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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25.
The Dutch Fork Farm Carries Off Trophies
At The Great Georgia-Caroiina Fair
,-Won Blue Ribbon Prizes on Magnificent Exhibit of Swine.
Some of the Finest Specimens Ever Before Seen at a Fair.
Fine Showing of Poultry, Also.
With the close of the great Georgia-
Carolina Fair, which has been pro
nounced the best ever before held in
Augusta, the thousands of visitors will
carry with them pleasant recollections
of the many fine exhibits of stock, for
truly no one ever saw a more mag
nificent showing. But none will be re
called with more Interest than the ex
hibit of swine made by Dutch Fork
Farm, which is located near Columbia,
R. F. D. No. 2, of which Mr. W„ T.
Huffman, is manager.
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Champion Prince and Champion Belle, weighing 1025 and
1015, Respectively.
Dutch Fork Farm has become known
throughout Georgia as well es South
Carolina—and practically the entire
South.—for the high-grade swine and
poultry. Shipments are made far and
wide, as those who have seen the breed
of hogs which Mr. Huffman has adopt
ed and given his especial care and time
for several years past, have found that
there are none better—ls any quite as
good. The breed is known as the im
ported Tamwortli. They are unusually
hardy, healthful, and easily kept: They
grow to an enormous size, and being a
"Lady May,” 1,100 Pounds, Winner of the Grand Champion
Prize.
dark red, or rich golden in color, they
are pronounced "beauties” by every one
who sees them. The herd from this
farm carried off the trophies at the fair,
winning all blue ribbons, a fact that
shows plainly the superior character of
breed of the Tamworth hog. Seldom it
Is, that an entry of a herd wins all the
blue ribbons, and Mr. Huffman Is es
pecially proud of his showing at the
Augusta fair. And he should be, for
there were many competitors for the
honors, and some magnificent specimens,
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"Georgia Chief,” 1,000 Pounds, Tamworth Boar, Winner of
the Grand Champion Prize.
yet when it came to comparison, the
Judges saw that the Tamworth were in
a class to themselves; they were un
questionably superior in every way, and
prizes were awarded accordingly. First,
,the exhibit was made separately, when
prizes were awarded on each Individual;
then the entire herd was shown and
Judged with the best herd of each
breed, and again the Tamworth* came
out victors In the contest for the blue
ribbons, winning the sweepstake prize.
The reader can easily imagine that the
Tamworth must possess qualities than
are not found in many breed of swine.
“You are of course pleased with your
trip to Augusta and the impression your
stock made on the visitors and Judges,”
was asked Mr. Huffman, and in a mod
est mannef he replied, "Well, I expect
ed to leave flying more blue ribbons
than any one else, for I have raised
many breeds of hogs but have discarded
all for the Tamworth. They are as far
ahoad of other breeds, in my opinion, as
you can possibly find. I think I know
something about livestock, for I have
given it my attention and study for a
good many years, and I have found in
the Tamworth the combination of all the
good points in all other hogs, and for
this reason I am now raising this par
ticular breed.”
The Dutch Fork Farm has stock for
sale at all times, any age desired, both
swine and poultry and prices are ex
ceedingly reasonable, considering qual
ity of stock.
In addition to the exhibit of hogs,
Mr. Huffman also exhibited something
like a hundred head of poultry which
were greatly admired by fanciers and
those who knew one chicken from an
other. The Dutch Fork Farm special
izes in poultry as well as livestock, rais
ing annually thousands of fin# Barred
Hocks, Columbian Wyandotte, Buff
Wyandotte, Black Langshans and Golden
Seabright Bantams as well as White In
dian Runner Ducks. In this exhibit as
well as the swine, blue ribbon prizes
were awarded the many fowls shown by
this modern farm. "How many prizes
did you win in the poultry show?” was
asked Mr. Huffman. ”1 haven’t had
time to count them,” was his reply
"there were so many and I em naturally
gratified at the number that were
awarded my exhibits." Mr. Huffman
said he Shipped a large number of eggs
and fowls each season to many points
In th# country. Hl* stock of Indian
Runner Duck* number about >OO at pres
ent, although he Is supplying the trade
dally.
