The Sealed Book Opened—A Great Awakening—A Message Rejected, and the Result—Another Call Sounded
By DANIEL H. KRESS, M. D.
“This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” Matt. 24:14. This was the reply of Jesus to the inquiry on the part of the disciples, “What shall be the sign of the coming, and of the end of the world?”
THE SEALED BOOK OPENED
For over a century, we have been living in what is termed “the time of the end.” The beginning of the time of the end, according to Dan. 12:4, was to be marked by an extraordinary revival and reformation, which, in the providence of God, was to continue and spread until it reached the uttermost parts of the earth. The book that the prophet Daniel was commanded to “seal” (Dan. 12:4), was to be opened.
The movement that followed the opening of this book is vividly brought out in the tenth chapter of Revelation, by a mighty angel coming from heaven, having “in his hand a little book open.” “His right foot” was “upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth,” indicating that the gospel was then to be carried to the islands of the sea and to all lands. And he “sware by Him that liveth forever and ever, . . . that there should be time no longer.” Verse 6. This prophecy brings us not merely to the time of the end, but to the close of probation, when “the mystery of God should be finished.” Verse 7.
THE FASHION
It may be of interest to note how the prophecy of Dan. 12:4 met its fulfillment. The year that marks the beginning of the period known as “the time of the end” is 1798. This was the end of the one thousand two hundred and sixty years of unprecedented moral and spiritual darkness.
Referring to the spiritual revival that began in 1798, D. L. Leonard, D. D., in his work entitled “The Story of Oberlin,” says: “These seasons of refreshing, which first made their appearance in 1798, were of frequent occurrence for two decades throughout the Eastern and Middle States. In 1825-1835 they were well-nigh continuous, and extended to the West and South. In 1826-1830, some hundred thousand converts joined the leading denominations, sixty thousand of whom were young men. It is estimated that in five months following February 1, 1831, as many as fifteen hundred towns were profoundly stirred by the Spirit of God, and as many more were spiritually aroused in a good degree, with more than fifty thousand renewed in heart and life, over three hundred of them in the colleges. In 1800-1830, not far from one million one hundred thousand were added to four churches, thus increasing the Congregational membership twofold, the Baptist threefold, the Presbyterian fourfold, and the Methodist sevenfold.”
BEGINNING TIME OF MISSIONS
“This,” he adds, “was the beginning time of missions at home and abroad.” “With thousands, reaching the destitute and perishing with the bread of life, came to be a ruling passion.”
The American Board; the American Home Missionary Society; the American Sunday School Union, which voted the famous project to “open a Sunday school in every practicable place within two years;” the American Bible Society, whose aim it was to supply every family in the land with a copy of the Scriptures; the American Tract Society; and other similar evangelizing agencies, almost miraculously sprang into existence during this period.
Organizations were formed to aid young men to enter the ministry. Theological seminaries rapidly increased in numbers. Religious literature felt the same grand impulse forward and upward. Tract and Sunday school societies and private publishing houses began to furnish religious tracts and books for the millions. It was at this time that the religious newspaper began its career.
OXCART AND STAGECOACH TOO SLOW
To aid in the work of speedily carrying the gospel to all the world, the oxcart, the stagecoach, and the canal speedily gave place to more rapid transit,—the steamboat, the locomotive, the telephone, the telegraph, etc. It was “the day of God’s preparation.”
Satan was not inactive. He did his utmost to confuse minds. The “Lo here” and “Lo there” was everywhere heard. Probably never did so many sects and isms arise in so brief a space of time. The movement inaugurated by Joseph Smith, which led to the organization of the “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” had its origin at this time. The Rochester rappings, or modern spiritualism, also sprang into being.
Amid the multitude of voices was heard a voice proclaiming: “Fear God, and give glory to Him; for the hour of His Judgment is
come: and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.” From the prophetic pages, William Miller and his associates produced evidences that in the year
1844 the great Judgment day would begin. This he believed to be the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven, the purification of the earth by fire, and the destruction of the wicked. This message was attended by a power that carried conviction to thousands of hearts. Some ministers of all the various denominations began its proclamation. The opposition that began within the churches resulted in the withdrawal of fifty thousand members from these organizations during the summer of 1844.
