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 WORLD WAR 
 
 AND 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECY 
 
 BY HARRY F. HOWARD 
 
 GOD HAS TOLD US 
 
 HOW 
 
 THE WAR WILL END 
 
 WHEN 
 
 IT WILL END 
 
 WHERE 
 
 IT WILL END 
 
 PRICE. 36 CENTS 
 
The World War 
 
 and 
 
 Bible Prophecy 
 
 By Harry F* Howard 
 
 God Has Said 
 
 When the war will end 
 How the war will end 
 
 and 
 Where the war will end 
 
Copyright, 1918 
 By Harry F. Howard 
 
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This fierce countenance of this awful and 
 terrible Kaiser was copied from the front- 
 ispiece of "Leslie's Weekly" by permission 
 of the Leslie-Judge Co. and illustrates how 
 true and perfect current events are fulfill- 
 ing prophecy. 
 
 Daniel 8: 23. — "In the latter time when 
 the transgressors are come to the full, a 
 king of fierce countenance, shall stand up 
 and his power shall be mighty and he 
 shall destroy wonderfully." 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 RUSSIAN BEAR AND BRITISH LION. 
 
 — The Literary Digest, Netv York City. 
 
 This picture was clipped from "The Literary 
 Digest" showing how true and perfect the world 
 is keeping in step with prophecy. 
 
 Daiiiel 7: 17, h, 5. — "These great beasts are 
 four kings, which shall arise. The first was like 
 a lion, the second like a bear." 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 THE GERMAN LEOPARD. 
 
 — The Literary Digest, Neio York City. 
 
 This picture was also clipped from "The Lit- 
 erary Digest" and shows how true and perfect the 
 world is keeping in step with prophecy. 
 
 Daniel 7 : 17, 6. — "These great beasts are four 
 kings, which shall arise and lo another, like a 
 leopard." 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 - - THE intruders; 
 
 AMBBiOAji Eaoub (to German Peace Doves)-^" Go away.. I'm busy! 
 
 — Punch (London). 
 
 This picture was clipped from "Punch," 
 (London) and there is no mistaking it but what 
 the world is in tune with God's Holy Word. 
 
 Daniel 7: 17, 7. — "These great beasts are four 
 kings, which shall arise, and behold a fourth 
 beast strong exceedingly." 
 
 Rev. U- 7. — "And the fourth beast was like a 
 flying eagle." 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 HOW TO READ. 
 
 A young college graduate, who had 
 won high honors, said to the writer: 
 "I had a good streak come over me 
 the other day to read the Bible and 
 I bought a large beautiful morocco- 
 bound Bible and began to read where 
 it says that a lion came up from the 
 sea and the lion had eagle's wings 
 and the eagle's wings were plucked 
 and made stand upon the feet of a 
 man {Dan. 7: 4.) 
 
 Then it said another beast, a leo- 
 pard, came up from the same sea 
 which had four heads and four wings 
 of a fowl (Dan. 7:6.) 
 
 I then asked my young college 
 friend how he interpreted what he 
 had read: "I interpreted it," said 
 he, "that whoever wrote such stuff 
 was either drunk, crazy or a fool and 
 I closed the Bible and bade it good- 
 night for all time." 
 
 "But," said I, to my good college 
 friend, "before you began to study 
 Latin or Greek, you could not read a 
 word of it, yet you studied days, 
 months and years that you might un- 
 derstand. Would you expect to play 
 the beautiful and wonderful music of 
 Mozart, Wagner or Beethovan simply 
 because you had the money to buy 
 the music and a piano? In buying 
 the Bible you bought one of the most 
 prized and worshiped books in all the 
 world ; it is one of the most ancient, 
 yet more Bibles are being sold every- 
 day than of the most modern book 
 
 that any man or woman can write 
 today, however wise, learned or tal- 
 ented they may be. If you had read 
 that 7th chapter of Daniel through, 
 you would have read the program 
 of this great and terrible world 
 war from the time the British Lion 
 declared war against the German 
 Leopard, till the United States sets 
 up a world democracy of all people, 
 nations and languages." 
 
 "But," said my college learned 
 friend, "the Bible is not true for the 
 lion or the leopard are not an am- 
 phibious animal, neither does the lion 
 grow eagle's wings or the leopard 
 grow four heads and four wings as 
 a fowl." 
 
 "But, John," said I, "if you had 
 read that chapter to the 17th verse 
 you would have found the key by 
 which it was to be understood for it 
 reads that these beasts are kings 
 that shall arise and did not your col- 
 lege learning of history tell you that 
 the British Empire had adopted the 
 lion as the symbol of her king and 
 government? Did it not tell you 
 that United States had adopted the 
 flying eagle as the symbol of her gov- 
 ernment, the eagle's wings being her 
 great source of governing power? 
 Did not your history tell you that the 
 flying eagle of the United States 
 plucked her wings of governing 
 power from the British Lion and 
 furthermore you know that Germany 
 calls herself the Leopard Beast and 
 since this war began you have seen 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 the Literary Digest and other publi- 
 cations picturing Germany as a leo- 
 pard beast in their cartoons and 
 didn't your college history tell you 
 that the German Empire is a federal 
 state composed of four heads, Prus- 
 sia, Bavaria, Wurttemburg and Sax- 
 ony, and that Germany is the only 
 empire on earth with four political 
 parties and in Germany they are 
 called political wings." 
 
 "But," said John, "Why didn't the 
 Bible author write it that way." 
 "John," said I, "You ought to know, 
 being a college graduate with high 
 honors, that when this prophecy was 
 written, no printing or printing 
 press was in existence, paper had not 
 been invented, even our alphabet of 
 letters to make a written language 
 had not been invented, and picture 
 writing was in common use at the 
 time many of these prophecies were 
 written. Even as late as the days 
 of William Penn his treaty with the 
 American Indians was made by draw- 
 ing a picture of an Indian and a 
 white man clasping hands. That was 
 as good for them as a long-winded 
 legal document and great deal 
 clearer." 
 
 "And today this picture writing of 
 these ancient prophets of God has 
 come down to us in a clearer view 
 than they would have been, if writ- 
 ten in some for^gn language with 
 the figurative language left out." 
 
 Most everyone thinks they know 
 how to read, but if the learned author, 
 Edward Everett Hale, had thought 
 so, he would not have written his val- 
 uable work entitled How to Read, in 
 which he says: "The first rules are: 
 Do not read too much at a time ; stop 
 when you are tired ; and, in whatever 
 
 way, make some review of what you 
 read, even as you go along." 
 
 Says the noted author Capel Lofft 
 in his interesting book Self-Forma- 
 tion, "that his wliole life was changed 
 and indeed saved, when he learned 
 that he must turn back at the end of 
 each sentence, ask himself what it 
 meant, if he believed it or disbelieved 
 it." 
 
 Says our greatest genius on how to 
 master personal efficiency, Edward 
 Earle Purington: "The way a man 
 reads for self advancement is tre- 
 mendously important. Aim to get 
 the author's real meaning * * * 
 Keep your mind absolutely open. If 
 you should disagree with any state- 
 ment, be sure it is not hasty reading, 
 or some preconceived notion or pre- 
 judice of yours that causes misun- 
 derstanding. The greatest men are 
 the most anxious to be taught." 
 
 Ida B. Cole in her essay entitled 
 Getting the Best Out of a Book says : 
 "I number the points as they are 
 given. If there is something that I 
 do not believe or understand, I put a 
 question mark after it. After fin- 
 ishing each chapter I go back over it 
 and review the points." 
 
 Bierhower in his essay on Reading 
 ivith a Purpose and Mabie, in his Art 
 of Reading and Beecher in his Plan 
 of Reading, all voice the same warn- 
 ing to those who read for wisdom 
 and knowledge, to read very slow and 
 a little at a time, turn it over and 
 over in the mind till one is positively 
 satisfied that the author must be 
 surely right or wrong in his interpre- 
 tation of these Bible prophecies. Hold 
 fast to the fact and keep it always 
 in mind while reading this book that 
 United States will surely win this 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IX 
 
 world war and bring about the long 
 hoped for World Democracy. It may 
 not come as soon as our patience 
 would like to have it come, or how and 
 where we would like to have it come, 
 but that it will come when, how and 
 where the Bible prophecies said it 
 would, is beyond any question of a 
 doubt in the minds of those who thor- 
 oughly understand these Bible pro- 
 
 phecies from their many new points 
 of view that God has given us. 
 
 Prov.l7: 27.— "He that hath know- 
 ledge spareth his words." 
 
 The author will be very brief in his 
 interpretations, as one would avoid 
 unnecessary steps in a long, hard, up- 
 hill journey, when the time is very 
 short. 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES 
 
 PROPHECY. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 It is vitally important for everyone 
 of us to secure a clear and thorough 
 understanding of what prophecy is 
 and what prophecy is for before we 
 can undertake to interpret any of our 
 Bible prophecies at all. 
 
 Prov. 4: 7.— "With all thy getting, 
 get understanding." 
 
 How shallow, thin and frail is a 
 definition like that of Webster in the 
 International Dictionary when he 
 says : "Prophecy is a declaration of 
 something to come ; especially an in- 
 spired foretelling." If that vere all, 
 Isaiah's word would be true of us : 
 "It is a people of no understanding." 
 
 Compare such an interpretation 
 with the Bible view of prophecy, 
 given to us almost two thousand 
 years ago. 
 
 // Peter 1: 19. — "We have also a 
 more sure word of prophecy; where- 
 unto ye do well that ye take heed as 
 unto a light that shineth in a dark 
 place." 
 
 In fact nothing more perfectly 
 illustrates the true meaning and 
 value of our inspired Bible prophecies 
 than does the lighthouse on our coast. 
 As it warns our sailors of rocks and 
 reefs which mean distress and death 
 to any one sailing in their direction, 
 so prophecy tells of danger ahead. 
 
 If you were a pilot on one of our 
 great ocean liners in the most terrible 
 
 storm you ever encountered and you 
 saw straight ahead a light streaming 
 before you, would you take it as 
 marking the channel to a safe and 
 peaceful harbor? No! A thousand 
 times, No. The warning would be, 
 "Keep away. — Steer clear of this hid 
 den reef or shoal which means de- 
 struction and death to you." 
 
 "Study your government chart of 
 navigation"' it would say. "Read 
 how far away to the right hand or the 
 left, you must steer your craft." 
 
 In this way prophecy is "A light 
 shining in a dark place whereunto ye 
 do well that ye take heed," or as the 
 Apostle Paul says: / Cor. 12: 7. — 
 "The manifestation of the Spirit is 
 given to every man to profit withal." 
 
 If, for example, Bible prophecy 
 foretells that Germany will win this 
 war— Da?2. 7: G. — "And behold an- 
 other beast like a leopard and domin- 
 ion was given to it," such a foretelling 
 is given for the express purpose that 
 we take heed and see that no such 
 issue is accomplished. 
 
 On the other hand if prophecy says 
 that the United States will meet 
 downfall; Dan. 7: 7, 11.— "I saw a 
 fourth beast * * * and strong ex- 
 ceedingly; and * * * I beheld even 
 till the beast was slain, and his body 
 destroyed and given to the burning 
 flame; Rev. A: 7.— "And the fourth 
 beast like a flying eagle." — In all this 
 the meaning must be, not that the 
 United States is inevitably doomed 
 but that she will be doomed and meet 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 destruction and death, if she does not 
 look well at God's navigation chart 
 and change her course. 
 
 Bible prophecy tells us just what 
 to do and where to steer. It points 
 out the straight and narrow channel 
 which will save not only the lives of 
 our best boys and girls who are now 
 in France but also our National life, 
 the liberty and freedom for which 
 Old Glory stands. 
 
 This is the significance of Matt. 
 7: 13, lU- — "Enter ye in at the strait 
 gate * * * . Strait is the gate and 
 narrow is the way which leadeth unto 
 life." The narrow way will be un- 
 veiled to you before you finish read- 
 ing this book. 
 
 Go back with me for a few mo- 
 ments to the begining of history and 
 verify with me the fact that prophecy 
 is a mental light that shineth in dark- 
 ness and that those who took heed 
 thereto did well while those who did 
 not heed it were punished with sor- 
 row, pain or death. 
 
 At the very beginning, God told 
 Adam and Eve not to touch the tree 
 of good and evil. Did Adam and Eve 
 heed the prophecy ? No, they thought 
 their own judgment superior to that 
 of God and Bible history (Gen., chap. 
 3) tells us of the sorrow, pain 
 and hardship which this decision cost 
 them. 
 
 Then, you remember, there was 
 born into Adam's home one of the 
 world's great capitalists. He was a 
 man of progress and influence even 
 to the building of a great city and the 
 naming of it after his son {Gen. 
 h: 17). 
 
 God loved Cain because God saw 
 him advancing civilization. But God 
 also saw Cain approaching a hidden 
 
 reef and Cain was warned thereof. 
 Did Cain heed the warning? No, and 
 Bible history tells us of the sorrow, 
 pain and hardship that the rich cap- 
 italist suffered because of his neglect. 
 Gen. I^: 13. — "And Cain said unto the 
 Lord 'My punishment is greater than 
 I can bear.' " 
 
 Later in the history, we meet the 
 greatest crisis of ancient life in the 
 days of Noah when with his family 
 he alone escaped. Gen. 6: 5. — "And 
 God saw that the wickedness of man 
 was great in the earth and that every 
 imagination of his heart was evil 
 continually." God warned humanity 
 of the issue of their wickedness and 
 evil ways. Did they heed the pro- 
 phecy? Noah did and saved himself 
 and his family but the rest paid the 
 same old price of sorrow, pain and 
 death with destruction. 
 
 Observe the same historic process 
 in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. 
 Lot and his family heeded the warn- 
 ing and were saved. But multitudes 
 from the great cities heeded not the 
 prophecy and were destroyed. 
 
 Or witness the record of King 
 Pharoah, hard-hearted and most 
 wicked as he was. God sent him a 
 lighthouse warning in a prophecy 
 that there were coming seven years 
 of great plenty and seven years of 
 famine. He was commanded to save 
 enough from the years of plenty to 
 bridge over the time of famine. He 
 certainly did well in taking heed to 
 the prophecy. It was a lighthouse to 
 him. 
 
 Passing over a multiutde of other 
 prophecies which might be cited, I 
 call attention to one beautiful illus- 
 tration of the value and infallible use 
 of this divine gift to men. You will 
 
PROPHECY. 
 
 find it in the third chapter of Jonah's 
 prophecies. "And the word of the 
 Lord came unto Jonah saying 'Arise, 
 go unto Ninevah, that great city and 
 preach unto it the preaching that I 
 bid thee * * * . Let them turn 
 everyone from his evil way and from 
 the violence that is in their hands * 
 * * and God saw their works, that 
 they turned from their evil way, and 
 God repented of the evil that he said 
 that he would do unto them ; and he 
 did it not." Even those few citations 
 are enough to verify the truth of the 
 Bible description of prophecy — that 
 it is a sure word, a light shining in 
 a dark place, that if ye (as a Nation) 
 take heed thereto, ye will do well. 
 And the prophecy of the downfall 
 and utter destruction of our beautiful 
 country will never take place. {Dan. 
 7: 7, 11.) P^or as in Ninevah when- 
 ever homes, cities and nations, visited 
 with sorrow, trouble and violence, 
 turn from their ways of greed, wick- 
 edness and jealousy into the paths of 
 justice, equality and fraternity the 
 Divine method will be verified. 
 
 When William H. Taft, that big- 
 hearted and far-sighted Ex-President 
 of ours declared "that a poor man 
 cannot get justice in our courts," he 
 pointed to the hidden reef upon which 
 proud Babylon fell. 
 
 Isaiah 59: H- — "And judgment is 
 turned away backward and justice 
 standeth afar off; for truth is fallen 
 in the streets and equity cannot 
 enter." 
 
 Neither can we ever better our 
 labor troubles till there is a growing 
 justice and equality in wages. Nor 
 can we have a good Republican form 
 of government as long as we elect a 
 porkbarrel class of men to Congress 
 
 and allow our grafters and govern- 
 ment thieves to escape the serving of 
 time in our state prisons. Our faith- 
 ful, untiring, patient, merciful as well 
 as foresighted President said perti- 
 nently in his address to Congress, 
 May 27, 1918: "The profiteering that 
 cannot be got at by the restraints of 
 conscience and love of country can be 
 got at by taxation." Thanks be to 
 Heaven that we have in Wilson as 
 President another Washington and 
 another Lincoln. 
 
 Let me say right here that I do 
 not look for the fulfillment of any 
 Bible prophecy pointing to the down- 
 fall of our beloved country. I wait 
 expectantly for the speedy home- 
 coming of our choicest youth — our 
 boys and girls from France. I be- 
 lieve that we shall enter the harbor 
 of peace and safety. My conviction 
 is that in that haven we are to wait 
 patiently until the second woe and 
 the third woe of the great world war 
 is over. 
 
 Shortly following this great and 
 terrible conflict with Germany will 
 come a far more gigantic and fearful 
 war for which Japan is now prepar- 
 ing in colossal fashion. This will be 
 the second woe ; the first woe is nearly 
 passed. Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is 
 past and behold there come two woes 
 more hereafter." 
 
 APPOINTED TIME. 
 
 CHAPTER IL 
 
 Daniel 12: 1. — "And there shall be 
 a time of trouble, such as never was 
 since there was a nation to that same 
 time." Mark well the fact that our 
 Bible prophecies make known in 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 many different ways the beginning 
 and the ending of this day of trial. 
 Daniel 11: ^7.— "The end shall be at 
 the time appointed." Daniel 8: 19. — 
 "And he said, Behold I will make 
 thee know what shall be in the last 
 end of the indignation : for at the 
 time appointed the end shall be." 
 
 Certain it is also that our Bible 
 prophecy did make it known that 
 there would be a few wise enough to 
 find the appointed time and make it 
 known to the world before the be- 
 ginning of that great and terrible 
 day. 
 
 Da7i. 12: 10. — "But the wise shall 
 understand." 
 
 That this prophecy is now ful- 
 filled, I \yill proceed to show and I 
 will give you the evidence and proof 
 positive of the fact. 
 
 The World's Crisis of Nov. 3, 1915, 
 (published in Boston, Mass.) says: 
 "That this world war is the Daniel 
 time of trouble. Let it be remem- 
 bered that in our study of this pro- 
 phecy we have found the events of 
 history following one another in suc- 
 cessional order, exactly as laid out in 
 prophecy. And then we are duly im- 
 pressed with the fact that this un- 
 quenchable blaze of war has broken 
 out at the well-timed hour scheduled 
 in the Bible." 
 
 The World's Crisis of Dec. 15, 1915, 
 said: "The great European warwhich 
 broke out in August, 1914, came at 
 the right time to fulfill the prophetic 
 mould." 
 
 This war was prophesied by prom- 
 inent Adventists at least two years 
 before it came to pass. But you ask 
 me how the Adventist finds out the 
 appointed moment for the beginning 
 of this terrible conflict. Says the 
 
 Boston Sunday American, April 18, 
 1915._"The Adventist figures that 
 each day means a week of years from 
 the creation and in that way they fig- 
 ured that 1914 would see the great 
 world war." 
 
 The Boston Globe, Dec. 30, 1917, 
 says : "Daniel's vision of the Four 
 Great Empires happened in the year 
 606 B. C. ; the time appointed for the 
 fulfillment of the prophecy was 
 'Seven Cycles' and as each cycle rep- 
 resents 360 years, so seven times 360 
 would equal 2,520, As the prophecy 
 was delivered in the year 606 B. C, 
 as before stated, then by subtracting 
 606 from 2,520 we get the number 
 1914, the year the present war broke 
 out, the greatest war, the world has 
 ever seen." 
 
 But not only in the year and month, 
 nay but on the very day of Christ's 
 appointment, on a day of judgment 
 prophesied, did the great war begin. 
 Acts 17: 31. — "He hath appointed a 
 day in which he will judge theworld." 
 
 Says the Christian Herald of April 
 14, 1915: "Truly the time of the Pal- 
 estinian Covenant, given in Lev. 26, 
 the Gentile supremacy over the land 
 has continued exactly the seven times, 
 i. e. 2,520 years, and the war began 
 on the self-same day, the month of 
 Ab, according to the Jewish reckon- 
 ing." 
 
 But many will say, "Oh well, now 
 that the event has taken place there 
 are people cunning enough to conjure 
 up something to fit the prophecy." 
 But now I am going to show you that 
 the coming of this fearful world war 
 and the hour of its beginning was dis- 
 covered by many Bible students, 
 years if not many years in advance of 
 the events. 
 
APPOINTED TIME. 
 
 Prof. A. E. Hatch, A. M., in his 
 Handbook of Prophecy, published in 
 1912 on pages 102 and 286 says: 
 "There is to be a general and uni- 
 versal war. God has spoken and his 
 word will not fail. There is to be 
 universal war and the nations are 
 already arming for it. The year 1914 
 marks the end, when the times of the 
 Gentiles shall be fulfilled." 
 
 In the year 1911 Rev. George 
 Shoreij delivered a public address in 
 Berwick Maine, in which he said : 
 "The prophecies have been carefully 
 figured out and 1914 is the year ap- 
 pointed for the beginning of the 
 great world war and beginning of the 
 time of trouble such as the world has 
 never seen before." 
 
 Rev. Charles T. Russell published 
 in 1891 a work, The Millenial Dawn. 
 In Vol. Ill, pages 23 and 59, he says : 
 "The time of the end is particularly 
 marked in the Scriptures. This time 
 of the End or Day of Jehovah's Prepa- 
 rations, closing A. D., 1914, is to cul- 
 minate in the greatest time of trouble 
 the world has ever known." 
 
 William A. Redding published a 
 book in 1895, entitled Our Near Fu- 
 ture. On page 25 he plainly states 
 that the year 1914 marks the doom 
 of the present Gentile government 
 and the beginning of the great world 
 war. 
 
 The Literary Digest of March 6, 
 1915, (published in New York City) 
 tells us that several years ago there 
 was a booklet printed in Chicago that 
 foretold that a great and terrible war 
 would begin in the year 1914. 
 
 Says the Literay Digest of March 
 6, 1915 : "There has been discovered 
 in an old family Bible in the Father- 
 
 land (Germany) a prophecy which 
 foretold a world war in 1914. 
 
 In closing this chapter I want 
 frankly to say that I have only intro- 
 duced a very small part of the proof 
 that can be given that this vast and 
 terrible war drama began and was 
 destined to begin on the identical day, 
 month and year foretold in Bible pro- 
 phecy. And I mean to tell you in my 
 book the appointed time when the 
 world war-drama will end. 
 
 BEGINNING OF SORROW. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 A few years ago, I climbed to the 
 top of the Washington Monument at 
 our Nation's Capital and while com- 
 ing down, I met several people who 
 had made an ascent of perhaps 150 
 of the 550 feet to the summit. "For 
 Heavens sake," said one of them to 
 me, "How much further is it to the 
 top? If it is much farther, we shall 
 have to give it up." In this same 
 way, many are saying now: "We 
 don't see how we are going to stand 
 it, if this terrible war lasts much 
 longer." 
 
