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APRIL
I,
1906
ZION'S
WATCH
TOWER
(III-liS)
J.
HEMDY.
ture
of
the
permission
of
evil,
the
end
of
the
first
dispensation
and
the
end
of
the
permission
of
evil
being
alike
in
that
they
end
in
catastrophe.
(2)
The
race
which
was
destroyed
at
the
flood
repre
sented
Adam's
whole
progeny;
while
the
replenishing
under
Noah
represents
the
new
race
which
shall
find
life
under
the
Life-giver,
the
Everlasting
Father,
our
Lord
and
his
bride.
(3)
Noah
and
his
family,
therefore,
do
not
represent
those
of
the
human
family
which
will
be
carried
over
from
this
present
evil
world
into
the
kingdom
of
heaven
soon
to
be
established
on
the
earth.
Rather
he
and
his
family
with
the
ark
represent
the
church.
Lifted
up
above
the
whole
earth,
saved
by
the
flood,
they
will
be
preserved
from
the
terror
of
the
trouble,
and
"when
the
trouble
is
overpast"
will
come
down
from
heaven
to
bless
and
replenish
the
earth.
But
it
is
in
reference
to
the
time
features
that
I
now
write.
From
the
day
when
Bible
chronology
was
seen
so
explicitly,
accounts
of
time
in
the
Scriptures
have
always
de
manded
their
full
measure
of
regard;
and
the
account
of
the
days
of
the
year
of
the
flood,
given
so
particularly,
have
always
been
regarded
as
of
importance.
But
as
the
forty
days
of
rain
and
of
the
breaking
up
of
the
fountains
of
the
great
deep
seem
so
clearly
to
correspond
with
the
forty
years
of
the
present
harvest,
one
has,
perhaps
naturally,
looked
for
the
other
periods
of
the
flood
year
to
follow,
in
type,
on
into
the
establishment
of
the
kingdom.
But
without
result,
for
there
seems
to
be
a
complete
lack
of
Scripture
corroboration
of
this
thought.
Now,
I
think
that
way
is
not
the
correct
one,
and
that
probably
we
should
view
the
matter
from
this
standpoint
:-
(4)
That
the
first
dispensation
covers
the
entire
period
of
evil
under
present
ruling
powers,
which
last
until
October,
1914,
A.D.;
and
that
(5)
The
year
of
trouble
so
remarkably
detailed
is
a
figure
of
the
year
of
trouble,
1915,
A.D.,
and
that
probably
the
details
fit
exactly
to
the
events
of
this
year.
If
the
kingdoms
of
this
world
are
undermined,
as
many
Scriptures
and
parallels
indicate
will
be
the
case,
when
the
restraining
power
of
God
is
removed
little
will
be
needed
to
bring
about
their
destruction.
Probably
the
forty
days
will
be
ample
for
the
overthrow
and
utter
ruin.
The
remaining
part
of
the
150
will
serve
to
let
anarchy
have
its
raging
and
tossing
whirlpool,
and,
to
an
extent,
to
exhaust
itself.
From
that
time
the
trouble
will
begin
to
abate,
partly
for
lack
of
power,
and
partly
because
the
horror
and
desolation
is
being
felt.
The
raven
may
signify
that
even
yet
trouble
is
rampant.
It
found
no
need
to
return
to
the
ark,
while
the
gentle
dove
soon
came
back.
But
a
little
later
the
dove
brings
the
olive
leaf:
there
is
capitulation,
the
trouble
is
fast
dying
down
and
peace
is
wanted.
Soon
the
waters
are
dried
up,
and
on
the
"first
day
of
the
first
month"
of
a
new
and
blessed
year
and
dispensation
the
earth
is
ready
to
be
blessed
by
those
whom
God
has
prepared.
No
doubt
most
of
these
thoughts
are
old
to
you;
but
I
wonder
if
you
have
connected
the
year
of
the
flood
with
the
year
of
trouble,
and
if
you
have
whether
you
think
this
is
the
type.
A
little
time
ago
one
was
almost
precluded
from
seeing
the
above
by
reason
of
the
thought
that
all
the
trouhle
would
be
over
in
October,
A.D.,
1914.
Much
love
to
you,
as
ever.
Your
brother
in
the
Lord,
VOL.
XXVII
ALLEGHENY,
P
A.,
APRIL
15,
1906
No.8
[3757]
VIEWS
FROM
THE
WATCH
TOWER
general
arousing
of
the
public
conscience
on
the
subject
of
graft,
the
gentleman
says:
"This
i.s
our
revival,
the
answer
to
our
prayers.
