, yet they 
 
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 would call themselves Christians. A great river flow- 
 ing within its banks is a beautiful sight, but if it over- 
 flows those banks it destroys homes and property and 
 spreads plague and pestilence. A Christian will confine 
 his affection to their proper objects. If it is the will of 
 God that I love not the world or the things of the 
 w r orld I will not set my affections on them. It is not 
 hard for people to give up their country if they know 
 of a better one. Witness the people coming to this 
 country. 
 
 That which I hear and am not deceived by believ- 
 ing is the Truth. That which I hear and am deceived 
 by believing is a lie. Satan is a deceiver nd his ability 
 to deceive is marvelous. In God's sight Satan must be 
 vile and repulsive. Jesus identified his Word as the 
 Truth. Every one that is of the Truth heareth my 
 voice. John 18:37. Words that state what has taken 
 place, that which is taking place, and that which is to 
 take place is the Truth. Jesus' words relative to the 
 past, present and future must be the Truth. The de- 
 ceiver and the deceived are alike in God's sight. Eze 
 14 :9-10. I will not be deceived by believing his words. 
 There are 66 books in the Bible. Some have said if 
 they were to be deprived of all the books but one they 
 would choose to retain the Gospel of St. John. Sup- 
 pose the Bible to be composed of the words or writings 
 of 66 persons and I was to be deprived of all the Bible 
 but the words of one person I would choose to retain 
 the words of Jesus as they are found in the four Gos- 
 pels and the book of Revelation. I would have the 
 
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 Truth. I will center my belief in his words. Some 
 will say they can not be understood. Daniel says, "Yet 
 made we not our prayer that we might understand thy 
 Truth." Dan. 9:13. Jesus' words in the Gospels are 
 simple. A little child can receive them. Jesus says. 
 "Whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a 
 little child, he shall not enter therein." Mark 10:15. 
 The words of Jesus may be statements such as, "Who- 
 soever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." 
 John 11:26. His words may be a prophecy such as 
 "The Son of Man shall send forth his angels and they 
 shall gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend 
 and them which do iniquity : And shall cast them into 
 a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing 
 of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the 
 sun in the Kingdom of their Father." Matt. 13:41. 
 His words might be a promise, such as, "I say unto 
 thee, Today shalt thou be with me in Paradise." Luke 
 23 :43. His words might be a command, such as, "Go 
 ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every 
 creature." Mark 16:15. 
 
 The words of Jesus Christ in whatever form were 
 from the greatest mind that was ever on this planet in 
 human form. To be a Christian is to know, believe, 
 obey and act in accordance with the words of Jesus 
 Christ. We live as intellectual and physical beings, 
 mind and body. If I eat a mixture of poison and pure 
 food the result will be a physical disorder. There is 
 such a thing as a mental wreck or a disordered mind 
 and a mixture of truth and error may produce it. It is 
 
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 a sad sight to go through a hospital and see the sick 
 and suffering, but it is a sadder sight to go through an 
 insane asylum. The spiritual mind which is immortal 
 is of infinitely more concern than the body which is but 
 mortal. St. Paul says, "Bodily exercise profiteth lit- 
 tle, but Godliness is profitable to all things, having 
 promise of the life that now is and of that which is to 
 come." 1 Tim. 4:8. EHhu says "The ear trieth words 
 as the mouth tasteth meat." Job 34:3. The evidence 
 of a sound mind is to be logical, consistent, to use good 
 judgment and to chose what is good. To each other 
 the words of drunkards are clever and brilliant. To 
 each other the words of those under the power of Satan 
 are profound and wise, but to those who know the 
 Truth they are foolishness. It was of such that Isaiah 
 said "They are drunken but not with wine ; they stag- 
 ger but not with strong drink." Isa. 29 :9. 
 
