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VOLUME 8
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And Why I Did It. :
For nearly eight years. I have
be en publishing . a monthly paper
called ' ' The Fool-Killer. ' ' It was
SXaiieu in a ni ux uespeiauuu u
a last filial effort to drive the
wolf from the door and provide
a modest living for niy sick wife
and myselL And it has succeed
ed. From a .financial standpoint it
has done all that I expected of it,
and more. -
But in order .to attract atten
tion and get the crowd I, was com
pelled to make ; The Fool-Killer
sensational. f : Its literary .style was
ro agh ; and hoarse, abounding in
sleng expressions and . often , bor
dering on the ridiculous. ' A good
many people seemed to think it
was " funny, l and it made quite
a hit with a. certain class. - But-it
never did measure up to my. high
est ideals of what a paper ought
to be. Of course I could have
elevated the tone of it, but that
would have meant a certain fall
ing off . in popularity,. -and as it
was my only source- of income I
was compelled to cater to ' my
crowd. To be sure, I always tried
to throw the-: paper's influence1 ,011
the side of right and good, but its
coarse and uncouth manner of ex
pression made it- '.uncertain
whether it 'really did any good.
Anyhow, it grated - on my - finer
sensibilities and I have long want
ed to get rid of it or at least make
some changes that would lift it to
a higher plane. ' : "
And there , were also other rea-
stej) I have now taken: In the
first place, The Fool-Killer de-.
manded of me the impossible. ' I
was expected to be ''funny'', re
gardless of the fact, that I wras liv
ing amid the 'saddest conditions
that could well be imagined. Many
times I have attempted to write a
funny article when it actually
seemed like trying to be funny
at a funeral. Mrs . Pearson 's af -fliction
is the most dreadful case
of suffering that I ever saw, and it
has been constantly before my
eyes for more than ten years now
How could anyone expect me, un
der such circumstances, to go a
head making a monkey of myself
for the amusement of a thought
less and frivolous crowd? I have
already clone it longer than I
ought, and l feel that to go fur
ther with it would be an actual
sin. I have been a inonkey long
enough, and surely I .have earn
ed the privilege4 Of being a man
from now o'n. '' ,! " 4
, , But the best reason of all for
the change I 'arn nOW ; making is
found in the dark and perilous
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(formerly the
BOOMER, NORTH CAROLINA, AUGUST, 1917.
times; in which we are now, living.
I have long been a student of
Bible prophecy and a firm believer
in its ultimate fulfillment. I have
kept in touch with Bible students
and chronolo gists,' and they all
agree ' that some great crisis in
the world's history is due just
about now. It is abundantly pro
ven by . secular history that nearly
all the Bible prophecies have
been .fulfilled, which is the strong
est possible evidence that the rest
will be fulfilled in due time. Those
who doubt it are simply showing
their ignorance. The; prophets
have given us ' actual figures by
which 'we 'may calculate from
one event to another and find out
what may be expected next. The
greatest scholars of the world
have figured from every possible
standpoint : of chronology," and
they invariably arrive, at the
identical same conclusion that
we are living in the. very last days
of the Gentile age.
Twenty or thirty years ago it
was predicted by-at least two different-:
-writers on prophecy that
the ' year 1914 would eethri
ginning of a great world-war
which would mark the end of the
(ientile ? dispensation. - And it
came strictly; on schedule time,
and is still going. It cannot be
compared to other wTars, because
it has already been twenty times
bigger than any other war in the
world's history. And the end is
not yet: Surely we nave good rea
son to believe that it is some kind
of a great turning-point in the
history of this: old world, for other
great turning-points have come
with lesser wars than this.
This war may be over in a 'few
months, and it may last several
years. Prophecy points out its
coming, but does not state clearly
just how long it will last. But
one thing seems reasonably cer
tainthis is the Last Great War
of all time. It. must go on until
its work is done the overthrow
of all wicked rulers and the es
tablishment of the Millennial
Kingdom here on earth.
This is not the "end of time,"
as some people may think, but it
is the Dark Hour just before the
dawii of the Golden Age. We are
just at the beginning of the Thou
sand Years of Peace, during
which Christ himself will rule the
wrorld in righteousness. The
earth is going to be fit to live on
after this. And that's where -the
"Good News' ' comes in.
In view of all these things I feel
it my duty to change the name of
the . paper' from The Fool-Killer
o Good News, and then try to
make it live up to its new name
by giving this war-weary world
a message that really is good
fool-killer)
3' ,.
new. To those who have lately
subscribed expecting to get The
FoolrKiller I want to say that you
will ;find Good NeWs a much bet
ter paper and I feel sure that most
of ypu will be pleased with the
ehanjge.