A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT
The predicted time came and passed. The disappointment was bitter, and for a time inexplicable. The withdrawal of this large number of the most spiritual from these churches left the churches almost destitute of the Spirit of God.
At this point, the attention of Capt. Joseph Bates, who had been a firm believer in Miller’s message, was directed to the eleventh verse of the tenth chapter of Revelation, “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” “Can it be possible,” he asked, “that we have in some way made a mistake in the event that was to take place at the close of this long prophetic period of Dan. 8:14 and 9:25?” From the expression, “Thou must prophesy again,” it appeared so. He now began to study more closely what was meant by “the hour of God’s Judgment.” He found that the Investigative Judgment must precede the second coming of Christ; for when He comes, His reward is with Him. He does not come to judge, but to give rewards. Rev. 22:11, 12.
Captain Bates found that the cleansing mentioned in Dan. 8:14, upon which this message was based, was not the cleansing of this world by fire, as had been supposed, but it was a work of investigation or judgment which was to precede the second advent of Christ, and take place in the heavenly sanctuary. The books were to be opened in heaven, and each record in these books was to be investigated. “The Judgment was set, and the books were opened.” Dan. 7:9, 10.
THE REFORM
In the study of the heavenly sanctuary, “there was seen in His temple the ark.” The ark contained the Ten Commandments, the fourth of which was ignorantly violated by almost the entire Christian world. The commandment reads, “The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God;” but nearly all the world was keeping sacred the first day. Captain Bates also found, in Daniel 7, that a power was to arise which would think to change God’s law; and Sunday, a heathen festival day, was to be proclaimed a Christian institution, to supplant the Sabbath of the Lord. He now understood clearly the significance of the words, “Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings.” He wrote the first pamphlet calling attention to the true Sabbath.584
At this point, Sabbath reform became associated with the proclamation of the Judgment hour. The remarkable spiritual revivals that followed the opening of the sealed book of Daniel at the time of the end, were associated with various educational reforms.
EDUCATIONAL REFORMS
To the Bible was given its proper place in the system of education. It was woven into the entire fabric of education. It was not regarded as a book among books, but as the book among books.
Manual labor was considered an essential part of education, and from three to four hours of such labor daily for each student was demanded. Each one learned some useful occupation.
Women, who before were not thought worth educating, were gradually placed on a plane with men, and the same educational opportunities were granted them.
Church schools, for the benefit of the children, were started.
The widows, the orphans, and the poor received care.
TEMPERANCE AND DRESS REFORM
This period also marked the beginning of a great temperance and health reform wave. Among Christians, abstinence from tobacco, tea, coffee, condiments, and all unwholesome foods and drinks, was urged and strictly enforced.
Simplicity and neatness of dress was demanded of all. At Oberlin College, a covenant was drawn up, to which all were expected to subscribe, in which it was agreed that, in order “that we may have time and health for the Lord’s service, we will eat only plain and wholesome food, renouncing all bad habits, and especially smoking and chewing tobacco, unless it is necessary as a medicine, and deny ourselves all strong and unnecessary drinks, even tea and coffee, as far as practicable.”
Evangelist Finney, who held the position of president of Oberlin College, “with boundless energy and perseverance,” we are informed, “pushed these reforms.” For several years, vegetarianism found quite general acceptance among both residents and students, not only at Oberlin, but at other colleges; and “the habitual use of tea,” we are told, “was on more than one occasion made a matter of church discipline.”
FIRST TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES
At this period, temperance societies had their origin. These at first forbade the use of spirituous liquors only, wine being permissible if used in moderation. As far as I am able to learn, Capt. Joseph Bates was the organizer of the first teetotal temperance society in America. This society was formed in 1827, at Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Here originated the name of “teetotalers.” Captain Bates abandoned the use of all alcoholic beverages, and later gave up the use of tobacco, tea, coffee, meats, and all other unwholesome foods, including condiments.