 If you examine the prophecies care- 
 fully, you can only reach the con- 
 clusion that the world war has just 
 begun. Consider carefully and read 
 slowly the prophecies from the fol- 
 lowing three great prophets. 
 
 KEY. 
 
 Exodus 15: 5.— "The Lord is a 
 man of war: the Lord is his name." 
 ISAIAH'S PROPHECY. 
 
 Isaiah 2U: 1, 3, 6.— "Behold the 
 Lord maketh the earth empty; and 
 turneth it upside down, and scatter- 
 eth abroad the inhabitants thereof. 
 
BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 The land shall be utterly emptied, 
 and utterly spoiled. Therefore hath 
 the curse devoured the earth, and 
 they that dwell therein are burned, 
 and few men are left." 
 
 DANIEL'S PROPHECY. 
 
 Daniel 12: 1. — "And at that time, 
 there shall be a time of trouble, such 
 as never was since there was a nation 
 even to that time." 
 
 CHRIST'S PROPHECY. 
 
 St. Matt., chap. 2^.— "Tell us, when 
 shall these things be and what shall 
 be the sign of the end * * * . Jesus 
 answered and said * * * Nation 
 shall rise against nation and kingdom 
 against kingdom : and there shall be 
 famines and pestilences in divers 
 places * * * . Ye shall see the 
 abomination of desolation spoken of 
 by Daniel the prophet * * * there 
 shall be great tribulation, such as was 
 not since the beginning of the world 
 to this time, no, nor ever shall be. 
 And except those days should be 
 shortened, there should no flesh be 
 saved." 
 
 Christ made it perfectly clear and 
 used great plainness of speech for he 
 said: "When ye see nation rising 
 against nation and kingdom against 
 kingdom and famines and pestilences, 
 these are just the beginning of sor- 
 rows (Matt. 2Jt: 8). 
 
 Some of our papers would seem to 
 imply that this world war is at its 
 height, nearly over and not to last 
 much longer. 
 
 Says the Safeguard and Armory of 
 October, 1915, page 12: "Nothing in 
 all history of Oriental civilization can 
 compare with the enormity of this 
 holocaust of blood in Europe. The 
 story of it is one for which the white 
 race must blush with ignominy and 
 
 shame forever. For destruction of 
 invaluable and irreparable treasure, 
 for the waste of vast sums gathered 
 from the requited toil of millions; 
 for the unlosing of the fiercest pas- 
 sions and the gratification of greed 
 and lust; for the sowing of inhuman 
 enmities never to be forgotten — this 
 European Horror has no precedent in 
 all the savagery of the past.".^ ,. 
 
 Said President Emeritus Charles 
 W. Eliot of Harvard College, Feb. 7, 
 1915 : "More than 300,000,000 of peo- 
 ple are involved in the most cruel and 
 savage war that has ever been waged 
 — a war in which the recently won 
 powers of man over nature are all 
 turned with an administrative effi- 
 ciency greater than the world ha^ 
 ever before seen to the most active 
 and persistent destruction of life and 
 property, and now, within the last 
 five months, the worst, because of its 
 wide extent, the fury with which it is 
 prosecuted and the destructive power 
 of its new implements — brings un- 
 heard-of-misery upon the human 
 race; and the Christian churches are 
 helpless to prevent it." 
 
 Said the Boston Herald of Jan. 3, 
 1915: "The world war — there has 
 never been a war like it. It is the 
 greatest war in all history. Never 
 since war began has such a gigantic 
 combat been known. After five 
 months of it we may confidently say 
 that it is not only the most fiercely 
 contested but the most deadly of any 
 war in memory." 
 
 Says the Boston American, Nov. 
 19, 1915: "The human mind never 
 before conceived such a horror as 
 this war has become. It surpasses 
 the insane imagination of the bitter 
 soul of Swift, the frightful visions 
 
BEGINNING OF SORROW. 
 
 that haunted the gloomy soul of 
 Dante." 
 
 The World's Crisis, Nov. 3, 1915, 
 has truly said: "We may conclude 
 that we are now in the time of 
 trouble here foretold {Dan. 12: 1 and 
 Matt. 2h: 21.) In momentum and 
 sweep the present European war is 
 without a parallel. It is easily the 
 most gigantic of wars. It may be re- 
 garded as the worst and last v/ar of 
 the nations." 
 
 "Any war is horrible. This war 
 is the most horrible of all wars in its 
 extent and in the severe and wide- 
 spread suffering it has caused." — 
 New York Wccklij Witriess, July 11, 
 1017. 
 
 It is perfectly clear that we are 
 only at the beginning of this great 
 world war. The Bible prophecy makes 
 it known to us that this conflict will 
 bring the time of the greatest abomi- 
 nation of desolation and tribulation 
 and death since the beginning of the 
 world, the disaster and loss of life 
 being even greater than at the time 
 of Noah and the Flood. 
 
 It is true that the war has de- 
 stroyed several millions of people but 
 when you compare this loss wiih the 
 population of the earth which may be 
 estimated as one billion two hundred 
 million and when you remember that 
 as many have been born as have 
 fallen in battle, you cannot fail to see 
 the fulfillment of prophecy is as yet 
 but a drop in the bucket of what is 
 to come. It is true also that France 
 and Belgium have seen a few hundred 
 miles of their possessions laid waste 
 but compare this with the desolation 
 prophesied by the Bible and we see 
 how much is yet to come before all is 
 fulfilled. 
 
 If you compare this war so far 
 with what Isaiah foretold and Christ 
 declared you will see at a glance that 
 we are now only at the beginning of 
 sorrow, tribulation and desolation 
 that will shortly come to pa<ss in 
 every little detail. The Bible, as you 
 will see, foretells it and God's word 
 has never failed. Matt. 5: 18. — "For 
 verily I say unto you, one jot or one 
 tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
 law, till all be fulfilled." 
 
 WAR LORD. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 The reader of the Holy Bible from 
 Genesis to Revelation can not fail to 
 notice the constant recurrence of the 
 mention made of The Coming of the 
 Lord and of the many terrible things 
 He would do. And as I see it, no one 
 of the prophets omits to mention this 
 German War-Lord, the Kaiser. 
 
 Does the Bible give us the key to 
 this word Lord? I believe such a 
 key is found in Exodus 15: 3. — "The 
 Lord is a man of war : the Lord is his 
 name." 
 
 Did the Bible prophecies say that 
 God would send messengers to warn 
 the world of this coming War-Lord? 
 
 Mark well the perfectness of the 
 prophecy. Luke 12: 5. — "I will fore- 
 warn you whom ye shall fear." 
 
 Did not Joseph Wolf commence 
 preaching in Asia as early as 1820 
 that the coming of the Lord was an 
 event near at hand? Did not Edward 
 Irving, that noted English orator, in 
 1823, begin to proclaim the same 
 message in Europe? John Wesley 
 also took his part in proclaiming the 
 near coming of the Lord and he even 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 figured out the prophetic periods of 
 Revelation. Did not hundreds and 
 thousands of the people receive the 
 preaching of Wolf, Irving and Wes- 
 ley, as glad tidings of joy? 
 
 Did not William Miller in 1843 and 
 later did not Moody, the famous evan- 
 gelist, bring the same message vv^hich 
 was heralded with joy by multitudes? 
 Was not the creed of Second Advent- 
 ism declared in 1849? And did not 
 thousands accept it and go forth to 
 all corners of the earth declaring that 
 the Coming of the Lord was right 
 at hand? They indeed spoke the 
 truth. 
 
 Amos 5: 18, 20. — "Woe unto you 
 that desire the day of the Lord! To 
 what end is for you ? The day of the 
 Lord is darkness and not light * * * 
 even very dark and no brightness in 
 it." 
 
 When I was a boy on the farm and 
 used to go to the church on the hill, 
 I heard the minister very often tell 
 his church members that the Lord 
 was soon coming and the church 
 would echo with voices crying, 
 "Amen, Amen, Hallelujah, Praise the 
 liord !" I have plenty of evidence 
 and proof that in the world of today 
 the Lord has arrived and begun his 
 work of desolation and tribulation in 
 the war whose horror is almost be- 
 yond belief. 
 
 Said the New York Weekly Wit- 
 ness, Oct. 10, 1917.— "The War Lord 
 of Germany and his counsellors and 
 agents, have sent fire and blood 
 throughout the whole world." 
 
 Said the Boston Post, Dec. 10, 
 1914. — "There is no longer any at- 
 tempt to conceal the seriousness of 
 the Kaiser's illness, and reports to 
 night indicate that all Germany is 
 
 worried over the prostration of their 
 War-Lord." 
 
 Said the Boston American, Dec. 26, 
 1917. — "The Kaiser's greeting to the 
 army is full of iron fist. A despatch 
 from Berlin today quoted the War- 
 Lord as saying: 'We must bring 
 peace by our sharp-edged sword.' " 
 
 Is not the Bible accurate in its pro- 
 phecy that it would be growing dark 
 when this Lord of Germany should 
 begin his deadly blows of destruction. 
 
 I want now to call attention — to 
 take up a few of the many prophecies 
 which so accurately describe this 
 Kaiser that his identity cannot be 
 questioned. He arrived as I have 
 shown on the very day, month and 
 year when the Bible indicates. W^hat 
 kind of a lookin'g man should we ex- 
 pect from the prophetic description. 
 Dan. 8: 23, 2U. — "A king of fierce 
 countenance shall stand up and his 
 power shall be mighty * * and he 
 shall destroy wonderfully." 
 
 No one can look upon the picture 
 of the Kaiser as given in our illus- 
 trated journals without confirming 
 the prediction and how his power has 
 astonished the world and especially 
 when one remembers that his little 
 Empire of Germany in extent only 
 equals four-fifths of the land of 
 Texas. 
 
 "And he shall destroy wonder- 
 fully." Other wars of history have 
 figured their expense by millions but 
 since this War-Lord came we must 
 reckon by billions. 
 
 But Daniel identifies the Kaiser 
 still more closely. Dan. 8: 22. — "Four 
 kingdoms shall stand up out of the 
 nation but not in his power." "The 
 German Em.pire," says Woodrovj 
 Wilson, Ph.D., LLD., now President 
 
WAR LORD. 
 
 of the United States, in his book en- 
 titled, The State," page 252, "is a 
 federal state composed of four king- 
 doms, Prussia, Bavaria, Wurttemberg 
 and Saxony." The prophecy is 
 shown to be accurate by the fact the 
 influential and powerful little Empire 
 was not born of the Kaiser's genius 
 but of Prince Bismark's creative 
 spirit. 
 
 I want to take up one more pro- 
 phecy as to the personal appearance 
 of this German War-Lord and ask 
 you to note its accuracy. Zech. 11: 17. 
 — "Woe to the idol shepherd that 
 leavcth the flock! The sword shall 
 be upon his arm, and upon his right 
 eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, 
 and his right eye shall be utterly 
 darkened." 
 
 The interpretation: 
 
 No ruler has ever been more be- 
 loved and idolized by his people than 
 has this Kaiser of Germany. This is 
 where he found His tremendous and 
 almost miraculous power. This Em- 
 peror and his people were united with 
 an iron band of love, and confidence in 
 each other's faith and fidelity. But 
 the prophecy reads "That he leaveth 
 the Flock." Is not this Kaiser sac- 
 rificing today the confidence and 
 fidelity of his people upon the saddest, 
 most ghastly and most beastly altar 
 of the most cruel war of all history 
 and that just to satisfy a personal 
 ambition to be ruler over all the 
 earth? 
 
 Then the prophecy reads: "That 
 the sword shall be upon his arm and 
 his arm shall be clean dried up." 
 Most people think that the Emperor 
 was born with the withered arm he 
 carries. But the fact is that while 
 
 he was a young man he fought a 
 duel with the sword, he was wounded 
 in the arm and the withered arm he 
 bears was the result. 
 
 The prophecy further reads that 
 the sword shall be upon his right eye 
 and that his right eye shall be utterly 
 darkened. This prediction is yet to 
 be fulfilled before this fearful world 
 war comes to its end. 
 
 Other prophecies declare that the 
 Kaiser will be wounded almost unto 
 death so that it will not seem possible 
 for him to live. But live he will and 
 by him one of the leading parts will 
 be taken in the second act or woe 
 {Rev. 9: 12) of this great war drama. 
 
 Daniel 8: 19. — "Behold, I will make 
 thee know what shall be in the last 
 end of the indignation : for at the time 
 appointed the end shall be." 
 
 Isaiah 10: 5. — "0 Assyrian, the rod 
 of mine anger, and the staff in their 
 hand is mine indignation." 
 
 The interpretation: 
 
 The prophecy shows that when the 
 great world war should begin in 1914 
 at the appointed time called often in 
 the prophetic books "God's Anger 
 and Indignation," then an Assyrian 
 would lead, not his own nation, but 
 from another nation his (staff) 
 strength would be given him. For 
 strange as it may seem the Kaiser is 
 not a German but an Assyrian. When 
 this Potentate visited Queen Victoria, 
 a short time before she died, the 
 Queen said to the Kaiser, "William, 
 you are an Assyrian from your 
 father's side of the house." True it 
 is that on the mother's side the Ger- 
 man despot is of English blood, but 
 among the ancients the nationality of 
 the son was called from the father's 
 side so that the Kaiser is the Assyrian 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 who is sacrificing the German nation 
 to satisfy his personal ambition. 
 
 I could go on with repeated pro- 
 phecies which plainly identify the 
 Kaiser in more than a hundred ways. 
 He is the prophesied War-Lord, "the 
 Man of Sin," "The Assyrian and 
 Beast" who has brought upon us this 
 terrible war and there is no mistaking 
 of it. 
 
 THE FOUR GREAT BEASTS. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 In the seventh chapter of Daniel is 
 a complete program of this great and 
 terrible world war and when that 
 mighty prophet gave to the world this 
 most wonderful Temple of Prophecy 
 he left the master key in the very 
 front door. 
 
 THE MASTER KEY. 
 
 Daniel 7: 17. — "These great beasts 
 which are four, are four kings which 
 shall arise out of the earth." 
 
 Notice how clearly and unmistak- 
 ably our Infinite God of Justice places 
 the blame for this great and terrible 
 conflict just where it belongs. The 
 blame is placed upon the Kings. You 
 readers well know that if the Kings 
 of Germany, England and Russia, 
 (who are cousins), had died a year 
 before this world war opened, it 
 would never have taken place. It is 
 a Royal Family Row and we all know 
 the fact. 
 
 The first beast or empire to arise 
 is unmistakable. Daniel 7: 4. — "The 
 first beast was like a lion." England 
 is known and called, the world over, 
 "The British Lion." She can right- 
 fully be so termed for the lion is her 
 
 chosen symbol on her ensign floating 
 before the eyes of all other nations. 
 
 Daniel 7: 4. — "The first was like a 
 lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld 
 till the wings thereof were plucked, 
 and it was lifted up from the earth 
 and made stand upon the feet, as a 
 man, and a man's heart was given to 
 it." 
 
 As a matter of history it is well 
 known that the United States was 
 plucked, to use the prophet's figure, 
 from the British Empire, and the 
 eagle is the symbol of her exalted Re- 
 publican form of government. The 
 eagle is our rightful emblem — "The 
 American Eagle" with her out- 
 stretched wings of power and pro- 
 tection. How terse and yet compre- 
 hensive the prophet's description of 
 the Republican form of government 
 as we interpret it — the eagle "lifted 
 from the earth made stand upon the 
 feet as a man and a man's heart was 
 given it." 
 
 Abraham Lincoln gave the best in- 
 terpretation of this symbol when he 
 said that the United States idea is a 
 government of the people, for the 
 people, by the people. In other words, 
 ours is a poor man's government 
 where the balance of power is in the 
 multitude of the poor, where every 
 man voter is a king and every woman 
 voter is a queen and all from the 
 President down to the smallest office 
 holder are servants pure and simple. 
 
 But says the prophecy: "And a 
 man's heart was given it." Is it not 
 true that every voter of our nation 
 has an equal right, under the Austral- 
 ian system to cast his vote according 
 to the desire of his own heart and the 
 dictates of his own conscience? 
 
 Certainly these symbols, as ex- 
 
THE FOUR GREAT BEASTS. 
 
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 plained by us — the Eagle's wings 
 plucked from the lion and the man's 
 heart given to bird of prophecy fur- 
 nish our nation with the key and 
 guide to the meaning of the straight 
 and narrow way into the quiet har- 
 bor of waiting until the second and 
 third woe of this terrible world war 
 come to an end. 
 
 The first act or woe will soon and 
 suddenly be over. Rev. 9: 12. — "One 
 woe is past: and behold, there come 
 two woes more hereafter." 
 
 The United States will see her op- 
 portunity and will not fail to cast 
 anchor within the harbor of "Safety 
 First" until the second and third 
 woes are past. 
 
 Every person of intelligence recog- 
 nizes the nation represented in the 
 prophecy under the figure of the bear. 
 Daniel 7: 5. — "And behold, another 
 beast, a second, like to a bear * * * 
 and it had three ribs in the mouth of 
 it between the teeth of it; and they 
 said thus unto it, arise, devour much 
 flesh." For the present, the United 
 States calls for our attention so that 
 I will only say that the bear is the 
 great Russian Empire which has 
 adopted the bear for her symbol of 
 empire and for the emblem on her 
 ensign. 
 
 The ribs in beast's mouth represent 
 the inhumanity of her rulers toward 
 the poor of her realm. Even today 
 there are cities in Russia of sixty to 
 a hundred thousand people where 
 there is no sewerage, water or elec- 
 tric light system. Millions of these 
 God-chosen people of Russia in pov- 
 erty and slavery still, live in log and 
 mud huts. Luke 6: 20. — "Blessed be 
 ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of 
 God." Having only a hole in the 
 
 ground for a home, oppressed by 
 rulers who are wicked and heartless 
 grafters, no wonder that more than 
 fifty thousand Russian common peo- 
 ple die every winter. 
 
 But God is saying — "Hold fast, to 
 God's prophecy, cling to his word a 
 little longer and the kingdom of 
 Heaven in the form of a world De- 
 mocracy will be yours to have and to 
 hold ever and forever. And in this 
 Democracy of far away Russia, the 
 poor will be in the majority and 
 rulership will be in the hands of will- 
 ing toilers and every man voter will 
 be a king and every woman voter a 
 queen. Beautiful and good shall the 
 government of Russia for all time 
 become. God has spoken the word 
 and his word cannot fail. Daniel 
 7: l-lf. — "And there was given him 
 dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, 
 that all people, nations and lan- 
 guages, should serve him : his domin- 
 ion is an everlasting dominion, which 
 shall not pass away, and his kingdom 
 that which shall not be destroyed." 
 
 When Christ said. Luke 6: 20. — 
 "Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the 
 kingdom of God." He pointed out 
 the kingly and queenly rulers of the 
 Democracy that is to be on the earth. 
 
 THIRD BEAST. 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 Daniel 7: <>.— "After this I beheld, 
 and lo another, like a leopard which 
 had upon the back of it four wings 
 of a fowl; the beast had also four 
 heads ; and dominion was given it." 
 
 This prophetic warning can mean 
 nothing else than that we be on our 
 guard against the German beast 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 whose dominion threatens the earth. 
 There cannot be the slightest doubt 
 as to the prophetic reference. 
 
 In President Wilson's book entitled 
 The State, page 252, he says: "Ger 
 many is a federal state composed of 
 four kingdoms, Prussia, Bavaria, 
 Wurttemburg and Saxony." This 
 shows conclusively that Germany is 
 referred to by the prophet for no 
 other nation has ever had four king- 
 dom heads. 
 
 In Germany the political parties 
 have always been called political 
 wings and she is the only empire 
 which has ever been composed of four 
 wings called "The Nobility, the 
 Clergy, the Burghers and the Peas- 
 antry." To quote the Students' Cylo- 
 pedia, page 445: "The Freisinnige 
 are the imperial wing and the im- 
 perial wing more advanced." Fur- 
 thermore Germany, as an Empire, 
 calls herself the Leopard Beast and 
 such reliable publications as the 
 Kladderdeutsch of Berlin has been 
 picturing the German Empire as a 
 leopard beast. 
 
 Such publications as the Literary 
 Digest give currency to the pictorial 
 representation of Germany as the 
 leopard. Indeed the word leopard is 
 German for it comes from the Saxon 
 dialect of that Nation. 
 
 In fact just as the leopard is the 
 hybrid of the lion in Zoography so is 
 the Kaiser the hybrid of the British 
 Lion for the Emperor's mother was 
 the Princess Royal, Victoria of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 Look well oh Kings and Queens of 
 American life at what the prophet 
 says of Germany, this leopard beast 
 with hybrid Emperor. Daniel 7: 6. — 
 "And dominion was given it." 
 
 John 16: 12. — "I have many things 
 to say unto you, but ye cannot bear 
 them now." We of the United States 
 are so wedded to our religious beliefs 
 and our political ideas (as we call 
 them) and to our love of country that 
 I have not the courage to unfold the 
 full interpretation of the prophecy, 
 for there are times when discretion 
 is the better part of valor. 
 The interpretation : 
 
 Turning now to that other great 
 prophet, John the Divine, let us see 
 what he has to say about this Leopard 
 beast. Rev. 13: 1. — "And I stood 
 upon the sand of the sea and saw a 
 beast rise up out of the sea, having 
 seven heads and ten horns and upon 
 his horns ten crowns, and upon his 
 heads the names of blasphemy and 
 the beast which I saw was like unto 
 a leopard." 
 The interpretation: 
 
 "Sand" in prophecy signifies peo- 
 ple, {Rev. 20: 8) and the sea signifies, 
 nation and tongues (Rev. 17: 15). 
 
 When Daniel spoke of this leopard 
 he thought of the original Empire of 
 Germany, made up of four kingdom 
 heads. But John saw it as a beast 
 of prey in the midst of this great 
 world war and increased to seven 
 heads and ten crowns. Count up the 
 kingdoms and crowns of Germ.any and 
 her allies, the dominions over which 
 the Kaiser now governs or rules and 
 you will find that there are just seven 
 kingdom heads and ten crown heads 
 over whom with cunning subtlety he 
 has spread his net. The end indeed 
 is not yet for the prophecy reads. 
 Rev. 13: 7, 8. — "And it was given to 
 him to make war with the saints ; and 
 to overcome them: and power was 
 given him over all kindreds, and 
 
THIRD BEAST. 
 
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 tongues, and nations, and all that 
 dwell upon earth shall worship him 
 whose names are not written in the 
 book of life." 
 The interpretation: 
 
 The earth is the old earth, what we, 
 of the United States, call the old coun- 
 try—Europe, Asia and Africa. The 
 new earth of North and South Am 
 erica was not discovered at that time 
 but John the Divine foresaw this new 
 earth and pointed it out in his pro- 
 phecies. Rec. 21: 1. — "And I saw a 
 new earth." 
 
 This prophecy shows that this Kai- 
 ser is going to make war with the 
 saints. I mean to show the whole 
 world who those saint are. One of 
 the first commands which God him- 
 self gave to the world was this. 
 Genesis 1: 28. — "And God said sub- 
 due the earth." 
 