 When St. Paul came to Ephesus he found certain 
 disciples. He said unto them, "Have ye received the 
 Holy Ghost since ye believed?" They said unto him. 
 "We have not so much as heard whether there be any 
 Holy Ghost." When they did receive the Holy Ghost 
 they spake with tongues and prophesied. Acts 19:6. 
 The Holy Ghost to them was a sub-conscious mind and 
 their speaking was a psychic phenomena. But the 
 Spirit they had was a Spirit of Truth. John 16:13. 
 And would teach them. John 14:26. There was also 
 at Ephesus certain persons under the power of an evil 
 spirit that was also a sub-conscious mind. Acts 19:15. 
 
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 And that evil spirit gave to the one possessed extraor- 
 dinary physical ability. Acts 19:16. 
 
 Luke was a logical as well as a chronological 
 writer. In Luke 11:13 Jesus says "If ye then being 
 evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, 
 how much more shall your heavenly Father give the 
 Holy Spirit to them that ask him." Learn what the 
 contrast to the Holy Spirit would be by reading what 
 follows in Luke 11. 
 
 Jesus and St. Paul both said Satan's power to de- 
 ceive would be greater as time continued. For Satan 
 himself is transformed into an angel of light. 2 Cor. 
 11:14. To be under the power of Satan in mind or 
 body is to be in bondage. To be under the power of 
 God is to be free. St. Paul's work was to turn men 
 from the power of Satan unto God. Therefore I will 
 say: 
 
 Any person or organization that would by the 
 words of the prophets or apostles nullify or supersede 
 the words of Jesus Christ is under the nower of Satan. 
 Any person or organization that would by their own. 
 words nullify or supersede the words of Jesus Criiist 
 is under the power of Satan. Every person or orga- 
 nization that condemns any word or act or the conduct 
 of Jesus Christ upon any occasion is being deceived 
 and is deceiving others. For Jesus Christ was abso- 
 lutely without sin. That there are such persons and 
 organizations is evident to any one, but that only veri- 
 fies the words of Jesus when he said, "For there shall 
 
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 arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show 
 great signs and wonders ; insomuch that if it were pos- 
 sible 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 chamber 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. 24:27. "And every eye shall see him and they 
 also which pierced him." Rev. 1 :7. To be rejected 
 and disbelieved, sometimes is harder to bear than phy- 
 sical pain. 
 
 "So far as regards the knowledge of Scripture, God 
 has so spread it out before us that no former age was 
 ever so highly favored. Still, after all, there is scarcely 
 a particle of zeal. When men manifest such indiffer- 
 ence it looks as if they were bent on provoking the 
 vengeance of God." (Calvin). 
 
 St. Paul, to whom it was given to know the mys- 
 teries of the Kingdom of God, says : "Examine your- 
 selves whether you be in the faith ; prove your own 
 selves. For we can do nothing against the Truth but 
 for the Truth; and this also we wish even your per- 
 fection." 2 Cor. 13:5, 8, 9. I can say with the Psalm- 
 ist of Israel, "I am thy servant; give me understanding 
 that I may know thy testimonies. It is time for thee. 
 Lord, to work; for they have made void thy law, 
 Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea 
 above fine gold. Therefore I esteem all thy precepts 
 
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 concerning all things to be right; and I hate every 
 false way." 
 
 "Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit 
 saith the Lord of Hosts." 
 
 The following lines by Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, 
 doubtless inspired by a study of the 27th chapter of 
 Isaiah, should be used and claimed as a spiritual rather 
 than a political hymn : 
 
 Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; 
 
 He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are 
 
 stored; 
 
 He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible quick sword; 
 His truth is marching on. 
 
 I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel, 
 "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall 
 
 deal; 
 
 Let the hero born of woman crush the serpent with his heel," 
 His Day is marching on. 
 
 He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; 
 He is sifting out the hearts of men bet ore His judgment seat; 
 Oh! be swift my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet; 
 Our God is marching on. 
 
 In the beauties of the lilies Christ was born across the sea 
 With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; 
 As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, 
 While God is marching on. 
 
Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, 
 until the times of the Nations be fulfilled. Vulgate. 
 Luke 21 :24. 
 
 Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said 
 unto me, To measure Jerusalem to see what is the 
 breadth thereof and what is the length thereof. Zech. 
 2:2. 
 
