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VOLUME 9
BOOMER NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL, 1919.
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WHEN THE EARTH WILL BE A
PARADISE AGAIN.
It was once upon a day
In tjie ages far away,
When our father Adam
Eden's bowers,
lived
in
That the Eden fields so far
Lay around him everywhere,
And no troubled thoughts disturbed
his happy hours.
That was Paradise indeed, r '
And there wasn't any need
For the doctor and the undertaker
then; -. -; ' " ' -And
J'm happy in the thought
.That redemption has been bought,
And the . earth will be a Paradise
again. -
....i .. ., "( ' '. "v
It ,was jiist the serpent's, lie
That has doomed us all to die '
That has-filled the whole creation with
-thfi.curseru
That has led us on parade '
Thqugh. the Valley of the Shade,
To the sad and sblemn rumble of the
hearse.; ' ;-. -
But bur Lbrcl has paid " the debt,,
And we'll have our- Eden yet, " ' A ' u
When He comes to bring salvation un-
' :-vtQ menjr".!-;, -&- ..
So I'm singing on .the .way, "J Te
While I'm waiting" for the day '
Whenthe' earth -will be a Paradise
again. . si& fr'r
. u- ..V'. James Larkin . Pearson.
THJS ELEVENTHOUR."
v pid you t ever, hear the clock
Is
Did you eyerV hear it strike
"eleven at night ?r . h
And did you know that - the
great clock -of ?Time, -which has
peen measuring off-the days and want' to tell yoir that the . big
years ; of the Gentile i Age,-: has bosses of the old systems over
lately struck the hour of "elev- there-: are Glistening ' with . a
en" at nigHttr; 1 -J v mighty: attentive ar tonSocia-flen-'thpugKt.fhejw:eH
lism's demands. 'Instead of putK
Jt all by themselves," but I tell timjSocialists iir j ail like they
you there was a Higher Fower do over J here, they make a very
than man" that had adiand in set-
tmgithectimetGrithe Armistice
to i comr into effects : It was the
EliiEVENTHv HOUR of the
ELEVENTH 1 DAY- of the
ELEVENTH MONTH of the
year. s The number "eleven is
repeated three times. God .of-
J J1l. 1 TT- i-
ten aoes mat wneii ne wains tu
emphasize a thing. Jesus ask-
ed Peter three times if he loved
him, and not long after that Pe-
ter denied him three times,
When God repeats a thing three
times it means that that thing is
important, and the tact that the
number ELEVEN was repeated
three times on the day the Ar-
mistice was signed has "a deeper
TYionniiKr fhnn TYirwt. npnnlp h avf
ever thought about. Just glance
vr, mnwv4. j
over yourNew Testament and
TexTVT
Hi i t ,r yejls in nwurw. nnu , xe-
1- J. H TTTVXTTrt TTrn t .
memDer mat, miiiMitjrxij. uiv
TWELFTH HOUR is the time
that the Bridegroom "is to be an-
nounced. Jt looks like it might
be just one more hour of symbo-
lie time from the signing of the
armistice to tne coming oi ui nsp fl fpw mCir( tnan i am ffGt
Bridegroom.! Figure it out any u.8e aiewmore tnan I am gev
way you please, but I tell you it tmg, So you, may send small
MEANS something. amounts in stamps for awhile.
TAIL HOLT.
In this country the govern
ment is terribly down on any
kind of Socialism, and a Socia
list is hardly allowed to open his
mouth. But over at the peace
conference President Wilson and
the rest -of them are sending out
envoys into Russia, Hungary;
and other Bolshevist territories
in an effort to, FIND AND SUP
PORT SOME KIND OF RADI
GAL SOCIALISM TOST SHORT
OF BOLSHEVISM. That is the
exact language: that was cabled
over by one of the big newspa-
I was i
surprised that the censors would!
let such !a report come across, 4
but; it certainly; cam4 And I
have :not seen it denied, v The
plainitruth is thatthe peace con-
ferencejis just tearing jfefriedJ
shirt trying lio: get on : the gbdd
side of . the Sociahsts of Europe;
It? seems that Socialism 1 over
there is la good deal more respect
table than, the samte article over
here. . nThe reason dsb that ?Ott
this side Socialism has; to BEG!
enough yet to DEMAND them,
In Europe Socialism r has quit
BEGGING ;foi things- and gdne
to DEMANDING thenu And I
magnificent bow. and say; "Yes;
sir-why, Certainly, isirybu
can have anything you want.
'But the thing that tickles. me
is the glaring inconsistency of
such a course. It shows that the
conference is just floundering
about in deep water and grab-
I i - i .. . .
mmfif at straws.