 Is not that the present work of our 
 best and bravest boys and their angel 
 Red Cross sisters as they struggle in 
 the trenches of France? Have they 
 not laid their beautiful and precious 
 lives upon the altar of God's com- 
 mand? John 15: 13. — "Greater love 
 hath no man than this, that a man 
 lay down his life for his friends." 
 
 Let us return to the prophecy. 
 Rev. 13: 7. — "And it was given him 
 to make war with the Saints and to 
 overcome them." Here is another 
 saying which I shall not interpret. 1 
 fear vay readers are not able to bear 
 it now. 
 
 Rev. 13: 7. — "And power was given 
 him over all kindreds, tongues, anc 
 nations and all that dwell upon the 
 earth shall worship him, whose names 
 are not written in the book of life." 
 The interpretation: 
 
 My readers can interpret the first 
 
 part of this prophecy themselves for 
 it is entirely plain and simple and 
 unmistakable but the Bible is the 
 book of life and it shows that God 
 has selected the United States to 
 escape the second and third woe of 
 the great world war as he chose Noah 
 at the time of the flood. The Divine 
 purpose is manifestly to preserve the 
 United States as a model or pattern 
 nation to be the guide in the coming 
 world Democracy. The calamities 
 described are therefore to be confined 
 to the old world and will not come to 
 our country. 
 
 Soon following our war with Ger- 
 many, the American boys and their 
 Red Cross sisters will come home. 
 As you think of them and read the 
 words of Mattheiv 20: 28. — "And to 
 give his life a ransom for many." 
 Do not be alarmed. If the Kaiser 
 holds them for ransom, do not hesi- 
 tate a moment at the proposition for 
 he does not know that the ransom has 
 been paid. In point of fact before 
 this war comes to its close there will 
 be no Kaiser and no German nation 
 to receive ransom at all. A more 
 terrible conflict is to follow hard on 
 this between Japan and Germany and 
 after that a fearful pestilence and 
 famine will nearly empty the old 
 world of its inhabitants but the 
 United States will escape. 
 
 Rev. 13: 2. — "And the beast which 
 I saw was like unto a leopard, and his 
 feet were as the feet of a bear, and 
 his mouth as the mouth of a lion." 
 
 The German Leopard, Russian 
 Bear and the British Lion are all 
 members of one family. The kings 
 of England, Russia and Germany 
 are own cousins and you have often 
 heard the remark that this war is 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 the offspring of a family row in the 
 Royal Household. 
 
 Rev. 13: 6. — "And he opened his 
 mouth in blasphemy against God, to 
 blaspheme his name, and his taber- 
 nacle, and them that dwell in Hea- 
 ven." As I have already shown, no- 
 where in all history can you find so 
 beastly a degenerate from the 
 depths of Hell as this German Kaiser 
 has turned out to be. No one else 
 has ever opened mouth in such a 
 blasphemous way against God as he 
 has done, claiming nothing less than 
 an equal partnership with God. i 
 Cor. H: 33, well declares that "God is 
 not the author of confusion." Neither 
 has any other ruler of all history 
 blasphemed more wickedly the taber- 
 nacles of God than has he, for one of 
 his first orders to his generals was to 
 destroy some of God's most beautiful 
 churches and cathedrals of worship. 
 
 The Cross and the Red Cross cer- 
 tainly belong to those who dwell in 
 heaven and it was not very long ago 
 that this Fiend of a Kaiser ordered 
 his generals to destroy these emblems 
 whenever seen. 
 
 I must now speak of the saddest 
 and most disheartening portion of all 
 this prophecy, for just as it was pro- 
 phesied that one of the twelve 
 Apostles should turn traitor to Jesus 
 so it is here declared that one of the 
 allied nations will be a Judas. No 
 power on earth can prevent this be- 
 trayal. 
 
 Rev. 13: 11, 18. — "And I beheld an- 
 other beast coming up out of the 
 earth: and he had two horns like a 
 lamb, and he spoke as a dragon * * * 
 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath 
 understanding count the number of 
 the beast, for it is the number of a 
 
 man, and the number is six hundred 
 three score and six." I am not going 
 to interpret this prophecy until the 
 war with Germany is over and that 
 for many reasons — first, because our 
 government would not allow one of 
 her Allies to be accused of betraying 
 her to Germany. Such accusation 
 would be, at best, now based on one 
 man's judgment, belief or opinion, 
 and that before the act really takes 
 place. 
 
 My second reason for declining to 
 set forth my interpretation is because 
 of the want of confidence, on the part 
 of so many readers in the prophecies 
 themselves and the manifest error in 
 judgment, belief and opinion of nine 
 hundred and ninety-nine out of every 
 thousand who have in the past un- 
 dertaken to be interpreters of pro- 
 phecy. 
 
 Certainly no one in personal life 
 would be justified in accusing a dear 
 friend of the purpose to do a terrible 
 wrong when such a friend had al- 
 ways shown himself a kind hearted 
 Christian gentleman in all the rela- 
 tions of life. And surely our nation 
 is right in her refusal to allow anyone 
 to impeach beforehand the honor of 
 any one of her Allies. 
 
 But just as Judas disclosed and de- 
 stroyed himself so will this betraying 
 nation commit self-destruction in the 
 second act or woe of this great and 
 terrible world war. 
 
 For as I have so often reminded 
 you, we are only in the first act or 
 woe of this gigantic world struggle. 
 Rev. 9: 12. — "One woe is past; and, 
 behold there come two woes more 
 hereafter." 
 
 To prove my identification of this 
 Judas-like nation and mysterious man 
 
THE FOURTH BEAST. 
 
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 will be easy for the key to the text is 
 found (not in English words but in 
 Roman numerals.) For example X 
 stands for 10, V for 5, I for 1, 
 L for 50, etc. They just figure up 
 666, which is the number of this 
 mysterious man, and the 666 is in 
 Roman Numerals letters in the name 
 he wears in his crown. 
 
 THE FOURTH BEAST. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 At mention of the fourth beast 
 every man, woman and child in this 
 country will do well to sit up and 
 take notice for this beast is none 
 other than the United States. 
 
 Daniel 7: 7, ii.— "And, behold, a 
 fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, 
 and strong exceedingly; and it was 
 diverse from all the beasts that were 
 before * * * . l beheld even till 
 the beast was slain, and his body de- 
 stroyed, and given to the burning 
 flames." 
 
 THE KEY. 
 
 Rev. U: 7. — "And the fourth beast 
 was like a flying eagle." 
 
 The view that the flying eagle rep- 
 resents our country is confirmed by 
 common consent. It is carried out 
 by all the symbolism of our people. 
 Note the frontispiece of the World's 
 Work, the Review of Reviews and 
 numberless other publications. The 
 very gold and silver you use and the 
 current phraseology of all our liter- 
 ature confirm the usage of the eagle 
 as our national emblem. National 
 flag, ensign and seal all testify that 
 the national instinct confesses that 
 the prophet is right in his designation 
 of our nation. 
 
 Said the Boston Sunday Advertiser, 
 June 16, 1918.— "Of all creatures that 
 live on earth, the right one was se- 
 lected when the eagle was chosen to 
 represent this country and its power. 
 The great bird is flying high and far 
 in these days, carrying his power and 
 his men across the Atlantic Ocean to 
 fight the eagles of Austria and Prus- 
 sia. * * We chose the right bird to 
 represent the nation. This winged 
 fighter flies at the head of every Am- 
 erican regiment and in the heart of 
 every American Soldier." 
 
 It is a matter of history that other 
 great nations have used the eagle as 
 a part of their devices in flags and 
 seals and emblems; but the United 
 States is the only nation of all his- 
 tory to adopt the flying eagle as the 
 symbol of her vast government. 
 
 The great Prophet, Daniel, 
 strengthens his identification of our 
 country, when he declares that the 
 fourth beast is different from the 
 other three he names {Dan. 7:7) for, 
 as you well know, the British Lion, 
 the Russian Bear and the German 
 Leopard stand for Monarchies while 
 the Land of the Flying Eagle is a 
 Republic. 
 
 And the prophecy also reads that 
 the fourth beast was exceeding strong. 
 Here too the United States is plainly 
 meant for as the eminent author, L. 
 A. Synith, has so clearly shown in his 
 new book, The United States in Pro- 
 phecy, page 19: "The United States 
 is the strongest national combination 
 of mankind." 
 
 But we cannot stop here with the 
 prophetic characterization of our 
 country. "Behold," cries the ancient 
 seer, "the fourth beast, dreadful and 
 terrible." Mild indeed seems the 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 prophet's description of lion, bear 
 and leopard compared with his words 
 about the fourth beast. "Dreadful 
 and terrible" are the adjectives used 
 about the eagle. 
 
 The synonyms given in our diction- 
 ary for the word ''dreadful" bring 
 out its terrific significance. They 
 picture transgressions which are 
 frightful and horrible while the word 
 "terrible" in the text means a condi- 
 tion of sin and wickedness even more 
 awful than the first term used. 
 
 We, as Americans and human be- 
 ings, are wont to hold up our hands 
 in holy horror when this inhuman and 
 beastly Kaiser with diabolical in- 
 humanity throws the bodies of our 
 brave and good into the boiling 
 kettles to get the fats he needs to 
 make his gunpowder. And we are 
 still more horrified when we read in 
 the daily papers how he uses the very 
 flesh of our beloved dead as dung for 
 German gardens and grinds their 
 bones to make meal for the hogs. Our 
 indignation boils when the tidings 
 come that British war prisoners are 
 left by the inhuman German wretches 
 to die in their agony from eating the 
 bread fed to them which is made 
 from ground straw. Jer. 9: 22. — 
 "Thus saith the Lord, even the car- 
 casses of men shall fall as dung upon 
 the open field, as the handful after 
 the harvest man." 
 
 Isaiah 5S: ii.— "And the Lord 
 shall make fat thy bones." 
 
 Exodus 15: 5.— "The Lord is a man 
 of war." 
 
 Isaiah 11: 7. — "And the lion shall 
 eat straw like the ox." 
 
 Now I do not for a moment lessen 
 the weight of these revolting bar- 
 barities which wound so deeply our 
 
 sensibilities ; but I am going to prove 
 beyond all question of doubt that we 
 have in our own United States wrongs 
 and wrongdoers needing greater re- 
 buke. 
 
 Take the dastardly evil of Profit- 
 eering. The Literary Digest of May 
 31, 1918, quotes U. S. Senator of 
 Idaho as saying before the Senate : 
 "The Profiteer is the man who takes 
 advantage of his country's condition, 
 of its perilous situation to gather ex- 
 traordinary profits, and to increase 
 enormously and unjustly and unfairly 
 his individual and private gain." 
 And Borah declared that Congress 
 should see that the money collected 
 from the people does not go to such a 
 scavenger of civilization as the Pro- 
 fiteer is proved to be. 
 
 I will leave it to your own good 
 iudgment whether the Capitalists, 
 men and women of such vast wealth 
 that they can never count and will 
 never use it, but who are wilfully 
 prolonging this terrible war just to 
 see how much money they can make 
 out of it, do not deserve a hotter place 
 in Hell than does even the Kaiser. 
 
 Isaiah 58: 1. — "Cry aloud, spare 
 not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet, 
 and shew my people their transgres- 
 sion." Ask the widowed mother who 
 is praying tonight for the safe return 
 of her dear boy from the horrible 
 trenches of France, what she thinks 
 about it. Ask the multitudes of chil- 
 dren, who read that they are made 
 orphans, what this profiteering which 
 digs new trenches and extends new 
 lines of battle where their fathers are 
 to die will mean so long as this dread- 
 ful and terrible conspiracy of the pro- 
 fiteers is tolerated by the American 
 people. 
 
THE FOURTH BEAST. 
 
 17 
 
 Put upon the witness stand our 
 great and beloved President, who 
 dared to face these poisonous grafters 
 and vipers of our nation and tell them 
 in plain English who and what they 
 are. In his address to Congress, May 
 27, 1918, Mr. Wilson said: "The pro- 
 fiteering that cannot be got at by the 
 restraints of conscience and love of 
 country can be got at by taxation. 
 There is such profiteering now and 
 the information with regard to it is 
 available and indisputable." 
 
 Said the Vice-President of the 
 United States, Mr. Marshall, in his 
 Jefferson Day address: "The belief 
 that there is an unequal distribution 
 of wealth in this country has been 
 supplemented by the belief that much 
 of it has been obtained through spec- 
 ial privilege, that it did not come by 
 labor, skill, industry, barter or trade, 
 but through watered stocks and 
 bonds, through corners on commod- 
 ities, through corruption of legisla- 
 tures, through the sale of impure food 
 stuffs, through wrecking railroads, 
 through all the devices known to man 
 whereby the law is not abrogated but 
 chloroformed." 
 
 Mr. Marshall protested that he had 
 said nothing new, or revolutionary; 
 that men like E. H. Gary and Wayne 
 MacVeagh have said the same things 
 in stronger language- 
 
 Prov. 28: 22. — "He that hasteth to 
 be rich hath an evil eye, and consider- 
 eth not that poverty shall come upon 
 him." 
 
 This condition is the something 
 "dreadful and terrible" which ought 
 to make us tremble with apprehen- 
 sion. 
 
 When the United States Govern- 
 ment told United States District At- 
 
 torney George W. Anderson of Bos- 
 ton to investigate the soaring prices 
 of commodities, after a conference 
 with Attorney-General Gregory he 
 gave out this report: "Washington, 
 D. C., Jan. 23, 1917. Price increases, 
 resulting from artificial and illegal 
 combinations have been checked as a 
 result of the Government's investiga- 
 tion of soaring prices for commodi- 
 ties." 
 
 Prov. 22: 22.— "Roh not the poor, 
 because he is poor: neither oppress 
 the afflicted." 
 
 The eminent author, Asa Oscar 
 Tait, in his world renowned book, 
 Heralds of the Morning, says: "All 
 are familiar with the fact that these 
 large aggregations of capital crush 
 out the small independent dealers, 
 and hold the prices of commodities 
 and the general interests of business 
 within their iron grasp. It would 
 be a wearisome as well as useless task 
 to try to present anything like a 
 tithe of the great mass of evidence 
 that might be given in regard to the 
 'heaping' together of treasure. Every 
 one knows that the combines of 
 wealth meet us at the very threshold 
 of life, and follow us the journey 
 through, ask a tribute at every step 
 on the various necessary things of 
 daily use, until finally the portals of 
 the tomb are reached, and even then 
 are we met by the agent of the under- 
 takers' association, who collects his 
 fee before our mortal remains are 
 allowed to be laid at rest. Meet men 
 everywhere, and their theme is 'mak- 
 ing money!' Money must be had at 
 all hazard. If it cannot be obtained 
 honestly, it must be gained in some 
 other way." 
 
 You who read the Sunday papers 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 June 30, 1918, saw in big headlines 
 these words : "WAR FRAUDS ARE 
 EXPOSED; PROFITS OF 200 AND 
 400 PER CENT." 
 
 "Washington, June 29.— The Fed- 
 eral Trade Commission laid wide open 
 before the United States Senate this 
 afternoon complete and startling ex- 
 posure of what it termed flagrant 
 profiteering carried on by the huge 
 manufacturing and distributing con- 
 cerns and monopolies. The Commis- 
 sion directly charged many of them 
 with inordinate greed and bare-faced 
 fraud." 
 
 "One company raised its $20,000,- 
 000 capital stock in 1916 to $100,000,- 
 000 without receiving a dollar more in 
 cash. This prevented them, the re- 
 port says, from showing enormous 
 rates of profit on their original cap- 
 ital." 
 
 Says The Boston Sunday Herald, 
 June 20, 1918 : "Washington, June 29. 
 Profiteering on a tremendous scale in 
 practically all the basic commodities 
 of life was reported to the Senate to- 
 day by the Federal Trade Commis- 
 sion, as the result of an exhaustive in- 
 vestigation. The committee reported 
 'Inordinate greed and bare-faced 
 fraud' as well as pressure for heavy 
 product." "The report says that 
 five business houses made a profit of 
 $140,000,000 during the three years 
 1915-16-17 as against $19,000,000 
 during the three years before the 
 war." 
 
 To my mind, the words of the pro- 
 phecy, "dreadful and terrible," are 
 not half fierce and gigantic enough to 
 fit the appalling condition of our 
 United States. 
 
 DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 It is manifestly impossible in a 
 small volume like this to do justice 
 to the multitude of prophecies touch- 
 ing this war but a passing glance at 
 the most striking of them is in order. 
 
 When the cry went forth that 
 President Wilson had kept the Un- 
 ited States out of war, Rev. George 
 Shorey, who is one of the beacon 
 lights of prophecy, said to his little 
 flock in Berwick, Maine: "You are 
 now hearing it said that President 
 Wilson is keeping us out of war. 
 Don't you believe it, for God has 
 spoken it that we shall drink of its 
 bitter cup." Jer. J^9: i^.— "Thus saith 
 the Lord, Behold, they whose judg- 
 ment was not to drink of the cup 
 have assuredly drunken ; and art thou 
 he that shall altogether go unpun- 
 ished, but thou shalt surely drink of 
 it." God is telling us that the cup 
 is none other than a terrible war. 
 J €7% Jf9: llf. — "Gather ye together, 
 and come against her, and rise up to 
 the battle." 
 
 Who can doubt that our nation is 
 meant by these prophecies. War has 
 been indeed foreign to our thought as 
 a nation; but our injustice and 
 wrong-doing has not gone unpunished. 
 We have allowed the pirate profiteer 
 to steal the bread from the poor man's 
 table and the very clothes from his 
 child's back. This is our transgres- 
 sion and we cannot go unpunished. 
 
 But how, you ask, can such an 
 accusation be proven. Take as a 
 practical instance the clothing of the 
 poor man's family. It is made for 
 the most part of cotton. This staple 
 
DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 
 
 19 
 
 of life has risen from six to thirty-six 
 cents a pound. Millions of bales of 
 cotton are required by the govern- 
 ment to make explosives, tents, uni- 
 forms, surgical dressings and for 
 other war purposes. While the poor 
 man is struggling to clothe his fam- 
 ily and to meet his contribution to 
 Liberty Loans and all the exactions 
 of war time, the profiteering thieves 
 to whom President Wilson as quoted 
 in the last chapter has spoken so 
 fearlessly, have been pocketing their 
 400 per cent, of ungodly gain from 
 the necessities of life. Who can es- 
 timate the price in flesh and blood of 
 such iniquity. We may forget the 
 transgression as we watch the proud 
 eagle's flight. Jcr. h9: L';?.— "Behold, 
 he shall come up and fly as the eagle, 
 and spread his wings over Bozrah." 
 But suff"er for our sins, we must 
 Bozrah, let us remember, is the 
 region of the Dead Sea of Palestine 
 where the Eagle of the United States 
 has gone to drink of the bitterest cup 
 of all tribulation in this fierce and 
 gigantic war. 
 
 But what punishment for our na- 
 tional sins can be more dreadful and 
 terrible than to see our best young 
 men, the flower of our country, gone 
 to the trenches of France and to know 
 that Jcv. Ud: 26, is come to pass: 
 "Therefore her young men shall fall 
 in her streets." 
 
 But without entering into all the 
 details and shadings of meaning in 
 this forty-ninth chapter of Jere- 
 miah's prophecy, we cannot help ask- 
 ing in the light of it, where shall we 
 place the responsibility for America's 
 entrance into this world conflict? 
 And according to this chapter we can 
 only blame ourselves for our part 
 
 therein. And in the last analysis, we 
 must confess that our wickedness has 
 really driven us into this war. We, 
 as a nation, have been most devoted 
 worshippers of Mammon, the false 
 god of gold and silver. 
 
 In the United States, the land of 
 free schools, free churches, free 
 parks, free museums, free hospitals 
 and where even the poor man's home 
 has more comforts and luxuries than 
 a King's palace used to have not so 
 many years ago — even in this land of 
 boasted freedom, money-mad and 
 money-crazy are the task masters and 
 the slave owners that have put us into 
 the war. 
 
 / Ti7n. 6: 10.— "For the love of 
 money is the root of all evil which 
 while some coveted after, they have 
 erred from the faith and pierced 
 themselves through with many sor- 
 rows." 
 
 And this love of money is 
 very subtle and very crafty. 
 When Congressmen Gardiner and 
 Hobson and other foresighted legis- 
 lators saw what the Kaiser meant to 
 do, they made a desperate appeal to 
 the nation for an adequate policy of 
 self-defence. These patriots were 
 defeated by the worshippers of Mam- 
 mon who sent their lobbyists to 
 Washington to say to Representative 
 and Senator: "We do not deem it 
 necessary that the United States pre- 
 pare for self-defence." It was the 
 love of money and not the hatred of 
 war that spoke. And it was the fear 
 of Mammon which bade the author- 
 ities at Washington reply: "Very 
 well, you are the boss and we must 
 do as you say." 
 
 It is this same money-mad people 
 which gives us that terrible modern 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 word graft which we recognize in 
 every household and on every street 
 corner as a national transgression by 
 which certain pork barrel politicians 
 and their friends are given free access 
 to our country's treasury and are 
 bidden to help themselves. And the 
 people, business men and newspaper 
 editors, clergy and all give their ap- 
 proval by their silence, money crazy 
 being the muffler. 
 
 Had we been prepared for a strong 
 defence as God warned us to prepare 
 (Joel 3: 9, 10) we could have said to 
 Germany: "Stop right where you 
 are, Old Leopard, or we will join the 
 Allies and crush you into the dust." 
 We could have halted Germany be- 
 fore the door of little Belgium and 
 have smothered the war at the very 
 beginning. 
 
 But when the United States saw 
 that gigantic beast named Germany 
 ready to devour innocent little Bel- 
 gium, did our nation cry out as a 
 mother would have done for a child in 
 the jaws of some big savage beast? 
 Alas, No! Our love of money, our 
 greed for foreign gold saw a rare op- 
 portunity to make immense profits 
 from the warring nations while our- 
 selves neutral. Senators and Con- 
 gressmen gave their approval by 
 silence and their constituents at home 
 were silent also. 
 
 In 1916 at Cleveland and Pittsburg 
 our God-given and faithful President 
 gave the alarm, crying: "The world 
 is on fire. The country must prepare 
 itself, not for war, not for aggression, 
 but for self-defence." 
 
 Luke 17: 26. — "As it was in the 
 days of Noe." 
 
 President Wilson warned the Un- 
 ited States but we could not heed the 
 
 warning. Money was our only God. 
 Fortunes grew with lightning speed. 
 Hotter waxed the flames of war until 
 the sparks were swept by the east 
 wind far out onto the great Atlantic 
 and the Lusitania caught fire and 
 went down. But still the people and 
 their legislators were silent while 
 profits grew apace. 
 
 And now we are paying the price 
 of our avarice and Mammon worship 
 with the life of our most precious 
 youth in the trenches of France- 
 Matt. 26: 52.— "Then said Jesus, they 
 that take the sword shall perish with 
 the sword." 
 
 Wilson gave the true interpretation 
 of this passage when he said : "We 
 must prepare this country, not for 
 war but for self-defence." To say 
 nothing of the sorrow, pain and waste 
 of life, it is costing billions for war 
 where it would have cost only millions 
 for self-defence. 
 