 Nebuchadnezzar, the king, said, "Is not this great 
 Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom, 
 by the might of my power and for the honour of my 
 majesty?" To build, to beautify, to take or to rule 
 over a great city has been the desire of some noble 
 men. Abraham evidently desired to be the founder of 
 a city, but when he saw the condition of Sodom and 
 Gomorrah and their destruction, he looked for a city 
 whose builder and maker is God, and confessed that he 
 was a stranger and pilgrim on the earth. David who 
 made Jerusalem a city and the capital of his kingdom 
 loved the city and the people within her walls. A city 
 is the greatest work of man on the earth. From cities 
 have grown great kingdoms, namely Babylon and 
 Rome. Within these cities were gathered all the 
 wealth, beauty, art and science of a kingdom. No king- 
 dom would be complete without its capital city. For a 
 king people, city and country make a perfect kingdom. 
 People, city and country, without a king, is imperfect, 
 a people scattered and dispersed. Without a king, city 
 
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 or country might be said to be in captivity. The de- 
 sire of all nations is to be perfect. Have we ever had a 
 perfect nation? We have had Christian nations, but 
 we never had a nation of Christians. A Kingdom with 
 Jesus Christ as King, Christians as the people, a per- 
 fect city and country, would make the desire of all na- 
 tions. 
 
 Vigorous attempts have been made to locate Eden. 
 Moses is commended to us as a reliable writer. In Ar- 
 menia four rivers have their source near together. They 
 are, first, the Pison that empties into the Black Sea; 
 the second is the Gihon that empties into the Caspian ; 
 the name of the third river is the Tigris, and the fourth 
 river in the Euphrates. The last two join and empty 
 into the Persian Sea. The Lord spake unto Abraham 
 saying, "Unto thy seed have I given this land from the 
 river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates." Gen- 
 esis 15 :18. The river of Egypt empties into the Med- 
 iterranean from the Sinai Peninsula. The territory en- 
 closed by these seas would be about 1000 miles square. 
 "And the Lord God planted a garden Eastward in 
 Eden and there he put 'the man whom he had formed." 
 And the garden of Eden was probably near the junc- 
 tion of the Euphrates and the Tigris. 
 
 St. Paul in Heb. 4:3 speaks of a place where God 
 rested or as God's rest that was finished from the foun- 
 dation of the world. David says "For the Lord hath 
 chosen Zion ; he hath desired it for his habitation. This 
 is my rest forever. Here will I dwell for I have desired 
 it." Ps. 132:13, 14. And the New Jerusalem is called 
 
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 the tabernacle of God. Rev. 21 :3. So that in the 
 midst of Eden may have been the Golden City in the 
 midst of which was the Throne 01 God, the river of the 
 water of life, and the tree of life Eastward, in the gar- 
 den of Eden was the tree of the knowledge of good and 
 evil. Evidently Adam and Eve never entered within 
 the sacred walls of the Holy City. 
 
 Astronomers tell us that the moon is void of water 
 but that it once had water on it and that the planet 
 Mars is nearly void of water. God said unto Xoah. 
 "Behold I, even I, do bring a flood of water upon the 
 earth." I believe God could have by the power of his 
 word brought the water of those two spheres upon the 
 earth. Three-fourths of the earth's surface is covered 
 by water. If only one-half of the earth was covered 
 by water God could still water the ground. See Gen. 
 2:6. The same Power that could bring a flood could 
 remove the Golden City to some other planet and there 
 the Spirits of the departed believers are now at rest. 
 That same Power could restore the waters of Noah 
 and could bring the New Jerusalem here to the earth 
 for it is part of the work of creation. If the Holy City 
 is 300 miles square and was to be situated in the midst 
 of a country 1000 miles square, and all of the redeemed 
 were formed into 12 Kingdoms outside of the City, and 
 if the number of the redeemed equaled the present pop- 
 ulation of the earth there would be only three persons 
 camped on each acre. 
 