Thus it will be seen that Capt. Joseph Bates we are indebted for the light on the Sabbath, and for the reforms that have accompanied the messages of Revelation 14, and that are to prepare a people for the second coming of Christ.
THE BACKWARD DRIFT
The rejection of the message borne by William Miller led to a loss of spiritual life and power in the churches and colleges, and this gradually resulted in the renouncing of the reforms as well. One by one, the important reforms were abandoned. Manual labor was replaced by the gymnasium. The Bible was relegated to a secondary place in educational institutions, and church schools were abandoned.
At Oberlin, when “some of the students ventured to ask for a taste of pork, mutton, or their equivalent, an emphatic negative was at first returned.” The executive committee, however, was finally compelled to permit flesh foods to be served to the students.
In time, tea and coffee also began to be used; and still later, the use of tobacco insidiously crept in. This colony no longer differed from the world about them. That which took place at Oberlin, also occurred in Williams College, Hudson College, Lane Seminary, and other educational institutions. The reformation that followed the spiritual awakening in the time of the end, dropped out as the spiritual life waned. In other words, the decline in spirituality resulted in carelessness pertaining to bodily habits.
“COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE”
Little was said in the church, after this, in regard to dress reform and food reform. Sin was no longer rebuked in its members.
Just before the coming of Christ and the end of the world, the angel of God announces the fall of Babylon; and the call comes to the loyal within her walls, “Come out of her, My people, that ye be not partakers of her sins.” Rev. 18:4. In the time when the Christian church was founded, the call came to the faithful everywhere to come out and be separate. Jesus said: “Other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one Shepherd.” John 10:16. This took place at the first advent of Christ. So just before His second coming, there is to be a calling together of the faithful scattered throughout the various churches and organizations, and again there is to be but “one fold, and one Shepherd.” To them the words are spoken, “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Luke 12:32.
The spiritual revivals were associated with educational reform
CAN NEVER FAIL
By Tyler E. Bowen
Man's Word Uncertain — God's Word Sure — We Can Rest in Confidence on What Jehovah Says
By TYLER E. BOWEN
NOTHING appears more unreal or uncertain than the mere words of man. Promises are broken, deliberate falsehoods are told, so much so that men will not take verbal words for surety, but demand something more tangible as collateral. This being so, it is almost impossible to conceive that in all the realm of that which is, that which we count as the most sure, the most certain, the most steadfast, in earth or in heaven, can be the word of God.
God is the truth. What He says, is so. He speaks, and what is not, is. This is because He is God, the Creator, the Originator of all good that is. No man, no angel, can so speak. Hence the tendency of the natural heart is to judge God's words by our own; to fall short of believing, because of the infinity between what His word is and what ours is.
NOTHING ELSE SO SURE
Again we say, There is nothing so real, so certain, so sure, as the word of the living God. The apostle could state it in no other way. Listen to what he says: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Heb. 11: 1, 3.
How were the worlds, including our own, and the suns, those shining orbs on high, framed? — By the word of God. There was a time when they were not. Then God spoke, and they were. They were not millions of years in forming. God framed them out of nothing. Christ Jesus, the Son, by the command of the Father, spoke, and there upon their shining axes they appeared. And the power of that same mighty word holds them in their wonderful sweep through space, as they speed on their millions of miles of circuit, not a thousandth fraction of a second ahead nor behind time, as the numberless suns and systems of worlds complete their appointed circles.
THAT POWER DISPLAYS HIS WORD
We are lost in the contemplation of this infinitude of power. But faith believes that that which we see is God's word verified. This forms a sure basis for confidence that just as surely as the earth upon which we tread is the tangible result of God's word spoken in the beginning, so surely may we know that that which He has spoken regarding events not yet, will, at the proper time, be fulfilled, and become equally tangible and real. Faith sees it in the word of God which promises it. It takes faith to know how the worlds were framed. “Through faith we understand.” Then without faith, no one understands, neither can. That is why we see so much skepticism in the world to-day regarding the story of creation.
