BIBLE PROPHECIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 32, 6 August 1936, Page 7

BIBLE PROPHECIES

FULFILLED TO THE LETTER

INTERESTING LECTURE '

A highly informative : and interesting lecture; on Palestine and Abyssinia was given by Dr. ,C. J. Rolls, home director for New Zealand and Australia of the Sudan Interior. Mission, in the Town* Hall, last night. There were very few. empty seats, and . the large1 audience listened attentively to the address.

Dr. Rolls illustrated his lecture with a large number of beautifully-cploured slides, and this added to the enlightenment of the audience.

Dr. Rolls showed, through passages from the Scriptures and illustrations, how the prophecies in the Bible had come true. In addition to all that was spoken concerning Israel, he said, the Divine decree went forth for the debasement of Egypt, the doom of Ninevah, the demolition of Babylon, the downfall of Tyre, the desolation of Samaria, the devastation of Edpm, the destruction of the Temple, arid the down-treading of Jerusalem by the Gentiles-for a determined, period. These and scores of other predictions were no mere conjectures, but were born of a divinely communicated insight, which was absolute in exactness, became.actual in- experience, and the conditions pertaining to ruined areas today furnished* an abiding evidence to vindicate the authority by which the prophets spoke. j Many beautiful views of Palestine were shown, and the audience was justly appreciative.

Dr. Rolls declared that Mussolini had designs on Palestine, and l said that as a result of Italy's recent conflict in Abyssinia she now controlled over two-thirds of the waters of the Nile.

Dealing more directly with Abyssinia, from where he recently returned, the speaker painted some graphic word pictures of the Italian invasion. They had been told that it was Italy's desire to educate a pagan people and bring these people to the true faith. There w.ere many millions of people m Abyssinia whose civilisation was older than Italy's. Haile Selassie stood true to every international law imposed by the League of Nations. As Selassie told the League, "even pagans respected women arid children.'.1 Civilised Italy obviously did not. He had seen some distressing sights among communities of women and children after an Italian attack, and it was deplorable that such horrors should be allowed in a civilised world. Some particularly fine lantern slides of Abyssinia were also shown.