SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 127, 22 February 1921, Page 8

SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE

Speaking to a large audience in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall last evening on "The Impending Collapse of Modern Democracy," the Rev. AY. Lamb, of Sydney, said that when to a very large extent scholarship had given its intellect and genius to discover proofs that the records of Scripture were not true, it seemed as if God caused discoveries to be made in the ancient lands which compelled recognition of the truth of the Bible. So when in these latter days scholarship was putting forth all its strength 'tjo* prove the statements of prophecy incapable of coming to pass, the whole world gave them the lie. During the last century, during the last twelve months even, events had happened in precise harmony with the prophecies of Scripture. The Bible clearly outlined political history to the present time, and surely we had the right to believe its truth in regard to the future. In Daniel were foretold the four great empires .which had been in the world—the Babylonian, where the king was an autocrat; the Medo-Persian, with unalterable laws to which the king had to defer; the Grecian, where generals and great men were at the head of affairs; and the Roman, where there was rule of the people, with a Senate, but not democracy as we knew it. This empire divided into two branches, East and West, until there wero ten kingdoms with rule of the people, by the people, for the people. As foretold, this democracy could bo smashed and swept away. Ho did not wonder men were smarting under the inequality of conditions which had prevailed under other forms of government. Democrac.y ought to be a good form of government, but would, unhappily, bo the greatest failure of all, because the lenders who shaped its thoughts were Godless.