Golden Age Coming.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 November 1922, Page 3

Golden Age Coming.

A STATm/LVtt prophecy. “That within the next five years the world will enter into the period of life everlasting, hoped for through tillages,” was the statement made recently at the Empress Theatre hy Mr M. A. riowlett, of Toronto. Canada. “The Gentile times ended in I})I J A.D.,” said Mr Hewlett, “and we are now in the period of great tribulation spoken of in Matthew 21. 21-22. During the coming golden age all the legitimate desires of tho natural human heart will he realised. It is tin* firm belief of many Bible students that there are millions now living who will never die.” From childhood, lie deehu'ed, we had been taught of two places to go to—Heaven and Hell. If given our choice we would, most of us prefer to stay on earth. But the. grandest administration on part'll could not give man the realisation of his best desires, which would be rea ed only in the Messiah’s kingdom. Instead, to-day we had the ghastly, grotesque twentieth century spirit of hatred, malice, and strife, bowing at Dethrone of power, wealth, and pomp. The indignation of the hard, as expressed in Zeph. 3. 8-0. would not be long delayed. If “death” was the wages of sin, how could the dead he made to suffer in the burning lake of the accepted hell? Death was real death ; thei “life” of the hereafter was the enjoyment- of the kingdom to which all those who had obeyed the Divine Command would return from the prison house of death