From Augusta Mr. Huffman will g 0 to
Valdosta to exhibit. He will also have
exhibits st the Columbia and , Macon
fairs which ojen next week.
A NEW ERA DAWNING
IN SOUTHERN FARMING
Through the European War and Its Depressing Effect
Upon the Cotton Market, the Fundamental Truth That
the Farmer, Practically the Only Real Producer, Must
First Feed Himself and the Hungry World, is Driven
Home---Farmers Throughout the South Preparing to
Apply to Themselves the Lesson of the Great War, Agree
ing That a Blessing Lies Uncovered at the Bottom of
Present Difficulties, and Their Faces Are Turned Hope
fully to the Splendid Promise of the Future.
WALTER E. DUNCAN,
Staff Correspondent, The Augusta Herald.
War always, depresses the price of
cotton, always has, always will.
Whether the arena of war be in Am
erica or whether the countries of Eu
rope form a checkerboard for the con
test, when the call to arms Is sound
ed and men abandon the pursuits of
peace, the effect on the cotton market
Is the opposite of thjt which registers
an advance in grain and provisions.
Food prices go up and cotton goes
down—naturally, for war is a destroy
er. Locking the wheels of Industry,
disturbing the channels of trade and
commerce, overturning the established
order of things, doubling and tlirlb
ling the premium on money and ex
hausting and impoverishing, war is the
natural enemy of cotton. When the
toscin of war is sounded the grpat de
mand of the world is not for wearing
apparel however economical the pro
duct, but for food; the problem, of
warring nations is not so much how
to clothe armies but how to feed man
and beast—and those millions of peo
ples not of the armies, left to shift for
themselves in countries whose destiny
hangs upon the result of war are con
fronted with the same problem.
This truth has never been more
strikingly demonstrated than at the
present time. Because of The war in
Europe the Southern farmer finds it
impossible to dispose of his ootton
crop except at about half of what he
expected to get for it and only at a
price which will not cover cost of pro
duction, while on the other hand the
Western farmer, the world clamoring
for his tvehat and grain at greatly ad
vanced prices, is in clover.
Here in the South the condition has
been suddenly brought about that a
good sized hog is worth more than a
bale of cotton. Food prices advanced
in Europe by war are as a matter of
course proportionately boosted here.
The cotton farmer who has not raised
his own foodstuffs and feedstuffs
must, like every one else, dig deeper
and pay dearer for the necessaries of
life because of the same war that de
preciates the value of his cotton and
cuts his revenue by half.
True it is that an abnormal condi
tion exists and that relief will come
with the restoration of peace even
though no agency may he found in the
meantime to ease the strain; but the
fact remains, stands out clearly, that
the South, making too much cotton to
the exclusion of food products, is now
facing a crisis, the most serious since
the days of secession. It is not a call
to arms but it Is A revolutionary call
—a call to Southern farmers to revo
lutionize their method of farming, to
gain their independence through the
making of the most of their opportuni
ties, becoming feeders of the world as
well as to clothe It.
With a 16,000,000-bale crop on hand
and something like 3,000,000 bales
brought over from the 1913 crop, and
with an American consumption of only
6,000,000 bales, the Southern farmer,
the Southern banker and the Southern
supply merchant recognize, one and
all alike, that the crisis is at hand Yet
it would be difficult to find a man, the
more especially a farmer of even ordi
nary intelligence, who will not agree
that the present existing conditions
can be regarded as nothing short of
a blessing, the disguise of which is al
ready swept aside. X base this state
ment upon my personal talks with
farmers, bankers and merchants in
more than 25 counties of Georgia and
South Carolina. I have yet to meet
a man, however hard he may be hit,
who does not heartily agree that if the
Southern farmer takes home to him
self the lesson he has been taught, the
result will more than compensate for
whatever loss and whatever inconven
ience and whatever suffering there
may be now or to come.
The Southern farmer has been
preaching to himself and far-sighted
men have been for years preaching to
the Southern farmer the doctrine of di
versified crops, the advantage of living
at home, producing home supplies,
making each farm self-sustaining,
lure of high-priced cotton has, how
ever, overridden the soundest economic
principle. In every community, how
ever, there are to be found men who
have adhered to Us logic and who,
putting the theory of living at home
into practice, are today the farmers
who feel the pinch of a war-depressed
cotton market and war-advanced food
prices leas keenly. To these it Is an
Inconvenience rather than a problem.