 Who is to blame? Verily we are 
 all guilty and we are all being pun- 
 ished — some in pain, some in fear, 
 others with a guilty conscience. And 
 in many cases those who have died on 
 the battlefield have suffered far less 
 than have the members of the family 
 circle at home. 
 
 But, as it was in the Garden of 
 Eden, each is wont to lay the blame 
 on the other. God however is no re- 
 specter of persons and He finds us 
 all guilty and we all are receiving our 
 allotment of suffering. 
 
 In the matter of public responsibil- 
 ity, we do well to use the key Presi- 
 dent Wilson gave us in his address to 
 Congress when he said : "If the lobby- 
 ists hurry to Washington to attempt 
 to turn what you do in the matter of 
 taxation to their protection or advan- 
 
DREADFUL AND TERRIBLE. 
 
 21 
 
 tage, the light will beat also upon 
 them. There is abundant fuel for 
 the light in the records of the treas- 
 ury with regard to profits of every 
 sort. The profiteering that cannot 
 be got at by the restraints of con- 
 science and love of country can be got 
 at by taxation." 
 
 If you read between the lines of 
 the President's address, you will find 
 written something like this: "You 
 Congressmen have been potter's clay 
 in the hands of these rich men who 
 have neither conscience or love of 
 country. This has gone on long 
 enough. I am the pilot of this Ship 
 of State and from now on, if you do 
 not behave yourselves, I will expose 
 you as faithless servants of the peo- 
 ple who sent you to Washington." 
 
 Now this very matter of represen- 
 tation raises a new and vital question 
 of responsibility. Here in New Hamp- 
 shire, for example, since prohibition 
 has come into effect, Manchester 
 which used to send 750 to jail, now 
 sends about 50. How many of our 
 voters have exercised their kingly 
 right to direct representation in 
 Washington? How many men have 
 written our Congressmen there to 
 vote the Nation dry once and for all. 
 
 Let our Congressmen find that the 
 people at home are watching them 
 and the lobbyist, the grafters, the 
 minions of rum barrels and pork bar- 
 rels will soon disappear. 
 
 Oh that the American people might 
 run this idea of authority and respon- 
 sibility back to its fountain head. 
 The Kaiser is not so much to blame 
 for our entrance into this struggle as 
 are the rich capitalists whose greed 
 for gold played such a part in its 
 coming our way- Our legislators 
 
 were recreant to their trust when 
 they failed to give our country an 
 honest policy of self-defence at the 
 most critical stage of the nation's de- 
 cision. And the Congressmen and 
 Senators do not deserve so severe a 
 censure as do their constituents at 
 home who were silent when protest 
 and instruction was a sacred duty. 
 God's law and man's law both decree 
 that the master is more responsible 
 than his servant for the breaking of 
 a commandment such as God has 
 given to our nation. 
 
 In more than a thousand ways has 
 the Almighty flagged the crossing for 
 us, tolling us to stop our mad chase 
 after gold till this war train should 
 pass. Billions of money and millions 
 of graves where our choicest boys and 
 their Red Cross sisters lie dead is 
 what we have to show for our fatal 
 disregard of God's commandments. 
 
 John H: 15. — "If ye love me, keep 
 my commandments." 
 
 John 15: 10. — "If ye keep my com- 
 mandments, ye shall abide in my 
 love." 
 
 PEACE CONFERENCE. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 You remember how King Saul in 
 an hour of dire distress went to con- 
 sult the Witch of Endor (/ Sam. 
 !S: 7.) His desire was to learn what 
 the morrow had for him and how his 
 ccrcat battle with the Philistines was 
 to turn. 
 
 Not unlike the ancient King's ques- 
 tion is the well nigh universal longing 
 of today for someone to tell us how 
 and when this calamitous war is to 
 end. And God seems to meet by his 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 own word this instinctive need. The 
 world has been filled from the be- 
 ginning with sorrow, pain and de- 
 struction from the failure of man's 
 judgments and counsels but I have 
 yet to find a single instance in all his- 
 tory where God's word has fallen 
 short of fulfillment- 
 How easy it is to find among our 
 neighbors and friends those who say 
 that they have lost their faith in pro- 
 phecy because so many have been 
 mistaken about the time for the Com- 
 ing of the Lord. It is as if these 
 people should throw away all their 
 arithmetic because of some child's 
 mistake in figuring some problem in 
 numbers. 
 
 It makes not a whit's difference 
 what Mr. Brown or Mrs. Jones may 
 think or tell you, the Word of God 
 tells you {Rev. 9: 12) that we are 
 near the end of the first act of a vast 
 threefold war drama or tragedy of 
 humanity. You can see for your- 
 self the program, most of it at least, 
 for this first act. And while I do not 
 believe that the government or the 
 people would stand for my reading of 
 the plain and unmistakable words of 
 Scripture I must declare the first woe 
 will end in a manner exceedingly fav- 
 orable to the United States. And 
 our Nation, let me say also, is going 
 to have a splendid opportunity to es- 
 cape the awful and calamitous issue 
 of the second act or woe in the world 
 history. But at this point, I want 
 to directly consider with you what 
 God has foretold is to take place dur- 
 ing the lull which is about to arrive 
 in this terrible world storm. 
 
 Just as there is always a short wait 
 of a few moments between the first 
 and second acts of any drama, so at 
 
 present Germany and her Allies as 
 well as England and her Allies are 
 beginning to talk peace terms. And 
 it is said on both sides that the war 
 cannot be won by force of arms alone. 
 With the exception of France, the 
 nations abroad that have issues at 
 stake are monarchies. The royal 
 families must justify themselves and 
 their action before their people or 
 there will be trouble; and so to 
 save their jobs as royal monarchs, 
 these potentates are going to deal with 
 Russia as a fat prize. And they will 
 say to their subjects : "See what God 
 has given you for being loyal to us 
 and to the throne and flag of your 
 country. 
 
 Germany, according to the pro- 
 phecies is going to get the Pope of 
 Rome to intercede and to employ 
 Japan to make overtures for a Peace 
 Conference between the powers at 
 war. Rev. 20: 2, 4. — "And I saw an 
 angel come down from heaven having 
 the key* * * and he laid hold on the 
 dragon, that old serpent * * and I saw 
 thrones, and they sat upon them and 
 judgment was given unto them." It 
 is perfectly clear that the two old 
 Empires which still retain their 
 thrones, are China, the dragon na- 
 tion, and Japan, the serpent nation, 
 which bows in reverence to the ser- 
 pent. 
 
 These monarchial rulers will nat- 
 urally appeal to the Pope because he 
 loves so greatly the people and they 
 in turn love him. Japan will be the 
 nation employed as intermediary be- 
 cause the United States stands in the 
 way and must be delicately handled; 
 and Japan is above all the nation that 
 has the cinch upon our country. No 
 other people can so safely say to us 
 
PEACE CONFERENCE. 
 
 23 
 
 as may Japan: "Come now Sammy, 
 be good and take some of your own 
 medicine which you gave to us when 
 we had our Russian trouble. The 
 cup was a very bitter one for us to 
 take but we followed your advice. 
 Now the tables are turned and we 
 ask you to yield and take the cup of 
 peace however bitter the terms may 
 seem to you." 
 
 P^or America the ancient prophetic 
 wisdom holds true: Eccl. 11: 1. — 
 "Cast thy bread upon the waters : for 
 thou shalt find it after many days." 
 
 Gal. 6: 7. — "Be not deceived; God is 
 not mocked : for whatsoever a man 
 soweth, that shall he also reap." 
 
 When it comes to the terms of 
 peace, the United States will say : 
 "We did not enter this war to gain 
 either indemnity or new territory; 
 we had and have no other object in 
 view except to make the world safe 
 for Demcracy." Then England and 
 her allies will assure the United 
 States to that effect. There will re- 
 main to our brave boys and their 
 Red Cross sisters the privilege of 
 folding their tents and packing their 
 knapsacks and soon they will be 
 homeward bound. How many mil- 
 lions of happy hearts will welcome 
 them. And the happy nation will 
 once more clasp them to her breast. 
 
 Rev. U: 1. — "And behold a door was 
 opened in heaven." Deliverance from 
 this war and the coming back to us 
 of our young people from the trenches 
 of France will be indeed taste enough 
 of heaven. To see the Pope, the 
 angel of God's mercy, as he pleads 
 with the world to put an end to the 
 ruin and murder now going on will 
 surely pass for the opening of a door 
 jn heaven. For if you do not call 
 
 this war hell on earth where wiW you 
 look for a picture thereof. 
 
 The moment England and her 
 allies give assurance to the United 
 States that our Democracy will be 
 provided for in this coming Peace 
 Conference, there will be a golden 
 opportunity for our country to make 
 for the haven of rest and the harbor 
 of peace. And there we may hope to 
 stay with patience until the second 
 woo of the world conflict has passed. 
 The channel to this port of safety will 
 prove to be narrow and difticult. 
 Many will be the turnings and shoals 
 of human experience which must be 
 met- 
 
 Many will be the reefs of criticism, 
 the jutting rocks of scorn and even 
 the headlands of violence which must 
 bo passed before our ship of state 
 shall find safe anchorage. But just 
 as moorings are found there will 
 hurst upon the world the wild fury 
 of the second storm of woe. How 
 clearly did God foretell and fore- 
 warn as to the nation's course to be 
 followed into this diflficult anchorage. 
 
 / Peter 3: 11. — "Seek peace and 
 pursue it." 
 
 Romans lU: 10. — "Let us there- 
 fore follow after the things which 
 make for peace." 
 
 Uikc 13: 23, 2U. — "Are there few 
 that be saved! And he said unto 
 them, strive to enter in at the strait 
 gate." 
 
 Matt. 7: 13, i.^.— "Enter ye in at 
 the strait gate; for wide is the gate, 
 and broad is the way, that leadeth to 
 destruction, and many there be which 
 go in thereat. Because strait is the 
 gate, and narrow is the way, which 
 leadeth unto life and few there be 
 that find it." 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 Let it not be thought for a moment 
 that God limited his warning to our 
 native land. Christ said to all the 
 world : "This is the harbor ; it is diffi- 
 cult but strive to enter there." 
 
 Matt. 7: 12, i 5.— "Therefore all 
 things whatsoever ye would that men 
 should do to you, do even so to them 
 and enter ye in at the strait gate." 
 
 Nor is the Scripture silent as to the 
 broad way of destruction that looms 
 before the United States of America. 
 
 / Tim. 6: 10.— "For the love of 
 money is the root of all evil: which 
 while some coveted after, they have 
 erred from the faith and pierced them- 
 selves through with many sorrows." 
 In going after war-profits when she 
 should have sought self-defence and 
 followed the maxim. Safety First, 
 our country has already received her 
 bitter lesson. 
 
 In this peace conference to be held 
 with Germany, the European Mon- 
 archs will cut Russia in pieces as a 
 bird is carved at dinner. Her vast 
 wheat fields will be the serving. Ger- 
 many and her allies on the one hand, 
 England and her allies on the other, 
 will receive rich portions of Russia's 
 domain. But China and Japan will 
 only receive the meanest and most 
 meager share of the spoils of war. 
 
 Then these two nations will come 
 to see that they have been hoodwinked 
 and cheated by the so-called Christian 
 powers. They will understand that 
 the reigning monarchs of Europe 
 have used them as a catspaw to se- 
 cure peace and stop the war. Bit- 
 terly will they also come to realize 
 that the real motive in the division of 
 Russia is to preserve monarchial gov- 
 ernments in the old world, and to 
 head off and prevent the republican 
 
 form which is government of the 
 people and for the people and by the 
 people from taking its supreme place 
 in all the nations of the earth. 
 
 Then will God lift the curtain on 
 the second act of the world tragedy 
 and compared with this new world 
 woe all that has come before will 
 seem like child's play. In this strug- 
 gle Japan and China in alliance will 
 win the victory. 
 
 Japan, it must be confessed, has 
 been compelled to distrust the nations 
 that pretend to be Christian and 
 Japan and China stand today in 
 marked contrast over against the so- 
 called Christian nations, which have 
 behaved in such unchristian fashion. 
 
 Japan has not bowed down before 
 our god of gold and silver but has 
 kept out of this war as far as possible 
 and has gone irresistably forward in 
 preparing for a tremendous and 
 colossal self-defence. Leaving China 
 out of the question Japan has today 
 13,000,000 eager, hardy soldiers, all 
 drilled, equipped and ready for swift 
 warfare. In Japan food in dry and 
 condensed form, sufficient for six 
 solid years, has been laid by both for 
 army and populace. With her house 
 of war built on the solid rock Japan, 
 when the time comes, is going to 
 sweep out over Europe, Asia and 
 Africa. 
 
 Luke 6: .'+8. — "He (The Japanese) 
 is like a man which built an house, 
 and digged deep, and laid the founda- 
 tion on a rock: and when the flood 
 arose, the stream beat vehemently 
 upon his house, and could not shake 
 it: for it was founded upon a rock." 
 
 In the second woe that is to come 
 Japan with the help of China will win 
 
SECOND ACT. 
 
 25 
 
 against the so-called Christian na- 
 tions of Europe. 
 
 Rev. 20: f.4._"The dragon, that 
 old serpent must be loosed a little 
 season * * * And I saw thrones 
 and they set upon them, and judg- 
 ment was given unto them." 
 
 SECOND ACT. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 As we have already shown, Japan 
 and China will utterly resent and re- 
 pudiate their treatment by the so- 
 called Christian nations. They will 
 reason that just as Russia has been 
 caught in a trap and eaten up so they 
 in turn may be beguiled and then de- 
 voured by the European powers. 
 
 By this time Japan will be ready to 
 say: "What better hour will ever 
 come than just now to establish safe 
 and just rights for my people" And 
 the world will speedily see the Ser- 
 pent and the Dragon warriors let 
 loose for a little season of seven years 
 Rev. 20: 3-.^. — "And after that, he 
 (the dragon) must be loosed a little 
 season * * * And I saw thrones, 
 and they sat upon them, and judg- 
 ment was given unto them." Rev. 
 13: h' — "And they worshipped the 
 dragon." 
 
 God has said in this prophecy that 
 the dragon and the serpent would b( 
 linked as members of one family. 
 Both are yellow races and not so long 
 ago an alliance was completed be- 
 tween them. To be sure in a sense 
 they are different, for a dragon has 
 wings and a serpent has none. 
 
 China is known the world over a 
 the dragon nation. The dragon is 
 the accepted symbol of her vast em- 
 
 pire. She hails it on her ensign and 
 worships it as a part of her religion. 
 
 Japan through her alliance with 
 China is a part of course of the dra- 
 gon empire. The real difference be- 
 tween the two is however that China 
 worships the serpent with wings 
 while Japan reverences the serpent 
 without wings. 
 
 In the Kansas City Star a short 
 time ago you could have read this 
 same quotation that I clipped from 
 The Boston Sunday Herald of Feb- 
 11, 1917, which says: "The year 1917, 
 according to ancient Japanese tradi- 
 tion, is known as the year of the ser- 
 pent * * * Among the Japanese the 
 serpent is always regarded as the em- 
 blem of good fortune and on that ac- 
 count is revered instead of being 
 killed by the great masses of the peo- 
 ple. The Japanese word, 'mi,' so 
 popular in Japan, means serpent. The 
 goddess Benton, one of the seven 
 popular gods and goddesses of for- 
 tune, is traditionally believed to be 
 the patron of the serpent. At every 
 shrine dedicated to the popular god- 
 dess of fortune are kept a number of 
 the reptiles sacred to the deity. They 
 are treated with reverence." 
 
 The great age of these thrones — 
 dragon and serpent alike — is declared 
 in the prophecy. Rev. 20: 2. — "The 
 dragon, that old serpent." The fact 
 is that the sovereign dynasty of 
 Japan remains unbroken since 660 
 B. C. And the throne of China dates 
 back to the reign of Yaou (2356 B. 
 C.) The very etymology of the 
 word dragon confirms the statement 
 of Matt. 5: 18, as to the fulfillment of 
 every jot and tittle of God's word- 
 Dragon represents a creature, mon- 
 strous, powerful and ferocious. The 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 Japanese alliance creates an empire 
 the most gigantic and powerful of. any 
 in the world, and certainly Japan's 
 war with Russia shows nothing short 
 of ferocity. And if you call zoology 
 to the aid of prophecy, you will dis- 
 cover that the serpent big and feroc- 
 ious can put to flight any leopard or 
 lion of the jungle. 
 
 Mark well that the prophecy 
 asserts that to these old judgment 
 thrones of dragon and serpent not 
 only Germany but also England and 
 her allies will be inevitably called. 
 Should Japan term her treaty with 
 England only a scrap of paper as 
 Germany was treacherous enough to 
 tio and what direful results might 
 follow for Great Britain. Let Japan 
 once give her power into the hands 
 of Germany, England could never in 
 the world end this Avar. 
 
 It is plain enough to see that Brit- 
 ain and her allies stand today before 
 the judgment seat of Japan and can 
 be made to eat the very dust if the 
 dragon and serpent empires so de- 
 cree. 
 
 But such a verdict would be en- 
 tirely foreign to the spirit and policy 
 of Japan. She has proved herself 
 the possessor of too much stability 
 and fidelity for any such treachery as 
 that. But at the same time, the 
 hypocrisy and injustice in the spoil- 
 ing and division of Russia by the 
 Christian nations (so-called at least) 
 of Europe must as we have shown, 
 inevitably bring vast destruction and 
 desolation upon the old world. To 
 realize this you have only to read 
 again prophetic sentences like the 
 following : 
 
 Isaiah 21^: i-^.— "Behold, the Lord 
 maketh the earth empty, and maketh 
 
 it waste, and turneth it upside down, 
 and scattereth abroad the inhabitants 
 thereof * * * The land shall be 
 utterly emptied * * * : therefore the 
 inhabitants of the earth are burned, 
 and fevv men left." 
 
 Exodus 15: 3. — "The Lord is a man 
 of war, the Lord is his name." 
 
 Jer- 21: lU. — "But I will punish you 
 according to the fruit of your do- 
 ings." 
 
 Jer. 2U: iO.— "And I will send the 
 sword, the famine, and the pestilence, 
 among them, till they be consumed 
 from off the land that I gave unto 
 them and to their fathers." 
 
 Jer. 25: 32, 55.— "Thus saith the 
 Lord, behold, evil shall go forth from 
 nation to nation and the slain of the 
 Lord shall be in that day from one 
 end of the earth even unto the other 
 end of the earth : they shall not be 
 lamented, neither gathered, nor 
 buried; they shall be dung upon the 
 ground." 
 
 Jer. 46: 28.— '! will make a full 
 end of all nations." 
 
 Amos 5: 19, 20. — "As if a man did 
 flee from a lion, and a bear met him ; 
 or went into the house, and leaned 
 his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit 
 him. Shall not the day of the Lord 
 be darkness, and not light? even very 
 dark, and no brightness in it." 
 
 Here in this prophecy of Amos is 
 a picture of the course which the Kai- 
 ser will pursue, he will flee from the 
 British Lion and Britain's allies and 
 he will try to save the German Leo- 
 pard by asking the Pope to intercede 
 for Germany through Japan. Peace 
 by compromise is the aim, a generous 
 slice of Russia being given, as I have 
 said, to England and a good share 
 of the stricken country of the Rus- 
 
SECOND ACT. 
 
 27 
 
 sian being kept for the German peo- 
 ple. The Kaiser will lean upon the 
 wall of the house where the peace 
 conference is to be held and as he 
 prays for a portion of Russia's wheat 
 and ore lands the serpent nation of 
 Japan will bite the pleading monarch- 
 And all the monarchial powers of 
 the old world will see their end and 
 be ready for a world Democracy. 
 
 If you would learn what Japan 
 thinks about the devouring of Russia 
 by the Hun read the Boston Herald 
 and Journal of July 11, 1918: "Lon- 
 don, July 10 — Dr. Sakue Takahashi. 
 Professor of International Law at 
 the Tokio University, arguing in ex- 
 Premier Okuma's new magazine for 
 Japanese intervention in Siberia, is 
 quoted by the Times as saying: 
 'Japan's defeat of Russia exposed Rus- 
 sia's weakness especially to theKaiser; 
 hence Japan is probably responsible 
 for Russia's collapse and it is Japan's 
 duty to save her. I think President 
 Wilson errs in placing Bolsheviki pro- 
 fessions on a plane comparable with 
 the democary of the United States.' 
 
 "When we think of the danger to 
 Siberia which threatens the future of 
 Japan, a danger from a nation far 
 more efficient and more to be dreaded 
 than ever was Russia in the old 
 regime, it becomes our right to in- 
 tervene in Siberia." 
 
 The Kaiser has to my mind trapped 
 himself. He must get a slice of Rus- 
 sia or the Germans will kick him from 
 his throne. And Japan will punish 
 him and his allies for his folly by a 
 more cruel, deadly and ferocious war 
 than this present conflict has ever 
 dreamed of being. 
 
 Rev. 20: 2, 3, 8. — "And the dragon 
 that old serpent * * * must be 
 
 loosed a little season * * * and the 
 nations which are in the quarters of 
 the earth, Gog and Magog to gather 
 them to battle and the number of 
 whom is as the sands of the sea." 
 
 We are here shown the gigantic im- 
 mensity of the conflict which is to 
 take place between the hypocrite wor- 
 shippers of the God of Mammon, call- 
 ing themselves Christian nations and 
 the genuine Christian Pagan worship- 
 pers of the principles of fair play 
 and "Love thy neighbor as thyself." 
 The god of the Pagan worshippers 
 will win, God has said it and his 
 word cannot fail. 
 
 Rev. 20: 2-4.— "The dragon that 
 old serpent * * * must be loosed a 
 little season * * * and judgment 
 was given unto them." 
 
 Do you ask the place where the 
 Waterloo and Gettysburg battle of 
 this new world conflict will be fought! 
 The Divine answer is Rev. 16: lU, 16- 
 — "Which go forth unto the kings of 
 the earth and of the whole world, to 
 gather them to the battle of that 
 threat day of God Almighty. And he 
 gathered them together unto a place 
 called in the Hebrew tongue Arma- 
 geddon." 
 
 Armageddon isthe very ancient and 
 most famous battlefield of history. It 
 was the scene of Barak's victory over 
 Canaan, and Gideon's over Milian, 
 the place also of Saul's death and 
 Israel's defeat before the Philistines 
 and of Josiah's death when he was in 
 battle against Pharoah Necho. This 
 famous battlefield is on the plain of 
 Esdraelon at the foot of Mount Gilboa 
 ten miles southeast of Nazareth. 
 Rev. 20: 8. — "The nations which are 
 in the four quarters of the earth, 
 Gog and Magog, to gather them 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 to battle." But just here is where 
 the value and use of prophecy comes 
 into play. // Peter 1: 19.— ''We 
 have a sure word of prophecy: 
 whereunto ye do well that ye take 
 heed, as unto a light that shineth 
 in a dark place." God is telling the 
 United States that they must take 
 no part in this second act or second 
 woe of the world war. We must re- 
 tire our interests in the war from 
 the old country at the earliest oppor- 
 tunity, accept none of the spoils and 
 loot which will be taken by the 
 European Monarchs from Russia be- 
 cause God is going to wipe out of 
 existence these Monarchial forms of 
 government. 
 
