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BOOMER; NPRTH CAROLINA, MAY, 1918.
NUTtlBEE 10
JUST SOME COMMENTS.
Well, folks, I am just going to
talk some. I am going to fill this
issue of Good News largely with
running comments on the happen
ings of the day, considered in
their relation to Bible prophecy
So many folks are cranky about
prophecy. Some go to one extreme
part of the people to stop in their
mad rush and dc some thinking.
They are, wondering what it all
means? nyhow. Some of them
are asking, 4 4 What if olpV man
Russell was right, after all? What
i f this is the end of Gentile times
and; the beginning of a new dis
pensation?" And to all such ques
tions there is only one answer-
will never see it. It will all be as
different from what the orthodox
folks are looking for as day is
different from night And that's
why they are so befuddled about
the things that are happening
now. The old-line preachers and
A. LI . Jit L '
teaciiers: are au an sea concerning
h'
momentous events of
The Prodigal Son.
We are all familiar with the sto
ry of the Prodigal Son in the New
Testament,; but it has a meaning
that very few people have thought
of; We know the sense in which
it isr usually imdersto and it
means that. But rt; also means
more. It is a perfect illustration
of the Children of Israel and their
days. They see that a great crisis
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ana SiJine gu w mc uiuw, oamcuo. : " T v7 7 w , ; ' !?" I --s-f t.-.,: , - w .
Some believe too mucn ana otners, uuc " ."uuuicu u iu wt oto. am ujj
won't believe anjtning. Seems be any other way. Dear reader; it thing they hiave taught the people ticn m the world. f
tome that there ought to be a ws just as hard for hie to tcqme expect. Intheir Hearts they -The ?ew
middle ground of reason and com- to it as it is for you. BujtCcameto kno they have been wrong, but Spnethech
mon sense that we could find it find you will have jo do the they are too stubborn to ad- ed -hej.eiiv
somewhere. That's what Good same. Tne longer you cling to mit it. Ana so tfioniy tning tney
your old creeds and your old con- can ao is to jump up ana aown Ul "c WdSU oatiDiicu. xAe
ceptions, the harder fall you will and cuss Russell and Redding - wanted to leave nome and forsake
get when you do have to let loose, men whose prophecies v HAVE nis;ana go, out ana . ao pig
COME TRUE to the very letter, pings Pr
uoa knew very well wnat would .
News wants to do. t
We often hear it said that this
business of setting dates for cer
tain future events to happen is
folly and fanaticism. Well, gen-
People were not looking for
such a war as this. They didn't
erallv sDeakimr. that's very true, think such a thing could conie in
but there are two sides to every this highly civilized and Christ
question. I have come to believe ianized age. A few far-sighted
that there are actual dates and men, among
Wait a Minute.
Wait a minute. Or maybe it
them Russell and may take two minutes. But wait.
happen to him, but He also knew
it would learn the Prodigal Jew a
lesson he would remember.
We know the' rest how the
proud Prodigal went put and
y011 wandered
over
earth and
numbers given in the Bible, and Redding, predicted this thing 25 Got sump'm to tell ye.
that they have
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knnwn until thp nrnnpr timp for come; With great positiveness is worth waiting for. This intrpd- efl and had tn Pat with hnd-s
them. Now if some folks have they repeated the date 1914 over action is ust toget your appetite
guessed at a thing and missed it, and over in their writings. But whettefforitrhtgoodan like a , - ,
we know that reduces by just of course nobody believed them, will enjoy it better, borne people The Prodigal Jew was proud :
that much the range within which They were laughed at as cranks nave no patience about a thing aij haughty, and it took a lon
thetruth must be found. For in- and fanatics or denounced as " time to humble him. But he firi-
stance, if William Miller said the false prophets,
end of the Age would come in But now even
1844 and it didn't, it is an evident enemies. are bound to admit that
fact that the next man who they hit it exactly. No reasonable
"guesses" is bound to be nearer person would ask for any better
right than Miller was. And if the proof that they knew what they
on the jump. . They run clean a- all v tft t vrftw i,Pw n,,
their bitterest head,ofheir good luf and ?f vf. up his mind to return to his Fathl
giVC IV UU1B IV up. u er,g houge an(j a servant)g
do that, my friend- jtisn t best. job not feeling worthy to be call-
Wait till 0a o onn . anv mnrp -
Yes, I'm coming to it, but wait. But God looks but and sees the.
end is ever coin? to come, and tnlkinc nhnnt: TV,p OTpnt io"c t"-"... . Prodigal Jew coming -back, and
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i u rm. v i i.ii - w a t a - ww uii u uua j - - ' .. :
" " - - - " i runs T.n mp.pt mm ann wpptis nvpr
an u? a"A X V.- and gives Kim a great wel-
ing matter, if it dots look like it. L tj0 Q n i,:c '
people keep on "guessing" about Time of Trouble started exactly at
it, somebody is going to hit it the time they said it would start.
yy uiuse. And tnere is pienw .01 reason xo mL -dik Cox,o-nv fof
n , . T , .. - v WoHovo fhaf ifwill crn nn and pnd v ' t" , "f " .,7 land shoes on his feet, and orders
Eut if, as I contend, the dates believe that it will go on and end mindg me j was going to tell you i kw a t-
of certain things are actually giv. just like they said it would. something. But please wait a sec- forkilledV and-oh,
en m the Bible, then it isn't a brie , thing is certain the old ond. What I started but to say yOU know how it goes;
matter of "guessing" at all. It is dry-rotted creeds and the old was that it would please me plum yf ef the Prodigal Son is ihe
merely a matter of understanding stand-pat theologies have got to to the gizzard for every reader of jaiifj his Welcome back home;'
the symbols and figurative lan- go. The events that are due to this paper to get up a big bunch and'the great feasting arid hap-
page used. And every time an come in the end of this Age (the of subs for it and send them in D;nesg is the Millennium just
mcsipretauon turns out wrong, "end of time" as the creeds call right away. JNow aon t wait any
mix reduces by one the number it) will not be ; anything at all longer. Get busy.
oi wrong interpretations that are like what the people have sup-
possible. Sol contend that it is posed. They .have had it all Some good "old souls will tell
possible tD arrive at the truth mapped out, even to the smallest you that it requires the aid of
Dy tne Process of elimination. dptail: and thsv are ffoin? to find the Holv Snirit to understand the Well, the' man who is asleep on
Bible prophecy has been a verv niat the actual events ; will hardly prophecies, and then they will the railroad track is not interest-
live subject all through the years resemble their map any where at
all. Their outline of the events body, but their own nttie sect nave er, but he had better oe.
was all wrong and their creeds jgot the Holy Spirit .Which makes .V-. .. ;
are all wrbrig; They are looking God seem like a mighty sectarian God is a heap better God than
for a certain series of events that sort of a Being, and I tell you that His orthodox followers think He
will fit thpir prppda and thpv inaf wnn't An ' IS. And that S a iact.
now at
4 Some people tell me that they,
are not interested in the study
ol prophecy and its fulfillment.
but there never was a time in the
history of the world when it was
so much aliye as i i is ' right now.
The great time of trouble that is
now upon us has caused at least