But in spite of individual and or
ganized* effort, the average Southern
farmer has year after year gone on
depending upon his cotton money to
pay his cotton debt and to provide
himself and his family with the neces
saries of life. The higher the market
climbed the more cotton production
has cost year after year until now the
average cotton farmer must of neces
sity get ten cents a pound or better for
his cotton merely to pay expense of
making it before he can think about
his own profit or figure upon the fruits
of his labor.
That is only a natural result. It Is
simply the law of cause and effect. If
cotton should bring fifteen cents a
pound for the next fifteen years and as
much cotton were produced each year
for that length of time as has been
produced this year and In I#lß, at the
end of fifteen years the Houth would
be nearer bankrupt than today unless
in addition to cotton and in proportion
to the ootton crop the farmers of the
South had produced their own food
stuffs and feedstuff*.
Reduced to the final analysis, the
farmer and the miner are the world's
only producer*. All others are con
sumed. The world look* to It* farms
for sustenance. The farmer must feed
not only himself but the whole world
with Its millions of non-producers.
When, as has been the rase In the
South, millions of farmers, Instead of
helping to produce food for the world,
themselves depend upon other farmers
of another section for food, demand is
THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA,
Increased, supply is decreased, the
cost of living becomes a heavier bur
den upon all people alike; and famine
is the ultimate prospect.
The farmer Is, however, no more to
blame than the banker and the banker
no less than the supply merchant, and
neither so much to blame for the con
ditions that have prevailed upon
Southern farms as are the landlords.
Cotton has been the one basis of
credits and the sole basis of farm
rentals. Seventy percent of the cotton
crop is made by tenant farmers. They
pay annual rentals of more than 4,-
000,000 bales. If to secure land on
which to farm tenants must raise cot
ton, if to secure advances on which
to make crops farmers must raise cot
ton, cotton, cotton, nothing but cot
ton, it Is only to be expected that the
cotton which they plant to produce
In excess of rent and advances will,
with the 30 per cent made by the land,
owning farmers, create u surplus.
Banks, landlords and supply merchants
have made cotton the so-called money
crop, and in so doing have retarded
the South's agricultural progress, but
it Is a healthy sign that now appears
The landlord Is realizing the extent of
his responsibility; he will take oorn
and oats and cotton, hogs and cotton,
farm products of all kinds and cotton,
less cotton, for rentals. Supply mer
chants in many sections are agreeing
to carry farmer customers over pro
vided they will sow grain crops now.
Banks will make advances more read
ily hereafter to the farmer who wants
money with which to buy hogs or to
stock his place with cattle than to the
man who agrees to plant so many
acres of cotton.
The new order of things is already
becoming established. More grain is
being sown throughout the South than
in a decade. Next year the man who
travels through the country will see
corn fields and cotton patches rather
than cotton fields and corn patches.
Here, there and everywhere farms are
even now being fenced for cattle. There
is a greater demand for brood sows
than in many years, and In a few years,
at most the Southern country will be
literally overrun with hogs.
An acre in wheat will furnish a
year's supply of flour for an average
family.
Once the farmers of the South dem
onstrate to themselves, by their own
experience, the benefits and the ad
vantages of making less ootton and
more hog and hominy, less cotton and
more home products, Icsr cotton and
more foodstuffs, feedstuffs, grains and
grasses, there will never again be any
danger of an over-production of cot
ton. The farmer will discover, to his
own satisfaction, that he will get more
for half a crop than he has been get
ting for a full crop—and, the best part
of it, that he will get it. Making his
own supplies, his cotton money will
not be exhausted for food. Instead of
making a money crop he will be mak
ing a surplus money crop. And given
a rest, his cotton lands, eaten up by
acids in commercial fertilizers, will
take on new strength and through leg
urns new fertility, and enhance in
value.