 The Dead Sea is a reminder of the curse of God. 
 It is written "And there was no more sea." God said 
 
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 to Abraham "All the land that thou seest to thee will I 
 give it and to thy se'ed forever." Gen. 13:15. The 
 sons of Abraham are controlling that country today. 
 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one 
 by a bondmaid and the other by a free woman. Gal. 
 4:22. Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, 
 are they all children but in Isaac shall thy seed be call- 
 ed. Rom. 9:7. And again it is written "Jacob have I 
 loved but Esau have I hated." Rom. 9:13. The Mo- 
 hammedams claim to be the descendants or Ishmael 
 and Esau and they hate Christians who are the seed of 
 Abraham by faith. "For ye are all the children of God 
 by faith in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's then are 
 ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise." 
 Gal. 3 :26, 29. Nevertheless, what sayeth the Scrip- 
 ture : cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son 
 of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of 
 the freewoman. Gal. 4:30. 
 
 Jerusalem was captured by the Mohammedans in 
 A. D. 637. Rev. 11. Its present rulers are Turks. At 
 Hebron on the tomb of Abraham stands a Mosque of 
 Mohammed. Two hundred and fifty million of Mo- 
 hammedans would sacrifice their lives to retain that 
 country. It would be wrong for Christians to try to 
 drive them out or to repeat the crusades of the Dark 
 Ages. Jesus said "The Son of Man shall send forth his 
 angels and they shall gather out of his Kingdom all 
 things that offend and them that do iniquity." Matt. 
 13:41. Most of us believe that some time God is com- 
 ing to raise the dead and to judge the world. Those 
 
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 who do not I am not concerned about. But many who 
 do believe say the time is not come yet the time that 
 the Kingdom of God should be set up. I say it is time 
 for the desire of all nations. The political, the social 
 and the spiritual conditions are as Christ said they 
 would be at his appearing. This Gospel has been 
 preached to all nations. Jesus said "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. So likewise ye when ye see these things 
 come to pass know ye that the Kingdom of God is nigh 
 at hand.'' Luke- 21 :25, 26, 31. What do we wish and 
 pray for when we say "Thy Kingdom come"? If it is 
 not that Jesus should come and we would have a King, 
 a people, a city and country that would be perfect 
 ''Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him 
 for righteousness." Gal. 3 :6. Therefore if I believe 
 God it will be accounted unto me for righteousness. 
 To believe is the work of the mind, words are instru- 
 ments of the mind, hands are instruments of the body. 
 Mental work is greater than physical. The President 
 of the United States receives say $5000 per month for 
 his intellectual ability while a private in the army re- 
 ceives $16 per month for physical work. God must ap- 
 preciate intellectual ability. A man who is so dull of 
 intellect that he can not comprehend a message de- 
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 ignorance. It is written, "I desired the knowledge of 
 God more than burnt offering." "My people are de- 
 stroyed for lack of knowledge. It is a people of no un- 
 derstanding, therefore he that made them will not have 
 mercy on them and he that formed them will show 
 them no favor." Isa. 27:11. 
 
 A people who have had the opportunity to know 
 God and his words but choose not to know must be con- 
 temptible in his sight. Jesus said, "For by thy words 
 thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be 
 condemned." And I believe it. God's servants have 
 been men of great minds and their words have had 
 great influence. Yet God gave them their wisdom. Ex. 
 4:11. A man who believes God ; will do and say things 
 that a man will not do and say who does not believe 
 God, for a man who believes God has the mind of God. 
 A man whose word is not the same for six days has 
 not much of a mind. With God 1000 years are as one 
 day so that the words of God given 4000 years ago are 
 as good as if given four days ago. "For who hath 
 known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his 
 counsellor?" Rom. 11 :34. I believe the words of God 
 that he gave to his servant Moses in Deut. 32:1 :43, and 
 the result is I use wine. I believe the words of God 
 recorded in Isaiah, 2d chapter, and the result this book. 
 
