ARE WE NEAR THE END OF THE WORLD?

Chronicle (Levin), 16 July 1946, Page 4

ARE WE NEAR THE END OF THE WORLD?

mr. C. C. graham's address To where is the world heading? Is it near its end, is a thought that has passed through the minds of everybody as they have 'witnesscd the stupendous events in the world of recent years. Events happen so quickiy to-day, and one wonders just what will be in the headlines of to-morrow's paper. Would-be prophetg have risen and attempted to predict the future but chave failea miserably. We are not surPiised, for did not Christ Ilimself say that in the last days false prophets would arise and would .deceive many, but we were to heed them not. He said, "No man knows the day or the hour wherein the Son of Man shall come." Yet He made it plain that He would come again in John 14 and in Matthew 24 when He stated the signs which would be in the world just prior to the end of time. The Apostle Paul, in II Timothy, Ch. 3, also gives more of these signs. As these signs and wonders are with us today, there can be no doubt but that we are approaching the end, and Christ's coming is very near at hand. We have wars and rumours of wars, mation rising against natiqn, famines, pestilences and earthquakes. (These latter have increased tremendously in recent centuries, as is shown by statistics). The Jew is ciamouring for

his native - land, -• as God said he' would be in the last days. The perilous - times that Paul spoke about are with us. Men are "proud, blasphemous, lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God," as evidenced by the desecration of Sunday to spend it elsewhere than in God's I-Iouse, plus the neglect of reading God's Word. Men wouid be scolfers and indilferent to God as they were in the days of Noah, said Christ, and just as in that day these were shut outside the ark and perishea, so those to-day who will not accept the Christ of the Gospel will be left behind at His coming for the judgment of God, and will likewise perish in their sins. Christ can, and will save all who come to Him to-day, but the tragedy is that men are cleaf to His cail. So spoke Mr. C. C. Graham, visiting evangelist, to a crowded audience in the Oxford Street Gospel Hall on Sunday evening last. He continues his campaign in the same hall to-night at 7.30 p.m. when his subject will be, "What will happen when Christ retums?" A further address will be given in the Weraroa Hall to-morrow night. All are welcome and an evening of spiritual enlightenment is assured all v/ho attend.