The money of the South is tied up in
the 1914 cotton crop, but the day of the
South Is dawning and will break into
a glorious properlty as never before
known If the Southern farmer will con
tent himself with having made enough
cotton this year to supply the world
demand until the European war is
ended and normal conditions have been
restored, and leaving cotton out of his
calculations until then turn to the soil
—the richest under the sun—and make
It produce something to help feed a
world so hungry that It cannot now
give thought to what it shall wear. If
the nations of Europe continue at war,
America must feed the hundreds of
millions of Europeans who otherwise
must face famine, and the South, the
richest section of America, must do
her share.
Th* new day is dawrjfcg What If
the darkest hour comes Just before the
dawn 1 A great deal has been said
about th* bankers and the merchants
standing by the- farmer* now, seeing
them through the crisis, lending a
helping hand. Of course the banksrs
and the merchants ars going to stand
by. They must, for their own pro
tection, for their own salvation. Should
they push the farmer to ths wall they
would find themselves up against the
dead wall of ruin. No other section
Is so directly dependent upon the
fanner aa Is the agricultural South.
Here as nowhere else the farmer Is the
backbone of the country, the most In
dependent and the most imwarful man
In all the world If he will only realize
th* truth, make the most of his op
portunity, and farm as well as to grow
cotton.
To come Into hi* own th* Southern
farmer must first fsed himself, then
help fsed the world, and If he does
that the world will consume, at a bet
ter price, all the cotton he can make In
addition.
TO BEGIN PROTRACTED
MEET, WOODLAWN BAPTIST
Rev, C. R. Hutchings, pastor of the
Wood lawn Baptist church, will begin
a series of meetings today. The ser
vices will continue at least a week
and maybe longer. Mr. Hutchings has
not been able to get help as yet and
begins the meetings himself. He Is
not without experience In protracted
services and It In believed tie will meet
with great success in his own church.
He urges his people to attend all me*'
Ings, and cordially Invites the public.
The service* will begin at 11:16 today
and t o'clock tonight. During the
week there will be Services at 4 ami
If. n
lists I
BEJHIB
Yet Once More Will Jehovah
Shake Not the Earth Only,
But Also Heaven.
CLOSING OF THE GOSPEL AGE
6lgniftcanca of Earthquakes The
Part They Play In Nature—ln Grace.
Thoir Association With the Reign of
Sin and Death —Grand Results to Be
Expected Stability of the New
Order of Things In the Messianic
Kingdom—Dark Hour Preceding the
Millennia! Morning of Blasting.
October 18.—
Pastor Russell’s
text today was,
“There shall ho
great earthquakes
In divers places,
and famines and
pestilences; au d
fearful sights and
great signs shall
there he from
Heaven.” (Luke
21.11.) He said:
It is far from
our thought that
tn Itself an earthquake la a sign of
the end of the Age; but the prevalence
of earthquakes since the beginning of
tills twentieth century properly enough
attracts our attention to “What say
the Scrlptuyes?” upon tills subject.
Our text Is from the Master’s own lips
—a part of Ills description of the
trouble coming upon the world In the
close of thi« Gospel Age, preparatory
to the Inauguration of the Millennial
Age and Its glorious manifestation of
righteousness under the King of kings.
The Muster was answering a ques
tlon asked by Ills disciples respecting
the End of the Age and the signs
which would mark Its close. In the
context our Lord bad told them that
they might ax pec t to hear of ware and
tumults, but not to be terrified; for
although such things would occur;
they would not he Indications that the
end of the Age was near. Then, com
Ing to the events to be expected at the
close of the Agp, lie used the words of
our text. He also declared that before
these terrible Indications of the End of
the Age, Ills disciples would suffer
persecutions In the synagogues, church
es, etc., for Qis sake and for the
Truth’s sake.
Fire of This Day Symbollo.
Our Adventist friends have also been
calling attention to Scriptures predict
ing great trlhulution upon the world
In the very near future; but our mes
■age Is a very different one from
theirs and la used for a very different
purpose. Their message la that the
convulsions of nature now due will re
sult In “a wreck of matter and a crush
of worlds’’—ln the utter destruction of
our race and the reduction of this
eurth to a mass of cinder; and they
uso this message as a club to drive the
wicked to seek protection of the Lord
Be It notlcwl how different 1* our
reference to these calamities. We hold
With the Scriptures that “the earth
• bldetb forever”; that cold and heat,
summer and winter, will continue as
long as the earth remains; and that
God made not the earth In vain, hut
formed It to be Inhabited.—Hoclealastes
1A; Genesis 8:22; Isaiah 45; 18.