Nqw I sincerely trust that every
p.erson who has been interested in
The IFool-Killer will take a still
deeper interest in Good News, and
that Vou will all go to work send
ing ill clubs and whelping to sup
port ithe paper in every way you
can.i
.Yojirs in the good work, .
JMES . LARKIN PEARSON.
TJTPES AND SHADOWS.
Al intelligent people who pay
any attention to religious matters
have I long ago accepted it as a
fact bevond disrmte that, th ft dailv
sacrifices of the old Jewish age
were fneant tor a type, or a tore
shadqwing, of the greater Sacri
fice for sin which was fulfilled
in the death of Christ. That fact,
I say is accepted by everybody
wrho .ead and believe the Scrip
tif res jat - all. ; Preachers- of all
ttenommations nave preached it
fOrr ages past, andreligious writ
ers have written volumes about it.
But, strange to say, after grasp
ing that master-key of the whole
divine plan, they stopped short
off and refused to go any f urther7
With the entire riddle of the hu
man race so clearly revealed in
that one type and its fulfillment,
why can't intelligent people lotfk
a little further and see that the
old Patriarchal and Jewish dis
pensations were literally packed
and crammed with types and
shadows? 'In the first place, the
Jewish nation itself, in 'the' sense
of being God's Chosen People, was
only a type, and how very appro
priate that all their forms and
ceremonies, their laws and cus
toms, their Sabbaths, their Pass
overs, their Jubilee Years, with
all their time-periods and dates
so carefully given, should also be
types of bigger and better things
to come ! Only in this way can
we account for many things that
the law of Moses required of the
Hebrew people. So many tedious
and. seemingly unnecessary details
had to be carried out to the letter,
and we have always wondered
what it was for. But when we
grasp the idea that every one of
those strange observances pointed
ahead to something that was to
happen in the future, then we can
see the meaning of it all.
And in studying these types and
shadows, you must keep carefully
in mind the numbers especially
the number SEVEN, which is the
key to everything. The"re were
seven days in the Creative Week.
Then every Seventh day wast the
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When yoa
get hold of i
something,
good, pab
it around. m
Send in a
big club.
NUMBER 2
Sabbath Day. Following that 011
an enlarged scale, . every seventh
year was the Sabbath Year, dur
ing which no crops were to be
planted, but the land must lie idle
and rest. Then they took seven
of those seven-y ear ,r periods and
put them together, making Forty
Nine, and the next year (the Fif
tieth) was the Year of Jubilee,
That was a year of general read
justment of all property and busi ¬
ness matters among the .peopled
If some had gotten hopelessly m
debt and couldn't pay. out, their
debts were cancelled and they
were given an equal start with the
rest. And if others had accumu
lated great wealth during the past
fifty years they had to turn it all
loose and it went back to the ori-
ginal owners.
Now all that business is far in
the past and has not Deen observ
ed f or many years, and we have
been led to believe that-it don't
mean anything to us. Let's see if It
does. We see that the plan con
templated a series, of rest-periods,
starting with seven days and getr
ting bigger, arid farther apart .as
they w?nt. We -have a already
traced its progress up to the"
Fifty-Year period the Year .of
Jubilee. , That was as far as it
went , in Jewish history. But
sirice' the Jewish nation itself. was
only a type, and since every type ,
in it pointed to. something outside -of
it, we must yet look for a
still longer time-period and a still
bigger Year of . Jubilee down here
in the end of the Age.
God could foresee that a few f
men like Rockefeller and Morgan
would get most of the wealth in ,
their hands. and lord it over the..'
people like tyrants. So God made' ,
His plan big enough to include
the Great Jubilee (a thousand
years long) during which time the
earth and the fullness thereof will -
be restored to its rightful owners,.
Never before has there been a
time wiien the things I am here
talking about were of such univer
sal interest to the people. Every
body you talk with is wondering
what these things mean and where
they will end. Tell them to read
Good News and find out.
If there was nothing to look to
but the blackness of the immedi
ate future, it. would be almost uii
'bearable. For we have probably
not seen the worst of it yet. We
still have a dark patch of woods to
go through before we come out;
into the golden sunshine of the
Thousand Years of Peace. It will
be dark, but short. Keep up your
courage and look ahead.
And don't forget to send in, a
big club every few days. Because
this certainly IS Good News.