The War,

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 July 1915, Page 2

The War,

Wm r THE KAISER CANNOT SUCCEED—AND MUST FAIL (By "Verax," Weraroa). Kaiser William is said to knwv many tilings, but there is one tiling tliat ha does not know-his mother's Bible, If lie did lie would have studied the 2nd chapter of the Book of Daniel befoie embroiling the Continent 1 of Europe in tins war, and lie would have found that it -was impossible tor him to succeed. In this second chapter we have the germ of all the other chapters of Tiie Book ol' Daniel. What they 'teach is simply a development ot it.

In this chapter we have the record ol how God caused Nebuchadnezzar, the greatest ot monarchs. declared to ue such by God himself, to dream a dream. Daniel was called to interpret it. Daniel thus became in the hands ut God the father of universal history.The record ot this dream, occurring about (JOO years 8.C.. when Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem, became tliu greatest political and State document ever given to man, for it contains, from that day downwards the politics of the world in the ordering j-t its empires and the like. "What i'/j6 the occasion!' This: Because Israel had continually aiu. repeatedly rebelled against God. lie took from them the kingdom, the power, the strength, and the glory, and gave it to "Ncbuchadnezzar and those who should succeed Mm. Ever since that date the rule of the world nas remained in Gentile hands, and tliis is to bo continued until it shall be again restored to the Jews. For this reasoil Israel's history becomes "the pivot of all other history, and Israel's destiny decides the destiny ot lhe world.

.Now, about thtis dream of what waw there in the future. God caused in this dream the image of a, man to appear. The head 1 meant, according to Daniel, Babylon; the beast meant Mcdo-l'ersia; next, the brass meant Greece; lastly, the legs meant, the Roman Empire, in twofold lorm, as the legs were two. This has been the history of the world ever since. There were to be four world powers — no less, no more. Now "ive all know that the program of the German Emperor is that he shall be supreme in Europe. The Kaiser wants to establish a fifth world power to be a world lord. His desire is to stand as one of the world's conquerors. He fain would rank with Nebuchadnezzar, Cyrus, Alexander tlio Great, and Caesar Augustus: in other words, he would establish a fifth world empire, and thus bring to naught the word of God. It cannot be; no mortal can do it. The scripture cannot be broken. Napoleon tried and failed; the Kaiser also must lail. That is the iirst reason. The second reason why he cannot succeed: The Kaiser desires to make a new map of Europe. Quite so. A new map there will be; not one on the Kaiser's lfnes, but as God foreshadowed 2500 years ago—according to Daniel, as father of universal history in the dream ol Nebuchadnezzar.

If 1 err not, it must bo the map ol it revised Roman Empire, as Ixl the days of Caesar Augustus, not a map 01 man's choice or policy. What was that empire? 'Tlio boundaries of Caesar's Roman Empire comprised nearly all the northern const of Africa as far south as the desert of Sahara. It was bounded on tITo east by tlio river Euphrates, on the nortli by the Danube and the Rhine and a Roman wall running from Ratisbon on the Danube to Burgen on the Rhine. On the west it was bounded by the Atlantic, and it included Great Britain as far north as the Highlands. At present there are about '22 kings or kingdoms in the area it included. The Bible account is definite that these must be minced to be a kingdom und that their boundaries must be considerably altered; e.g., France must have her lost provinces (taken by Germany) restored to her, and she must have a king. The profoundest writers have l'ecogi.ised the great truth ol these four empires. It- ruled the Christian Church from the beginning of the rise of Rationalism in the 17th Century and against all 'rationalism it held its ground. It .still asserts ' iteelf. The Roman Empire is still existing, and will exist revived. The view of Daniel holds its ground among all believing writers on the world's progress and destiny. Kaiser William wants a new map. 'The Most High divides the nations (Dent. .'l2-8). But where does Germany come in? >So far as my reading goes, 1 cannot see her included at all.

But grant that she doos, Germany ib divided tip. Here is the second reason why the Kaiser cannot map up Europe and why lie cannot be a European world lord.. Germany is bound to go down and to be sliced up. There io a tiiird reason why tho Kaiser cannot have his own way and subject England. Great Britain is destined by Holy (Scriptures to bo tho instrument of certain momentous things ill tho near future. But why Great Britain ? Do we not find any amount of worldiness in our Churches to-day? lias not German rationalism, which tho loot of the present war, eaten its way into our own pulpits and the of our land? Once a gentleman took his Uiblo around to his ministers and said "That is your Bible." ""Why do you call it my Bible?" said tho minister. "Well," replied the gentleman, "I have been sitting under yoirr preaching for live years, and when you> said a thing in the Bible was not authentic I cut it out." He had about a third of the Bible cut out, all of Job. all of iiccleciastes, and 'of course Daniel and ...Revelation, and a good (.leal besides. The minister wanted him to leave tho Bible with him, he didn't want the rest of the congregation to Bee it. But the man said "Oh, no! I have the covers left and I will hold on to them." The result of this is Sunday golf, Sunday motor-

ing, Sunday excursions; no Chuirch, go worship. God will deal with such people. Why then will England be favoured? I answer, tor the father's 6ake. Why did God act' 011 behalf of Israel? Because of the faith of ono man—Abraham.

From the revival of 1736 onward, when "Whitfield began his preaching, there have been tens of thousands of Abrahams in England. Until 1750 England was a third-rate power, 'ike Spain. Her premier position is owing to godly men. Let us bear in mind that the names of the countries used in Scripture are not their modern names, but ancient names by which they were known thousands of "years ago.

■Here are some of the things which England lias yot to do:—Restoi'o the Jews (Isaiah 60-0) "Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships ot Tarshish first to bring tny sons irom far and*their silver and their gold with them." Chamberlain, in ais scholarly volume (1860) entitled "Isaiah's Call to England/' has proved that tlie prophetic Tarshish means .Britain. There were two places of 01.l J;now:i :'by the name of Tarshish: 0110 Ceylon. other Britain. In Genesis x 4 and read of Tarshish, "by these were the Isles ot the Gentiles divided." Again likekiel 38, verse 32, we read of the Chijf Prince of Iltiss (Septuagint) the old name of Russia— Mesheck (Moscow) and Tubal coming down in the latter days 011 Palestine. Then we read that this power is met uy the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions thereof (her colonies). 'Again we read Isaiah 18: Ho (not woe) to the land that shadoweth with wings. What land is that? A good Sr&T of the shadowing is given in the frontispiece of a book on "The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century." It is that of a woman with outstretched wings embracing her colonies all over the world.

"That sendeth ambassadors by sea." Britain is the only country in Europe io correspond -with this, in the vessels of the water drinker., what this is 1 leave others to guess. The story of the chapter 'is that to Britain will fall uie lot of restoring the Jews to their own land. The point is—ln Scripture we have England specified as doing this work. Therefore tier fleet will ?fb preserved Io do it. She is thereTore to be preserved unto the time of tlie end of this dispensation -as an independent and miglity maritime nation, the chief naval Mediterranean and Eastern Power.

Again, the Kaiser might have seen that lie canndt' sub'due 'England, that he cannot dictate to her ffceF. This is reserved for a Greater Man than lie. That was the vicnv taken "by Dr Keith, that hard-headed Scotsman, author of "The Evidence of Prophecy" when lie said "A very old man asked me, a young one, to take him round Buxton." It was the view of Lord Beaconsfield. who in 1888' was at Lady Ourzon's dinner party when the question of the Jews arose. Pie said "We. Sflglancl. will put tho Jews in Valestine." It was the teaching" of Daniel 2500 years ago. "Where does the Kaiser come in?