We have already pointed out that
the fire of this Day of the Lord will he
a symbolic one. Just a* the “fiery
trials” of the Church throughout this
Age b(i.vo not generally consisted even
tn part of literal fire; and thut the
fiery troubles coming upon the world
will overthrow present Institutions
political, social, financial and religious
—and will engulf the whole world In
anarchy. In the Scriptures this is
symbolically called In some places a
flood and In others a consuming fire.
We have also pointed out that the
passing away of present Institutions,
symbolically called “the heavens and
the earth that are now,” will be fol
lowed by the establishment of “a new
heavens and a new earth, wherein
dwelletb righteousness”—the reorgan
lcntlon of soctoty along lines of Divine
approval. Intimated by the words of
our Lord's prayer, "Thy Kingdom
come; Thy will be done on earth, as it
la done in Heaven.”
Fearful Bighte and Great Wonders.
We will not attempt to prognoetlcati
the ebaracier of the frightful signs
which belong to the closing of this
Age; but they are very particularly
mentioned by our Ix>rd and were also
foretold by the Prophet Joel, saying
“I will show wonders In heaven above
and signs In the earth hcncatb, blond
and fire and pillars of smoke.”—Joel
230; Acts 2:1!)
The Apostle Paul refers to the satm
thing In Hebrews 12:20-28. He allude*
to the establishment of the Law Covi
nant at Mount Mina I and the wonder
fill manifestations which at that tinu
caused Moses and nil Israel to feat
and quake. Then he tells us that those
events were typical, or figurative, of
the still more wonderful shakings,
signs, etc., to tie expected at the cloa
log o f this Gospel Age, when the King
dom of Ood Is shout to be established
and the New Covenant about to go Into
effect between God and mankind at
the hands of the great Mediator, Jeaus
Christ and the Church.
BEAD HEBALD WANT ADS
St. Paui >u i an es turn tile Word of
the Lord upon this subject implies tin
removing of all things that can bo
shaken, so that only the unshakable
things will remain: und these unshak
able things he associates with Ood
Kingdom of righteousness. When with
the eyes of our understanding open
we look about us, we see very many
things thut evidently are not permn
uent. not right, not satisfactory to God
and to all who love righteousness and
hate Iniquity; and when we reflect tlmt
the shaking will be such ns tfl loosen
and destroy all these Imperfect things
of the present time, we can Imagine
better than we can describe the sever
lt.V of that shaking.
In the Revelation this sumo thought
Is expressed under the figure of n
mighty earthquake, the like or which
there hud not been before aud will
never be thereafter. (Revelation 10:18 1
Throughout the Apo'ulypse the term
earthquake is used to symbolically rep
resent revolution What we are to ex
Pect. then, will he u great revolution
a great earthquake, the great shaking
of the present Institutions which will
overthrow everything that Is not oi
the Lord's establishment ami approval
Xu the Divine order there seems to
be a harmony between the literal and
the figurative; therefore the literal
earthquakes have their part to play In
the great Program. Not only are thoj
to serve the Church as signs corrob
orating the prophecies respecting the
approach of the great Time of Troubh
which closes this Gospel Age. but thej
are to serve nlso another purpose n
particular purpose.
The Scriptures clearly Intimate that
our physical earth has not yet attained
the grand perfection which the Lord
designs that It should have, to be 111
for the blessed ones whose home, ns
the Paradise of God, it shall la
throughout nil eternity Be It noticed
that the Scriptures dearly poibt on!
that, the Little Flock, called of God
during this Gospel Age to be the Bride
of Christ, are to experience a chaugi
of uuture from human to spirit, which
will prepare them for Heavenly comll
tious, spiritual conditions. But for tin
remainder of mankind God's provision
according to His Word, is not tin
change of nature, hut a restoration P
the perfection of human nature a>
the development of the earth to tl
perfect condition which will make i
as a whole the antitype of the Gurd
of Eden —the Paradise restored.
Deluge Then, Fire and Earthquake Ni .
