"A BETTER DAY COMING"

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3155, 6 August 1917, Page 3

"A BETTER DAY COMING"

In tho Queen's Theatre, Cuba Street, last evening, Mr. R. E. B. Nicholson, V.D.M., Molbourne, lectured on the subject: "A Better Day Coining! When? i \ hero?"

Mr. Nicholson said that ho- was sure from what had been said to some of the old prophets that a better day would come for, this world. The Lord had distinctly said that never again would the world and its inhabitants be destroyed. Those who 1 said '.he world would be destroyed .by fire were wrong, no argued, for there were promises of the jjord which wild not bi fulfilled unless the world were to endure for ever. Ho belioved fnm the writings in the Bible that the better day was at hand. The day was coming when war would be ni more. Maybe if we could we would slop tho war now, but God knew better, ana perhaps the nations had not yet bad enough of war to.ie'arn that strife should be no more. We were also approaching a better day from this standpoint—that the nations would be broken down and we would be all one brotherhood: the JJiblo said that we were all raa'de of one blood. And there would be n better day socially, when we would not need to guard our doors against one another. It would be a glorious thing when tho gaols could bj done away with and our hospitals would be things of the past. From the standpoint of religion the Lord was coming to make the peoplo know him. The Bible had been misrepresented, but God would clear away the mist which hid the truth, and the Bible would be understood. What of all those who. had gone before—those who had gone to tho prison house of death? Thank God 'they would have their - opportunity! ■Christ had not died in vain, and He tasted death for every man. , Surely there was hope for the Africans, the Chinese, and others who had never even heard the name of Christ? The glorious day was just about to dawn on the world. It had been a hard life to be a Christian, and he had'' often felt sorry for the Christian who had to go out and face the selfish world. The Bible drew a beautiful picture of the lion and the lamb lying down together. Tho various nations of the earth which these animals represented were coming to lio down together under the fla;; of Judah, and a little child would lead them.