 If a man by the instruments of the mind blas- 
 phemes against the Holy Ghost he commits a sin that 
 always stands against him though he enter the King- 
 dom of God. For a man to say the words spoken by 
 the Holy Ghost are not true is to dishonor God and to 
 
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 injure humanity. A man who proclaims the words of 
 God glorifies God and benefits humanity. No human 
 being was ever injured by being told the truth. The 
 inability of some people to believe the words of God is 
 very evident. They read and memorize the words of 
 Jesus Christ yet do not believe them. Truly a pitia- 
 ble condition of the mind. It can be accounted for in 
 two ways : First, ''The natural man receiveth not the 
 things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness 
 unto him ; neither can he know them, because they are 
 Spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. 2 :14. Second, there are 
 in the world false teachers and prophets, deceitful 
 workers, ministers of Satan, who appear as angels of 
 light, who declare that God's words are not true and 
 need not be believed. They are as Jude says, "Raging 
 waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame, wan- 
 dering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of dark- 
 ness forever." Why should such a condition exist to- 
 day with the words of God spread out before us as 
 never before. Why is there so much interest in ma- 
 terial and temporal things and so little interest in Spir- 
 itual and eternal things? In Deut. 32:20 God says "I 
 will hide my face from them, I will see what their end 
 shall be for they are a very forward generation ; chil- 
 dren in whom is no faith." And in Rev. 8:1 we read. 
 "And when he had opened the seventh seal there was 
 silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." 
 And there is just where we are now. The power of 
 Satan is so great that if God did not interfere, Satan 
 would deceive every one. But God has said "I also 
 
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 will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall 
 come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon 
 the earth." Rev. 3:10. So that the present condition 
 is according to God's plan: we are not saved by our 
 own covenant but by God's promise to save us. The 
 60th Psalm is as good now as when it was written. To 
 the Egyptians Moses was a curse. To the enemies of 
 Israel David was a cruel tyrant. To the prophets of 
 Baal Elijah was a monster. To the heathen of Ephe- 
 sus St. Paul was the wickedest man that ever came to 
 that city. To an apostate Church John Knox was a 
 terror. The chief duty of man is to glorify God and 
 enjoy him forever. If in glorifying God I am a benefit 
 to humanity very well. If in glorifying God I am 
 spoken of as an enemy of humanity and in league with 
 the evil one, still I will glorify God. Jesus said, "If 
 they have called the master of the house Beelzebub 
 how much more shall they call them of his household. 
 Fear them not therefore." Matt. 10:25. 
 
 Pray tell me of what use is the Bible unless it is 
 read and what is the good of reading it unless it is be- 
 lieved? Without faith it is impossible to please God. 
 Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Describe 
 one of the great cities of the nations to-day and you 
 will say : "They have become the habitation of devils 
 and the hold of every foul spirit, a cage of every un- 
 clean and hateful bird." Rev. 18:2. Their doom is 
 as certain as was Babylon's the night of Belshazzar's 
 feast. 
 
 Faith is to believe in that which is to come. The 
 
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 New Jerusalem is as sure to come as God's word is 
 sure to be fulfilled. Jesus Christ proved the truth of 
 God's word. Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob 
 and the mercy to Abraham which thou had sworn unto 
 our fathers from the days of old." Micah 7 :20. 
 
 I have had no dream, I have no confidence in those 
 who say they have. "For the prophet that hath a 
 dream let him tell a dream ; and he that hath my word 
 let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff 
 to the wheat, saith the Lord." jer. 23 :28. "The fool- 
 ishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of 
 God is stronger than men." 1 Cor. 1 :25. I have en- 
 deavored to present what I believe the will of the Lord 
 is. If what I have said is reasonable, logical, consist- 
 ent and Scriptural it must be the Truth and I believe 
 it for the reason stated in 2 Thes. 2 :12. If I am wrong , 
 in the words of Luther , "I implore you by the mer- 
 cies of God to prove to me by the writings of the Pro- 
 phets and Apostles that I am in error. As soon as I 
 shall be convinced I will instantly retract all my errors, 
 and will myself be the first to sieze my writings and 
 commit them to the flames." All I have said has been 
 only after a careful and prayerful study of God's 
 Word, and a study of the history of the world. "He 
 that believeth shall not make haste." Wait on the 
 Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen 
 thine heart ; wait, I say, on the Lord. 
 
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