We have already called attention ;
the fact that the Hood of waters i
Noah’s time wus caused by the bre;
Ing of the Htst of u series of rlngH tie
once surrounded the earth after I
manner of tho rings of the planet Knl
urn. Foreknowing the wickedm
that would develop amongst mankli.
and the power that would be exercls
amongst nmn by tho giants of th..
day (Genesis 0:1), God lmd so time
the breaking of this last ring that t
flood of waters would serve the pe
peso of overthrowing that order n
things and inking ready for the in
feature of the Divine Program, t 1 *
present order, which began after tl;
Deluge, upon the coming of Noah m
his family out of the Ark.
Similarly, tho Scriptures teach. (,•
has reserved for the appropriate Hi
in tho eml of this Ago certain gr.
physical disturbances necessary to l!
development of the earth anil Its prep
Brat lon for the Roigti of Rlghtcousnc:
und blessing of mankind, so that tl
troubles incidental to tills change wr
come upon the world as dlaastrou
floods, “tc., and will co-operate In tin
bringing of mankind Info sore strulr
and trials of faith anil patience, which
will result In anarchy and the complete
shaking, not only of the physical earth
but also of the soclnl earth and the eo
cleslastlcal, or "heavenly," Institutions
in order that all unstable things tuny
pass away and that the new order of
things may he ushered lu on n permn
neat basis, having the Divine approval,
and meaning ultimately th* grandest
blessing for onr race.
From this standpoint n certain class
can road the signs of the times lntelll
gently and wlih confidence; and this
class the Scriptures call the Lord’*
Little Flock (Luke 12:32), counted fool
lsh by the world, but counted of tin
Lord as “the wise” who are to “under
stand.” (Daniel 12:1p.) To these the
Mast«T Himself addressed these wordt
“There shall he signs In the sun. In
tbs moon and In the stars; and upot;
earth distress of nations, with perplex
ity; men’s hearts fnlllug them for feai
and for looking after those things which
are coming upon the earth; for the
powers of heaven shall b« shaken.’
And again, “Wlieu these things bogto
to come to pass, then look up, and Ilf
up your heads; for your dellveraun
draweth nlgh.“~Luke 21:21), 20, 28,
The Lord’s consecrated people, pos
sessed of Ills Spirit, cannot In an.v
sense of the word rejoice at the trib
elation coming upon others. Their ri
J'doing can be only In r#s|»#ct to thi
glorious tilings which they liopo to ex
perlenca, and which they know to hi
near by these outward signs. Thcl;
rejoicing Is not merely ou their own
behalf, hut also ou behalf of the whole
world; for tbej' hnve the assurance of
th# Herlptares that beyond this Time
of Trouble, which looms up as u (lark
cloud to cover the whole social world
there Is a silver lining; ami that short
ly the glorious Hun of Righteousness
will blnzo forth, dispel every cloud r. n j
all ths shadows of Ignorance and su
perstltlon, and bring to the world of
mankind the rich blessings of Divine
favor secured through th* precious
blood of Christ.
Great Physical Chang** Now Du*.
From this a l and point the news of de
structive earthquake* here and there
appeals to us as Incidental corrobora
tion of the prophecies of Soiiptun*
which show us that we arc very near
the long-threatened Time of Trouble.
USE HERALD WANT ADS.
SEVEN
True, there may be a lull for a brief
period; but we have confidence that
our Lord’s prophecy as recorded In our
text has u meaning, aud that the time
for Its fulfillment must be very near at
hand. We are well aware that the
natural man and his scientific leaders
will consider the association of the
facts of our day with the words ut
tered more than eighteen centuries ago
as very foolish. We ure aware that
they will say, as the Apostle l’eter de
clared they would, that “all things
continue as they have been from the
foundation of the world,” and that
such changes have boon going on,
and will continue to do so, without
any relationship to our Lord’s Second
Presence und the Time of Trouble
with which this Age will end. (2 Pe
ter 3:3, 4.) This Is their view—the re
verse Is ours.
The Word of God teaches us that at
this time of transition from the Gospel
Age to the. Messianic Age we are to
expect wonderful contortions of na
ture and some radical changes In tho
earth’s condition. In order that it may
be the better adapted to the wants of
nuin throughout eternity. It Is God’s
own declaration that He will make the
place of His feet glorious—the earth.
His “footstool.”—lsaiah 00:13; 66:1.