Thus if we can find a word of God for a certain thing, we may know that that thing is as sure as the very existence of ourselves, or the ground upon which we walk, or the air we breathe. In having the word of God, we have the substance. It may not yet appear, but it is; for it is in that word of God. When the time arrives that is fixed for it, there it stands in full view to all, framed into the purpose of God, just as the worlds were framed into being by that same wise purpose and sure word.
How Jesus sought to impress the supremacy of God's word upon us while He was585here with us! Let us review a few of His utterances:
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 6: 63.
“For whether is easier [for God], to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith He to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house. And he arose, and departed to his house.” Matt. 9: 5-7.
“And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto Him a centurion, beseeching Him, and saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, grievously tormented. And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it. When Jesus heard it, He marveled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.” Matt. 8: 5-10.
“I have given them Thy word.” “And now I come to Thee: and these things I speak in the world, that they might have My joy fulfilled in themselves.” John 17: 14, 13.
MAY STAND ON SUCH WORDS
What was that joy? — It was the joy of believing what God says, and seeing it out-worked in our lives—fulfilled. To the tempted, tempest-tossed soul, these scriptures come as precious assurances from God. We hunt out God's words from His great store-house, the Bible. They never deceive us. Every one is as a nail in a sure place. We may anchor to them. We may stand upon them. We may with full assurance of faith, like the centurion of old, know that if He but speaks, the thing spoken will be fulfilled. He speaks the forgiveness of our sins. He speaks healing to our bodies. Spirit and life His words contain for us all. Nothing else is so sure. Substance itself is there. Heaven and earth may pass away, but the word of our God abides ever. “I will worship toward Thy holy temple, and praise Thy name for Thy loving-kindness and for Thy truth: for Thou hast magnified Thy word above all Thy name.” Ps. 138: 2.
GOD DESIRES FAITH
Where to-day shall we look for the centurion faith and confidence in the word of God? Is it now likewise scarce in Israel? God is looking, we believe, for this genuine faith to be manifested in the lives of His people. It was by faith in the power of His Father that Jesus spoke the words into being. It is our faith in His word that causes the light to spring up in the darkness of our hearts, that transforms them into the likeness of Christ. Surely faith is the substance; for faith sees the thing accomplished in the word of God that speaks it.
And it is the believing what God says, when there is nothing to see, that is accounted by the Lord to the believer for righteousness. It was Abraham's faith in what God had promised, when there appeared to be no possibility of his having a son, that was counted to him for righteousness. He saw a son in God's word to him that he should have a son. And in the long list of accomplishments by faith, men and women believed what God said, and through that word they triumphed. So may we, Jesus said, “Have faith in God.” Let us do it.
A Covenant for Plain Food
At Oberlin College, a covenant was drawn up, “We will eat only plain and wholesome food.”
Sin Leads to Sorrow
“SWIM in sin and you will sink in sorrow.”
The Height of God’s Eternal Love
“If you want to see the height of God’s eternal love, you must go in the valley of humility.”
PROHIBITION AND PERSONAL LIBERTY
By M. C. W.
The Exercise of Personal Rights — Must Also Respect the Rights of Others — What We Owe to God
Direct an Individual Matter
MAN owes first allegiance to his Maker. Daniel Webster declared that his greatest thought was that of man’s personal responsibility to God. God regards the individual man. All the commands, injunctions, and promises of the Bible go first to the individual. Upon him rests the moral obligation. The God-given privileges, rights, and liberties of the race vest first in the individual; for only so are the rights of the many conserved. In the liberty of the exercise of these rights, God has at various times clearly manifested that He stood with the individual against the mass that sought to deprive him of his heritage.