 If I had in my possession an old 
 fire trap of a tenement house, a hell 
 hole of vice and crime, a nesting place 
 of murder and a breeding stall for 
 contagion and disease — if a fire had 
 burnt a portion of it as the war with 
 Germany has destroyed autocracy 
 rule in Europe, I know what my bus- 
 iness policy would be- In my desire 
 to give my tenants an up-to-date, fire- 
 proof and sanitary structure, I should 
 first clean out and destroy the rem- 
 nants of the old structure and start 
 anew. This is just what God is going 
 to do with these ancient monarchial 
 governments or rotten relics of gov- 
 ernment before taking steps to erect 
 a world Democracy. 
 
 Christ spoke the truth in this 
 whole matter when he said: Matt. 
 9: 16. — "No man putteth a piece of 
 new cloth into an old garment, for 
 that which is put in to fill it up taketh 
 from the garment, and the rent is 
 made worse." 
 
 Luke 5: 36-39. — "And he spake 
 also a parable unto them; no man 
 
 putteth a piece of a new garment 
 upon an old; if otherwise, then both 
 the new maketh a rent, and the piece 
 that was taken out of the new agreeth 
 not with the old. And no man 
 putteth new wine into old bottles ; else 
 the new wine will burst the bottles 
 and be spilled, and the bottles shall 
 perish, but new wine must be put into 
 new bottles; and both are preserved. 
 No man also having drunk old wine 
 straightway desireth new: for he 
 saith, The old is better." 
 
 Rome tried to put the new wine of 
 a democracy into her monarchial 
 bottles of humanity and the result 
 was a return to kingly form of ruling. 
 God is going to give the Old World a 
 new wine of democracy but not in the 
 old bottles fashioned according to 
 monarchial forms. These ancient 
 relics of autocracy must be destroyed. 
 The Sodom and Gomorrah day of ret- 
 ribution will come as we have al- 
 ready said to the monarchs and mon- 
 archies of the old world and our na- 
 tion is bidden by the Almighty to get 
 away from European affairs as Lot 
 was commanded to flee from Sodom. 
 Our own dooryard is the safest place 
 for American institutions and gov- 
 ernment until the time comes for the 
 setting up of the great world democ- 
 racy for which we stand- 
 
 A full outline of this great Japan 
 war is plainly set forth in the 38th 
 and 39th chapters of Ezekiel's pro- 
 phecy. We are told {Ezek. 38: 2) 
 that God's face will be against Eng- 
 land and Germany. In the 9th verse 
 of the same chapter, it is shown that 
 the struggle will come like a terrible 
 storm and continue (9th verse of 
 39th chapter) for seven years. The 
 12th verse of the last named chapter 
 
THIRD ACT. 
 
 29 
 
 declares that it will take seven 
 months, after the last battle is 
 fought, to bury the dead. The impli- 
 cation in Ezek. 39: 18 plainly indi- 
 cates that human flesh will be eaten 
 at the table. 
 
 The passages in the 38th chapter 
 indicate that the whole old world will 
 be involved "Sheba" (Africa) "De- 
 dam" (Asia), "The merchants of 
 Tarshish" (Europe), "and all the 
 young lions" (islands;) and it will 
 take place in the "latter days." This 
 expression "latter days" means the 
 closing end of the old monarchial 
 forms of government. 
 
 THIRD ACT. 
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 Rev. 11: Ik. — "The second woe is 
 past : and behold the third woe 
 Cometh quickly." The last act of 
 this stupendous world tragedy will 
 come quickly. We need look for no 
 peace conference between the second 
 and third acts of this drama, so speed- 
 ily will the third woe follow upon the 
 second that Japan will have no time 
 even to change her war clothes. The 
 battle scenes of war between Japan 
 and the European nations will quickly 
 shift to war between Japan and the 
 United States. 
 
 Isaiah 29: 9. — "They are drunken 
 but not with wine : they stagger, but 
 not with strong drink." 
 
 ProV' 1: 32. — "The prosperity of 
 fools shall destroy them." Prosperity 
 and wine are alike in this that they 
 bring about weakness of mind and 
 errors in judgment. How many there 
 are who can date the beginning of 
 their adversity as the high tide of 
 
 their prosperity turned into the low 
 tide of misfortune. "Prosperity," 
 says Wcbater, "doth bewitch men, 
 seeming clear ; as seas do laugh, show 
 white, when rocks are near." 
 
 George Herbert once said : "Pros- 
 perity lets go the bridle." 
 
 Hare, the famous writer declares : 
 "There is a glare about worldly suc- 
 cess which is very apt to dazzle men's 
 eyes." 
 
 Japan's victory over all the na- 
 tions of Europe, Asia and Africa will 
 indeed dazzle her eyes. This success 
 in war will be God's instrument to 
 bring about her downfall and this 
 trustworthy and valuable people will 
 receive in place of an outgrown and 
 discarded monarchial government, 
 one truly republican in its character. 
 Cicero, that great orator and 
 statesman of antiquity plainly saw 
 that the human mind is a mental 
 weather-vane. He says: "Great 
 events cast their shadow before." 
 
 John Henry Newman realizing the 
 same truth puts it into verse : 
 
 "When Heaven sends sorrow, 
 
 Warnings go first, 
 
 Lest it should burst 
 
 On souls too bright 
 
 To fear the morrow." 
 But Jesus, that master mind of all 
 history, in that parable which is 
 more than a parable declares : "When 
 it is evening, ye say it will be fair 
 weather for the sky is red. And in 
 the morning, It will be foul weather 
 today: for the sky is red and lower- 
 ing. O ye hypocrites ye can discern 
 the face of the sky; but can ye not 
 discern the signs of the times?" 
 
 Matt. 13: 5^.— "All these things 
 spake Jesus in parables : and without 
 a parable spake he not unto them" 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 Christ tried to show the world that 
 the mind is a weather vane of coming 
 human events in the same way that 
 the sky indicates the coming weather. 
 
 King George of England, for in- 
 stance, was forging chains of injus- 
 tice and heavy taxation for the young 
 American colonies. And they in turn 
 were beginning to have mental vis- 
 ions of freedom and liberty even up 
 to the eventful day when Patrick 
 Henry voiced in unmistakable tones 
 the presence of bad weather for Great 
 Britain's rule. "Give me liberty or 
 give me death," was the cry in which 
 the storm broke. 
 
 The weather vane of our nation's 
 mental sky began long before the 
 Civil war broke out to portend what 
 was going to happen. For up to the 
 commencement of that war, the sev- 
 eral states were sovereign and had 
 at will, the constitutional right to 
 leave the Union. 
 
 You only need to read the Lincoln- 
 Douglas debates to read in the mind- 
 sky of the times what was on the 
 way — "A government of the people, 
 for the people and by the people" — E 
 pluribus unum." 
 
 The mental sky of humanity is now 
 portending a greater war than the 
 struggle with Germany can ever 
 prove to be. And the coming world 
 democracy can never be set up until 
 this later and larger conflict has been 
 accomplished. 
 
 The World's Crisis, Jan. 23, 1918, 
 says: "While the present war seems 
 well nigh large enough to fill the 
 mould of a Bible Armageddon, it is a 
 fact that some statesmen are already 
 predicting the possibility of a worse 
 conflict." 
 
 And the Literary Digest declares: 
 
 "We find the editors of 'The Navy' 
 looking for a world wide convulsion 
 that may set race against race and 
 continent against continent. Instead 
 of this being the last great war, he 
 believes, it is much more probably 
 but the first of a series of tremendous 
 world wide conflicts that will be 
 fought by the inhabitants of the 
 earth for national supremacy." 
 
 Said the New York Weekly Wit- 
 ness, April 4, 1917 : "It is reasonable 
 to assume that we are witnessing the 
 fulfillment of one of the prophecies 
 of dire calamity which are found in 
 the book of Revelation. But three 
 successive series of calamities are 
 predicted in that book." 
 
 I could give a dozen more just such 
 quotations showing which way our 
 mental weather vanes are pointing 
 and what do they tell us? What do 
 we discern? In common every day 
 speech what shall we, of the United 
 States, be up against when this third 
 great woe of history begins? 
 
 One of the master minds of Amer- 
 ica, Ex-President Theodore Roose- 
 velt, in writing to his friend, Major 
 Griscom, Jan. 3, 1918, made this 
 assertion : "The Orient is certain to 
 be a center of international conten- 
 tion. Every means should be adopted 
 to bind up our relations, in close and 
 permanent friendship, with both 
 Japan and China." 
 
 Another of our far seeing publi- 
 cists, Charles E. Hughes, not long ago 
 made the assertion before the New 
 York State Bar Association: "Tb 
 old Orient is only at the beginning of 
 history. Japan and China are na- 
 tions of the future not of the past." 
 
 It is easy to forecast in the mental 
 sky of our time the portents of what 
 
THIRD ACT. 
 
 31 
 
 the third act of the world war will 
 bring. Not long ago the following 
 words of the distinguished Persian 
 poetess, Madame de St. Poirit, caught 
 my eye : "America, soft, rich and lux- 
 urious, awaits the fate of Greece, 
 Rome and Babylonia. After becom- 
 ing the greatest money power in the 
 world we shall inevitably suffer a 
 colossal, disastrous invasion by the 
 yellow races. The conquering yel- 
 low hordes will revel in the luxurious 
 homes of wealthy Americans. Her 
 cities and palaces of trade will fall 
 before the invaders, as Persepolis and 
 the Empire of Xerxes before the 
 small, swift-moving, hardy forces of 
 Alexander the Great. Just as the 
 Romans of the decadence feasted and 
 wantoned under the very shadow o 
 the invading barbarians, so will the 
 Americans continue their pursuit of 
 wealth and commercial supremacy 
 until the yellow peril catches them 
 helpless and unprepared." 
 
 This is what Ex-Congressman Cur- 
 leij, then Mayor of Boston, said in 
 Faneuil Hall (called the "cradle of 
 liberty") on Feb. 12, 1917, at the 
 nineteenth observiance by the Un- 
 ited Spanish War Veterans of the 
 sinking of the Maine: "The real 
 enemy of the United States is not to 
 be found in Europe but in the Orient. 
 The nation this country should watch 
 is Japan and I hope and pray the Un- 
 ited States will not become involved 
 in the great world war in Europe, but 
 will conserve its resources for the 
 struggle that, I am afraid, is bound to 
 come. The Japanese are our natural 
 enemy, as long as we continue to ex- 
 ercise autonomy in any degree in the 
 Philippines, and endeavor to main- 
 tain the open door policy in China- 
 
 The island empire • is puffed with 
 arrogance over false presumption. 
 Its triumph over Russia has led Japan 
 to believe it can conquer any nation 
 and it has selected the United States 
 as its next victim." 
 
 At Tokio, Japan, Nov. 5, 1915, 
 Shuriro Yamanki, a Japanese leader 
 of liberal thought, inflamed all Japan 
 with these words: "Japanese pub- 
 lic opinion demands war with the 
 United States. Within four years 
 Japan will be at war with the United 
 States." 
 
 The following words were clipped 
 from a native Japanese newspaper 
 called Chugat CJmnpo: "We are and 
 will be for all time, the masters of 
 the seas of Asia. Our strength will 
 permit the realization of the desire, 
 so long cherished, of establishing our- 
 selves on the Western coast of Am- 
 erica." 
 
 T)ic Boston American becomes re- 
 sponsible for this statement in a re- 
 cent issue: "Japan plans to invade 
 and conquer the United States. Japan 
 is inflaming its people against the 
 United States. The Japanese are de- 
 termined to declare war upon us. 
 Her army and navy comisariat de- 
 partments are now working day and 
 night in order that adequate supplies 
 of her own compressed food may be 
 ready. The Tokyo arsenal is also 
 working night and day in the making 
 of amunition of all kinds." 
 
 Day for "yellow peril" here says 
 Anglican Bishop (by International 
 news service) London, Dec. 3: "The 
 time of the 'y^^ow peril' has come," 
 said the Anglican Bishop of Kyushu, 
 Japan, in a sermon at St. Paul's 
 Cathedral : "It is now possible for 
 Japan to place herself with her army 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 and her strong fleet, at the head of 
 the nations of the Far East and 
 sweep out, once for all, the nations 
 of the west that have exploited the 
 Far East in their own interest. Never 
 before has a nation been so tempted 
 as Japan-" 
 
 From the well known publication, 
 The World's Work, of Jan., 1917, 
 page 314, I chpped this dreadful and 
 awful warning to the United States : 
 "The Japanese navy since the 
 Chinese-Japanese war has been in- 
 creased tremendously and now ranks 
 among the first five navies of the 
 world. Americans, who have lived 
 in Japan, declare that it is an open 
 secret that the latter is preparing for 
 war with America. No longer does 
 Japan regard the United States as 
 her traditional friend. Her press is 
 continually urging extreme measures 
 against America." 
 
 A recent issue of Das Deutsche 
 Blatt published in Frankfort-on- 
 Main, Germany, says: "The yellow 
 dwarf, the Jap as the Americans call 
 him, with his ever grinning mask, is 
 already beginning to put on his 
 claws for the beautiful United States. 
 The west coast of America is the most 
 ardent of his desires and it will not 
 be long before San Francisco is a 
 Japanese city. Japan is preparing 
 for a great war. Japan is constantly 
 manufacturing arms and ammunition 
 and is creating its own stores of arms 
 and ammunition, sufficient even for 
 the most terrible war." 
 
 United States Senator James D. 
 Phelan is crying out this most unmis- 
 takable warning: "Japan has given 
 fair notice by menace and threat. 
 Strength is a nation's only im- 
 munity." 
 
 These words are published in the 
 Review of Revieivs of April, 1917, by 
 Payson J. Treat, Professor of His- 
 tory in Stanford University: "The 
 United States will become involved in 
 a war with Japan. Because of the 
 desire to seize the Phillipines, Hawaii 
 and even the Pacific coast." 
 
 Says our recalled ambassador, 
 James W. Gerald: "All during the 
 winter Germany from the highest 
 down tried to impress me with the 
 great danger which they said threat- 
 ened America from Japan." 
 
 Said Evangelist E. L. Cardey in 
 the presence of a congregation at St. 
 James Avenue and Berkeley Street, 
 Boston, Mass. : "Soon we shall see 
 the armies of the Orient in battle 
 array against these of the Occident. 
 Then Armageddon will be on." 
 
 You could have seen the following 
 words published in the Watchman of 
 March, 1915 : "War with Japan sure. 
 War between the United States and 
 Japan will follow the European," 
 
 The following words were clipped 
 from the Bostoyi Journal, July 16, 
 1917: "Armies of East and West will 
 battle. In spite of the billions of 
 dollars and millions of lives which the 
 world has already fed to the war god, 
 the climax has not been reached. 
 There are mutterings of a greater, a 
 bloodier, a more terrible war. It will 
 follow fast on the heels of the present 
 conflict." 
 
 Says George Lauferti in his new 
 book entitled United States and the 
 Next War: "A Japanese- American 
 war is logically the next great con- 
 flict." 
 
 The writer could give the testimony 
 of dozens more that Japan will surely 
 declare war against the United 
 
THIRD ACT. 
 
 33 
 
 States. This fact is plainly shown 
 by the prophecies and there is no 
 escape from it. 
 
 Prov. 6: SA, 35. — "For jealousy is 
 the rage of a man, therefore he will 
 not spare in the days of vengeance. 
 He will not regard any ransom : 
 neither will he rest content, though 
 thou givest many gifts." Japan 
 feels deeply grieved and considers her 
 gods gravely insulted when foreign 
 missionaries speak of the Japanese 
 as a heathen people. With 13,000,000 
 swift and eager soldiers, with food 
 and equipment for six solid years and 
 with an alliance by which China adds 
 60,000,000 fighting men, Japan can 
 furnish an army almost as large as 
 the whole population of the United 
 States. 
 
 Mark well I say, these are the false 
 prophets who see the United States 
 and Japan at war. Matt. 7: 15. — 
 "Beware of false prophets." 
 
 The United States in point of fact 
 will never see any more war after this 
 war with Germany. She will escape 
 the second act of this great war 
 drama as we have shown. Then 
 Japan with 100,000,000 swift, hardy, 
 eager soldiers at her command will 
 declare war against the United 
 States. But no war will take place 
 the United States will win the con- 
 flict without even firing a gun or de- 
 stroying a single human life. 
 
 In meekness, humility, in fullness 
 of love for all nations of the earth our 
 country will come off conqueror. 
 Mark well what I tell you. The Un- 
 ited States is to have dominion over 
 all the earth and this will come to her 
 as naturally and easily {Matt. 21: 23) 
 as a father's estate falls to a son who 
 is in a far country. 
 
 Matt. 5: 5. — "Blessed are the meek: 
 for they shall inherit the earth." 
 
 Daniel 7: 23, 57.— "Thus he said, 
 The fourth beast shall be the fourth 
 kingdom upon earth * * * and the 
 kingdom and dominion and the great- 
 ness of the kingdom under the whole 
 heaven, shall be given to the people of 
 the saints of the Most High, whose 
 kingdom is an everlasting kingdom 
 and all dominion shall serve and 
 obey him." 
 
 Japan will declare war upon the 
 United States and will be caught in 
 a trap of their own making, a terrible 
 pestilence. 
 
 Rev. 20: 2, 9. — "And the dragon 
 that old serpent * * * went up on 
 the breadth of the earth and com- 
 passed the camp of the saints about, 
 and the beloved city: and fire came 
 down from God out of heaven and 
 devoured them." 
 
 Ezek. 28: 23. — "For I will send into 
 her pestilence. 
 
 Hab. S: 5. — "Before him went the 
 pestilence." 
 
 SAINTS MOST HIGH. 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Matt. 5: IS. — "One jot or one tittle 
 shall in no wise pass from the law, 
 till all be fulfilled." 
 
 When I read this passage of scrip- 
 ture sadness filled my heart for the 
 following prophecy about the United 
 States began to loom before my eyes. 
 
 Isaiah 18: 1, 5.— "Woe to the land 
 shadowing with wings * * * All ye 
 inhabitants of the world and dwellers 
 on the earth, see ye, when he lifteth 
 up an ensign." 
 
 Daniel 7: 7, 11. — "And behold a 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 fourth beast strong exceedingly * * * 
 And I beheld, even till the beast was 
 slain, and his body destroyed, and 
 given to the burning flame," 
 
 Rev. .4; 7. — "And the fourth beast 
 was like a flying eagle." 
 
 When I came to look upon the en- 
 sign of the United States, I saw the 
 eagle of prophecy. My eyes filled 
 with tears when on a silver quarter 
 I found the eagle, for this little piece 
 of money even brought the unmis- 
 takable symbol of this country of 
 mine as did cartoon, newspaper and 
 advertisement everywhere. 
 
 Deep down in my heart I said : 
 "God's word cannot fail. This beloved 
 land which I love is doomed and will 
 be wiped from the face of the earth." 
 
 Then I found in a Japanese news- 
 paper called Chugat Chimpo the 
 words : "Our strength will permit the 
 realization of the desire, so long 
 cherished, of establishing ourselves 
 on the western coast of America." 
 Then before my mind arose a picture 
 of the 13,000,000 soldiers of Japan 
 increased by the Chinese alliance to 
 60,000,000 men, swift, hardy, equip- 
 ped for fighting. And I seemed to 
 hear the ancient prophecy: "Woe to 
 the land shadowing with wings." 
 
 Then I began to say deep down ' 
 my heart: "There is no God, if the 
 Being we call by that name will per- 
 mit our beautiful country, the land 
 of the free and the home of the brave, 
 to become a second Korea in the 
 ruthless hands of Japan. For the 
 United States is the nation given by 
 God into the hands of the sons and 
 daughters of toil. The ballot box is 
 the instrument of their authority- 
 This class of our citizens out-vote by 
 a ten fold majority the few rich 
 
 vipers to whom President Wilson re- 
 fers in his last message to Congress 
 as men without conscience or love of 
 country. In light of this considera- 
 tion I began to realize that we are 
 God's chosen people, that our free 
 schools and churches and other in- 
 stitutions are safe and secure. Luke 
 6: 20. — "Blessed are ye poor: for 
 yours is the kingdom of God," 
 
 What greater kingdom of God do 
 you want on earth than that which is 
 already in the hands of the sons and 
 daughters of work. "The word 
 kingdom," says Webster, "means the 
 sphere in which one is king or has 
 control." 
 
 The United States forms a repub- 
 lic in which every voter is monarch. 
 And may the time soon come when 
 our Christian mothers may give 
 orders to our Congressmen and say: 
 "If you do not want to lose your job, 
 we command you to drive this damn- 
 able curse of the rum saloon out of 
 the United States," God hasten the 
 day when the common people may 
 come to realize that the Almighty has 
 placed in their hands this sovereign 
 power of the republic and that they 
 may demand a square deal and the 
 end of our labor troubles, at the seat 
 of government and from the legis- 
 lators of our land where the people's 
 will is law. 
 
 Considerations like these together 
 with the prophecies in God's Holy 
 Bible that our country will be saved 
 and not destroyed {Daniel 7: 27) 
 have greatly uplifted my heart and 
 I have perfect faith that God will 
 keep his word. 
 
 But why do I believe that the pro- 
 phecy of Daniel 7: 7, 11 and others 
 like it will not seal the fate of the 
 
SAINTS MOST HIGH. 
 
 35 
 
 United. "And behold a fourth beast 
 strong exceedinjjfly * * * And I be- 
 held, even till the beast was slain and 
 his body destroyed and given to the 
 burning flame." 
 
 To justify my faith that the United 
 States will not be destroyed I am 
 going back again to the prophecy 
 about the eagle's wings to be plucked 
 from the British Lion. 
 
 Daniel 7: U declares that a man's 
 heart is to be given to the creature 
 having the eagle wings and this refers 
 to the nation to which we belong, to 
 the United States. "The lion had 
 eagle's wings : I beheld till the wing? 
 thereof were plucked and a man's 
 heart was given to it" Now we know 
 perfectly well that the eagle's wings 
 of the United States were plucked 
 from the British lion and that the 
 symbol of the wings represents our 
 form of government and it can be 
 shown that the man's heart which 
 was promised is still to be found 
 within the wings. 
 
 William J. Bryan showed himself 
 a master judge of human hearts and 
 he deserves a good deal of credit in 
 giving to the United States a certain 
 Woodrow Wilson to be the pilot of 
 our ship of state through the most 
 terrible war-storm which history has 
 yet known. 
 
 When President Wilson asked 
 Charles E. Hughes to come and help 
 him carry the burden of this gigantic 
 war Mr, Hughes did not say as it 
 would seem natural for a defeated 
 Presidential candidate to say: "No, 
 I guess not, the people wanted you 
 and now you can carry your own 
 burden." 
 
 Hughes, on the contrary, like a 
 giant-hearted Christian, rose above 
 
 all political feelings and sent in- 
 stantly to the nation's chief, saying: 
 "I will come at once." We call him 
 in an hour like this, "A Saint of the 
 Most High." 
 