And
this
is
the
cause
and
heart
of
it.
What
is
true
in
the
CIVIC
sphere
is
just
as
true
in
the
spiritual,
and
the
two
are
not
to
be
separated.
I
firmly
believe
that
the
hearts
and
con
sciences
of
the
people
are
ready
for
the
preaching
of
judg
ment
on
sin,
without
dilution
or
reservation,
given
with
the
clear
note
of
Chri.st
~o
the
Pharisees
and
laid
hot
upan
life
for
this
world
and
the
future:
'How
can
ye
escape
the
damnation
of
helU'
Let
love
glow
undimmed-but
let
justice
flame.
The
fear
of
the
Lord
is
still
the
beginning
of
wisdom;
and
some
will
never
learn
wisdom
unless
fear
be
stirred.
The
Felixes
of
the
horne,
the
mart
and
the
thrane
need
to
tremble
at
the
message
of
righteousness,
temper
ance
and
judgment
to
corne,
and
we
all
have
them
in
our
congregations.
Let
the
hell-fire
cycle
strike
once
more."
So
this
is
the
revival
that
has
corne
in
answer
to
prayers
-not
a
revival
of
the
Lord's
saints
to
renewed
zeal
in
self
sacrifice
an
behalf
of
the
divine
Word
and
plan,
nor
a
con
ver.sion
of
sinners
to
repentance
and
reformation
of
life
and
consecration
to
God,
but
merely
the
arousing
of
the
spirit
of
righteous
indignation
against
trusts
and
boodlers-an
indignation
which
i.s
usually
fraught
with
anger,
malice,
hatred,
strife,
etc.
This
is
what
one
minister
at
least
has
been
preaching
far,
and
i.s
now
rejoicing
that
his
prayers
have
been
heard.
It
is
well
that
he
states
himself
so
exactly:
on
our
part
we
see
the
uncovering
of
rottenness
in
political
and
financial
circles
highly
esteemed
amongst
men,
and
to
us
it
reads
that
we
are
in
the
day
that
the
Lord
referred
to
when
he
said
that
whatsoever
things
were
hidden
would
be
made
manife.st.
This
manifestation
of
the
hidden
corruption
of
the
hearts
of
the
respectable,
the
wealthy,
the
influential,
is
nat,
so
far
as
we
know,
leading
others
to
paths
of
righteousness,
but
rather
exciting
their
bitterness
and
resentment-that
others
have
had
the
advantage
of
greater
opportunities
for
the
accumulation
of
vast
wealth
by
unscrupulous
means,
and
chagrin
on
their
part
that
the
opportunity
had
not
been
their
own,
and
the
determinatian
that
if
they
cannot
at
some
time
in
the
future
find
a
prospect
for
accumulating
vast
riches
in
some
such
manner
they
will
be
ready
to
wreck
the
interests
of
those
who
have
fared
better.
From
our
standpoint
this
uncovering
of
the
weakne.sses
of
human
nature
means
loss
of
confidence
in
the
rich
and
influential
generally,
and
spells
eventually
the
hatred
which
ere
long
will
fulfil
the
prediction,
"Go
to
now,
ye
rich
men,
weep
and
howl
for
your
miseries
that
shall
corne
upon
you.'
,
James
5:1.
THE
"HELL
CYCLE"
STARTED
In
"The
Westminster,"
a
Presbyterian
journal,
Phila
delphia,
Reverend
H.
H.
Barstow
predicts
a
return
to
"The
Hell
Cycle."
He
says:
"We
minister.s
have
easily
caught
the
cue
from
the
popular
demand,
and
have
fed
the
people
the
love
of
God
and
the
beauty
af
holiness
and
the
doctrines
of
sweetness
and
light-shall
I
say
itT-ad
nauseam."
He
believes
that
the
signs
of
the
times
indicate
that
"the
pendulum
has
touched
its
limit
in
that
direction;
that
the
cycle
of
hell-fire-figurative,
ye.s,
but
for
that
reason
all
the
more
awful
and
appalling-is
due
once
more."
Are
we
to
ur.derstanil
the
gentleman
to
mean
that
the
preachers
merely
watch
the
popular
sentiment
that
they
may
preach
what
wiJI
please
the
majority
of
the
people'
Does
he
mean
that
it
was
because
of
the
popular
demand
which
he
men
tions
that
he
was
preaching
the
lcrve
of
God,
the
beauty
of
holiness,
etc.'
Evidently
he
has
been
preaching
more
of
it
than
he
believed,
as
is
indicated
by
his
nau.sea
in
con
nection
with
these
teachings.
