GOLDEN AGE COMING.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 785, 17 November 1922, Page 4

GOLDEN AGE COMING.

A STARfTLING PROPHECY. “That within the next five years tfie world will enter into the peiioci of life everlasting, hoped for through the ages,” was the statement made at Wellington on a recent Sunday evening by Mil M. A. Hovriett, of Toronto, Canada,. “The Gentile times ended in 1914 A.D./’ said Mr Howlett, “and we are now in the period of great tribulation spoken of in Matthew 24, 21.22. During the coming golden age. aLI the legitimate .desires of the natural human heart will be realised. It is the firm belief of many Bible students that there are millions now living who will never die.” From childhood he declared* we had been taught of two places to go to—Heaven and Hell* If given our cnoice we would, most of us, prefer to stay on earth, But the grandest administration on earth could not give man the realisation of his desires, which would be realised only in the Messiah’s kingdom. Instead,, to-day* we had the ghastly grotesque twentieth century spirit of hatred, malice and strife, bowing at the throne of power, wealth and pomp* The indignation of the Lord, as expressed in Zeph 3, 8-9, would not be long delayed 'lf “death” was the wages of sin, Row could the dead) be made to suffer in the burning lake of ’>-ne accepted hell? Death was real death; the “life” of the hereafter was the enjoyment of the kingdom to which ail those who had! ooeyed the Divine Command would return from the prison house of deafh.