 Upon the heart of our great Ex- 
 President, William H. Taft, a very 
 ugly scar had been left by the vote of 
 an ungrateful people but like colossal 
 Samson he rose to the task and has 
 done a mighty bit of hard work to 
 help win the war and our land is 
 proud of "Bill" Taft as the peer of 
 human hearts. 
 
 No one need ask whether Ex-Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt is doing more than 
 his share to help win this dreadful 
 war. Giving as he has four sons and 
 1 son-in-law to the horrible trenches 
 md with one of his beautiful boys 
 ilready a living sacrifice, God knows 
 that "Teddy" Roosevelt, as we ^all 
 him, carries within him that great 
 heart which God says shall save our 
 American homes and in the end win 
 this war for World Democracy. 
 
 Does not the Bible say: "By their 
 fruits ye shall know them?" 
 
 One more colossal human heart 
 should be remembered at this time, 
 Samuel Gompers, President of the 
 United States Federation of Labor. 
 He too is a man of a Christian spirit 
 such as we find deeply rooted in every 
 true American son of toil- To Gom- 
 pers with his giant heart, the ranks 
 of labor are looking with great con- 
 fidence for guidance and light. The 
 moment President Wilson cried out: 
 "To arms, we must declare war," 
 Samuel Gompers taking in one hand 
 the American flag and pointing with 
 the other to the plow, the anvil, the 
 spindle and the loom cried out : "Un- 
 ited we stand, divided we fall." 
 
36 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 Luke 11: 17. — "Every kingdom di- 
 vided against itself is brought to des- 
 olation ; and a house divided against 
 a house falleth." 
 
 At the very heart of the whole sit- 
 uation do we find that born leader of 
 all living human hearts, President 
 Woodrow Wilson. When the war is 
 over he will be numbered in a God- 
 given "Trinity" of American "Sav- 
 iours" — Washington, Lincoln and 
 Wilson. 
 
 It has been a great source of pleas- 
 ure for the Kaiser to gather around 
 him his royal family and his military 
 officers with their gold lace decora- 
 tions. 
 
 Daniel S: 23. — "And in the latter 
 time of their kingdom, when the 
 transgressors are come to the full, a 
 king of fierce countenance and under- 
 standing dark sentences, shall stand 
 up." 
 
 The Kaiser may have read to such 
 a family council: Daniel 7: 6. — "And 
 lo, a leopard which had upon the 
 back of it four wings of a fowl; the 
 beast had also four heads ; and domin- 
 ion was given it." The Kaiser may 
 then have pointed to the following 
 prophecy, saying: "See, Germany 
 cannot fail to win this great world 
 war for God has said that all would 
 be fulfilled. Matt. 5: i5.— "One jot 
 or one tittle shall in no wise pass 
 from the law till all be fulfilled-" 
 
 The Kaiser would then naturally 
 read the prophecy about the United 
 States saying: "Look, Germany is 
 going to wipe this United States from 
 the face of the earth." 
 
 Daniel 7: 7, 11.— "And behold a 
 fourth beast, strong exceedingly * * 
 and I beheld even till the beast was 
 
 slain, and his body destroyed and 
 given to the burning flame." 
 
 Rev. ^: 7.— "And the fourth beast 
 was like a flying eagle." 
 
 Now, doubtless, the Kaiser has the 
 gift of understanding dark sentences 
 and of interpreting Bible prophecies. 
 If it is the true method to take a sen- 
 tence by itself and to go no further, 
 the Kaiser would seem to be correct 
 in his conclusion that the United 
 States is doomed without question 
 and without any redress. This 
 method of creating humanity and of 
 fashioning human history on God's 
 part would be like building a mam- 
 moth hotel with no fire escapes or 
 sending out an ocean liner without a 
 life boat. 
 
 Had the Kaiser looked at the end 
 of the seventh chapter of Daniel's 
 prophecy he would have seen that es- 
 cape was to come for the United 
 States by a fire escape of which the 
 German monarch would have and 
 could have no understanding. How 
 can you expect a man who has only 
 the heart of a beast or of a viper to 
 understand what God means when he 
 says that the eagle or the United 
 States as we understand the prophecy 
 will be given the heart of a man. 
 
 Man is made according to Scripture 
 (Gen. 5:1) not in the image of the 
 beast or of any creeping thing but 
 after God's own image and in his own 
 likeness. The United States in a 
 word will escape destruction in this 
 coming struggle between Japan and 
 the Kaiser and the means of escape 
 will be this God-given Christian 
 heart. 
 
 Our nation will say to the mon- 
 archies of Europe: "If you propose 
 to use the Angel of God's Mercy, the 
 
SAINTS MOST HIGH. 
 
 37 
 
 Pope, for a cat's paw and Japan, the 
 honest and fraternal nation, for a 
 scape-poat in order to steal Russia, 
 you can depend upon it that the Un- 
 ited States will not go back on the 
 word of their Chief Magistrate" 
 
 "Wilson declared and we stand by 
 his words : 'We entered this war for 
 no indemnity or any new lands but 
 to make the earth a decent place to 
 live in ;' and if you Christian nations 
 are going to play this out and out 
 game of steal and in that way inflame 
 Japan into another greater war, we 
 are going to have nothing to do with 
 the wicked job." 
 
 Then will be fulfilled the prophecy 
 (Daniel 12: 10) : "But the wicked 
 shall do wickedly: and none of the 
 wicked shall understand ; but the wise 
 shall understand." 
 
 Then shall be manifested the Saints 
 of the Most High. We are a nation 
 of people of all nationalities, religious 
 beliefs, political parties and secret, 
 fraternal organizations, united into 
 one grand beauteous scene. And 
 you will see this people all pointing to 
 the stars of Old Glory and they will 
 cry with loud voices : "Let us all trust 
 in the God of righteousness, the God 
 that loves to see his children enjoy 
 glorious liberty." 
 
 Romans 8: 21. — "The glorious lib- 
 erty of the children of God." He is 
 a God also that loves to see fair play, 
 justice and equality. 
 
 Prov. 21: 3. — "To do justice is 
 more acceptable to the Lord than 
 sacrifice. But by an equality, that 
 now at this time * * * that there 
 may be equality." And besides all 
 this, He is a God who desires to see 
 fraternity among all kingdoms, na- 
 tions and people, whether they are 
 
 living under the stars of Old Glory 
 or in any other part of the earth. 
 
 Hch. 13: 1 — "Let brotherly love 
 continue." 
 
 The United States will be the wise 
 nation whose purpose is to turn her 
 people to that great and heavenly God 
 of Righteousness who dwells among 
 the stars. For the stars on Old 
 Glory symbolize justice to all and 
 special privilege to none. Have you 
 not read in the Bible where it says 
 {Dnnirl 12: 3) : "They that be wise 
 shall shine as the brightness of the 
 firmament; and they that turn many 
 to righteousness as the stars forever 
 and ever." 
 
 When our great souled forefathers 
 took the fate of this new nation in 
 their hands and signed "The Declara- 
 tion of Independence" they virtually 
 declared : "This shall be a government 
 of the people, by the people and for 
 the people. Under the stars of Old 
 Glory no one nationality or religious 
 creed or class of people shall have 
 undue advantage; but this shall be a 
 cfovernment of justice to all and spec- 
 ial privilege to none." 
 
 And when the first president of 
 this Republic went to take his oath 
 of office it was laid upon him with his 
 right hand on the Holy Bible to swear 
 '^o carry on the administration of the 
 United States according to the teach- 
 ing of the Sacred Book. 
 
 It was perfectly clear to them all 
 that the Bible inculcates Liberty, 
 Equality and Fraternity to one and 
 all whether they be individuals or 
 kingdoms. Fair play and a square 
 deal was to be the nation's watch- 
 word from that day forward. 
 
 It was made clear to that first 
 president as it was intended to be 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 said to every one of his successors : 
 "Every voter of this country has his 
 eye upon you to see that you keep the 
 Ship of State on the God-directed 
 course. You are to live up to your 
 oath of office which calls for justice 
 to all and special privilege to none." 
 
 But we may thank heaven that the 
 same God was looking down upon 
 the birth of this nation who saw the 
 wicked people of Ninevah turning 
 from their evil ways and forgave and 
 saved them. 
 
 Jonah 3: 10 — "And God saw their 
 works, that they turned from their 
 evil way: and God repented of the 
 evil that he said he would do to them 
 and he did it not." 
 
 And that same God will behold the 
 United States turning from the evil 
 ways which this book of mine has so 
 clearly pointed out. And the Un- 
 ited States will be forgiven and that 
 which the Almighty has said he would 
 do, he will do it not. 
 
 Then it will come to pass that the 
 prophecy of the eleventh verse of the 
 seventh chapter of Daniel will not be 
 fulfilled. Daniel 7: 11.— "1 beheld, 
 even till the beast was slain, and his 
 body destroyed, and given to the burn- 
 ing flame." 
 
 But the rest of the beasts, England, 
 Russia and Germany will pass on and 
 they will fall into a trap set by Japan 
 and their dominion will be taken from 
 them. 
 
 Daniel 7: 12. — As concerning the 
 rest of the beasts, they had their 
 dominion taken away: yet their 
 lives were prolonged for a season and 
 a time." 
 
 CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 
 
 CHAPTER XIIL 
 
 As long ago as the days of ancient 
 Babylon the government and people 
 as a whole were constantly engaged 
 in a two-fold conflict — on the one 
 hand against the money-trust — on the 
 other against the labor trust. In this 
 struggle Babylon had to succumb and 
 was soon sleeping in dust and ruin. 
 
 The great empire of Rome as well 
 as the mighty dominion of Greece met 
 the same dissension and suffered the 
 same fate. 
 
 Mark 3: 2U. — "If a kingdom be di- 
 vided against itself, that kingdom 
 cannot stand." 
 
 Today the United States govern- 
 ment is up against the same problem 
 of capital and labor which beset 
 Babylon, Rome and Greece. But 
 Christ spoke a Bible prophecy in 
 form of a parable which is being 
 fulfilled by President Wilson that 
 faithful steward of the nation's in- 
 terest who has gathered about him a 
 multitude of fellow helpers for such 
 a time as this. 
 
 Matt. 13: 50.— "And in the time of 
 harvest I will say to the reapers. 
 Gather ye together first the tares and 
 bind them in bundles to burn them: 
 but gather the wheat into my barns." 
 (Matt. 13: 3 A) Jesus thus spoke in 
 the form of a parable what proves 
 to be more than parable. 
 
 Wheat is one of the great essen- 
 tials of human life. Railroads, tele- 
 phones, telegraph systems, steam 
 boat lines and other public utilities 
 are in a great sense no less an essen- 
 tial of a nation's and government's 
 
CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 
 
 39 
 
 life than is bread for individual exist- 
 ence. 
 
 President Wilson's policy in the 
 matter of government control in the 
 use of these public necessities should 
 meet with universal commendation. 
 He has certainly done the right thing, 
 at the right time and in the right 
 way. No good farmer will leave his 
 farming tools to lie about exposed to 
 wind and weather. And is it not 
 the only wise and proper course in 
 stormy conditions like the present to 
 put all these national utilities into 
 the government barn of public safety 
 rather than to leave them exposed to 
 the wind and weather of human na- 
 ture, to the wintry frost and cold o' 
 human self interest and selfishness .is 
 we find it in common life. 
 
 The prophecy reads that the tares 
 are to be gathered and bound in 
 bundles and burned. The tares of to- 
 day in our public life are nothing less 
 than the watered stocks and bonds, 
 the fictitious values which our rich 
 thieves are employing to defraud our 
 sons and daughters of toil out of 
 their rightful share in the earnings 
 and values which belong to them. 
 
 Says the Pall Mall Gazette : "What- 
 ever may be the outcome of the pres- 
 ent trouble in the United States there 
 is yet to come an awful struggle be- 
 tween capital and labor. Working 
 men understand full well that they 
 are in the future expected to earn 
 dividends for hundreds of millions 
 of watered stocks with which present 
 trusts have been inflated." 
 
 Said the Vice President of the Un- 
 ited States, Mr. Marshall, in his Jef- 
 ferson Day address : "The belief that 
 there is an unequal distribution of 
 wealth in this country has been sup- 
 
 plemented by the belief that much 
 of it has been obtained through spec- 
 ial privilege, that it did not come by 
 labor, skill, industry, barter, or trade, 
 but through watered stocks and 
 bonds, through corners on commod- 
 ities, through corruption of legisla- 
 tures, through the sale of impure 
 foodstuffs, through wrecking rail- 
 roads, through all the devices known 
 to man whereby the law is not abro- 
 gated but chloroformed." 
 
 Mr. Marshall protested that he 
 had said nothing new or revolution- 
 ary, that men like E. H. Gary and 
 Wayne MacVeagh have said the same 
 things in stronger language. 
 
 Pror. 28: 22. — "He that hasteth to 
 be rich hath an evil eye, and consider- 
 eth not that poverty shall come upon 
 him." 
 
 When the United States govern- 
 ment told United States District At- 
 torney George W. Anderson of Boston 
 to investigate the soaring prices of 
 commodities, after a conference with 
 Attorney General Gregory he gave 
 out this report: "Washington, D. C., 
 Jan. 23, 1917. Price increases re- 
 sulting from artificial and illegal 
 combinations have been checked as a 
 result of the government's investiga- 
 tion of soaring prices for commod- 
 ities." 
 
 Prov. 22: 22. — "Rob not the poor, 
 because he is poor: neither oppress 
 the afflicted." 
 
 The eminent author, Asa Oscar Tait, 
 in his world renowned book. Heralds 
 of the Morning, says : "All are famil- 
 iar with the fact that these large ag- 
 gregations of capital crush out the 
 small independent dealers, and hold 
 the prices of commodities and the 
 general interests of business within 
 
40 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 their iron grasp. It would be a 
 wearisome as well as useless task to 
 try to present anything like a tithe of 
 the great mass of evidence that 
 might be given in regard to the 
 'heaping' together of treasure. Every- 
 one knows that the combines of 
 wealth meet us at the very threshold 
 of life, and follow us all the journey 
 through, ask a tribute at every step 
 on the various necessary things of 
 daily use until finally the portals of 
 the tomb are reached, and even there 
 arc we met by the agent of the un- 
 dertakers' association who collects 
 his fee before our mortal remains are 
 allowed to be laid at rest. Meet men 
 anywhere, and their theme is 'making 
 money.' Money must be had at all 
 hazards- If it cannot be obtained 
 honestly, it must be gained in some 
 other way." 
 
 Said Ex-Pr^esident Taft in a public 
 address : "One of the results of the 
 conditions and evils which I have 
 been describing has been the concen- 
 tration of enormous wealth in the 
 hands of few men." 
 
 In the Foriun is an article written 
 by the noted Thomas G. Sherman, en- 
 titled: ''The Owners of the United 
 States." In this article he brings out 
 the fact that so vast and gigantic 
 have become the heaps of wealth in 
 the hands of a few persons, that a 
 mere handful of capitalists own more 
 than one-half of the wealth of the 
 United States. 
 
 "The freest government (said 
 the great and wise Daniel Webster) 
 "cannot long endure when the ten- 
 dency of the law is to create a rapid 
 accumulation of property in the 
 hands of a few, and to render the 
 masses poor and dependent." 
 
 Isaiah 5: 8, 9. — "Woe unto them 
 that join house to house, that lay 
 field to field, till there be no more 
 room, that they may be placed alone 
 in the midst of the earth. In mine 
 ears said the Lord of hosts, of a truth 
 many houses shall be desolate, even 
 great and fair, without inhabitant. 
 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself 
 and opened her mouth without meas- 
 ure : and their glory, and their mul- 
 titude, and their pomp and he that re- 
 joiceth shall descend into it." 
 
 Said the Advent Christian Mes- 
 senger: "The labor question is fast 
 coming to the front as one of gigan- 
 tic proportions. A clash must come 
 sooner or later between capital and 
 labor that will be terrible in its re- 
 sults." 
 
 A short time ago the eminent 
 Heyiry Van Dyke said at the com- 
 mencement of Harvard University: 
 "People say that another revolution 
 is coming in our age and our own 
 country. It is possible. There are 
 signs of it. There has been a tre- 
 mendous increase of luxury among 
 the rich in the present generation. 
 There has been a great increase of 
 suff"ering among the poor in certain 
 sections of the country." 
 
 Hon. Roger Q. Mills, United States 
 Senator from Texas, said in a speech 
 in the United States Senate: "We 
 have been told that concentrated 
 money is equally as powerful for evil 
 as concentrated swords and bayonets, 
 and that liberty must leave the land 
 where either tyrant rules. We are 
 trampling today all these admonitions 
 under our feet. Our ship is driving 
 upon the rocks ; and unless we seize 
 the helm and change its course, the 
 historian will emerge from the dark- 
 
CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 
 
 41 
 
 ness to write the melancholy pages 
 of the decline and fall of the great 
 American Republic." 
 
 A reef like that which lay before 
 France in the French Revolution lies 
 before America. Just in time has 
 President Wilson turned the wheel 
 and our ship of state is saved in the 
 nick of time. 
 
 Shakespeare in Hamlet gives us 
 some good advice. 
 "Find out the cause of this effect, 
 Or rather say, the cause of this de- 
 fect, 
 For this effect defective comes by 
 cause." 
 Just this needs to be done in our 
 governmental machinery. And what 
 you would do for your factory engine 
 or even your sewing machine. Presi- 
 dent Wilson, looking after the cause 
 of our present labor difficulty, has 
 done in the appointment of "An in- 
 dustrial commission to investigate 
 this serious disturbance between cap- 
 ital and labor." This is what they 
 brought in for their report (1915) : 
 "Unjust distribution of wealth and 
 income and denial of justice in the 
 creation, in the adjudication, and in 
 the administration of law. The crux 
 of the question is. Have the worker? 
 received a fair share of the enor- 
 mous increase in wealth which has 
 taken place in this country during 
 the period as a result largely of their 
 labors? The answer is emphatically, 
 "No." 
 
 Prophecy is not wanting in Scrip- 
 ture that our country would hit upon 
 that very reef. 
 
 James, chap. 5. — "Go to now, ye 
 rich men, weep and howl for your 
 miseries that shall come upon you. 
 Your gold and silver shall be a wit- 
 
 ness against you. Ye have heaped 
 treasure together for the last days. 
 Behold the hire of the laborers who 
 have reaped down your fields, which 
 is of you kept back by fraud." 
 
 Jer. 22: 13, i^.— "Woe unto him 
 that buildeth his house by unright- 
 eousness and his chambers by wrong ; 
 that useth his neighbor's service 
 without wages and giveth him not for 
 his work. He shall be buried with 
 the burial of an ass." 
 
 Once more we hear those memor- 
 able words of the President in his 
 message to Congress : "The profiteer- 
 ing that can not be got at by the re- 
 straints of conscience and love of 
 country can be got at by taxation." 
 
 I believe that while this war is 
 going on the government should levy 
 on the income of the rich men and 
 women of our country for every dol- 
 lar over and above their living ex- 
 penses and that the taxation of the 
 poor man and his family should be 
 made as light as possible. 
 
 My conviction is based on the fact 
 that we are drafting the poor man's 
 bo3^ to win the war; we are calling 
 even the last son of many a widowed 
 mother. What is gold and silver in 
 value when measured by the life 
 blood of our best and bravest sons? 
 
 To the labor unions it must be 
 said : "You have fought a good battle 
 against the rich, money-mad and 
 money crazy thieves of our American 
 life but in reality your conflict has 
 but just begun. There are not want- 
 ing in your own union garden human 
 and living tares which must be taken 
 care of before your true mission can 
 be accomplished. All honor and re- 
 spect to the foreigner who learns to 
 love his adopted country, to respect 
 
42 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 her laws and reverence her flag, ai.d 
 in good faith becomes a union man. 
 But what shall we say of those who 
 coming from the swill pails and ash 
 barrels of the old country act like 
 birds of prey and not like honest 
 working men? These are the very 
 loudest mouthed abusers of our in- 
 stitutions as they are usually the big- 
 gest kickers at our boarding houses 
 and even our best hotels even though 
 they never knew at home how a 
 square meal tasted. 
 
 There are some union men of this 
 class who ought to be gagged and 
 handcuffed and shackled until they 
 can be taught American ideas and 
 principles. 
 
 I hold that the labor condition in 
 the United States is by far the best 
 on earth. The laboring man has, as 
 I have already shown, free schools, 
 free churches, free hospitals, free 
 play-ground — freedom everywhere 
 for his children. He is himself a 
 sovereign king of the grandest gov- 
 ernment on earth as Ralph Waldo 
 Emerson once said: "Great America 
 where every citizen is king." 
 
 And over every union man, floats 
 the Stars and Stripes. No citizen of 
 this counti:y, whether a member of 
 a labor union or not can listen to an 
 address on the Stars and Stripes, like 
 the one Miss Booth, the eloquent and 
 consecrated leader of the Salvation 
 Army is wont to give, without pro- 
 found emotion. Every American 
 under the spell of such patriotism 
 must thrill with honor, reverence and 
 affection, not so much for the banner 
 itself, which has cost our fathers so 
 much sacrifice and bloodshed as for 
 the principles of liberty, equality and 
 fraternity which it so gloriously rep- 
 
 resents. No labor union, business 
 corporation or financial combination 
 or other federation of men ought 
 under shelter of this flag to suffer 
 themselves to become servants of any 
 other rule except the Golden Rule. 
 The moment any combination of cit- 
 izens does such a wrong and refuses 
 to do unto others as its members 
 would be done by, a sword is drawn 
 between their children and the free 
 schools, the free churches and the 
 free government that God has given 
 to us and which Old Glory stands for. 
 
 The labor unions of America are 
 as yet only in ^ their infancy ; their 
 life work has but just begun- You 
 might compare the labor situation to 
 a fine-spun thread or cable which is 
 in a tangle like a child's shoe string, 
 tied in a thousand hard and compli- 
 cated knots which must be unsnarled 
 before peace and good will on earth 
 can reign between one laborer and an- 
 other for we are all workers in the 
 world or ought to be. 
 
 The Christ plainly pointed out the 
 goal which every labor union should 
 set for itself. The key to the situa- 
 tion of the workman and his em- 
 ployer is given to us in the 20th 
 chapter of Matthew. 
 
 No labor union can meet with suc- 
 cess until every agreement made and 
 sanctioned by the organization is kept 
 to the letter and the fulfillment of 
 the same guaranteed (Matt. 20: 2, 
 13). No corporation or individual 
 can escape labor trouble until there 
 is on their part a willingness to give 
 the hired man or woman a good, 
 comfortable and living wage and 
 more than that — to give what is 
 "right." (Matt. 20:4). And "what- 
 soever is right" covers not only equal- 
 
CAPITAL VERSUS LABOR. 
 
 43 
 
 ity of wages but also equality in the 
 number of hours of employment. 
 
 No government, corporation, con- 
 tractor or individual is making the 
 effort to live anything like a Chris- 
 tian till all laborers are paid in ? 
 equal manner, each receiving the 
 same amountin wages (Matt. 20: 10). 
 