OUR NEIGHBOR’S LIBERTIES
But the exercise of man’s rights in his duty to God does not trench upon nor invalidate the equal rights and liberties of his neighbor. The same God who commands us to love Him with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength demands also that we love our neighbor as ourselves, and that whatsoever we would that men should do to us, we should do to them. Matt. 22: 34-40; 7: 12.
Clearly, therefore, a proper view of personal rights and liberties does not mean that the individual may do as he pleases in his relationship to his fellows. Liberty is not license.
PURELY INDIVIDUAL MATTERS
For example, a man may stand or sit or kneel at public worship. He does not in this necessarily wrong his neighbor in any way. He may religiously observe the first day of the week, or the seventh, or any other day of the week, or no day. This is a matter wholly between himself and God. He may be sprinkled, poured, or immersed, or refuse to submit to any of these ordinances, when he unites with the particular church or denomination of his choice. That is a matter of conscience. He may believe in the “real presence,” or refuse to believe in it. He may remove his hat in honor to a passing procession, or refuse so to do. He injures the life, chastity, property, or reputation of no one by so doing or refraining from doing. He may wear white clothes, gray clothes, black or blue clothes. By this his neighbor or society is not wronged, though its ultra-fashionables may be shocked. These rights of the individual should be safeguarded by law, for only so are the rights of all conserved. But his liberties go no farther than his God-given rights extend; and therefore these liberties should not encroach upon the equal rights of his fellows.
THE BUTLER BRICKYARDS, HOUSTON, TEXAS, FOLLOWING A HURRICANE WHICH PASSED THROUGH THAT CITY AUGUST 16.
Jefferson well expressed the thought of personal rights in a letter to Francis W. Gilmer, dated June 17, 1816: “No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him; and, no man having a natural right to be the judge between himself and another, it is his natural duty to submit to the umpirage of an impartial third. When the laws have declared and enforced all this, they have fulfilled their functions, and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right.”
Between himself and God, therefore, man has the personal, full, and free liberty to do as his conscience directs, provided he does not trench upon or interfere with the equal rights of his fellow man. And that is true in a general sense in our duties toward the world. The rights of our fellows must be respected. Our rights are coequal and coextensive with theirs, theirs with ours. A man may eat and drink what and how he will so far as the mere act is concerned. But if his eating or drinking affects the rights of others, his liberties, or the opportunity to exercise them, must in justice be restricted.
THE WIFE AND THE CHILDREN HAVE RIGHTS
One of the duties that a husband owes his wife and family is proper support if he is able to render it. That is a civil obligation that man takes upon himself; but when he takes the income that he and his family need, and uses it for drink, thus destroying his own efficiency, and laying upon the community the burden and support of his family, which he has pauperized, he passes over the line of personal liberty, and is a transgressor. When he sells to others poison, which unmans them, beggaring their families, debasing the neighborhood, and disgracing his own family, his business and “liberties” become damaging to others, and ought to be suppressed. When his business results in pauperism, imbecility, disease, dishonesty, crime, it ought, in justice to society, to be prohibited. The Central Board of Labor in Pasadena has stated the fact of relationship between a man and his family strongly and simply. This board sent out, in 1914, an appeal to the members of trade-unions in California, and among other good things, said:
“It is urged by the defenders of liquor that prohibition is an invasion of ‘personal liberty.’ This claim is most absurd. From where or when has any workingman, who earns only too little at best, acquired the personal liberty to spend any of his meager wage on intoxicating drinks while his wife’s and children’s shoes and clothes are worn to the last frazzle, and his last month’s rent is unpaid? Ask the women. No, brothers; our wages are not big enough to go around, even without wasting any money for drink.”
WHAT THE COURTS SAY OF THE SALOON
Here are also utterances from the various supreme courts in the country, regarding the personal liberties of the saloon men:587
“A saloon license is a mere permit. The privilege of keeping a saloon is a derivative right, springing alone from the provisions of the license statute.”—Supreme Court of Indiana.