Evidently great, and • wonderful
changes will be effected, some of
which will he brought about gradual
ly. For Instance, we all know of the
gradual chnnge of the temperate zona
—lts extension further and further to
ward the poles. We notice also the
increasing moderation nearer to the
equator. These who recognize the
Power of Ood can luive full confi
dence that He is able to jterform all
the glorious promises of His Word re
specting the paradisaical conditions of
this earth for the use of mankind dur
ing the Millennial Age and the ages to
follow.
Bymbolio*l Earthquakes —Revolutions.
As already Intimated, social upheav
als are pictured In the Word of God
under the symbolism of earthquakes,
“mountains carried Into th# sea,” etc.
Himllarly, uprisings of the social ele
ments In anarchy arc pictured as tidal
waves engulfing tin* “mountains”—gov
ernments This is one of the most
forceful pictures used, not only In the
Psalms, but also In the Revelation and
In our Lord’s symbolical reference to
the great Time of Trouble which Is
near at band. Of this time the Proph
et I>anlel has declared thnt H will bo
“a Time of Trouble such as was not
since there wns n nation;” and our
Lord, when quoting this prophecy,
adds, "No, nor ever shall be,”—Daniel
12:1; Matthew 24:21.
Let ns not be misunderstood to be ad
vocating anarchy or revolution of any
kind. On the contrary, we are giving
heed to the Master's Injunction that ull
who are His true followers seek pence
and pursue it, and so far ns possible
live peaceably with all men; that like
Himself they should not resist evil
with evil, force with force, hut should
rather commit their way unto the Lord,
seek to walk In His paths, and rely
upon Him for the results that will ho
to their profit and His glory.
So fur from counseling anarchy, we
hold and teach that even the meanest
and poorest form of government Is su
perior to anarchy; and tn all sympathy
and kindness we counsel those who
are tending toward Socialism that they
are niiMuspeetlngly "hatching cocka
trice eggs;” for tinder present condi
tions Socialism Is absolutely Impossi
ble. The rich will not give up their
advantages without a struggle to the
death; and this, ns soon as Socialism
shall hnve gained the power which it
1* seeking, will spell nnnrchy for the
world. For those now starting In with
Socialistic hope* will find those hopes
vain, and will become so angered, so
disappointed, that they will be soured,
embittered, mad, with the deceptions
of their theories and the Impossibility
of carrying them out, us they Intended,
along the lines of benevolence. As a
result they will be drawn to ths des
perate methods of the anarchist
Would that nil could nee with us
what the Scriptures so clearly Indi
cate; namely, the Divine foreknowl
edge of past present and future con
ditions, and the Divine arrsiwemsnt of
these for the highest welfare of all
who seek righteousness, all who
hearken to the voice of Him that
apeaketh from Heaven I Koch the Lord
urges to take His yoke utton them and
learn of Him; that they accept of trials
and difficulties Incidental to loyaKy to
Him, nrid thus lie counted worthy of
a share tn the highest and best of all
God's gifts-to he sharers with our
Lord Jesus In His Throne, In His na
ture and in the power which shortly
He will exercise In the blessing of
all mankind with ItestltuthWc- Acts
3.1021.
Ths Mor* Exoellent Way.
We urge all who ore th# Lord’s to
seek more und more to understand His
wonderful I’lan of Hulvatlon, to glori
fy Him with their bodies and their
spirits, which are His, and to wait for
His time aud His manner of bringing
In the blessings which all see are so
much needed by the poor “groaning
creation.” Meantime, all such should
cultivate the graces of the Holy Spirit
or, tt* the Apostle puts It, "pst on
Christ," His character, Ills meekness,
patience, long suffering, brotherly
kindness, love, against which things
there Is no law. Respecting these
truces Ht. l’ctwr declares, "If ye do
hese things ye shall never fall; for so
in entrance shall be ministered unto
vou abundantly Into the everlasting
Kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jeans
iMirlst."— 2 I’elcr 1:10. It.
These csnr r be shnken out of ths
Lord's tinml by any tumult. Indeed,
if they be In tho disasters of literal
earthquakes they will be able to re
lolce even in tribulation, knowing that
oil things work together for good to
thus* who love God.
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