 The great hearted Lincoln put the 
 matter in the just and right way 
 when he said : "That to secure tc 
 each laborer the whole product of his 
 labor or as nearly as possible is a 
 worthy object of any good govern- 
 ment." 
 
 There is a ten-fold greater injus- 
 tice in the inequality of wages paid 
 to different classes of wage earner? 
 than is shown any where else in the 
 dispute between capital and labor. 
 And when it comes to the number of 
 hours a laborer toils, we have thous- 
 ands of men and women of all classes 
 who have never known the meaning 
 of a day's work. 
 
 God Bless Massachusetts for her 
 Christian legislation that drives both 
 these rich and hobo drones out of 
 their hive and makes it a criminal 
 offense for them not to do their share 
 of work and not to bear their share of 
 the labor burden of life. 
 
 On the other hand there are classes 
 of men who go to their offices at nine 
 or ten in the morning and stop work 
 at two or three in the afternoon- 
 Still others work six, eight, ten or 
 even twelve hours a day as the case 
 may be. And when it comes to the 
 hard-working farmer and his wife 
 the world does not seem to care if 
 they toil sixteen hours a day. And 
 we ought not to forget that our drug 
 stores, barber shops and like public 
 conveniences are in many cases kept 
 open both night and day. 
 
 The time will come when there will 
 be an equal distribution of wages to 
 all who toil and we all are, or should 
 be, workers in some vocation. In- 
 deed the time is not far distant when 
 the world will strive to equalize the 
 hours of labor among all classes. 
 
 Some political economists assert 
 that in times of peace, the welfare 
 of the country can be well cared for 
 with a labor schedule of three hours 
 a day. 
 
 I myself predict that you will soon 
 find five hours making a day's work, 
 five days constituting a week's work 
 and five dollars a day or more the es- 
 tablished wage. And I also predict 
 that the time is not far away when 
 it will be an impossibility and an 
 unheard of thing to find as you can 
 today a beef trust which shows a 
 profit of $140,000,000 in three years 
 and pays its president $200,000 a 
 year salary, the vice president $100,- 
 000 for his services and the stock- 
 holders enormous dividends on eighty 
 millions of watered stock that rep- 
 resents no more honest value than 
 does a scrap of paper. 
 
 The United States will institute 
 within the next few years a house 
 cleaning season. As this sort of work 
 always does, a good deal of inconven- 
 ience will be caused to a good many 
 people. But the job has been put off 
 too long already and the war will 
 force us to undertake the task how- 
 ever unwelcome. Let us be patient, 
 submissive and uncomplaining and 
 let us co-operate with our faithful 
 head-servant. President Wilson, ai 
 his vast multitude of subordinates in 
 doing this gigantic job as it ought to 
 be done. 
 
44 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Matt. 12: 25. — "Every kingdom di- 
 vided against itself is brought to des- 
 olation; and every city or house di- 
 vided against itself shall not stand." 
 OUR HOMES. 
 
 Dr. E. B. Lowry in his new book 
 entitled Herself, on page 71 says : "It 
 has been estimated that only about 
 five per cent, of all marriages are 
 successful." 
 
 The noted author, Bernarr Mac- 
 fadden in his new book, Manhood and 
 Marriacje, page 40 says: "Some au- 
 thorities declare that ninety-five per 
 cent, of all marriages are unsuccess- 
 ful." 
 
 Says Dr. R. J. Lambert in his new 
 book, Himself, page 101 : "It has 
 been estimated that only about five 
 per cent, of the marriages in the 
 world prove happy." 
 
 Modern science has discovered who 
 is to blame and why it is that ninety- 
 five per cent, of the marriages of the 
 world prove unhappy. But the writer 
 of this book which you are reading, 
 cannot leave the field of prophecy but 
 can only refer you to our modern 
 works on medical science if you de 
 sire to locate the blame for the exist- 
 ing proportion of divided homes. 
 EVERY CITY DIVIDED. 
 
 The noted author, Asa Oscar 
 Tait, in his new book, Heralds of 
 the Morning, gives facts and figures 
 to show that ninety-five per cent, of 
 our commodities of "life are in the 
 hands of the money trusts. 
 
 Everyone of my readers well 
 knows that ninety-five per cent, of 
 the sons of toil belong to labor ur 
 
 ions and are now in battle array 
 against the money trusts. But Pres- 
 dent Wilson has taken away the bone 
 of contention and you will shortly see 
 the matters of dispute between capi- 
 tal and labor under adjustment by 
 the government with justice to both 
 labor and capital. 
 
 OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 
 
 Who can fail to say that we are a 
 kingdom divided among ourselves — 
 the solid North against the solid 
 South with the solid South now in 
 the government saddle. 
 
 I have voted the Republican ticket 
 all my life and my father was a Union 
 soldier in the Civil War. And there- 
 fore what I am about to write, will 
 come from my feeling of what is just 
 and right rather than from any senti- 
 ment toward any political party or 
 class of people. 
 
 Whenever or wherever you find in- 
 dividuals, homes, cities or kingdoms 
 divided, you ought to carefully look 
 at the facts of the case and measure 
 the question with the golden rule. If 
 you do this, you cannot long fail to 
 reach a just decision. 
 
 I believe that the preservation of 
 the Union and the freeing of the 
 slaves was good and right. But we 
 of the North went to war with the 
 South not to free the slaves but to 
 save the Union. The issuing of the 
 Emancipation Proclamation was no 
 less a literal stealing of the slaves 
 than it would be for me to walk into 
 a farmer's barn and take a horse or 
 cow without his consent or to carry 
 way his furniture from his house 
 without any payment therefor. 
 
 The famous author, Miss Ida ¥ 
 Tarbell, has told the truth in her 
 Life of Lincoln, page 95, when she 
 
OUR KINGDOM DIVIDED. 
 
 45 
 
 says: "Throughout his entire politi- 
 ical life Lincoln has disclaimed any 
 desire to meddle with slavery in the 
 states where the constitution recog- 
 nized it. He had undertaken the war 
 not to free men but to preserve the 
 Union." 
 
 What the North should have done 
 at the close of the Civil War, was to 
 have paid for those slaves at the mar- 
 ket price. If Lincoln had lived to 
 finish his work there is no question in 
 my mind but what the South would 
 have been paid for millions of dollars' 
 worth of stolen property. 
 
 "It is doubtful," says Miss Tarbell, 
 "If Lincoln in all his political career 
 ever had a measure more at heart 
 than his scheme for compensated 
 emancipation." Isaac Arnold, who 
 knew him well, says that rarely, if 
 ever, was he known to manifest such 
 solicitude as over this measure." — 
 Life of Lincoln, page 111. 
 
 It is a common belief among the 
 second generation of the North that 
 the South by their secession were 
 traitors. But the truth is they were 
 not traitors in any sense of the word. 
 They believed as many of the North 
 believed that they had a perfect 
 right, a constitutional right, and a 
 sovereign right to secede. 
 
 I take the following from one of 
 our high school text books of history, 
 one used now in the instruction of 
 our Northern boys and girls : says the 
 Americayi History, hy Albert B. Hart, 
 page 4C8. — "The constitutionality of 
 secession was accepted by most south- 
 ern public men, and by some in the 
 North. Once admit that the states 
 were sovereign and the constitution 
 only a compact among them, and any 
 state was undoubtedly entitled to 
 
 leave the Union when it felt dis- 
 affected." 
 
 "We," said Lincoln, "on our side, 
 are praying God to give us victory, 
 because we believe we are right; but 
 those on the other side pray Him too 
 for victory, believing they are right." 
 — Life of Lincoln, page 124, by Ida 
 M. Tarbell. 
 
 We can and often do forgive a thief 
 when he steals dollars and cents. But 
 how can we forgive and forget when 
 any one brands us as traitors and 
 keeps up continually such an accu- 
 sation. The solid South is not likely 
 to forgive and forget our attitude to- 
 ward those brave boys in gray who 
 died in the consciousness of duty 
 faithfully performed. 
 
 We can never see our kingdom once 
 again united heart and soul, until we 
 do to the South as we would be done 
 by. 
 
 The great selfish injustice by the 
 North was in the pensioning the boys 
 of the blue and not the gray, for when 
 General Grant demanded uncondi- 
 tional surrender and General Lee 
 gave it, we then became a united fam- 
 ily and by withholding from the boys 
 in gray the same sort of a pension 
 which we granted to the boys in blue 
 we dealt a stinging blow of grave in- 
 justice to the South for our Declara- 
 tion of Independence reads, "Justice 
 to all and special privileges to none." 
 When we pension the blue and not 
 the gray, we, of the North, turn our 
 backs upon our own declaration and 
 become traitors to our own republi- 
 can form of government. 
 
 Matt. 22: 55>.— "Thou shalt love thy 
 neighbor as thyself." 
 
 And we as a government did not 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 do by our boys in gray as we did by 
 our boys in blue. 
 
 Heh. 13: 1. — "Let brotherly love 
 continue." 
 
 // Peter 1: 7. — "And to brotherly 
 kindness charity." 
 
 The South has shown divine Christ- 
 like charity towards our boys in blue 
 and towards those that stole their 
 legal, lawful property by paying their 
 equal part of the taxes to pension the 
 blue. But what has the North done 
 to show their gratitude and appre- 
 ciation towards the gray for such di- 
 vine, Christlike charity? Nothing, 
 Nothing, Nothing. 
 
 When the North pensioned the 
 blue and not the gray, in a moral 
 sense they branded the boys in gray 
 as unfit to associate with our boys in 
 blue. In another sense they put a 
 seal upon them that they were trai- 
 tors which was the worst cut of all 
 to our Southern people. And the 
 South has resented it and will not 
 and should not forgive the North for 
 such a mean cowardly way of treat- 
 ing their sons who fought so heroic- 
 ally for what they believed was their 
 moral, constitutional and sovereign 
 rights. 
 
 If you Southerners do forgive the 
 North before they remove that seal 
 of dishonor from your sons by giving 
 them and their widows and needy 
 children a most liberal pension, then 
 you merit and fully deserve to be 
 called ungrateful, inhuman and cow- 
 ardly curs. And we of the North 
 deserve that same epithet until we 
 by equal sovereign taxation do for 
 the sons of the gray what the South 
 has done for the sons of the blue. 
 
 How well do I remember the beau- 
 tiful, appreciative kindly and loving 
 
 words that I saw graven by parental 
 love on a stately monument in a pub- 
 lic square of Alexandria, Virginia: 
 "They died in the consciousness of 
 duty faithfully performed." 
 
 If we of the North delay our action 
 till our brave boys of the Southland 
 have gone to their heavenly home on 
 high, we shall commit a sin against 
 the Holy Ghost for which there can be 
 no forgiveness in this world or in the 
 world to come. 
 
 Matt. 12: 32. — "But whosoever 
 speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it 
 shall not be forgiven him, neither in 
 this world, neither in the world to 
 come." 
 
 How can the gray forgive the blue 
 when death has stopped their brave, 
 sad hearts forever and their lips cold 
 and silent in death can never speak 
 again, for they will not be able then 
 to say : "My Northern Brother, I 
 wanted to forgive you during my liv- 
 ing hours but you would not suffer 
 me." 
 
 Before our brave Southern and 
 Northern boys come home from 
 France it is to be hoped that every 
 Northern Congressman whether Re- 
 publican or Democrat, will be found 
 supporting a bill to pension equally 
 the blue and the gray. Then can we 
 show to our sons and brothers who 
 come back, not alone in words but in 
 deeds, that our Kingdom is not di- 
 vided but once more united. 
 
 TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 Daniel 11: ^7.— "The end shall be 
 at the time appointed." 
 
 Daniel 8: 19. — "And he said. Be- 
 
TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 47 
 
 hold 1 will make thee know what 
 shall be in the last end of the indig- 
 nation : for at the time appointed the 
 end shall be." 
 
 Looking the prophecy squarely in 
 the face you cannot help seeing how 
 marvelous it is, for the declaration is 
 made that the time of the end is ap- 
 pointed. You naturally ask, The end 
 of what? I answer: The end of 
 peace and the beginning of a great 
 world war, and the time when that 
 mighty conflict shall end and the 
 millennium shall begin. From the end 
 of the millennium God has told us 
 that the march of human progress 
 and civilization will be onward and 
 upward. And the world will grow 
 better and better for time without 
 end. 
 
 Evhe^. 3: 21. — "Unto him be glory 
 throughout all ages, world without 
 end." 
 
 Ecclcs. 1: 4.— "One generation 
 passeth away, and another genera- 
 tion Cometh: but the earth abideth 
 forever." 
 
 In the first chapter of this book I 
 gave you proof that this world war 
 began exactly on time — even to the 
 very year, month and day when pro- 
 phecy declared that the commence- 
 ment of the vast struggle would take 
 place. 
 
 I now desire to call to the witness 
 stand two or more who will show to 
 us when the Millennium is to begin 
 and when it will end. 
 
 When the students of prophecy be- 
 gan to set the time of Christ's Sec- 
 ond Coming, some people were fool- 
 ish enough to leave their crops in the 
 ground for utter loss and ruin, others 
 climbed to their house tops that they 
 might see his arrival, others climbed 
 
 trees on the predicted day. Were the 
 Bible prophecies at fault or had these 
 believers failed to read their Bibles 
 as carefully as they should have done? 
 
 L2ike 19: i 5.— "Occupy till I come" 
 was the Divine injunction which was 
 passed unheeded in many cases. 
 
 On the other hand many Bible 
 readers are accustomed to point to 
 the book of Acts where it reads 
 (Acts 1:7): "And h^ said unto them. 
 It is not for you to know the times or 
 the seasons, which the Father has put 
 in his own power." 
 
 These interpreters reason that 
 God does not mean for any one to 
 question about the beginning or the 
 end of the war or the Millennium, or 
 any of the Divine dispensations. 
 
 Nothing can be farther from t^ 
 truth than are such assertions. Christ 
 was talking with these words to his 
 Apostles who were Jews. They were 
 disappointed because by his ascen- 
 sion on high, he was about to leave 
 them; and their kingdom, of whic' 
 Jerusalem was to be the capitol, had 
 not been restored to them as the Jews 
 believed it would be at the coming of 
 the prophesied Christ. The Apostles 
 therefore asked Christ {Acts 1: 6) 
 "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore 
 again the kingdom to Israel." 
 
 Christ then answered and said: 
 "It is not for you. Apostles, to know 
 the times and seasons for the restor- 
 ing of a kingdom to Israel." In other 
 words Christ said that the Kingdom 
 of Israel was not to be restored to the 
 Jews in the Apostles' day and they 
 were to go about their work without 
 concern as to the restoration. 
 
 You cannot help seeing from the 
 following prophecies that the time of 
 the end was appointed. 
 
48 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 Daniel 11: 27.— "None of the 
 wicked shall understand; but the 
 wise shall understand." 
 
 And in the previous chapter, 
 Dayiiel 12: iO.— "The end shall be at 
 the time appointed." 
 
 A good many can be found today 
 who do understand the times and the 
 seasons which God has appointed for 
 coming events. Such a man for ex- 
 ample is the Reverend George Shorey 
 of Berwick, Maine. At that place, 
 I was on my way home one after- 
 noon when my day's work was done 
 and I caught sight of Shorey speaking 
 on the public square. I went over 
 and listened to what he had to say. 
 
 He used these prophetic words: 
 "If this great and terrible war that 
 the prophets of the Bible foretold 
 does not come in 1914 this Bible is 
 false; but it will come in 1914. God 
 has so said and his word cannot fail." 
 And the great and terrible world co 
 flict did arrive as Shorey said that it 
 would come. In the fall of our last 
 Presidential election when the cry 
 was heard echoing throughout the 
 United States that President Wilson 
 had kept us out of war, this same 
 Berwick minister said to a gathering 
 of people in his church : "Don't you 
 believe that President Wilson has 
 kept us out of the war, for God has 
 appointed the time for the United 
 States to enter this war, in the 
 spring months of 1917. God has said 
 that we shall drink of the bitter cup 
 in the spring time of 1917." 
 
 Shortly after the United States en- 
 tered the war, Mr. Shorey again said 
 to his people at Berwick: "God's 
 word told you that this world war 
 would begin in 1914 and the United 
 States would enter the war in the 
 
 springtime of 1917. Now I am going 
 to tell you that God's word has told 
 us not only the exact year, not only 
 the very month but the exact time to 
 a day that Palestine will pass out of 
 the hands and power of the Turkish 
 empire into the hands and power of 
 the British empire and it will take 
 place the 10th day of December, 
 1917." And when the 10th day of 
 December, 1917, came Palestine 
 passed into the power of the British 
 Empire. George Shorey was right 
 and God's Holy Bible on which he 
 relied proved correct and infallible. 
 And this minister of the Gospel 
 proved himself correct and his pre- 
 diction was in exact agreement with 
 Scripture. 
 
 An interesting chart which sells 
 for one dollar has just been placed 
 upon the market by Rev. Butler Jack 
 of St. Paul, Minn., which he will send 
 postpaid for $1.00 to any address. 
 This valuable chart shows the ap- 
 pointed dates for all the special events 
 from the beginning of this great and 
 terrible conflict to the end of the 
 Millennium. 
 
 Rev. George Shorey of Berwick, 
 Maine, has also placed a book on the 
 market which shows how these times 
 and seasons were discovered. Mr. 
 Shorey's book can be obtained for 
 35 cents postpaid. Luke 10: 7. — 
 "And the laborer is worthy of his 
 hire." 
 
 The great war between Japan and 
 her Allies against the so-called Chris- 
 tian nations of Europe, Asia and 
 Africa, will come to its end in 1928 
 and Christ, the Saviour, will set up 
 a world kingdom or rather a world 
 democracy of all nations and tongues 
 {Daniel 7: lU) in the year 1931. 
 
TIMES AND SEASONS. 
 
 49 
 
 Japan will win her war against the 
 so-called Christian empires of the 
 Old Country and Japan will come 
 from that war victorious but wounded 
 unto death, in other words fatally 
 afflicted as a nation with various 
 kinds of pestilence. 
 
 The unburied dead of that swift, 
 gigantic, terrible war (Rev. 20: 18) 
 will be so vast in number that there 
 will be a dreadful infection of pesti- 
 lence resulting therefrom. 
 
 Jer. 25: 33. — "And the slain of the 
 Lord shall be at that day from one 
 end of the earth even unto the other 
 end of the earth: they shall not be 
 lamented, neither gathered, nor 
 buried: they shall be dung upon the 
 ground." 
 
 Japan will be compelled to go to 
 and from her empire for supplies to 
 support her armies and all the na- 
 tions at war against her will be com- 
 pelled to do the same. In conse- 
 quence of this inter-communication, 
 the pestilence will spread to all parts 
 of Europe, Asia and Africa. The 
 pitiful and heart-rending condition 
 of the old world baffles description. 
 
 These foreign nations burning up 
 with fever and pestilence will appeal 
 to America for help, food and medical 
 aid. The heart of America will go 
 out to them and prayer that God will 
 open the way to their assistance will 
 be incessant among our people. But 
 all doors between America and for- 
 eign countries will be closed and kept 
 closed by force of arms lest the pesti- 
 lence sweep over America as well as 
 over the old world. 
 
 From 1928 to 1931 there will be a 
 period of sad and anxious waiting 
 until the nations can get together for 
 a World Peace Conference. And 
 
 when this is held there will come to 
 pass a world government which will 
 never be destroyed or pass away 
 {Daniel 7: IJ^). It will be indeed a 
 new type and order of political rule. 
 Rev. 21: 5.— "Behold I make all 
 things new." 
 
 This will be a government where 
 the poor man will get a square deal 
 and where law-breaking, money-crazy 
 soulless thieves will, to use a common 
 phrase, get it in the neck and their 
 do-nothing and good-for-nothing chil- 
 dren will be obliged to go to work. 
 
 The Millennium, as it is usually 
 termed, will begin in 1931 and will 
 continue a thousand years. This will 
 be a season of building and perfecting 
 a world democracy. In this period 
 the world will grow brighter and 
 brighter in health, happiness and 
 prosperity. One man will be seen 
 starting in the right way. Soon there 
 will be two, then three, then four until 
 at the end of a thousand years all hu- 
 manity will be journeying together in 
 peace, health and happiness. 
 
 Prov. U: i<5.— "The path of the 
 just is as the shining light, that shin- 
 eth more and more unto the perfect 
 day." 
 
 Many people have seemed to think 
 that the Millennium would be a time 
 of idleness and ease — a thousand 
 years of sitting around in a Morris 
 chair, as some one has expressed it, 
 in the midst of plenty, with dinner on 
 a golden platter and with nothing to 
 do but to eat, drink and be merry. 
 But this is of course only a lazy man's 
 dream, the idle silly product of a 
 dream. 
 
 It seems that God tried that experi- 
 ment with Adam and Eve in the Gar- 
 
50 
 
 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 den of Eden and it proved to be the 
 wrong thing to do (Gen. 3: 19.) 
 
 But you may be sure that in the 
 Millennium there will be no royal 
 families dressed in gold lace. After 
 1931 you will see these potentates 
 putting on their overalls and the" 
 wives will don their kitchen aprons 
 for the spirit of justice and equality 
 is going to run so high that there will 
 be a revolution in social ideas. To 
 be a slaving servant in the person of a 
 wife to some idle good-for-nothing 
 drone will no longer satisfy any 
 young woman. And every lady will 
 be proud to do her own housework. 
 The law will hold its lash over the 
 idle and lazy and they and their chil- 
 dren will get to work. 
 
 When the world with both hands 
 on the hand line are pulling together 
 with a long pull and a pull all together 
 the hours of labor will be shortened 
 and wages will be put on an equal 
 basis. 
 
 I propose now to show the world 
 the exact year when the prophesied 
 Christ, the coming Saviour, will ap- 
 pear. I shall use a key to unlock the 
 secret. 
 
 When Christ began to preach the 
 word of God and to proclaim himself 
 the servant of God and the Saviour of 
 the world, the date was just thirty 
 years {Luke 3: 23) after the Star of 
 Bethlehem made its appearance. 
 
 Heh. 13: 5.— "Christ the same yes- 
 terday, and today and forever." If 
 this be true the Servant of God and 
 the Saviour of the world will come 
 and proclaim itself Feb. 24, 1931, for 
 the Star of Bethlehem made its ap- 
 pearance Feb. 24, 1900 and it was so 
 bright that it could be seen in the 
 
 day time as God said it would be 
 {II Peter 1: 19.) 
 
 The Boston morning papers of Feb. 
 24, 1900, came out in big headlines 
 saying: "Netv star so bright as to be 
 seen in full sunlight. Astronomers 
 marvel at the visitor which is so bril- 
 liant. Probably the Star of Bethle- 
 hem." 
 
 Prof. E. A. Fuerties, professor of 
 astronomy at Cornell, believes it the 
 star that guided the wise men and 
 this is what he said in his report: 
 "Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 24, 1900. This 
 new discovery recalls the famous Tau 
 or the Star of Bethlehem, which 
 guided the wise men to the place of 
 the birth of the Saviour, except that 
 it is even more brilliant than the 
 Biblical star. This new star is prob- 
 ably that of Bethlehem." 
 