It is a well-known fact that all
Europe is radical and getting
more radical every1 day. The
peace conference probably looks
upon Bolshevism as the extreme
head of radicalism, while the
various grades of Socialism tap
er back toward the tail. The
conference wants to stop the ad-
yance ox jxaaicansm, ana so iz
I is trying to grab the movement
by the tail and hold it back. But
it always gets holt too near the
end aifd te tail.holt slips and
movement goes on.
T standinff notice to the
J nv a stanamjr notice to tne
effect that I do not want postage
stamps on subscription. But yet
I can and do accept a few stamps
all along. And - just now I -c raid
A SERMON ON BOLSHEVISM
If the tenth part of what we
hear about Bolshevism is true,
it must be a terrible monster. I
have been taking the stand all
the time that - at least nine
tenths of ? the terrible tales we
hear about Bolshevism are lies.
And yet, as Fjust now remark
ed, if even one tenth is true it
is -bad enough. It is certainly
an unfortunate condition that
the world has drifted into when
such a state of affairs can come
into being. . ", ; J, a
Bolshevism, if I understand it,
is a general rebellion C and un
rising of 'the :uridei,dbgs"fof so-
ciety---the poor" depressed? and
lialf$tarved-workers those who
have, been r the servants and
slaves .of the more , fortunate:
classed and who 'have never
been permitted tdenjoy anof
the good things thalPtheit labor
produced. - They-have been un-
der social, r economics and Ipolitt VT a T pow5
i uma m ,omr fl0vo. (ana God s Book pointedly -says
tiotis The present unset cohdi-J
tion otthe
demand their- rights andr it iiMH
the njpstsriaturl thin-the
world for them to, go on and de
mand more tiian ' their .rights,
just as their oppressors have
been doing. We can't deny that
ft.., n.J5-; ni..orv-'i.tr'' msi
MANDED and : TAKEN; more
ii. me lower classes turii uruuiiu
ortAirr i4 i vJ
kind of coinlt will hurt terribly
and there will be a-mighty howl
iised about it.but, before God;
iU Will JC UUtlllllK 111UXC bllO.ll
reaping what their have sown,
The rich, the educated and the
favored classes-flight to have
thought 5 about all this ' a long
time ago. They ought to have
remembered that they must
eventually reap what they sow
ed. A man may think he has
a right to kick a poor hungry most dangerous error of all
dog ground, but if he kicks one the immortality of the soul,
time too many and the dog turns When you get right down to the
and bites him, he will have only bottom of it, nearly every other
himself to blame for it. The se- error known to modern theology
Cf?$ "UPPf cl!SSw?V? um! has own out of that one.
ed the under dog just a little , e. . , -
too much, and now the dog has There is no hope of getting a
turned on them. Thats all there person to see ANYTHING else
is to it. .- right until he first gets to see
The Bolshevists are certainly that right. And as soon as you
not what we would call "good get him straight on that, the '
people. They seem to be various other errors will begin
strongly anti-religious. But in to fall away like scabs from a
spite of all that, I am rather healing sore. The belief in the ,
of the opinion that God is using immortality of the soul is indeed
the Bolshevist movement to car- a bad sore that afflicts the mind '
ry out His plans. Past history of the human race, and all ortho-
shows that God has often used dox teaching only tends to make1
wicked men and worldly insti- the sore worse. The teaching
tutions to work out His good of Good News will heal it.
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scription Has Expired," stamped in
red ink over this notice, it just means 5
this: If you have hot lately sent in.'
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the paper right on. ; . , ,.
Please send "in your" renewal, very,,
promptly, if you ' have not already
done so, and' send along,' with it as
many hew ones as you can. T 1
Plans and He finally gets a good .
resultout?o every evil that He
permits, in the world-.
Gentile, times have ended, and .
according topropliecy the old
of things had. to be over
throw- The' "Gentile rulers
)Zr?2 il expectea to peacer
afu lhn0y cwl down off ,,
EBSEI
S"
ife heJ
mm K ; th
tney nst) thenispme kindiOf
btcthtt
cause - to use.
HjSi,"ZPr
SEEM TO TmMJike an EV-r,
r?e, and tfcey. would
and struggle. against
to the very last. ,
, ! And so if Godwin His wise
ha? seenfit to, raise
, . , . , -j ' r"
lacking and sauealttig that any
of us an do about it will not.
amount to much. , , . ? ;.
There are many lines f doc-: .
I , . j. , , - . i
trinal. reform that need to be
stressed many aeep-rootea er--
rors that need to be combatted .
but just at present it seems to-
mp T o hMw w ,
to concentrate most of my ener
gy in a campaign against that-