His
nausea
is
somewhat
re
lieved
now,
and
he
feels
a
little
more
free
to
speak
against
the
beauty
of
holiness
and
the
love
of
God
because
he
real
izes
that
the
"popular
demand"
i.s
turning
his
way
again
and
bids
fair
for
another
hell-fire
cycle.
This
is
what
we
have
feared
far
some
time-that
a
great
many
preachers
are
merely
endeavoring
to
find
the
popular
demand,
and
are
proportionately
careless
respect
ing
the
will
and
Word
of
the
living
God.
They
have
been
te11ing
the
people
of
their
dreams
respecting
politics,
wom
an's
rights,
social
fads,
etc.,
and
.sending
them
oft'
whole
sale
to
a
dreamy
heaven
quite
contrary
to
the
Ward
of
God.
The
people
are
waking
up
to
a
realization
of
the
fact
that
they
have
been
fed
ad
nauseam
something
un
satisfying,
and
an
increasingly
large
proportion
of
the
in
telligent,
especially
of
the
male
sex,
no
longer
attend
such
preaching.
Reverend
Barstow
believes
he
has
the
.secret,
and
that
"popular
demand"
is
moving
taward
a
love
for
hell-fire
for
other
people,
and
that
if
he
gets
in
on
the
tidal
wave
soon
enough
it
will
score
him
a
big
success.
Perhaps
the
gentleman
is
mistaken.
We
beHeve
he
is,
and
that
he
will
find
it
out
before
very
long.
In
our
opin
ion
many
people
are
getting
awake,
so
that
they
begin
to
know
the
difference
between
dreams
and
realities,
and
are
wanting
something
more
substantial.
Their
craving
is
in
line
with
the
divine
direction,
"He
that
hath
a
dream
let
him
tell
a
dream,
but
he
that
hath
my
Word
let
him
speak
my
Word.
"-J
er.
23:
28.
After
calling
attention
to
the
wave
of
sentiment
in
favor
of
purp
palitics
that
is
sweeping
over
the
country
and
the
V-5
APRIL 1, 1906 ture of the permission of evil, the end of the first dispensation and the end of the permission of evil being alike in that they end in catastrophe. (2) The race which was destroyed at the flood represented Adam’s whole progeny; while the replenishing under Noah represents the new race which shall find life under the Life-giver, the Everlasting Father, our Lord and his bride. (3) Noah and his family, therefore, do not represent those of the human family which will be carried over from this present evil world into the kingdom of heaven soon to be established on the earth. Rather he and his family with the ark represent the church. Lifted up above the whole earth, saved by the flood, they will be preserved from the terror of the trouble, and ‘‘when the trouble is overpast’’ will come down from heaven to bless and replenish the earth. But it is in reference to the time features that I now write. From the day when Bible chronology was seen 80 explicitly, accounts of time in the Scriptures have always demanded their full measure of regard; and the account of the days of the year of the flood, given so particularly, have always been regarded as of importance. But as the forty days of rain and of the breaking up of the fountains of the great deep seem so clearly to correspond with the forty years of the present harvest, one has, perhaps naturally, looked for the other periods of the flood year to follow, in type, on into the establishment of the kingdom. But without result, for there seems to be a complete lack of Scripture corroboration of this thought. Now, I think that way is not the correct one, and that probably we should view the matter from this standpoint :— ZION’S WATCH TOWER (241-115) (4) That the first dispensation covers the entire period of evil under present ruling powers, which last until October, 1914, A.D.; and that (5) The year of trouble so remarkably detailed is a figure of the year of trouble, 1915, a.p., and that probably the details fit exactly to the events of this year. If the kingdoms of this world are undermined, as many Scriptures and parallels indicate will be the case, when the restraining power of God is removed little will be needed to bring about their destruction, Probably the forty days will be ample for the overthrow and utter ruin. The remaining part of the 150 will serve to let anarchy have its raging and tossing whirlpool, and, to an extent, to exhaust itself. From that time the trouble will begin to abate, partly for lack of power, and partly because the horror and desolation is being felt. The raven may signify that even yet trouble is rampant. It found no need to return to the ark, while the gentle dove soon came back. But a little later the dove brings the olive leaf: there is capitulation, the trouble is fast dying down and peace is wanted. Soon the waters are dried up, and on the ‘‘first day of the first month’’ of a new and blessed year and dispensation the earth is ready to be blessed by those whom God has prepared. No doubt most of these thoughts are old to you; but I wonder if you have connected the year of the flood with the year of trouble, and if you have whether you think this is the type. A little time ago one was almost precluded from seeing the above by reason of the thought that all the trouble would be over in October, a.D., 1914. Much love to you, as ever. Your brother in the Lord, J. H&MERY. Vou. X XVII ALLEGHENY, PA., APRIL 15, 1906 No. 8 THE ‘‘HELL CYCLE’? STARTED In ‘‘The Westminster,’’ a Presbyterian journal, Philadelphia, Reverend H. H. Barstow predicts a return to ‘‘The Hell Cycle.’’ He says: ‘¢We ministers have easily caught the eue from the popular demand, and have fed the people the love of God and the beauty of holiness and the doctrines of sweetness and light—shall I say it?—ad nauseam.’?’ He believes that the signs of the times indicate that ‘the pendulum has touched its limit in that direction; that the cycle of hell-fire—figurative, yes, but for that reason all the more awful and appalling—is due once more.’’ Are we to understand the gentleman to mean that the preachers merely watch the popular sentiment that they may preach what will please the majority of the people? Does he mean that it was because of the popular demand which he mentions that he was preaching the love of God, the beauty of holiness, ete.? Evidently he has been preaching more of it than he believed, as is indicated by his nausea in connection with these teachings. His nausea is somewhat relieved now, and he feels a little more free to speak against the beauty of holiness and the love of God because he realizes that the ‘‘popular demand’’ is turning his way again and bids fair for another hell-fire cycle. This is what we have feared for some time—that a great many preachers are merely endeavoring to find the popular demand, and are proportionately careless respecting the will and Word of the living God. They have been telling the people of their dreams respecting politics, woman’s rights, social fads, ete., and sending them off wholesale to a dreamy heaven quite contrary to the Word of God. The people are waking up to a realization of the fact that they have been fed ad nauseam something unsatisfying, and an increasingly large proportion of the intelligent, especially of the male sex, no longer attend such preaching. Reverend Barstow believes he has the secret, and that ‘‘popular demand’’ is moving toward a love for hell-fire for other people, and that if he gets in on the tidal wave soon enough it will score him a big success. Perhaps the gentleman is mistaken. We believe he is, and that he will find it out before very long. In our opinion many people are getting awake, so that they begin to know the difference between dreams and realities, and are wanting something more substantial. Their craving is in line with the divine direction, ‘‘He that hath a dream let him tell a dream, but he that hath my Word let him speak my Word.’’—Jer. 23:28. After calling attention to the wave of sentiment in favor of pure politics that is sweeping over the country and the vV—5 VIEWS FROM THE WATCH TOWER general arousing of the public conscience on the subject of graft, the gentleman says: ‘(This is our revival, the answer to our prayers. And this is the cause and heart of it. What is true in the civic sphere is just as true in the spiritual, and the two are not to be separated. I firmly believe that the hearts and consciences of the people are ready for the preaching of judgment on sin, without dilution or reservation, given with the clear note of Christ to the Pharisees and laid hot upon life for this world and the future: ‘How can ye escape the damnation of hell?’ Let love glow undimmed—but let justice flame. The fear of the Lord is still the beginning of wisdom; and some will never learn wisdom unless fear be stirred. The Felixes of the home, the mart and the throne need to tremble at the message of righteousness, temperance and judgment to come, and we all have them in our congregations. Let the hell-fire cycle strike once more.’’ So this is the revival that has come in answer to prayers —not a revival of the Lord’s saints to renewed zeal in selfsacrifice on behalf of the divine Word and plan, nor a conversion of sinners to repentance and reformation of life and consecration to God, but merely the arousing of the spirit of righteous indignation against trusts and boodlers—an indignation which is usually fraught with anger, malice, hatred, strife, ete. This is what one minister at least has been preaching for, and is now rejoicing that his prayers have been heard. It is well that he states himself so exactly: on our part we see the uncovering of rottenness in political and financial circles highly esteemed amongst men, and to us it reads that we are in the day that the Lord referred to when he said that whatsoever things were hidden would be made manifest. This manifestation of the hidden corruption of the hearts of the respectable, the wealthy, the influential, is not, so far as we know, leading others to paths of righteousness, but rather exciting their bitterness and resentment—that others have had the advantage of greater opportunities for the accumulation of vast wealth by unscrupulous means, and chagrin on their part that the opportunity had not been their own, and the determination that if they cannot at some time in the future find a prospect for accumulating vast riches in some such manner they will be ready to wreck the interests of those who have fared better. From our standpoint this uncovering of the weaknesses of human nature means loss of confidence in the rich and influential generally, and spells eventually the hatred which ere long will fulfil the prediction, ‘‘Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.’’— James 5:1. [3757]
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