 The word of God, our Bible, fore- 
 told that when the Star of Bethlehem 
 came again it would be even more 
 brilliant, so much so that it could be 
 seen in full daylight. 
 
 Rev. 1: 18.— "Behold I have the 
 keys of hell and death." 
 
 I am going to show you one of 
 these keys which will verify the fact 
 that the Star of Bethlehem arrived 
 exactly on time and that the valley of 
 the shadow of death and hell, referred 
 to in the Twenty-third Psalm and 
 the fourth verse which must be ex- 
 perienced by humanity will not end 
 until 1931. 
 
 KEY. 
 
 Matt. 20: 16.— "So the last shall 
 be first and the first last." 
 
 The last generation will be the 
 same number of years as the first 
 generation. The first generation of 
 time was Adam's generation and it 
 was 1930. 
 
THREE STAGES. 
 
 51 
 
 Genesis 5: 1. — "This is the book of 
 the generations of Adam. In the 
 day that God created man." 
 
 The day Adam was created was a 
 thousand years. We of today call 
 ten hundred a thousand but the an- 
 cient Jews called a thousand years, 
 day. 
 
 // Peter 3: S. — "Be not ignorant 
 of this one thing, that one day is with 
 the Lord as a thousand years." And 
 Adam lived 930 years. So Adam's 
 generation was 1930 years. Christ's 
 generation must reach the year 1931 
 before the last generation will come 
 to its end and the new age or in other 
 words the Millennium, the Second 
 Coming, when the Saviour can begin 
 the setting up of a new kingdom of 
 a World Democracy. 
 
 Mark well the fact that the Second 
 Coming cannot take place till 19;;i 
 for this generation of times does not 
 expire until 1930 years have pas icd 
 and that brings it over into 1931. 
 
 Both the famous authorities on 
 Bible prophecy and the prophetical 
 times and seasons whom I have men- 
 tioned, Rev. George Shorey of Ber- 
 wick, Maine, and Rev. Butler Jack of 
 Saint Paul, Minn., have discovered 
 more keys that unlock the secret of 
 Christ's Second Coming as fixed for 
 1931. But the two confirmatory 
 proofs of this fact which they men- 
 tion I leave unstated because their 
 books may be obtained by any one ; 
 and the "Laborer is worthy of his 
 hire." Did not God say that there 
 would be three witnesses to establish 
 the real time of the Second Coming? 
 
 Matt. 18: i 5.— "That in the mouth 
 of * * * three witnesses every word 
 may be established." 
 
 THREE STAGES. 
 
 CHAPTER XVL 
 
 St. Matt. 18: :26.— "Have patience." 
 
 United States is going to win this 
 world war, not by force of arms, not 
 by tact or diplomacy, but by circum- 
 stances which will not be in her 
 power to prevent and over which she 
 will have no control. 
 
 The vision of a world democracy by 
 our honest, faithful and most beloved 
 servant, President Wilson, is going 
 to be born from this world war. 
 
 This present war with Germany 
 and her allies is but the premonitory 
 stage or first warning that the long- 
 promised world democracy has be- 
 gun its birth {Daniel 7: 27) and 
 above all things don't get excited and 
 lose your head, as the street saying 
 goes, for good workmen are slow and 
 the mills of the Gods grind slowly, 
 but sure. 
 
 If the people of the United States 
 don't look out, they will be like many 
 a young doctor attending their first 
 child birth; they are more anxious 
 to use force than to patiently wait 
 for the God of Nature to take its 
 natural course. 
 
 Romans 8: 25. — "But if we hope 
 for that we see not, then do we with 
 patience wait for it." 
 
 The human mind of mankind has 
 not mental vision enough, as a rule, 
 to look into the future. There are 
 very rare cases of a genius being 
 born with mental power strong 
 enough to look into the future and 
 tell the world what is hidden behind 
 its dark curtain. 
 
 / Co7\ 12: k, 10. — "Now there are 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 diversities of gifts to one is given the 
 gift of prophecy." 
 
 But the Bible warns the world not 
 to take any stock in what any man 
 prophesies will take place during his 
 allotted time of life, for no prophecy 
 uttered by a true prophet will be ful- 
 filled while that prophet lives and 
 should not be depended on. 
 
 Hebreivs 9:17. — "A testament is of 
 force after men are dead : otherwise 
 it is of no strength at all while the 
 testator liveth." 
 
 It is true that Christ fulfilled many 
 of the prophecies that he uttered 
 while he lived but they were pro- 
 phecies not of his own but of other 
 prophets that had gone before him, 
 Christ said "I reap where I sowed 
 not." (Matt. 25: 26.) 
 
 St. Matt 7: i 5.— "Beware of false 
 prophets." 
 
 Beware of anyone that tells the 
 United States government what it 
 should do and not do, even though 
 their judgment seems common sense, 
 logical and reasonable. The people 
 of this great and powerful United 
 States have not and never will leave 
 the fate of their future welfare in the 
 hands and judgment of any one of its 
 servants. The servants (Congress) 
 have voted to give such power to their 
 head servant (President) ; but in the 
 coming and very critical times of this 
 world war, when the fate of our free 
 government, free schools, free 
 churches, free homes and free peo- 
 ple, hangs on the decision of the hour 
 the people will not consent to it; they 
 will rebel against that power given 
 by Congress to the president and the 
 vast majority of the people will point 
 to the oath of office that the president 
 has taken, with his right hand on the 
 
 Holy Bible, saying, "I will faithfully 
 perform the duties and the trust that 
 the people of the United States have 
 placed upon me according to the 
 teachings of God's Holy Word." 
 
 When the very critical and painful 
 stages of this world war come the 
 President's judgment and his decis- 
 ions have to be backed up and verified 
 by God's holy prophecy of the Bible, 
 or the people will never give their 
 consent and will lose their confidence 
 in their President, as a God-fearing 
 and trusty pilot of this great gov- 
 ernment. 
 
 We of the United States know that 
 so far in the world's history God's 
 word has not failed and his plan of 
 the ages has come true and been ful- 
 filled in every little detail up to the 
 present time and God's plan of this 
 world democracy will have its birth 
 in three stages as travail upon a 
 woman with child. 
 
 / r/ie.s. 5; 5.— "For when they shall 
 say peace and safety: then sudden 
 destruction cometh upon them, as 
 travail upon a woman with child ; and 
 they shall not escape." 
 
 You remember that just before this 
 world war broke upon us so suddenly 
 all nations held a peace conference at 
 the Hague in Holland and the ruling 
 nations of the world signed peace 
 treaties and the morning newspapers 
 come out in big headlines PEACE 
 and SAFETY; then suddenly comes 
 this world war of fearful destruction 
 as the World's Crisis of Feb. 21, 1917, 
 says : "In many respects the struggle 
 has been unique in the world's his- 
 tory. First, in the suddenness with 
 which it burst upon Europe and the 
 world. This storm came like a flash 
 of lightning out of a clear sky." 
 
THREE STAGES. 
 
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 Then it said that this world war of 
 sudden destruction would come like — 
 "as travail upon a woman with 
 child." 
 
 That my reader may get a better 
 understanding of this prophecy I will 
 quote from Dr. W. J. Tndtt's new 
 book on Eugenics, page 186 : "There 
 are three stages of labor pains. A 
 natural labor is usually divided into 
 three stages, the premonitory or first 
 stage. The second stage is known 
 by the grinding nature of the pains 
 and the third stage is indicated, in 
 which nature is making her best 
 efforts to expel the child." 
 
 Showing the reader positive and 
 marvelous proof that this world war 
 will come in three stages. 
 
 This war with Germany and her 
 allies is only the premonitory stage 
 which means a previous warning or 
 notice that God is going to destroy all 
 those monarchy kingdoms and em- 
 pires of the old country {Jcr. UG: 28) ; 
 and when this premonitory stage 
 comes to its end and peace is declared, 
 United States should leave those 
 Asiatic monarchy kingdoms as quick 
 as possible and get back into her own 
 door yard, mind her own business and 
 let other nations and kingdoms do 
 the same. 
 
 When God told Lot to leave Sodom 
 and Gomorrah because he was going 
 to destroy the cities Lot took his wife 
 and family and left the country and 
 was saved ; but when Lot warned the 
 people that they were going to be 
 destroyed even members of his own 
 family began to mock him and in- 
 sinuate that he was crazy {Gen. 
 19: H.) 
 
 God is going to put an end to all 
 monarchy governments for this rea- 
 
 son ; ever since the dawn of history 
 kings have had no more heart and no 
 higher aim in life than to draft the 
 poor into war after war, in like man- 
 ner as men who have no heart put 
 two game birds into a pit and delight 
 to see them fight and kill each other. 
 After this world war comes to its 
 final finish the poor hard-working sons 
 of toil arc going to have a chance to 
 draft these royal family murderers to 
 the plow, the anvil and the spindle, 
 and the loom and a just and gigantic 
 step in advancing civilization will be 
 taken. 
 
 The second stage of this world war 
 will be known as the long seven years 
 of the most terrific, horrible grinding 
 pains of the war (Ezek. 39: 9), a 
 letting loose of the Asiatic Pagan 
 worshipers of peace, love and friend- 
 ship against the Asiatic worshipers 
 of war, murder, thieving and enmity 
 of other nations, the Pagan worship- 
 ers of the dragon, China, and of the 
 serpent, Japan, are going to sit in 
 judgment {Rev. 20: J^) over all 
 Europe, Asia and Africa and all the 
 islands of these oceans and seas. 
 
 The last stage of this world war 
 will be indicated by a terrible pesti- 
 lence raging like flames of fire 
 through all the monarchy kingdoms 
 of the old world till those monarchy 
 governments become like a boiling sea 
 of the dead and dying, the God of na- 
 ture making his best effort to expel 
 the child government of a world de- 
 mocracy. 
 
 This coming new world democracy 
 will be born independent of any likes 
 or dislikes of the United States; yet 
 its first president will be a citizen of 
 the United States and the prophecy 
 also shows that the capital of that 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 world democracy will be built in the 
 city of Jerusalem in Palestine. 
 
 Isaiah 28: i(?.— "Saith the Lord 
 God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foun- 
 dation." 
 
 Isaiah 59: 20. — "And the Redeemer 
 shall come to Zion," 
 
 Isaiah 2: 3. — "For out of Zion 
 shall go forth the law." 
 
 Micah U: 7. — "And the Lord shall 
 reign over them in Mount Zion." 
 
 Daniel 7: H. — "And there was 
 given him dominion, and glory, and 
 a kingdom, that all people, nations 
 and languages should serve him : his 
 dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
 which shall not pass away, and his 
 kingdom that which shall not be de- 
 stroyed." 
 
 Daniel 7 : 27. — "And all dominions 
 shall serve and obey him." 
 
 Isaiah 2: 2-.lf. — "And it shall come 
 to pass in the last days * * * the 
 Lord's house shall be established in 
 the top of the mountain and all na- 
 tions shall flow into it * * * and he 
 will teach us of his ways, and we will 
 walk in his paths for out of Zion 
 shall go forth the law, and the word 
 of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he 
 shall judge among the nations, and 
 shall rebuke many people; and they 
 shall beat their swords into pruning 
 hooks: nation shall not lift up sword 
 against nation, neither shall they 
 learn war any more." 
 
 Psalms Jf6: 9. — "He maketh wars 
 to cease unto the ends of the earth." 
 
 And thanks be to Alimghty God 
 that this world war is to be the last 
 war and our United States will never 
 see war any more or take part in any 
 war or wars in the future after this 
 war with Germany. 
 
 United States will not take any part 
 
 in the coming seven-year war with 
 Japan and her allies. 
 
 I have taken the reader clear 
 round Robin Hood's barn, as the 
 street saying goes, to give him a hur- 
 ried and very brief view into many of 
 these deep, dark, strange and most 
 marvelous prophecies of the future 
 and the past and I will challenge the 
 world to prove that I have interpreted 
 the prophecies in an unjust, unfair 
 and wrong light ; yet I am fully aware 
 that to err is human and no one can 
 say that they are divine and infal- 
 lible. 
 
 In closing this book on prophecy 
 my prayer is and ever will be for our 
 nation to be patient. All these pro- 
 phecies must come to pass and be 
 fulfilled {Matt. 5: 18.) Don't get ex- 
 cited ; don't lose your head, don't 
 think for a moment that any one's 
 mere drop of human intelligence can 
 change the great ocean of God's di- 
 vine wisdom and his divine prophecy 
 and plans of a world democracy. Be 
 patient and the glorious fruit will 
 ripen in due season. 
 
 James 5: 7. — "Behold, the hus- 
 bandman waiteth for the precious 
 fruit of the earth, and hath long pa- 
 tience for it." 
 
 This book will be in the printer's 
 hands today, July 26, 1918. What I 
 have said about the Pope of Rome in- 
 terceding and Japan asking United 
 States to stop fighting and consider 
 terms of peace, is not in sight yet, 
 but it shortly will be. 
 
 SILVER LINING. 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 It is said that every dark cloud has 
 
SILVER LINING. 
 
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 its silver lining and our Bible pro- 
 phecies reveal that this darkest cloud 
 of war that has ever hung over the 
 world has the most beautiful, most 
 valuable silver lining that has ever 
 appeared in the sky of humanity. 
 
 God promised that following the 
 war with Germany or in other words 
 between the first and second acts of 
 this terrible world war drama the 
 books of the Bible would be opened or 
 in other words interpreted. 
 
 Daniel 7: 10. — "The judgment was 
 set and the books were opened." 
 
 No one need to read the whole Bible 
 to get the program of this world war 
 for this seventh chapter of Daniel 
 gives a full outline of it from the 
 time the British Lion entered the 
 war till the beginning of the great 
 world democracy. 
 
 This program shows in the ninth 
 verse of this seventh chapter that the 
 monarchy thrones of the British Lion, 
 Russian Bear and German Leopard 
 will be cast down but not destroyed, 
 that they will be in a bankrupt, crip- 
 pled condition. They will then enter 
 into a conspiracy to divide Russia 
 and steal a part for each, to offset 
 the cost of this war. But United 
 States will take no part in the theft 
 of Russia and will come home with 
 clean hands and a pure heart. God's 
 promised judgment upon them will 
 then set, in other words it will come 
 upon them. God will let loose the 
 dragon nations, China and Japan, for 
 a little season {Rev. 20: 2, 3) and 
 judgment is going to be given into 
 the hands and hearts of China and 
 Japan to do with England, Russia and 
 Germany as they see fit and the pro- 
 phecy of Daniel tells what that judg- 
 ment will be. Japan and China will 
 
 take away England, Russia and Ger- 
 many's dominion. 
 
 Daniel 7: 12. — "As concerning the 
 rest of the beasts they had their do- 
 minion taken away." 
 
 You might ask, what is United 
 States to profit, in coming home 
 empty handed. May I ask you what 
 greater honor or fame can come to 
 any nation than to leave bad com- 
 pany and come home and prepare Un- 
 ited States for a gigantic self-defense. 
 God has many times pointed out in 
 the Bible that he has never forsaken 
 the righteous. 
 
 Psalms 37: 25. — "I have been 
 young, and now am old; yet have I 
 not seen the righteous forsaken, nor 
 his seed begging bread." 
 
 God has a good judgment for the 
 good nations and a punishment for 
 bad nations which they cannot es- 
 cape. They must reap that which 
 they have sown. No one has ques- 
 tioned this just law of nature. 
 
 Job 4: 7, 8. — "Remember, I pray 
 thee, whoever perished, being inno- 
 cent? or where were the righteous cut 
 off? Even as I have seen, they that 
 plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, 
 reap the same." 
 
 United States is making a tre- 
 mendous sacrifice in trying to make 
 the world a decent place to live in 
 and she is going to achieve it before 
 the war comes to its end. 
 
 She is coming home from France 
 saying — "We entered this war for no 
 indemnity or any new lands." The 
 voice of the people of United States 
 is for: "peace on earth, and good 
 will to man." 
 
 God is going to say to our boys of 
 Old Glory and their Red Cross sisters 
 when they return from France — some 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 of them will be blind, others with legs 
 and arms gone, others broken in 
 health, but the spirit of God is in the 
 hearts of the American people who 
 will cry out — "Welcome — our good 
 and faithful servants, enter thou into 
 the joy prepared for those who have 
 tried to subdue the earth (Gen. 1: 28) 
 as a commandment from God. 
 
 Posterity will say these are the 
 saints of the Most High; they tried 
 to subdue the earth from the Kaiser, 
 which was the will of God. A crown 
 of life of everlasting remembrance is 
 yours. 
 
 Rev. 2: 10. — "And I will give thee 
 a crown of life." 
 
 Isaiah 36: 5. — "I will give them an 
 everlasting name, that shall not be 
 cut off." 
 
 Every town and city will have a 
 great monument upon which will be 
 engraved the names of our soldier 
 boys and their Red Cross sisters, 
 which time will not remove. Every 
 town and city will have a book called 
 the Lamb's book of Life and in that 
 book will be engraved the names of 
 our brave soldier boys and their Red 
 Cross sisters which may be handed 
 down to posterity. 
 
 Rev. 21 : 27. — "But they which are 
 written in the Lamb's Book of Life." 
 
 And as the great hearted Lincoln 
 said over the graves of our fathers 
 at Gettysburg: "We are highly re- 
 solved that these dead shall not have 
 died in vain; that this nation, under 
 God, shall have a new birth of free- 
 dom and shall not perish from the 
 earth." 
 
 God is going to give our brave 
 boys and their Red Cross sisters the 
 greatest prize and honor that has 
 ever been given to any nation or king- 
 
 dom, a world dominion that shall 
 never pass away and never be de- 
 stroyed, {Daniel 7: 27) and it will be 
 called the UNITED NATIONS of the 
 World. 
 
 And the half I have not yet told 
 you, as it was in the days of Sol- 
 omon. 
 
 / Kings 10: 7.— "Behold, the half 
 was not told me: thy wisdom and 
 prosperity exceedeth the fame which 
 I heard." 
 
 Today, as it was in the days of 
 Solomon, there are things that we. 
 would much rather have than fame 
 and this is that our children and 
 children's children throughout all 
 coming ages shall inherit peace, 
 health, happiness, wisdom and pros- 
 perity in abundance. 
 
 God promised this sorrowful, pain- 
 ful, ignorant, poor generation that 
 between the first and second act of 
 this awful and terrible world war 
 the books of the Bible would be inter- 
 preted. 
 
 Daniel 7: 10. — "Judgment was set, 
 and the books were opened." 
 
 The Bible as you well know, con- 
 tains history yet to be fulfilled. Like- 
 wise does the Bible contain wisdom 
 and knowledge that modern science 
 has not yet discovered, knowledge 
 that will rock human misery to sleep. 
 So far in the world's history we have 
 been fighting the effect of a cause and 
 perfectly ignorant of that first cause 
 which is the cause of all the world's 
 sorrow, pain, wars and hardships and 
 the cause of a great waste of our 
 time, labor and money. 
 
 The sooner we are fully sensible 
 and deeply know that we are chil- 
 dren of nature, subject to nature, 
 punished by nature whenever we 
 
SILVER LINING. 
 
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 break or transgress its laws the bet- 
 ter. We have got to suffer for it 
 either physically or mentally. 
 
 Even our good clergy are beginning 
 to realize this fact. Says Rev, H. A. 
 Mitchell in The World's Crisis, Aug. 
 8, 1917: "Nature's laws are Gcd's 
 laws, therefore he who breaks the 
 laws of nature, breaks the laws of 
 God." 
 
 Even our good medical authorities 
 are beginning to see this valuable 
 truth for says Dr. J. H. Kellogg of 
 Battle Creek Sanitarium fame: "If 
 you want to get the most out of life, 
 you must live in accordance with Na- 
 ture's laws." 
 
 The world renowned Luther Bur- 
 hank, who has advanced human pro- 
 gress and civilization more than any 
 other man of this generation except 
 Thomas A. Edison, who is probably 
 his equal, gathered all his new dis- 
 coveries by watching nature and its 
 natural laws of operation, which is 
 the great, unchangeable, infinite 
 Father of us all. Said this great in- 
 tellectual leader of human progress : 
 "It is emphatically true that the 
 things around us in nature are our 
 chief teachers." 
 
 The Bible voiced this truth nearly 
 two thousand years ago yet we of to- 
 day are just beginning to believe it. 
 
 / Cor. 11: H. — "Doth not even na- 
 ture itself teach you?" 
 
 Thomas A. Edison was asked if he 
 did not get weary of so much experi- 
 menting. "No," said the great gen- 
 ius — "I never get tired of talking 
 with God." 
 
 We have a natural body and a 
 spiritual body and both are governed 
 by unchangeable unavoidable laws of 
 nature. 
 
 All nations of the world, through- 
 out all coming generations will wor- 
 ship but one God in spirit and in 
 truth. Not by crying, Lord, Lord, 
 help us, but by following the teach- 
 ings of nature and obeying its natural 
 laws of operation. 
 
 Rev. 21: 1, 22.—" And I, John, saw 
 the holy city new Jerusalem * * * 
 and I saw no temple there." 
 
 Back in the Garden of Eden Adam 
 and Eve were told of a certain fixed 
 law of nature {Gen. 2: 17) that meant 
 sorrow, {Gen. 3: 16) loss of love and 
 hardship all the days of their hfe, 
 if they broke it (Gen. 3: 17) and they 
 broke it and knew not how to mend it 
 and like the fable of the fox— "When 
 he saw the grapes beyond his power 
 went and said the grapes were sour." 
 
 Adam and Eve were told that if 
 they did not break the law that they 
 would have access to a river of life 
 where there is bdellium, (Gen. 2: 12) 
 or in other words medical virtues, 
 that they would find nature its own 
 physician. And for six thousand 
 years mankind have tried to over- 
 come that law of nature that a sor- 
 rowful, suffering world is still break- 
 ing as Adam and Eve did. 
 
 Genesis 3: 6. — "And the woman 
 took of the fruit and did eat." 
 
 Romans 1: 26. — "Woman did 
 change the natural use into that 
 which is against nature." 
 
 Between the first and second act of 
 this terrible world war the following 
 hidden medical knowledge that God 
 promised to give to the world will be 
 interpreted by the writer. 
 
 Rev., chap. 22. — "And he showed 
 me a pure river of water of life * * * 
 and there was the tree of life and 
 the leaves of the tree were for the 
 
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 BIBLE PROPHECIES. 
 
 healing of the nations and there shall 
 be no more curse." 
 
 Ezek. U7: 12. — "And by the river 
 shall grow all trees and the leaf there- 
 of for medicine." 
 
 In the second act of this great 
 world war all the nations of the old 
 world will be going the broad way to 
 destruction by wars, famines and 
 pestilences but United States will 
 choose the way of peace, health, hap- 
 
 piness and great prosperity and soon 
 after this terrible world war comes 
 to its end in 1931, the whole world 
 will be filled with peace, health, hap- 
 piness and great prosperity. 
 
 Eccles. 9: 18. — "Wisdom is better 
 than weapons of war." 
 
 Isaiah 33: 2U. — "And the inhabi- 
 tant shall not say, I am sick ; the peo- 
 ple that dwell therein shall be for- 
 given their iniquity." 
 
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