The United States Circuit Court of Alabama, January 18, 1909, in the case of F. W. Cooke Brewing Company versus Garber, 168 Fed. 942, declared: “In the case at hand, no property right whatever is involved, if the prohibition statute be valid. So long as the state recognizes the right to make and vend intoxicating liquors, that occupation is under the protection of the law; but even then, it is at most a mere license to carry on an occupation which may be revoked at the arbitrary wish of the legislature at any time. If the legislature chooses to outlaw the occupation, there is no right of property in the business in which the owner is protected by the constitution and laws either of the state or of the United States.”
“The licensed saloon keeper does not sell liquor by reason of an inalienable right, inherent in citizenship, but because the government has delegated to him the exercise of such rights.”—Supreme Court of South Carolina.
Other courts speak to the same effect. According to their opinions, then, the same authority that licenses a business has the power and right to prohibit the same.
THE SUMMARY
Summing it all up, then, no man has the right to make himself a brute and a burden upon society.
No man has the right to spend for drink that which he owes to his family.
No man has the right to beggar his family for the benefit of the liquor seller.
No man has the right to destroy or worse than destroy millions of bushels of good grain, to manufacture a poison to sell which brings disease, disorder, crime, corruption, madness, death.
No man has the right to sell his neighbor drink, and thus impoverish that neighbor and his family.
No man has the right to sell to others that which destroys their efficiency in war and peace, morally, mentally, physically.
No man has the right to conduct a business from which comes no good, but from which spring political corruption, poverty, pauperism, idiocy, insanity, disease, death, crime, blasting, and blighting, only and always.
No man has the right to conduct a business that, to make it a continued success, must depend upon the destruction of the youth of the land.
And therefore, in short, justice to the state, justice to the taxpayers, justice to society, justice to the wife and children of the drunkard, justice to future generations — nay, more, justice to the drunkard himself, and to the equal rights of all — demands that the liquor traffic shall be totally and forever abolished. M. C. W.
“CHRISTIANITY VERSUS MILITARISM”
By J. E. F.
THE Rev. J. W. Shenk, of Los Angeles, California, brings the following excellent indictment against militarism: “Militarism is the absolute negative of Christianity. The one exhibits a mailed fist, the other shows a hand that is pierced. The one carries a big stick, the other carries a cross on which the Prince of glory died. The one declares that might makes right; the other affirms that right makes might. The one says that the foundation of all things is force; the other says that the foundation of all things is love.
“Militarism is materialism in its deadliest manifestation; it is atheism in its most brutal and blatant incarnation; it is the enemy of God and man. It must be overthrown. Every nation which becomes its devotee is doomed. Militaristic nations are broken to pieces like potters’ vessels. So did the Almighty break Nineveh and Babylon, Persia and Greece and Rome; and unless they repent, He will break in pieces the so-called great powers of Europe.”
Yes, militarism is to be “overthrown”; it is “doomed.” But when is it to be overthrown? It is in vain to expect the nations to repent, as the Rev. Mr. Shenk may hope.
Daniel the prophet, in explaining the heathen king’s dream, tells of the succession of earth’s great monarchies, how they rose and fell, and of the ten kingdoms symbolized by the feet of the image, representing the present kingdoms of Europe, the great warring nations of to-day.
Daniel says the object of the dream is to make known what shall be in the “latter days.” He says that a stone is to smite the image upon the feet, grinding to powder all the kingdoms of this world. The stone, representing the kingdom of God, is then set up, and endures forever.
MILITARISM IN THE LAST DAYS
The word of God makes plain that in these last days, the nations of this earth will go headlong into militarism.
“Proclaim ye this among the gentiles; Prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near; let them come up: beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. . . . The day of the Lord is near.”
What the prophet Joel forecast in these words twenty-seven centuries ago, is now fulfilling before our eyes. The nations are becoming more and more military in character. These are signs of the end. Soon the Son of man will come to end the strife. To the Son are given the nations who have refused the principles of peace. These He dashes in pieces like a potter’s vessel. Peace and safety messages are preached, but they never will be realized until the Prince of peace shall come to reign. J. E. F.
